Disclaimer - Boba Fett, Dengar, Manaroo, and any other characters/planets/species or anything else Star Wars related are not my property, they are Lucas' all the way. But I had fun making up my own new Rats Wars characters/planets/species and everything else.

Prologue

Two years have passed since the fall of the Empire. The galaxy has been in turmoil. The initial euphoria following victory on Endor has long since dissipated. With many Imperial factions still at large, conflict has been constant. Luke Skywalker and his friends withdrew to a distant planet to begin training Jedi, and agreed to leave rebuilding the galaxy to the newly reformed Galactic Senate.

Now, after two long years, the new Supreme Chancellor of the Republic has managed to restore peace to the galaxy, with the help of Skywalker's newly trained Jedi. On Coruscant, the Supreme Chancellor prepares to speak to the Senate on an issue that has dogged the fledgling Republic for the past two years. Bounty hunters…