Naboo, Theed
When you needed to hire someone to protect you, even for just appearances sake, you didn't spare any expense. You got the best of the best and that meant you were shopping for a Mandalorian.
That was the advice that his Uncle Thaddeus had given him when he had admitted he was planning on attending some key meetings in Theed to introduce himself on the political scene. It felt completely unnecessary to Carrick since he had been a Jedi Knight before he had left the Order and it wasn't as though leaving the Order removed that skillset from him. Of course, his uncle had had a very compelling counter argument for that as well.
In the political arena, never let on that you are different. Different is dangerous and will have life-long enemies band together to remove you - better to appear like all of the others and only reveal your advantages when they served to benefit you the most.
He was glad his uncle was experienced but it was not as though Carrick had none himself - he had been a diplomat for the Jedi Order for some time before he left after all. But he bowed to his uncle's experience in this case because this was Naboo, this was where his uncle had brought himself up in the game of politics and he would know the backroom dealings far better than Carrick himself.
Dressed in a rather formal black set of clothing, Carrick looked the part of the hungry young politician ready to mix with others of his kind. The unfortunate side effect was that he was unable to bring along any of his usual weaponry aside from the lightsaber he had hidden on his person in a discrete holster on his left forearm. Sitting in the back of the speeder car, he enjoyed the breeze as the droid piloted the vehicle through the outskirts of the city toward the party.
He was not alone in the speeder of course.
Sitting across from him was a fully armoured figure, Minevra Fhirdiad. She was the Mandalorian he had hired to serve as his bodyguard for the night. To protect him and, more importantly, to be seen protecting him.
"I don't suppose you'll have issues with the security check point will you?"
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