Bothan Rescue

Preface

During our much-needed rest, Dantar Tran starts building his business relationship with Reom. Also, Vipee keeps offering to "optimize" our ship, but I'm a little leery about his work ethics...

Act 1

After our rest, Dantar contacts us with a business proposition that seems interesting. He lost contact with a ship returning with a Bothan (Knol Oryon) smuggling some info.. Dantar sent a coleague to check in, a Duros named Cpt. Gol Keg, along with a crew of maybe 3 on a viper class ship. Dantar got word that Cpt. Keg got to Jabba's, but then lost contact with him as well! (not the best communicators, obviously). Dantar suggests we skidoodle to Tattooine and pick up the trail.

Rewards! Always desirable:
Bothan (Knol Oryon) = 20,000 bounty
Duros (Cpt. Gol Keg) + crew = 15,000
Ship alone (Viper? ShipRay?) = 5,0000
Just the info that the Bothan was carrying = 10,000

Dantar supplies us with the beacon frequency of Gol Keg's ship. No sooner do we agree to the plan when a star destroyer arrives! Everything is chaos, but we can't leave because things are swarming outside. We take off and do a bit of defensive duty, taking on two "dupes" (bombers) and four "eyeballs" (tie-fighters). Once we have cleared a run for ourselves, we fly off, leaving with the asteroid-base's ultimate fate unknown. Will we even have a benefactor to pay us for our hard work? Dantar said he would get in touch with us when the time comes, though we have no specifics...

Act 2

We arrive at Tattooine, only to find a Star Destroyer in orbit! We pretend to be just like everyone else (a smuggler) and land. Damn docking fees!

We look for Old Arno first, because we don't want to rouse too many suspicions by asking sensitive questions. Looks like Gol Keg's ship might have left about a week ago, when there was an "altercation" at Jabba's palace. A safe-house at the edge of town was involved. The Imperials arrived about 4 days ago.

We walk by the safe house, but can't really figure out a way in, and it seems well guarded. We decide to loiter at a nearby tailor shop, where Provence gets fitted for a wedding gown (-200 credits).

While shopping for clothes can be entertaining for some, Rawr and I kept our eyes on the safe-house. We noticed someone leaving the building, so I decided to follow him and find out what was going on. Followed him to the Cantina where I saw him talking to the barkeep.

I had a drink, then just left since he was not doing too much that could be called interesting. A block or two away, I am "questioned" by two humans about my interest in my mark, so I entered into some aggressive negotiations, the result of which is one escapee, and one prisoner.

Our interogation (involving Rawr eating a finger... well, that's what I'm assuming since I couldn't find it later) revealed that the Bothan is gone already. Jabba had told the guards to "keep him", but the firefight was a "jail break". Jabba sent a favourite/trusted bounty hunter after them.

A Defel, Fril Yachure is the bounty hunter's name, and he supposedly took off in a fire-spray freight with the call-sign "no escape". Fitting! Fril has a penchant for "dead" bounties. Probably simpler to control that way - the coward! Retained by Jabba for many bounties.

Provence hacks the Mos Eisley spaceport navicomputer, and gets the No Escape's last known trajectory. Seems he entered a flightplan for Ryloth, but his actual flight vector was a bit off.

As we take off from the spaceport, we are challenged to land and threatened by the Star Destroyer...

+6 XP

-100 - Docking fees
-200 - Provence's wardrobe
Total: +  69,500 credits remaining

TO BUY: Life sign detector - 900 credits, rarity 5