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May The Invisible Hand Be With You - (Star Wars CK2-Style Quest)

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TerrisH said:
If they know she is our relative? Yes.

As is it is much more likely this particular hutt simply did not know, Given how large the the galaxy is and the fact that it he did know, he likely would have sought payment from us befor enslaving her.. Plus the fact that she is in this mess due to a debt to said hut. well, a reasonable offer to simply buy out her debt plus a small fee for his trouble, well, Is perfectly reasonable.

now If he refuses or already knew she was our relative, we bring the entire hammer of our organization down on him, crushing him entirely. and as long as we don't kill him personaly, it's not likely to sour our relationship.

of course, if we do manage to go the peacefull route, well, what silias dose on his own time is not our issue.
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You know, I can imagine the dawning sense of horror once the one who owns our cousin's debt realizes what he has. Then, they toss around the contract like a game of nuclear hot potato.
 
UbeOne said:
Do we even know what the Valley is, and that it exists in the first place?
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We worked with Jerec before the outbreak of the Clone Wars and he mentioned it as part of his life work to rediscover it. We know it exists, but even the dedicated Jedi Scholar didn't know where it was. His mission to find it is how he avoided the Clone Wars, sent by the Council to the Unknown Regions with a team to find lost artefacts.
 
ThoughtMaster said:
You know, I can imagine the dawning sense of horror once the one who owns our cousin's debt realizes what he has. Then, they toss around the contract like a game of nuclear hot potato.
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At that point they would likely just go:

Random Unknown Nobody (RUN): "My lord, while I was looking through the backgrounds of all your slaves, I came across something interesting."

Hutt: "Oh? Did we pick up a noble somehow? Arrogant bastards who's ransoms are always more valuable than what they're actually worth. They always are the most entertaining to feed to Little Mawwy." (Little Mawwy = Pet Rancor)

RUN: "No Sir, it seems we have a half-human, half-twi'lek who is a relative to one Silas Cata."

Hutt: "... Silas ... Cata?"

RUN: "Yeah. He was a low-time smuggler but what's important is that he's the grandfather to Lady Ciaran. I was thinking we could use that to get a huge ransom. That woman must be loaded."

Hutt: *Hutt pales* "... I don't pay you to think."

RUN: "Uhhh ... you barely pay me at all."

Hutt: "Which is good because your intelligence is astounding in its absence. Go make a list of all of my rival Hutt Lords. I need to choose one who is most ... expendable."

RUN: "What about the ransom?"

Hutt: *explodes* "YOU IMBECILE! WHO DO YOU THINK ELIMINATED AN ENTIRE SECTION OF THE MID-RIM'S CRIMINAL UNDERGROUND?! WHO DO YOU THINK WIPED OUT THE BLACK SUN!? Leave now and ensure that that particular slave is taken well care of until it can be passed off to a rival. That slave has just become a ticking time-bomb and I do not want to be holding it when it blows!"

RUN: ... He ... runs off. *Totally unintentional mook naming. Totally*

Hutt: "I need better assistants."
 
Graves said:
We don't know the valley of the Jedi is on it.
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Do we even know what is the Valley of the Jedi or even the fact that it exists?

We probably know about the battle of Rusaan, however. And we definetely know about Russaan Reformation, it's fucking year 0 in the current calendar.
 
Kornet said:
Do we even know what is the Valley of the Jedi or even the fact that it exists?
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UbeOne said:
Do we even know what the Valley is, and that it exists in the first place?
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Whumbly said:
We worked with Jerec before the outbreak of the Clone Wars and he mentioned it as part of his life work to rediscover it. We know it exists, but even the dedicated Jedi Scholar didn't know where it was. His mission to find it is how he avoided the Clone Wars, sent by the Council to the Unknown Regions with a team to find lost artefacts.
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Graves said:
We don't know the valley of the Jedi is on it.
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We can totally search the place for fancy Force stuff. I mean, considering the amount of Jedi and Sith that fought in the Battle of Ruusan, it'd be perfectly reasonable to check the place out. Who knows what kind of stuff the fighters might have brought with them? Enough searching might lead us to the Valley due to just how potent the Force would have to be in such a place. It'll take a (very) lucky roll or repeated actions, but the Force might smile upon us.
 
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If I recall correctly the location of Ruusan is lost and has been for a very long time. It's not a matter of just looting the planet, it's finding it in the first place.
 
XenonPrime said:
If I recall correctly the location of Ruusan is lost and has been for a very long time. It's not a matter of just looting the planet, it's finding it in the first place.
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The mapped hyperlanes were disrupted by expanding nebula, and people mostly forgot about it. It is accessible enough to have a CIS listening post put in system (and then destroyed by the Republic), but it sounds like without reliable trade lanes no one cares enough to keep data on it, since it's a mineral poor, unsettled, and hard to reach system at this point.
 
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(Omake) Yorvi the Hutt's Terrible Day (Canon)
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    • Yorvi the Hutt and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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    Yorvi the Hutt didn't have many pleasures in life. He had set up shop so many years ago based on one thing only, which planets in Hutt space were not already occupied by a Hutt. By searching for his domain in such a way, a young Yorvi had hoped to establish a monopoly, becoming feared and respected as the only local representation of the Hutts. Using the respect such a position would get him, Yorvi would live in a great palace, attended by beautiful slaves, and dine only on the finest Ubuuga caviar. And so, full of hopes and dreams, he had set off for the planet of Riileb.

    Unfortunately for Yorvi, there was a very good reason that there were no other Hutts on Riileb. As it turned out, the natives had put up a fight when the Hutts first found Riileb, and Yorvi's ancestors had passed them over for easier prey. As a result, Riileb had never actually been conquered, and was only a part of Hutt Space because everything around Riileb was Hutt Space. Meaning all the gravitas Yorvi was meant to have a Hutt had no weight whatsoever.

    To make matters worse, the climate of Riileb was miserable. Hot and muggy, Yorvi often doubted he'd be comfortable even if he did have a luxurious palace. Which he didn't, because making money was downright impossible on Riileb. The planet had plenty of rare commodities to be shipped offworld, but nobody gave a rat's ass about Riileb, so nobody knew that they wanted these rare commodities.

    Still, Yorvi had managed to keep something approximating trade alive out of sheer force of will. Calling in traders to deliver offworld goods was simple, since even if no one in the galaxy had ever heard of "Yorvi", the title of "the Hutt" got people flocking to serve him. As it should. And once they got to the backwater nowhere that was Riileb, they needed something to put on their ships for the trip back. And many were surprised to find Yorvi the Hutt with an abundance of heklu, whose meat went for a pretty penny in the Core Worlds.

    So while Yorvi was a below average crime lord, he was an average businessman. Perhaps his biggest stroke of luck had come when the CIS had raided one of his shipments of general foodstuffs. It was honestly too cheap for Yorvi to ever bother with, but offworld foods were adored by the locals. It was a stupidly cheap way to acquire more heklu than he knew what to do with to be honest.

    But when a ship came in damaged so heavily it couldn't take off again and with all its cargo having been confiscated by Separatists who had thought it food for humanitarian purposes, the result was one Twilek trader who was stranded on Riileb and up to her eyeballs in debt with both Yorvi, who had paid in advance, and the company she had purchased the food from in the first place. Yorvi had been blessed with the good fortune of overhearing her shouting match with that very same company on the matter of her debts.

    Acting quickly, Yorvi had contacted the company and bought her debt. The company had been glad to wash their hands of the situation, and Yorvi could check one item off his bucket list. Because debt to a Hutt could only mean one of two things: the invention of a new form of execution or enslavement. Since Yorvi was short on exotic death machines, he had to settle for the acquisition of a beautiful Twilek woman.

    Of course, the reality of owning a slave was far less glamorous than Yorvi had imagined it in his youth. Because the Riileb thought him a joke and a minority of his business transactions occurred in his home, there was never an appropriate occasion to show off his sexy Twilek slave, and she wound up functioning more as an unpaid secretary. An unpaid secretary in a distractingly sexy outfit, but still.

    Then Yorvi got the missive. Directly from the Hutt Council. Lady Ciaran is sending an envoy. Expect him within the week. Be prepared. It was short and foreboding, but Yorvi's imagination ran wild and blinded him to any potential dangers. Even a heklu merchant in the middle of bumfuck nowhere knew of Lady Ciaran. Every endeavor she touched turned to gold. If she were interested in Riileb, this could be the chance he needed to make the other aspects of his dream come true. If all went well he'd be in the lap of luxury by the end of the year!

    With only a week left, Yorvi frantically went about preparing. Fancy foods were ordered on rush delivery. His humble office received a complete remodel, and while his coffers wept, he now had something approaching an audience chamber. He dipped into his ever shrinking funds to hire some of the Riilebs who didn't think him a joke as mercenary guards for the occasion. His unpaid secretary would finally have a chance to actually serve the primary purpose of a slave, and so Yorvi purchased an extra sexy outfit, and took to carrying her chains in his hands so as not to look awkward with them when it mattered.

    When the ship emblazoned with the insignia of the Abyss Watchers landed on Riileb, Yorvi the Hutt practically squealed with excitement from behind the security monitor. The old human who emerged walked forward confidently, barely slowing as two Riilebs made to lead him to Yorvi. If the Hutt had been paying attention, he'd have noticed the Riilebs' ability to sense emotions guiding them to give the visitor a wide berth. It would have also helped to be aware of this ability the natives possessed.

    Stowing the security monitor, Yorvi posed importantly and waited. After a minute or two, the door opened, and in strode the old human. If Yorvi had to guess he'd put the man at around 70 years old, which likely meant he was skilled in the art of diplomacy. Lady Ciaran must be serious about wanting some heklu.

    At the sight of the man however, his slave started to talk. Yorvi almost panicked, but kept a calm façade as he jerked on the chain around her neck to shut her up and prevent any embarrassment as a result of her speaking out of line. Slaves were meant to be seen, not heard. Unless they were singers, but Yorvi's slave didn't have any skills outside of being a trader it would seem, so that was a moot point.

    Yorvi's daydreams about his imminent deal with Lady Ciaran bringing him the wealth needed to acquire some decent slaves were interrupted by the blaster bolt that shot his left hand, causing him to drop the chains to his slave.

    "OW!" shout Yorvi, waving his hand in a futile attempt to numb the pain. Pain only compounded by the blaster handle that impacted his face moments later. Yorvi whimpered as the blaster was flipped back around and pointed menacingly between his eyes.

    "Ciaran only let me do this personally on the condition that I not jeopardize our standing with the Hutts by killing you. Personally I don't think the Hutts would care." growled the terrifying human only inches from Yorvi's face. "I'm taking my granddaughter. If you have any sense of self preservation, you'll stay on this backwater planet and keep selling heklu until you die."

    With that, the old human turned, shot off the chain around his slave's neck, and then left with her. Tears welling in his eyes, Yorvi used his uninjured hand to open a file in his system labelled "Goals", hesitated a moment, then unchecked the second of three boxes.


    AN: I felt inspired, and thus created Yorvi, a Hutt whose terrible decisions are eclipsed only by his rotten luck. The kind of Hutt Silas can shoot without anyone caring overmuch. Probably non-canon, since I imagine rescuing Larana will be its own action in the future, and million other reasons, but I had fun writing about Yorvi.
     
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    • Alright I was just asking to the writer himself to either confirm or deny it, but you gotta admit they do have a few good units/vehicles we can use.
     
    We should make or take over a news outlet. It would give us even more control over our PR and we can rebrand the Absysal watcher's as investigative journalists.
     
    I really wish Revan had left an holocron after he succeed in mastering both the Light and Dark side of force instead of just the one Darth Bane found in the Rakatan Temple that Revan made while he was still a darksider.
     
    Killerflood said:
    Errr ... It was either Teron or Dr. Snark who said this but ... one of our authors hates the Zann Consortium so I would suggest putting that answer as a resounding no until stated otherwise.
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    I wouldn't worry. Right now Tyber Zann is probably just a teenager.

    Shadow-86 said:
    Alright I was just asking to the writer himself to either confirm or deny it, but you gotta admit they do have a few good units/vehicles we can use.
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    I won't deny. I do like their toys.
     
    I wonder if Human/Togruta hybrids are a thing. I yes, can you imagne the potential hillarity if Ahsoka Tano turned up to be one of Ciaran's manny cousins?
     
    Killerflood said:
    Errr ... It was either Teron or Dr. Snark who said this but ... one of our authors hates the Zann Consortium so I would suggest putting that answer as a resounding no until stated otherwise.
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    Shadow-86 said:
    Alright I was just asking to the writer himself to either confirm or deny it, but you gotta admit they do have a few good units/vehicles we can use.
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    LIES AND SLANDER! I LOVE the Zann Consortium and the quote 'I've always wanted to own a Senator.' is the REASON THIS QUEST EXISTS!
     
    Also...

    *stares at the whole madness involving a certain Twi-lek*

    That was kinda intended as a throw-away line of something Silas probably handles in his sparetime. I did NOT expect everyone to get THIS invested in this.
     
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