Cool down

[sdrotar]

Caden seethed; only half-paying attention to the map. Fett had sabotaged his ship, and it would have worked.
He made a mental note to get with Sam, Logar and perhaps this Farok in order to create new security protocols as soon as Fett was off the ship.
He wouldn't dare let the bounty hunter in on the planning; he figured a six-month head start still might not be enough...

[Jingo]

"You think an attack on this stronghold will flush out the Shade? Do we have any idea of the markets and organization that are peddaling Gora death sticks?

Kaida had rolled her eyes at the six-month head start bit and at Farok's view of the bounty hunter. Honor indeed. But regardless, they were now reluctant allies; and she figured it was best to use him as much as she could before he was on her tail again.

Studying the map, Kaida wondered the same thing that Farok had just stated.

"Why would they put the bulk of their production in one single facility? It seems it'd make more sense to have them spread out. But then I don't know much about death sticks. Is there something unique to this jungle environment that promotes its production? And this hand-drawn map is from your...father? Do you have anything more current?" She was skeptical. " After all, basing plans off intel more than a decade old isn't the best practice."

[tomcat]

"I am sorry I haven't new aerial reconnaissance," Fett replied to Kaida, sarcasm dripping in every word. Then to answer both Farok and Kaida's other questions, "I don't know if you will flush out anything, for sure. I have no idea what their production or marketing is; and I have no idea if this facility is the only plant that they use. I am going to go with a no, in regards to the latter question, but what else do you have? If you want, I can bring up the later journals from my father, that detail his attack on Vosa and the Bando Gora's hideout on Kohlma. It is a moon that circles Bogden and has been made into a massive memorial tomb to those who died in Bogden's catastrophic war. The question is, are they still there? Again, I don't know.



"So, what will an attack on the Malastare production facility do? It might draw the shadow out to investigate. Or maybe it will draw out the Bando Gora so that we can get a fix on where they come from, or go to. Maybe it will lead us to another production facility, and we can destroy that one, too. No matter, what you have a place to start." Boba gave the noblewoman a hard stare, "Or you can come up with your own plan and information."

[donimator]

Sam bristled as he was handed the trigger. When the hell had he wired up the ship?? He made a note to look for other surprises. This bounty hunter seemed the type with more than one backup plan. As he was taking in the map he was already making plans to dig up as much info on Malastare as he could find. He didn't want for them to be stranded if this Fett had a change of heart.

[Telcontar]

Farok had delt with drug smuggling rings before. As the map and the particulars began to come to light the sand blasted old man thought about all that he was hearing. Stopping the drug trade was not going to happen, in fact all they were really doing was helping someone else corner the market, but how to lure out a Dark Jedi.....

"Do those who deal with the Bando Gora know that they are dealing with a force user?"

Tomcat, I am going to try and use my galactic knowledge bureaucracy and galactic lore to see if i can tease anything of value out of this information or anything else that i have done or worked with in the past.

Rolled 1d20+10 : 12 + 10, total 22

bureaucracy

Rolled 1d20+10 : 10 + 10, total 20

lore

[tomcat]

Boba Fett could only shake his head, "I don't know much past what I have on these data journals. I understand through my father's notes that the Gora are a Force-using cult, but who knows what their associates knew."



Just to give some info out of character - Fett is not a specialist on this cult. He only knows what he knows due to the records his father left him. As for your rolls, Tom, I will give you some answers to what you were looking for only if you have some time to study the code cylinder that Fett has. Your rolls are good enough to know some basic business and lore about drug running, but the Bando Gora is/was a very secretive organization.

[Telcontar]

Farok tapped his index finger along his cigar as he thought about the problem before them.

"Secret societies are difficult to penetrate; it's kind of the point of keeping them a secret. But no organization no matter how secret can meet all of its own needs. Someone has to fly ships, somewhere there are supplies or resources going somewhere, people to fly ships, repair them. Credits need to be put somewhere or they are useless. There are many threads that can be followed, and if done so diligently will lead back to the blanket they are woven into. If this planter is distribution the supply needs to come from somewhere. If it's a manufacturing planet someone comes to pick up the sticks for transport. A planet is no small asset to have in ones arsenal so if not critical I would rate Malastare as at least important."

Farok scanned through the notes and the images, "if we can figure out the level of activity we can figure out when things are likely to come and go through the system. We may be able to set up some sensor arrays on one of the moons. We can also plant some surveillance equipment in the facility itself, try to get some more information on what it is we are trying to do. We don't want to waste our time with the small fish or the petty drug smugglers or we will get nowhere, but if we can find a way to hit them hard and fast, throw off the system enough then the heavy hitters are going to want to fix things themselves. The trick is figuring out the bait that they would respond to."

"Its a cult not a bussiness enterprise. Our best bet would attack it along some kind of religious value that they hold. That will get the nest all in a tither. The credit loss they can work around, but righteous indignation is going to sucker in the devout and come up on the radar of the leadership. A loss of face is a loss of faith, which attacks the core of their position."

Farok smiled and blew out a smoke ring, "find a way to attack the faith and he will come."

[tomcat]

Brim walked up to the monitor. He could see that Jango Fett had been meticulous about recording his business - there was personal notes, and also official notes off of the Republic's holonet. He looked at Boba, "May I? I would like to read some of this."

Fett gestured, his hands out and open, "Be my guest."

Brim began to scroll up and then back down through the data. He focused on the Bando Gora and its previous leader. He read the first paragraph out loud to his companions.

"Komari Vosa was a fallen Human Jedi, crime lord, and the last leader of the Bando Gora cult. Vosa was the target of the hunt, which ultimately brought about her untimely demise. Following her death, the Bando Gora ceased to exist." Brim grimaced, "Or though they thought."

He read on.

Like most Jedi, Komari Vosa was taken as an infant to Coruscant to be trained as a Jedi by Master Yoda. She was then apprenticed to Jedi Master Dooku as a Padawan learner. Vosa was a brash young student with a short temper. Never was this more evident than when the Jedi were called to Galidraan to stop the army of Mandalorians, which the Jedi Council had been misled to believe were killing political activists on the planet. Komari Vosa killed at least twenty of the soldiers, as she would later boast to one of the two Mandalorian survivors, Jango Fett.

The Jedi High Council were disturbed by what seemed to be a growing infatuation in Vosa for her Master. This, in conjunction with her aggression, was used to deem her unworthy of Knighthood. Furious with the decision, Komari took it upon herself to leave Coruscant with four other Jedi on a mission to Baltizaar to save civilians from a cult called the Bando Gora. The mission was a failure. Two of the Jedi died and the other three, including Vosa, disappeared and were presumed dead.

In truth, they were captured and Komari was tortured to the point of madness, leaving scars along her back and chin. Vosa eventually broke free, but did not escape. Embracing the dark side, she overthrew her captors and became their leader, proving her worth by executing the other two Jedi captives. Another Bando Gora became her chief minion, informing her of happenings around the galaxy. With Komari Vosa's worth proven, she took the reins and set her plan in motion. It was simple: release a brainwashing agent into death sticks which would immediately enslave the users and recruit them into the Bando Gora. Komari Vosa would ship the agent to Gardulla the Hutt on Tatooine to cover her trail, who would in turn send it over to Sebolto on Malastare to be processed into the death sticks. Sebolto would then send his death sticks to Coruscant's underworld leaders such as Groff Haugg. Such made her the key to the whole operation. As a result, this disrupted much bigger plans in the highest place of the galaxy. Darth Sidious, with his plans to grab power in the Galactic Senate and then establish himself as Emperor, took notice of the Bando Gora and knew that it had to be destroyed if his plans were to succeed. As such, he ordered Dooku, now his apprentice, Darth Tyranus, to eradicate Komari Vosa and the Bando Gora. Tyranus obeyed his Master and would not only have Vosa killed but find someone to become the template for a clone army. Tyranus hired bounty hunters and mercenaries across the galaxy to find, capture or kill Komari Vosa. Jango Fett was able to trace the source of the death sticks to Malastare through the corrupt politician, Senator Connus Trell. From Malastare, Fett found the source to be from Gardulla the Hutt. All the while, Jango was eliminating Vosa's underworld contacts, disrupting her plans and ensuring that the hunters became the hunted. Komari Vosa was finally found by Rozatta, the Toydarian working with Jango, to be on one of the moons of Bogden.

After fighting his way through countless Bando Gora slaves as well as killing Montross, Jango Fett was captured inside Komari Vosa's citadel. Komari Vosa had her slaves torture Jango until she arrived to see the one bounty hunter who was able to find her. Vosa then interrogated Fett personally. She tried to seduce him, even getting on top of him. Luckily for Fett, another bounty hunter arrived. The Clawdite known as Zam Wesell, who was also working with Jango to find Vosa, infiltrated her citadel. Vosa sensed Wesell and confronted her. Wesell killed two of Vosa's minions and opened fire on her, but Vosa deflected the bolts back to Zam and knocked her over. As Komari Vosa was about to kill her, Wesell shot Fett's restraints. Freed, Fett retrieved his weapons and attacked Vosa.

Vosa fled further into her citadel as Jango pursued her. Eventually confronting Vosa in her throne room, after going through her maze, Jango managed to defeat her and had her at his mercy. Strangely, when Vosa asked if Jango was going to finish her, he showed mercy and lowered his weapons. At that moment, Vosa finally sensed her old Master, who had been observing the confrontation in secret. Tyranus then Force-choked her to death. Fett collected his bounty of five million credits.



There is a lot of info here that may not have been recorded, or known to Fett, but I want to give you guys the back story of it all without having to wait for chances to reveal things. Some may know this stuff if you ever played the Star Wars Bounty Hunter game. For those that have not, now you know the details. I may restrict some of the above items as information unavailable to your characters (i.e. some of the inner-Jedi stff). If you use something of this that I think was player info only, I may ask you to edit your post. I know, sorry! 

[tomcat]

Finishing with the notes, Brim turned to Farok, "This does not sound like a cult of faith or personality, but one of forced subjugation."

[tomcat]

"Your Rodian friend is right," agreed Boba Fett. "The way I see it though is if you are going to try to find the reasons why and the methods in which the Bando Gora recruit and try to break them by revealing their secret, then you are probably going to waste a lot of time. From what I have read on the group it seems they are nothing but a chaotic, subversive organization. They take what they want by force. They break the will of those that they capture via drugs and supposedly sorcery and they use intimidation to quell any revolt against them. Brute force seems to me the only thing that will get their intention... like stepping on a talin* nest - disturb the nest and they swarm out."

Brim pointed to one of the notes, "The Gora were not in the death stick production, they were using death sticks to introduce their influencing drug. So, who is to say that they are still in the death stick business?"

"Well whatever business they are in, Anturrus is not happy with the idea of them appointing a new leader," said Fett.

Brim then remembered something they had read a few months past in Seelig's diary about creatures with glowing eyes. He pointed this out to them all once more and then remarked, "The glowing eyed creatures were probably the Bando Gora. Perhaps they were looking to include namana as a source for their mind-influencing drug."

Fett pulled the data cylinder, "You all keep talking about what is, or what was. How they did this, or that. Who cares? I have interest in taking out the shadow. You have interest in removing this guy, too, from what I understand. So, you all can debate here until the sands blow off this world leaving nothing left. I am going to go back to the start and see what I can stir up."

The bounty hunter tucked the code cylinder into one of the many utility pockets on his padded suit and began to walk towards the Aegis' landing ramp.



Okay... between Tom and me and the NPC's there is little to no conversation or RP'ing going on. I am in the midst of designing maps and the layout of this episodes adventure, but if you guys are done just let me know. Player posting is way down. This pace of game will not hold any cohesiveness to story or interest, or it will shift story content to those people that are here playing.

If there are players that are bored and want to drop out, it is not a problem - just give me a heads up.

I'll wait for replies and then tool the story based on who is still playing.

[Telcontar]

"Its not a revealing of their secrets that I intended. The Bando Gora want something, their desires are the key to unlocking what they value most, and attacking what they value most will stir up the nest as you say. The Shadow will not come to us because we ask him to. I am not opposed to going to Malastare, and its our only lead at the moment. But in order to find answers we need to know what questions to ask."

[tomcat]

Brim nodded,"That is logical, Farok."

From the distance where he stood to take the ladder down to the first deck, Boba Fett also replied, "Sounds good... hopefully I will see you there."



That is not a prickish GM statement coming from Fett, Tom. Especially after my abve inquiry into game interest.

Nah, just playing Fett as a guy who usually works solo. He has an idea of a plan and he is running with it himself and if he sees you all again, then so much the better.

[sdrotar]

Okay... between Tom and me and the NPC's there is little to no conversation or RP'ing going on. I am in the midst of designing maps and the layout of this episodes adventure, but if you guys are done just let me know. Player posting is way down. This pace of game will not hold any cohesiveness to story or interest, or it will shift story content to those people that are here playing.

If there are players that are bored and want to drop out, it is not a problem - just give me a heads up.

I'll wait for replies and then tool the story based on who is still playing.

Not bored, still playing. Caden just isn't a soldier; he's a salesman.

[donimator]

Sam listened to the bounty hunter speak with Brim, Farok and the others. He found himself looking for weak points in the Mandalorian's armour, potential blind spots his backpack might create...information could always be found of use. He listened to the discussions, but his programming wasn't for planning, but for the execution of plans. There wasn't enough hard data to plug into any logic or probability algorithms. He would be ready to act when called upon.

[watanabe]

Kara was still thinking of ways to get Farouk thrown off the ship.  She heard the bounty hunters words about death sticks, and all the conversations about drugs brought back so many memories... so many temptations.

"I think I should stay flying the ship or as cover for this mission.  Deathstick production is not something I should probably be too close to at the moment." she muttered, loud enough for everyone to hear.  Was she talking to everyone, or just herself?  Who knows.