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Escape Velocity

by Jedi Knight VN Ysadora





Episode 3.09 - Escape Velocity


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| Feb 10, 2023


The war on Chalcedon has ended but the real troubles begin as the heroes must deal with the kidnapping of Jem Vandos but have to contend with the schemes of Sargon Xan Daran.






 
Datunda

4 Melona

12731

 
As session umpteen of the Freedworlds-Meldari negotiations stream live on holovid, we have snacks and snark at Lady Zaye's house.

(I wonder if she invited us over because her adopted father is one of the Meldari representatives in the negotiations?)

 
Almon d'Joy tells us that Sargon Xan ordered him to collect Jem Vandos and turn him over to Clan Tilles. For all he knows (so he tells us), the Gamesman could still be here on Chalcedon?

 
Rico just came hurrying in. He says they've got intel on the current location of Jem Vandos: he's at a pirate casino at Tunring Station.

Wheels up in five!


- Captain Rico Vorysadora to the Night Sparrow collective


 
Lady Zaye is calm, but the tension in her is palpable.

So I tell the kids to grab their weather gear.

If I were trying to conceal an extravagantly bright-colored prisoner, I would hide him in the brightly decorated daycare facility meant to park dependents while the suckers are gambling away the family funds.

We can check in there only if we actually have children with us, in on the cover story we are trying to run.

 
(This way we do not leave any of the family someplace where they could be isolated.

 

 
two hours later

approaching Tunring Station from the west

 
Rico and the lads plan to start with perimeter watch, so they can catch anybody trying to escape.

Except Goss. He wants to go check out the catamarans. He is going to play "bodyguard" to Vance's "Core Worlds trust fund dilettante".

So'Zen is going to the Quantum Queen Casino.

As Corellian-dressed frat boys, the Mentats are going to go to the casino and try to break the bank. Sort of.

Davish, Lady Zaye, the children, and I will start off investigating the daycare and similar facilities.

 

According to the daycare lady:


Functionally speaking, the Chalcedon Trade Guild owns this town. They take forty percent of all cash profits. The Mining Guild has been ignoring the situation here in Tunring Station.

 

According to the Mining Guild Security and the Sector Ranger:


  • Zuld Lurang, Mining Guild Security Services

  • Omar Jarand of the Sector Rangers

 
Chalcedon Trade Guild has got a deal with 2 other groups that do processing: NovaCorps / Nova Orion Group

There's a reason this town and another one are off the books: most of these mines do produce metallic ore. Duralite, iron, various components of starship hulls.

 
Mine #23 produces spice. Not same variety as Kessel. When it's in the soil, the hydroponics wind up growing food that causes visions.

 
We don't have the evidence.


Sector Ranger Omar Jarand

 
Mining Guild did not sign up to mine spice. They need a way out without being labeled "spice miners". Meanwhile, Sector Rangers need evidence to start filing charges.

 
The casino contains a refinement lab for the spice.

Past the lab is an office. Then you can get to the main floor of the casino.

There's a back door on the east side of the casino, concealed, goes through a main office and into the laboratory..

 

 
The casino owner at the Quantum Queen is Thol Balmuri. He is Thisspassian. He says he got the money to buy this casino/cantina and "fix it up" by betting on "Blue" on Nar Shaddaa.

And since he kriffing announced me, I guess I can go up there on the stage and speak with apparent Lord Jem Vandos directly. In public.

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