She was stunned. A chance encounter and now she was wanted by the Black Sun, because her current partner had wronged them. She sat there, knuckles white on the bed frame and she attempted to control the trembles that were sure to start if she let go. She looked downwards, so he could not see the vulnerability in her eyes. She waited until the coldness, the stillness that fell upon her when she was working overtook her and only then did she look up.

"So you are telling me I am marked for death? Is there anyone in particular amongst the Black Sun? Someone you wronged that we can somehow change his mind or make dead?" She asked. Her voice held no waiver, it was dark but not at Roq, at the situation.

Roq shook his head wishing that he hadn't brought Jace his situation.  "I don't know. Maybe they didn't see or get a good look at you. But if they did your life is certainly in danger. I doubt it Alitnt's a hutt they don't usually change their minds and I certainly don't want him alive. I've been trying to figure out a way to get revenge on him. but with a slug like him it's hard to do it alone. That's why I joined the group. It was the only way I could see killing him."

Jase relaxed, hiding was something she was used to doing, perhaps now with Roq, she could do more than hide from her previous employer. "Well, perhaps with knack for finding ways into secure places, we can work together to either ruin Alitnt financially so that he backs off or kill him outright." She paused and then continued, "I should probably mention that I too have a past that can catch up with us. I failed a job on purpose when I discovered the 'cargo' I was hired to deliver turned out to be a woman the man had fallen for and needed to have. He had her kidnapped and I was to bring her to him. I let her go."

Roq looked at Jace and smiled, grateful that she was willing to help him, with her help he might be able to have his revenge on Alitnt. "That's honorable there are very few people in this side of the galaxy that would do that. I would have done the same in that situation."  He paused  as his expression turned into anger. "As for Alitnt I don't just want to destroy him financially. I want to destroy him and his syndicate for what they did to my wife."he replied pulling out of his pocket a holographic picture of his wife. It was the only thing he had left of her.

She was stunning, Jase said so. "Then we will do that, destroy the Hutt  holds dear, piece by piece until finally he has nothing left. That is when we will strike him."

Jase grabbed onto the frame, as she felt the smuggler's ship take off. Once in hyperspace, she relaxed, grabbed her datapad and said, "Tell me more about Alitnt."

Roq nodded and says. "He's like any other hutt, Alitnt is a slimy gangster whose love of credits is exceeded only by his love of power. He gives  slaves to the empir. in exchange they let him smuggle spice in and out of hutt space without trouble and occasionally make his competitors disappear. It's one of the ways he uses to stay in power."

Roq grabbed onto the frame, as he felt the smuggler's ship take off, trying to think of anything else he could remember about Alitnts operation.

She ignored the compliment, she was principled, especially when it came to slavery, women in particular.

"Do you know which planet is his base of operation or what city? Besides slaves and spice, does he have any other enterprises? Do you know of any vices?"

She pulled out her datapad and wondered if she had access to the ship network, if not she would not use her skills to acquire it. She started looking for news articles on Alitnt. Searching the job boards for positions that would lead to him or his organization.
This message was lightly edited by the player at 22:15, Fri 12 Feb 2016.

Roll Computers average check to access the ships network

14:16, Today: Jase Mason rolled 3 successes, 1 advantage using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2A 2P 2D.  Computers.

you have access

"From what I could gather, his base of operation is in a Tibanna gas mining colony in the anoat sector called cloud city.  He has influence in a variety of illegal activities, but the ones that he makes the most credits from besides the spice and slaves. Are his gunrunning operations, and occasionaly raiding high value republic supply ships. he likes to eat fried Twi'lek lekkus and loves to gamble. One of the reasons why he chose cloud city as his base' I hear it's become quite the gambling den."

Her nose curled in disgust when she learned that he enjoyed eating the lekku of twi'lek. It was disgusting, they were sentient beings, killing him might be too quick.

"Sounds like you've done quite a bit or research on him already."

Once she was connected to the onboard network, Jase did a few quick searches in the newest, narrowing down her search to Tibanna Gas Mining colony. She was looking for specifics on the slug. Once she was on a more public network, one that did not involve a smuggler's ship she would delve into searching for finances, see if she could shift some wealth around.

Roq shrugs most of the information was what his manager had told him when he first introduced Alitnt to him, and hearing smugglers talking in cantinas.

"When you want to take on a hutt it's best to find out as much as you can about him."

OOC: Jase roll computers It's an Easy check to find anything general about Cloud city,
Make it average to find specific information about Cloud city
Make it hard to find information tying Cloud city to Alitnt
Make it Daunting to find detailed information about Alitnt's financial or other dealings in cloud city.
This message was last edited by the GM at 09:21, Sat 13 Feb 2016.

"I couldn't agree more," Jase said as she began typing furiously on her datapad, researching everything she could find on the Hutt's financial dealings in cloud city.

OOC:
Let me know what you want to do with the threats, I was thinking, perhaps could use some of the successes or the triumph to cancel them out. 5 success and a 1 triumph is spectacular.

12:07, Today: Jase Mason rolled 5 successes, 4 threats, 1 triumph using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2a 2p 4d.  Computers, Daunting.

nice roll

[Secret to Jase Mason: Private to Jase
what you learn.

#1 general information about Bespin and cloud cities purpose, exports and imports, galactic interests.

#2 Currently Owned by Alitnt's holding compnay, Managed by a Twi'lek by the name of Ruusero.

#3 currently in some financial crisis. Another Tibanna gas conglomerate was formed when another Gas giant was found containing a large percentage of the gas used in blaster weapons production. Cloud City has done some major discounting on their products to keep certain clients from switching providers.

#4 It appears Alitnt, or Ruusero (it is unclear which is behind it) has been doing some creative accounting. The Reported profits and Share values of the company do not appear to match up with the shipments that have been going out.

#5 It appears a lot of promotion has been going on to increase tourism to the Facility. Sweet vacation packages being offered and Large events have been being held. There has also apparently been a spree of Large Jackpot Winners from the Casinos, but these payouts don't seem to be reflected in the Financials of the companies records.

#6 there are two large events about to take place in he next month. One is a Galactic High stakes Sabaac Tournament. The second is a Shock Boxer Match. It appears that Alitnt has managed to entice the Shock Bxoing federation to Hold their Championship competition there. The Top 24 competitors will be coming into Cloud city to fight it out in a Single Elimination tiered Event that will be spread over 4 weeks of the next month. ]

Jase typed a few more commands and she was in, the information flowed by so fast she captured it into an encrypted file on her datapad, allowing her to refer to it at a later date if necessary. She looked up and shared the basics of what she learned, "Not surprisingly Alitnt is in major debt and has been leveraging everything he can to stay afloat. Amazingly he has been able to convince large federations, such as the Shock Boxing Federation to support tournaments on cloud city. I think we can create a big splash by trying the indirect approach of unanimously providing this information to either a large news organization or to someone that matters in the Federation OR we could do something more direct and destroy the assets associated with Managed, Alitnt's holding company for cloud city or approach Ruusero, the Twi'lek in charge of said holding company."

She closed the connection after verifying it was saved on her datapad and turned to Roq, curious as to what his opinion was on the matter.

Roq rubbed his chin thinking of which was the best action to take. He wanted to directly attacking assets, but that would potentially attract Alitnt's attention to them too quickly. Approaching Ruusero seemed like a good idea  with the hutts particular appetite for lekku he might sympathize with them and help. But there was a chance he might be to scared of him or too loyal to help them. "I like the idea of creating it'll disrupt Alitnt's operations. As for how we leak the information hopefully I still have contacts in the league."

Jase thought more on it, "We could also do a combination of the both. Approach the Twi'lek, see if he is corruptible while we work on destroying the sponsors of anything that will help the Slug earn creds."

As she spoke, Jase realized she missed a vital piece of information, she went back and re-read what she had gathered, it had to be here, Who were the Hutt's creditors?

OOC:
Let us know when we are "on our way" and we will happily go find out how we can get into trouble with the Captain.

Roq nodded. "Yes I agree that's a good plan. If he's not than I'm sure I can persuade him through some aggressive negotiation."

OOC: By now, the Ship is well settled into hyperspace.


[Secret to Jase Mason: Private to Jase -Roll another daunting check to find the creditors, Though you will be also adding two additional Setback dice, From the threat received on that last daunting check.]

Jase pulled out her datapad one more time and dug into the information, searching for that one key tidbit to help them destroy the Hutt, but was unable to find it. Sighin, she stuffed it back into her bag. "Let's go talk to the Captain, see who we are running with here."

OOC:
11:03, Today: Jase Mason rolled no successes, 3 threats using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2p 2a 4d 2s.  Computer.

Roq nodded and took one last look at his wife's photo, before putting it back in his pocket. Getting up from the bunk and went to meet the captain.

you leave the quarters and make your way back into the Common room of the ship. You Find the Captain and her First Mate relaxing with a Bottle of Wine at the table.

"I hope you found an accommodating room for yourselves?" She offers to poor a Galss for each of you.

Jase kept her bag with her, like a security blanket. "The berth is spiffy," she replied to the Captain, taking the seat across from the first mate and next to the Captain. When offered, Jase accepted the glass of wine, "Thank you,"

Jase lifted the glass and sipped the wine, it was not to her likely and she had to concentrate to keep a straight face. Once she had control of her expression she asked, "So we have heard that you might have a few openings for an upcoming job?"