DAWN OF THE
UNDERWORLD ERA
The era of the rise of Glann Cipple and the continued
growth of the powerbase of the Setnin Sectors prime ganglord Duze
Jostenn. Motivated by ambition and
fuelled by greed, these men initiate a new era for Setnin’s underworld... 50 years before Battle of Yavin JANOS BORDERS OPENED -
Culdinatia the Second of Janos, realising
that his world’s culture is stagnating, allows limited travel off world,
further opening the horizons of Janite exploration. -
The future Grand Moff Galgen is born on the planet Lebbat in the Brother
Sector. -
Duze Jostenn survives an
assassination attempt on the world of Watanna. Forty-eight years before Battle of Yavin ADE-ARR B’ERAIN BECOMES A JEDI KNIGHT -
Ade-arr B’erain takes the trials
becomes a Jedi Knight in a ceremony on Coruscant. No longer Master Zebodens Padawan he
embarks on his own missions and sees much of the galaxy on his travels. Forty-six years before Battle of Yavin -
Seranomi Allafson is born in the city
of Negarde on the world of Nogard. Forty-five years before Battle of Yavin -
Garani Allafson is born in the city
of Negarde on the world of Nogard. Forty-two years before
Battle of Yavin -
Acrupial, son of Culdinatia the
Second succeeds his father upon his death and takes the name of Culdinatia
the Third. -
Grabby Cap is born on Luronsa IV. -
Narn Giappa Lomona and Sierra Cetting Retgarr meet at a festival dance
on A-desando and begin dating each other. Forty-one years before Battle of Yavin -
Traders arriving on Janos
enter into disputes with the natives due to the vast differences in culture. -
Narn Giappa Lomona and his bride Sierra are wed on A-desando. Forty years before Battle of Yavin -
On Janos, the ruling council of the Jedi, with the permission of
Emperor Priest Culdinatia the Third, hand over a sith
Holocron to a mysterious stranger. -
Grippy Cap is born on Luronsa IV. Thirty-nine years before Battle of Yavin BIRTH OF TARR RANTH -
Tarrion Randelle, later to be known as
Tarr Ranth, is born on Corellia. -
Aurran is sold by the
A-desandian Security Services and begins
his service with the Lomona family in Ecaps City on A-desando. Thirty-eight years before Battle of Yavin CIPPLE BEGINS WORK FOR JOSTENN -
Glann Cipple begins working for
the Setnin Sectors main ganglord Duze Jostenn. Embarking upon a successful
career as a smuggler the seeds of what will become a massive empire are sown. Thirty-seven years
before Battle of Yavin 37-BBY -
Hunting Shadows -
Troopie is activated on
Zelon and utilised as a work droid for the A-desandian trade minister on
Chancai. -
Ade Lomona begins working for Duze Jostenn as a freighter pilot. Thirty-six years before
Battle of Yavin -
Level twenty-five of the
Chancai Trade Centre is completed.
Despite constant attempted sabotage the city continues to operate and
maintains its standing as the prime trade location in the Mid-Rim. Thirty-five years before
Battle of Yavin -
The A-desandian council of houses declares that trade is ended with
the planet Halando, causing friction between the sister worlds. Thirty-four years before Battle of Yavin -
Hindley Galletti is born on Trefnare,
first son of Gres and Draite Galletti. -
Glann Cipple and Dessio D’Staan begin working as
partners whilst running for Duze Jostenn.
A strong friendship is begun. -
Hijjin Lomona is born in the city
of Ecaps on A-desando, the first son of Sierra and Narn Giappa Lomona. Thirty-three years before
Battle of Yavin -
Janos is declared a no-go
area by local authorities due to the increased number of incidents involving
off-worlders. -
Anak Arkensaw begins work for Duze Jostenn. -
Darwyn T’Reller leaves her homestead of Mos Banely on Tatooine and travels to the
Setnin Sector in her ship the T’Rellers Run searching for employment in the
smuggling trade. -
The Janos situation soon escalates and Supreme Chancellor Valorum
suggests sending in two Jedi ambassadors. However, Senator Gennata of
A-desando disagrees, saying that such matters were best solved internally and
further proposing that Setnin establish its own procedures to contain the
Janos threat. -
A vote in the Senate
concerning the Setnin Sector is conducted and Chancellor Valorum concedes.
The Senate agrees with the actions taken by the Setnin authorities and
ratifies their motion. Once again
Setnin stands alone. Thirty-two years before Battle of Yavin START OF SETNIN SECTOR AUTONOMY -
The Setnin Sector embarks upon its era
of autonomy from the Republic and begins to take care of its own affairs,
independent of the influence of the Republic for the first time in 3418
years. SETNIN JEDI COUNCIL ESTABLISHED -
In order to properly protect
the wide area that Setnin covers it is decided to establish a council
specific to Setnin. Taking one of the
smaller chambers in the Chamber of Systems on the Zelon moon of Benesk, the
Jedi remain close to the political machinations of Setnin. ADE LOMONA AND ANAK ARKENSAW FIRST TEAM UP -
Ade Lomona and Anak Arkensaw team up for a mission for Duze Jostenn
shipping seven crates of undisclosed items to Chinngard with Glann Cipple. -
En route, Lomona, Arkensaw and Cipple come across a Janite Warpreacher
battleship called the Blueheart stealing off with a cargo ship full of
fighters. -
Arriving on Chinngard Lomona, Arkensaw and Cipple drop the boxes off to the
planets government who need an extra power source for their rapidly expanding
economy. Whilst there they meet up with a friend of Anaks in a bar, Balga
Nili, a writer of songs that go against authorities. -
Balga Nili is paid highly to break into the new Zelon Wave Exchange on Chancai
and transmit his newest song ‘Slave to Credits’. His employers are Janites. -
As they talk, Janos Executioners arrive. They are looking for the
owners of Lomonas ship the Wretched Eclipse because they have detected Janos
Jewel power emanations from it as it landed. -
A fight begins. Eight of the twelve Janites are killed or incapacitated, Cipple is
wounded, as is Arkensaw, and they all flee with Balga to the ship and run
off. -
They fly to Yotil to let Duze Jostenn know what has happened and they
check out the song that the Janites want him to transmit. They discover there
is an underlying code to the music. Further investigation reveals the signal
is designed to shut down all non-Janite computers throughout the sector. Part
of their invasion plan of the Setnin Sector. They change the code to shut
down Janite computers. Cipple is left with Jostenn to recover and Dessio
D’Staan goes with them to take care of any technical aspects. -
Upon arrival on Chancai they see Venek Ariso, head of security on
Chancai. The upper two levels aren’t finished yet and the Zelon Wave Exchange
is about to come on-line. Ariso agrees to help them out. -
At the Zelon Wave Exchange, D’Staan recognises Ariso – he’s a man
accused by the Republic years before of Janite sympathy and collaboration. As
he recognises him Ariso tries to stop the transmission of the Janos-crippling
signal. A fight kicks off that leads to a speeder chase through the as yet
unfinished upper levels of Chancai. -
Venek Ariso and his men are killed. -
The Janite transmission is sent. Janos forces pull back as their computers
crash and their invasion is cancelled. Anak Arkensaw, Ade Lomona and Balga
Nili, not wanting to be tied into the event and draw the revenge of the
Janites, sneak off during the celebrations. DUZE JOSTENN ACQUIRES LEOGARD REAL ESTATE
-
Duze Jostenn buys land on Leogard for mining, as the Setnin Sector has split from
the Republic and now has to get its own raw materials. Pleased with Anak and
Ade’s work he puts them in charge. Balga Nili goes with them. -
Ade and Anak open up two automated mines and build a small
community with workers, naming it Arkona Town. Things go well for four
months. -
Huge strip miners start up on the land surrounding their claim and dust
and chemicals infect their water and air. The A-Desando Mining Corp have bough tin huge vessels for the work, run by Ade’s
cousin Vernek Lomona. After many problems including quakes and pollution, Ade
manages to push his cousin away from their borders. DISCOVERY OF THE EN’K’FAR/P’RO TREASURE
-
The strip mining uncovers underground passages. Upon inspection they
contain six huge boxes, buried deep under the ground. They are En’K’Far boxes
but contain P’ro dynasty treasures –20 million creds worth. Also, the bodies
of a P’ro royal family are found in one of the boxes, dating back 2500 years.
-
After the discovery, the people of Arkona Town start having visions of the
dead coming back and haunting them. The overall consensus is that the boxes
are put back and forgotten about but Anak is determined to sort out the truth.
Another box that is opened sends out a signal but to whom they don’t know. -
Duze Jostenn arrives. He touches down and the truth is discovered. It was he who
had placed the boxes there and then bought the land in his name so that the
chances of discovery were limited. He hid them there on behalf of a
representative of the En’K’Far called Injevido Tru. 2500 years ago, the En’K’Far
murdered the P’ro royal family and stole their riches, keeping them hidden
ever since. Duze Jostenn placed a neural transmitter in one box so that if it
were ever opened the people in the vicinity would have visions of the dead
and think the boxes cursed. -
Injevido Tru wants the boxes returned to En’K’Far space now that they’ve been
discovered. Jostenn tells Anak and Ade that the mine and land is theirs if
they assist him. -
Injevido leaves for En’K’Far space, saying he will return when he finds a
suitable hiding place. -
Anak Arkensaw and Ade Lomona decide to find new investors to build up their
new enterprise – turning the land they now own into a holiday resort. One of
their workers has a brother on Luronsa, Dariv, a
good friend of Duze Jostenn’s. -
Anak Arkensaw and Ade Lomona fly to Luronsa to see Dariv who owns a huge
pier that juts out of the side of a mountain. It is covered with casinos and
gambling dens. They present him with the details of the plan. -
Dariv is not interested and Anak and Ade leave. An hour later, Dariv calls
them and invites them to a party that evening celebrating the Sun Colour
Festival, where they could meet many people who might help them. -
Anak Arkensaw goes to the seedy part of the pier to find out more about Dariv. He
meets Grin who tells him Dariv is scum – he runs drugs, slaves and all sorts
through this pier. Grin asks Anak if he can help get a friend of his, Patron
Cap and his family off planet and out of Dariv’s clutches. In return for his
information, Anak agrees. -
Anak Arkensaw and Ade Lomona attend the party that night and discover
Heena, one of Jostenn’s operatives who is scoping out the place because Duze
Jostenn is coming that night for the party. Also, Ade’s brother Narn Giappa
Lomona is there. He has been trying to bring down Dariv’s operation for a
while, and is also interested in buying into Ade’s plan for the resort on
Leogard. -
Anak Arkensaw makes contact with Patron Cap. He discovers that Patron, a gunsmith,
has made a rifle that can shoot a bolt with accuracy at two klicks. It was to
be used on a target at the party, and they assume it to be Jostenn, Dariv’s
biggest friend and competitor. They let Heena know, but she doesn’t believe
them. -
To cover his motives for leaving the party and going out into the bay
to see where the shooter could fire from, Anak chats up a woman who he then
invites with him to take a midnight cruise. She has a skiff they can use. -
Ade Lomona thinks that maybe the target is his brother Narn, who has been
investigating Dariv’s operation. -
The woman Anak chats up is actually the sniper, who knocks him out with
drugs when they get two klicks out. She lines up the sights of the special
rifle on the crowd that are now looking out the huge dome which has opened to
watch the Sun Colour festival. Ade, listening to what is happening on the
boat over Anaks open comline, dives forward and wrestles Duze to the ground. -
The gun doesn’t fire – Patron Cap has built a duff weapon. The woman
pulls a proton launcher out of hiding and fires that instead but she misses
as Anak recovers from the drug and spoils her aim. The missiles hit support
struts and the pier starts to collapse. -
A fight ensues. Dariv’s men go after Ade and Duze as they battle to
escape the collapsing pier. Anak knocks the sniper woman out cold and is then
picked up by the coastguard and flown back to the pier. -
Ade Lomona, Duze Jostenn,
Patron Cap and his family have been forced into
one of the leg stanchions of the pier by Dariv’s men. Anak takes over the
controls of the coastguard Skyhopper, blows a hole and they escape as the
pier collapses into the sea completely. LOSS OF THE WRETCHED ECLIPSE
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Ade Lomonas ship the Wretched Eclipse is lost. -
They re-group. Anak is expecting some kind of gratitude from Duze but
doesn’t get any, seriously bruising his ego. He gets cocky and brash in
Jostenn’s face and Duze, not liking to thank or apologise to people because
he’s stubborn, turns it into a blazing row. Arkensaw storms off, Ade and
Glann Cipple go with him, and they leave the planet
without the others in a ship Ade acquires. -
On their return back to Leogard they find a shuttle parked on their pad
with the name `DJ’ stencilled into the side of it. It has flown in on
automatic and spread the virulent disease Fedali throughout the mining camp.
Anak immediately suspects Duze Jostenn but they find out Dariv’s full name
from his brother – Dariv Jotacsa. Glann says it couldn’t have been Jostenn
anyway – he had sent Glann to secure the boxes, which have now been stolen.
Dariv knew of the boxes and when he heard that Duze no longer owned the land
he planned to take the fortune and get rid of the witnesses and landowners.
Duze and Narn Giappa Lomona weren’t the targets back at the pier – Anak
Arkensaw and Ade Lomona were. -
They return to Duze Jostenn who agrees to help them. He will supply
treatments for the miners if they get the boxes back off Dariv. Since the
disease Fedali only comes from Alorea, they decide to go there with Heena to
find him and the boxes. Dariv has bought a moon in orbit, which has been
hollowed out by mining, riddled with tunnels and caves. -
After flying through the network of tunnels for hours they find the boxes
– and a group of automated mining robots. A fight begins, with the ship’s
hull swarming with droids. They barely escape, their ship badly mauled but
flyable. ARKENSAW, LOMONA AND HEENA SCAM JOSTENN
-
After taking a vote, Anak Arkensaw, Ade Lomona and Heena decide to screw
Duze Jostenn and take off with the 20 million credits worth of P’ro
artefacts. They came close to death and have had their hopes for a resort on
Leogard destroyed. Heena, fed up with low paid jobs, decides to go with them. ARKENSAW,
LOMONA AND HEENA FLEE SETNIN
-
Anak Arkensaw, Ade Lomona and Heena begin their run from the Setnin
Sector with the money, with Duze Jostenn, Dariv Jotacsa, the En’K’Far, the
P’ro and the Janos Executioners after them. -
Glann Cipple completes his final assignment
for Duze Jostenn as an employee, a trip smuggling DL-9 to Gista. |