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Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc.
A Sith Master traversed the desert plains of
Daxam IV. In her wake was a craft and it's smuggler crew that had taken her across the expanse towards this no-name, random, backdrop of a planet of which Darth Ayra herself had not heard of before she had tracked down one of her former
Echani servants some weeks ago. In her negotiations with the crew and it's Captain back on
Nal Hutta Ayra had negotiated terms for her to be smuggled into
Daxam. Her list of demands were as follows:
The crew and Captain of the
Wendigo were to smuggle Ayra out of Hutt space, and along several hyperspace corridors, and known routes, until they arrived safely at their destination of
Daxam IV. (Ayra is known to the crew as
Alicia Drey)
The
Wendigo was to bring along a compliment of foodstuffs that would last crew, Captain and their passenger throughout the journey too
Daxam IV and have enough supplies to last everyone for approximately one month additionally on top of the weeks that it would take to complete the voyage.
Upon arrival the Captain will transfer control of the
Wendigo to their passenger after their journey is complete. This came in the form of Ayra encrypting their navigational computer with a cipher that she trusted neither crew or Captain to able to break or solve by themselves following safe arrival to the planet. Upon the conclusion of her business on
Daxam Ayra would agree to lift the encryption, thus returning control of the ship back to it's Captain and giving the
Wendigo the ability to perform hyperspace travel.
Half payment would be given to the Captain before the journey begun with the other half being paid once their passenger was smuggled back into Hutt space following the completion of her work on
Daxam IV.
The
Wendigo was a small crew occupying an outdated cargo freighter who performed supply runs along the
Perlemian Trade Route who had fallen on tough times by the time they had arrived on
Nal Hutta. When a small, petite looking Human woman approached their Captain with a job offer to smuggle her to
Daxam IV they had leapt at the opportunity. Not only because they had offered to give half-payment up front, but also because they too had never heard of Daxam neither.
As the old saying goes:
go where the money is. So, together, the
Chistori Captain and Ayra had come up with the charter that they would take from Hutt space to
Daxam. They had planned it well. The
Wendigo and it's crew had no warrants for arrest, so if they were stopped by some sector authority, they were likely to pass security checks. Then there was the supplies that they had brought for a long voyage and possible long stay on the planet. Through her subtle, esoteric powers Ayra had done well to ensnare the
Chistori to her side, especially when it came to the navigational computer.
During her conversations with the Captain Ayra had explained that there were opportunities on
Daxam that a ship like the
Wendigo and her crew could maximize on after she concluded their arrangement together. This was nonsense, of course. Ayra had never heard of
Daxam IV before, let alone been there to confirm if such opportunities existed. But the
Chistori had proven to be an easy target to manipulate, and so by the time the conversation had ended payment had been exchanged, a plan had been put into place to complete the journey to this fair, unknown world and their voyage was put into motion just a few days later.
It took Darth Ayra a day to traverse the desert from where the
Wendigo had landed to the facilities location. Weeks prior to her meeting with the
Chistori on
Nal Hutta, Ayra had tracked down an
Echani in
Lianna City who had once been in service to her many years ago. She was still a rich woman, despite the fact that she had only been freed from a maximum security ward several weeks ago. Rich enough to pay for the
Wendigo service, and for the supplies they had taken with them to
Daxam. But several of her accounts had been drained by the time freedom had been returned too her by the
NSO and so a recovery effort had been launched.
Her efforts begun with a meeting with
Santhe-Sienar on
Lianna inside the
Empire of the Lost. Although her meeting with them did not coincide with her later discoveries Ayra would not have tracked down her former servant if not for the fact that it had been the meeting itself that had taken her to
Lianna City. There she had taken to renting a residential apartment, and begun delving into the criminality that were often so vibrant and rich in the structures of an ecumenopolis.
There she had learned of a gang of
Echani who were operating in one of the slums. Researching this gang Ayra had learned that all of it's members were exiles that had migrated to
Lianna during the
Third Imperial Civil War, and that one of them was a former
Sun Guard. From there it hadn't taken much time to track the gang down, murder them and kidnap the
Sun Guard only to discover that it was one of the men who had served on
Sojourn many, many years ago.
Darth Ayra had persuaded him into regaling her with a tale in which he had leaked several of her accounts on the dark market in exchange for payment. Apparently such things were commonplace as crooks who came into possession of valuable intel would trade it on the dark market with hackers who would then exploit that information to not only get a return on their investment but actually profit from what they would hack. In this case, whoever it was who had purchased her account details on the dark market, had gone onto drain most of her holdings in
Imperial space. When she had finished tracing who had purchased the information it had led her to
Daxan IV. There Darth Ayra became aware of a small criminal enterprise who were using this unknown world to hide and conduct their business in relative obscurity.
A cliff, overlooking the facility, served as Darth Ayra's vantage point. A pair of binoculars found themselves in either hand as she used them to scan the area for anomalies. It was logical to assume that these people were well armed, and dangerous. Even more so if they were aware (at the time of the hacking) that they were stealing with a Sith Lord, and still proceeded with it anyway. If it were not for the fact that they had stolen from her Darth Ayra might have allowed herself to be impressed by their seminal efforts, and offer them a job in the
Grand Scheme.
But, alas, they had stolen from her and they would have to pay the
price.
Alicia Drey
