Baseball Wars

[Ugohr Poof]

BASEBALL WARS!​

Ugohr Poof and his master, Garam Telso, are in a meditation chamber within the Jedi Temple, waiting for the moment in the wee hours of the morning on that area of Coruscant to get Ugohr's report to the Jedi Council. They were freshly arrived from their raid on Cato Neimoidia's ballpark. The aftermath of the raid required them to fill up the hold of a GR-75 freighter with seized contraband and other evidence, some of which indicting the Sith's involvement in the Cartel. Fortunately for them, the bridge city on which the ballpark was built survived the destruction of the stadium. From the heap of rubble left behind in the wake of the stadium's destruction, they uncovered evidence for the One Sith's involvement in the activities of the Galactic Baseball Cartel. Financial documents, to be exact.

"Master Telso, these accounting documents are the irrefutable proof that the Cartel's money earned through illegal gambling operations were used to fund the One Sith! Theysa must repeal the last ruling forbidding Geonosians and Neimoidians to take part in any mission involving the Galactic Baseball Cartel."

"I know you wish to see the One Sith cut off from their funding, young Padawan. But doing according to your ideas would mean that we will open yet another front in the war between light side and dark side! Our forces are stretched too thin right now to risk overtly supporting the Geonosians in this baseball civil war."

"Wesa discover that the Galactic Baseball Cartel is now facing internal power squabbles; theysa maxibig council is divided between the Neimoidians and the Geonosians. The Neimoidians want to stay with the One Sith, while the Geonosians want to cut free from theysa."

"Unfortunately, the Jedi Council will not allow me to fight the Cartel directly. They are too quick to think I am a liability. At best I would be able to deal with other criminal organizations close to the Cartel while you fight the Cartel itself."

"Mesa await the target and the mission profile before assembling a team to carry out the mission."

Little did they know that the latest HoloNet news story feeds show one of the baseball stadiums being the stage for hostage taking. Garam takes careful records of the newscast story pertaining to that hostage crisis taking place in a baseball stadium. Several Geonosians are standing guard around a Neimoidian Sith Lord held in a containment field, awaiting carbonite freezing. Their leader, a Geonosian with rather lavish markings on his armor, uses the public announcement system of the ballpark where the Sith Lord is held hostage and every occupant of the stadium is to listen to the proclamation. Of course, very few non-Geonosians would actually understand Geonosian, hence the Geonosian leader speaks in Basic, albeit with a heavy accent. The message of the Geonosian begins to be broadcast across the stadium:


"Baseball fans of the galaxy! Today, the Galactic Baseball Cartel will no longer be subject to the whims of the dark side of the Force! For far too long the Galactic Baseball Cartel, which provided the highest baseball standards in the galaxy for centuries, has been enslaved by the dark side! The cartel will be henceforth providing baseball free of One Sith overlordship! On behalf of the Galactic Baseball Cartel, I wish to thank Ugohr Poof for having exposed the involvement of the One Sith in baseball to the public."

"Mesa recognize this ballpark; theysa not on Geonosis! Theysa on Praesitlyn!"