Owl Curator
Beskar and Feathers
Credit: Star Citizen

Credit: Star Citizen
Prologue - The Contract
Planet: Nar Shaddaa
Location: Santon's Bar
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Santons was a bar a few blocks from the Mezenti Spaceport on Nar Shaddaa. Tieuvelli visited when she needed help outside traditional lines of work, or when she was passing through the system and had a few extra credits to throw at the pod races. Santons Bar was quite extraordinary, seventeen chairs, seventeen windows, and seventeen pillars etched with the names and legends of his finest customers. Finn Sunrise, Emmett Grim, Meltdown Glenn, and Immortal Wynn to name a few.
Mercenaries Tieuvelli never had the displeasure of meeting, but local legends all the same. It wasn't so much a bar as it was a front for the guilds. Tieuvelli had come here shortly after her knighthood, hoping for answers. Who put the mark on her mother, and more importantly why would anyone take such great interest in a Songwing from Kashyyyk. Did she do something to offend the Hutts?
Of course, she never did get answers. When a local mercenary had enough of her and attacked, Santon was the one who put him in his place. Now she came here for assistance, hiring mercenaries for skills no ordinary Jedi possessed. Today was no different.
"Erimentha," Santon greeted her as talons clicked on his durasteel counter. Santon is a lanky man, with a bald head and a fair but mischievous smile.
"Hello there, Santon. It's been quite the day, and it's not even over yet."
"Nar Shaddaa never sleeps, or did your birdbrain forget that?"
Tiuevelli smirked behind her beak, "All too well. Say, are there any mercenaries looking for work?"
Santon went silent, taking his sweet time cleaning the glass behind those rectangular shades she imagined gears turning. Memories and knowledge flood back to him.
"Well sorta." He said finally, looking back over his shoulder. "Some Mandolorian Vizsla kid outback."
Tieuvelli pupils narrowed, her beak snapping tightly. Santon glared back, unphased by the owl standing on his workstation. "She's Mandolorian. Doesn't that mean anything to you? Crack shots who are the best money can buy." He replied sternly.
"I don't doubt it, but who is the one to get into trouble if she goes and kills herself in a blaze of glory? Why is she outback anyways?"
"An honourable death, they would not blame you. If anything, they'd thank you for giving her that." Santon countered, taking a moment to add, "Came with this weird looking droid, a big one. Probably smashed the place if I let it in but I've said my piece. Take my advice or leave it Jedi."
Tieuvelli turned sideways considering, "Thanks Santon." She trilled finally, leaving the bar to go outback. The rear of the establishment was a viewing platform, meant for patrons to enjoy the races. Santon's old scrapped engine lay on display alongside half a dozen trophies that could be mistaken for scrap of their own.