Hannibal Oryen
Slick Fondorian
How the Fondorian Got His Xylen
A Development Thread
Aargonar was a rather out-of-the-way planet. It was scarcely populated with only a few hundred, thousand natives to its name. Even then, they were mostly tribesmen and other savages left over from failed attempts at colonization. There was also the rumor concerning the ruins of a separatist base or something, but he wasn't there for that. A small group of prospectors had passed through the system thinking they would strike it rich and unearth a gold deposit or something.
Instead what they found was a useless, malleable, silver-ish substance that wasn’t actual silver. They unearthed tons of the stuff, but couldn’t find what they were looking for. They determined that the mineral was useless and subsequently left the system. However, that silvery substance rung a few bells with Hannibal. As a droid engineer, he was all too familiar with it.
The material was called Xylen. Back in the day, it had been a vital part of manufacturing droid brains. Sometime after the historic Battle of Yavin, the galaxy’s reserves of the material had all but dried up. Or so it had appeared. It was entirely plausible that the mineral was still present in some unexplored systems. The galaxy was such a very large place, after all. It was also entirely plausible that a deposit of it had been uncovered on Aargonar by those unscrupulous miners. Hannibal liked the odds that it was exactly what he was looking for, but he needed to be absolutely certain.
A small dropship chartered by the still-young Cestus Cybernetics cruised towards the planet’s surface. Sitting in the back by himself was Hannibal. Seeing as Jared Ovmar had the posting rate of a dead Jackal and that he couldn't risk bringing anyone else along for fear of compromising his cover as an unsophisticated brute, Hannibal would have to solo this mission. When was the last time Hannibal had done something on his own? Probably fairly recently, but that was irrelevant.
A Development Thread
Aargonar was a rather out-of-the-way planet. It was scarcely populated with only a few hundred, thousand natives to its name. Even then, they were mostly tribesmen and other savages left over from failed attempts at colonization. There was also the rumor concerning the ruins of a separatist base or something, but he wasn't there for that. A small group of prospectors had passed through the system thinking they would strike it rich and unearth a gold deposit or something.
Instead what they found was a useless, malleable, silver-ish substance that wasn’t actual silver. They unearthed tons of the stuff, but couldn’t find what they were looking for. They determined that the mineral was useless and subsequently left the system. However, that silvery substance rung a few bells with Hannibal. As a droid engineer, he was all too familiar with it.
The material was called Xylen. Back in the day, it had been a vital part of manufacturing droid brains. Sometime after the historic Battle of Yavin, the galaxy’s reserves of the material had all but dried up. Or so it had appeared. It was entirely plausible that the mineral was still present in some unexplored systems. The galaxy was such a very large place, after all. It was also entirely plausible that a deposit of it had been uncovered on Aargonar by those unscrupulous miners. Hannibal liked the odds that it was exactly what he was looking for, but he needed to be absolutely certain.
A small dropship chartered by the still-young Cestus Cybernetics cruised towards the planet’s surface. Sitting in the back by himself was Hannibal. Seeing as Jared Ovmar had the posting rate of a dead Jackal and that he couldn't risk bringing anyone else along for fear of compromising his cover as an unsophisticated brute, Hannibal would have to solo this mission. When was the last time Hannibal had done something on his own? Probably fairly recently, but that was irrelevant.