Alright, I decided to turn this up to eleven. Strap in folks, this one's a wee bit intense.
Jabiim and Handooine - Tier 2 - A DM'ed Encounter
"For 3000 years, we paid their tithes. We dug for their riches but our children died in the streets.
Disease, bandits, and pirates ravaged our people but they did nothing. Evil came upon us, and they did nothing. The wrath of the Empire burned the rain from the skies, and devastated our planet and we learned the hardest truth of all. The Republic will take your taxes and smile in your face but they are as hollow as the holes we dug for them. The rains stopped. The mud hardened and so too did we."
- Feine Ank, Jabiimi Historian
The Jabiimi people have no love for outsiders. Once members of the Galactic Republic, they were forgotten and ignored to the detriment of their people. Nearly wiped out after 40 ABY, the once rich ore world was left alone to recover from Imperial bombardment so heinous, it forever changed the face of the planet.
The valuable ores are gone, leaving behind only the less profitable and more labor intensive ores to be sifted from the mountains of dirt and rocks dug from beneath the surface.
Vengeful and cut off from those who had pledged aid and then abandoned them, the Jabiimi people turned to self reliance and to some extent, the world has rebounded. For hundreds of years, they have been rather xenophobic but there are sinister whisperings about the depleted resource planet.
The polite story is they have certain propensity for taking in and sheltering orphans and homeless children from off world, knowing the hardships that the disadvantaged face. It would be closer to the truth to call them child slaves. Most of the children brought to the planet are shunted into an old mining complex well outside the capital city of Choal. There the children are worked to exhaustion in a processing facility that is run by the remnants of the Lythian pirates. The pirates trade the lesser valuable ores on the black market, providing kickbacks to the conservative party leadership in Choal to look the other way.
Not everyone agrees with the way things are though. The recent victories of the Coalition all around them have the party bosses sweating as progressive activists are mobilizing in the streets. Inquiries into the mine owners have prompted investigations in the allegations of child slavery but so far, the Lythian pirates are controlling enough of the media and lobbyists that the populace is kept in the dark about the true nature of the mines. The tension is rising to a breaking point.
Where the Jabiimi have been wary of outsiders, they have trusted the Handooine completely, while the Handooine have been subtly controlling Jabiim politics for centuries.
On Handooine, everything is calm and pleasant in Jelwick, but not all is as it seems. The current president of Handooine, Epso Drangea, is secretly in league with the Lythians as his predecessors and provides them with unofficial sanction, drafting the pirates into Handooine's navy. He has surrounded himself with prominent members of the pirate guild in order to help keep Jabiim sheltered, using Handooine's navy to safeguard pirate vessels ferrying both ores and slaves in and out of Jabiim.
The Coalition threatens to destroy centuries of work, but Drangea feels he can politically outmaneuver the SSC leaders. He has invited SSC diplomats to Jelwick to discuss joining the Coalition and how their inclusion would be structured meanwhile the Lythians have orders on Jabiim to liquidate the mine and to evacuate the workers or their remains so that the SSC doesn't find evidence of abuses.
The administrators at the mine believe the higher ups are being paranoid. After all, no one comes to Jabiim. The government tends to forbid visitors and even if the surface is no longer a muddy mess, severe lightning storms still make repulsors nearly impossible to use.
However, the Coalition has been tipped off that there is something heinously illegal about the facility out in the desert, and no one has been able to get through to verify.
The Objectives:
Handooine Mission 1 - Attend the summit with the slippery and treacherous Epso Drangea as he tries to negotiate how Handooine will become part of the SSC. He sees the writing on the wall, but he isn't ready to let the money from his position with the pirates go either.
Handooine Mission 2 - A Lythian convoy carrying some slaves and lots of raw ore has blown through a Coalition patrol going towards the Wheel. Things are liable to get dicey when the SSC gives chase.
Jabiim Mission 3 - The conservative party is refusing to submit to the SSC in any way. Get planetside and join with rebels in the capital to overthrow the corrupt government and free the people from their oppression.
Jabiim Mission 4 - The Lythians have been ordered to liquidate and/or evacuate the workers from their mine but the storms make both tricky. Tipped off by a rebel in Choal, lead a team to discover what is going on and blow the lid off the scandal before the pirates kill their charges and destroy the evidence. Offer medical assistance to the slaves...should you free them in time.
Open Mission: Do whatever you want.
NOTE: Randomly every few posts, the actions of the Lythian pirates, Epso Drangea and the Jabiimi government will be DM'ed, throwing a monkey wrench into the RP and keeping things lively. 
