Aurodium
Character
Teldon Troubles
"Our people are tough, but they cannot survive on nothing."
- Teldon depends almost entirely on imported goods.
- Three consecutive shipments logged at 100% departure weight from the orbital transfer platform.
- Teldon's ground inventory reports shortages ranging from 12% to 18% per shipment.
- No registered distress calls or piracy alerts filed along the trade corridor.
- Dock surveillance on Raydonia shows routine unloading procedures with no visible interference.
- Two independent merchants in Teldon have quietly increased prices on staple goods.
- A warehouse power outage occurred during the unloading window two cycles prior.
- Escalation without proof could undermine trust in Protector judgment.
- No direct evidence of theft. No confirmed falsified manifests.
Name: Lysa Ren Tal
Species: Kiffar
Role: Teldon Quartermaster
Connection: Filed the discrepancy reports
Capabilities: Organised, detail-oriented, former logistics officer
Temperament & Reputation: Considered honest but increasingly strained; facing public frustration.
Name: Captain Harl Vex
Species: Human
Role: Senior Contract Freight Pilot (Raydonia Route)
Connection: Delivered two of the disputed shipments
Capabilities: Experienced long-haul pilot; maintains a clean Imperial transport record
Temperament & Reputation: Defensive regarding accusations; respected among fellow pilots.
Name: Jorin Bale
Species: Zabrak
Role: Dock Operations Supervisor, Teldon
Connection: Oversees unloading procedures
Potential Leverage or Risk: Controls access logs and labor assignments; extended family runs a local supply market.
Name: "Grayline Collective"
Role: Informal merchant coalition within Teldon
Connection: Benefited from rising scarcity prices
Potential Leverage or Risk: Could be exploiting shortages — or manufacturing them.
Teldon is not a wealthy settlement. It endures rather than prospers — a hard-scrabble outpost clinging to survival through grit, strict rationing, and the steady rhythm of scheduled supply shipments from off-world. Its population is small but stubborn: miners, technicians, hydro-farmers, and a scattering of families who have made lives on a world that offers little comfort.
For them, the most reassuring sight in the sky is the arrival of a freighter bearing the Mandalorian crest. It is a promise — that the Empire remembers its distant holdings, and that even a forgotten settlement like Teldon remains under its protection.
Over the past three standard cycles, that promise has begun to falter.
Essential off-world supplies — food concentrates, medical packs, bacta supplements, replacement power cells, and machine components critical to the colony's infrastructure — have repeatedly arrived short of their listed quantities. According to Teldon's quartermasters, shipments that should sustain the settlement for weeks are being unloaded already diminished. Containers arrive sealed, yet lighter than expected. Inventories do not match their manifests.
Freight pilots contracted along the Raydonia route tell a different story.
Every captain questioned insists their cargo holds were fully stocked at departure and properly documented upon arrival. Their manifests, filed with Imperial port authorities, show no discrepancies. Cargo seals appear intact. Sensor logs report no unscheduled stops, deviations, or docking procedures during transit.
No violence has been reported.
No pirate activity has been detected along the route.
No distress calls have been logged.
Yet with every passing shipment, the shelves of Teldon's supply depot grow thinner.
Rations are being stretched. Medical supplies are being reserved for emergencies. Machinery once repaired immediately is now left idle while technicians salvage parts from failing equipment. The settlement has not yet reached crisis — but the tension is beginning to show.
Whispers have begun circulating among the workers and settlers. Some blame bureaucratic negligence. Others suspect corruption somewhere within the supply chain. A few have begun to fear something far stranger.
Whatever the truth, the discrepancy threatens confidence in Mandalorian logistics and the authority of Protector oversight in the region. A colony that believes it has been forgotten becomes unstable — and instability spreads quickly in frontier space.
If the shipments continue to arrive diminished, desperation will follow.
Protectors assigned to this matter are to investigate immediately and determine where the loss is occurring — whether in transit along the Raydonia corridor, within the docking infrastructure upon arrival, or somewhere inside the settlement itself.
The supplies are disappearing.
The question is where — and who is responsible.
