Private The takedown of Tanno

[Aeron Dosh]

As the dirty green polluted air filled up Aeron's lungs, he coughed up a lung and sighed deeply,

"Everytime I get a bounty here I always feel sick for a week. The cantinas here are dull and boring, and the people are as chaotic as a tribe of sand people"

With his collapsible sniper tucked away in his backpack, Aeron made his way over to the Hutt palace - one of several on the planet. Aeron's client today was a local crime lord who wanted to thin out the competition - Something about a territory dispute, but Aeron didn't care about the details as long as he gets paid.

Once Aeron got through the gang members guarding the entrance he was able to step into a sprawling casino floor littered with people from all over Hutta betting their lives away, along with "pleasure" parlors tucked away in separate rooms for more affluent guests. Disgusting. Eventually, Aeron came across the guards protecting the Hutt's throne room,

"Whatta ya want?"

"I'm Aeron. Aeron Dosh. Ybann should be expecting me. We have business together."

The guard takes a peek at his clipboard before continuing,

"Oh... You're the hot shot our boss hired, huh?"

"What for?"

"I don't know yet, that's why I'm here - and even if I did know, I don't like to talk about my contracts unless it's with the man in charge."

"Whatever you say... 'hot shot' - have fun getting yourself blasted into bits. Ybann's syndicate has been falling apart, and he thinks some deadeye like you is gonna bring him back to the top"

The guard gives out a weak chuckle,

"Blast it. You can head on through, it's not like Ybann has any business to attend to"

Ybann sat on his large slab, with Twi'leks surrounding him, and upon noticing Aeron he immediately told the Twi'leks to leave.

"You finally arrived. About time. I've heard a lot of good things about your work, and I think you're the only guy who can pull this job off"

"Depends. I already know your price Ybann, but I need to know what you want me to do first. I'm an assassin and a bounty hunter, not a miracle worker. I can't bring your syndicate back from the grave."

"Oh, but you can! Ya' see... the only reason business has been so terrible for me recently is because my rival Nem'ro has recently allied with the empire. The empire has been supplying Nem'ro's gang with the ingredients needed to produce spice, and at the center of it all is Nem'ro's empire liaison: Tanno."

Ybann continues,

"All I need you to do is take out Tanno. Once the empire sees Nem'ro can't keep Tanno safe, I'll step in and offer an alliance with the empire. They just need to see that I'm the better Hutt leader."

"I'm going to need some more details."

"Of course, of course! I'll have one of my henchmen give you some photos of what Tanno looks like. I've also done the hardwork of finding out where he'll be today. Tanno, being the empire's liaison and all that, has to personally oversee the shipment of spice ingredients brought to Nem'ro, and the spice ingredient shipments always arrive at Nem'ro's space port at the same time, once a week. Today is that day, and I'm positive Tanno will be overseeing the shipment, like he always is. All you need to do is sneak into Nem'ro's spaceport, and take out Tanno. No need to bring me proof - I have eyes and ears everywhere. If Tanno gets hit, I'll know."

Aeron nodded his head in agreement. He's a man of little words. After Aeron collected the photos of Tanno from Ybann's men, Aeron made his way outside the palace and prepared himself.

 

[Aeron Dosh]

Venturing through the harsh Hutta lands, Aeron made his way over to the Nem'ro spaceport. The easy part was over.

Inside the spaceport, Aeron used the directions he got from Ybann's men to find the "special" designated landing pad Nem'ro and his men use for their special shipments. Outside the entrance were four guards keeping watch. Aeron slouched down and snuck behind a crate overseeing the four guards, and carefully loaded his rifle. When Aeron was ready, he stuck his head out of cover, and quickly fired four shots. One for each guard. Within a blink of an eye the guards dropped to the floor.

Next up in Aeron's plan was to steal a guard's outfit to make the hit job easier, but as Aeron kneeled down to take off a guard's clothes, he noticed a camera watching the entrance of the spaceport,

"Well... I guess we go with the loud option, instead," Aeron thought to himself.

Aeron double-checked his rifle's ammo reserves, and made sure his side pistol was ready.

He slowly trailed down the spaceport's hallway, with his sniper ready and his eyes peeled.

 

[Aeron Dosh]

As Aeron made his way down the hallway, he could tell the cartel was going to be on high alert. Entering into the next room, swarms of Nem'ro's bruisers tried to rush Aeron down, but Aeron quickly activated his emergency "pulse" - a special device that surrounds the user in a magnetic blast that pushes enemies back.

After the bruisers were pushed back, Aeron quickly switched to his side pistol and fired off four shots, dispatching the bruisers with ease. Meanwhile, there were two shooters with blasters taking pot shots at Aeron. He quickly rolled into cover behind a crate, and switched back to his sniper. When the firing from both shooters stopped, Aeron planted his sniper down and prepared. As soon as one shooter popped his head out to take another shot Aeron took him out. The last shooter hesitated to engage, and yelled out loud,

"Wait, wait! I don't wanna go out like this... Listen, it's nothing personal, okay? Just let me drop my weapons and you'll never see me again"

The thug raised his hands up and slowly stood up, with a look of fear washed over his face.

Aeron kept his sights trained on the thug, while saying,

"Let me give you a scan first, before you do anything. Don't move"

and Aeron let a small drone-like droid fly out from his pocket, and run a scan line up and down the thug's body. The drone spit out information to Aeron's cyber optic:

"Corso Jannis - Known associate of Nem'ro the hutt. Wanted for: Assault, robbery, false imprisonment, theft"

"Keep your hands up," Aeron said to the thug, as he walked over, and quickly blasted him with a carbonite spray; Freezing him solid.

Aeron put his hand to his ear piece and spoke into it,

"C4, I got a bounty frozen. I'm sending you the coordinates for pick up and extraction. Store him on my ship"

"Yes, master" the droid said back.

Aeron loaded his weapons again, and continued towards the landing pad. In the far distance he could see the pad, but there was no shuttle. Aeron figured the security breach halted the shipment. Just as Aeron came closer to the shuttle pad he took a blaster bolt to the shoulder from a sharpshooter porched near the pad. Aeron quickly dove into cover and administered himself a medpack.

Aeron ran his hand across the device attached to his forearm, and activated another drone-like droid outfitted with a flashbang. Aeron knew the sniper had two choices: Either shoot the flashbang droid and get shot by Aeron right after, or get flashed by a droid and shot by Aeron. It was a lose-lose for him.

As the flash droid made it's way over to the sharpshooter, the voice of Tanno can be heard barking out orders to the sharpshooter: "Shoot that drone!"

Just as Aeron heard that he poked his sniper out of cover and took aim at the sharpshooter. Two bolts were fired - One left a droid destroyed, and the other left a man dead. A smile crept onto Aeron's face as he knew he was closing in on his prey.

Aeron saw Tanno run to the farther end of the shuttle platform and take cover. Aeron rushed over to follow suit, and upon stepping up the shuttle platform's stairs he took out his trusted side blaster.

Tanno quickly threw out a grenade, but Aeron quickly shot it out of the sky with deadly precision, then Aeron took out his own grenade and threw it next to Tanno's cover. Tanno dropped a smoke grenade in the middle of the shuttle platform, and it immediately went off. The sound of Tanno's footsteps repositioning around the platform was all Aeron needed to take a shot - but he missed. Then, he fired again, but missed.

Suddenly, out of the smoke was Tanno charging full force into Aeron, wielding a vibroblade. Aeron quickly rolled backwards, off of the staircase, but kept his eyes trained on Tanno. As Tanno stepped down the staircase, Aeron immediately activated his emergency pulse to push Tanno back, and used the split second to take aim with his blaster and fire.

Finally, the contract was complete - Now it was time for the reward. Aeron took a holoimage of Tanno, as proof, and left the spaceport unbothered.

At Ybann's throne room, Aeron showed the holoimage to Ybann, and was met with praise and joy. The credits were submitted to Aeron's bank account, and Aeron made his way back to his ship and flew off to deliver the Corso Jannis bounty he picked up along the way; Though, Aeron's work wasn't done, there were lots of contracts and bounties he could complete, just waiting for him to pick them up. In this universe, as long as somebody wants somebody else dead, Aeron will always have work to do.