Lev Surrel
Guavian Crime Boss
Objective: C
Location: District 12
When Lev had heard that the Republic was about to conduct operations on Denon, the first words that had come to mind were "inconvenient" and "unprofitable."
A large part of the Guavian Death Gang's success in the Inner Rim was due to its presence on the city planet, which lay at the juncture of the Hydian Way and the Corellian Run. For distribution locations, that was hard to beat; it made the gang a dominating presence on both coreward and rimward routes, able to move product in many directions with ease. The gradual breakdown of law and order on Denon since the Republic had pulled out had allowed criminal groups to operate practically unrestrained, to the point that the entirety of District Twelve no longer answered to the planetary government. It had become a city within a city, a shadowport where the locals paid taxes to crime bosses and the "laws" were enforced by gang toughs with heavy guns.
The Death Gang had established warehouses throughout the city's underlevels long before District Twelve had seceded, but the impromptu shadowport provided a profitable opportunity: freighters departing from the district weren't checked by customs, and factories there were not subject to controlled substance laws. Lev had assumed that the independent district's presence would be the new order of things for the forseeable future, with the Republic distant and largely blocked from the region by the terrifying bulk of the One Sith empire. And yet Republic ships darkened the skies, and her spies reported that the Chancellor himself had come to address the local government. Maybe it was a move to encircle the Sith. Maybe it was genuinely humanitarian.
Either way, it was trouble. The planetary government had tolerated the loss of District Twelve because they had no choice; their efforts to crack down on the shadowport had been driven out. But the Republic military was a whole new cup of caf, and if there was one condition that Denon's government would put on rejoining the Republic, it would be taking the criminals out. While the military response would hopefully be limited by the necessity of maintaining the frontier with the Sith, it would still be many times as formidable as the beleaguered local police. So Lev Surrel, the Guavian kingpin herself, had come to protect her interests on Denon. It was up to her to either keep District Twelve intact or relocate her operations to the underlevels before too much damage was done.
Despite the urgency, she was reluctant to commit the crimson-armored soldiers of the Death Gang to the general defense of the district. She would if she had to, but she had no intention of wasting her men. But the Guavian Death Gang had a long history of illegal contacts in the weapons industry, and they manufactured some of the nastiest combat stims around. Within the warehouses of District Twelve, she and her agents distributed crate after crate of heavy repeating blasters, combat adrenals, and anti-armor rocket launchers to desperate gang leaders, who paid through the nose for them. When the Republic troops came, they would be hampered by the order to try to stay nonlethal and leave infrastructure undamaged.
The small army of psychotic thugs, heavily armed and hopped up on serious drugs, were under no such restrictions. They would shoot to kill.
[member="Marius Severus"], [member="Miss Blonde"], [member="Willam Forlon"], [member="Raymond Mosses"], [member="Nick Sept"], [member="Weiss"], [member="Matthew Rei"]
Location: District 12
When Lev had heard that the Republic was about to conduct operations on Denon, the first words that had come to mind were "inconvenient" and "unprofitable."
A large part of the Guavian Death Gang's success in the Inner Rim was due to its presence on the city planet, which lay at the juncture of the Hydian Way and the Corellian Run. For distribution locations, that was hard to beat; it made the gang a dominating presence on both coreward and rimward routes, able to move product in many directions with ease. The gradual breakdown of law and order on Denon since the Republic had pulled out had allowed criminal groups to operate practically unrestrained, to the point that the entirety of District Twelve no longer answered to the planetary government. It had become a city within a city, a shadowport where the locals paid taxes to crime bosses and the "laws" were enforced by gang toughs with heavy guns.
The Death Gang had established warehouses throughout the city's underlevels long before District Twelve had seceded, but the impromptu shadowport provided a profitable opportunity: freighters departing from the district weren't checked by customs, and factories there were not subject to controlled substance laws. Lev had assumed that the independent district's presence would be the new order of things for the forseeable future, with the Republic distant and largely blocked from the region by the terrifying bulk of the One Sith empire. And yet Republic ships darkened the skies, and her spies reported that the Chancellor himself had come to address the local government. Maybe it was a move to encircle the Sith. Maybe it was genuinely humanitarian.
Either way, it was trouble. The planetary government had tolerated the loss of District Twelve because they had no choice; their efforts to crack down on the shadowport had been driven out. But the Republic military was a whole new cup of caf, and if there was one condition that Denon's government would put on rejoining the Republic, it would be taking the criminals out. While the military response would hopefully be limited by the necessity of maintaining the frontier with the Sith, it would still be many times as formidable as the beleaguered local police. So Lev Surrel, the Guavian kingpin herself, had come to protect her interests on Denon. It was up to her to either keep District Twelve intact or relocate her operations to the underlevels before too much damage was done.
Despite the urgency, she was reluctant to commit the crimson-armored soldiers of the Death Gang to the general defense of the district. She would if she had to, but she had no intention of wasting her men. But the Guavian Death Gang had a long history of illegal contacts in the weapons industry, and they manufactured some of the nastiest combat stims around. Within the warehouses of District Twelve, she and her agents distributed crate after crate of heavy repeating blasters, combat adrenals, and anti-armor rocket launchers to desperate gang leaders, who paid through the nose for them. When the Republic troops came, they would be hampered by the order to try to stay nonlethal and leave infrastructure undamaged.
The small army of psychotic thugs, heavily armed and hopped up on serious drugs, were under no such restrictions. They would shoot to kill.
[member="Marius Severus"], [member="Miss Blonde"], [member="Willam Forlon"], [member="Raymond Mosses"], [member="Nick Sept"], [member="Weiss"], [member="Matthew Rei"]