Price of Business Price of Business is a year one ( 31 BBY ) Living Force adventure . It was written by Lee Pickler and premiered in February 2001 . Plot summary . A Rodian named Teeloo was given a starship — the " Neeva - Beelo " — by his uncle . Fleeing his angry cousins , Teeloo came to the Cularin system . A novice to flying , he accidentally rammed a Z - 95 belonging to a member of the Blood Raptors gang while flying into Genarius . In retaliation , they took his cargo , which amounted to his entire life savings , and told him they would take his ship unless he defeated one of them in a race through the moon of Eskaron the next day . If he somehow managed to win , they would let him keep his ship and even give his cargo back . The Blood Raptors were still roughing him up when some of Cularin ' s heroic individuals happened by and saved him . Teeloo explained to his rescuers what happened , and they volunteered to help him win the race . They helped conduct some repairs to the ship , although it took more damage in the night when some Blood Raptors returned and threw grenades at it . The next day , Teeloo and his new crew showed up to face off against Gael Kinner , one of the Blood Raptor ' s best pilots , in a G - 59 Cannibalizer . After the race started , the Raptors changed the rules of the race , stating that the first one out of the moon would choose the course of the second segment of the race . In the middle of the race , their path intersected with a tunnel that was being used for a race being run by Nirama . Gael Kinner blasted the lead ship of that race to avoid a collision . When the G - 59 and the " Neeva - Beelo " emerged from Eskaron , they flew through a group of pirates attacking a freighter . Their distraction allowed the freighter to slip free and put out a call to the Thaereian military . The pirates were angered at the loss of their prey , and pursued the racers through the second leg of the race . Destroying some of the pirates and losing the others , Teeloo ' s crew was able to avoid the obstacles in the second half of the race and emerged victorious as the first to return to Tolea Biqua . The Blood Raptors never intended to keep their word , and waited outside the " Neeva - Beelo " for the crew to come out . Before a blaster fight could start , however , Len Markus arrived with some back - up muscle and told the Blood Raptors and the crew of the " Neeva - Beelo " that Nirama wanted to see them , killing a Blood Raptor who refused to go . The ship that Gael Kinner blasted had been flying for Nirama . Nirama listened to both sides ' versions of the event , and determined that it was the Blood Raptors who had destroyed his ship . He held Teeloo and his volunteer crew slightly responsible , however , for if they were not racing against the Raptors , Kinner would not have been there . He released Teeloo ' s crew , saying that they owed him a favor . To Teeloo , Nirama offered a job working for him . What Nirama did to most of the Blood Raptors was unrevealed . Len Markus told Teeloo ' s crew to take the Raptors ' weapons , as the Raptors would not be needing them anymore . One of the Raptors , presumably Gael Kinner as he was the one that actually wronged Nirama , was fed to the rancor at the Bollin Exotic Animal Emporium . Behind the scenes . The choice for the second leg of the race was between going through the Cularin system asteroid belt and dodging the asteroids , or flying around Nub Saar , where the unshielded " Neeva - Beelo " had to outrace an approaching radiation storm and avoid cochlera . If Gael Kinner got to choose , he would choose the asteroid belt . When one of the Black Raptors refuses to go with Len Markus , one his thugs shoots the Raptor . Markus then says " He chose . . . poorly . " — a probable reference to " Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade " . Although the Z - 95 Headhunter is a one - person ship , with N ' dru Suhlak ' s modified unit accepting one passenger , " Price of Business " featured a Z - 95 that took Len Markus and some other fifteen people from Genarius to Cularin . This might be a " heavily " modified ship , a typo ( there was one different Z - 95 in the same story ) , or poor research in part of author Lee Pickler .