What Happens on Kuat, Stays on Kuat

*On a mission for the New Republic, Captain Blaine Hansom, General Bota Zi, and recently returned Zuda Zorba rescue a spy who had her cover blown on Kuat.*

## **Previously**

The group take a moment to breathe after stopping the Asilay invasion before it begins. With the group in the news again, Zuda Zorbo returns to The Hunter's Tribunal, looking for work.
> "*Hm. You're still alive? Get your blaster ready, we've got work to do.*"
> ― Bota Zi to Zuda Zorbo
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## **Recap**

### **Zuda Zorbo Returns**

Three days after the events at Asilay. Genos has gone off with Luke Skywalker for a several week training stint while Bota Zi is fairly busy getting his bounty hunters organized. Zorbo arrives at the Hunter’s Tribunal in a small Hutt Scyk-class freighter, modified to play a courier role.

Zorbo’s in trouble with the Besadii Hutt clan in general, and Durga the Hutt in specific.  There’s no work for him as a Hutt mercenary anymore, and he figures it’s time to look for different work.  He heard the NRBHG is looking for “employees,” and remember’s Blaine, Bota and Genos as trustworthy.  He contacted the Alliance and they sent him here.

Bota Zi takes one look at Zorbo and says, “So you’re still alive, huh? Yeah, I’ve got some work for you.  Head down to the mess hall, and talk to Blaine Hansom.”

### **A Spy in Danger**

Blaine Hansom is once again tapped by Mon Mothma for an important mission for the New Republic. A top spy on Kuat has had her cover blown and needs to be rescued and smuggled off off the planet.

*Admiral Salve comes and sits down next to Blaine:  “Blaine Hansom, I just received a transmission from Mon Mothma herself.  A... situation has come up that is in need of your “special talents.”  “We are planning an assault on toward the core.  However, one of our spies who has been working undercover on Kuat may soon be compromised.  This is a deep embed and we have no direct way of contact until their mission is due to be over.  We need you to ‘smuggle’ this spy out. The spy is embedded in Kuat of Kuat’s mansion in Kuat city.  Her name is Reenia Har. “ hands a holo of a red skinned Twi’lek “ We’ll need you to find her, bring her out without being discovered.  It is vital to this mission that you do not allow the wrong people to discover she was the spy, otherwise the information she has been gathering will be for not.  I’m afraid this is all the help I’ll be able to offer you.  Good luck.”*

Creating a task force, Bota Zi and Zuda Zorbo, both join the mission, and as Zephyr is under Blaine's watch, he comes along as well. How dangerous could Kuat be for a kid, anyway?

On the trip over, Zuda Zorbo couldn't understand why they were bringing a child with them on the mission. As a joke, they managed to convince him that Zephyr was an incredible bounty hunter, an idea they would continually try to reinforce in the coming years.
> "*What? This kid?*"
> ― Zuda Zorbo on Zephyr being 'the guild's top bounty hunter'
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Managing to secure an expensive docking bay using his golden tongue, Blaine heads right to the casino. Playing a high-stakes game of sabacc, he wins two very important things over a matter of minutes: a Sorosuub Luxury Yacht from a Kuati noble - which he renamed Pure Sabacc and later, the Cloud City Sabacc - and the heart of Elayne Kuat.

Elayne would routinely sneak out at night against her family’s wishes, either to shop, to gamble, or to party, but the seventeen-year-old could never have expected what happened in the next 24 hours. After sharing a sabacc table with him, she invites Blaine Hansom to go with her to her father’s ceremony the next day as her date - her father being the famous Kuat of Kuat.

Not all of his hands were good though, and while he had a few great hands, not all of them played out for Blaine.
> "*I'm sorry Zuda, I lost you in a game of sabacc but don't worry, it's all part of the plan." "What plan?" "The plan to make more credits.*"
> ― Blaine to Zuda
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At the ceremony celebrating Kuat's new commercial relations with the nemoidians, there was an attempted kidnapping of Elayne’s brother Valyim and Reenia Har, the New Republic agent posing as his girlfriend *Rylia Til*, by a mercenary group. Freeing them, they planned to escape with Reenia but Elayne demanded to be taken along as well. With little time to argue, Blaine agreed.

To escape the planet, Zephyr brought *The Jinxed Starhawk* over the city, even though it drew heavy notice from city security. By the time Blaine jumped in the pilot’s chair, he had several ships on his tail, ordering his surrender and firing on the freighter.

Instead, he flew directly over a lake, shot a proton torpedo in the water and turned on the ship's cloaking device. In the confusion, it looked like he dove underwater - his mon cal plates on the ship adding to the illusion.

In complete safety, Bota Zi put Blaine's new yacht on autopilot, left the planet and headed back to the fleet.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Blaine Hansom
* Bota Zi
* Zuda Zorbo

### **NPCs**

* Zephyr Tevanus
* Reenia Har
* Elayne Kuat
* Karysa Kuat
* Valym Kuat
* Ronia Del Vath

### **Mentioned**

* Kuat of Kuat
* Luke Skywalker

## **Notes**

* First appearances of Elayne Kuat and Reenia Har