Underworld (summary)

#### **Crime world’s hospitality**

Wesley Jozcowicz, also known as Bison left the Imperial Dark Forces unit after fulfilling his contract, and ventured on Nar Shadaa looking for a job, adventures, and, possibly, troubles.

In just a few minutes after his arrival on Nar Shadaa, he already found troubles: this was territory of Biba the Hutt, a local crime lord, so his men immediately demanded Bison to pay a toll. Which, of course, Bison did not wanted to pay. Therefore, he decided to take one of bandit’s swoops and just get away from them. Bandits did not appreciated his audacity and engaged pursuit after Bison. Both bandits and Bison failed to pass a sharp road bend on high speed, and got their swoops crashed. Nevertheless, Bison survived, as well as few chasers, who were shot by him moments after.

Bison remembered, that during the last meeting with his former squadmate, Alamar Eirann, that he got a contact in case he will get into the trouble. This is exactly what he did, so Bison decided to head over there as soon as possible.

Upon arrival, a Podgon Ot’Bratvy, gangster, who works for Tahori Clan, met him. Bison explained who he is, and who gave him address of this place. Considering this, and the fact, that Biba the Hutt is a rival to Tahori Clan, who actually took almost all of their territory, Podgon agreed to help Bison with shelter, supplies, and job. In a few minutes after, the squad of well-equipped mercenaries attacked Tahori Clan’s hideout. Grenades and rockets were launched into the windows, including the ones in Podgon’s office, but he and Bison managed to leave it before they got exploded. Right before mercenaries commenced direct assault, Bison and Podgon climbed into the vent shafts and got away.

#### **The Crew**

They have managed to escape. However, they still were on enemy's territory, full of equipped to the teeth thugs, who are looking for them. Podgon stole clothes for him and Bison from the nearest shop in order to be disguised. After that, Bison and Podgon headed to the bar, where guns for hire tend to stay. There they have met Striker, a clone, who owed Tahori Clan a plenty of credits. Podgon offered him a job, so he could pay his debts back and Striker agreed.

When they have walked out of the bar, they have noticed a ship, which Bison found familiar. Ship landed nearby and mandalorian, who piloted the ship, headed into the bar. Bison followed him, and found out, that this person is Drango Nyett, the fellow mandalorian from Awerica, and he is looking for a job as well. Luckily for him, Podgon had exactly what he wanted, so Drango joined the crew.

Once they entered Drango’s ship, Podgon called Mr. Tahori himself, who appears to hide from everybody and communicate only on heavily encrypted channels, reported about what has happened, and asked for a job for a newly assembled crew. Mr. Tahori agreed to put their skills to the test and ordered them to attack bar called “Hellhole”, which belonged to Biba the Hutt.

#### **Bar Fight**

Podgon chose the time, when the bar is closed, in order not to hurt innocents. When the time came, crew entered the bar, and shot every guard, who was there. While Podgon was making improvised bomb from available drinks, Striker and Bison found Maria, a waitress, that didn’t left the bar as it was expected. She was hiding behind the bar counter and then tried to escape, but they’ve stunned her, once she ran outside. Crew didn’t had much time for arguments, since there were blown up bar behind their backs and more hostile thugs were about to arrive, so they’ve took unconscious Maria and ran to their ship. Drango and Podgon insisted on leaving Maria somewhere, since she may cause trouble, but Bison and Striker wanted to help her, understanding, that they just left her without job.
As result, Podgon and Drango agreed to leave her on the ship. Podgon also noted, that this should remain a secret, since Mr. Tahori surely wouldn’t approve it.
Upon arrival to the docks, where crew was supposed to receive their payment, Maria woke up and started to call for help, but she was immediately stunned again. Tahori’s bandits were about to check what it was, but Drango made them believe this screams are coming from Bison’s datapad on the ship.

#### **Delivery**

While Podgon was assigned to find out, who compromised Tahori Clan’s hideout, Bison and Drango received their new task from Mr. Tahori. They were suggested to steal mysterious briefcase with some valuable cargo from Biba the Hutt. Mr. Tahori promised to pay really well for this briefcase, but forbidden mandalorians to open it.

They arrived to the hangar, where briefcase supposed to be. At first, Bison and Drango decided to convince guards at the hangar that they are working for Biba the Hutt, but failed. They had no other options, but to deal with the task in the more simple way for them: by guns. During gunfight, one of the thugs took briefcase they were looking for and tried to get away on the swoop. After a short chase, Drango managed to shoot bandit’s swoop. However, that did not killed bandit. Unarmed and injured, bandit begged mandalorians to spare him. Nevertheless, Bison decided to dispose of him, so that he don’t call for help or report Biba about what’s happened.
They came back to the ship. While flying to the ‘base’, where they supposed to handle this briefcase and receive their reward, Drango offered Bison to betray Mr. Tahori and try to sell briefcase to the Biba the Hutt for a better price, but Bison considered it too risky and refused.

#### **What will we do with the drunken rat?**

So, Drango and Bison delivered the briefcase unopened, as ordered, and got their credits for it. Meanwhile, Podgon found out, who was this rat among Tahori’s and proposed mandalorians a new mission: find the rat and bring him alive. Mandalorians agreed to do it and headed to the bar “Ko-ko-par”, where their target, Prognal Fufla, usually hanging out. This bar was crowded and had very high security standards for Nar Shadaa, so mandalorians agreed to hand their guns to the guards at the entrance and act silently. Upon entering, they’ve split to find, where Prognal Fufla is. Luckily for them, Prognal was in the bar, completely alone and drunk enough to believe Bison’s lies and count him as his former classmate. After a few bottles of booze, bought for Bison’s money, Prognal agreed Bison’s proposal to walk around and went to the dark uncrowded backyard. Drango was waiting for them there, so he stunned Prognal Fufla, and flied away with his unconscious body to the ship.

#### **Freedom?**

Meanwhile, Bison was supposed to head to the ship alone on his feet. He was recognized by Biba’s thugs, who followed him and stunned him in a dark passage. When he woke up, he found himself in a prison cell. After a short conversation with bartender, who was also imprisoned here, he decided to get the hell out here as soon as possible. Bison started to taunt a guard, who speaks basic, and succeed: guard got angry and entered a prison cell to taser the shit out of Bison. With the help of bartender, Bison managed to defeat the guard, took his weapons, and started to fight their way to the freedom. After defeating several guards and assassin, they have faced an old HK-series droid. They were unable to defeat him, but managed to flee. Upon entering the hangar, they have found some ships that were almost perfectly easy to steal. Right before they depart, a huge wookie jumped to them from above. Caught by surprise, bartender didn’t made it: he got chopped in half with wookie’s axe. Bartender’s name will always remain a mystery for Bison, who managed to defeat wookie by hurting him in a knee bad enough. Despite wookie was begging for mercy, Bison decided to avenge his fellow bartender’s death and beheaded wookie.

#### **Ultimate comeback**

Bison arrived to Tahori’s hangar on the stolen ship, where Drango just arrived to hand over captured Prognal Fufla. Biba’s sniper, who tracked location of Tahori Clan hangar, tried to shoot Podgon Ot’Bratvy, but failed and was shot by Drango. After paying Bison and Drango their money for captured rat and bonus for saving his live, Podgon also offered a hefty price for newly stolen Biba’s ship, which Bison agreed to sell. After uploading all information from navigation computer, Podgon ordered his thugs to load it with explosives and set autopilot directly to Biba’s prison complex.

After a long spree of successful strikes, performed mostly by the crew, Biba was in desperate situation. Fearing, that he might lose this war, he looked for the allies. Mr. Tahori managed to find out, that Biba’s “ambassadors” are about to bring a gift to Sapphires Gang in order to sign an alliance with them.
That was crew’s next mission. Guided by Podgon, Bison and Drango intercepted Biba’s delegates, stunned them, disguised as them, took everything, that supposed to be a gift for Sapphires for themselves, and headed to Sapphires territory with another briefcase with something different, than credits and expensive heavily modified blaster in it.

They’ve entered yet another bar, where Biba’s delegates was supposed to meet Sapphires delegates. After a pretty long delay, Shelupon’, yet another fat rodian, leader of yet another gang, appeared. He greeted crew and proceeded to open briefcase. Podgon gestured Bison and Drango, that it is time to get out. Few moments after, right when Shelupon’ opened briefcase, smell of something rotten mixed with shit filled the air. While Shelupon’ was spitting vomit around the floor, unable to order guards to do something, crew escaped.
Shelupon’ was genuinely thinking Biba is trying to insult him, so instead of signing alliance, he declared war on him. Biba’s defeat was almost inevitable from this moment.

#### **Negotiations**

Drango and Bison had 2 days off. During the last one, Bison was hanging at the bar with Maria. When people around them got drunk enough to commence a bar fight, which is pretty common thing around there, they’ve decided to leave this place, before they get into trouble. In a few moments usual bar fight became a gunfight: bar and streets around became a one big warzone. But nevertheless, Bison and Maria were too drunk, or crazy, or both to just walk away from there, so they’ve decided to take this opportunity to have some target practice.
Next morning after this mayhem happened, Mr. Tahori decided to purge all drug dealers from his territory, thinking, that their products caused it.
Nevertheless, Drango and Bison were assigned for a different task, much more important one, than crusade against drug dealers. They were told to deliver a package to the delegate from Naboo somewhere on neutral territory and make sure things go smoothly. It seemed, like ensuring good attitude of whoever they supposed to meet, was Mr. Tahori main priority.
Few minutes after they arrived, they have heard numerous blaster shots somewhere nearby. Thinking, that it is their delegate, who might be caught in a gunfight, they ran there to investigate. When they got there, they have found nothing, but unconscious bodies of thugs, there also were unconscious gungan, who lead them there. Thinking, that gungan is the delegate, they were waiting for, Bison carried him back to the hangar, where they were supposed to meet. When they came back to the hangar, a strange miraluka woman was already waiting for them in there. She introduced herself as delegate from Naboo, and explained, that gungan is the one, who sold her location to the bandits, so they could hinder the deal. Mandalorians passed her a package, got their money, and killed all unconscious mercenaries and gungan.
When they were planning to fly away, miraluka woman suddenly appeared again, this time on their ship, and said, that Mr. Tahori actually promised her his personal audience. Drango and Bison told, that their job was to deliver a package, not to organize personal meeting between her and Mr. Tahori, so she left the ship and mandalorians flew away for their payment.

#### **People from the shadows**

Upon arrival, they’ve met a droid, Mr. Tahori using for communication. Mr. Tahori admired their success and told them to meet Podgon Ot’Bratvy to get their rewards. After he heard, that delegate wanted to meet him personally he seemed to be worried.
On the way to Podgon, Bison and Drango met a strange person, who passed them a datapad, which they dropped, as he said. They told, that it’s not their datapad, but person insisted them to take it. There were only one self-destructive text file on datapad. There was an invitation to meet in person with somebody. Bison and Drango decided to head there and meet whomever it was, who invited them.
A mysterious man in black was waiting for them on the empty street. To ensure his safety, he introduced his well-equipped snipers on the rooftops around to the Drango and Bison. Mysterious man introduced himself as a representative of influent people, who will remain unknown. First, he asked some questions about a briefcase they stole from Biba a few days ago. Then he explained, that this briefcase contained some unusual artifacts, that been taken away from Korriban by marauders. As he said, these artifacts are charged with some sort of dark power, that slowly making unprepared people insane. In that case, Mr. Tahori himself. After that, he offered mandalorians, who were best Tahori men at the moment, a job: to find Mr. Tahori’s hideout and retrieve these artifacts by whatever means necessary.

#### **Grand Theft Spaceship**

Drango and Bison, accompanied by Podgon headed to the Biba’s territory to perform audacious raid for his ships. Caught off guard, Biba’s thugs were unable to resist the robbers despite they outnumbered them. Nevertheless, during gunfight Drango, Bison and Podgon were forced to split.

Bison faced a tough Death Watch mercenary in a face-to-face combat. At some point, they began to fight each other with their bare hands. Bison tried to throw Death Watch mercenary down, but he managed to hook Bison on, so they both fell off to the lower levels, filled with trash. Unlike Death Watch merc, Bison managed to survive the fall.

Drango decided to utilize his jetpack and flew down to find and get Bison out of there. Meanwhile, hordes of Biba’s mercenaries arrived to the streets, where trio caused mayhem, to reinforce remnant thugs and restore the “order”. Trying to win Drango some time, Podgon entered the hangar, made an improvised firebombs with a booze, he took in a local bar, and separated hangar from the streets with fire wall. Drango managed to find Bison and they flew away from lower levels, sharing Drango’s jetpack. Luckily for them, they didn’t got shot bypassing the streets, full of hostile mercs, so they successfully reached upper level hangar, where Podgon was waiting for them with 3 prepared ships and almost out of “fuel” for his firewall. Each of them took a ship and got the hell away from there.
Upon arrival, Podgon discovered that there are strange waypoint on Tatooine in one of the stolen ship’s logs. Mr. Tahori offered Drango and Bison an infiltration mission to the Tatooine, which they accepted.
On the way from the shop, where Drango and Bison bought themselves a disguise and additional supplies, they have met a Burtrom Dansen, a traitor of their own tribe. After mandalorians traded a few “kind” words with each other, Drango tried to shoot Burtrom down, which resulted in a gunfight between them. Understanding, that he is outnumbered at this point, Burtrom decided to retreat, and succeeded.

#### **Howdy, partners**

Drango and Bison headed with reconnaissance mission to the abandoned Czerka Corporation facility on Tatooine, which is located in the part of planet, which believed to be uninhabited. Their task was to infiltrate within ranks of local mercs, and find out, what operations Biba does on Tatooine and try to find Biba himself, if possible.
Upon arrival, they found themselves in a village full of thugs. They have been introduced to the person, who is known among locals as Sarge. Sarge appeared to be the one, who is in charge for organizing defense of the village from jawa threat. Sarge was the one, who served in UFP Special Forces and quickly understood, that Bison was somehow connected to them too, despite Bison denied it.
At first, Drango and Bison didn’t took jawa threat seriously and proposed to allow them to go directly to the abandoned farm nearby, where jawas settled. But Sarge stopped them from doing so and proposed a simpler task for them: they were supposed to get to abandoned crawler, that Biba’s mercs managed to shoot months ago, to retrieve a mining droid, jawas managed to steal. Drango was eager to start immediately, but Sarge explained, that there are jawa snipers all over the place, and the only chance not to get shot is to go while sandstorm goes.
Their only option was to wait until sandstorm begins. So, Drango headed to the ship to have a snack, Bison, meanwhile, headed towards the local bar. In the bar he heard conversation between two twilek goons, from which he found out, that some cargo goes to the Biba’s manor directly through the village from time to time. Bartender explained, that they load something both from there, and from the outer planets, and send it to the manor with speeders, that jawas are unable to intercept. But there were one exception. During this time, they managed to steal one. Bison understood that this stolen speeder might be helpful to find Biba.

#### **Sandstorm**

Believing, that they may actually find that speeder in the crawler, they willingly proceeded to their mission, when sandstorm started. Sarge recommended taking some reinforcements with them. At first, Bison rejected, but Drango convinced him, that they may actually take goons as hostages and exchange them for the speeder somehow.

Upon approaching the crawler, they’ve faced heavy resistance from jawas, who appeared to actually be tough as organized, as Sarge told. After tough combat, they’ve managed to defeat jawas and entered the crawler, but everything, they could find here, was mining droid and piles of junk, but no speeder. They took the droid, and Bison shot the only remaining goon, who managed to survive the combat alongside with them, since, as Bison explained, he had no use for them anymore. Drango reminded him, that droid is actually watching this, and this might cause troubles further on.

Nevertheless, they brought droid back, which impressed Metzger, the guy, who was in charge there. Metzger paid them extra for delivering droid back, and ordered them to bring the droid to the Scrappy, local engineer, so he could inspect the droid. Luckily for them, Scrappy didn’t looked through memory bank and didn’t saw, what Bison have done.

#### **Contemplative commentary: Ah, what an irony**

Drango proposed Bison to head directly to the abandoned farm to find the speeder. That’s what they’ve decided to do. First, they took position on the heights and inspected the farm through binoculars. Farm looked completely abandoned, and speeder, they were looking for, was there. It looked fishy, but nevertheless, they decided to go to the farm and take the speeder. Bison went forward, Drango decided to fly around and check, if there are no snipers around. Bison was shot with stun charge in his back. After Drango lost communication with Bison, he headed to the farm to find out, what is happen to him. Some figure appeared out of the cover and shot him with the stun charge in the air, before he figured out, what happen.

When they woke up, they saw a bunch of jawas nearby. One big jawa, who’s eyes were glowing somewhat unnatural, began to talk with them in basic. This jawa appeared to be not jawa, but AK unit, who’s behavior core was damaged that way, that he became free-minded droid, who protected and learned this jawa tribe the art of war in exchange for technical maintenance, they provided, and shortly became the leader of this tribe. Droid asked Bison and Drango to help his tribe with “meatbag problem”: snipers in village didn’t allowed jawas to approach crawler to perform necessary repairs, so jawas could embark and get away from there. In reward he promised them weapons, armor, piles of unnecessary junk, peace, and most importantly, speeder.

#### **Diplomacy and politics**

So, crew headed back to the village to talk to Metzger about ceasefire with jawas. Metzger didn’t took everything they said seriously.
Sarge proposed them a deal: they should dispose out of Metzger. That way Sarge could temporary lead the village. In exchange, he promised to declare ceasefire.
Drango planted some explosives within village, came back to the ship, took his original armor instead of disguise, and, while snipers went away for dinner, took position on the roof. Bison lured Metzger out of his house, Drango exploded bombs to cause distraction, and shot Metzger. Drango managed to retreat, but was injured. Unlucky for both Drango and Bison, who got injured too, the only competent medic in this village was blown away with bomb Drango planted, so the only one, who could patch them up, was Scrappy. Well, at least Sarge thought so, because, ironically, Scrappy was the only more or less intelligent person among goons, who could perform basic medical procedures. So, Sarge brought Bison to Scrappy. After listening Scrappy’s mumbling about gods, sin, judgement days, and so on, Bison decided, that he is not that injured after all. Then appears Drango, with far more severe wound. Looking, how Scrappy can’t differ anesthetic and oil for droids and about to perform surgery in absolutely unsanitary conditions, Drango decided that he is completely fine as well. So, Bison and Drango immediately left Scrappy, who genuinely thought, it was gods blessing. Then they headed to Sarge, who kept his promised and declared 2 days of ceasefire. They also recommended Scrappy as a really good doctor.

#### **The calm before the storm**

Bison and Drango headed towards the farm and let AK50 and his jawas know that they have 2 days to repair the crawler and get away. In exchange, AK50 gave Bison and Drango their reward: speeder and some unnecessary junk. Speeder was loaded with cargo sorted in the boxes with blue minerals inside and lettering, which stated “STRITUZ”. Thinking, this might be useful in future, they’ve decided to take them for themselves, hidden speeder in the cave near the village, and headed back.

Sarge safely released all the mining droids and stated, that next caravan to Biba’s manor will be packing tomorrow’s morning. Bison and Drango headed towards the bar and asked bartender some questions about this procedure. After they got all details they needed, they headed towards the ship. On the road to ship they were intercepted by Scrappy, who looked through droids memory bank and saw Bison intentionally shooting at weequay thug. Mandalorians threatened Scrappy, so he cleared droids memory.
On the ship, Drango reported to Mr. Tahori about their success on Tatooine. Mr. Tahori sent his ships on Tatooine orbit and gave Drango new instructions on their mission. Their objectives were:
1. Make sure, Biba is in his manor.
2. Turn off anti-air systems, manor possess.
3. Place a beacon for the ships, so that they could commence bombardment.

Next morning speeders arrived from the manor and “villagers” started loading streetus. After a few hours, there arrived a ship with cargo from the outer world. Among arrived thugs, there was Death Watch representative, D'or Shinlar, who supposed to investigate recent attack performed by Drango, but gatekeeper made him load the boxes nevertheless. Drango managed to place tracker beacon on one of the speeders, and headed to the Bison, who was preparing their speeder.

#### **Manor**

Upon arrival, they have left speeder in the safe place and commenced moving on foot, hiding in the darkness of the night and taking foot patrols around the manor one by one. They’ve managed to enter the manor through the back entrance without triggering alarm. Shortly after, they’ve faced technician, who quickly gave away location of anti-air system control terminal. Technician was shot, after that terminal was shot as well. One objective was completed. Wandering around the manor, they’ve heard conversation with one of Biba’s men and person in cloak, from which they’ve heard, that this person buys streetus from Biba.
Door to the Biba was heavily guarded, there were no chance to slip by unnoticed. Drango started blasting people around, which caused distraction, which gave Bison opportunity to get to the Biba’s room. This room appeared to be more heavily guarded, than it’s entrance. Bison tried to lure guards out with lies about escaped rancor, but they didn’t believed, kicked him out, and locked room from the inside. He considered it is not enough just to see the Biba, so he decided to shoot him personally. For that means, he needed to find a way to open the door from outside. Manor was full of foot patrols, which were sniffing around, trying to find violators, so Bison tried to hide from them in shadows. Eventually, D'or Shinlar showed up, and after a short game of hide-and-seek actually spotted Bison. During the fierce fight, Bison managed to damage Shinlar’s jetpack to explode that way, that caused the door to Biba’s room to crumble. Meanwhile, Drango already placed a beacon for Tahori’s ships.
Bison shot Biba and planned to leave, but D'or Shinlar, who survived, attacked him from behind. During their fight, D'or Shinlar recognized mandalorian in Bison and proceeded to attack with a fanatical zealousness, not bothering, that this place is about to be turned into dust in bombardment any second. Nevertheless, Bison managed to get rid of him, and escaped.
*Manor was falling apart under heavy bombardment, and every bomb was like a firework on the celebration of the victory day of yet another war. This gang war, that most of the galaxy didn’t even noticed, was over. But the story of Bison and Drango, who rode away towards the sunrise, wasn’t.*

#### **Intermission**

Bison and Drango got back into village. Surprisingly, after they departed to the manor, Tahori’s allies, Sapphire’s gang, overtook it. They were met by their leader, Shelupon’, and Sarge, who appeared to be their man, who “prepared” the village for their arrival. Shelupon’ confirmed, that people in cloaks are actually paying very well for streetus, which is mined in this village, and gave mercenaries his contacts in case they’ll need a job.

#### **Routine**

After that, they’ve came back on Nar Shadaa for their generous reward from Tahori. Despite the war was over, he still had jobs to offer. First, they’ve visited a small gang, who agreed to take some Biba’s territory after his death in favor of Tahori, but didn’t fulfilled their part of the deal. Gang leader explained that he sent majority of his goons on security assignment on some excavations, where anonymous person in cloak offered them to go for a solid payment. Using threats, Bison made him to agree to pay 50% of income from this job to Tahori for compensation for unfulfilled part of the deal.

Their next mission was to scout the territory of another small gang, who seemed to be disappeared. They’ve headed there and found out, that territory is actually empty. Unknown woman in black attacked them there. After a long gunfight, she managed to put a knife to the Bison’s neck and started asking questions. It appeared that she was looking for that gang leader as well, and confirmed, that they actually disappeared. After that, bounty hunters put their weapons in holsters and went apart.

After receiving their reward, they’ve got their next assignment: to kill a traitor of the Tahori’s, some man named Sebal. That was not just an usual assassination. They were supposed to shot him in a point blank range with a “special” gun for execution of traitors that kill them very slowly and painfully. Besides that, they should do in Neutral zone, in a crowded place, and send regards from Mr. Tahori to their victim. They arrived to the Neutral zone, where Sebal was about to embark on transport ship somewhere to Republic, made everything as ordered, and ran away, luckily didn’t got shot by transport ship’s turret. Upon arrival back to Tahori’s, they were met by Podgon, who just heard about their recent deeds. It appeared, that violent actions in this Neutral zone are forbidden by the treaty between all nearest gangs and such actions may have consequences for Tahori’s…

#### **Miraluka**

Then, Podgon asked them to head to the pirates lair, and free some very important person, who they took from the robbed imperial transport vessel. Not bothering with finding diplomatic solution of the problem, Drango and Bison easily disposed of every single pirate in the lair. But unexpectedly, some persons in black uniforms without insignias arrived and found this captive they’ve needed so. These ones appeared to be well-trained tough professionals, so after a short gunfight they’ve managed to surround and force Bison and Drango to surrender. But suddenly, miraluka in robe, they’ve met before, disarmed and stunned every single one of them. After checking life signs of the person, who both mandalorians and people in uniforms tried to retrieve, and who appeared to be stunned by people in uniforms, she told Bison and Drango to deliver him to Orinda alive. They’ve agreed, and headed to their ship with unconscious body.

#### **”Civilized” manners**

On Orinda, they’ve been met by Angelo, chief of local republican forces, who took unconscious man away, and offered mandalorans yet another job. He wanted them to dispose of zabrak woman, who was suspected to be the leader of local terrorist cell. Angelo didn’t had any evidence of it, that means, he had no official excuse to arrest or shoot her. That’s why he hired Drango and Bison to do the dirty job. They arrived to her home and waited for time, when Angelo’s cops should “take a coffee break” and leave the streets, as Angelo promised. While waiting, Drango killed death stick trader for his wallet.
When the time has come, Bison and Drango entered her house. Zabrak realized, that mandalorians came after her soul, and tried to escape, but they’ve managed to catch her, stun her, and then drown her in the nearest river. Angelo liked their approach and even paid them some extra, believing, that is must scare local terrorist even more.

On their way to the ship, they’ve met bothan, who asked them for help. It appeared, that thief stole this bothan’s family heirloom, and bothan wanted it back. Drango and Bison waited till the night, and managed to find the thief in the crowd. Thief realized, that mandalorians are coming after him, so he tried to escape. Nevertheless, mandalorians managed to catch him, kill him, and take everything he got, including the heirloom, which appeared to be a blade, itself. They gave it back to bothan, took their reward, and then Drango stabbed bothan with this blade they've retrieved to take his wallet as well.

#### **Unwilled alliance**

After causing so much mayhem in civilized place like Orinda, bounty hunters decided to leave this place and headed back to Nar Shadaa. Podgon offered them another job: to dispose of somebody, who is about to join The Sisterhood. Drango and Bison found out, that it’s not Tahori’s interest after all, so they’ve asked Podgon, who wants this person dead after all, but before Podgon could say anything, the mysterious man in black appeared and stated, that it is “their” interest, whoever "they" are. Without asking any more questions, Bison and Drango headed to the hideout of local Sisterhood cell, and shot everybody here, including the rogue jedi girl, who appeared to be their primary target.

#### **We rob who we want, when we want!**

Drango and Bison contacted Shelupon’, Sapphires Gang leader, and he offered him to blow up 2 streetus warehouses on Nar Shadaa and Tatooine. First one, the one on Nar Shadaa, was easy to find, so Drango and Bison didn’t had any difficulties with going in and blowing it up. The one on the Tatooine, though, was hidden. The only thing they’ve managed to find on provided coordinates was dirty old town, which was controlled by Keppa the Hutt’s gang. After they walked around trying to sniff out, where their target is, small jawa met them and persistently tried to make them follow him. Jawa brought our “heroes” to their leader, who appeared to be a rogue AK-50 unit they’ve met before. Droid recognized them as well and offered Bison and Drango a deal: they help him to rescue his imprisoned jawas, who were sent to scout and steal supplies from Keppa’s, and steal a ship from Keppa’s to get away. In return, he tells them, where streetus warehouse is.
Mercenaries agreed on his terms, and then, accompanied by the droid, who was happy to kill some meatbags, proceeded to blasting thugs, fighting their way to the prison with jawas. After making jawas free, they’ve headed to the main base of the Keppa’s in this town, where thugs appeared to be doing business with Republic. Fighting their way to the hangar through thugs, and then, apparently, republican soldiers reinforced by jedi, they’ve faced the one, who was in charge of this operation, jedi Asooqa Blyatano. Asooqa almost managed to kill both mandalorians, but teamwork of their duo appeared to be stronger, than her lightsabers and the Force. Drango managed to get close enough to her and shot her at point blank range, where she didn’t have enough time to deflect a shot. Bison and Drango quickly disarmed her and started interrogation about who she is and what Republic is doing here. Asooqa didn’t knew, why Republic is buying streetus, so she didn’t told mercenaries anything they didn’t knew yet. After that Bison disposed of her with a blaster shot in her head.
Meanwhile, droid’s jawa tribe already arrived to capture the ship, that belonged to Asooqa Blyatano. Rogue AK-50 unit thanked Bison and Drango for help and even agreed to blow up the warehouse himself, just to test his brand new ship weaponry.

#### **”Package”**

Angelo, chief of the orindian republican forces, contacted our “heroes” and asked them to arrive to Orinda for their next mission. But first he asked them to grab some package on Nar Shadaa to deliver to Orinda. Bison and Drango headed to provided coordinates and met Opatia Smert, who was the one, who should handle them a package. She was disgusted by the fact, that the thing they need to deliver is referred that way, a “package”, and noted, that mercenaries could be a good friends with Angelo, because, as she said, they are “the same”. She moved away and told them to wait. After a while she came back and lead Bison and Drango to unconscious bodies of 4 persons, that look familiar to them. It was the organized ones, who attacked them before on Nar Shadaa. As Opatia said, these are Imperial Special Forces, who work undercover. She said she already knows everything about them and reported it all to Angelo, so it was pointless waste of time to capture this people, and she found this most unsatisfying. Nevertheless, Angelo wanted to interrogate them personally. Opatia also asked Drango and Bison to remind Angelo that the only acceptable condition on which she agreed to help him with “his pointless wargames” is guarantee that imperials will leave alive after that interrogation. After that Bison and Drango proceeded to loading bodies to their cargo hold and miraluka disappeared.

#### **(Anti)heroism**

Angelo warmly greeted mercenaries on Orinda and offered them to proceed to his office, while his men were unloading a “package”. After paying Drango and Bison their credits for delivery, he explained, why he called them here in first place. There were a rebellion against the Empire on Naboo. As it appeared, rebels wasn’t rebels at all, they were republican soldiers, who disguised as locals. This “rebellion” wasn’t successful, since their cell was compromised and all the ways for escape from Naboo were cut off, so “rebels” retreated to the forests, where they were trying to hide. Republic couldn't interfere in this officially, since it was imperial territory. Drango and Bison should get their ship there are rescue as much of them as possible. They’ve headed to Naboo and started searching. Deep in the forest they’ve heard a sounds of gunfight. Anyway, our “heroes” started blasting the imperials and helping scattered small groups of “rebels” to get to the ship. During firefight with imperials Drango and Bison became separated, because imperials started to outnumber them. So they’ve proceeded to coordinate “rebels” to evac point separately. Bison engaged combat against imperial ubertrooper, who’s physical abilities were far above average human. This one singlehandedly killed rebels in dozens. However, our “hero”, accompanied by “brave freedom fighters”, managed to hurt this ubertrooper and force him to retreat. It didn’t helped much, since Empire deployed the dark troopers, who were pushing “heroes” and “freedom fighters” hard. Luckily, both Bison and Drango managed to escape alive and lift off their ship unnoticed, saving as much “rebels” as they could.

#### **Kindness and wisdom**

Miraluka jedi Opatia Smert set up a meeting with Drango and Bison. She asked them to deliver a communicator to the ex-grandmaster of the Jedi Order, and now an outlaw for the Republic, Val Tor. Mercenaries agreed to do this, agreed with her terms not to kill republicans or any other people, took a trinket, that will help Val Tor in finding them, and proceeded to their ship.
On their way to the ship, Bison stopped by at the shop he usually visits to resupply. Some person, who seemed to know him, stopped by and started talking to him, but Bison didn’t recognized him. Shortly after this person attempted to kill Bison with grenade, which resulted in a short gunfight between them. Nevertheless, none of them managed to kill another, and unknown attacker fled away, promising, that he will come back.
Shop itself was completely blown up by attacker, but twilek shop owner managed to survive. It wasn’t such a relief for her, since this shop was the way she made herself living. But suddenly, Bison spared her a solid amount of money to rebuild the shop.
Upon arriving on Dagobah to find Val Tor, Bison and Drango splitted their ways, carefully bypassing republican foot patrols and using only stun modes on their blasters if needed. At some moment, Bison found himself in the cave, where he started to see illusions. After illusions faded away, the old rodian approached him from behind. This rodian appeared to be Val Tor himself. Bison passed him communicator from Opatia, and Val Tor offered him to stay a while to talk a bit and have snacck. Bison agreed, and, after a short pause, being full of hesitation, he introduced himself as Wesley. During their deeply-philosophical conversation, Wesley told Val Tor who he is, told his story, and how it all did resulted in his presence here. Remembering his past made Wesley emotional, so he even broke his helmet during it. Val Tor told his story as well and shared his wisdom with a young Wesley. The only thing even I do not know, was it Bison, or Wesley, who left this cave after all…

Bison came back to the ship, where bored Drango was waiting for him. Bison lied to him, that he didn’t found the rodian, and lost his helmet in a fight with rhino. After that they've left Dagobah.

#### **Liars**

Bison and Drango arrived to Nar Shadaa. Unexpectedly, Opatia Smert was waiting for them, despite they didn’t gave her a call. She was about to give mercenaries their reward, which confused Drango, who thought, that Val Tor was not found at the end. His reaction confused miraluka, who already contacted Val Tor, so she secretly read their minds and saw, that Bison lied to Drango about what happened at Dagobah. After that, she lied to Drango, that she confused them with other mercenaries she was waiting for, excused for disturbance, and moved away.

#### **Duty against the code**

Bison and Drango headed to Tahori’s for another job. When they arrived, they saw Podgon talking with Tahori through Tahori’s remote. Tahori wanted to provoke neighbor crime lord named Jorik, which Podgon found irrational and dangerous and was unhappy about thus. Nevertheless, Podgon had no other choice, but to comply, so he offered this job to our “heroes”. Their next task was to burn the ship of Jorik.
They arrived at designated place. They were met by a mandalorian named Eikei Rashbee, who appeared to be a younger brother of Faz Rashbee, the one, who sacrificed himself in the battle against Jawajuice droids. Eikei was assigned by Jorik to guard this place from people, who cause trouble. And Drango and Bison was famous exactly for the fact, they cause it everywhere they go. Eikei offered them to leave peacefully, because he didn’t wanted to harm fellow mandalorians. Bison and Drango didn’t wanted to harm him as well. Yet, they had a job to accomplish there, and fellow mandalorian stood on their way. After a long debate about contract duties and mandalorian code, Drango lost his patience and chose money over the code: he took his gun and tried to shoot Rashbee. Rashbee started to shoot back. Bison tried to convince them both to stop, but had no success. Drango managed to short distance with Rashbee and captured him, but Eikei Rashbee found out, that “fellow” mandalorians here to burn the ship, so he remotely sent it on autopilot to safe place, assuring their faulure. Bison, in his turn, stunned both Drango and Eikei with the blaster, brought them to the ship and set a course to Awerica, where tribe could judge Drango’s actions.
Drango awaken and asked Bison, what’s going on. Bison started to read him morals about the mandalorian code and declared his intentions. In return, Drango noted, that Bison, the one without a helmet, is not the one who can speak about the code, and demanded to turn around to Nar Shadaa. While they were arguing about code and morals, Eikei woke up, managed to get the blaster, and sided with Drango in regards of the ship course. They convinced Bison to turn back to Nar Shadaa. Eikei agreed with Drango’s proposal, that this incident “was never happened”, and disappeared right after they arrived to Nar Shadaa.

#### **Flashbacks of the past**

Shelupon’, leader of the Sapphires Gang, invited Bison and Drango on Tatooine to offer them some work. He wanted them to steal someone’s mining droids, since his opponents were gathering streetus much more effective, then his gang did. Bison and Drango headed to the place, where bandits were loading the droids in the ships, disposed of the bandits, and found out, that this “mining” droids were actually AK-50 assassin droids, used by Jawajuice back in the day. Nevertheless, they’ve came here for droids, so they loaded them up the ship and headed back to Shelupon’.
Sarge, veteran and former member of UFP Special Forces, wasn’t happy to see the droids that destroyed the country he sworn to protect. He asked Bison and Drango to investigate, where these droids came from. Drango proposed to inspect one of the droids databank. From what they’ve saw, this droids were somehow related to Keppa the Hutt, rival for the Sapphires. Drango and Bison decided to head to Keppa’s palace to talk to the hutt about the origin of these droids personally.
Keppa wasn’t there, so his secretary met them. He invited them to come in, thinking, that they are actually associates of the person, who was connected with the droid business. During the private conversation with secretary, Bison and Drango found out, that some mandalorian in orange armor was the one, who sold Keppa the blueprints, and now Keppa secretly producing this droids. Secretary, on the other hand, found out, that Bison and Drango are not associates of mandalorian in orange, but the ones, who eager to get to him with definitely unfriendly intentions. Before he ordered his guards to dispose of the enemies of Keppa’s associate, Bison and Drango offered him a bribe. Money changed secretaries attitude, so he agreed to help them with stealing all information Keppa possessed on the droids, and security camera’s recordings. Bison and Drango left Keppa’s palace. Drango quickly disposed of the droid blueprints they’ve gathered, and proceeded to the security camera recordings. Their theory found it’s confirmation: this mandalorian in orange, who possessed AK droids blueprints, was Burtrom Dansen, the traitor of their tribe.

#### **Shady manipulator**

Despite Bison and Drango clarified much about that situation, they didn’t knew, what to do next. They’ve came back to Sapphires village and went into the bar to rethink everything that happen. Some woman in black approached them and started a casual chat about different things. In a few moments it became obvious, that she was actually well-informed about the main function of the “mining” droids Bison and Drango brought to the village, about the fact, that somebody have stolen them, and about the fact this somebody were sniffing around in Keppa’s palace shortly after. Then she said, that if she was the one, who possessed something that expensive, like AK droids blueprints, she would sell it for a hefty price and took a vacation somewhere on Felucia. She added, that after all, world would be a better place if somebody would destroy the blueprints. She passed Bison a datapad, where there were a place on Felucia’s map marked, and disappeared before Bison and Drango could even ask a question. Tho, it was as clear as day for them, what this map actually means.

#### **You can run on for a long time**

Bison and Drango arrived to Felucia to the location, marked on girl’s map. They were met by Eikei Rashbee again. It appears, he was sent here by mysterious person to destroy blueprints as well as Bison and Drango were. Mandalorians united their efforts and started searching for Burtrom around the forest. They’ve found a small hut on the tree, approached to it, and found Burtrom inside. Burtrom was prepared and waiting for somebody from the tribe to come after him. That’s what happened. Burtrom triggered explosives beneath his rivals feet and took the opportunity to get away. Drango and Eikei used jetpack and rope not to fall down, yet Bison fell and lost his consciousness. Drango and Eikei chased Burtrom. Despite Burtrom was a skilled warrior, knew the terrain, and had hidden weapon stashes all around the palce, he was outnumbered 2 to 1. Therefore, after a long and fierce firefight in the air he realized that odds were not in his favor, landed and tried to talk his way out of this situation, while hiding in the woods. When Drango and Eikei finally found him, he was holding Bison as hostage, still trying to explain and justify his actions. Nevertheless, his words were not convincing enough for Drango and Eikei: they still considered him a traitor and wanted him dead. While Burtrom was talking to Drango, Eikei managed to sneak behind Burtrom’s back and stab him, so he fall down and released Bison. Drango used an opportunity to put an end to this story and shot Burtrom multiple times. After that, they made sure, that Burtrom didn't possessed AK droid blueprints anymore. Drango took Burtrom’s armor as a trophy, and carried injured Bison to their ship, where they’ve splitted their way with Eikei Rashbee.

#### **You seem familiar…**

Upon arriving back on Nar Shadaa, Drango went to find a doctor for Bison. After all necessary medical procedures, doctor stated, that Bison needs some time to rest, so Drango headed to Tahori’s for another job alone. As usually, he was met by Podgon Ot’Bratvy, but this time Podgon was accompanied by a rodian named Viktor. Viktor asked Drango to retrieve a data storage, held by two rodians and twilek. Drango accepted this job, got coordinates, and proceeded there. It was bar marked there. It was taken by renegade mercenaries, who rebelled against Viktor and took the bar from him. Drango sneaked in there, to the room, where two rodians Viktor mentioned were hiding. After a short and futile resistance, rodians were neutralized. After interrogation rodians confessed, where is the data storage Drango was looking for. It was taken by a twilek girl, who was going to embark the ship and fly away with it. Drango left rodians alive, but locked them in the room from outside so they couldn’t warn anybody, despite one of them was severely injured. After that he rushed straightly to the landing pad rodians mentioned.
Rodians didn’t lied: blue-skinned twilek was there, along with her bodyguards. Drango disposed of the bodyguards, and before he proceeded to twilek, she offered him to settle this in a mandalorian traditional way, blade by blade: the one, who wins, takes data. Drango agreed, put his gun away, and took a sword. Sword fight between mandalorian and twilek began. Mandalorian armor saved Drango from injuries, yet twilek wasn’t lucky enough to possess one. When Drango managed to scratch her arms with the blade, he noted, that there were no blood in there. In the end twilek got exhausted and was defeated. Drango asked her, who or, what is she, and she replied, that she is some sort of failed experiment. After that Drango took a data storage, tied twilek, hung her by the legs on the platform and left her hanging there with her head down all alone.

#### **The Coruscant Incident**

Drango came back to Viktor, gave him data storage he wanted to retrieve and got his payment. After that Podgon approached Drango and offered him another job. They hurried to the ship, where Bison awaited for them, and Podgon explained what they are up to do. All this time Tahori provoked neighbor crime lords intentionally, awaiting for them to meet altogether in one place to negotiate an alliance against himself. This place appeared to be a restaurant on Coruscant, where imperials allowed crime lords to meet under their protection, since they were not happy with Tahoris pro-republican attitude and were interested in disposing of him. Tahori, on the other hand, planned to dispose of his neighbors with one single strike and leave their clans and families to fight each other for power without proper legitimate ruler. The mission was simple: get to the rooftop across the street, do some precise sniper shots, and get away.
Tahori’s made preparations and “cleaned” surrounding rooftops out of imperial snipers, as well as landing pad, where our “heroes” were about to arrive. Upon arrival, they have jumped into the vehicle and headed to the rooftop, where their sniper position was. Bespredel, one of the Tahori’s mercenaries, reported, that imperials installed reinforced windows in this restaurant, which meant, they cannot pierce them with blaster anymore.
Bespredel offered to turn off anti-air cannons nearby, get their ship close to the restaurant, and bombard it with ship’s main weapons. Podgon objected and offered to find a way to sneak inside and kill their targets precisely, without hurting civilians inside. Both Drango and Bison supported Bespredel and proceeded with his plan.
They’ve got into the vehicle and flew to a hidden place on a rooftop, which lead them to command tower, where anti-air turrets were controlled from. Bison and Drango managed to sneak inside, disposing if imperial guards one by one, got to the main control terminal and shut anti-air turrets off. After that they’ve got to their ship, destroyed the restaurant with guards and civilians inside, along with unprotected control tower, which wasn’t even their mission, and flew away.

#### **Return to Prison Vaderstone**

When they left Coruscant, Bespredel tried to contact fellow gang members, who supposed to leave on the other ship. He got no answer. It was clear as day that they were captured by imperials. Bison knew, how brutal and merciless imperial interrogators can be, and where persons like those “terrorists” are usually kept. When they arrived on Nar Shadaa, he offered Tahori’s to dispose of captives, so they wouldn’t tell imperials anything important. Podgon wasn’t happy about that, yet Tahori himself gave an approval to this idea. Therefore, Bison and Drango headed to the Mustafar. They’ve landed not far away from prison facility itself and slowly and silently sneaked inside, disposing of foot patrols on their way. Nevertheless, in prison facility itself they’ve got spotted by elite dark troopers, who were prepared for unwelcomed guests. One of them managed to trigger the alarm, so Bison and Drango had to move really fast in order to get out of there alive, before imperials swarm this entire place. Once they’ve got to the prison cell, they’ve killed exhausted and tortured prisoners, who weren’t able to run, and started to fight their way out of prison facility, since imperials sent reinforcements there, accompanied by elite dark troopers and uber troopers. Bison and Drango managed to get to the place, where they’ve hidden their ship and flied away, but their ship was heavily damaged by imperial interceptors.

#### **Ship crashes**

Drango’s ship reached Nar Shadaa orbit, where its engines died completely. Bison communicated Podgon and asked for his help. Podgon sent his mechanic to he carry broken ship to their repair docks on Nar Shadaa. Despite Drango’s ship was wrecked, crew was eager to make some more credits. Podgon asked them to enter the territory, where disorganized gangs, leaders of which were killed on Coruscant recently, were fighting each other, and steal some rare material named “Galulag”, since Republic offered a hefty price for it. Crew fought their way through gang warzone and reached the place, where their cargo should be. But it appeared, that ship with it should depart from Nar Shadaa any second, so they hurried to the landing pad it order to secure it. They were too late: ship was already lifting off. But mandalorian gear, jetpacks and ropes, came in handy and helped mandalorians to reach the ship, and force it to land by destroying the engines. Yet again crew had nothing to do, but to call for Podgon to pick them up. Luckily, this rough landing didn’t damaged the cargo.

#### **Delivery to hell**

Angelo invited the crew to Orinda yet again. After assuring that nobody listen for them, he explained the situation. Imperial agents, that were delivered by Bison and Drango to Orinda for interrogation, were about to leave Orinda and fly home to the Empire. Angelo wasn’t happy about such outcome since he was worried that this imperials may know too much, so he needed someone, who will dispose of interrogated imperials and make it look like an accident or some sort pirate attack, which is not related to Republic. After Angelo and mercenaries came to agreement in regards of price and privacy of this conversation, Bison and Drango went to the ship and started waiting for imperial transport to leave Orinda.
When imperial transport left republican space, Drango and Bison boarded it, got to the bridge, stopped it, and began searching for imperial agents they were told to dispose of. Agents understood that something is wrong about that unexpected stop, and hid, waiting for whatever is coming. Agents tried to outmatch mandalorians utilizing their cloaking devices, but mandalorians got heat visors, that made cloak almost useless. Nevertheless, imperial agents managed to injure Drango. Mandalorias managed to kill all their targets, but imperials triggered alarm on the ship. Drango hurried back to his ship, but Bison decided to dispose of imperial transport completely, so he began to plant the bombs on every crucial part of the ship, including escape pods and ship engines. After that Bison got to Drango's ship, detonated the bombs, and they headed back to Orinda for their reward.

#### **Socorro: Smugglers Hangout**

Bison and Drango took their reward and were about to depart, but Angelo caught Bison in the hangar, while Drango was preparing a ship to depart. Since Angelo's men were investigating multiple acts of sabotage and thievery, that happen in mere hours one after another, Angelo asked Bison to investigate recent incident on Socorro and retrieve the databank, which republican representatives stored there. Upon arrival to Socorro, they saw bandits digging graves for a pile of corpses gathered from all around the place. Bison and Drango started to ask people about what happen there. Most of them didn’t said anything useful, but some noted that there were 3 strange persons: 2 humans, and 1 gungan passing by right before it’s all started. One of the noghri mercs pointed Bison and Drango the way, where these 3 persons went. There was broken elevator that led underground, down to the place, where “bosses” quarters were. Luckily, Bison and Drango had jetpacks, that helped them to get down there. Most of the dead were killed with 3 different types of blaster, with much better accuracy, than usual mercenaries have. Bison and Drango slowly came to the place, where databank is supposed to be attached. It was pretty far for a human to reach it, yet, there were drops of gungan saliva there. Observations of mercenaries upstairs were partially confirmed. Yet, Bison already knew for sure, who these intruders were…

#### **Old friends… Or foes?**

On the ship Bison told Drango, who these people, who attacked republicans on Socorro, are supposed to be: DF-42, secret Imperial Special Forces squad, where Bison used to serve before he came to Nar Shadaa. Bison discussed his past with Drango, and Drango asked, will Bison shoot his old friends, if there will be need for it. And Bison said “yes”. Upon arrival back to Nar Shadaa they’ve heard Tahori’s thugs talking about gungan, who attacked them and killed or at least injured dozen of their fellows about an hour ago. There are not much gungans in the galaxy, who are able to fight that good, and Bison knew it. It was highly possible, that this gungan was the one, whom he personally taught to fight: Greggle Towi from DF-42. Bison took a ship and headed to the orbit, hoping to catch DF-42 ship there. And he was lucky to do it. He blocked them their way, and demanded to send him containments of the databank they acquired on Socorro. After a short brief, DF-42 fulfilled Bison’s request and sent him a copy.

#### **Ah shit, here we crash again**

Before coming back to Angelo with data from Socorro, Bison offered to inspect the data and see, if it can interest somebody else. This data was represented with a blueprint of a canister of sorts without any explaination of its purpose, so Bison and Drango had no luck finding any buyers for it. After that, they’ve contacted Angelo, who asked them to pass this data to Opatia, since Orinda was under lockdown due to terrorists activity. After they’ve passed Opatia the data for Angelo, Drango offered to head to Orinda and see, if they can help with terrorist activity Angelo mentioned.
After entering Orinda’s orbit, their ship was shot by anti-air turret that appeared to be captured by terrorists. Not willing to leave it like that, Drango turned the ship directly to the turret to make sure it will be destroyed. Meanwhile, Bison cared a little bit more for his life and jumped from the falling ship. Luckily, trusty jetpack was always with him.

Upon landing, Bison tried to contact Drango, but he didn’t responded. Having Angelo on comms, Bison fought his way through terrorists to Angelo and republican forces. Within a few hours, Republican Army, accompanied by Jedi and Bison, managed to secure most of the city. Angelo asked Bison to support his strike team and capture one of the terrorist leaders, who barricaded in the palace nearby. This leader appeared to be dark jedi, who tried to escape upon seeing Bison and republicans. Nevertheless, counter-terrorist forces managed to get him in the corner, so he had no choice, but to commit a suicide.

#### **Death Watch strikes back**

When all terrorists were neutralized, Angelo and Bison headed to the shipwreck to search for Drango. On their way there they were met by a local nobleman who was searching for Angelo to confess in his connections with terrorists and the fact, that they were using some mind control technique to get his support. Angelo ordered his men to bring nobleman to interrogation room and keep an eye on him, and proceeded to lead Bison to the shipwreck. Bison and Angelo inspected the shipwreck, but there were no body of Drango inside, that meant, he was alive and should be somewhere around. Few moments after, some twilek assassin tried to shoot Bison, but luckily for Bison, he accidently shot a republican soldier who stood nearby. Nevertheless, assassin continued his attempts to kill Bison, but was outnumbered and injured by republicans. Angelo ordered to arrest this man, but another sniper shot twilek from the window. Republican forces couldn’t enter the building, since the only entrance was mined, so Angelo called for a bomb squad and ordered to surround the area around the building. Windows were not mined, so Bison used his jetpack to get inside. He was attacked by a Death Watch member, who introduced himself as Von Cath'a. Shortly after, gunfight turned into the sword fight. Von Cath'a managed to outmatch Bison and was about to strike a final blow, but republican assault team managed to defuse traps and breached into the building, so Von Cath'a had no choice, but to hop from the window and fly away on jetpack with something valuable from this room in his hands.

Republican soldiers reported to Angelo, that they’ve found Drango. They’ve brought him to Angelo and Bison. For their help Angelo gave mandalorians a gratitude, which was not just mere words, but credits as well. After that, Bison and Drango took a taxi to Nar Shadaa.

#### **Holocron**

Bison and Drango headed to Podgon Ot’Bratvy for some more jobs. Surprisingly, there were nothing left to kill or blow up, but something still required solution. Podgon asked, if Bison and Drango knew, how to read information from strangely looking red pyramid-shaped thing and offered a price for the information inside. It seemed, Tahori was very interested in it. Bison and Drango had idea, what might it be and how to open it. However, it was possible only with help of Force user. Drango decided to meet Opatia and ask her for a little favor. She wasn’t happy about it and refused to open it for Drango, saying that it might contain dangerous knowledge, but after a short brief she changed her mind and offered Drango a deal: he lets a rogue jedi free from Gachi Slavers Guild, and in return, she will open this holocron for him. She also asked to avoid violence if possible. Drango came back to Bison, told him, what happen, except one thing: he lied about “avoid violence” part. He told that they must kill every single slaver there and leave no one alive.
That is exactly what they have started to do upon landing. They’ve started slow and silent, killing every single guard there one after another. At some point they’ve entered office of Mr. Van, who appeared to be boss of this guild. According to his notes, they’ve used Force users for some gladiator fights. Notes also mentioned somebody with name The Fallen, who captured and sold most of the Jedi Gachi Slavers Guild had. When the crew left Mr. Van’s office, they’ve been spotted by guards, who triggered the alarm, so silent way was not an option anymore. Crew proceeded to the basement, where rogue jedi was “stored”, and where ithorian scientists were doing some researching. Bison demanded them to explain what is this all about, and ithorians explained, that they are just testing various modifications for ysalicollars here, that do no harm to testaments. That was the last project this scientists were working on. Crew made jedi free, but she was too scared of them, so she tried to escape. Nevertheless, she failed, got stunned, captured, and was taken away.

Drango brought stunned rogue jedi to Opatia and asked her to fulfill her part of the deal and open holocron. She kept her promise and opened it, but information there was written on language they both didn’t knew. Or only Drango didn’t knew. Anyway, job was done, and holocron was opened, just as Podgon asked.

#### **Criminal**

Next thing Tahori needed after holocron was ancient book that was stored on Orinda. Podgon hired Bison and Drango to acquire it.
Most of the local forces were busy cleaning the streets out of consequences recent terrorist strike left, so only one person guarded the storage room. Bison tried to convince him to let them in, but guard refused. Therefore, Drango just killed the guard and they came in. This place was robbed before, so it wasn’t that hard to find the book they came for. Just as they approached a stand with book, some jedi came from their back, knock them down put handcuffs on them and called for head of local security, Mr. Angelo. Unexpectedly, Angelo stunned jedi, put ysalicollar on him, let Bison and Drango free, and passed them a book they tried to steal. In exchange for their freedom and the book they came for, he asked them to do some dirty work again. He wanted them to dispose of republican general who is about to arrive to Orinda with inspection about Angelos illegal activity and make it look like a terrorist attack.

#### **Sniper Elite**

Bison and Drango found abandoned apartments with a view on the place where their target should arrive, prepared the sniper gear and waited until next day. Their target arrived and appeared just when and where it was expected. The only thing our “heroes” were about to do is to pull the trigger, what wasn’t a problem for them. After dead body of the general hit the ground, Drango and Bison quickly packed up their gear, got to the ship before security forces arrive and flew away outside the town. They stayed hiding there for 3 days while Orinda was under full lockdown. After this, they hurried back to Nar Shadaa.

#### **Prolon Podgon**

Bison and Drango headed back to Podgon to give him the book Tahori needed so. Unexpectedly, they saw Podgon talking to Opatia. Podgon offered her any information that imperial intelligence possess for sale. Opatia was skeptical about it and was about to leave, but Podgon offered her just a single little piece of information he had for absolutely free, just to change her attitude and gain her trust. This was information about secret prison block on Zakuul, where her fellow jedi Din Resto was hold by imperials. Opatia took Podgon’s “gift” and left the bar, noticing, that Bison and Drango read very “interesting” books.
As she left, Bison and Drango passed Podgon the book that cause so much trouble. Podgon couldn’t offer them any job, but he mentioned, that Keppa the Hutt placed a solid 250.000 credits bounty for the head of Greggle Towi, the gungan, who caused some trouble around Tahori’s as well. Podgon told them, that Greggle was actually part of DF-42 Imperial Special Forces unit and offered Bison and Drango his services in tracking him down using his “connections in imperial intelligence”. Bison and Drango agreed to pay Podgon a price, if he finds something about DF-42 whereabouts.

#### **Terrorist**

Angelo contacted Bison and Drango and asked them for another favor. He told that Empire provided political refuge for one of the orindian terrorist leaders, and Angelo wanted this man dead. Bison and Drango hurried to the Coruscant, and attacked the troopers, who guarded their target. After killing the guards, they were attacked by jedi with red lightsaber. Jedi was too strong for them, but he tried to make mandalorians hear him first. He said, that Angelo, the man, they were working for, is not the one who they think he is, but that didn’t convinced Bison and Drango to lay their weapons down. While jedi was distracted, Drango managed to sneak behind him and pulled jedi’s lightsaber with grappling hook. Disarmed jedi tried to flee, but Bison managed to hit jedi, so he fallen on the floor unable to run. Drango wanted to kill him right now, but Bison wanted to hear Akann out. Akann told them he was a member of so-called Dark Renegade, the terrorist faction, that attacked Orinda recently. Dark Renegades were a group of rogue jedi who embraced the dark side, and who had some scores to settle with Angelo personally. Akann gave Bison a datapad that clarified what exactly he was talking about. Datapad contained evidence against Angelo, who appeared to be stealing from state’s budget, kill his opponents, secretly trading weapons with criminals, and selling jedi prisoners to Gachi Slave traders guild. Bison offered Akann to spare his life in exchange for this datapad. Akann could not refuse such a deal.

#### **Counter-terrorist?**

Back on their way to the ship Bison and Drango argued about recent events. Drango was most unpleased that Bison left Akann alive and violated the deal with Angelo. But their debate ended right after they got to the ship and found out, that somebody got into it and stole some of their money.
They’ve headed to Orinda to meet Angelo. Angelo was paranoid that Bison and Drango didn’t killed Akann since there were no his body found according to his sources, but Bison made up lies that they used disruptor weapon that turned Akann to ashes. Angelo believed it, yet he didn’t calmed down. Obviously, he was worried, that evidence against him wasn’t there as well. Bison decided to keep it, so he didn’t told Angelo anything about it. Nevertheless, Angelo paid mandalorians their reward and let them go.

#### **This is the (wrong) way**

Drango decided to have some rest of this criminal stuff and visit their tribe on Awerica. Upon arrival on Awerica Bison and Drango found out, that tribe was missing. They tried to investigate, what happen, but there were no clues. They’ve found toydarian scavenger hanging around, and started asking him, if he saw other mandalorians around. Toydarian didn’t had much to say and only annoyed Drango. When Drango realized that scavenger have nothing useful to say he decided to dispose of him, and left to bury him somewhere afar from mandalorian hideout, leaving Bison completely alone. Within a few minutes girl from Death Watch attacked Bison from behind. She claimed him “untrue” mandalorian and wanted to know, where his tribe is. Even if Bison wanted, he couldn’t tell it to her anyway, but she refused to believe him. During the fight Bison managed to disarm and capture her. She lost consciousness, so Bison decided to tie her and bring her to his ship
On the way back he saw mandalorian ship landed nearby. There were fellow mandalorians from their tribe. Bison came to them to ask, where is their tribe now. Mandalorian named Kast avoided this question and asked, who is this girl that Bison stunned and demanded to hand her to him for interrogation. Bison refused and wanted to hear where the tribe is located now. Kast was paranoid and didn’t trusted Bison, so he refused to say it, but then Eikei Rashbee appeared from the ship and assured Kast, that Bison is true mandalorian and can be trusted. Unsure and hesitated Kast told Bison that tribe is hiding on Awerica’s moon now. Nevertheless, Bison refused to hand his captive to Kast and Eikei and offered them to meet on the moon, where he hands his captive to the tribe. Shortly after Drango showed up and he and Bison headed to the moon, where Kast pointed them. But there were no signs of tribe on the moon. Drango and Bison were searching for a while, but then gave up on this once they thought that Kast fooled them after all.

#### **Is *this* the way?**

Crew headed back to Nar Shadaa. Bison wasn’t happy about the fact that Kast lied him about their hideout. Bison’s prisoner woke up, and Bison wanted her to talk. Nevertheless, all he heard in respond from her was irrational pride and fanatic mumbling about untruth of Bison’s way, despite Bison showed his sincere attitude to join their cause. Seeing how pointless this conversation is, Bison decided to show her mercy and his best intentions, so he just made her free to go wherever she wants. Bison still wondered, what made his fellow mandalorians to lie him, so he decided to chill for a moment to think about it. He headed to the nearest bar and ordered some booze. Death Watch girl was following him all the way to the bar and sat near his table. It seems, that humiliating defeat and imprisonment from a man who she hated so much wasn’t the things that she can live with, so she triggered explosives on her belt in order to kill Bison as well. Luckily, Bison managed to notice it and jumped away from her, what minimized the damage to him. Administrator and guards of this place hurried to help the injured customers, including Bison. Bison offered administrator some credits in order to repair the damage caused by Death Watch suicidal fanatic, what slightly improved administrator’s attitude.

#### **Genoharadan**

Crew headed back to “Hellhole” to find out, if Podgon managed to find something about DF-42. Podgon proudly answered, that he got everything on DF-42, but after patting his pockets he found out, that datadisc with all necessary codes and cyphers is missing. Suddenly, the Mysterious man in black appeared nearby and told Podgon, that the datadisc he is looking for is no longer in his pockets. First Podgon demanded him to give it back, but Mysterious man asked him to chill and explained, that some important people are interested in stopping him from spreading the information he got, especially to Podgon’s new “blind” republican associate. Podgon threatened this man, that imperials are not welcomed among Tahori’s, in respond Mysterious man said, that he is not imperial and noted, that making such big money selling imperial intelligence information behind Tahori’s back is not welcomed here either. Podgon had no choice, but to agree to handle this man the data disc from the droid. The droid, Gregglen Makaro and Alamar Eirann lost during their last visit on Nar Shadaa.
After Mysterious man apologized for interrupting their conversation and went away, Bison and Drango offered Podgon to buy an evidence on Angelo. After they teased him some files from it, Podgon happily agreed to buy it. Then Podgon offered them even more bizarre job: he wanted mandalorians to go to Korriban and get a sword from ancient tomb of Dark Lord Darth Nitup for Tahori. Drango and Bison were confused, but agreed to take it.

#### **The Maw of Darkness**

Bison and Drango arrived to Korriban, where the sword they were looking for is believed to be. They slowly proceeded to some abandoned building that looked like some sort of academy. It looked empty, but in fact it wasn’t: they were attacked by huge insects, that were invisible to human eye. This place was crawling with them. Sadly, instead of piles of valuable loot they found only corpses of unlucky marauders and bloodthirsty invisible insects around. After Bison and Drango understood, that there were neither sword, nor anything of value there, they’ve left this facility and found themselves near the tombs. Eventually, they’ve noticed a group of strangely-looking people in dark robes. They were round-dancing and singing weird songs on unknown language near the tombs. Bison and Drango wanted to get closer and to observe them for a while, but their leader noticed Drango flying above on jetpack and waved him to come closer. This man introduced himself as Ansh Biboran, and told that they are peaceful religious people, who are looking for enlightenment in the place, where Force is strong. Ansh quickly understood, that Drango came here to loot this place, but he wasn’t angry about it and told, that he don’t judge him. Drango asked Ansh, where can he find the sword, and Ansh willingly pointed him to the tomb of Darth Nitup, but warned him, that Dark Lord’s spirit is somewhere around this place, and this might be the reason, why most of the marauders don’t come back from his tomb. After that Ansh came back to his brothers in faith, and Drango came back to Bison to tell him all he managed to find out about this place, and noted that this man looks suspiciously friendly. Bison went to the tomb, but Drango was hesitating and find excuses not to get down underground, so Bison took this journey completely alone.

#### **The Sword**

After Bison descended down in the tomb he have met a group of marauders, who were fighting numerous invisible insects. Bison tried to help them, but it was too late: all the marauders died within a few meters from the exit from this place. Sadly, none of them had the sword, but at least they had other valuable artifacts in their bags. This place was crawling with insects, and the further Bison went — the more insects he faced, and heard a creepy voice of somebody very unhospitable from unknown direction. At some point he faced another person down in this tomb. It was cerean male, who introduced himself as Father Kre’Kory, the man, who intended to cleanse this place of darkness and help all misguided souls there. He used pretty unusual, but effective tool for this purposes: a shotgun. He advised Bison to use shotgun against insects as well, and even tossed him a spare one from his cache. After that they’ve slowly proceeded further standing side-by-side and killing insects around.
They’ve entered the place, where Darth Nitup was buried. There was a statue holding a sword in it’s hand. Bison approached the statue and tried to take the sword, but it floated up by itself and almost hit Bison. Then the spirit of Darth Nitup took material form and took a sword in his hands. Bison tried to talk to him, but spirit was angry and wanted to spill the blood of the thief, who defiled this place. Shotguns appeared to be useful against the spirit as well: after dozens of shots in point blank range spirit disappeared and sword fell on the floor. Bison took it and started to inspect it, but after a while it broke out from his hands and floated to the materialized spirit of Nitup again. He told them that they cannot kill the one, who is already dead and attacked Bison and Kre’Kory again. After another dozen of shots spirit faded again and sword fell on the floor. Kre’Kory tried to take this sword, but was too scared of darkness within it, so he let Bison to take it. After that he told him to get out of the tomb, where spirit had no power. They ran and “killed” the spirit multiple times on their way to the exit, where their shotgun ammunition was about to run out. Bison climbed up the ladder and shot Kre’Kory upon getting out of the tomb. After that he broke the ladder to this wretched place and covered its entrance with a big stone.

#### **Outstanding move**

Ansh Biboran was waiting for Bison near the tomb entrance. He was astonished, that Bison made it alive with a sword in his hands. After that he asked politely to hand the sword to him, because it possess a great threat to Bison, as he said. Bison refused and kept the sword. Biboran promised a promotion to the acolyte who manages to score a kill, so they’ve ignited their lightsabers and charged at Bison and Drango, who was waiting for Bison outside. Biboran’s acolytes appeared to be weak and unexperienced combatants, who didn’t possessed much threat to Drango and Bison, so mandalorians easily disposed of them. Nevertheless, Ansh Biboran wasn’t like them, so he managed to knock Bison down, take the sword, and flee away with it. Bison and Drango tried to follow him, but they were no match to the dark jedi, who knew Force Speed technique. Bison and Drango came back to Biboran’s acolytes corpses and tried to find any clues about who they are and where to search. Luckily, they’ve found tiny holocrons among them, which were the only thread, that could lead to Biboran and the sword.
So, Bison and Drango headed back to Podgon with empty hands. As they arrived, Podgon was talking to Opatia again. This time he offered her an evidence against Angelo, which she willingly bought and expressed her gratitude to Podgon for the information he provided from his reliable sources “within Empire”. As she left, Drango and Bison approached Podgon to report, that some sort of religious fanatics outsmarted them and took the sword. Podgon said, that no sword means no payment and told them to investigate, where it is now.

#### **Fuel-burning investigation**

Bison came to most bizarre idea I could possibly imagine: he decided to descend back to Darth Nitup and ask him, where the sword is now. They flied all the way back to Korriban, fought their way through insects again, descended downstairs to the tomb, met Darth Nitup, who luckily had no intentions to kill Bison this time, and asked him for his help. All he could say about swords whereabouts is the fact it is definitely not on Korriban. He didn’t wanted to answer any further questions and demanded them to get out. That’s what Bison and Drango did. On their way back to the ship Bison and Drango decided to bring tiny holocrons they’ve got from dead bodies to Opatia and ask her to help them with reading it. So they’ve they’ve flied all the way back to Nar Shadaa to meet her.

#### **Spy games**

As always, Opatia demanded them to do a favor first: she passed them an ID card and document signed by Angelo. It was about prisoners transfer from Corellia. She asked one of the mercenaries to come with it to Galun Lagan, find out, where Angelo and Galun usually transferred prisoners before, take the prisoners to their ship and transfer them to her on Nar Shadaa. As always, she asked not to kill anybody.
Crew headed to Corellia. Again, it was Bison who was gonna go alone. Gatekeepers at the building were confused when they saw a mandalorian approaching. They demanded him to show his ID, and it was fine after they double-checked it. Being a bit confused, they let Bison in. Bison recognized this place since he was there before during times of UFP, so he had no problems finding prison block. He entered the elevator and had a talk with 2 soldiers there. They’ve mentioned that Republic is developing some medicament and call it Project “Eternity”.
When Bison arrived to his floor, he left an elevator and heard guards talking about intruded alert. Bison was paranoid, that ID card Opatia provided caused this, so he sneakily swapped it with another soldier here. But he didn’t knew, that this alert was actually caused by another notorious trouble makers, the DF-42 squad, who entered this facility shortly after him. Soldiers approached him and demanded him to show ID, but everything was fine with it. Bison entered prison block and passed the transfer order to Galun Lagan. Galun Lagan appeared to be in share with Angelo in his slave-trading scheme, and showed Bison, where to deliver the “package”: to Hutta, where one of the Gachi’s base was. He also already knew about Bison, since Angelo told him about capable mercenaries, who did the dirty job for him. Bison asked, how he should handle with jedi, but Galun noted that they have ysalicollars, that inhibit their connection to the Force. The same ysalicollars, that Bison saw at Angelo and in Gachi Slavers basement. Galun Lagan asked Bison to fill some paper work before transfer, but Bison paid him some credits, so Galun willingly commenced to fill it himself and asked Bison to wait for a bit.
He also asked, if he can help with with intruder situation in facility, Bison agreed to help, but didn’t do a thing about it, genuinely thinking, that he is actually the one, who is intruder right now. Instead, he went outside the facility and visited a small cafe nearby. He offered a tip to bartender and asked, if he heard something interesting around. Bartender told him, that some drunken officers mentioned some Project “Eternity”, what is appeared to be a combat stimulator that develops in high secrecy. After a while Bison went back to prison block only to find out, that prisoners are being transferred to his ship already. Bison came back to his ship, where convoy with prisoners just arrived, asked Galun to get prisoners inside and stun them all.

#### **Mean mercenaries**

Mean mercenaries
Bison and Drango headed back to Nar Shadaa with 5 jedi prisoners that been “stolen” from Corellia. As she promised, Opatia opened 3 small holocrons for them, that appeared to be just a map that leads somewhere on Orinda. Bison tried to bargain and said, that he will let free only 3 of jedi, since there were only 3 maps to open, leaving other 2 jedi as a payment for further services.
Jedi, that were already free, were pissed off and were about to attack Bison and Drango for such a mean attitude, tho, surprisingly, they were stopped by Opatia who agreed on this terms for a promise, that jedi wouldn’t be killed, starved, sold to slavery, or given to imperials or republicans.

#### **Dark Renegades**

After that mandalorians headed to Orinda, to location marked on the map. They found themselves in a ruined village that seemed to be abandoned. Though, there still was one settler: an old man, who was sitting in his hut eating fried lizards on a sticks. He told Bison and Drango, that this settlement was ravaged during the war with the droids, and few settlers, who remained alive after that, left this place. The only company he had from this time were strangely looking sketchy monks, who passed by from time to time. Drango and Bison quickly understood, that this “monks” are most likely the ones, who stole the sword on Korriban from them, and asked the old man to show them, where they can find this monks. Old man explained, that monks are usually go to or from cave, which is protected by unpassable barrier that monks conjured when they arrived, and he can’t pass through it. Bison and Drango tried to do it themselves, but they could not pass the barrier either. They decided to hide in the bushes and wait for “monks” to show up. Within a few hours one actually stepped out from the cave, “opened” the barrier and passed through it. Bison and Drango tried to kill him silently, but he spotted them, turned on his lightsaber, and engaged a fight. While mandalorians were fighting dark jedi, barrier “closed”. Bison took a robe from a dead “monk” to use it as disguise and proposed to wait some more to come. Drango wasn’t happy about this and wanted to leave this stolen sword from Korriban be, but Bison changed his mind. Shortly after, a few more dark jedi appeared searching for the one that was missing. This time mandalorians were acting swiftly and managed pass through the barrier before it closed.
Cave led to the abandoned temple somewhere in the mountains. While outside, Bison and Drango could easily stay in the shadows and silently dispose of dark jedi one by one. Once inside, though, they couldn’t remain hidden and were forced to fight their way through. Dark jedi thought it is republican strike force that found their hideout, so their leader Ansh Biboran faced the intruders and tried to surrender. But once he saw Drango and Bison, he recognized them and understood that they are not republicans. He said that he can give the sword he took from them on Korriban back, since Dark Renegades already achieved their goal and he had no need for it anymore. As a gesture of good will, he agreed to lay down his weapon and welcomed Drango and Bison inside the temple, while other renegades were quickly packing their things to leave the compromised hideout. Ansh warned mandalorians, that this is not just a sword, and it may possess a great threat to whoever has it. After that he passed a sword to them and got shot.
Finally, they obtained what Tahori wanted so much and could go to Podgon for their reward.

#### **Espionage and conspiracy**

Once Drango and Bison gave a sword to Podgon, they received a message from Opatia, who wanted to meet them at Orinda as soon as possible. They saw her at the People’s Court of Orinda session, where judge was stated the last sentence to the Angelo for all his deeds: lifetime imprisonment. After the court session ended and Angelo was escorted to the ship that was heading prison, people started to walk away, Opatia hurried somewhere, and mandalorians followed her. Once she made sure, that nobody is following or listening to them, she explained that she wants mandalorians to head to Balmorra to retrieve something related to project “Eternity” from the house of republican scientist named dr. Nyong, who was missing for quite a long time. As always, she demanded them to avoid unnecessary violence, and paid them in advance, expecting the job to be done. Mandalorians accepted it.
When they arrived to Balmorra, they were stopped by republican security forces, who were expecting imperial agents to arrive, so republicans asked mandalorians to fill some papers and let them examine a transponder on their ship, so Bison headed to the dr. Nyong’s house alone, while Drango was busy with republican laws and formalities.
When Bison arrived to Nyong’s house, the front door was opened, and republican soldiers who were guarding this place were shot. He heard somebody upstairs talking. It seems, somebody, who they referred to as “blue guy” hired them to retrieve the serum for him. It seemed, serum was the thing that Opatia wanted to retrieve as well, so Bison attacked the mercenaries in order to take the serum. Bison managed to kill the mercenaries, but happen to miss a knife hit between armor plates, which cause him to feel weaker and bleed. Bison took a briefcase with serum and hurried back to his ship, bleeding hard and feeling weaker and weaker with every step. Luckily for him, streets of Balmorra were mostly empty, so he had no problems with republican security.
But as soon as he reached Drango’s ship, his luck ran out: he was caught by DF-42, there were no security around, and he felt to weak to oppose. DF-42 blamed him for believing lies of the Republic, and told him he has no idea, who he is working for. In exchange, Bison noted that DF-42 are definitely not better, and nothing, but imperials. DF-42 stunned Bison with a blaster, took a briefcase, and ran away before somebody could spot them. A few minutes passed, Drango arrived back to his ship after doing paperwork, and saw Bison laying on the ground and bleeding. Bison explained him, what happened, so Drango quickly thrown Bison to the ship and rushed to the cockpit in order to catch DF-42 before it’s too late and collect a bounty for Gregglen Makaro’s head, so Bison had to treat his wounds by himself. They entered the orbit, and within a few minutes they found DF-42 ship and managed to get closer to it. Bison send them a message “Keppa the Hutt sends his regards” and mandalorian ship opened fire on imperials. Luckily for DF-42, there were 2 republican X-Wings patrolling nearby, so they’ve attacked mandalorians and demanded them to land on Balmorra and proceed to the custody for violating the law. Drango quickly set a course to Nar Shadaa and they’ve jumped away, failed to shoot DF-42 ship down.

#### **A lesson to learn**

Bison and Drango arrived to Nar Shadaa to meet Opatia and report about their progress on their mission. Since it was not really progress, but more of a failure, Drango was pissed off and blamed Bison for this. They argued about what happen, but in the end Drango just flew away, leaving Bison to report completely alone. Opatia showed up. She wasn’t happy about what happened and demanded some explanation from Bison. She didn’t seem to care much about the serum, but she had questions about dead bodies in Nyong’s house and shooting on the planet orbit. Bison explained what happen, told her that it wasn’t his fault, and told her about other mercenaries, who were hired by somebody else to retrieve the serum. Then she blamed him for shooting the ship on the planet’s orbit and asked, how does it feel to shoot his friends, and Bison said it’s completely fine. After a short pause, Opatia pointed out, that Bison took a payment in advance and violated both terms of their agreement: caused unnecessary violence and missed the serum, which is, according to unwritten rules of criminal society, must be punished. Instead of traditional ways of punishment, though, she offered Bison to head to the Dagobah, bring 2 remaining jedi on his ship to the Val Tor’s jedi refuge, and stay there for some time, breath fresh air, enjoy the Dagobah nature, and think about his life, priorities, and views.
Bison headed to Drango to say “goodbye”, and then went to his ship to set a course to Dagobah, leaving Drango confused and unaware about what’s happening.
Val Tor met Bison and 2 jedi at his refuge. This time Val Tor was not alone, but surrounded with dozens of jedi, some of which were looking familiar to Bison. Val Tor greeted Bison, and invited him to be their guest. Val Tor showed Bison the place, where he will be sleeping while staying there.
Bison spent almost a month in the jedi refuge, being taught by wise Val Tor to control his emotions, deal with the bitter losses of the past, behave himself, and deal with the problems in a good way. Within the time Bison was on Dagobah, Val Tor convinced Bison to reconsider his priorities. After his unplanned vacation Bison Wesley become completely different person. During his last day on Dagobah, Wesley given his collection of trophy lightsabers to the refuge. In return, Val Tor gave him a purple lightsaber crystal. The one, that Bison gave to him during their first meeting on Dagobah. The one, that once belonged to Claire. As Val Tor said, “she wanted you to keep it, not me”.

#### **The shadow broker**

Wesley headed back to Nar Shadaa. He headed to the nearest bar to have a drink. He saw Drango there, he was talking to some thugs about criminal business. Once Drango spotted Wesley, he greeted him and told that he just got some good contract, but Wesley refused to join him, saying that he is not doing the work like this anymore. Drango was pissed off and confused about Wesley’s decision and let him be. After Wesley finished his drink, he headed back to the ship and found out, that Podgon was looking for him when he was at Dagobah. Wesley decided to give him a visit and went to “Hellhole”, where Podgon usually hangs out.
Wesley saw depressed Podgon drinking alone at the bar counter, accompanied by knocked back gangsters all over the bar. Wesley asked, why he was looking for him and Podgon answered that some mandalorian in white armor came here lately, searching for Wesley. Wesley was intrigued and eager to see this mandalorian, hoping that he can point him to the tribe’s hideout. Sadly, mandalorian left long ago and Podgon didn’t knew where he is anymore. After that Podgon told him that he wants to quit this business. Wesley asked, why, so Podgon shared his story with Wesley. He told him how DF-42 lost Prolon during their visit on Nar Shadaa, how Prolon trapped in his own hands and how much valuable information from imperial databases Prolon contained. Podgon told that he decided to keep this data for himself in order to make maximum profit from it. He decided to sell it piece by piece to Opatia, who was representative of the Republic. And one day he sold DF-42 cyphers to her. He told Wesley that their common friend is part of this squad, and now he is worried, that jedi actually got to him and killed him, and it was just not right to sell friends like this. Then he told that mysterious people in black came after him and demanded him to stop spreading information that is not meant to be shared to anyone and took Prolon. Podgon concluded, that this work corrupts him, doing him nothing better than mr.Tahori himself, and putting him to a great risks. Feeling that Wesley is getting tired of his stories, Podgon asked, if he is up to some more work. Wesley wanted to refuse, but after a short pause, he agreed to take this contract in exchange for white mandalorian whereabouts. Podgon promised to do whatever he can, and Wesley proceeded to his next mission.

#### **Redemption**

Wesley’s next target was a woman, who rented a room in one of the Coruscant’s hotel. Wesley headed there, found receptionist droid, and asked, if he can visit a resident in a room 407. In response, receptionist said, “Mrs. Tahori is not accepting guests at the moment”. This caused a big confusion to Wesley. Though, in order to get the answers, he should find a way to get inside. He asked one of the residents to let him in because receptionist droid seems to be malfunctioning and doesn’t let him in. Resident agreed and opened elevator with his ID card. Once inside, Wesley headed to the 4th floor, found room 407, and knocked on the door. Once the door opened, he stunned a woman who appeared in the doorway, took the pistol she had, and tied her to the chair. Once she woke up, Wesley started to question her, who is she and why Tahori wants her dead and what is it all about. She told that she is Erzebet Tahori, mr. Tahori’s wife and she escaped from him after their daughter did the same because Tahoi is a mad man, and life with him is unbearable. Wesley asked, where Mr.Tahori himself lives. Erzebet Tahori told that Mr. Tahori lived in a tower in the abandoned area of Nar Shadaa. However, she couldn’t tell the exact location, since she escaped in a cargo hold of the ship, that his droids used to travel to the living part of Nar Shadaa from time to time. Wesley decided not to kill her and promised to get her into the safest place in the Galaxy: to Zakuul.
Wesley untied her, told her to pack her things up, and get a move on, paying her rent on their way out. Wesley brought her to his ship and flew to Zakuul. Upon arrival, he asked security forces in the docks to send a message to Overseer that mr. Jozcowicz wants his audience. While waiting for Overseer to respond, Wesley and Erzebet killed some time walking around Zakuul, visiting cafe, and looking for a room to rent, since Overseer could respond for very long time. After quite some time, imperial officer came to them and asked them to follow. He brought them to Overseer Dman himself. Wesley asked Dman to provide a shelter to Erzebet, since her life was in great danger. Dman noted, that Wesley has pretty much accusations in violating the imperial law. Yet, for some reason, he agreed to help him and temporary close his eyes on that. In return, he expected Wesley to redeem his guilt before Empire with some other ways that imprisonment, when the right time comes.

#### **Goodbye, old friend**

Wesley headed back to Nar Shadaa for his reward. On his way back he received a message from Podgon. He warned Wesley that he is in danger and shouldn’t land at public docks by any means and sent coordinates of his private secret landing pad near the “Hellhole”. Wesley followed his advice and proceeded to Podgon’s landing pad. Podgon told Wesley that Tahori somehow found out that Wesley didn’t killed his target and placed a solid bounty on Wesley’s head for it. Bounty hunters and mercenaries across entire Cartel now were searching for him. The only way to get rid of it was to kill mr. Tahori himself. It seemed impossible for Wesley to do it, but Podgon knew one way to actually find Tahori’s location. He explained, that his safe in the “Hellhole” is not just a safe, but a teleportation device, that sends all objects inside it to Tahori, once you enter the certain combination of numbers on it, that only Podgon knew. Podgon proposed to put a tracking beacon inside it and send it to Tahori’s hideout. Wesley agreed for it, and Podgon headed towards the “Hellhole” with a tracking beacon. Within a few minutes Wesley noticed that tracking beacon instantly removed from “Hellhole” to abandoned zone of Nar Shadaa. But then he heard shots coming from the “Hellhole”.
Wesley rushed to investigate, if Podgon is in trouble, and he surely was. Wesley helped Podgon to deal with Tahori’s thugs that were about to kill him. But once they headed to the exit, more thugs arrived accompanied by Drango, who came after Wesley’s head. While Podgon took thugs on him, Wesley engaged morally hard and emotional duel with his brother in arms. Conflict of their views reached it’s peak and was time to for it to reach it’s only and inevitable conclusion. After the last blaster shot marked the final accord in this confrontation, Drango fell on the ground and this was over. Perhaps, it was the first and last time, when Wesley and Drango talked to each other like brother to brother, without hiding behind the masks. Drango asked Wesley to give a promise, that he will make Drango’s name remembered and brings a fame to it and to clan Nyett. Wesley sworn to fulfill his request no matter what happens.

#### **Exclamation mark on everything that had led to this point**

Before more goons arrived, Wesley and Podgon headed back to the landing pad, where their ships were docked. Podgon refused to help Wesley to deal with Tahori, since Podgon was injured and couldn’t hold a weapon anymore. Therefore, Wesley headed to the abandoned zone all alone. Once he reached the tower, he was met by Tahori’s security droids inside, so he had nothing to do, but to fight his way through them. During the fight with the last droid, Wesley lost his jetpack. After he dealed with the droids, he entered the elevator, that brought him to the top floor of Tahori’s tower. Wesley entered his room and looked at the eyes of mad man the first time. Surprisingly, despite Tahori wasn’t that young, he appeared to be quite a skillful sword fighter. Nevertheless, Wesley managed to reach him and cut him with his blade. But it didn’t stopped Tahori, since this sword from Korriban gave him powers some consider to be unnatural, and he instantly regenerated his wounds. Wesley got more and more exhausted and injured with every minute of this duel, but Tahori didn’t, since he had a sword. Once Tahori become overconfident in his capabilities and was about to land a final concussive strike to end Wesley’s life, Wesley managed to hit Tahori’s hand with grapple, and once Tahori dropped the sword, Wesley pulled him and thrown him from the window into his final journey down to planet’s surface, and then to hell.
Once battle was over and silence reigned, Wesley heard the elevator coming to the top of the tower. Exhausted and wounded, Wesley barely stood on his feet. For whatever reasons he headed towards Tahori’s sword, that was laying on the ground. Elevator door opened, and he saw Opatia standing before him. Bison threatened her with sword and yelled to keep away from him. She told Bison that she mean to do no harm and only wants to help. Bison was hesitating, but in the end Wesley dropped the sword on the ground, and shortly after fallen on the ground as well. Using both Force and her physical capabilities, Opatia managed to bring Wesley to medical station, set a program to heal Wesley, and took down his helmet. Aside from necessary medications, she injected a small dose of dormitives to make Wesley fall asleep. She put his helmet back on his head, removed this entry about dormitives from the console, took all the artifacts that had something to do with a dark side of the Force, and left this place.
Within an hour Genoharadan agents arrived to Tahori’s tower. Wesley woke up and saw this mysterious man in black standing right before him. He congratulated Wesley with his success and invited him to have a seat to discuss their business agreement and reward. Their conversation was interrupted by one Genoharadan agent who came to report to mysterious man in black about their progress. He reported, that mr. Tahori was found dead, and the last teleportation device was found and destroyed, yet “artifacts” were not there and somebody, who followed Wesley apparently stole them. They have absolutely no idea, who this thief was, as well as no clues leading to this person, so they asked Wesley, if he saw somebody around. Wesley lied, that he has no idea, who the thief was. After that Genoharadan representative offered him his reward for neutralizing Tahori, but Wesley refused to take it. Before Wesley left, mysterious man warned Wesley, that soon it will be not safe on Nar Shadaa and recommended him to leave it for some time, not clarifying, why. After that, Wesley left. It was over.

#### **Epilogue**

Wesley headed back to Podgon’s private hangar. Unexpectedly, Podgon still didn’t left Nar Shadaa. Wesley and Podgon said goodbye to each other, Podgon told him about his plans for the future, and before their ways parted, he passed Wesley something from some miraluka, who obviously was Opatia. It was strangely looking communicator. Wesley used it and heard a heavily distorted voice. Voice apologized for injecting dormitives back then in the tower and explained that it was necessary precaution measures, but Wesley wasn’t angry for that. In fact, he thanked Opatia for doing so. In return, Opatia thanked him for doing a great service for all the galaxy and said, that both she and Val Tor think that Wesley is ready to meet his old friends from DF-42, who may soon need his help, and she is capable of organizing their meeting.
But before this meeting could happen, Wesley had one last unfinished thing to do. He headed to Awerica’s moon, Startor, to bury his fallen brother with all honors. BLU He dug a grave and put Drango’s dead body to it. Right when he finished, Von Cath'a, the Death Watch member, who was following Wesley all the way from Nar Shadaa to there, started to question Wesley, if mandalorian base is here, on Startor. Wesley answered, that he sincerely don’t know where it is, and politely asked not to interrupt him. But reckless Von Cath'a didn’t care about mandalorian honor, so he ignited his dark saber and attacked Wesley. Their fight caused pretty much noise that was heard by dozens of mandalorians, who appeared on the horizon on their jetpacks just when Wesley disarmed and knocked down Von Cath'a. Right when they saw Death Watch member, they immediately shot him. Kast Dosh, one of the mandalorians, pointed his gun and Wesley and asked, if he is with Death Watch on one side, but Eikei Rashbee interrupted him and said that Wesley is their brother and would never take Death Watch side. Then they’ve saw a grave with Drango’s helmet on top. Mandalorians honored fallen Drango and followed to their ship, inviting Wesley to join them, so he could tell uncle Nyett, how Drango died. While on the ship, Kast Dosh asked Wesley about the darksaber he took from dead Von Cath'a, and Wesley just passed it to Kast, saying that he has no need of it. Once they’ve arrived to the base, they’ve headed to uncle Nyett and Wesley told him about Drango. Nyett asked, how it happened, and Wesley answered, that Drango died in fight with honor.