Rough and Tundra
Adventure Settings and Scenarios
     for the Greater Javin
 By Craig R. Carey, Jason Fry, and Daniel Wallace
      With Special Thanks to Pablo Hidalgo
                   DESIGN                                                                            Salmakk? Clabburn?
                   CRAIG R. CAREY, JASON FRY, AND DANIEL                                                Aye, I remember them two plague wasps just fine. The
                   WALLACE                                                                           one, he was the bravest Mon Cal I ever seen. A Hoth bliz-
                                                                                                     zard’ll freeze and split an unprotected fish-man’s skin in
                   EDITING                                                                           thirty minutes, but that hardly scared old Salmakk—I seen
                   RAY AND VALERIE VALLESE                                                           him come out of his cave with a blaster in one hand and a
                                                                                                     slugthrower in the other, fair bellowin’ for us to come get
                   TYPESETTING                                                                       him if we were men enough. And after seein’ that, some of
                   NANCY WALKER                                                                      us found we weren’t. Ain’t heard his name in years, and
                                                                                                     that’s fine by me.
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                                                                                                        But Clabburn? Made Salmakk look like an Alderaanian
                   JULIA MARTIN                                                                      peace delegate. Plain mean—even for a Mugaari. Used to
                                                                                                     tell his pirates to take as many captives alive as they
                   WEB DEVELOPMENT
                                                                                                     could. Not for ransom. For spacin’. Grim to say, but he
                   THOM BECKMAN
                                                                                                     liked to see ‘em die. He was an old bull when he took that
                   ART DIRECTION                                                                     Wolf-man cruiser years back on the Anoat, and I hear that
                   ROB RAPER                                                                         score made him a rich old bull. Rich enough to retire or
                                                                                                     hide, and if he’s still hidden, kid, best let him stay that
                   LUCAS LICENSING EDITOR                                                            way. I know you think you’re fast with a BlasTech, but
                   JANE IRENE KELLY                                                                  every young gun thinks that. Findin’ Clabburn’s likely to
                                                                                                     be the last mistake you ever make.
                   STAR WARS RPG DESIGN MANAGER                                                                  – Fenn Gilbrantes, Yarith Sector Ranger (retired)
                   CHRIS PERKINS
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                                  Any similarity to actual people, organizations, places,
                                                                                                     Darlyn Boda has it that both pirates are back—and what’s
                                              or events is purely coincidental.
                                                                                                     worse, they’ve joined forces.
                                                                                                        While it may not be the Azure sector, the Greater Javin’s
                                                                                                     hardly outlaw territory these days, and that’s the way the
                                                                                                     captains of industry on Gerrenthum like it. War between
                                                                                                     Rebel gunboats and Imperial Star Destroyers was bad
                            www.wizards.com                        www.starwars.com                  enough; lurid tales of rampaging pirates could scare
                                                                                                     merchant ships off the outer Spine entirely. Big money and
                                                                                                     bigger fame awaits any who track the pirates to their
                                                                                                     hidden base and bring them back alive for incarceration on
                                                                                                                                  003
                                                                                                                                  ROUGH AND TUNDRA
Tol Ado. But the Mon Cal and the Mugaari have been                 What they want: The delivery of the pirates to FiggEx
pursued by plenty of gunmen who wanted fortune and               Security, whose best people are thought to be too well-
fame, only to win nothing but a last look down the busi-         known in the Greater Javin to tackle the task themselves.
ness end of a blaster.                                             What they will and won’t deliver: Credits and
                                                                 equipment are available up front, as are seedy contacts on
                                                                 Darlyn Boda and Gerrenthum. After that, the heroes are on
Getting the Heroes Involved                                      their own.
Any number of groups in the Greater Javin are willing to
                                                                   What the players don’t know: Plenty. FiggEx’s
pay good money to see Salmakk and Clabburn brought to
                                                                 bosses are trapped in a dangerous game (see “The Plot
justice. But that doesn’t mean those groups are working
                                                                 Revealed”) that has backfired and imperiled the firm. FiggEx
together. The Greater Javin has been a snake pit of intrigue
                                                                 Security will do anything to protect the firm’s secrets.
for decades, roiled by rivalries between the area’s four domi-
nant species (Humans, Lutrillians, Nothoiin and Mugaari),
                                                                 The Mining Guild
three different sector authorities (Yarith, Anoat and Javin)
                                                                 Concern over FiggEx’s missing transports has reached as far
and even between different factions within the vast Figg
                                                                 as this ancient trade organization’s great hall on Coruscant.
empire.
                                                                 But what began as a routine security investigation has
   The players may think such rivalries are for show. But
                                                                 become something more, with a team of the feared paramil-
spend some time and credits in Darlyn Boda or Cloud City’s
                                                                 itary agents known as Guild Enforcers setting up an office
Port Town, and the players may hear more sinister talk:
                                                                 on Darlyn Boda. One of the Enforcers’ first acts has been to
Salmakk and Clabburn know too much about a dirty deal
                                                                 hire a team of local bruisers to gather leads.
hatched in one of Gerrenthum’s gleaming towers, and some
                                                                    What they want: The delivery of the pirates, either to
would prefer that the two don’t live long enough to tell
                                                                 law enforcement officials on Isde Naha or to the Guild
tales at a trial.
                                                                 Enforcers themselves, so that a full investigation can be
   The following are five groups that might employ the
                                                                 made.
players in their pirate hunt:
                                                                    What they will and won’t deliver: Credits and
                                                                 equipment will be generously given, provided the players get
The Outer Javin Company
                                                                 results. Muscle will be provided as well if the players locate
Executives of the OJC, the publicly traded arm of the Figg
                                                                 the pirate base and the Guild Enforcers think they can
empire, have regarded the pirates’ incursions with horror.
                                                                 capture Salmakk and Clabburn. Players who inquire over-
The pirates have seized transports belonging to closely allied
                                                                 much into the Guild’s interest in the matter will find
Figg Excavations, damaging the OJC’s share price, and their
                                                                 themselves out of work and possibly eliminated.
raids have hurt the entire region’s reputation. After a top
                                                                    What the players don’t know: The Guild has long
OJC executive spent the better part of a lengthy sharehold-
                                                                 been suspicious about FiggEx’s loyalty, with Tibanna-gas
ers’ meeting on Aargau answering questions about piracy in
                                                                 mining on Bespin just one sore subject. The Guild doesn’t
the Greater Javin, the word came down: Stop the piracy,
                                                                 trust FiggEx to investigate the missing transports on its
even if it means megacredits’ worth of charges carried under
                                                                 own, and will jump at the chance to expose and embarrass
“special operations.”
                                                                 FiggEx if its suspicions prove justified.
   What they want: To stop the pirates, send them to
prison, and see an end to the bad publicity about the
                                                                 The Empire
Greater Javin.
                                                                 The Empire exists to maintain order in the galaxy, and
   What they will and won’t deliver: Credits and
                                                                 pirates are second only to Rebels as a threat to that order—
equipment won’t be a problem, provided the heroes make
                                                                 particularly in a region of space that recently housed a vital
progress and don’t associate the OJC with public failures or
                                                                 Rebel base. (In a non-Imperial era, the Old/New Republic or
dirty deeds. Embarrass headquarters, and the firm will aban-
                                                                 Yarith Sector Rangers can play this role.)
don the players and develop a sudden case of corporate
                                                                    What they want: Deliver the pirates to Imperial
amnesia about their doings.
                                                                 authorities on Javin for questioning. Find out if any of the
   What the players don’t know: The OJC is on the up
                                                                 rumors about who’s backing them are true.
and up—it’s a cleanly run firm whose executives are
                                                                    What they will and won’t deliver: Credits and
genuinely angry and worried. However, the OJC doesn’t
                                                                 equipment are available initially. If the players find the
know what its corporate cousin FiggEx is up to.
                                                                 pirates’ nest, starships and stormtroopers can be sent in.
                                                                 Players who fail or ask too many questions may find out
Figg Excavations
                                                                 there are plenty of cells on Tol Ado.
This privately held arm of the Figg empire concerns itself
                                                                    What the players don’t know: The Empire wants
with the extraction, transport, and refinement of raw ores.
                                                                 the pirates stopped and, if possible, wants to know what’s
The pirates have seized a number of rawmat transports that
                                                                 going on. That’s that.
FiggEx leased from the Mining Guild, of which FiggEx is a
member. That’s bad for business and for the Figg name. The
                                                                 The Hutts
silksuits at OJC see it all in terms of share price, but to
                                                                 Port Town’s Hutts are furious that two lowly pirates have
FiggEx, these losses mean hard work wasted and tonnage
                                                                 disrupted smuggling operations along the Ison Corridor.
vanished—and that’s unacceptable.
                   They would like to kill Salmakk and Clabburn and seize              Gamemasters who enjoy adventures with this flavor of
                   their assets, but fear they will get nothing if the Empire, the   corporate intrigue or double-dealing should consider having
                   Mining Guild, or the Figg companies succeed in taking out         the players hired by FiggEx, or alternately drawn into
                   the pirates first.                                                FiggEx’s plot after hooking up with the firm’s security chief,
                      What they want: Kill Salmakk and Clabburn, with                the fearsome Mapes Shaywa.
                   their bodies provided as proof. The heroes must clear out
                   the pirates’ nest and provide its coordinates so that the
                   Hutts can move in with their own team.
                                                                                     The Pirates
                      What they will and won’t deliver: A substantial
                                                                                     Salmakk
                   cash payment: half up front, half on delivery. If the heroes
                                                                                     The marginally infamous pirate Salmakk was born in the
                   steal any of the pirate booty for themselves, the Hutts’
                                                                                     bowels of Morjanssik City, a runt left to the gorshan feeders.
                   punishment will be swift.
                                                                                     Despite those odds, Salmakk not only survived but thrived.
                      What the players don’t know: The Hutts want the
                                                                                     He soon led Boss Gurgle’s street operations throughout
                   coordinates of Salmakk and Clabburn’s base. Once they
                                                                                     much of the Quarren underworld, an outcast Mon Calamari
                   have that piece of data, they will consider the heroes
                                                                                     working with his people’s traditional rival.
                   expendable and will make no effort to help them fight the
                                                                                        Eventually, Salmakk headed for the stars, forming his own
                   pirates.
                                                                                     pirate band and finding the Ison Corridor and nearby sector
                                                                                     ripe for the pickings. A number of former (and almost trust-
                   The Plot Revealed                                                 worthy) associates in Port Town gave him the intelligence
                   “Rough and Tundra” can be played as a simple search-and-          network he needed to develop a successful operation. With
                   destroy mission for pirate nests. But a more                      continued success came the need for increased security, and
                   conspiracy-minded Gamemaster can allow players to unravel         eventually he and his growing crew settled on the sixth
                   the mystery of why two pirates thought long gone are              planet of the Hoth system.
                   suddenly back in business. Here’s the lowdown, which the             Hoth is just about the last place you’d expect to find a
                   GM may tinker with to suit his interests and the time period      Mon Calamari smuggler better suited to coral reefs and kelp
                   of the adventure:                                                 beds, which was one of the reasons Salmakk made his base
                      FiggEx’s top management has long chafed at its                 there. Given the number of CorSec, Imperial, CSA, and
                   membership in the Mining Guild and looked for a way to            private agents looking for Salmakk, Hoth was a good place
                   break with it. But it’s needed a pretext for doing so, mind-      to lay low.
                   ful of the Guild’s suspicion about operations on Bespin and          All the while, Salmakk kept abreast of galactic events. He
                   other worlds. FiggEx executives approved a secret project         learned of the price Jabba had put on Solo’s head, the
                   dreamed up by the firm’s black-ops unit: Hire pirates to hit      destruction of Alderaan, and of the Rebel victory and Yavin.
                   Greater Javin shipping, including FiggEx’s own transports,        Imagine his surprise when Solo himself appeared on Hoth a
                   and fund those pirates well enough that they seem like a          short time later!
                   genuine threat to FiggEx’s interests. FiggEx could then              After his encounter with the Rebels, Salmakk and his crew
                   “seek protection” by arranging to be acquired by the Anoat        spent nearly two standard days digging themselves out of
                   sector government (dominated by Figg money, anyway),              the cave-in Solo and Skywalker created to trap them. Once
                   allowing it to leave the Guild.                                   free, he and his crew fled the Hoth system for good, but not
004                   Unfortunately, the plan succeeded too well. A FiggEx           the sector. And when the legendary Mugaari pirate
                   operative dispatched to Darlyn Boda made a contact who            Clabburn contacted him as a potential partner, he knew
                   succeeded all too well, recruiting two genuinely dangerous        lady luck was still on his side.
                   pirates—ones whose reappearance in the Greater Javin
                   raised alarms all the way to Coruscant. First, the OJC            Salmakk: Male Mon Calamari Scoundrel 8/Soldier 4; Init
                   stepped in to meddle. Then the Mining Guild dispatched            +6; Defense 22 (+10 class, +2 Dex); Spd 10 m; VP/WP
                   its feared Enforcers. And now the Empire is involved.             77/11; Atk +11/+6 melee (2d6+1, vibroblade), +12/+7
                   FiggEx executives still have some hope that the original          ranged (3d8, heavy blaster pistol); SQ amphibious, illicit
                   plan might succeed, but more than anything else, they             barter, low-light vision, lucky 2/day, natural astrogator,
                   want Salmakk and Clabburn (as well as the other opera-            precise attack +1, sector familiarity x2, uncanny dodge; SV
                   tives) delivered into their hands in order to arrange their       Fort +7, Ref +9, Will +2; FP 0; DSP 2; Rep +6; Str 12, Dex
ROUGH AND TUNDRA
                   disappearances.                                                   15, Con 8, Int 14, Wis 10, Cha 10. Challenge Code F.
                      If the players capture the pirates, they may be startled to       Equipment: Vibroblade, heavy blaster pistol, freighter
                   find that the adventure isn’t over. FiggEx Security will do       (Salted Wound).
                   anything to ensure that the two are delivered to                     Skills: Appraise +6, Astrogate +10, Bluff +14, Computer
                   Gerrenthum and then silenced. The OJC wants them taken            Use +13, Demolitions +10, Disable Device +13, Gather
                   to Gerrenthum as well, but for a trial. The Guild Enforcers       Information+20, Hide +10, Intimidate +13, Move Silently
                   want them taken to Isde Naha for questioning, and the             +10, Pilot +17, Read/Write Mon Calamarian, Read/Write Mon
                   Empire plans to torture the pirates in an interrogation cell      Calamarian Blink Code, Repair +13, Search +13, Spot +13.
                   on Javin. The players could find themselves in considerable          Feats: Armor Proficiencies (light, medium, heavy),
                   danger, particularly if FiggEx Security suspects that they        Improved Initiative, Infamy, Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot,
                   know too much.                                                    Quick Draw, Skill Emphasis (Gather Information), Skill
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Emphasis (Intimidate), Spacer, Starship Operation (Space
                                                                                   THE TRUTH ABOUT CLABBURN
Transport), Weapon Group Proficiency (blaster pistols,
blaster rifles, heavy weapons, simple weapons, slugthrowers,
vibro weapons).                                                      Casefile: UCL Malachite Scent
                                                                     Originator: Alvor Cano, Iotran Braceman Council
Clabburn
The Mugaari pirate Clabburn was once the most feared of              The legend of Clabburn spans several decades during the decline of
the rogue spacers in the Greater Javin. He has been out of           the Old Republic. Once feared throughout what was then the Anoat
sight for decades, but for the fairly long-lived Mugaari,            Sector, his legend has grown in the years since he disappeared with
twenty-odd years isn’t so long to wait. While Clabburn’s             the vaunted stores of the Malachite Scent, a Shistavanen cruiser
legend is still intact, the heat from his last score—a royal         lost along the now-defunct Anoat trade corridor.
Shistavanen cruiser loaded with more riches than even                    Easily the greatest score of Clabburn’s career, the Scent was
Clabburn had ever imagined—has faded. Now is the perfect             laden with some of the greatest treasures of the Uvena systems
time to begin a new career in the Greater Javin . . . and            and outlying regions. The cruiser’s crew was herded into escape
beyond.                                                              pods and jettisoned, which led many to believe the hijacking was
   For his first score within the region, Clabburn has teamed        not the work of Clabburn at all: The Mugaari pirate typically made
up with the Mon Cal pirate Salmakk, who had been making              a point of spacing his victims. The move was indeed intended to
a profitable career along the same spacelanes Clabburn once          throw the local Sector Rangers off the track, but a surviving
haunted.                                                             astromech droid was able to record a few moments of holo
   Clabburn looks somewhat different than he did in holos            footage and confirm Clabburn’s complicity.
taken twenty years ago. Always intimidating, his face is now             After the Malachite Scent disappeared, so did Clabburn.
heavily scarred, and he is missing the lower half of his left        Investigators searched for signs of either the Shistavanen cruiser
arm. Given that the last time Clabburn was seen alive he             or its Mugaari captors without success. Wherever Clabburn and
was rather attractive (by Mugaari standards, anyway) and             his crew had gone, they were far from the reach of the law, enjoy-
had both arms, it is theorized that he suffered some griev-          ing the spoils of the Scent’s holds.
ous injuries during his years in hiding.                                 Though only a handful of beings know it, the Mugaari raider
                                                                     currently allied with Salmakk is the eldest son of the original
Clabburn the Younger: Male Mugaari Scoundrel 12;                     Clabburn, a new breed of pirate born into the life and with the
Init +6; Defense 21 (+10 class, +1 Dex); Spd 10 m; VP/WP             resources his father established over the decades of pillaging and
82/14; Atk +11/+6 melee (1d6+2, club), +13/+8 ranged                 illicit income. The second-generation Clabburn has led a much
(3d8, heavy blaster pistol); SQ illicit barter, hyperjump sense,     rougher life and has the scars to prove it (were he not so scarred,
lucky 2/day, natural astrogator, precise attack +2, sector           he would look exactly like his father). Where the elder Clabburn
familiarity x4, uncanny dodge; SV Fort +7, Ref +9, Will +3;          is hiding, if he is still alive, remains a mystery. But it is clear that
FP 0; DSP 3; Rep +8*; Str 15, Dex 13, Con 14, Int 10, Wis            Clabburn the Younger is determined to match—if not exceed—his
9, Cha 11. Challenge Code F.                                         father’s legacy. The current spate of daring raids appears to be
   Equipment: Heavy blaster pistol, club, space transport            only the beginning.
(Broken Jaw).
   Skills: Astrogate +8, Bluff +16, Computer Use +5,
                                                                   of the 30 or so thugs serving the pirate captains are from
Demolitions +10, Disable Device +10, Gather Information
                                                                   Clabburn the Elder’s reign; those members are now trusted
+20, Hide +10, Intimidate +21, Knowledge (streetwise) +7,
                                                                   lieutenants and advisors and do not typically see combat.
Knowledge (Greater Javin) +10, Pilot +17, Read/Write
                                                                      For a crew member of the Broken Jaw or a
Mugaar, Repair +13, Search +15, Speak Dosh, Speak
                                                                   Salmakk/Clabburn lackey, use the stats for mid-level pirates
Huttese, Speak Mugaar, Spot +15, Tumble +6.
                                                                   from Chapter 14 of the Star Wars Roleplaying Game
   Feats: Ambidexterity,** Armor Proficiencies (light,
                                                                   revised core rulebook, with a handful of high-level pirates
medium, heavy), Improved Initiative, Infamy, Point Blank
                                                                   thrown in.
Shot, Quick Draw, Spacer, Skill Emphasis (Intimidate),
Starship Dodge, Starship Operation (Space Transport),
                                                                   Broken Jaw
Weapon Group Proficiency (blaster pistols, simple weapons),
                                                                   Clabburn the Younger’s flagship, the converted Sentinel-
Zero-G Training.
                                                                   class cruiser Broken Jaw, serves as the mobile base for his
* Note: Clabburn the Younger’s Rep score reflects most
                                                                   and Salmakk’s joint ventures. Most of the helm operations
peoples’ assumption he is the true Clabburn.
                                                                   are conducted by Salmakk’s more space-capable Mon Cal
** Note: Though ambidextrous, Clabburn the Younger
                                                                   piloting crew (use the mid-level smuggler stats from the
suffers a –2 penalty for any actions requiring both hands
                                                                   revised core rulebook). The Broken Jaw does not carry any
due to his missing lower right arm.
                                                                   craft (all of the group’s attack and pillage craft are hyper-
                                                                   space-capable), though Salmakk’s personal freighter, the
The New Crew
                                                                   Salted Wound, is stored in a specially designed hangar.
Most of the crew under Salmakk’s and Clabburn’s command
                                                                   Though not exceptionally fast or heavily armed, the Broken
are hired muscle, but they are loyal. Those formerly of
                                                                   Jaw does benefit from modest armament and the constant
Salmakk’s small crew are less vicious than those originally
                                                                   company of half a dozen TIE- or Y-Uglies.
from the Mugaari clan, though everyone aboard the Broken
Jaw has some darkness in his or her soul. Only four or five
                   Broken Jaw (modified Koensayr IrizMark-8                              persuaded to come up with a list of likely hiding places.
                   Sentinel military cruiser)                                              To up the ante, the Gamemaster should have Nogo killed
                   Class: Space transport         Crew: 6 (Normal +2)                    by FiggEx thugs soon after the players contact him. Perhaps
                   Size: Medium (77 m long)       Initiative: +2 (+2 crew)               he stammers out a last clue, along with a warning: “Follow
                   Hyperdrive: x1 (backup x12) Maneuver: +2 (+2 crew)                    the credits . . . but beware. Beware Barseth Gynes . . .”
                   Passengers: 40                 Defense: 25 (+15 armor)
                   Cargo Capacity:                Shield Points: 90 (DR 15)              Nogo Sistek: Male Human Scout 6/Deep-Space Pilot 2;
                     8,000 metric tons                                                   Init +5; Defense 18 (+18 class); Spd 10 m; VP/WP 29/11;
                   Consumables: 6 months          Hull Points: 200 (DR 15)               Atk +4 melee (2d6, vibroblade), +5 ranged (3d8, heavy
                   Cost: Not available for sale                                          blaster pistol); SQ natural astrogator, sector familiarity
                   Maximum Speed in Space: Attack (7 squares/action)                     (Outer Rim), trailblaze, uncanny dodge; SV Fort +6, Ref +3,
                   Atmospheric Speed: 900 km/h (15 squares/action)                       Will +4; FP 0; DSP 0; Rep +4; Str 8, Dex 11, Con 11, Int 14,
                     Weapon: Heavy ion cannons (2 fire-linked); Fire Arc:                Wis 12, Cha 8. Challenge Code D.
                   Front; Attack Bonus: +5 (+1 size, +2 crew, +2 fire control);             Equipment: Vibroblade, heavy blaster pistol.
                   Damage: Special; Range Modifiers: PB +0, S –2, M/L n/a.                  Skills: Astrogate +15, Computer Use +15 (+17 scan news
                     Weapon: Assault laser cannon (2 fire-linked); Fire Arc:             media), Forgery +7, Gather Information +4, Hide +8,
                   Turret; Attack Bonus: +13 (+1 size; +4 crew, +8 fire                  Knowledge (Greater Javin) +13, Pilot +15, Read/Write
                   control); Damage: 8d10+2; Range Modifiers: PB +0,                     Lutrillian, Read/Write Notho, Repair +15 (+17 computers),
                   S –2, ML n/a.                                                         Sign Notho, Speak Lutrillian.
                     Weapon: Tractor beams (2); Fire Arc: Front/Rear;                       Feats: Gearhead, Spacer, Starship Operation (Space
                   Attack Bonus: +7 (+1 size, +2 crew, +2 fire control);                 Transport), Weapon Group Proficiency (blaster pistols,
                   Damage: Special; Range Modifiers: PB +0, S +0, M/L n/a.               simple weapons, vibro weapons).
                                                                                         Fannis Gult
                   Greater Javin Contacts                                                Mining Guild lifers like to say that their hearts pump liquid
                                                                                         havod, and Fannis Gult certainly fits the bill. An imperious
                   Nogo Sistek
                                                                                         woman from Coruscant with a steel-gray buzz cut and hard
                   This hard-bitten Corellian knows countless boltholes and
                                                                                         eyes, Gult is a veteran Guild Enforcer determined to find out
                   hideaways in the Greater Javin, as well as thousands of the
                                                                                         where the missing rawmat transports have gone and who
                   dreamers and fugitives who’ve sought refuge in them. If you
                                                                                         took them. Fannis has a squad of lesser Enforcers, a team of
                   want someone hidden—or found—Nogo’s the man to see.
                                                                                         slicers, and virtually unlimited credits at her disposal, but
                   And he plays by his own eccentric rules: Strike a deal with
                                                                                         what she doesn’t have is a feel for the Greater Javin. After
                   Nogo, and you also buy six months of his silence. But after
                                                                                         several false starts in her investigation, she’s reluctantly
                   that, credits talk, and so does Nogo.
                                                                                         decided to enlist local help, but her impatience will soon
                      The heroes will be encouraged to seek out Nogo early,
                                                                                         lead her away from Isde Naha and into the heart of the
                   but he’s a hard man to track down. Normally found within
                                                                                         investigation.
                   Pepper’s Pax on Darlyn Boda, the famous fixer has gone
                                                                                            Gult has an entire datapad of information about FiggEx
                   into hiding. (Perhaps he’s in Port Town, holed up on Hoth,
                                                                                         and its suspected misdeeds, and she’ll jump at any chance
                   or vanished into Darlyn Boda’s jungles. A haruspex reading
                                                                                         to link the firm with the trouble in the region. Her particular
006                could be helpful in finding him.) When the players do locate
                                                                                         obsession is FiggEx’s rumored “black ops” program and the
                   him, he’s terrified; a deal’s gone bad, and Nogo’s in the
                                                                                         role FiggEx Security might play in such schemes. In tracing
                   soup. The players can try to threaten, bluff, or sweet-talk
                                                                                         financial transactions in the Greater Javin, her slicers keep
                   Nogo into breaking his rule and revealing his secret: He dug
                                                                                         stumbling across one name: Barseth Gynes. Gult is quickly
                   up Salmakk and Clabburn at the request of a slumming silk-
                                                                                         becoming obsessed with putting a face to that name.
                   suit who said he worked for one Barseth Gynes, and then
                                                                                            Gult is assisted by 24 Guild Enforcers: eight low-level
                   funneled credits to the pirates to get them back in busi-
                                                                                         spies and 16 mid-level thugs. (For stats, refer to Chapter 14
                   ness—millions of credits. Nogo doesn’t know who Barseth
                                                                                         of the revised core rulebook.)
                   Gynes is or where the pirates are, though he may be
                                                                                         Fannis Gult: Female Human Scoundrel 5/Soldier 5; Init
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                                   EXPANDING THE ADVENTURE                               +5; Defense 20 (+9 class, +1 Dex) or 25 (+9 class, +1 Dex,
                                                                                         +4 armor); Spd 10 m; VP/WP 44/11; Atk +8/+3 melee (1d6
                                                                                         stunning, stun baton), +9/+4 ranged (3d8, heavy blaster
                     There is an old adage among pirates who are forced to “go           pistol); SQ illicit barter, lucky 1/day, precise attack +1; SV
                     belowdecks”: The greatest trick the Sith ever played was convinc-   Fort +5, Ref +6, Will +3; FP 0; DSP 1; Rep +4; Str 10, Dex
                     ing the Jedi Council that they no longer existed. After the         13, Con 11, Int 14, Wis 12, Cha 10. Challenge Code E.
                     Malachite Scent score, Clabburn vanished, and the current              Equipment: Heavy blaster pistol, stun baton, combat
                     Clabburn—though supremely qualified to take his father’s place—     jumpsuit, comlink, datapad.
                     isn’t the Clabburn of legend.                                          Skills: Bluff +16, Computer Use +13 (+15 scan news
                        Clabburn the Elder has dropped so far off the map that many      media), Disguise +9, Gather Information +11, Intimidate
                     take him for dead. Is that true, or part of the Mugaari’s plan?     +16, Knowledge (mining operations) +12, Pilot +10, Sense
                                                                                         Motive +13, Tumble +11 (+8 in armor).
                                                                                                                                            007
                                                                                                                                            ROUGH AND TUNDRA
  Feats: Armor Proficiencies (Light, Medium, Heavy),
                                                                                   EXPANDING THE ADVENTURE
Improved Initiative, Persuasive, Point Blank Shot, Skill
Emphases (Bluff, Gather Information), Trustworthy, Weapon
Group Proficiency (blaster pistols, blaster rifles, heavy           Mapes can provide a surprising endgame by helping the players
weapons, simple weapons, vibro weapons).                            capture Salmakk and Clabburn and then turning on them.
                                                                    (Perhaps the pirates have slicers of their own, and Mapes is a
Mapes Shaywa                                                        match for their sole voiceprint of Barseth Gynes.)
Mapes Shaywa doesn’t look like much—he’s blank-featured                If the players somehow turn the tables on Mapes and reveal
and plain, and he wears the flat grays and browns of a mid-         FiggEx’s plot, they may be startled to hear weeks later that the
level Mexeluine salaryman—but he is smart and fearless              security chief has been killed in a traffic mishap on Gerrenthum
under fire. He knows the Greater Javin’s corporate castles          while on the way to court. Perhaps this is true, but then again . . .
and its shadowports, and he’s equally at ease addressing a
Darlyn Boda bullyboy or a Gerrenthum executive. As a
FiggEx Security operative, Mapes has been entrusted with          throughout their territory, and custom-designing vacation
cracking the pirate ring and saving his company’s good            retreats for the most affluent beings.
name. Or so he says.                                                 Prospective clients in search of the “perfect” spot for a
   The players will likely think so: They should encounter        vacation retreat often seek Treva; her expertise in the field is
Mapes and his band of 12 security professionals (typically        virtually unmatched. She is credited with the development
Scoundrel 2/Soldier 2) early in their hunt for Salmakk and        and sale of the Tagge family’s Doaskin compound, and she
Clabburn. If Mapes senses that the players are on the             sealed the deal on Lynciro Corp’s “Master of Coins” private
pirates’ trail, he’ll be quick to offer his help and back the     resort on Togominda. Figg corporate officers are especially
offer up with credits and muscle. But Mapes is no mere            loyal to Planet Dreams because of the revenue Horme’s work
FiggEx operative. He’s secretly the chief of FiggEx Security      helps to generate in the region.
and a key member of FiggEx’s black-ops squad. His goal is
to eliminate not just Salmakk and Clabburn, but also all          Treva Horme: Female Lutrillian Diplomat 8; Init +0;
links between the pirates and the FiggEx money that he            Defense 12 (+2 class); Spd 10 m; VP/WP 0/8; Atk +3 melee
supplied under the nom de guerre of Barseth Gynes. Those          (1d3, unarmed strike), +5 ranged (3d4, hold-out blaster); SQ
links could easily include the heroes and anyone else who         none; SV Fort +1, Ref +2, Will +6; FP 0; DSP 0; Rep +4; Str
gets too close to the truth.                                      9, Dex 10, Con 8, Int 14, Wis 12, Cha 15. Challenge Code A.
                                                                     Equipment: Hold-out blaster pistol, comlink, datapad,
Mapes Shaywa: Male Human Scoundrel 8/Soldier 4; Init              general access pass (Cloud City).
+6; Defense 23 (+11 class, +2 Dex); Spd 10 m; VP/WP                  Skills: Bluff +7, Computer Use +8, Diplomacy +16,
80/12; Atk +12/+7 melee (2d6+2, vibroblade or 1d6+2,              Knowledge (Greater Javin) +14, Profession (Real Estate) +11,
unarmed), +12/+7 ranged (3d8, heavy blaster pistol); SQ           Read/Write Basic, Read/Write Lutrillian, Sense Motive +11,
illicit barter, lucky 2/day; SV Fort +7, Ref +9, Will +4; FP 0;   Speak Lutrillian, Speak Rodian.
DSP 2; Rep +4; Str 14, Dex 13, Con 12, Int 14, Wis 13, Cha           Feats: Dodge, Skill Emphasis (Diplomacy), Skill Emphasis
13. Challenge Code F.                                             (Profession [Real Estate]), Weapon Group Proficiency
    Equipment: Heavy blaster pistol, vibroblade, comlink,         (blaster pistols).
datapad.
    Skills: Bluff +15, Diplomacy +14, Disguise +14 (+16 if he     Solomahal
knows he’s observed), Gather Information +17, Intimidate          A grizzled veteran of the Clone Wars, Solomahal is now a
+18, Knowledge (Greater Javin) +15, Move Silently +15,            drifter who plies the Outer Rim. Well-known in mercenary
Read/Write Lutrillian, Read/Write Notho, Search +14, Sense        and veteran circles in the years following the Wars, by the
Motive +16, Sign Notho, Speak Lutrillian.                         Rebellion Era the old Lutrillian has outlived most of his
    Feats: Armor Proficiencies (Light, Medium, Heavy), Heroic     peers and is viewed as a rough drifter with a quick draw and
Surge, Improved Initiative, Martial Artist, Power Attack, Skill   stable piloting hand.
Emphases (Gather Information, Sense Motive), Weapon                  Solomahal bases his solo operations from Mos Eisley on
Group Proficiency (blaster pistols, blaster rifles, heavy         Tatooine (where he can avoid Imperial persecution for
weapons, simple weapons, vibro weapons).                          infractions in his freelance career), but regularly does busi-
                                                                  ness in the Greater Javin. His Republic pension has been
Treva Horme                                                       frozen and all assets confiscated, but despite that, he
The primary saleswoman for Planet Dreams, Inc., Treva             manages to make a fairly good living as a scout-for-hire.
Horme is a hard-working Lutrillian female who has become          Often, his assignments involve helping people escape
a respected member of the Cloud City business community.          Imperial or criminal enforcers.
She also serves as her firm’s executive planner, wielding a          A capable and confident father figure, Solomahal is a
great deal of clout in her industry.                              cagey and hardened veteran of the spacelanes.
   Planet Dreams’ primary business is the construction of
vacation villas in unsettled but habitable worlds throughout      Solomahal: Male Lutrillian Soldier 8/Fringer 4; Init +7 (+3
the Greater Javin (with a satellite office opening soon in the    Dex, +4 Improved Initiative); Defense 23 (+10 class, +3
Tingel Arm). The company makes a small fortune locating,          Dex); Spd 10 m; VP/WP 84/14; Atk +9/+4 melee (2d6+1
obtaining, and marketing breathtaking parcels of real estate      vibroblade), +11/+6 ranged (3d8, heavy blaster pistol);
                   SQ barter, jury-rig +2; SV Fort +9, Ref +11, Will +3; FP 0;                In the years after the Empire’s occupation of Cloud City,
                   DSP 0; Rep +8 (+5)*; Str 12, Dex 15, Con 13, Int 10, Wis 11,            Taray found employment with local private security firms,
                   Cha 14. Challenge Code F.                                               but he ultimately grew disenchanted with Cloud City’s
                      Equipment: Heavy blaster pistol, vibroblade, YV-888                  decline under Imperial captain Treece. He headed deeper
                   freighter (QuadStar).                                                   into the Greater Javin, looking for work.
                      Skills: Bluff +17, Diplomacy +12, Gather Information
                   +15, Hide +14, Intimidate +11, Knowledge (Military) +12,                Sergeant Taray: Male Nothoiin Soldier 6/Officer 2; Init
                   Knowledge (Mos Eisley underworld) +4, Listen +6, Move                   +1 (+1 Dex); Defense 12 (+2 Class); Spd 10 m; VP/WP
                   Silently +7, Pilot +10, Read/Write Durese, Read/Write                   30/10; Atk +6/+1 melee (1d6, baton), +7/+2 ranged (3d6,
                   Lutrillian, Repair +3, Search +4, Speak Durese, Speak                   blaster pistol); SQ leadership; SV Fort +6, Ref +5, Will +6;
                   Lutrillian, Speak Sullustese, Spot +7, Survival +8.                     FP 0; DSP 1; Rep +6; Str 12, Dex 14, Con 13, Int 13, Wis
                      Feats: Armor Proficiencies (light, medium, heavy),                   12, Cha 10. Challenge Code D.
                   Alertness, Fame, Leadership, Martial Artist, Point Blank Shot,             Equipment: Blaster pistol, baton, comlink, datapad.
                   Skill Emphasis (Knowledge: Military), Spring Attack, Weapon                Skills: Astrogate +7, Bluff +10, Computer Use +8,
                   Group Proficiency (blaster pistols, blaster rifles, heavy               Demolitions +7, Diplomacy +8, Gather Information +11,
                   weapons, simple weapons, vehicle weapons, vibro weapons),               Intimidate +12, Read/Write Notho, Repair +5, Pilot +7,
                   Whirlwind Attack.                                                       Sense Motive +5, Sign Notho, Speak Ugnaught, Survival +5.
                   * NOTE: Solomahal is well known during the Rise of the                     Feats: Armor Proficiencies (light, medium, heavy), Dodge,
                   Empire era, but his reputation and renown diminish consid-              Martial Arts, Mobility, Persuasive, Point Blank Shot, Skill
                   erably as the Rebellion Era continues. By the time of the               Emphasis (Gather Information), Starship Operation (Space
                   Battle of Yavin, few people have any knowledge of him.                  Transport), Weapon Group Proficiency (blaster pistols,
                                                                                           blaster rifles, heavy weapons, simple weapons, vehicle
                   Sergeant Taray                                                          weapons, vibro weapons).
                   A cunning, aging Nothoiin male, Sergeant Taray is one of a
                   handful of non-Human Wing Guards on Cloud City. Raised                  Sheryc Seka
                   in the lawless marshlands of Bavva’s Kaniti province, Taray             A competent weapons smuggler and thief, Sheryc Seka is a
                   has no qualms about breaking some of Cloud City’s laws to               tall Yarkora female with a well-earned reputation for
                   enforce the spirit of those laws. Speak ill of the baron-               “acquiring” difficult-to-find hardware. Looking for a vintage
                   administrator, and Taray will find a reason to cite you.                Trandoshan-fitted MerrSonn triple-sling Blackout? Sheryc’s
                   Speed on the Lower Ring Expressway, and you’ll spend the                the one to contact. From untraceable street models to Class
                   night in the worst brig of Port Town. He is especially harsh            4 heavy weaponry, Sheryc can get just about anything—for
                   on visitors to Cloud City—those loud and garrulous off-                 the right price.
                   worlder types who slip into the City, make a ruckus, and                   Sheryc often works with the pirate Salmakk, as the Mon
                   think they can just slip out again.                                     Cal provides her with bulk weaponry. In exchange, she
                      The more monied clients of Cloud City have filed numer-              “scrubs” his ill-gotten guns so they cannot be traced to the
                   ous complaints against the hard-bitten officer, as he cites             source. Their relationship has been mutually beneficial for
                   and detains them along with everyone else. He has no                    over a decade. When she’s not at Salmakk’s base, Sheryc
                   regard for influence or clout, but only for the safety and              hangs out on Darlyn Boda, where she keeps her ears open
                   security of his fellow citizens. During the early years of the          for people asking too many questions about her boss.
008                Rebellion Era, Taray chafed at the inefficiency and corrup-                During the New Jedi Order era, Sheryc’s refusal to cooper-
                   tion of the Wing Guard and was often derided by his                     ate with the Peace Brigade damaged her business and her
                   less-than-scrupulous co-workers.                                        underworld credibility. But the Republic needs weapons,
                                                                                           too—perhaps they’d be interested in some Ando shellcrusher
                                                                                           carbines? They just might do the trick against that pesky
                                                                                           vonduun crab armor.
                                 “WELL, LOOK AT YOU, A GENERAL!”
                                                                                           Sheryc Sheka: Female Yarkora Scoundrel 6; Init +4 (+4
                     Ask Solomahal, and he’ll deny it. Research the Imperial Archives,     Improved Initiative); Defense 18 (+8 class); Spd 10 m;
                     and they’ll refute it. But find one of the grizzled old spacers who   VP/WP 34/10; Atk +5/+10 melee (1d3+1, punch), +6/+1
ROUGH AND TUNDRA
                     remember (or better yet, served in) the Clone Wars, and they’ll       ranged (3d6, blaster pistol); SQ illicit barter, lucky 2/day,
                     tell you: That surly Lutrillian sitting in the cantina is General     precise attack +1; SV Fort +3, Ref +8, Will +4, FP 0; DSP 0;
                     Solomahal, liberator of the Wode, crusher of the Sun Guard’s 2nd      Rep +3; Str 12, Dex 10, Con 10, Int 14, Wis 13, Cha 15.
                     Regiment, and Clone Wars hero.                                        Challenge Code C.
                         A character who befriends the general and earns his trust might      Equipment: Blaster pistol, forged IDs.
                     be taken into his confidence and learn of battles and lore long          Skills: Appraise +9, Astrogate +8, Bluff +13, Computer
                     suppressed by the Empire. But with such a find comes the danger       Use +6, Craft (Mechanical Tools) +4, Craft (Personal
                     of being associated with one of the Empire’s Most Wanted, a           Weapons) +4, Diplomacy +6, Forgery +11, Gather
                     being not only hiding from Palpatine’s troops, but also from          Information +14, Hide +6, Knowledge (Weapons) +13,
                     scores of hunters dispatched by influential Core families. What       Knowledge (Customs laws) +6, Knowledge (Streetwise) +7,
                     secret does Solomahal hold that so many wish him dead?                Listen +5, Pilot +9, Read/Wrote Yarkora, Repair +9, Sense
                                                                                           Motive +6, Speak Yarkora, Spot +7.
                                                                                                                                          009
                                                                                                                                          ROUGH AND TUNDRA
  Feats: Improved Initiative, Point Blank Shot, Skill
Emphases (Astrogate, Bluff), Improved Initiative, Persuasive,                              DRAGON-SLUG
Starship Operation (Space Transport), Weapon Group
Proficiency (blaster pistols, simple weapons).                     More than 50 meters long and capable of spitting gouts of flame,
                                                                   the dragon-slug is in the top tier of the galaxy’s most dangerous
Locations                                                          animals. Its snakelike body is covered with a rugged, mottled
Rumor has it that Salmakk and Clabburn may be staging              hide (except for its smooth white belly), and stumpy, vestigial
from a hideout in the Hoth Asteroid Field or on the snow           legs extend from its trunk approximately every 3 meters.
planet itself, though pinpointing the exact coordinates            Dragon-slugs are solitary animals who live underground, though
could prove as difficult as finding a bubble in an ocean.          clusters of them sometimes are found around a ready food
Depending on their affiliation, the heroes may get their           source. The creatures are omnivorous and will devour tres-
start on corporate Gerrenthum or seedy Darlyn Boda, or             passers, but their favorite food is the phosphorescent fungus
they may visit those planets to dredge up clues to the             known as lumni-spice. Dragon-slugs are found on Hoth and
villains’ whereabouts. If other parties are vying to claim the     other worlds throughout the galaxy.
pirate bounty, it might be wise for the heroes to sabotage
their competitors at the outset.                                   Dragon-slug: Arctic predator 12; Init –1; Def 16 (+15 natural,
                                                                   –8 size, –1 Dex); Spd 20 m, burrow 10 m; VP/WP 328/41; Atk +4
Hoth                                                               melee (2d6+10, slam) or +4 melee (4d8+10, bite) or +3 ranged
Prior to the arrival of the Alliance, Salmakk’s headquarters       (3d10, flaming breath); SQ breathe fire, DR 15 (with exception of
lay deep within a subzero cave on this forgotten ice planet.       underbelly), low-light vision, swallow whole; SV Fort +8, Ref +4,
Codenamed Hardfrost, it consisted of a voluminous central          Will +4; SZ C; Rep +3; Str 31, Dex 8, Con 41, Int 3, Wis 13, Cha 9.
cavern rimmed with icicles where Salmakk’s crew parked             Challenge Code G.
their pirate craft and stashed their stolen booty. Smaller            Special Qualities: Fire-Breathing—The dragon-slug can spew
tunnels branched off from the hangar but led to nothing            a jet of fire at its enemies once every 1d6+2 rounds, dealing 3d10
more interesting than storage units—Salmakk’s crew always          points of damage. Anyone caught in the path of the flames can
slept aboard their parked ships. The base boasted no fixed         attempt a Reflex save (DC 20) for half damage.
defenses, but thanks to a sophisticated sensor package,               Damage Reduction—The dragon-slug has a tough hide and is
Salmakk could have E-web cannons on the ground and                 highly resistant to injury (DR 15). Its underbelly, however, is much
starfighters in the air at the first sign of trouble.              softer and hits in this area receive no modification for damage
   A second auxiliary base, codenamed Iceglaze, existed to         reduction.
harvest lumni-spice fungus from a nearby dragon-slug                  Skills: Intimidate +14, Listen +8, Move Silently +4, Spot +8.
warren. One could approach this tiny outpost only through             Feats: Power Attack.
the maze of dragon-slug tunnels, and it was said that
Salmakk and his pirates knew the only safe route. Han Solo
                                                                 secreted his pet space slugs, which are trained to attack any
and Luke Skywalker’s destruction of Hardfrost Base forced
                                                                 ship if given an ultrasonic signal by Clabburn or his crew.
Salmakk from Hoth, and the Rebel Alliance constructed Echo
                                                                    Freighter-sized vents hidden beneath a rock formation
Base partially from the remnants of Salmakk’s former HQ.
                                                                 resembling a volcanic cap serve as the only entrances to
   During an adventure set prior to the Battle of Hoth,
                                                                 Airtight Base. What few know is that the cap is rigged to
Salmakk and Clabburn may be staging from Hardfrost Base,
                                                                 explode at the touch of a button, filling space with fire and
though finding their location will prove difficult. (The
                                                                 chunks of shrapnel that could riddle a Star Destroyer with
Rebels haven’t yet moved in and made the snowfields a
                                                                 holes. Ships passing through the tunnel leading from the
famous battle site.) Post-Hoth, the two villains could be
                                                                 rock cap to the interior base are tracked by motion-activated
hoping to get the lumni-spice business hopping again by
                                                                 turbolasers. All areas of Airtight Base can vary their gravity
reactivating the dormant Iceglaze Base. If the heroes run
                                                                 without warning (zero to two gees), and most sections can
into a nest of fire-breathing dragon-slugs, trigger-happy
                                                                 seal themselves off and vent their atmospheres into space.
pirates will be the least of their worries.
                                                                    Clabburn’s Airtight Base is appropriate for use in any era.
                                                                 An adventure set eight years after the Battle of Endor will
Hoth Asteroid Field
                                                                 have to account for the presence of Hutt mining and
The asteroid belt is where Clabburn shines. The canny
                                                                 construction efforts in the belt as Durga the Hutt assembles
Mugaari was practically raised in zero-gee and views Hoth’s
                                                                 the Darksaber superweapon.
whirlwind of spinning rock as nature’s proof that chaos will
always triumph over order. A secret base drilled into the
                                                                 Darlyn Boda
nickel-iron core of one of the larger asteroids is where
                                                                 The Mining Guild has set up a temporary office on Darlyn
Clabburn plots the raids that will make him an even bigger
                                                                 Boda, hoping to hire a group of smugglers or bounty
scourge of the spaceways than his infamous father. It is
                                                                 hunters to go after Salmakk and Clabburn. The planet’s mix
known as Airtight Base for its impregnable security.
                                                                 of savage jungles and lawless cities makes for a volatile brew.
   The asteroid field is infested with thousands of space
                                                                    The rain-slicked awning of Pepper’s Pax glistens between
slugs, some of them released there decades earlier by
                                                                 a pawnshop and a mortuary at the end of a muddy alleyway
Clabburn the Elder to discourage intruders. In caves flanking
                                                                 in Darlyn Boda’s largest city. This combination restaurant
the entrance to Airtight Base, the current Clabburn has
                                                                 and tavern is the gathering place of choice for scoundrels of
                   every allegiance. Pepper’s has only two rules, enforced by
                                                                                                              EXPANDING THE ADVENTURE
                   the establishment’s quill-covered bouncers: no quarrelling
                   and no sissies. The latter rule requires all newcomers to eat
                   a mouthful of firespice vegetable pods; those who fail the                  A member of Clabburn and Salmakk’s pirate gang (possibly Sheryc
                   requisite Fortitude check will be rudely dumped out the                     Seka, detailed above) has gone on the run, carrying a fortune in
                   door. Patrons regard Pepper’s Pax as neutral ground, and it’s               stolen artwork. Fearful of capture by the heroes and retaliation
                   always a good spot to find information brokers. Sheryc                      from her employers, she has gone to ground among the
                   Seka, a Yarkora in Salmakk’s employ, often sits at a quiet                  mammoth machines that roll across the face of Lutrillia. The
                   back table keeping an eye on new arrivals.                                  heroes must locate their quarry in Lutrillia’s wheeled cities, facing
                     Another way to get information while on Darlyn Boda is                    opposition from local powerbrokers and Lutrillian thugs bribed to
                   to hire a local haruspex, who will perform a mystical read-                 protect the fugitive.
                   ing while viewing the guts of a freshly killed toccat. Unlike
                   typical “prophecies” cooked up by charlatans and swal-
                   lowed by fools, the readings of haruspexes are highly                        Any team of experts hired by the OJC or FiggEx will have
                   specific and amazingly accurate. However, it’s rare that a                their meals and accommodations provided free of charge
                   haruspex has toccats penned up and ready for sacrifice                    while on Gerrenthum. They will also be able to petition the
                   (and the price for these captive animals is exorbitant). The              corporate office for the loan of advanced weapons, speeders,
                   heroes will most likely have to embark on a toccat-hunt in                or powered armor, provided they can convince their employ-
                   the deepest thickets of the jungle if they wish to obtain an              ers of a pressing need. Outsiders on Gerrenthum will receive
                   entrail reading.                                                          no help from Figg and will find themselves harassed by the
                                                                                             local constabulary if they fail to mind their own business.
                   Gerrenthum
                   Gerrenthum is a Figg world, and any heroes on the Figg                    Bespin
                   payroll (or friendly with the Figg family) can get almost                 In Cloud City’s squalid mid-level district of Port Town,
                   anything they want. Anyone else will quickly discover that                information changes hands, spice is sold under the table,
                   this bustling megalopolis can be very unfriendly to                       and gamblers partake in the kind of games that don’t go on
                   outsiders.                                                                in the tourist casinos. Port Town is no place for the naïve,
                      The corporate headquarters of the Figg empire is a blister             and it can be quite dangerous for those with reason to fear
                   of white steel and blue transparisteel sitting at the epicenter           the Hutts. Several Hutts control most of the action in Port
                   of concentric office rings. Access is restricted to employees             Town, and they have been itching to wipe Salmakk and
                   and pre-cleared guests, and those who visit Figg HQ are                   Clabburn from the Ison Corridor for months.
                   subjected to subtle shifts in ambient noise and oxygen                       A group of adventurers with Hutt connections may find
                   levels designed to break their concentration during business              themselves in Cloud City’s Port Town at the start of the
                   negotiations. The Figg databanks, contained within a cryo-                adventure. Others may wish to visit due to Bespin’s proxim-
                   cooled sub-basement, are voluminous and surprisingly                      ity to Salmakk and Clabburn’s rumored hideout at Hoth.
                   vulnerable to slicers. The Lutrillian loner called Solomahal              Heroes in Cloud City must watch out for the vigilant
                   haunts the taverns in Gerrenthum’s industrial district, but               Sergeant Taray, who will detain them for any infraction,
                   only at night. He claims to have a foolproof method for                   including expired paperwork and spitting on the sidewalk.
                   infiltrating the Figg building.                                           Treva Horme, Lutrillian saleswoman for Planet Dreams,
0010                                                                                         operates from an office in Cloud City and claims to know
                                                                                             the truth about FiggEx’s dirty dealings.
                                    EXPANDING THE ADVENTURE                                     Many locals claim to have a lead on the two pirate kings’
                                                                                             whereabouts, and the Ugnaught union halls are usually the
                     The reading of a haruspex may contain much more information             best places to get up to speed on the scuttlebutt. The Port
                     than is immediately useful for pursuing Salmakk and Clabburn.           Town union halls belonging to the Irden, Botrut, and Isced
                     These facts can be used to set the heroes on the path to their next     tribes of Ugnaughts are filled with hard-drinking workers
                     adventure, or to lead them down a wild goose chase that lands           just off their Tibanna shifts. Glor Jal, a vocal (and corrupt)
                     them in hot water with an old enemy. If the details of their readings   Ugnaught union leader, is suspicious toward non-
                     don’t pan out, haruspexes have been known to shrug and say,             Ugnaughts but can be bribed with a shot of Corellian lum.
ROUGH AND TUNDRA
                     “Always in motion is the future . . .”                                  (For more on Bespin, see the Star Wars Roleplaying Game
                                                                                             accessory Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds.)