DAWN OF THE UNDERWORLD ERA

The era of the rise of Glann Cipple and the continued growth of the powerbase of the Setnin Sectors prime ganglord Duze Jostenn.  Motivated by ambition and fuelled by greed, these men initiate a new era for Setnin’s underworld...

50 years before Battle of Yavin

JANOS BORDERS OPENED

-          Culdinatia the Second of Janos, realising that his world’s culture is stagnating, allows limited travel off world, further opening the horizons of Janite exploration.

-          The future Grand Moff Galgen is born on the planet Lebbat in the Brother Sector.

-          Duze Jostenn survives an assassination attempt on the world of Wattana.

Forty-two years before Battle of Yavin

-          Acrupial, son of Culdinatia the Second succeeds his father upon his death and takes the name of Culdinatia the Third.

-          Grabby Cap is born on Luronsa IV.

-          Narn Giappa Lomona and Sierra Cetting Retgarr meet at a festival dance on A-desando and begin dating each other.

Forty-one years before Battle of Yavin

-          Traders arriving on Janos enter into disputes with the natives due to the vast differences in culture.

-          Narn Giappa Lomona and his bride Sierra are wed on A-desando.

Forty years before Battle of Yavin

-          On Janos, the ruling council of the Jedi, with the permission of Emperor Priest Culdinatia the Third, hand over a sith Holocron to a mysterious stranger.

-          Grippy Cap is born on Luronsa IV.

Thirty-nine years before Battle of Yavin

-          Tarrion Randelle, later to be known as Tarr Ranth, is born on Corellia.

-          Aurran is sold by the A-desandian Security Services and begins his service with the Lomona family in Ecaps City on A-desando.

Thirty-eight years before Battle of Yavin

CIPPLE BEGINS WORK FOR JOSTENN

-          Glann Cipple begins working for the Setnin Sectors main ganglord Duze Jostenn. Embarking upon a successful career as a smuggler the seeds of what will become a massive empire are sown.

Thirty-seven years before Battle of Yavin

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-          Troopie is activated on Zelon and utilised as a work droid for the A-desandian trade minister on Chancai.

-          Ade Lomona begins working for Duze Jostenn as a freighter pilot.

Thirty-six years before Battle of Yavin

-          Level twenty-five of the Chancai Trade Centre is completed.  Despite constant attempted sabotage the city continues to operate and maintains its standing as the prime trade location in the Mid-Rim.

Thirty-five years before Battle of Yavin

-          The A-desandian council of houses declares that trade is ended with the planet Halando, causing friction between the sister worlds.

Thirty-four years before Battle of Yavin

-          Hindley Galletti is born on Trefnare, first son of Gres and Draite Galletti.

-          Glann Cipple and Dessio D’Staan begin working as partners whilst running for Duze Jostenn.  A strong friendship is begun.

-          Hijjin Lomona is born in the city of Ecaps on A-desando, the first son of Sierra and Narn Giappa Lomona.

Thirty-three years before Battle of Yavin

-          Janos is declared a no-go area by local authorities due to the increased number of incidents involving off-worlders. 

-          Anak Arkensaw begins work for Duze Jostenn.

-          Darwyn T’Reller leaves her homestead of Mos Banely on Tatooine and travels to the Setnin Sector in her ship the T’Rellers Run searching for employment in the smuggling trade.

-          The Janos situation soon escalates and Supreme Chancellor Valorum suggests sending in two Jedi ambassadors. However, Senator Gennata of A-desando disagrees, saying that such matters were best solved internally and further proposing that Setnin establish its own procedures to contain the Janos threat.

-          A vote in the Senate concerning the Setnin Sector is conducted and Chancellor Valorum concedes. The Senate agrees with the actions taken by the Setnin authorities and ratifies their motion. Invoking the constitutional clause of Contemplanys Hermi, or meditative solitude, that Correllia had written into the Republic constitution 458 years before, Setnin stands alone.

Thirty-two years before Battle of Yavin

START OF SETNIN SECTOR AUTONOMY

-          The Setnin Sector embarks upon its era of autonomy from the Republic and begins to take care of its own affairs, independent of the interference of the Senate for the first time in 3418 years.

ADE LOMONA AND ANAK ARKENSAW FIRST TEAM UP

-          Ade Lomona and Anak Arkensaw team up for a mission for Duze Jostenn shipping seven crates of undisclosed items to Chinngard with Glann Cipple.

-          En route, Lomona, Arkensaw and Cipple come across a Janite Warpreacher battleship called the Blueheart stealing off with a cargo ship full of fighters.

-          Arriving on Chinngard Lomona, Arkensaw and Cipple drop the boxes off to the planets government who need an extra power source for their rapidly expanding economy. Whilst there they meet up with a friend of Anak’s in a bar, Balga Nili, a writer of songs that go against authorities.

-          Balga Nili has been paid highly to break into the new Zelon Wave Exchange on Chancai and transmit his newest song ‘Slave to Credits’. His employers are Janites.

-          As they talk, Janos Executioners arrive. They are looking for the owners of Lomona’s ship the Wretched Eclipse because they have detected Janos Jewel power emanations from it as it landed.

-          A fight begins. Eight of the twelve Janites are killed or incapacitated, Cipple is wounded, as is Arkensaw, and they all flee with Balga to the ship and run off.

-          They fly to Yotil to let Duze Jostenn know what has happened and they check out the song that the Janites want him to transmit. They discover there is an underlying code to the music. Further investigation reveals the signal is designed to shut down all non-Janite computers throughout the sector. Part of their invasion plan of the Setnin Sector. They change the code to shut down Janite computers. Cipple is left with Jostenn to recover and Dessio D’Staan goes with them to take care of any technical aspects.

-          Upon arrival on Chancai they see Venek Ariso, head of security on Chancai. The upper two levels aren’t finished yet and the Zelon Wave Exchange is about to come on-line. Ariso agrees to help them out.

-          At the Zelon Wave Exchange, D’Staan recognises Ariso – he’s a man accused by the Republic years before of Janite sympathy and collaboration. As he recognises him Ariso tries to stop the transmission of the Janos-crippling signal. A fight kicks off that leads to a speeder chase through the as yet unfinished upper levels of Chancai.

-          Venek Ariso and his men are killed.

-          The Janite transmission is sent. Janos forces pull back as their computers crash and their invasion is cancelled. Anak Arkensaw, Ade Lomona and Balga Nili, not wanting to be tied into the event and draw the revenge of the Janites, sneak off during the celebrations.

DUZE JOSTENN ACQUIRES LEOGARD REAL ESTATE

-          Duze Jostenn buys land on Leogard for mining, as the Setnin Sector has split from the Republic and now has to get its own raw materials. Pleased with Anak and Ade’s work he puts them in charge. Balga Nili goes with them.

-          Ade and Anak open up two automated mines and build a small community with workers, naming it Arkona Town. Things go well for four months.

-          Huge strip miners start up on the land surrounding their claim and dust and chemicals infect their water and air. The A-Desando Mining Corp have bough tin huge vessels for the work, run by Ade’s cousin Vernek Lomona. After many problems including quakes and pollution, Ade manages to push his cousin away from their borders.

DISCOVERY OF THE EN’K’FAR/P’RO TREASURE

-          The strip mining uncovers underground passages. Upon inspection they contain six huge boxes, buried deep under the ground. They are En’k’far boxes but contain P’ro dynasty treasures – about 20 million creds worth. Also, the bodies of a P’ro royal family are found in one of the boxes, dating back 2500 years.

-          After the discovery, the people of Arkona Town start having visions of the dead coming back and haunting them. The overall consensus is that the boxes are put back and forgotten about but Anak is determined to sort out the truth. Another box that is opened sends out a signal but to whom they don’t know.

-          Duze Jostenn arrives. He touches down and the truth is discovered. It was he who had placed the boxes there and then bought the land in his name so that the chances of discovery were limited. He hid them there on behalf of a representative of the En’k’far called Injevido Tru. 2500 years ago, the En’k’far murdered the P’ro royal family and stole their riches, keeping them hidden ever since. DJ placed a neural transmitter in one box so that if it were ever opened the people in the vicinity would have visions of the dead and think the boxes cursed.

-          Injevido Tru wants the boxes returned to En’k’far space now that they’ve been discovered. Jostenn tells Anak and Ade that the mine and land is theirs if they assist him.

-          Injevido leaves for En’k’far space, saying he will return when he finds a suitable hiding place.

-          Anak Arkensaw and Ade Lomona decide to find new investors to build up their new enterprise – turning the land they now own into a holiday resort. One of their workers has a brother on Luronsa, Dariv, a good friend of Duze Jostenn’s.

-          Anak Arkensaw and Ade Lomona fly to Luronsa to see Dariv who owns a huge pier that juts out of the side of a mountain. It is covered with casinos and gambling dens. They present him with the details of the plan.

-          Dariv is not interested and Anak and Ade leave. An hour later, D calls them and invites them to a party that evening celebrating the Sun Colour Festival, where they could meet many people who might help them.

-          Anak Arkensaw goes to the seedy part of the pier to find out more about Dariv. He meets Grin who tells him Dariv is scum – he runs drugs, slaves and all sorts through this pier. Grin asks Anak if he can help get a friend of his, Patron Cap and his family off planet and out of Dariv’s clutches. In return for his information, Anak agrees.

-          Anak Arkensaw and Ade Lomona attend the party that night and discover Heena, one of Jostenn’s operatives who is scoping out the place because Duze Jostenn is coming that night for the party. Also, Ade’s brother Narn Giappa Lomona is there. He has been trying to bring down Dariv’s operation for a while, and is also interested in buying into Ade’s plan for the resort on Leogard.

-          Anak Arkensaw makes contact with Patron Cap. He discovers that Patron, a gunsmith, has made a rifle that can shoot a bolt with accuracy at two klicks. It was to be used on a target at the party, and they assume it to be Jostenn, Dariv’s biggest friend and competitor. They let Heena know, but she doesn’t believe them.

-          To cover his motives for leaving the party and going out into the bay to see where the shooter could fire from, Anak chats up a woman who he then invites with him to take a midnight cruise. She has a skiff they can use.

-           Ade Lomona thinks that maybe the target is his brother Narn, who has been investigating Dariv’s operation.

-          The woman Anak chats up is actually the sniper, who knocks him out with drugs when they get two klick’s out. She lines up the sights of the special rifle on the crowd that are now looking out the huge dome which has opened to watch the Sun Colour festival. Ade, listening to what is happening on the boat over Anak’s open comline, dives forward and wrestles Duze to the ground.

-          The gun doesn’t fire – Patron Cap has built a duff weapon. The woman pulls a proton launcher out of hiding and fires that instead but she misses as Anak recovers from the drug and spoils her aim. The missiles hit support struts and the pier starts to collapse.

-          A fight ensues. Dariv’s men go after Ade and Duze as they battle to escape the collapsing pier. Anak knocks the sniper woman out cold and is then picked up by the coastguard and flown back to the pier.

-          Ade Lomona, Duze Jostenn, Patron Cap and his family have been forced into one of the leg stanchions of the pier by Dariv’s men. Anak takes over the controls of the coastguard Skyhopper, blows a hole and they escape as the pier collapses into the sea completely.

DESTRUCTION OF THE WRETCHED ECLIPSE

-          Ade Lomona’s ship the Wretched Eclipse is lost.

-          They re-group. Anak is expecting some kind of gratitude from Duze but doesn’t get any, seriously bruising his ego. He gets cocky and brash in Jostenn’s face and Duze, not liking to thank or apologise to people because he’s stubborn, turns it into a blazing row. Arkensaw storms off, Ade and Glann Cipple go with him, and they leave the planet without the others in a ship Ade acquires.

-          On their return back to Leogard they find a shuttle parked on their pad with the name `DJ’ stencilled into the side of it. It has flown in on automatic and spread the virulent disease Fedali throughout the mining camp. Anak immediately suspects Duze Jostenn but they find out Dariv’s full name from his brother – Dariv Jotacsa. Glann says it couldn’t have been Jostenn anyway – he had sent Glann to secure the boxes, which have now been stolen. Dariv knew of the boxes and when he heard that Duze no longer owned the land he planned to take the fortune and get rid of the witnesses and landowners. Duze and Narn Giappa Lomona weren’t the targets back at the pier – Anak Arkensaw and Ade Lomona were.

-          They return to Duze Jostenn who agrees to help them. He will supply treatments for the miners if they get the boxes back off Dariv. Since the disease Fedali only comes from Alorea, they decide to go there with Heena to find him and the boxes. Dariv has bought a moon in orbit, which has been hollowed out by mining, riddled with tunnels and caves.

-          After flying through the network of tunnels for hours they find the boxes – and a group of automated mining robots. A fight begins, with the ship’s hull swarming with droids. They barely escape, their ship badly mauled but flyable.

ARKENSAW, LOMONA AND HEENA SCAM JOSTENN

-          After taking a vote, Anak Arkensaw, Ade Lomona and Heena decide to screw Duze Jostenn and take off with the 20 million credits worth of P’ro artefacts. They came close to death and have had their hopes for a resort on Leogard destroyed. Heena, fed up with low paid jobs, decides to go with them.

ARKENSAW, LOMONA AND HEENA FLEE SETNIN

-          Anak Arkensaw, Ade Lomona and Heena begin their run from the Setnin Sector with the money, with Duze Jostenn, Dariv Jotacsa, the En’k’far, the P’ro and the Janos Executioners after them.

-          Glann Cipple completes his final assignment for Duze Jostenn as an employee, a trip smuggling DL-9 to Gista.