Welcome to Nal Hutta

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Welcome to Nal Hutta

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Nal Hutta. Also known as the Glorious Jewel of the Hutts. It is in many ways very similar to it's most powerful occupants, the Hutts. It is large, polluted and it smelled like a swamp filled with waste. Thus, when Kaul Solimar was forced to land at the planet's main port of Bilbousa, a by product of stealing a ship whose only nav location was Nal Hutta, he was not pleased. Kaul had two choices: stay in Nal Hutta, a planet dominated by the Hutt Cartels, at least one of whom most likely wanted Kaul dead, or return to Nar Shaddaa where he would probably be killed upon entering orbit by his former gang. Not much of a choice, unfortunately.

Upon landing Kaul immediately sought out a ship mechanic and attempted to get his Nav computer altered or switched out entirely. Credits weren't so much the problem as the fact that mechanics on Nal Hutta knew better then to tamper with ships that were associated with gangs from Nar Shaddaa, which Kaul's was. Kaul went to every mechanic he could find and none would do the alterations. So, in response to his lack of fortune Kaul did the next most obvious thing.

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He went to the cantina and drank.

And so Kaul found himself drunk, with a stolen ship that he couldn't fly, on a planet dominated by the very creatures that he had, more or less, stolen from. Luckily, the former gangster had managed to find a nice corner booth and there he sat, watching the holo loops of Twi'lek dancers and wondering when some Hutt or Tower Ganger thug was going to walk through the door and blast him away. Maybe it would be a bounty hunter, wouldn't that be flattering, the Tower Gangers actually spending money to end Kaul's life. Not likely, once word got out that the ship was at port and Iven informed his boss, Slogda the Hutt, about Kaul's treachery he would most likely be taken to Slogda's palace, tortured and killed. Kaul wasn't going down without a fight though. Although he didn't slow down on the drinking, he did keep his hand on his blaster at all times and his vibroblade was laying on his left next to him. He'd take a few of the bastards with him at least.

Kaul took a swig of a dark green drink, the name of which he couldn't pronounce, and kept his eyes trained on the door like a hawk. A drunk hawk, but a hawk nontheless. "If I get out of this," Kaul thought as he finished his fifth glass of the green drink, "I swear to all the Gods, the force, to the creator, to whoever is out there: I will never do anything bad again. No gambling. No more drinking...at least as much. No fighting. And 100% no killing. I will do things to help people. So please, just this once have a little mercy." He filled his glass, poured a bit on the ground as a form of perverse offering to supplement his prayers and then downed the glass. "Just this once..."

@Caramon

 

[Sarah]

Refueling at Nal Hutta from a recent mission on tatooine, a disappointed Lylieth, not caring about her conspicuous armor, goes into one of the local cantinas to grab a quick drink, leaving her type 15-S, but keeping her particle rifle on her at all times "Should be fine, my droids driving anyway" She thought to herself as she surveyed the room, analyzing each of the drunkerds slurping down whatever was in front of them, and the holo-dancers. Those really got to her "They manage to degrade us even when we aren't in the damn room." she muttered. She was obviously disgusted, and let the room know it. Finally, she saw the man in the corner, pouring out part of his drink, he looked in a tighter spot than the others, even. She ordered the best tasting thing they had to offer, which wasn't much, plus she was sure it was watered-down. "So, what's your story? Pretty rare to see someone willingly spill their drink around here." She looked him over quickly, noticing his sword and blaster near him "I aint got many friends here either, so we have that in common, at least." She was sure to speak quietly, else she knew someone might overhear her.

 

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Kaul glanced at the Twi'lek in front of him with cautious interest. His initial reaction was to see if he could shack up with her for a night, why not have a mini baccanale if it was his last few days alive. Within a moment of examining her, however, Kaul realized she wasn't what she seemed. She was hard, he could see it in her demeanor. Upon realizing this he gripped his blaster harder and put his finger on the trigger. If she was some kind of hired gun he'd be ready for her. That, or he'd at least die at the hands of a good looking Twi'lek and not some Trandoshan.

"It's an offering to the Cantina gods," Kaul grinned, "I thought maybe if I get them drunk they'll bless me with a ship. Or at least a new nav computer."

 

[Sarah]

"Nav computer broke? What's the model, what's the ship? Wait, never mind, I bet I can fix it either way." She said, betraying a slightly exited tone. She surveyed the area, making sure there were no eavesdroppers about. "But I don't know about any "Cantina Gods"" She almost smiled for a moment, but realized his body language had changed, and his grip had tightened. She set her right arm down onto the table, the hard point aimed directly at the stranger's chest "I wouldn't do that, one word and they'll have to scrape whats left of you out of this cantina. Otherwise, I'm sure we could work something out..."

 

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Kaul paused and considered his options. Best case scenario this Twi'lek could help him get off this rock and out of Hutt space. Worst case she would lure him into a false sense of security and either kill him or capture him. Either way it was not as if Kaul had much of a real choice. Staying on Nal Hutta for too long was death and maybe, just maybe, this little Twi'lek was the miracle he had prayed for. "Ok then. I need off Nal Hutta and the ship I am currently in possession of has only two spots on it's Nav computer, Nar Shaddaa and Nal Hutta. I need to either have it fixed or get out of Hutt space entirely. Can you help me with that?"

 

[Sarah]

She contemplated for a bit, what exactly this man could be worth. Turning him in to the Hutts would be an option for most, but not one she would consider herself. Could see if he would be worth anything to her comrades, but she was on her own for this, and she had no reason to believe they'd care about him anyway, didn't seem the Mandalorian type. After some time, she decided to go ahead and answer his question "Sure can, even if I can't fix your Nav computer, I have a ship of my own, so I can at least take you where you need to go... Depending on where your going after this, and if you have the credits to pay for extra fuel of course. I may need a favor or two from you, as well, but we can discuss that later." Lylieth smirked a bit, she knew this guy was out of options anyway, and who knows, he could be good for a mission, or some intel, later on. The cantina was getting crowded now, and with more threatening figures "We should probably go soon, this armor isn't great for fitting in."

 

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Kaul glanced around and noticed a few devious looking individuals whispering to each other and pointing at Kaul. He sighed, total freedom would have to wait it would seem. "I can agree to those terms. Can we leave now?" Kaul have a slightly nervous glance towards the pointing men and quietly said, "We may have company."

 

[Sarah]

Lylieth looked over towards the men. Didn't look like too much, but she knew there'd be more. There's always more desperate people trying to make a quick buck. "Yeah, I can safely assume those aren't exactly friends of yours, should leave now before they come over here, but it'l look pretty conspicuous for us to leave too quickly, so just act natural. If they ask questions, we're walking to my place because we're plastered and couldn't fly home."

 

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Kaul slowly slid his vibrosword back into it's sheath and fastened it to his back, finishing his drink immediately after. When the two of them stood up he was careful to keep his hand on his blaster, inconspicuously as was possible but there nonetheless. He did his best to keep track of the men as they began to walk to the door, straining his peripherals. "So," Kaul grunted, "Where are we headed first." Kaul did not love the idea of being indebted to some Twi'lek bounty hunter but, at the same time, was not exactly able to negotiate. The way he saw it he could help her for a bit, pay his way and then hitch a ride to Dantooine after. Kaul had wanted to explore for a time but he was content with settling down. Dantooine was a good planet with good land and the Jedi, the planets government, were better then any of the other powers in the galaxy.

 

[Sarah]

"Well..." She thought for a moment, each complicated plan racing by her mind as she thought of each set of pros and cons. After about five seconds of silence, she finished her sentence "First, we walk a ways, till we're nearing the edge of town, then I have Rose fly my ship to our location and pick us up. Then, once we're in the clear, I fly back to the cantina, use it's tractor beam to tug your ship along, and once we're relatively safe in space, I can work on actually fixing your ship. I've seen better plans, but it's the least likely to get us caught by any guards. Now, I know you had eyes on that scum, do y'know if they're after you, or just were lucky enough to recognize you? What are the odds they're following us right this minute?".

 

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"Well..." Right as Kaul spoke a blaster bolt flew past his head striking the door in front of him. Kaul wheeled around, drawing his blaster as he did so and popped off a few shots, "I would say there is a very good chance!"

There were three men, two with pistols and another with what looked like a short range scatter blaster. The patrons of the bar ducked and covered but this was a common occurrence so there was not much commotion. Kaul fired another shot off almost hitting the furthest left with the scatter gun.

"Whoever you have bringing your ship I suggest you get in touch with them now!" Kaul fired a few more shots in suppression of the bounty hunters.

 

[Sarah]

Lylieth kicked over a nearby table, rolling it to Kaul as she pressed a few buttons on her data pad "Don't worry, this should be quick" She used her armor's integrated jetpack to fly around to the western side of the cantina, to Kaul's right, and fired a few shots with her rifle, hitting one of the pistol-wielders in the leg "Everyone get out! This place is coming down!" Lylieth yelled, sending as many people running out of the run-down bar as she could.

 

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The bounty hunter hit in the leg fell in pain but attempted a few shots at Lylieth, each missing. Kaul ducked behind the table but was hit in the shoulder before he managed to get behind cover, "Damnit, not again," Kaul grimaced in pain and let off a small battle roar before rising and letting loose a hail of blaster fire, killing the man who Lylieth had downed and injuring another in the arm. He ducked once again as a new group of bounty hunters emerged into the bar, these men Kaul recognized as either affiliated with the Hutts or the Tower Gangers.

Kaul fired another shot off quickly, killing a Tower Ganger he knew as Tolt, "Twi'lek! We have to go soon these men aren't going to stop coming!" He rose again and fired a few suppression shots.

 

[Sarah]

"Got it!" Lylieth threw an EMP grenade near the entrance. As soon as it went off, she drew her wrist-mounted blade, flying into the fray of now disarmed bounty hunters, slicing a few up, then using suppressing fire on the ones already in the bar. Her datapad beeped a few times, in wuick succession. She clicked a button on it, causing it to stop "Our ride is here, let's go!" She would wait for him to catch up before exiting

 

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Kaul rose, still firing his blaster but now moving toward the now destroyed entrance. He made his way to Lylieth and put his back to hers. Together they made their way out of the cantina, down the ramp toward Lylieth's ship and finally into the ship. Neither of them stopped firing for the entire duration of the, in truth short, journey. As the ship began to rise Kaul saw the bounty hunters scramble toward the docks. They were going to come after them with their ships.

"Does this thing have cannons or anything? We're not out of the woods yet."

 

[Sarah]

"So, obviously there has been a slight change of plans." Lylieth said in between shots "We aren't going to be able to pick your ship up And make it off this rock, but, my aggressor will all but ensure our victory here." Once in the ship, Lylieth kept the ramp open, ordering Rose, her EndBringer class droid to fire at as many enemies as she could before they got into their ships. After a quite a few shots, about ten guards were dead, and Rose lifted the ramp. "good droid" Lylieth whispered before pressing a large, previously glass covered purple button, under which the word "fire" was written. Six concussion missiles littered the ground around them, and many pilots, guards, and civilians lie dead. "A few, but no co-pilot abilities, sorry. I need my helmet, it's in the locker next to my other rifle." Lylieth pointed at quickly before having to divert her attention once again to the scrambling pilots and guard's fire. Another idea popped into her head, but it was probably suicide "Of course, if you want I can have my droid fly this while I disable the Nav-computer, put it on analog controls, it won't get you anywhere safe, but we'd have twice as many ships availabe. Your choice."

 

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Kaul went into the locker that Lylieth pointed to and pulled out her helmet, tossing it to her, "No time just get us out of here. The ship would attract attention anyhow. I can find another later." Kaul did regret the loss of the ship but in truth it would be a hassle to continually fly around in a Hutt associated ship and the various individuals such a ship would attract could cause problems down the line. "Bring me to Dantooine and I'll carry my own weight. As you can see I'm capable."

 

[Sarah]

"D-Dantooine? Do you know who I am? That is neck deep in republic territory and I'm kind of a supercommando here!" Lylieth figured something like this may happen, and pulled up a holo-map of the galaxy on her ship's HUD. "We can get to Kashyyk before we'll need to refuel, plus it's in Dominion territory, so getting a ship AND keeping myself alive won't be a problem. Could even get me a new set of armor so that I'm not so damn obvious..." She was interrupted by a ship firing upon her, hitting the aggressor's left wing. Fortunately, the shield easily absorbed the damage, so they could still make it out of there. "We can talk more after we get away from... Hutt space." Lylieth had stopped mid-sentence, staring blankly into space for about seven seconds before snapping back and flying the ship away from the planet's surface.

 

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When he was satisfied that they were out of danger Kaul approached Lylieth and spoke wearily, "I actually have no idea who or what you are. Your armour looks Mandalorian but you...you're a Twi'lek so I am unsure how that could possibly work. Look..." Kaul extended his hand, "We never actually introduced ourselves, everything happened so fast. I'm Kaul Solimar. And you are?"

As Kaul awaited her response the consideration briefly came over him to pull his blaster and kill her here and now. She was a Mandalorian, no doubt or a Mandalorian killer and neither could bode well for him. The consideration passed after less then a second. She was capable, Kaul had seen that, and she seemed sincere in her desire to help Kaul, something he had never truly encountered, at least not since his friend had smuggled him off Hosnian Prime all those years ago. No, Kaul would entertain this Twi'lek for the time being and see how things went with her, if he had to he could always steal a ship on Kashyyk and leaver her but...

Kaul surprised himself as he felt something strange inside him. He...liked this Twi'lek. He had been surrounded for so long by scum, by those wishing to either use or kill him that Kaul forgot what it had been like to actually enjoy another sentient beings company. Perhaps...in time of course...they could be friends? Within a moment this feeling passed too. No, this Twi'lek would most likely drag him back into the one he had barely just left. He would utilize her for now and then leave her. Kaul didn't want friends he wanted his farm on Dantooine...right?

 

[Sarah]

Lylieth laughed a bit, pressing a few buttons on her data pad, instructing Rose to take over and begin setting a course to Kashyyk. "Solimar... Thats one of the Senator names, in the republic, hehe, no wonder you're running to Dantooine. Anyway, yes I'm a Twi lek in the Mandalorian army, they're who I see as right in this war, and I am not content to merely cheer for a side and wait until something happens, I am as much a soldier as any Mandalorian, and consider myself as such, but enough about me, we should get some sleep, gonna be a long ride" Lylieth showed Kaul to one of the sleeping quarters she had in her ship, going to another, she fell in, not even bothering to take her armor off first. She was a little wiped after this much excitement, and had to think of the perfect way to use these favors to her advantage.