STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Descent

The officer frowns at you.

"Only Jedi make such things," he says. "Are you one of them?"

"I was once. Is that a problem?"

"I was not aware you could retire from the Jedi Order," the officer says. "What is a Jedi doing on Luon?"

There is something odd about this customs officer, Con. It is in his appearance; his uniform does not match.

What is off about his uniform, do I know?

"I have personal business to attend to."

The color is right- Republic gray- but the insignia is wrong, a circle divided by a dagger with two points. You don't know its meaning.

"Personal business is my business. I doubt a Jedi has come to Luon just to relax. Where are you going?"

"I am looking for old acquaintances." Con replies abruptly, then continues "I have been gone for a while, but I know this is not a regular republican badge. What is it's meaning?"

The officer proudly polishes the metal insignia on his chest.

"I am under the employ of the Luon Syndicate, in aid of the Republic," he says, smugly. "Now, I'm asking the questions, here. Who are you looking for?"

"The Luon Syndicate," he pauses, "...and two of its allies."

He does not seem very pleased with that response.

"To whom do you refer?"

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He does not seem very pleased with that response.

"To whom do you refer?"

"I don't think you quite understand the situation," the officer says. "You say you are a former Jedi?"

"Yes"

"Then you have no official weight here," he says, slapping your lightsaber into your hand. "You may go about your business, but I warn you... do not mess with the Syndicate."

The other security personnel at the checkpoint all have the same insignia, and more than one of them are holding stun batons and looking at you unpleasantly.

"If I hear that you've used that anywhere," the officer says, gesturing to your lightsaber before handing back your blaster, "things will not be well for you. Fair warning, I hope?"

"I don't have any reason to fight the syndicate. Tell me where I can find your boss...I have a proposition to make."

"The Syndicate does not deal with Jedi, former or not," he says. "Now get lost."

One of the other security officers roughly hands you your bag of belongings and gestures towards the exit.

Strange that the Syndicate should have official standing in an intergalactic starport, Con. You cannot think of a reason why the Republic would want their support.

Contemplating the questions produced by this short exchange Con steps out of the starport and takes a first look around.

The architecture of Luon City is much like the starport- dull concrete with reflective glass making up large ugly buildings. The starport is on a main street, with lots of people bustling about and speeders humming by.

The starport-associated cantina is nearby, as are several other drinking establishments.

You also notice that there is an armed guard wearing Syndicate-color uniforms- green with the circle-dagger insignia and a black kepi hat- standing at a post on every street corner. You somehow doubt that they are the Luonese military.

After taking a look around, Con decides to go by his usual way of finding information, and proceeds to enter the starport cantina.

Like the starport, despite its clean yet boring appearance without, within the cantina has seen better days. All manner of damage can be seen on the walls, the floors, the ceiling, the surface of tables and the bar, either naturally occurring from aging or inflicted by patrons who couldn't hold either their liquor or their temper.

Right now things are pretty quiet. Many of the patrons are crowded around a large viewscreen. A debate is on between a pair of politicians, and the patrons- spacers and locals alike- are watching religiously.

"You ordering anything?" the bartender asks as you walk in.

Depends on whether I got money.

If I do, I say "Yes. Water" and follow with "What's on?" and point to the screen.

If not, just the secondf part.