"You can do whatever you think will help us find Rand," Vera-Kin snaps grumpily. "I am going to go have a word with the journalist that ran that article. Such blasphemy cannot have been done without reason! Check the starport, see if you can find any suspicious vessels. Maybe even do a fly-over with Colby, see if they landed outside Ine and walked in. They have to be staying SOMEWHERE."
Vera-Kin is going to have Barker take Rianna back to the starport, then take the landspeeder with Vera-Kin in it to the headquarters of the Coridarian Tribune. She will talk with the journalist or they'll have to have her arrested.
"Don't worry, this isn't going to be too much more interesting," Rianna says as she meets with him. "I have to find Rand, somehow. I want to see if I can locate his ship. Can you get the records of ship landings for the past week or so?"
Rianna herself plans to snoop about the starport, using her senses to see if anything stands out to her.
I need to know exactly what Rianna is looking for. Her senses aren't honed enough to simply wander around the starport looking for things that feel bad, especially when you factor in how the Dark Side tends to cloud things.
Colby will head off to find starship records.
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Nobody is going to say no to a Wookiee, Vera-Kin. You get your interview with the journalist.
The young man is a burgeoning new interest on the journalism scene, having up until recently been of little notice until started covering recent breakdowns in cooperation between the government and the mining corporations, and the angry sentiments of the miners.
He says at first that you can go take a flying leap, but Barker flipping over his desk and flailing about the poor guy's cubicle seems to change his mind. He stubbornly clings to the fact that he doesn't have to reveal his sources, but ends up fessing that it was an anonymous tip. Further interrogation (read: angry Wookiee trying to pick him up) reveals that he accepted a bribe to run the story as it was written. Also anonymous.
Asking around is going to get you more results than trying to sense Rand's presence. You get no indications of that cold sensation while you search the starport... but you do get a few whisperings of people matching the descriptions you give coming in and out of a certain area of the starport docks. You manage to narrow it down.
Colby reports that most of the recent arrivals have been government-contracted freighters that ship goods to and from Ord Coridari. They stay only long enough to unload or load up and get fuel. There are a small collection of privately owned ships that have come and gone, and an even smaller group that are still planetside.
Combining your suspected section of docks with Colby's information, you find that the small trader in Bay R812 has been here longer than you have...
As a side note- Colby uncovered that your docking bay was reserved for you, the same day that this other small trader showed up. He thinks it's related to how the Dark Siders found you so quickly.
Yes, there is definitely no coincidence with that. Did the records happen to have a name associated with the ship in that particular docking bay? Not that I expect Rand to use his real name, but it could be helpful. Maybe.
Anyway. If there's time to do so, Rianna wants to poke around that docking bay real quick, just to take a look around.
Snooping time for Rianna and Colby.
The small trader in the docking bay is of old Corellian craftsmanship, though Colby notes that it appears to have seen a lot in its time and probably isn't as old as it looks. There is a lot of patchwork done on it and it looks bulkier in places where it wouldn't normally be. The cockpit is situated directly on top, retaining the cone shape that freighters this style have. It also has two turrets strapped on it.
You sense people onboard. You can't tell how many, though.
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"My boss!" he squeals.
Someone is threatening to call the police if you do not leave the office.