USH'S STAR WARS GAME- CAMPAIGN II EPISODE V (DARK SIDE)- The Prisoner of Datura

"Nope," he says.

Galder is annoyed to hear this but not quite ready to throw in the towel.

"I'd hear your full story about Kuylen," Galder says, feeling a little anxious. "Anything and everything you know about the man. He was my Master but he was a man of many secrets."

"Then he took them with him," says Kayda. "There's very little to say. He arrived on green, made a name for himself and led a load of us up to seize red. I very nearly didn't go with him, but I did and now here I am. Then after a week he just said he was going down to black, and that was that."

"Why didn't you want to go and what changed your mind?" Galder asks. Once that is answered, he asks "Did he say why he wanted to go to Black?"

"It was a high risk operation and I didn't have that much to gain; I was sure I'd get up to red sooner or later, the normal way. Still, I skipped a few rungs this way; now I run this crew.

"No. He just said he had to go, and I was in charge. He never talked much anyway."

"He never did," Galder says, bitterly. "Not unless he had something important to say. What the hell could be down there that anyone would want to go after?"

"Maybe he just wanted to get lost and never be found," Relle says.

"Nothing," says Kayda, "and in any case, the trogs eat anyone trying to go through blue."

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"Nothing," says Kayda, "and in any case, the trogs eat anyone trying to go through blue."

"As far as I know, Kuylen was not insane.... he had to make some preparations in order to get through the trogs. To start, he forged himself a saber, right?"

"What are trogs?" Azarl asks, checking with himself to see if he knows the word.

"Cross-breed freaks who have adapted to life in the lower reaches," says Kayda. "They eat more or less anything living- raw. There're thousands of them down there. They come up to green to hunt every so often.

"He built that sword before he came up to red. He seemed pretty handy with it. But if you ask me, he was as mad as anyone I've ever met. In a quiet way. Listen- there's literally nothing of value in black. Even when this place was an operating mine, they didn't bother trying to find anything there."

"Shut up," Galder snaps at Relle.

"Yeah, I heard he made a sword," Galder says. "What else did he do? Why did he even want to get up here, anyway?"

"Why not come up here? Better than living on green. He didn't seem the patient sort, either."

"Yeah, I know. He really didn't seem to have any overall objective on Datura? I find it impossible to believe he didn't have a goal."

"It's a prison. How many people have goals in a prison? Present company apparently excluded. What could he possibly get here? I don't know why he snapped and went down. Maybe he was just bored. He hated having nothing to do; he spent his week up here reading through the mining records. And that was that."

Galder thinks of his own off-the-rocker moments on Newhaven and Gondekorro and tries to see Kuylen doing the same thing.

"Mining records?" Galder asks.

"Yeah; they left all that stuff behind when this place was shut down. Nothing interesting."

"I think it might be good to see them anyway," Galder says. "Just in case.

"Listen- our objective here is to at the very least collect some of Kuylen's DNA. We're willing to do whatever you need us to do if you can help us get that."

"For all we know, he found something he thought was interesting in them," Rianna comments.

"... meant that much to you, eh?" says Kayda, looking at you a trifle oddly. "Well be my guess. His stuff is in one of the huts.

"But you can't stay long."