STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Gunrunner

After Amiid scans his hand, there is a hiss as hydraulics pull the wall before you inward, and then it slides up and away. This reveals a short corridor beyond, with a blast door at the end.

Amiid swipes his keycard and scans his eyes, this time. This blast door pulls inward and then drops downward.

There is a third door, but it is not armor-plated or anything particularly defensive. It is a set of doors that open inward, carved from a dark wood and inlaid with a silver filigree.

The title 'CHAIRMAN' is imprinted on the door in Aurabesh, the Galactic Standard alphabet.

Rand waits impatiently for the big reveal that Amiid is leading him toward, wondering if he knows anything about the Chairman himself based on prior knowledge.

Amiid simply knocks on the door. A woman's voice says "Come in" and the security chief opens the office.

The door swings into a spacious flat that lacks the hallways' sterile quality. It is more inviting, with patterned dark gray carpeting and polished metal bookshelves, a set of high-backed chairs by a low obsidian table, an ornate liquor cabinet with glass-cut tumblers sitting atop it.

The far wall gives a view of the industrialized landscape of Davashad, with plumes of polluting smoke billowing across the rustic sky. A desk that matches the lounge table's obsidian color, flat and sleek and simple, sits before the window. A high-backed chair faces the view, behind the desk.

"Chairman Valnez," Captain Amiid says. "I've brought the intruders."

A woman's voice comes from the chair.

"They're not intruders, Captain."

"I should think not," Rand says in response to Captain Amiid's comment. "We come here in pursuit of justice, not to interrupt your operations on Davashad or cause trouble."

Rand will focus his attention on the desk and chair now, waiting for the Chairman to turn and face him.

"Chairman Valnez," Rand says, "I am Jedi Master Nume Rand, of the Jedi Order. I am hoping I can find an ally in you."

The Chairman's seat slowly swivels about to face you. The woman seated within the high-backed chair is an older woman in a neatly-pressed suit jacket and dress, her dark hair up in a bun. She is portrayed by Cristine Rose (which you may remember as Angela from Heroes).

"Master Rand," Vikka Valnez says, with a soft smile. "It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance. I am not one to bar an investigation, if you truly feel that you've come to the right place. You DO feel that way, do you not?"

"I do, Chairman," Rand says respectfully. "I placed a homing beacon on the ship of the fleeing suspect, and followed him to this system. Davashad was the most likely location for him to have fled to."

Rand decides not to get all 'The Force told me' with this. He doesn't expect some unextraordinary businesswoman to understand that aspect of his hunt.

"Of all the worlds in this system he could have fled to, ours would be it, hmm?" Chairman Valnez says. "You must have had more to go on than that, Master Jedi."

Rand is not sure how to respond because he did not go off more than that, aside from his senses.

"As a Jedi Master, I have certain intuitions about these things," Rand says. "I would not trouble you if I was not certain he was hiding here."

"You have a hunch," Chairman Valnez says. "If only I had you running our investment accounts, Master Jedi..."

"A Jedi Master's hunch is not something to be taken lightly," Rand says firmly. "If I feel I have come to the right place, then I have come to the right place. This man may cause trouble on your world. I seek to stop him before he does so. He is responsible for an insurrection on another world, trying to topple the government there."

"Is that so?" Vikka says. "What world was that?"

Rand will briefly explain the situation on Lahsbane.

"An aggressive minority on Lahsbane was supplied with arms, we assume by our target," Rand says. "When these aggressors were apprehended, our target attacked and then fled."

"Convenient that this fugitive of yours should supply arms to a revolt and then flee to a world that manufactures arms," Vikka says. "Hmm."

"You are implying that I am implicating you and your company in this," Rand says. "I do not mean to do so. If I knew more about this suspect I could offer explanations, but I know very little."

"That is a shame," Vikka says. "Because you are either implying that our world took part in this scheme, or that we have a breach in security, which is what we deal in. Neither will be helpful in keeping our investors and shareholders and buyers interested, should your business here become public."

"I assure you, that is not our intention," Rand says. "Your world and corporation have long been friends of the Republic and supplied its armies when its enemies came to call. We will use our utmost discression."

One corner of Vikka's mouth turns up slightly.

"That's right," Vikka says. "You've done at least some of your homework, if not enough to convince me that a Jedi investigation on our world will not cause me grief."

"You have my word that we will do nothing to bring negative attention to you, your company, or your world," Rand says.

"I'm afraid I cannot take you at your word," Vikka says. "This would be something that my lawyers would have to decide upon. You can take no action here until it has been approved."

Rand sours at this.

"Then I may have to take this to the Senate," Rand says. "I thought you wanted to avoid making a scene that would bring negative attention to your world?"