USH'S STAR WARS GAME- CAMPAIGN II EPISODE VI (LIGHT SIDE)- Missing Links

"Either way, they didn't blow out the Sith base on Alambritis," Rast says. "But they got the same information we did. And we need help narrowing it down, so we can keep following Adelmo's path. We're down to a half-dozen planets."

Jelena wonders if giving Saar this sort of access might prove dangerous, as Dr. Thule fears. But she knows they would not have gotten much farther without Saar's help, and the Faustian deal needed to be made. She gives Rast a sideways glance when he reveals who committed the attack on Robine, but can't disagree with his logic that it eventually would've reached Saar just the same, unless the Bureau suppressed it for some reason.

She lets Saar respond to Rast.

"Well," says Saar. "Why don't you tell me about these planets? Do you have any ideas?"

Sorry, even I want to hear about these planets, think I missed a trick or two along the way. Anyway seems we are back with Saar, what happened with the break-in on that world we were at before we went jaunting off taking after the Dark Jedi?

You might want to go back and re-read some of what happened. Long story short: The Dark Jedi escaped, we're letting the Bureau track them down, we didn't get any additional information that we could have at the Casino about the Dark Jedi, and we returned to Saar as planned to see if he can help us narrow things down to one world.

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"We got it down to a half dozen worlds," Xeth explains. "We ruled out anything that would've been under Republic control or inside Sith territory during Kazan's time. No official contact with the six worlds. One might be dangerously irradiated by how close it is to the star it orbits."

"So, that would seem to be the only world of any note you found..." says Saar.

"We do not have the manpower and time to explore the other five," Jelena says. "That this world is horribly irradiated is all we could discern from scans and star charts alone."

"A useful place to hide something then," says Saar. "A planet in that sort of orbit of a high radiation star would be completely uninhabitable to any life form and would scramble a droid's circuits in minutes- but the scrolls are on some form of paper.

"Of course, it would make retrieval somewhat tricky..."

"Then that is the world where Darth Kazan sent the Scrolls?" Gallagher asks for confirmation.

"Does it not perhaps seem odd that Kazan would know the location of a random radiation-infested world? And he would have to have a way to get the Scrolls back, even though he never actually did."

"Well, from what we have found out, Kazaan was not actually the one who hid the scrolls, he had smugglers do it for him. So they would have had to deposit the scrolls on the radiation world and it seems that this would be difficult and not something that you could convince a smuggler to do. Also, perhaps this radiation added to the lack of retrieval. Maybe Kazaan attempted to retrieve them but was unable to because of the radiation/"

"Kazan was many things, but stupid was not one of them. Those Scrolls ended up exactly where he wanted them."

Jelena starts to feel rather distinctly that they probably could have come to this conclusion without visiting Saar.

"Considering Kazan's position within the Sith I suspect it wouldn't have been difficult for him to arrange the specialized equipment required to visit such a world," Wentar adds. "That being said there are five other worlds to consider here that we know little about, the radiation on this sixth one is obvious but the rest may have been valid choices for reasons we have not discovered yet."

Is there a way Wentar can display the locations of the other five worlds for Saar to easily see/identify? If so he will do that and also ask: "What do you know about these places?"

Nope, they are all extremely dull.

"You need to listen to your instincts more," says Saar. "There is only one world of any significance in your list. Clearly, there is more to it than there seems.

"As well there should be. Kazan knew that planet was the site of the White Fortress."

Any buzzers ringing at the phrase? Seems pretty generic right off.

Jelena raises a brow.

"Should we know of this place?"

High Savoir-Faire people will have heard the term- it's a legendary pirate base whose name recurs throughout history, but always attached to a different owner or group each time it is recorded. Like the syphar n kalar itself, it's now hard to distinguish fiction from the legend as calling your home base 'The White Fortress' is an easy way for a pirate group to make an appeal to historical renown.

But no-one ever knew what it was- in fact, the name has not been used in your life time or, you think, in the last century.

"It was very active in Kazan's time," says Saar. "And Kazan was tasked to make contacts with groups that might be persuaded to help Malphas' war, directly or indirectly. It was a secret he learned.

"Not that it is that great a secret. It is, in the end, just on a very distant planet; it confers it owner no special powers. If such pirates had ever been a serious threat to the Republic, it would have been found generations ago. The main reason no-one thinks anything is there is that most people just see a world too close to a high-radiation star. Even if you travelled to the system, that's all most people ever saw. You'd have to take a very close look to see evidence of structures there, and who would bother?"

"A secret pirate base on a radiation filled world. Any other surprises in store?"

"The radiation that kills you near-instantly is not enough?"

"I'm assuming that Kazan established the sort of relationship with the pirates there that they would hold on to the Scrolls for him," Jelena says. "Though it doesn't appear he got around to collecting them."

Jelena wants to know if the world has a name, aside from its association with the White Fortress.