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After years of misadventures and close calls, keeping his head down
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for over a decade after the Fall of the Empire, Kor had worked a
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string of pointless jobs on planets that all started to look the
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same. Occasional word of Innominate will pop up to vex regimes and
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corporations across the Galaxy, none of the mysterious group's
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members have been confirmed to be captured. Only a few people have
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ever met Kor, he was sure no one could connect the dots to a
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mysterious figure who helped expose Imperial war crimes to the
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everyman mechanic/engineer Kor Novablast. Even the Novagold family
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had failed to reach out, either due to inability to find their son
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or disinterest, perhaps they have their own post-war problems, who
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knows?
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Kor had been the resident mechanic of a sleazy used ship salesman
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on the planet Lantillies. Snuurrt, a Caaramon of ill-repute who
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read a series of Holos on how to trick customers into thinking you
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are agreeing with them while actually fleecing him, had tasked Kor
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with fixing a ship that, by all rights, should have been melted as
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scrap instead of polished for sale. "The Steel Lady" was soon painted
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beside the entry hatch (It sounded better than Snuurrts suggestion
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about "Sexy leopards" - a clear marketing ploy, and the original
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name "The Sog-Soggoth Lady")
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It was a GX-1 short hauler built right there on planet Lantillies,
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which was upgraded with a Class-1 hyperdrive of questionable
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ethical and legal origin - anything faster and it would undoubtedly
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be illegal aftermarket modding. The hack job resulted in a rather
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significant issue; the hyperdrive functions, but it pulls too much
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power from the hypermatter fuel injector, requiring over-frequent
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refueling. Kor was busy trying his best to make sure it wouldn't
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explode.
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Kor had been working for days and nights on this ship to get it in
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sellable condition, sleeping in the labyrinthian bowels of the
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ship, out of sight of Snuurrt and anyone else who might interrupt.
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One day Kor awoke with an all-too familiar feeling in his gut - he
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was in space - somebody had taken The Steel Lady off-planet. He
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soon found himself amongst new faces:
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Cyrus McCain - The Lady's new Captain.
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Duhah - a blue-skinned mystic, hidden beneath a pile of robes
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Liahra - a medic with a military past.
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The ship had been sold, and Lantillies and Kor's parts bin were far
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behind.
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The ship landed somewhere in the Roche asteroid belt, and soon
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purchased Ninedee, a display-model 9D-88 welding unit, from the
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Roache Hive. It was on this asteroid that the crew was attacked by
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a pair of bounty hunters, after a brief gun fight, Ninedee smashed
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one of the attackers over the head instantly killing him while
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Duhah incapacitated the other. The Verpine's Mandalorean gaurds
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were soon on the scene and arrested the remaining assailant.
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On Arcan we took a job with Yorseg to smuggle droid protocols to Issagra.
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They were hidden in a crate of nuts, which were much enjoyed by the
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crew. In transit, we dropped out of hyperspace -- asteroids had
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been placed in the proscribed route. It was here that we found our
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controls non-responsive and were set upon by pirates, under the
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command of Jarrusk. Outmanned and outgunned, dead in space, they
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took Yorseg's contraband without touching anything else in our
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hold.
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On Issagra Station we explained our situation to our client, after
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some investigation it was found that Jarrusk was working for
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Yorseg, and had placed a bounty on our ship. As customary, we took
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on more work, including passage for Faisel Exoleap and his 2
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droids. After leaving the station, the ship went into hyperspace.
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This was a bad idea. After jumping from planet to planet, making
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deliveries as The Lady was hired to do, Kor desperately tried to
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hold the ship together.
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Kor once badly damaged his hands in an explosion of steam, but
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despite his hard work the hyperdrive finally became in-operable.
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The ship lost all power. Floating adrift through space, the crew
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had plenty of time to think but not enough food to do it for long.
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Soon an ancient (lude) statue was found amongst Exoleap's "luggage"
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with enough gold gilding to repair the burnt-out wiring. We were
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fortunate enough to pilot the ship to Madman Mooney's used
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spaceship sales, located on a small asteroid nearby.
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The Steel Lady was sold, the proceeds of this transaction were used
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to purchase The Silver Falcon. Moments after the transation took
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place, the faulty hyperdrive exploded, completely obliterating Mad
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Man Mooney's asteroid and all inhabitants.
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