In an abandoned industrial building on Daalang, drug-addled workers of the Cartel laboured in a fervor, knowing they would be denied their fix if they did not meet their quota. Spice was produced here by the crate-load, narcotics ranging all the way from giggledust to glitterstim, all cooked up on makeshift apparatuses with only the finest ingredients smuggled in from Kessel. The planet's location on the Gamor Run hyperspace route made it perfect for shipping the product out all over the Galactic Alliance's space, and the proximity to Hutt Space also helped Merkatua to directly compete with their biggest rivals in the black markets.
As the Cartel's 'Lead Designer', Aiden Kantos was often here, consulting with trained or semi-trained illegal chemists as they came up with wild new hybrid drugs. As a giggledust addict himself, he was one of the first to sample many new kinds of spice, that is of course after the guinea pigs had made sure it wasn't going to kill him after just one hit. Stuff like that wouldn't get them many repeat customers, anyway. It was all about finding the perfect balance between potency, addictiveness and minimal safety, and Aiden was more then willing to do his part.
Today, however, he was not here to tinker in the lab or sit around and shoot up. A new ally of the Cartel, a very important ally, was going to meet him here and discuss a unique addition to certain variants of the product, as outlined in the deal they had made with the boss. The young man in his bright clothes would be sitting in his office, a spacious but slightly musty room that had once been some kind of conference area before this place was abandoned. Two mercenaries stood behind him, and another two patrolled outside the door, but those thugs were just an insurance policy. Aiden kept most of his muscle 'motivating' the workers in the lab. He doubted there would be any trouble here, after all Iban had already made the deal with these blue-skinned guys and the Cartel was keeping its end of the bargain.
As the Cartel's 'Lead Designer', Aiden Kantos was often here, consulting with trained or semi-trained illegal chemists as they came up with wild new hybrid drugs. As a giggledust addict himself, he was one of the first to sample many new kinds of spice, that is of course after the guinea pigs had made sure it wasn't going to kill him after just one hit. Stuff like that wouldn't get them many repeat customers, anyway. It was all about finding the perfect balance between potency, addictiveness and minimal safety, and Aiden was more then willing to do his part.
Today, however, he was not here to tinker in the lab or sit around and shoot up. A new ally of the Cartel, a very important ally, was going to meet him here and discuss a unique addition to certain variants of the product, as outlined in the deal they had made with the boss. The young man in his bright clothes would be sitting in his office, a spacious but slightly musty room that had once been some kind of conference area before this place was abandoned. Two mercenaries stood behind him, and another two patrolled outside the door, but those thugs were just an insurance policy. Aiden kept most of his muscle 'motivating' the workers in the lab. He doubted there would be any trouble here, after all Iban had already made the deal with these blue-skinned guys and the Cartel was keeping its end of the bargain.
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