Transmission 34-R: Business Contact (Me, Kupo, Mulluns)

[Incubi Priest]

Eul walked through the viciously busy streets of Coruscant. Today was anything but a calm day for him, as the Gossam was more excited than a child during the holidays. He had left Ammbasha to run his crew in his absence, but had brought with him his new droid. The GP droid had been repaired to full functionality, but still had much programming that needed to be done. Other than basic combat, the droid's abilities were lax. However, given the details of a transmission he had received he would have lots of time to work on his new project.

Eul came to the foot of a very large, yet ghostly quiet, building. There wasn't anyone running in and out with important business. Absence of tumultous figures scurrying in the window made it seem dead. However, this was certainly the building he was to go to. The transmission was very clear and so the Gossam stepped inside to await further instructions as directed.

There was a very bored looking Umbarran sitting at a reception desk. Clicking through channels on the holonet, she merely waved at some chairs lining the walls.

"Please wait for Mr. Larellan. He'll be here shortly. Your droid can't attend the meeting. No surveillance software is permitted inside."

Eul shrugged and spoke with curiosity as he took his seat,

"Do you know the specifics of this meeting?"

"No," She said with a sigh, "this building is used for meetings, nothing else. We haven't had a room booked in over ten years. I guess your employer couldn't afford anything else. I take it you got that transmission? It was encrypted as hell when I got it, but I was supposed to just send it to you and Mr. Larellan. Now leave me alone, my shows about to come on."

"Hmph." Eul scoffed at her rudeness before turning to GP, "You can't attend the meeting GP. You are to wait at the entrance to the meeting room and aid me should I request it. Confirm command."

 

[Phil]

"Order confirmed. This GP Unit will stay at it's designated lovation and await further orders should the need arise, Master." GP-103 confirmed, knowing it's orders and ready to serve. It was now fully repaired and was running at 100% capacity on movement, functionality, and combat when it was needed. GP carried no firearms on him, but he did not need any with the two built in slugthrowers in his large wrists that were hidden.

 

[Kit]

It was safe to say that he didn't like surprises. Surprises meant there was an unknown, and unknowns were universally bad for business. Which was why Kitaara Larellan had been so reluctant to leave the AX-1 behind; that suit was rapidly becoming an extension of his own body. He knew it was bad for him, but... the power, the feeling it gave him, was indescribable. Which was exactly why he was not happy about the situation he was being put into.

A mysterious message, containing a meeting place and little else. Not turning up was out of the question, but so was bringing his magnificent armour, so it was in fairly nondescript clothes, and his long brown leather coat that he arrived. Pausing briefly, he looked up at the building. It was cold, dark and quiet. Almost like something out of a horror holovid.

Shaking of his slighlty depressing train of thought, he entered the building. A little digging had told him that this building was sorely underused, so he felt safe in assuming that the Gossam sat on one of the chair's dotted around the room was the man he was meant to meet. Rather than take the chance, he walked up to the desk, and spoke softly to the Umbaran sat behind.

"Kitaara Larellan, I'm here to meet with Eul Tymn?"

 

[Incubi Priest]

"Oh no Mr. Larellan," The lady said sarcastically with a smug look on her face, "I don't think he's here. I mean hell, there's no possible way that the elegantly dressed Gossam, and therefore the only patron here at the moment, is the man you're looking for. We're so busy, let me check my computers and find this mystery man for you."

Rolling her eyes, she looked back at her vid screen. Eul shook his head slowly at how utterly useless the young girl was and stood up to address the man. Though it was mainly just a formality: his head was equal to Kitaara's waist.

"Yea, I'm Eul. I take it you're that Arc guy?"

 

[Kit]

He didn't respond to the smug female, except by raising an eyebrow. He would make her life a misery when he returned to Corellia. Normally he wouldn't have bothered, but something about her really pissed him off.

Kitaara turned to face the voice that addressed him, and was slightly surprised to have to look down so much to see him. Shaking off his slight surprise, he forced a smile and extended a hand to shake the shorter man's hand.

"That would be me, yes. Kitaara Larellan."

 

[Incubi Priest]

Eul shook his hand with a polite smile. Pulling out a small device, Eul clicked a button on it and what appeared to be a coffee table with spider legs came running inside. Standing on it, Eul was now as tall as the man he was with. Turning to GP, Eul nodded.

"GP, protect the entrance. Any suspicious behavior from the female sentient must be rewarded with aggressive action." Eul cast a malicious look at the now frightened female, "Come, we're on the top floor I believe."

Eul entered the elevator, and once Kitaara was inside as well, they began the long ascension.

"So, you were told to meet me? That is odd. Do you have any idea of who contacted you?"

 

[Kit]

Larellan couldn't help but smile as Eul made his thinly veiled threat towards the woman behind the desk. His smile continued as he saw the spider-like table. It was an interesting contraption, limited scope for sales, but definitely interesting. Possibly worth looking into.

Larellan nodded and followed the Gossam into the elevator. He looked the creature in the eyes as it spoke, and pauseed for a momnet before answering.

"That's right... I wasn't told much else though. A time, a date, a place and a name." He laughed quietly before saying, "Normally, I wouldn't have come... I have far too many enemies to just go around to mystery meetings, but, well, I felt like an adventure. How about you? I'm guessing you didn't organise this meeting, so what were you told?"

He leant against the wall of the elevator as it made it's way up, which caused his sword belt to shift slightly as the sword attached to it met the wall. Resting his hand on the now revealed pommel of his favorite weapon, he placed the other on his chin.

"It's all a little bit suspect, really. I'm half expecting to find some sort of bomb up there..." He laughed as he spoke, but now he'd said it, he was definitely checking the room upon arrival.

 

[Phil]

GP did as he commanded and stood infront of the door that his Master and his contact went through. He scanned the room once, noting the only other organic in the area was the female, who was nervous as she flipped through the holonet channels, looking back at GP every few minutes. It was then two other heat signatures popped up on his scanners as he turned into the direction they were in, and spotted two sentients outside the building, but could not yet confirm who or what they were.

GP paid no attention to them, or the woman as he remained on guard. His sensors and combat proticals would activate when anyone would approach the door he was guarding, heince approaching him in the process. A few beeps came out of the droid as he remained idle...

 

[Incubi Priest]

"Nah," Eul said with a small grin at the thought of a bomb, "while I do have many enemies, I have even more allies. I'm a Spice Lord. I specialize in chemistry and physics, and I make the best spice in the galaxy. I'm on the rise, and have been eliminating what was formerly the most powerful crime lords in the galaxy. Give it another nine months, and this galaxy's underworld is mine."

He smiled and stretched before yawning as the door opened. Walking forward down the long bland hallway, the Gossam spoke now with a quite serious tone. He was suspicious of everyone short of Ammbasha, and he had done a bit of research on Kitaara. The man was an excellent business man: shrewd, cunning, and willing to bend the law to complete his goals. Just the kind of man Eul liked doing business with. On the down side, the man was a cheauvanist when it came to the subject of species. No matter, personality flaws were not always important with business.

"I was told to meet with you actually. Though I was also given the room number. It was supposed to be an incredible business opprotunity. I must say, you truly have a reputation for yourself in several different cliques in the galaxy. If we are to be working together, I can't imagine a better business partner. Ah, here we are."

Eul opened the door to what was a very large rectangular conference room. It was completely void of all life, and the only thing noticable was a blinking comm system in the middle of a large table.

 

[Kit]

Larellan couldn't help but laugh, he'd met his fair share of Spice Dealers and Crime Lords for that matter, but none quite as cocky as this guy. He had to admit, he liked the guy, despite his alien-ness.

"Oh, I'm not without friends by any stretch of the imagination, they just don't tend to go around leaving mysterious messages for no reason." He spoke with a smile, and followed the smaller creature out of the lift, into the surprisingly pleasant room, compared to the craphole that was the rest of the building.

"Reputation is the lifeblood of good business," he replied, "There's nothing more important then being known for good reasons by the right people. I'm just glad that whoever it was that chose me, chose me."

Taking a seat, and placing his boots on the table, he leaned back, making the leather chair creak ominously. He laughed, expecting it to break at any moment.

"And, if even half of what I'v eheard about you is true, you're exactly the kind of person that Arc values above any other. And the sort of person I trust most."

Casting his eye around the room, there was nothing noticeably out of place, except for the comm system that continued to blink. He wasn't familiar with the unit, it was either very old, or retro in it's design, but he did like it's look.

"Are you going to get that, or shall I?"

 

[Incubi Priest]

"Allow me." Eul said with a grin. This man was a man of business, that was obvious in his demeanor more so than in his reputation. His words were well chosen and precise, yet they came out so fluently that it seemed he was born with a tongue made of silver. Walking over to the link, he clicked it on and after a few minutes of silence, a beautiful human female hologram popped up.

"Good day sirs," the lady said with a smile, "I assume this is Mr. Larellan and Mr. Tymn? I am an agent of my employer, the Shadow Broker. You two are some of the most savvy business minds in the galaxy. However what drew my employer's attention was...your grey view on morality. I am sure you are both well aware of what I mean."

 

[Kit]

Larellan took a moment to eye up the woman, out of curiosity and good old fashioned lust; he was only human after all, and there were so few attractive human women in his line of work...

Quickly shifting his train of thought to one much more... suitable to the situation at hand, he immediately shifted into what a lot of people would refer to as the 'fight' half of 'fight or flight'. To him, this was the world he inhabited a good 90% of the time. Tiring, but very worthwhile.

"I've heard of your employer, it's hard not to in my line of work. Very much a man to stay on the good side of. And while I have to say I'm pleased at the compliment, I can't help but wonder exactly why I'm here, Miss...?"

He let the question hang, and would be perfectly happy with only a single answer. The ideal world would yield both answers, but you could never bank on getting answers for free from anyone involved with the unbelievably mysterious Shadow Broker.

Glancing over at Eul, he grinned, before moving his gaze back to the hologram. If the small Spice Lord was even remotely like himself, he would be enjoying this immensely. The anticipation and the danger factor when dealing with the Shadow Broker... it was enough to give the businessman goosebumps under his clothes.

 

[Phil]

A sound was heard, and the doors opened in the main entrence and the two figures entered through, gaining the attention of the female in the room. Before she could speak, one of the figures aimed their hand at her and fired a weapon, but no sound emited from it when the projectile slammed into her head and killed her. GP examined them more closely from the distance he was at, and immediatly recognised one of them was a droid, a GP-101 model by the looks of it as it held a silenced pistol in it's grip. The other was a male Zabrak in a nicely talored suit who was accompanied by the droid. As the two approached GP-103, his visor flashed to red as he aimed his wrist gun at the pair, but before he could issue a warning, he was zapped by a stunner the Zabrak was holding, stunning the droind and rendering it helpless.

"I've been watching you, General Purpose unit one oh three. You have made great progress on your travels within the galaxy's underworld, growing and addapting to all you touch and see. Oh, if only I could give you a life of your own, a will to act on your own accord could you be something so much greater. While you may be the only one of your kind, you are not alone in this universe, that I have made sure. Your other brothers, the other GP units still exist, many of them, and who ever it is that chooses to be your master will have a great use to us both. I'm going to upload some scematics into your system, as well as a set of corodinates that will be of use to us."

The Zabrak said, his 101 unit remaining on guard as it kept an eye on it's master as he watched him approach the 103 unit and started to plug something into his chassis.

 

[Incubi Priest]

"Morgana. You may call me by that, though I would be lying to say that it is my true name. The importance of the name is minimal, but the importance of the position is tantamount. You are here because my employer has discovered an uncharted world untouched by any sentient species. It is home to copious amounts of extremely precious metals and elements, as well as undiscovered kinds, that could be used for manufacturing weapons and armor not seen anywhere else in the Galaxy.

Also, the water is undrinkable due to immense deposits of Rykophaeling and Uthazine, two of the rarest chemicals in known space. That coupled with the vast amount of previously undiscovered elements can make for producing limitless variations of spice unlike any other."

Inside, the Gossam was bursting with excitement, but he remained calm...and suspicious. However, willing to concede and let Kitaara due the majority of speaking, the Spice Lord nodded to him.

"Mr. Larellan, does it not seem odd that we are being handed a planet of unparalleled value? The Shadow Broker does not owe us anything, so why would he merely give it to us? We are both men of business, businesses not too far from eachother I might add, so we should discern the ulterior lining in this offer."

 

[Kit]

"I would be inclined to agree, Mr Tymn..." His gaze, which had been focused on the woman, shifted to Eul as he spoke, before quickly moving back to Morgana.

"A few questions first, where is this planet, in terms of the rough area of spcae it occupies? Secondly, how is it that your employer has found it, where nobody else has? Finally, and most importantly, what is it you want from us in exchange for this information? As Mr Tymn said, you wouldn't simply give this to us, so let's have it out in the open, why are you telling us this?"

Larellan could only assume that there was a rider that had yet to be mentioned. Nobody gave away that kind of information without asking for something in return. Unless this was one of those insane, 'let's all go to some new planet to explore/colonize/mine' that always ended up with a huge number of deaths at the hands of some undiscovered monster.

 

[Incubi Priest]

"The Shadow Broker has not granted me the privilege to disclose exactly how he discovered Planet 306-4. However, I am able to tell you what he wants in return for his contribution to your careers. All he requires is a mere 12 percent exporting tax for his investment. If you cannot provide the credits to erect your facilities, than he can provide loans and satisfactory interest rates. While this is not detrimental to him, this offer is very beneficial to you. He wishes these dealings to work out, so that farther down the road when you are even more powerful, you may become a quintessential ally."

Eul eyed Kitaara inquisitively as if to signal the human to make his decision first. The deal seemed genuine, but Eul always expected the worst and looked for the ulterior motive. It was his job to do so. However, Kitaara's insight would prove a powerful factor in his decision making.

 

[Kit]

"I'll give you ten percent on all exports, once the initial investment is recouped, and only then. He'll get his credits once both Mr Tymn and I have made our money back."

He cast a quick glance to the Gossam to make sure he was alright with what he was proposing so far, before continuing.

"Furthermore, if this deal is to go ahead, I would like substantially more information about this planet; there's no point me trying to build massive refineries or extraction platforms on a planet that has nowhere near enough surface area to hold them. So before we continue, I'd like ot know everything there is to know about this planet in terms of developmental potential and ease of access."

 

[Incubi Priest]

"All information has been uploaded to the Eulogy's computers. The Eulogy, Mr. Tymn's flagship, is the vessel that both of you will be taking. Your ship will be well protected by the Shadow Broker's top men, Mr. Larellan, but should you choose to be uncooperative then your ship will be completely inaccesbile to you. This is not a threat. It is a required business standard."

Eul didn't necessarily mind having Kitaara on board with him, though he was quite offended that his state of the art security system had been breached so easily. None could access the computers without Eul's approval, but apparently the Shadow Broker had done so with ease. Deciding to hold his tongue on that matter, not wanting his emotions shown, Eul merely nodded.

"We are done here, unless either of you have more inquiries."

 

[Kit]

"It would appear so..."

Larellan stood, and reached across the table. With a single press of a button, the holoprojector turned off.

"We weren't getting anything out of her that she didn't want to tell us, were we? I really don't like the look of this, and I can't say I'm happy to leave The Eternity behind, but I suppose I have no choice now..."

He took a moment to stretch his back, and click the knuckles on each hand, before sighing. Flexing his shoulders, he shot a childish grin at the Gossam, and once more his voice was cheerful and full of energy as he spoke.

"So, shall we get going Mr Tymn?"

 

[Incubi Priest]

"It seems so." Eul smiled and stood up, standing back on his walking platform. He would much prefer one that hovered, but this would suffice as it did its purpose well. Heading back towards the elevator and beginning the descent, Eul spoke in a very professional tone.

"I need the chemicals in the water for my lucrative business operations. I have utilized techniques that no one else has tried, and they are top secret, but if I can combine new techniques with undiscovered chemicals, no one can stand in my way.

Though I am not just a spice chemist. I have been dabbling in both bioligcal and chemcial warfare, but do not have the means to fund it. Apparently I have control over the planet's water supply, so as a business proposition, if you build refineries to purify the water by extracting the chemcial content, not eliminating it, I will let you use as much water as you would like. Under the condition that I can retrieve the chemicals of course.

Also, whether or not this operation is a success, if you were to fund my B&C Warfare project, then I will give you a 15% cut of all my B&C products, as well as exclusive buyer priveleges on my top items. I think you could make a very valuable business partner."

Eul wasn't quick to jump into business deals, though it did seem that way. However it only did because his thought process was very fast paced, allowing him to make critical decisions with less time to think about them.