Anthan Prime was pretty nice as far as Outer Rim city planets went, in Andrena's opinion. City lights, corrupt officials, cantinas, and more than a few fences. The people kind, not the enclosure kind. Especially in the rougher parts, like where she was now. Sure it wasn't interesting as Nar Shaddaa, but on the bright side it wasn't fraking Nar Shaddaa. And on the really bright side it wasn't some weird planet with a bunch of planes, and dirt, and trees. What kind of person would want to live on a place like that anyway? Andrena personally found it baffling.
Especially the tree part.
No, Anthan was a properly civilized place. As far as planets went. It still wasn't as properly civilized as a ship or a space station. Y'know, places with actual climate control, adjustable gravity, and reactors that were easily reachable. Still it people were still in to the whole living on planets fad, so Andrena didn't have much choice if she wanted to get any business done but to actually land on one of them.
And business was the only reason she was on Anthan. She wasn't conveying any goods of questionable legality this time around, instead she was looking for a map. It was terribly cliché, but she was doing it nonetheless. Not to any lost treasures, or hidden temples of doom, mind you. But to hyperspace routes. Specifically hyperspace routes going towards Kessel. It was always fun trying to navigate that area of space, and maps though likely to not be immediately useful due to stellar drift, but you never knew. It might just have something worthwhile on it.
The only problem being actually getting a hold of the map. From what Andrena knew there was one here that had recently been sold to a fence...which now that she thought about it was a really weird word to describe someone who resold criminal goods. Where were fences involved in that.
As she got lost in her own inane thoughts she proceeded in the direction she'd been told to go by the fellow who'd sold the map. She'd been hoping to buy it from the Ithorian who'd had it, but she'd been an idiot and sold it before Andrena could actually meet her, so now she was here. And she'd probably have to pay more for it to the fence, unless of course she did something underhanded. Which she was totally going to do. She was criminal, not a proud participant in a laissez-faire capitalist system. Not that there was a lot of difference between the two, but still she had her standards. And one of them was never wasting resources she didn't have to. That was just common sense, especially growing up in space where every gram counted. You didn't throw around resources like you were never going to run out of them, and that was how Andrena treated money. As much of it as she could keep, she'd try to keep.
The only question in her mind was how to get away with the map. She didn't really care if the fence knew she did it, she just wanted it. The mark in question was a Cosian named Karmook from what she'd been told by the map's previous owner. Which meant that she wasn't entirely sure as to its accuracy, and was starting to wondder if the Ithoorian had even told her the right location for his shop, assuming the Cosian existed at all, when she finally came across it.
It was a rundown looking place with a large entrance that made it look somewhere between a parts shop, and an open air farmer's market stand. It didn't look too busy as she walked past it, pretending not to look at anything inside. Just the Cosian in question, a couple droids, and one or two customers. She didn't spot anything that screamed THIS IS A REALLY COOL MAP FOR THE KESSEL REGION to her, but that didn't matter so much. Andrena was an opportunist. If there wasn't a map, well there were a lot of other goods in there she could also steal.
The only question was how to go about stealing it. And that seemed to have a rather obvious answer. She'd take her blaster pistol, shoot the droids and have the gun pointed at the Cosian's head in seconds. Simple smash and grab.
She didn't see how it could possibly go wrong.
Assuming of course there was a factor that she couldn't see.
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