Contract AA-23

Player Handout 1: Welcome to Nar Shaddaa


The Mission – A Favor For a Jedi Master

The Clone Wars has been a difficult time for all the Jedi of Cularin, but when Master Lanius summoned you to ask for your help, there was something different about his demeanor. He was certainly concerned that his old friend, Senator Jasso Toryn, was asking for help in this time of war, but his concern seemed largely directed at the senator's daughter. Korlana Toryn was to be sent to Almas to stay under the protection of the Jedi Order. The repercussions of the Jedi losses to the Clone Wars were forgotten and Lanius almost seemed upset that he could not travel to Nar Shaddaa himself to rendezvous with Miss Toryn.

Your agreement to undertake the mission lifted a weight from the master's mind however, and at his urging you left as quickly as possible for to travel to the treacherous Hutt system where you would find the dangerous world of Nar Shaddaa and a senator's daughter.

Nar Shaddaa – The Smuggler's Moon

Located in the Y'Toub system, orbiting the Hutt home world of Nal Hutta, is the infamous den of scum and villainy of Nar Shaddaa. While Nar Shaddaa is also encased in endless city, any similarity to Coruscant ends there. While Coruscant is the center of the Republic, a shining beacon of light that leads the galaxy, Nar Shaddaa is quite the opposite. This vile moon is a central criminal haven, a desolate shadow that consumes those who get lost in it.

The surface of the planet is covered with vertical cities that are crowned by fueling spires and space docks that reach into orbit, leaving the streets of Nar Shaddaa in constant shadow. Underneath topside, down in the undercity live the dregs of society—a very unsavory group of characters considering what the elite of the planet are like. These lower levels have fallen to ruin and now hide the desperate, the despairing and some say, the twisted descendants on the ancient creature that once live here and were wiped out by the Hutts.

Everything on Nar Shaddaa has a price. This includes life, which is cheap. This moon is the place many begin, and end, their life in the underworld. Slavers, spice dealers, bounty hunters, pirates, slicers and more come here to seek their fortunes where the stakes are high, and where life is nasty, brutish and short.

Totor's Party Kave

Most bars and nightclubs on Nar Shaddaa would qualify for any sane being’s “list of places to avoid”. Totor's Party Kave stands out on such a list. Not only is the bar renowned for being a den of criminal activity, but also it is actually a modified sail barge of the type favored by Hutt gangsters from across the galaxy. The Kave travels around the sky lanes of Nar Shaddaa calling at frequent stops to take on new patrons or to throw off rowdy ex-patrons. Bad music filters out of the dingy, battered hull of the barge and spice-scented smoke wafts from the open windows and main hatch of the Kave. The patrons themselves could perhaps all be on day-release from the harshest penal colony around as they size up all newcomers like fresh meat.