Player Handout 2: Celis Bol’s Personal Log

[21 days ago]
I can’t believe I’ve been here four months. I want to go back to Caarimon. It’s not natural, to hide ourselves below the surface of this rock! We should be out in the light of the suns, arranging trade agreements – not hiding and watching a bunch of wood-loving freaks. There are only so many ways I can keep this job interesting. Scramble this, descramble that, track shipments, do inventory – there is more to running a great trade alliance than hiding. There must be. Are we not one of the most powerful trading concerns in what remains of the Republic?

[20 days ago]
Envoy Loogg spoke today over the Caarite holonet. All seems to be going well. There is prosperity at home, and the alliances he had sought to forge are stronger than ever. As the galaxy divides itself, it is those who stay out of the conflict who will be strongest when the smoke clears. Let the Loyalists and the Separatists kill one another, and when the winner emerges, weak from the fight, those who were wise from the outset will be there, waiting. Not that wise Envoy Loogg said as much, of course. But that’s what everyone believes. Long live the Cartel!

[18 days ago]
Ko Bas asked me to boil bean juice for him today. Is that all I am? A bean juice boiler? I showed him, though – a little spittle in the bean juice may be just what Ko Bas needs.

[16 days ago]
Paycheck docked. Blast Ko Bas and his blasted purifier! They threatened to make me program the bean juice boiler to detect the presence of impurities, and I’d be tempted (since, doing the programming, I could refrain from defining my own spittle as an “impurity”) if not for the fact that they have me working on the pseudonet encryption*. It’s the most important project around, and I’m just happy they didn’t take me off it. It just goes to show, I’m too good for boiling bean juice. I need to be more careful.

[14 days ago]
The visitors have gone. It makes all of us uneasy when outsiders are brought here. The people of Cularin really dislike us, and bringing in humans – even those who claim to be our allies – does not do great things for morale. I know that I – will complete this thought later. Explosion in south corridor, near Ko Bas’s office. Should goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo**

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*: You, the hero, have never heard of “pseudonet encryption.” Sounds interesting, but completely unfamiliar.
**: The o's represent corrupted data.