The Traitor's Gambit

The Traitor's Gambit is the first episode of the Dawn of Defiance campaign. It takes place on the Sel Zonn Station, Alderaan and Felucia.

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Sel Zonn Station


Tanyis, a Jensaarai acolyte, arrived at Sel Zonn with his companion, E6, looking for an acquaintance of Tanyis's during his padawan days named Maya Celchu. They lied about their names to the imperial custom's agent and moved along.

Behind them in line was Ceralla Vena, a miraluka padawan on constant run from the Inquisitorium. She lied about her name and moved along.

Behind all the rest in line was the fledgling ubese pirate, Dazari. She told the customs officer her name and checked her firearms. She was warned to watch herself on the station and not to get into trouble. Dazari set about the task she came here for immediately; to find Sarda. Dazari was told to look for him at a droid repair shop called Mechanical Allies.

Dazari walked in to find a twi'lek shopkeeper watching a holovid of a dancing female, which he quickly deactivated when he noticed someone in his shop. Dazari asked the twi'lek, San, where she may find Sarda, though San rebuffed that he has not heard this name. However, 100 credits later, he found the name did ring a bell after all. San asked the ubese to stay in his shop as he goes to fetch Sarda. The twi'lek left, but Dazari instead moved to the other side of the Promenade. As she waited, she saw two people next to a tree who, at first appeared to talking to each other, were actually scanning the area and speaking into commlinks in their collars.

San came back to his shop after a while and resumed his holoviewer. Dazari then noticed a cloaked figure walking up to her, to which she signaled to meet her in the store. San saw the two come in and quickly moved into a back room. Sarda asked if the ubese brought the agreed upon 400 credits, which she did. Sarda checked the credstick and was pleased.

During this time, Tanyis and E6 made their way to the second level of the promenade to Gundark's Cantina. They saw many travelers at the tables and an imperial cadet, Private Piett, at the bar waiting during his break. Separately, Ceralla walked into the bar as well after scanning the station for force users and finding no sign. They each ordered a drink and Tanyis and E6 discussed how they were to find Maya on this station. Tanyis, however, suddenly felt a disturbance in the force in the promenade. He told E6 to join him and walked out to the balcony over looking the area below and saw a cloaked figure in one of the dark hallways leading to one of the many run down areas of the station meant for non-humans. The cloaked figure was injured and soon fell to their knees in the light of the promenade. It was Maya!

The two suspicious humans seen earlier by Dazari immediately moved toward her and opened fire. Tanyis and E6 rushed toward the encounter. E6 blasted one of the shooters and picked the other up by his neck. Tanyis checked Maya and saw that she was heavily injured.

Dazari, in Mechanical Allies, hears the breakout of blaster fire. Sarda uses the distraction to dispatch the ubese, but managed only to hit her armor. She quickly turned and shot down Sarda. Then she ran out into the scene as CompForce agents came around a corner across the promenade and began firing at E6 and the pistol wielding Dazari.

Ceralla also came to the promenade and felt through the force that Tanyis was an agent of good. Private Piett also came down the stairs and nervously told all involved to lower their weapons. Ceralla calmly walked behind him, knocked him out with the butt of her katana and put him out of harm's way.

Tanyis took Maya to the nearby medical supply shop, but his ignorance of medical procedures prevented him from being able to do much. Dazari covered the two by blasting the CompForce soldiers and advising that they flee. Maya, in her delerium, spoke "Must get… V14… talk… switch…" Tanyis placed her into a force trance and fled into the darker areas of the station with E6 and Dazari. Ceralla followed behind them stealthily.

They found their way due to a map of the station downloaded hastily by E6. The dark areas were the areas where non-humans were relocated during their stay at the station. They wait for their next transit without presentable atmosphere or reasonable accommodations. A family of poor zabraks asked Tanyis if he could spare any credits as they passed.

They found their way to the on board medbay, a rundown facility not meant for privileged human patients who are instead treated planetside. As they entered a strange jawa named Spa'Ce'Kaht approached and motioned for them to set the woman down on a medical capsule. The jawa saw that the girl was in a form of deep coma and applied some cell stimulants to begin her recovery but told Tanyis her wounds were deep and she needed more medical attention than the run-down medbay could give.

The group was then approached by Ceralla, who recognized the force trance placed upon Maya and felt the presence of the force within Tanyis. Ceralla assured the group that Maya was going to be fine, a statement doubted by the jawa.

Tanyis shared the last words of Maya and E6 determined V14 was a storage locker within the station. Together they decided to travel there and find answers. Lead by Ceralla, the group found their way there easy enough and saw the door was guarded by a pair of Gamorrean guards. Ceralla told them she and her fellows were expected and the guards allowed them to pass.

Inside they found a dark storage bay with large stacks of junk, but a nice clear path toward the center of the room with a desk and a dark figure behind it. The figure was Switch the droid gang leader. Also in the room was Switch's astromech droid, R5-B8, and in a dark corner, Switch's majordomo, Cii Ren Vao.

Switch, hearing of Maya's state asked the group if they're here to receive the cargo in her stead. E6 confirmed this. Switch then asked for 1,000 credits, previously agreed upon by Maya. The credits were paid for by the jawa that had joined them. Switch informed them that the cargo was located in the main docking bay on Blue Deck, located at the apex of the station.

No sooner did the group gain this information, then the sound of blaster fire ring out behind the door to the storage bay. The door opened and a chevin walked into the room, flanked by thugs. The chevin, Ganga Lor came for revenge against Dazari for killing Sarda. However, being bored by the talk, E6 opened fire on the gangster and his thugs were soon blasted away. Ganga Lor himself was killed by a still angry Dazari. Ceralla, however, was injured due to a hit from a vibro-ax.

The group left with Switch's gratitude for ridding him of a major rival and went back to the medbay where Ceralla fell into a force trance. Spa'Ce'Kaht gave others injections of cell stimulants and they rested there for the next several hours. Later, Cii Ren Vao came to pay Dazari a visit and offered her a job as an information agent to Switch. She agreed to the offer and the twi'lek gave the ubese her first job, to smuggle a cask of spiced Corellian Ale into Alderaan.

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