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=== Episode 7 - The Great Hunt ===
:''behind enemy lines''

(( videos are taken from the MMORPG Star Wars - The Old Republic, they are in German ))

In the evening the heros met at the Dealer's Den Cantina in Coruscant's Old Galactic Market District [[file:Cantina2.jpg|thumbnail]] where they get a message from an old contact, ambassador Asara (previously met in Ep.1). She had a delicate mission for our heros. One of her best friends, an [[Republic Strategic Intelligence Service|SIS]]-Agent named [[#The Protagonists|Avar Loag'darn]], was in great danger, his identity nearly uncovered. The SIS had not the possibility to get to his aid without taking the risk a new war for he was sitting on [[Dromund Kaas]], the home world of the Sith-Empire. Silence was the answer. Most of the heros calling her nuts in their minds, but then ''UrYōma'' agreed to help. He remembered having a vision of this situation connecting it with the lost crystal shards of his people. The two smugglers were given a cargo of medical equipment to deliver but the highest wages were for the two bountyhunters ''Leigh'' and ''Jess'', for they got an invitation for participating in the Great Hunt, as a wildcard for the last free place. So all agreed and after some preparation startet to Dromund Kaas into the heart of the Empire. After landing on ramp 25-C of the imperial Starport of Kaas-City the crew accidently met ''Avar'', who worked at the starport to tilt the loads of the incoming transports. They quickly arranged a meeting in the Nexus-cantina that very evening to discuss further plans.

Meanwhile Jess and Leigh took a taxi to the Mandalorian Outpost which was right next to the Citadel, the seat of the Sithcouncil and home of the Emporer himself.
There they were informed that a large number of other hunters had arrived for the competition and had procured sponsorship; far too many, in fact, for the Hunt. After being assigned a handler by the name of Crysta, the Bounty Hunter is informed that each potential entrant must carry out three high-profile bounties on Dromund Kaas, as a means of thinning the herd of potentials. Afterward, the remaining elite bounty hunters will compete in a grand melee to determine the winner of the last entry into the Hunt. 

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oUK7vnKs0s| Intro to the Great Hunt (video link)]
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhQtXsnGotE| First Bounty (video link)]

With the new task at hand they reunite at the [[Khan]] to plan the rescue. So the first bounty was to track down a Republic noble that somehow got sold as a slave on Dromund Kaas and is now stuck in the middle of a slave riot. His family would like him returned, preferably alive but hey, slave riot, so a corpse to send back will also pay some too.  That seems kinda chaotic. But that’s not all! Once they found the camp, he was not there! It turns out that he once had a fling with an Imperial noble, who has found out that he is a slave on the planet and had arranged for an escape. Taking a closer look at the riot, the heros watched some slaves using the force, torturing the nobles, now slaves themselves, with force lightning. Carefully they retreat from the place to safety after they found a holo in the ramparts of the remaining slavetents.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw6mFKDYzkY| Holo found (video link)]

The two lovers are now posing as brother and sister and hanging out in Kaas City at a Cantina.  Well, time to go break up that date. So the two Bountyhunters left for the Nexus Cantina in Kaas City to catch their first bounty.
The second bounty was a bit more straight forward if not a bit more depressing.  A big to-do officer in the Imperial Navy has a daughter who is a Sith. They are all very proud. But lately her master got insane and rebelled against the Dark Council. 

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NnalSHdCd4| Second Bounty (video link)]

That’s the next bounty. Kill the daughter before anyone can find out they’re related and potentially cost him his job and his life for siring a kid who got picked by an insane Sith Lord. Great. But how to get her? Her master lives in a fortress, feeding his paranoia. Researching the holonet and using their connections to the Spaceport, they set up a trap. Using the greed of her master for lost artifacts they got her to the spaceport and caught her in carbonite. By returning her alive her father expresses the deep regrets he was having about essentially sending an assassin after his daughter.  That family is more important to him than his career. Confirming the second Bounty he paid a bonus to the two Hunters who left his office afterwardsreturning to Crysta for further instructions.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCvBHhDnO08 Third Bounty (video link)]

By now Crysta Markon, the Bounty Hunter's 'handler' for the Great Hunt, had a hunch that the assignments that the two were handed out were fixed. They were far too deadly and difficult for standard assignments in the situation. Jess and Leigh still wanted to go on and reach their goal: participation in the Great Hunt. The designated target once again brought them deep into the jungle surrounding Kaas City and the "excavation site" that Captain Medle had pointed out was practically crackling of Dark Side energy. Dried husks of dead archeologists littered the grounds and living ones were stalking the area with eyes blazing in unholy light. Entering the [[Dark Temple|large temple structure]] that had actually been a tomb for many an ancient Sith Lord, the group found that the souls of the dead were running wild and had taken possession of various people on the site, subjugating the rest to their will and trying to establish what looked like little kingdoms.

The target, Commander Gargun had himself fallen prey to one of the spirits. He was very quickly dispatched by a well aimed shot from Avar and his name tag was recovered as had been the instruction. Unfortunately UrYōma also sensed that the sarcophagus of that Sith Lord, Aloysius Kallig, also contained one of the force-crystal shards that he so desperately searches for. But the spirit of the dead Sith was too powerful. In the end Mara had to stike a deal with the spirit, get an ancient sword from another tomb and exchange it for the crystal shard in order to save the old UrRu mystic.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq0_t9s7UGA Beginning of the Great Hunt (video link)]