1 - A New Dawn

You pop out of hyperspace not far from Xorrn, and it appears to be a rust-covered world, speckled with muddy-orange clouds. Cutting across your arppoach vector, as you all crowd in the cockpit, much to Gar's dismay, you pick out the faint black specks of a debris field.

Gar maneuvers closer to the planet and the specs resolve into a conglomeration of asteroids and starship wreckage as you draw closer. A massive bulk hauler rests anchored to the skeletal remains of a Acclamator-class cruiser. Gar is unimpressed -- that stuff is decades old to him. But to each of you, it's almost like a hammer blow. Not a few months ago from your perspective, you were on an Acclamator-class cruiser with your master. The past reaches out with its unsympathetic fist and squeezes your chest.

Gar sends the IFF frequency that Davro was able to extract from the message and he receives a communication from Xorrn to land at "Landing Shaft Besh" with some coordinates. Turning the ship deeper towards the planet, Gar takes it in...

The Gundark descends into the orange clouds and the light around the cockpit has an eerie, sickly tinge to it. Gar complains that the controls are sluggish, but he's able to bring the ship in without trouble. As you break throught he clouds and approach the surface you see a few dozen spherical shipwrecks -- Trade Federation cores -- rusting in the sand below. Several deep shafts pock the surface, and one of them has flashing green lights. "That must be Landing Shaft Besh." Gar comments absently. He directs the Gundark there.

Settling into the shaft, the ship descends several hundred meters below the surface, slowly rotating around as it plays the lights outside the cockpit on the walls of the shaft. Somewhat boringly they reveal nothing more than rock. With a deft touch, Gar lands the Gundark on the platform and you all can see a group of four people awaiting your arrival. A young man appears to be in a heated argument with an older, grease-stained woman in engineering coveralls. Behind them, an older grey-bearded man and a thing woman in rich dark robes look on -- seemingly unimpressed by the argument before them.