2.0 - The Shiny Cube

Once in hyperspace, the lot of you relax considerably. Yes, there's some vicious Hutt that wants a piece of Mala -- but Hutt's hungering after Twi'leks is nearly as old as the galaxy itself at this point, so you manage to sort of convince yourselves it's not a big deal.

After about a day en-route, Lin and Akhrirar work together to unpackage the job contents from your Mon Cal infochant/go-between. This isn't quite a bounty job -- but it's paying well. There's some kind of pre-Imperial artifact that a collector wants and he or she is paying a pretty penny to get it -- and soon, before someone else gets their hands on it.

The University of Reles -- Reles being the capital city of Spintir -- has become known in certain rarefied circles for having an unusual museum and collection of artifacts. Rumor has circulated that somewhere among this collection may an artifact desired by your client. It is described as a palm-sized metal cube with crystalline facets.

Your task is to validate the existence of the cube, and should it be there liberate it for delivery on Nar Shadaa. Odo - your Mon Cal infochant - warns that as word of this artifact spreads, it could become a target for acquisition by any one of a number of particularly nasty forces. As a result, he cautions you to utmost secrecy and suggests you move quickly.

The FTY pops out of hyperspace, squawking its official -- rather than its illicit -- transponder codes.As you head towards orbit and touchdown at the Reles starport, Mala reaches out to the University of Reles to see if she can arrange a tour.Spaceport control reaches out to Lin and guides him into a docking bay that has room for about three different ships of about equivalent size. A beat-up looking YT-1300 occupies one of the slots and you slide into the middle pad without any difficulty or guff from traffic control. As a civilized, and efficient, Imperial spaceport, electronic forms begin to stack up for registering any cargo, paying fees, etc. Docking fees are a bog-standard 250CR per week, and this is cheerfully applied to a bill.

Fuzil is somewhat grumpy at the fuel and repair costs. It looks like they're a good 10% higher than what you would have paid on Kwenn station, but given it's the hind-end of space spinward of the corporate sector, I suppose you can't be too fussy.