// Subject: V. Kallaro — Free Fleet — Sisar Run
A Chronicle of the Outer Rim
Commodore Vex
2 turns recorded
A larger pirate king died last week. Twelve ships. No clear heir.
Three captains have reached out. The window is three weeks.
A larger pirate king died last week. Twelve ships. No clear heir.
His captains are already shooting each other. Three of them have
reached out to Vex — separately, with
money behind the couriers. The window is three weeks. The chronicle
begins.
- When
- 7 ABY, Month 3, Standard Day 26
- Where
- Si'Klaata Cluster, Hutt Space, Outer Rim
- Specifically
- Aboard the Iron Promise, at the flotilla rendezvous in the dust-haze of the Sisar Run — Vex returned from Lekzaar Station late on D25 after a day of business in Vellora's court, the Brace, and a CSA-adjacent fence on the lower concourse.
- Weather
- Deep space at the rendezvous; sodium and warm tungsten running-lights bleeding into the dust of the Sisar Run.
- Season
- Vodran's long-cycle storm season.
The State of Things
- Brokho Ral dead approximately one standard week ago. Succession conclave ~20 standard days out per the threads clock.
- Vex's debts and obligations as of dawn D26: 25,000 cr informal loan to Black Sun (via broker Tovas Riin at Vorzyd 5), comm-warm lien indefinite; 5,800 cr to Bharzh (Vellora's house), 45 days; 10-day intelligence deliverable to Bharzh on the Pyke supercargo team at Dock 14.
- Crew payroll just settled (8 days of arrears cleared). Next cycle 14 days from now.
- Kessha has disclosed Hutt-cartel-cataract in her left eye — her tactical judgment in low light is degrading on a long-form clock.
- Inye-Saa's stolen Hutt majordomo decryption keys still aboard the Soft Reckoning; Kessha will attempt to move them to a dead drop before the Black Sun callback.
- Tarka's sundown offer of 12,000 cr expired without response. The deal may or may not be recoverable.
- Vex has, finally, told one other person about the carbon scoring on Brokho's bulkhead.
Dramatis Personae
Laila Vorne
A female Mirialan in her mid-thirties, NRSB Outer Rim envoy,
Hanna City desk for four years previous.
Brokho
A Houk warlord from the dust quarters of Sriluur — Vex's
homeworld, his own clan's traditional rivals — Brokho Ral
was a generation older than most pirate-tier captains and
twice the size of any of th…
Inye-Saa
A male Weequay of the Sun-Burnt clan, twenty-eight standard
years old, four years offworld.
Kessha
A female Weequay of the Sun-Burnt clan, fifty-one standard
years old, the third-most senior clan-member known to be alive
offworld.
Bharzh
A male Sullustan, fifty-two standard years old, in Vellora the
Hutt's service for nineteen years.
Mira
A human in her late thirties, Coruscanti by accent but Outer
Rim by adolescence — her family ran a customs-broker office on
Fondor that the Empire absorbed, then squeezed, then
nationalized; she joine…
Ryela
A green Twi'lek in her early thirties, born on Ryloth,
raised in slavery on Klatooine — sold by her own father at age
four to settle a Hutt-cartel debt, freed at fourteen by a
Klatooinian slaver-revol…
Tarka
A Kajain'sa Nikto — red-skinned, the Hutt-bound
subspecies — in his late forties, scarred across the muzzle
from a vibroblade fight on Nar Shaddaa in 4 BBY that he tells
differently every time.
Vellora
Vellora is a Desilijic minor of middle rank, old enough to
remember Jabba personally (she was a young calf when Jabba was
already a regional power), young enough to still be
calculating her career.
Factions in Motion
Black Sun
The galaxy-wide criminal syndicate that ran more spice, arms,
slaves, and assassinations than the Hutt Council under Prince
Xizor's leadership, and that has been fragmented but not
dissolved since Xiz…
Csa Arms Web
The Corporate Sector Authority is the underrated
political-economic actor of the post-Endor Outer Rim — a
corporate-chartered government covering thousands of systems,
operating its own militarized po…
Desilijic Kajidic
Vellora the Hutt is a Desilijic minor of middle-rank — old
enough to remember Jabba personally (she was a young calf when
Jabba was already a regional power), young enough to still be
calculating her …
Free Fleet
The Free Fleet was Brokho Ral's twelve-ship federation: a
Houk warlord's umbrella operation running cargo and
protection along the Sisar Run from Sriluur down through the
Si'Klaata Cluster to Klatooin…
Nrsb
The New Republic Security Bureau, founded 5 ABY in Hanna City
on Chandrila, formally administers the bounty boards for
Imperial fugitives.
Pykes
The Pyke Syndicate's interest at Lekzaar is functional:
they need carriers, the Free Fleet was their carrier, the Free
Fleet's leadership is up for grabs.
Places of Note
Iron Promise
A VCX-100 light freighter (CEC, Ghost-class), 43.9 meters bow
to stern, two decks, twelve crew aboard at standard
complement, fourteen presently.
Lekzaar
Lekzaar is a captured asteroid in low orbit around Vodran,
hollowed out and pressurized over two centuries by Hutt-cartel
money, run as an independent dockyard-port for ninety standard
years and as a …
Brace
The Brace is Lekzaar Station's third-tier concourse —
half cantina, half open market, lit at the upper galleries by
saturated magenta and cyan neon and at the booth pools below
by warm tungsten incand…
Soft Reckoning
A Marauder-class assault corvette (Republic Sienar Systems,
originally Corporate Sector Authority anti-pirate enforcement
vessel), 195 meters bow to stern, brutalist wedge silhouette
with a flat dorsa…
Yuthura's Pyre
Brokho Ral's flagship — a captured Quasar Fire-class
cruiser-carrier, 340 meters bow to stern, originally a
SoroSuub bulk transport repurposed into a light carrier by an
Imperial-aligned warlord durin…