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The Rodian Bomber
The Rodian Bomber
NEKTEL VERUUN
10,000c
DEAD OR
ALIVE
CRIMES : TERRORISM, MURDER, AND
CORPORATE SABOTAGE
SPECIES : Rodian. Brief : Three standard months ago, the subject
SEX : Male. conducted the first of several terrorist attacks by
AGE : 42. setting off a violent oxygen tank explosion in the
KNOWN ASSOCIATES : Kardamen Laboratory he supervised at the Santhera
Creel (Human Male), Helent Dubraol Pharmaceutical R&D Complex in Freth City,
(Twi’lek Female). Belderone, killing 14 employees. Followed up
ORIGINATOR : Prefect Harkin quickly with a home-made spore bomb in a
Rathmire, Belderone, Tion Cluster. Government Building, killing an additional 8
RECEIVER : Any Tion Hegemony citizens.
Law Enforcement Office. Subject has continued his sporadic attacks, with
DETERMENT : Unwarranted loss of targets ranging from transportation hubs, to local
life or damage to private property in industrial facilities on planet. Each time utilizing a
pursuit of subject shall result in up to home-made device utilizing several unique
50% reduction in posted bounty. 25% customized biological agents of his own devising.
reduction of payment for dead Authorities suspect that the Subject is allied with
recovery. Kardamen Creel of Belderone, but no material
evidence has been located to support the claim.
THE RODIAN BOMBER
I n this investigation, the PCs pursue a MEANS, MOTIVE, AND
dangerous terrorist and bomber on the run
from the Law Enforcement on the planet of OPPORTUNITY
Belderone. Nektel was a model employee at Santhera
Homemade Spore Bombs have been set for the vast majority of his 15 years in their
off in numerous locations across the planets employ. And was one of the fastest rising
Capitol City of Temmell. stars in their Research and Development
Branch. And is still to date the youngest
Which began with a devastating detonation being ever assigned their own laboratory and
three standard months ago in the Wullex research team in the company's 100 year
Administration Building in downtown history.
Temmell, killing 27 citizens in the process,
many of which were high ranking local Until two years ago that is, when his team
Government Officials. was working on a project and had a
monumental breakthrough, just not in the
way that they had hoped for. The team was
BIG QUESTION, ANSWER, assigned with trying to find a chemical that
could be mass produced as a spray able
AND CULPRIT agent that would eliminate the harmful
The main culprit is a male Rodian named effects of a Mycotoxin that was present in
Nektel Veruun, a former Team Lead for the mass on the planet Dellalt.
Santhera Pharmaceuticals Research and Instead of finding a way to neutralize or
Development Section out of Freth City on eliminate the deadly effects on organic
Belderone. lifeforms exposed to the mycotoxins released
Nektel was driven to his terrorist actions as by the sample fungus plants provided. The
a way to try to eliminate those who ruined his team instead inadvertently found a chemical
life, as well as countless others, in a high compound that vastly magnified the
level corporate cover-up that reaches to the damaging effects of the mycotoxins, to a
highest echelons of power on Belderone. point that organic species exposed to the
modified fungus now had a staggering 85%
The big question is, “Where is Nektel mortality rate, instead of the original 43%.
hiding?” And the answer is, “In a
decommissioned water treatment plant on The project was immediately scraped, and
the outskirts of Freth City on the planet Nektels team was assigned another project
Belderone.” to work on. And as far as Nektel knew, that
was the end of the companies dealings with
Nektel was given access to the abandoned the Cadaverdae Fungus of Dellalt. Until a
facility by Kardamen Creel, who owns the few weeks later when one of his lab
facility under one of his many shell assistants, a female Whiphid by the name of
corporations, MMI Holdings. And the Rodian Uksus Jefir, informed him that she noticed
Bomber is using it as his base of operations that all of the old samples from the
to fabricate the biological munitions he uses Mycotoxin project were suddenly missing
to such devastating effect in his attacks. from the Companies Archive Storage
Facility.
Kit Krondih : Human Male, Age 52, Deputy Director for the Food
and Drug Administration, Belderone.
Kex Frent : Ithorian Male, Age 43, Sanitation Engineer for the
Wullex Maintenance Department.
Ulik Burrs : Arconian Male, Age 56, Sanitation Engineer for the
Wullex Maintenance Department.
ENCOUNTER III: NEKTELS FLAT She will show the PCs around the flat if
they ask, and there is not much of note or
Nektel lives in Flat 3714 of the Helmoor
outside of the ordinary stuff that normally you
Heights high-rise in Freth City. According to
see in a low-rent apartment building.
records he shares this unit with Helent
Dubraol, a Twi’lek female. Except for what she will refer to as Nektels
“Workshop”. Which is really just an
Helent and Nektel have been dating for
over-crowded workbench along one wall of
years, and he was helping put her through
the flats only bedroom, and is filled with the
school while she works the late shift as a
tools and equipment of a hobbyist
Bartender at the Randy Rancor.
Droid-Maker.
As soon as the PCs get close to the bench,
ENCOUNTER KEY CLUES
a tiny little mechanical construct will activate
The PCs will arrive at the flat just as Helent off of the motion of their movements, and will
is getting back home, presumably from a call out in a high pitched modulated voice
shopping trip, as her hands are loaded down “Raaawwww, Keltore want a protein Chip!”
with bags filled with food stuffs. As the tiny little bird-like automaton comes to
And she will not notice the PCs as she life.
struggles to try and balance all of the bags, Any PC with a rank in either Mechanics or
while also trying to scan her right palm to Computers will instantly identify the Bird is
unlock and open the front door. And in the from the galactically popular Kelvan
end will end up spilling most of the goods Industries “Do-It-Yourself Artificial
onto the tiled floor. Muttering “Kriff my life!” Intelligence Programing Kit” line.
as she bends down to gather things up.
Where hobbyists can start off learning how
By this point in time, she is used to the to create their very own custom AI Programs
attention and endless amount of questions for Droids. The MK-67 is a very basic unit
from what feels like every single law that was sold to help teach and demonstrate
enforcement agent on the entire planet. And how a droid brain can be taught to learn
will allow the PCs to come inside if shown languages and the ability to speak.
their IPKCs and Target Permit, in exchange Basically the little Droid records and
for them helping her bring all of her dropped analyzes everything that is said in its
goods inside. presence, and the Programmer rewards the
Helent will tell the PCs the same thing she unit when it progresses positively with
has told everyone else that has come to “Protein Chips” which are just tiny little metal
question her. disks.
• “No she has not been in contact with It is an entry level unit that shows a
Nektel at all since the Lab Explosion” Programmer how a unit can grow and evolve
with stimulation, and positive and negative
• “No she did not see it coming” feedback.
• “Nektel never showed any signs of mental Helent will tell the PCs just how much she
instability” hates that damn bird, and how embarrassed
• “She didn’t even know he was seeing a she would be if the damn things memory was
shrink, or was on meds to try and help his ever released to the public, given its close
condition” proximity to the bed she and Nektel shared.
He knows that it is futile to turn himself in, How they intend to bring him in to collect,
as they are sure to kill them both as soon as well that is a different matter entirely. And the
he does. As he has recently learned, these truth be told, will greatly depend on your PCs
kinds of people will do anything to keep and how the rest of the investigation had
things quiet for themselves. gone up to this point.
So Nektel has decided that desperate Will they try to pull off some crazy plan to
times call for desperate measures. Knowing subdue him right there in the office, risking
that Kardamen is only using him for the the spore bomb detonating and killing them
chaos he has created here on Belderone to all?
further his own business needs.
Will they instead offer to go and retrieve
He has decided to ensure that his new Helent from her captors, in return for Nektels
benefactor will help Helent out, and not word that he will come along quietly after she
simply eliminate him and leave her to die is free so they can turn him in to the
rather than risk exposing his involvement in Authorities?
this business.
Or most likely, knowing the unpredictable
So Nektel strapped on the largest device nature of PCs, they will come up with
he had ready, and proposes to kill them all, if something totally out of left field that you
Kardamen does not immediately dispatch never saw coming. And throw you for a loop
Soq and his hit squad to get her back. as you scramble to work your way through it
all!
And he is prepared to stand there in his
posh office, with his finger on the trigger, and Which is why this supplement ends here,
wait until he gets word directly from Helent and leaves the rest of the “Tale of the Rodian
that she is safe. Bomber” up to you and your table to
complete….