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Thread: Space Content Proposal: Smuggler's Run, Skip 1, and Underworld Content
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NickHeel
Fri May 13, 2005 4:26 pm
#1
I was reading about the Avatar Platform/Station and looking at the screenshots and I figured it was about time for me to do something worthwhile to my imagination even as futile as it may be just like my old Kessel Runthread.So, I was rereading the Han Solo Trilogy, and specifically The Hutt Gambit for the umpteenth time and I thought back to a post I made with Thunderheart back in mid January. CLICKY for Thunderheart's Comments.
Here's an explaination of what the real Smuggler's Run and Skip 1 is from The Han Solo Trilogy from page 79 and onward in The Hutt Gambit.
Smuggler's Run was a hideout for sentients on the lam who were even "hotter" than the denizens of Nar Shaddaa. Smuggler's Run was a series of hideouts--actually, artificial environments whittled out of several large asteroids locatedin the middle of a huge asteroid field. The main one was a smelly hole bored in to a large asteroid that was known as Skip 1.
[snip]
Skip 1 was a regular warren of rooms, dining halls, gambling dens, bars, and drug hideaways. Han was frankly nervous, as he realized that here, even more than on Nar Shaddaa, there was no law. None.
Han could die here, and no one but Chewie (presuming the Wookiee was still alive himself, an unlikely assumption) would ever know or care. Han was careful not to letany of his nervousness show. He had gronw up with lawless people, had seen plenty ofdegenerate spirits by the time he was ten. He'd just neverencountered quite so many bloodthirsty, desperate lost beings in one place before.
As he and Zeen headed for the bar, Han noticed the runnel of greenish-yellow gooey liquid oozing along a channel cut into the middle of the stone floor. Chewbacca snuffled, then growled in protest. "Yeah, that really stinks," Han said, his nostrils twitching. "What the heck is that stuff, Zeen? It's on the walls, too..."
"Oh, it's just the ooze we gotta put up with, kid," the smuggler told him. "Stinks, don't it? Every so often we get to thinkin' we ought to find out where it comes from and dam it up. It's some kinda proto-organic compound, they say, mixed with sulfur."
So, as you can see. This would be a sweet place to hang outand run missions from and to add someUnderworld flavor to the game by adding in some great NPCs like those listed below. Would be a great Theme Park like Jabba's but with functionality for people who want to go and hang out, hide out, and catch some small repairssince that was the main purpose of the facility anyway.
Heck, you could add the NPCs below in where you run missions for them...Smuggling missions in a theme park sense. Check out their descriptions:
Zeen Afit: Captain of a clunky old freighter, the Corona. Zeen Afit is a craggy-faced, aging smuggler with a lot of experience.
Jarril: A sallow, thin man with scars on his face.
Kid DXo'ln: An older man with a receding hairline and captain of the Starfire who took Han on his first Kessel Run.
Sinewy Ana Blue: A beautiful woman with long black hair who definitely stands out in a mix of unsavory smuggler types. She's one of the top smugglers around and runs wicked sabacc tables. Her defining characters are a bright blue tooth in the front of her mouth and her "taste" for married men since they offer more "sport" than single bachelors. Zeen Afit describes her as "pure sabacc" and "prime grade ore".
Wynni: A Wookiee female who's as tall and muscular as Chewie with blue eyes. She's a bit forward for Wookiee females and has a hankerin' for Wookiees like Chewie.
Notes: I was thinking of removing the empty and useless Smuggler's Run POI in the Yavin system and replacing it with a thick asteroid field and a station resembling Kashyyyk's Avatar Platform/Station only without the crazy killer stuff and more of a cantina feel. Make it a space theme park that you can also hang out at and get Smuggling missions from. But I did some researching and I found out some different stuff.
The actual Smuggler's Run was located somewhere need Ryloth and Roon in the Outer Rim with a strait shot to Nar Shaddaa and Kessel. The 2 closest systems we have in game to that area of the galaxyare Tatooine and Lok. Since Han had never really heard or been to Tatooine until near A New Hope, then I think Lok space near the Arkanis Sector would be best. There's already some nice asteroid fields there anyway.
Now, I realize that my Kessel Run idea is a bit hard and over the top (somewhat) but when you look at Avatar Station and the way it's set up, this is almost a copy and paste job minus all the killer stuff and adding in NPCs, areas to hang out, run missions, and maybe a neat cargo bay that would allow you to see your fighter or freighter parked where you could work on it like you see Han do with the Falcon in the movies.
So, what do you all think and consider Thunderheart's statement in the link near the top 
Message Edited by NickHeel on 05-13-2005 07:11 PM
RogueCloudwalker
Fri May 13, 2005 4:30 pm
#3
Sounds good, in fact someone once suggested it for use as some cross-server Smuggler meeting place once. I have no clue how to make that happen! For quests, can't forget Dash Rendar of course. We have to throw him in somewhere. Would you make the place Smuggler's only? Would you get Smuggling missions there only or could you go to Jabba and get a mission from him? You know, it would be neat if we could have instanced hangars and have a few peoples ships in each instance. That would be pretty cool.
Message Edited by RogueCloudwalker on 05-13-200507:30 PM
Message Edited by RogueCloudwalker on 05-13-2005 07:30 PM
NickHeel
Fri May 13, 2005 5:13 pm
#4
RogueCloudwalker wrote:
Love the proposal, but we could use your help in the Jedi forum and here. Seems Jedi are starting to eye our Last Ditch special for a nerf. It will be over my dead body and hopefully many Jedi bodies.
I didn't even have the final version up when you posted! /fwop 
And I'll check it out.
Otherwise, keep the topic on the original post and save the Jedi/Last Ditch stuff for the appropriate thread. The Kessel Run stayed on track real well and I'd like to do the same with this one.
Zeon_Zaku
Fri May 13, 2005 5:17 pm
#5
Sounds like some interesting ideas.
Message Edited by Zeon_Zaku on 05-13-2005 05:25 PM
NickHeel
Fri May 13, 2005 5:20 pm
#6
By the way, Kid DXo'ln or Jarril didn't bite it in the big Ylesia raid or the Battle of Nar Shaddaa did they? I can't remember 
Message Edited by NickHeel on 05-13-2005 07:29 PM
Daak_Gelrin
Fri May 13, 2005 5:26 pm
#8
That's a great idea! Would really make me "feel" more like a smuggler in the game for sure. I like the idea of having a place to hang out, get some missions, and chat (spelled d-r-i-n-k) it up with fellow smugglers. 5 *'s for you my friend!
i-m-pcommando
Fri May 13, 2005 7:28 pm
#9
good idea i think there should be like smuggler space stations i mean if u read Vector prime by i think salvatore it mentions alot of em and i think we should aim for a more reallistic experience
NickHeel
Fri May 13, 2005 10:35 pm
#10
I never read that but I may pick it up. I'm always looking for a new Star Wars novel with some underworld stuff in it in the slightest
i-m-pcommando wrote:
good idea i think there should be like smuggler space stations i mean if u read Vector prime by i think salvatore it mentions alot of em and i think we should aim for a more reallistic experience
Road-Kill21
Fri May 13, 2005 11:28 pm
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I honestly think this should be a smuggler only location. However, seeing as smuggler sometimes smuggle people, there could be exceptions for our "cargo". Now I have no clue how this would be implemented (who can go and why) but it has potential.
ApollyonTB
Fri May 13, 2005 11:39 pm
#12
this is a great idea.
Hell most of the ideas that come from the smug boards are great ideas
TomoRainer
Sat May 14, 2005 12:21 pm
#13
Road-Kill21 wrote:
I honestly think this should be a smuggler only location. However, seeing as smuggler sometimes smuggle people, there could be exceptions for our "cargo". Now I have no clue how this would be implemented (who can go and why) but it has potential.
The problem in making an area like this smuggler-only is it's much easier to push an idea that provides content for as many people as possible. My suggestion, if it's palatable, would be to find a way to make a lot of stuff open to any pilot or passenger who flies out there--the idea of a space object you can dock with and walk around in is one of the top wants of the pilot profession--but to include smuggler-only content as well. Maybe some new missions, revamp-related contacts, things like that. Heck, even an entire theme park, if they want to go that far.
I like the suggestion either way, I just see it as more likely to be implemented and more fun for more people if it's not completely exclusive to a single profession.. deserving though that profession may be.
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