The Lost Jedi : Jedi Dawn

　Prices on Toprawa are pretty steep. Even the Shuttle into the City seems to dig deep into your meagre reserves. You need a way to make some credits,and fast.
　You step off the Shuttle in the main business district of the City. It's busy, noisy and very unfamiliar. In fact, you could get lost very easily here. It might be an idea to find a base of operations you can work from while you explore.
　Across the way, there's a small cafe which doesn't look too expensive. Perhaps if you buy something to eat, the owner will steer you towards some lodgings and a job?

トプラワ
Toprawa

Jedi Dawn
# 72

　The main Commercial District of Toprawa City centres on a long street - Imperial Road. To the west, this street eventually becomes the highway leading back to the spaceport. To the east, it passes through some smart residential areas, and from there towards the coast. In the middle, for about three kilometres, it presents an unbroken facade of banks, insurance houses, shipping offices, commercial headquarters and the kinds of expensive shops that people working in the other places can frequent. Side streets play host to the support companies and the second-division players. You spend several hours trudging up and down Imperial Road, looking for someone who might offer you some casual work to tide you over the next couple of days. It's hopeless. The central area is too up-market, and they don't take off-worlders, or scruffy kids who look like they've stepped straight off a cheap passenger ship after a long flight.
　Actually, it looks like jobs are at a premium in this town, except at the Imperial Research Station, which you're told is some kind of government/army establishment out by the main port. They've apparently quite a few vacancies; there's some kind of rush job they need to finish, and they don't have enough army people to do the work.
　So, nothing much to show for all your effort so far. You take a moment to scan the Public Access Bulletins on a library screen,and find a small, dark-haired man in a long, gubby coat and a blood-red scarf standing in a dark doorway. He beckons to you.

トプラワ
Toprawa

Jedi Dawn
# 169

　Cheeking to make sure no-one is watching (who knows what this guy is up to), you walk over. "New in town, son?" he asks. "Could be," you reply. "Then it could be I can help you." he replies, with a broad grin. He opens his coat, and you see he has several blank ID cards fastened to the linings. "Need any help with your ID?" Genuine Toprawan ID cards! Just what you need!
　He picks up on your interest. You didn't reply - after all, he could be an Imperial agent - but your body-language must have tipped him off. "I understand," he says. "You don't want to talk about it. That's OK, but I can provide you with one of two answers to your proolems. There's the expensive way, which gets you a new ID, but which can't be expected to last forver. Then there's the cheap way, which solves your problems permanently."
　That doesn't make sense. The second-rate choice is expensive; the best choice is cheap? Crazy. The dark-haired man, folds his arms over his chest, and waits for you to make up his mind.

トプラワ
Toprawa

Jedi Dawn
# 190

　It strikes you that there was probably something very wrong about that guy hustling the fake IDs. Not wrong as in illegal - that's obvious - but wrong as in out of place. This is an Imperial military world-base; would anyone really be so dumb as to try hustling here?
　He's tall, with dark, slightly gneasy hair, and a few days growth of beard on his face. He has a long gubby coat, and a blood-red silk scarf around his throat. You commit his face and dress to memory, just in case you see him again.

トプラワ
Toprawa

Jedi Dawn
# 521

　Your curiosity gets the better of you "OK," you ask, "What's the easy option?"
　"I didn't say it was easy." says the man, "I said it was cheap. Fancy a drink? I've some Star Racers in the cooler." At last - your favourite drink! "The name's Carmine." After a moment's hesitation, you tell him your name. He smiles. "Popular name,that. Havet, I mean, not Smith." Carmine leads you to a tall building a short distance away. At the door, he grins into a surveillance camera above the entrance. "This used to be a bank," he explains. According to the sign over the door, the building is now occupied by the Tenson Printing Company. You're tempted to ask "who are they?" Carmine sits you down, and pulls another chair up close. "Before we have our little chat, Havet, tell me - what do you think of the Empire?"
　Oh, oh. This feels like one of those no-win questions - when you get it right it's deadly and when you get it wrong, it's fatal. Great. And he hasn't even given you the Star Racer...

トプラワ
Toprawa

Jedi Dawn
# 221

　Despite the risks, you find yourself pouring out your hatred of the Empire. Strange, really, because you hadn't realised that's the way you felt. You've always hated what is hidden inside you, your Jedi past, but you've never realised how much you feel the Empire is to blame for the hatred that your heritage attracts. After all, it was the Empire who actually killed your father and grand-father, right? Even if this Jedi thing is so bad, can that really justify their they murders?
　Carmine lets you finish. He looks genuinely sympathetic. "We can help you, Havet. A few of us have been - well - planning something. A gesture,a piece of resistance. Have you heard of the Rebel Allince?" You confess that you haven't. "Well, we don't have time for the full sales pitch now," says Carmine. "Let's just say there are others who hate the Empire just as much as you do. There's going to be a war, Havet. Who knows, maybe it's will start right here on Toprawa."
　"What's that to do with me?" you ask. "We need people to join us, to fight with us," replies Carmine. "What do you say, Havet?"
　How ironic. You spend all day tramping the streets of Toprawa City, looking for work, and this man is trying to sign you up for an unpaid crusade against the Empire. Maybe it makes sense - if it meant a place to hide, a bed, food. But how could you live amongst these "rebels" and keep your terrible secret safe? Sooner or later, they'd find out you were a Jedi. What then?
　No, it isn't worth the risk. "I'm sorry you feel that way,Havet," Carmine replies when you turn down his offer. "If you ever change your mind, call this number." He hands you a business card with a commslink number on it. "You advertise?" you ask. What kind of rebellion has printed stationary? "Just because you have the number, doesn't mean you know where I am. This place will be just another empty building in the morning!"
　"One more thing," he adds. You are given a new ID Card. "Same name, same visual. It's just coded differently, so that when they swipe it through the reader, they find a record that's cleaner than your best clothes after washing day."
　He shows you to the door. "Think about what I said!" he grins,and steps aside to let you out.

トプラワ
Toprawa

Jedi Dawn
# 309