//This will act as a connection point, forum RP and documentation required for the Collector Plot involving Ira’dana, Feya Delon, Kairos Ward, Knight Qy, myself, DM Tally and possibly DM Valo as needed.
Starting data…
Step by step investigation basis, the following leads are to be investigated as possible.
- Lab on Sleheyron
- Infinite Empire?
- Dead Hutt the AI had impersonated
- Echani Command
- Gero the Hutt
Steps taken so far.
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Myself and Kairos will be reviewing the Archives. - Complete
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Master Qy will review the Knights Archives for intel and pub crawling to review Cartel info and Hutt intel on Gero. - Complete
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Ira will work on Echani Command to arrange a meeting
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Feya and Ira will both write out what they can remember about the Collector and their time under them. - Complete
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Work on contacting Gero the Hutt and set appointment for a meeting with him
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Begin prep for trip to Sleheyron lab.
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Recently the Sentinel would be seen hunting through the Archives with Kai for extended hours, digging up intel on anything that “might” be found on the Infinite Empire, The Collector, old reports or leads on such things that “might” be connected to him, informing the Archivist that with her Masters blessings, she was granted access to possibly restricted files that have anything attached to these matters.
//Leaving this open for Tally to respond to.
There’s no reports for anything so direct or fanciful as the empire the Collector described, nor any A.I of his complexity or intent. Any attempt to ask the scholars of the temple led to them gently insisting that someone may be playing a trick on them. Looking at ripples in the criminal organizations the Collector infiltrated, as well as his pattern of collecting rare individuals might be used to create a more solid timeframe, however.
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Back in the pits, the Trandoshan thought as he spent some time in the Cantina in Tattooine. He looked like a rough customer, grizzled hunter, out for a better score. Someone who shouldn’t be messed with. It had been some time since he’d hung out in dives like this. The scent of the cheap and ill-smelling and tasting alcohol of questionable quality. The general air of rough tension in the air. A place where people came to gather but still felt alone. All feelings he’d thought he left behind. But there were appearances to maintain, and information to collect. Cantina first, he could check the bounty hunter’s guild later. He definitely looked the part, after all.
A few hands of Pazaak may earn a few credits, but more importantly, open a few mouths. A shared drink might get some conversation going. Or just listening to the gossip going about, might give some clues, rumors. Maybe he’d find something about Gero the Hutt or the Collector, or the Hutt he was impersonating, or maybe they were old news by now. He didn’t know. Cartel business was rough, after all. Still, for one who could blend in, and had their ears open, maybe they’d find out something. The scent of desperation, decay, and cheap booze was something he was well acquainted with, after all.
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(( long post alert 
Ira’dana busy typing through the encryption channel to Echani command.
I want to ask Echani command agent Y'serna of clan Lsu to visit viscara and the order of the temple. The case of the collector been reopen and they want to talk. Also i am pleased to report there is a male Echani who shown up on Viscara, Caelian of clan Lsu. I had done my best to guide and protect but he lost his memory due to a head injure. It might be good for him to see you Y'serna.
May the moon watch
-Ira'dana, Echani command firedancer of clan Cali.
Once she done typing and sending the message she take out another datapad and walk to turn it over to Sentinal before leaving
----------------- Report on memories about the collector --------------
The collector operation pattern had seem to hiring people to try and kidnap me, offering insane bounties. This seem to extend back to when i was ship off my homeworld of Eshen and when i returned to complete my firedancer training.
At this point in time i did not know who or why however. After my return to Viscara there was a long period of calm. Then sunguards started to appear. Saying they wanted me to trade in for one their own that been kidnapped. A duel of honor happen between me and their leader and after his death the rest of the sunguard heed the agreement and left.
I retained the leader helmet not as trophy but as proof to Echani command if need be. Soon enough Echani command sent Y'serna to question about the Sunguards, the family of the kidnaped son seemly reported him missing and they tracked down which clan of Sunguard and their complex. A operation was sent into work to gain access to their computer terminals to learn the truth. The sunguard however was not up for us snooping around so it became a fight, breach and entry with the group.
After hard fighting we found the terminal and something started to write to us, knowing our presence. This was the first encounter of the Collector himself. He revealed he wanted me and tried to convince me to agree with it. Obviously i would had none of that. A alarm broke up and reinforcement rushed in and we was forced to leave.
It was after that the strange Echani look alike beings started to appear, missing one arm. We learn their served the collector and one manage to kill a prisoner we held for Echani command who had info and then ..kill themself , melting somehow...
After this Markus and few other found a lead and wanted to follow it but by this time all such lead had been trap and traces gone. I accepted even i was nervious and sadly it turned my worry was correct. Markus managed to get kidnap by another one armed Echani look alike by the sound of it. It was found out that he had a kill switch operated into him, Despite people trying to find a way to disable or removed it was near impossible and tournament was being held. There was clues the collector 'fingerprint' was in this and two hutts was seemly working with him who held this tournament.
With time runing out and knowing the kill switch and knowing it was trap my hand was forced. I manage to secure a invite and took part. Qy and Feya was among those who entered. My plan was desperate and last ditch, i told i would likely be taken and i had a gotten a little special tracker on me. if we cant find the collector before 'he' relocated then he would different be there to gloat from finally getting me and the tracker would lead other to me and him.
When it all said and done i woke up in a cell inside what seem to be a ship, Feya was there too. A droid appeared and revealed it self to be the collector. It revealed itself to be not a droid but a self learning AI that existed from this 'Infinite empire'. That it planed to use us to make a new species through genetic enhancement and breeding program and it sounded like its main goal was to revive this 'infinite empire' through that. I manage to convice 'him' that it be more efficiency to shut down the kill switch as that would help me behave. He did so but told the device been damage and was 'leaking' the deadly liquid into him slowly.
Later two of those strange heavy droid and one of the females with one arm appear. She did not use our name but refered to me string 22200567 and Feya as string 789554. I was taken of the ship and into a golden cage, pretty room but force field and heavy doors closed. Soon after Feya was there and i was drag off to a lab or medical room and i will avoid the brutal detail here, enough to say that i -felt- everything they did. Strange liquid injected into bone morrow ..though when i lost my touch with the force i sense a anger and frustration and that was then redouble messing with my muscles and it seem they redoubled the effort to enhance Feya in the force somehow.
That where my memory get fuzzy. I remember having lost myself and behaved like a scared child hiding behind Feya, i remember more pain while they messed with my body. I remember being forced to test where i had to fight droid and use my muscles, pushing heavier object and jumping higher. I remember males started to be send into the cell in attempt to ..bait the breeding program to start but we manage to protect each other from it until we got rescued. I dont seem to be remember the collector every visiting us again. it was those 'servant' and heavy droids.
Other minor of point of interest is the collector is clearly able to watch and listen from any devices even a datapad so keep that in mind. There was also a planet name Sleheyron but i am afraid that all i know ...
- Ira'dana
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Tip to the bartender. Paying extra always got lips a little looser. The Trandoshan rather wished he didn’t have to drink the swill being offered at this place. Might as well have been drinking actual gutter runoff. Or sewer water. If this place actually had a sewer. Still, water was scarce on this planet. Cheap, watered down, nasty tasting and smelling swill was the way to go. A few hunting trophies made him feel a bit more authentic being in a dive like this. Now if he had a sandworm emerald, that’d be a nice trophy. But despite claiming to hunt that lot, the Trandoshan was actually hunting for stuff of a different sort. Couldn’t say what.
So, word on the down low is that Bluddo the Hutt had his operations wrecked by the Echani. Taken down hard. Well you know what they say, you poke a Krayt, you get eaten. And Bluddo sure got eaten hard. Wonder if the guy was even still breathing.
Not a rumor about some collector. I mean sure, Bluddo was looking for a diverse bit of slaves bout a year before that big takedown, but hey, Hutt’s gotta have their tastes and preferences and luxuries, right?
But well, one Hutt goes down, another takes their place. Guy’s ancient history now. Now just a matter of keeping one’s eyes open. Things are always moving after all, and those who stop, get left behind.
A grizzled hunter looking for a big score and a side of credits wouldn’t go amiss there. At least, no one would bat an eye. A bit of time so the scent of juma wouldn’t cling. But maybe the bounty hunter’s guild has something good. After all whoever’s got a price on their head usually are the types who attract attention for a number of reasons. Could be a big score, in both ways.
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-- Report on the Collector - 001 --I’ll omit anything medicaly reported here.
This is what I remember of my time with Ira during the tournament, the capture and the facility and priorWe are aware that the collector can slice into pretty much any device connected to the holonet, given the fact he did so with a datapad in Markus’s ship, when he was kidnapped
When we did the exchange of krayt dragon part to free Markus
We saw what compossed his “goon” or agents, multiple one arm echani women and mutated humanoid covered in heavy carapace/shell.Most of us saw what he did with the dragon krayt parts, as it was the “monstruosity” that we had to fight at the end of the tournament
During the tournament all security droid belonged to “Bluddo”, and revealed to be droids with concealed function in their chassis. Jet pack, weaponry, etc…
I think Gero as surprissed, even called this a outrage. I don’t think he appreciated the collector actions and mess he made of his tournament. Not aware of his real plans.During our captivity, we tried several escapes. Our guards were mostly those same droids but with a different outer hull, the “mutated” humanoids and the one armed women.
Something that I remember fully is the fact that those “guard droids” were immune to any attempt of force usage on them, telekinetic wise
There was servants too, I don’t know if their were willing or programmed mentaly, or if victims or not. Following orders or complied to, I truly can’t make a conclusion on such.The collector seems to use droids as proxy, to talk with them if not by message on datapads
It revealed to us it was an AI that was supposed to take care of it’s original creators, but said they died with their infinite empire. But this didn’t stopped it, as he was still active and capable of reforming a new species, that would somewhat remplace its dead creators, and would be supperior to the “inferior” one currently in the galaxy.Ira already wrote the rest already in her report.
But I think that Gero the hutt wasn’t his ally and got tricked like everyone was. And as I know the Hutt dislike very much that one of their one is killed. Gero could “help”
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