•An interrogation of a Gen'Dai reveals that Sabinus is taking his revenge on the party for finding his Sith allies.
Having just left the hidden Sith drydock, the party returns to the Honor of Coruscant, with 40+ Jedi Padawans in tow and Undawai and Stragos both unconscious. Drallon and Haesh both help get the Padawans settled while Undawai and Stragos are led to special holding cells that dampen their Force abilities (similar to the mechanisms that kept Plutara held by the Anti-Jedi Alliance). Yvegeny quietly slips Undawai Jazz's business card, saying he knows a good lawyer if she needs one.
Bao Koon and Yvegeny meet with Undawai and Stragos, looking for information. When Yvegeny taunts Stragos asking for stock information (as he's a "financial advisor" and all), Stragos only grunts in return. Bao tries a friendly approach with Undawai, who under pressure admits that there's a Sith fleet hidden in a nearby nebula that will serve as reinforcements in case the negotiations go south. Further, Talvon Esan, the armored Sith who led the attack on the Jedi Temple, is with the hidden fleet. Bao runs off to inform the Jedi Masters about this news.
Left alone with the prisoners, Yev grabs a stun implement and proceeds to ask Stragos for more financial advice, giving him mild shocks. He then taunts Undawai for a while, but she is able to summon the focus to use the Force to choke Yvegeny — who promptly stops laughing. She tells him to open the containment device and free her, and herds him near the controls with her Force grip. He bluffs that he's too disoriented by the pain to work the control panel properly, and she releases her grip. Yev takes the opportunity to run the heck away. He runs into Bao in the hallway, who's sensed that something is wrong. Finger marks clearly visible on his throat, Yev says to stay away from Undawai, but Bao suspects Yev is up to something and merely walks away.
Yvegeny receives medical care from a doctor on the ship and spends the rest of the day watching "All My Jedi." Devo files a report with Tarn Medon about what they found — the Sith shipyard, which was only lightly guarded — and makes sure to make the party sound good. Bao confers with Masters Kavar, Vigil, and Choi. Ras goes to speak with Undawai and Stragos — when she enters the room, they're chuckling about Undawai's having choked Yvegeny. Ras asks why they joined the Sith, to which Undawai argues that the Sith are more individualistic — you can take whatever you want and be in charge of your own destiny, instead of being a slave to the Jedi Council or the Republic. Ras is uninterested and leaves.
The next day, Aluni Medon leaves a message for Devo, saying she has proprietary information for him that she needs to deliver in person. She provides an address on the Expanse, a carbon-freezing facility mostly manned by droids, where irolunn gas is processed and frozen for transportation. The party assembles to meet up with Aluni and goes to the Expanse. Deep inside the carbon-freezing facility, they find two Gen'Dai at the carbon-freezing chamber, who assure them that Aluni is on her way.
Devo thinks it's odd that neither of them recognize him, seeing as how he's Aluni's chief of security. Yvegeny pretends to be a mechanic, and Bao chats up the Gen'Dai, who talk about being on security detail. Devo draws his rifle sneakily, and asks what the Gen'Dai do for Aluni. They're nervous enough with their answers (and terrible enough liars) that the entire party realizes it's a trap. As Yev gets up to leave, claiming to have fixed the steam vent, one of the Gen'Dai tries, and fails, to knock him into the carbonite freezing pit.
Guns are drawn and a fight breaks out. The Gen'Dai enjoy the early benefit of surprise, surprising the party with the strength of their Echani fighting technique. Devo is knocked into the pit early on, and knocked again when he tries to get up. Yvegeny tries to access the freezing controls, but only succeeds in venting more steam. Ras and Bao take turns using their psychic powers to eventually knock one of the Gen'Dai unconscious, and when the other one sees his companion go down, he makes a run for it — only for Devo to blast him in the back of the head, killing him (no easy feat). The party decides the best way to transport their Gen'Dai prisoner is to freeze him in carbonite. They test it out on the dead one first, then freeze the unconscious one. A few labor droids help haul the frozen Gen'Dai to the party's shuttle.
Devo decides the best course of action is to go to Aluni's estate to find out what happened. When they get there, Aluni's greeter droid tells Devo that Aluni was summoned to meet with Sabinus Medon at the carbonite chamber about an hour before she called the party. Devo realizes that Aluni probably was forced to message him under duress. He gathers the rest of her security team and has them scour the rest of the estate for any signs of tampering. After determining the facility is secure, he hauls the frozen Gen'Dai prisoner to the docking bay for interrogation, with the party and two security guards behind. They comm A9G, who says that Gen'Dai care how their bodies are handled after death because they don't have a homeworld proper, and hiding the body where it can't ever be found is a grave offense to them. Devo plans to threaten the prisoner with shoving his body down into the gas giant, where it can't ever be found.
They thaw out the prisoner, but he's blind and disoriented. Devo reveals that he already knows Sabinus had them take out Aluni and wants to know where she is, but the Gen'Dai isn't much talking. Ras uses the Force to get the truth out of him — that Sabinus sent them to kidnap Aluni, confirming what Devo knows. The Gen'Dai further reveals that Sabinus is acting against Aluni now because he knows that she's been seeing the Jedi, and those same Jedi (Ras and Bao) exposed his Sith allies and found his hidden drydock — it's revenge he's after. On further prodding, he also says Aluni is being held at one of Sabinus's warehouses on the Expanse, but he doesn't know how well guarded she is.
Yvegeny asks about throwing the dead one into the heart of Chommell Prime, prompting the prisoner to panic and ask for a lawyer. Yev picks up the dead Gen'Dai's comlink and comms the last number, letting the prisoner say he's being held captive before Yev rambles that if Sabinus Medon wants him back, they'd better hurry because he'll be missing a head, and that Yev's coming for them. When the confused person on the other end asks who it is, Yev simply says "K" and hangs up. Yev leaves with the dead frozen Gen'Dai, taking him to the Capanata, docked with the Honor of Coruscant, to decorate his room. The Gen'Dai prisoner says that Yev probably contacted his pharmacist.
Devo knows that those who break the law on Chommell Prime are turned over to a quorum of the Medons, so he decides to hold their prisoner on Aluni's estate until he can be bound for trial. The party will need to consider its full allies — the Republic, the Jedi, Tarn Medon, Aya Lim — if it wants to take on Sabinus Medon, but first they need to rescue Aluni. Yev calls up Shodu, the Rodian assassin from the Genoharadan (which no one else knows about), to help out for 4,000 credits. The party is confused by his repeated helping the party for credits, but accepts it anyway.
They arrive at the warehouse where Aluni is being held; Devo and Bao decide to go around back to cut off any escape. Shodu kicks the door open, but his gun jams, giving the Gen'Dai time to rush the party. Devo breaks the door off its hinges and sneaks around back through some crates with Bao, where they spot the carbon-frozen body of Aluni Medon. (Hey, if you've got a captive you need to transfer easily, don't want to feed, and don't want to hear whine, carbon-freezing is the way to go.) Yvegeny kills one of the Gen'Dai with a devastating shot, prompting the other one to run off — and see Devo and Bao cutting off his escape. He charges at Devo, but is promptly knocked unconscious.
The warehouse is secure; one Gen'Dai is dead, the other unconscious; and the carbon-frozen Aluni Medon has been located.
DM's Notes:
- Fun fact: Jedi imprisonment devices do not completely inhibit Force-users; they just give them a big penalty to their checks, as Yvegeny was unfortunate enough to find out.
- Since so little is known about the Gen'Dai, I'm feeling free to expound on their culture however I feel. I figure an extremely long-lived species like them with no known homeworld cares where their bodies end up when they finally die.
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