OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To submit another in a line of the ORC Cantina series, a gathering place for pirates and potential hub for future organized activity.
- Image Credit: Pirate Tavern
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- Structure Name: The Captain's Lament
- Classification: Cantina
- Location: The Great Ship, Drexel
- Affiliation: Outer Rim Coalition (in theory)
- Accessibility: Nestled within the bowels of the Great Ship, getting to the Captain's Lament is straightforward enough. Surviving the trip with possessions intact and no holes in you is another story. There is an upper limit to the size of craft capable of landing on the ocean world's floating capital, and anything small enough risks being targeted by pirates with sonic jammers.
- Description: The Captain's Lament cantina is located on Drexel's largest floating structure and capital city. A ramshackle starport provides lower deck access from which the establishment is slightly hullward. Its interior resembles any other drinking hole if a little rustic, but the den of thieves and bandits surrounding its premises ensure only the most hardened spacers dare frequent the Lament.
- The Hearthfire: Life at sea can be fraught with damp misery especially during storms, so a central heat source is the cultural normal. Sconces line the walls but a roaring firepit is suspended behind a thin deflector screen.
- Saloon: Scattered tables which feature the occasional card or dice game radiate out from the Lament's bar, a thoroughly unhygienic looking set up with more madness than method in its arrangement of spirits. Despite the cantina's overall ramshackle appearance its selection is surprisingly robust as it reaps the rewards of its patrons' successful raids.
- Fighting Pit: A lower level to the bar is crowded with spectators eager to witness the most primal kind of bloodsport. There is nothing respectable or sporting about the cantina's 'ring', there is very little structure and matches are often to the death.
- Shadow Broker: Every significant pirate hub has one. A fence for stolen goods and seeker of new leads on potential future targets. The Lament's broker is a shifty looking kaminoan communications expert and hopeless glitterstim addict who goes by Null.
- Rating: None
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
For centuries piracy has thrived on the ocean world of Drexel, ever since the first jammer was rigged to interdict and force down wayward travelers passing through the remote system. Many of the Great Ship's residents are descended from survivors of those early wrecks. Bitter experience has taught the galaxy to avoid this region as hazardous space, but the primitive freebooter society limps on as a known safe haven for raiders and other wanted criminals.
The Captain's Lament is a central fixture and gathering spot for both local crime lords and regional pirate crews. One of the roughest cantinas in the lawless territories, casual murder is so common here that the floors are usually slick with a mixture of blood and sea water. Despite its rough atmosphere, the Lament has come to be known as one of the more reliable sources of leads on trade convoys in the outer rim.
Rumors that the cantina and its raiders operate under the blessing of a so called 'Brethren Court' remain unsubstantiated, as the existence of organized piracy on an intergalactic level remains for now strictly hearsay.
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