Yes, We're After a One 'KeCholo'

[Gorba the Hutt]

While [member="Julian Valentine"] was pounding the ground, doing grunt work, Orcus had other ideas.

It did not take a genius to deduce that the bounty on him had gone up almost directly after Denarii station, which meant that one of the individuals he had encountered there would probably have the answers.

The security magnate used the footage from his helmet's HUD during the fight on Denarii station to get a good image of the Duros he had encountered. Orcus then ran this image through several intergalactic law enforcement databases, including that of the Coruscant Security Force. It took several days, but he at last came back with a positive ping.

A Duros thug by the name of @Ke'cholo who worked as some sort of a bounty-hunter and moonlighting mercenary.

Orcus sent the results to Mr. Valentine, along with the video footage so that they would have a better match on who they were searching for.

"Mr. Valentine, enclosed is a video package detailing one Ke'cholo. A Duros I encountered recently. He might have the answers you seek. If he does not, then I have a few other suspects in mind. Even so, I would like him brought in for questioning if at all possible."

 

[Julian Valentine]

Valentine was bouncing a ball back-and-forth from the wall of his small cabin when the call came through. Yee had processed the audio, checking for any potential viruses or slicers looking to jump behind the transmission, but she came out clean. The voice was unfamiliar to him, he had never heard Hion speak, he was contracted through ATC, an ally of Hion as far as he knew.

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[\>"Mr. Valentine, enclosed is a video package detailing one Ke'cholo. A Duros I encountered recently. He might have the answers you seek. If he does not, then I have a few other suspects in mind. Even so, I would like him brought in for questioning if at all possible."]

The video projected itself as a flat hologram on his wall. A voice came through his communicator, Yee was multi-tasking, checking security feeds, matching KeCholo's appearance and name through a Tatooine registry, as well as other registries within the Outer Rim - not to mention he was following the source of the updated bounty. He had received another ping an hour ago, the bounty had been raised to 800,000c.

It wasn't long before Yee was yapping over the ships intercom, not in Galactic Basic but his own Vuvrian tongue. "This guy is loaded, a couple million in creds, his own mercenary crew based out of Tek-1. Hion might be onto something here. Since he bumped up his bounty our list of potentials have gotten much smaller, only rich karks can afford to throw away money like that just for a head. KeCholo could be our John Doe."

He pushed off from his bed and moved for his stationary datapad. It was larger and multi-purpose, but it was too big to be lugging around everywhere with him. He sat at the table and began scour the various galactic foreign registries, eagerly awaiting a reply from Willow that seemed like it would never come. As he imagined, she probably had the bartenders head curb-stomped in the gutter out back of his cantina. Loose lips sink ships, and that is what they were here for. A hit came through, Coruscant, Docking Bay 777. KeCholo was there, now.

 

[Sparrow Hadley]

Sparrow had been disheartened at how well their criminal had hidden his identity. She had never known anybody who try so hard to cover their tracks, as he had. She had been sitting on the lower bunk in her room, resting her eyes when she heard voices from Julian's room. Her hearing allowed her to hear whisper volume snippets of his conversation. Their target had been identified and located. These was the best news she had had in weeks. Soon she would be able to buy her own ship. She smiled at the very thought of her independence. She jumped up, hastily tying her boots up and throwing her overcoat on. She thrusted her blasters into their holsters and lightly jogged to where Valentines room was. "We ready to go now, Valentine?" She greeted any confusion he may have had about her knowledge by simply pointing at her ears. "Cybernetics are just a brilliant invention, aren't they?"