𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐘 | 𝑜 𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑏𝑖

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐈𝐈

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CHAPTER 3 ~ A Child's Laugh

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𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐀𝐌𝐀 𝐖𝐀𝐒, 𝐈𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐘𝐒, 𝐒𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐑 𝐓𝐎 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐓. A world that was once extensive marshland, it now boasted massive circular cities all across the surface. Billions of beings of every species made the Outer Rim planet their home, though it was the homeworld of the short-lived, avian Devlikk species. And while it shared many similarities with the capital world of the Galactic Republic, many differences made Gaia prefer it — the main difference being that there was still vegetation and an ocean covering the planet.

The purple planet also had a long history of conflict and a connection to the Sith. Thousands of years before the Clone Wars it had once been in control of Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders during the Mandalorian Wars, it had been on the side of the ancient Sith Empire during the Jedi Civil War, and then attacked by the reformed Sith Empire during the Great Galactic War almost three-hundred years later. Thousands of Ord Radama's inhabitants had died during the many wars it had taken part in, and the capital city of Livien Magnus had been destroyed. While the survivors were strong, it took hundreds of years to rebuild what had been decimated.

At the present, it was under the rule of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, having expressed adamantly that the Republic was a corrupt government and they wished to be out from under the Supreme Chancellor's thumb. Gaea's train of thought on the subject usually went from I do not make a habit of holding political opinions to they do have a point, however.

Livien Magnus was where Sarles Gorlal, Gaea's contact, had directed her. He had told her that the pirates had a stronghold on the outskirts of the city, near the Residential District. Not one for dramatics (unlike many of her other contacts), Gorlal had given her a realistic estimate of how large the base was, how many pirates were inside, and how much firepower they possessed.