For the StarWarsFans Kessel Run contest: A clone trooper commits the ultimate act of betrayal against the one person who means more to him than anything in the galaxy.

The orb's stasis field was failing, destabilized from the inside. What could be causing the malfunction? Kaine Paulsen and Tayri Cordova, members of the Black Bha'lir smugglers' guild, were about to find out. Written for Round Two of the StarWarsFans Kessel Run Smackdown!

Socorran pirates are legendary for their integrity. Drake Paulsen's character is put to the test when a death cult kidnaps an innocent child. An act of aggression that threatens to send her sibling, a rogue Nightsister, down a deadly spiral into darkness. For the Final Round of the 2020 Kessel Run run SWF Profile Contest.

||WINNER OF THE KESSEL RUN: A STAR WARS SMACKDOWN || Perilous locations, loose rules, and a 1,000,000 credit prize for the winner. Captain Drake Paulsen, a Socorran pirate with a conscience, finds himself in a race for his life when he unwittingly enters his ship in the infamous Gambler's Choice, an astrogation/navigation challenge with so many questionable casualties that it is held only once every 10-15 years.