Mission to Sulon
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The Mission to Sulon, also known as The Return Home to Sulon was a mission undertaken by Kyle Katarn. Having retrieved his father's holodisk on Nar Shaddaa from 8t88, Kyle returned to his family home on Sulon, to find the only means of playing back the information on the disk, the Katarn family's droid, WeeGee.
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[edit] The Homestead
While the Moldy Crow was being repaired, Kyle took a transport to Sulon, landing some distance from his home. Proceeding on foot, Kyle arrived just in time to see a Lambda-class shuttle take off from in front of the house. Unbeknownst to Katarn, the shuttle carried Dark Jedi Sariss, Boc and Yun, as well as the only known map to the Valley of the Jedi. Kyle then headed for the house, finding it in a state of disarray, and overrun by Grave Tuskens. Though the main entrance was locked, Kyle was able to gain entry to the main part of the house via a back window.
The extensive damage that had been done to the house prevented Kyle from proceeding directly to his father's workshop, instead forcing him to pass through the natural power generator that Morgan had constructed. Fighting off the Grave Tuskens and swarms of large, flying insectoid creatures, Kyle made it to the workshop, dropping in through the roof, which had been removed. Amid the clutter, Kyle found the dusty, inactive form of his father's droid. After activating it, Katarn inserted the disk into a slot, and a hologram of his father was projected. The hologram was a message, left by Morgan, to Kyle, instructing him to protect the Valley of the Jedi by using the map, embedded in the stone ceiling above the workshop. Looking up, Kyle realized that the reason there had been no roof was because, under Jerec's direction, the map had already been taken.
Morgan had one further gift for his son, the lightsaber that had once belonged to Morgan's friend, the Jedi Qu Rahn. WeeGee, who had been storing the lightsaber in a secret compartement, then gave the lightsaber to Kyle. After a brief practice session, in which Kyle discovered his latent Force ability, Katarn left the homestead via an irrigation channel.
Kyle followed the massive irrigation complex to a dam, fighting Grave Tuskens, mailocs, water cycs, and even an outdated Imperial war droid. Capturing a T-4 transport, Kyle and WeeGee left the Katarn farm and headed for Baron's Hed. Early on, Kyle and WeeGee were attacked by a war droid un the caves underneath the Katarn homestead, which WeeGee defeated in combat. Fighting off a Grave Tusken speeder bike gang, Kyle and WeeGee were rescued by Jan Ors in the newly repaired Moldy Crow. The mercenaries then landed on a mesa overlooking the city.
[edit] Search for 8t88
Using a pair of electrobinoculars, the pair surveyed the city from a distance. Jan suspected that 8t88 was in the massive, foreboding administration tower known as Government House. Katarn entered the city, fighting thugs hired by the Imperial Remnant. He fought his way inside the tower and located 8t88.
When Kyle found 8t88 in the tower, the droid had just finished transmitting the holo of the map to Jerec, the map tiles still displayed on the floor. Kyle commanded the droid to return the map just as the Dark Youth, Yun, entered the ballroom. Yun then destroyed the map with his lightsaber.
Eager to defeat his first Jedi, Yun mocked Kyle. However the Jedi defeated Yun, and to his surprise, spared him. Wounded, Yun retrieved his lightsaber and escaped through the ceiling, levitating with the Force. Once again in search of 8t88, Kyle navigated the towers of Government House and reached the upper docking bay, only to see the droid's shuttle lift off.
[edit] The Sulon Star
After escaping the palace, Kyle was picked up by Jan in the Moldy Crow and taken to Fuel City. There Kyle fought his way through the facility's maze of pipes and fuel tanks. Reaching Jerec's cargo ship, the Sulon Star, as it detached from the refueling gantry, Kyle leapt aboard.
After entering via the top hatch and finding 8t88's shuttle by passing through the ship's reactor, Kyle finally tracked the droid down only to be ambushed when 88's head dropped off his shoulders. Jerec's apprentices Gorc and Pic, the "Brothers of the Sith", had been waiting for 8t88 when he arrived on the Sulon Star for his payment. In the ensuing fight, Kyle blasted Gorc in the face, and then used 8t88's severed head to crush Pic's head. Taking the droid's head (and the map to the Valley contained within) with him, Kyle traversed the ship's catwalk system and made his way back to the uppermost deck.
Moments later, the Moldy Crow, hotly pursued by TIE fighters, swooped down for a quick pick-up. A chase through the Nefra Canyons ensued, during which all TIEs were destroyed. The Rebels then touched down at the Katarn farm. After several hours of sleep, and with WeeGee's help, the map to the Valley of the Jedi was successfully recovered from 8t88's brain.
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