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Previous Raid on a Republic Military warehouse[1] Concurrent Kidnapping of Doctor Tarnis[2] Next Skirmish in Docking Bay 84[2] Raid on the Migrant Merchants' Guild warehouse Conflict Mission to Coruscant, Desolator crisis[1] Objective Recover stolen design files and weapons[1] Date 3,643 BBY[3] Place Old Galactic Market, Coruscant[1] Outcome Successful recovery of the files and weapons[1] Factions Jedi Order[1] Republic Strategic Information Service[1] Migrant Merchants' Guild[1] Commanders A Jedi Knight[1] Vistis Garn[1] Participants 1 Jedi Knight[1] T7-O1[1] Vistis Garn[1] 2 other Rodians †[1] 3 Ongree †[1] 1 Abyssin †[1] 1 security droid †[1] Casualties None[1] All Guild personnel except Garn[1] [Source]

Near the end of the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire, a Jedi Knight and the astromech droid T7-O1 raided a warehouse belonging to the Migrant Merchants' Guild, a criminal syndicate that controlled the Old Galactic Market region on the Republic capital of Coruscant, in order to recover stolen weaponry and the design files for the Planet Prison superweapon. The duo confronted the team of thieves who had stolen the weapons and files from the Republic Military, and the Jedi Knight was successfully able to defeat the criminals and their leader, the Rodian Vistis Garn. However, the Jedi and T7-O1 learned from Garn that the files had already been sent to the Black Sun criminal syndicate, and the pair were called back to the Senate Building in order to deal with another crisis.

PreludeEdit

In 3,643 BBY,^[3] during the Cold War between the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic, the Jedi Council on Tython sensed a dark disturbance in the Force on the Republic capital of Coruscant, and sent the Jedi Master Bela Kiwiiks with her Padawan Kira Carsen to the capital to investigate.^[4] However, the dark presence was actually the Sith Lord Tarnis, who was posing as a Republic scientist within the Republic superweapon initiative, a weapons development program. Feeling that further investigation by the Jedi would reveal his identity, Tarnis contacted the Black Sun criminal syndicate and traded them Imperial weapons and armor in exchange for their services. On Tarnis's orders,^[5] Black Sun sent the Rodian thief Vistis Garn, who occasionally worked with Black Sun's rival the Migrant Merchants' Guild, to steal the design files for Tarnis's project, the Planet Prison superweapon. Raiding a Republic Military warehouse with a team of Guild criminals, Garn acquired files on the entire superweapon initiative and also made off with a shipment of advanced weapons and munitions.^[1]

However, Garn was caught on a security camera as he was leaving, allowing the Coruscant Security Force (CSF) and the Republic Strategic Information Service—the Republic's intelligence agency—to identify the Rodian almost thirty hours later.^[1] By that time, Kiwiiks had requested reinforcements from the Council, and Jedi Master Orgus Din and his former apprentice arrived from Tython around the same time. Along with the astromech droid T7-O1, Din's now-Knighted former student met with the other Jedi, Doctor Tarnis, and General Var Suthra of the Republic Military in the Senate Tower. Agent Galen, the head of the SIS branch stationed in the Senate Tower, of the SIS interrupted the Jedi's meeting to report that his analysts had found a lead, and General Suthra left the young Knight and Carsen with Galen while he and the Jedi Masters departed to meet with the Supreme Chancellor.^[6] Galen's agents had tracked Garn back to a warehouse in Guild-controlled Old Galactic Market region, and the SIS agent dispatched the Jedi Knight and Teeseven to retrieve the stolen weapons and files. While Galen and Carsen remained at the Senate Tower and used the CSF's security network to distract the criminals, the Knight and Teeseven took an air taxi to the Old Galactic Market.^[6]

The raidEdit

Upon reaching the warehouse, the Knight and Teeseven surprised six Guild members—an Abyssin, three Ongree, and two Rodians—while they were unloading their stolen goods, and the pair defeated the criminals and their rewired security droid in the resultant battle. Before breaking through the security door behind which Garn had barricaded himself, the pair recovered the stolen munitions, weapons, and rockets from among the other illicit goods in the warehouse. Finding the door sealed, the Knight cut through it with a lightsaber and entered the room, and an alarmed Garn apologized before activating a quartet of autoturrets. Deflecting and dodging the blaster bolts, the Knight and Teeseven managed to disable the turrets and defeat Garn, and the injured thief quickly surrendered and offered information to the Jedi.^[1]

AftermathEdit

The Knight contacted Agent Galen via holocomm and reported the pair's success, but an agitated Galen ordered the Jedi to bring the design files back as quickly as possible—they had had a major breach of security while the Knight was in the Market. Galen refused to say anything more on an unsecured channel and ended the transmission. Realizing what the Jedi was after, Garn offered to tell the Knight who had hired the Guild to steal the files and where to find them if the Jedi would let the Rodian go. When the Jedi agreed, Garn revealed that he had been hired by Black Sun, and that he had helped the Guild steal the files so that he could send an unencrypted copy to Black Sun once the Guild's slicer had decrypted them. Honoring their deal, the Knight allowed Garn to leave, and the Rodian told the pair that he was going to visit friends on Nar Shaddaa.^[1] The Knight and Teeseven then returned to the Senate Tower, where they learned that Tarnis had been kidnapped by Black Sun.^[2]

Behind the scenesEdit

The raid on the Migrant Merchants' Guild warehouse appears in Star Wars: The Old Republic, a video game released by BioWare and LucasArts in 2011, as the in-universe events of the Jedi Knight class mission "Stolen Secrets" on Coruscant. After recovering the stolen missions and defeating Garn, the player can choose to either kill the thief after learning about Black Sun for dark-side points, or let him leave in peace for varying amounts of light side points. Warning the thief about the consequences of lying before sparing him results in 50 light side points, while simply letting him leave results in 100.^[1]

AppearancesEdit

• Star Wars: The Old Republic (First appearance)

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