The Black Sands of Socorro
Attribution
Author(s)	Patricia A. Jackson
Editor(s)	Bill Smith
Illustrator(s)	Joel Carroll, Storn A. Cook, Jerome De Crotie
Publication information
Publisher	West End Games
Publish date	June 1997
Type	Paperback
ISBN	0874315034

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The Black Sands of Socorro is a supplement to Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game published by West End Games. It was written by Patricia A. Jackson and was first published in 1997.

The book was written in an in-universe perspective, and provided information on the Outer Rim planet Socorro and the rest of the Socorro system. The author attempts to create an Arabian-like ambience for the locations and characters encountered on the planet.

From the publisherEdit

A frontier world far from the tyranny of the Empire, Socorro offers opportunity, wealth—and danger!

Travel the Doaba Badlands, learn the secrets of the infamous Black Bha'lir smuggling coalition... explore a world as distinctive as its unforgettable ebony surface.

ContentsEdit

• Prologue
• Chapter One: Socorro
• Chapter Two: Symbiotic Economics
• Chapter Three: Soco-Jarel Spaceport
• Chapter Four: Vakeyya: A City on the Edge
• Chapter Five: The Wilderness
• Chapter Six: The Black Bha'lir
• Chapter Seven: Cjaalysce'l
• Chapter Eight: Abdi-Badawzi, Monarch of the Sands
• Chapter Nine: Security Addendum: Saadoon-Kauldi
• Chapter Ten: Neftali
• Scout's Addendum: Swoopchasing!
• Story Starters
• Epilogue

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