Post by Solaris on Mar 24, 2013 14:31:16 GMT -5
A crisis has been looming for the better part of two decades now, as the Sith have established tightening control over Thyferra. The sole source of bacta in the galaxy, the precious healing fluid is available only to them - and not to their enemies. The situation is one medical professionals and politicians alike have referred to as a nightmare scenario - no galactic power can move on Sith space in an effort to liberate Thyferra, as the Sith maintain standoff with their dreaded Nemesis SSDs, but modern medicine requires bacta. Thus far attempts at synthesis have only managed to produce a weak substance that extends the existing supply, not produces fresh bacta, and even that stretched supply is beginning to run dry.
Where there is shortage, there is opportunity for profit. Profit-seekers, smugglers, and altruists the galaxy over are desperately seeking out a replacement for or fresh source of bacta.
Where there is shortage, there is opportunity for profit. Profit-seekers, smugglers, and altruists the galaxy over are desperately seeking out a replacement for or fresh source of bacta.
The best way to get something might well be to run to the source of it. The crew of the Celestial Phoenix, a transport with no small stealth capability, intend to brave the blockade of Thyferra and smuggle out a part of the Sith stockpile.
The Selkath of Manaan, on the edge of Alliance space, who have long retained a tradition of placid independence and even isolationism, sit atop a reservoir of the old healing fluid known as kolto. At times reputedly more or less potent than bacta, as well as being scarcer and more difficult to obtain, kolto fell out of favor with Thyferra's discovery and bacta's export. Wrangling an exportation contract out of them could prove frighteningly profitable indeed - especially an exclusive contract.
Perhaps it is time the galaxy not be so reliant on a single world. Imperial scientists on Coruscant and a joint Alliance-Jedi team on the Jedi Medical School on Chandrila have separately pursued replacements for bacta - only to run into a series of complications that could only be sabotage.
Zei'ira Secura caught wind of a cache of preserved bacta, a transport vessel dating back to the Imperial Civil War caught in the event horizon of a black hole - and quite probably preserved due to a combination of preservation techniques and time dilation. She'd get it herself, but her Deathseed is both too small to carry much of the precious fluid and is too weak to brave the black hole's gravity well.
