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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 1043642" data-attributes="member: 5948">Sidara LylinIt has now been nearly three months since you left your home planet, Loratha, to take up a position as an aide to Senator Lur Oped, who represents the Dupa Cluster on Coruscant.  It has been a difficult time.  You have not previously been off Loratha for any significant period of time, so the huge, crowded towers of Coruscant, the hundreds of different alien species, and the sheer number of people were a significant culture shock.  Since your exile (politely described as an 'interstellar fact-finding and liaison mission' by the now-ruling Kresan family back on Loratha) you have been mostly engaged in finding your feet on this strange planet, and trying to learn more about the places and people who you find yourself with.  Your ultimate superior, the Senator, is a cunning old beggar with a ruthless streak and a crotchety manner.  Like most aqualish, he has a short temper, but he seems to have learnt to control it, at least for long enough to avoid giving offense.  He is deeply familiar with Senate affairs in general, and trade matters in particular.  His staff are mostly other aqualish, though there are a couple of humans, a twilek, and an insectoid verpine as well.  You get the impression that these are his trusted advisors, most likely hailing from the Outer Rim merchant fleet he still owns and partially runs.  He seems to see you as an unwelcome distraction at best, or a spy for one of his political rivals at worst.  You find yourself taking a lot of notes, making a lot of kaf, and doing a lot of mind-numbingly routine research and paperwork.The whole Naboo situation has been a bit of a shock to all concerned.  While the ex-Chancellor Valorum?s insistence on a ?committee of inquiry? proved to be his political downfall, it seems that nothing in the republic changes that much.  A committee there is to be, and Senator Oped pulled every string and burnt every favour he had to get a seat on it.  The Trade Federation have been his major competitor on the Outer Rim trade routes for years now, and he would dearly love to be in a position to squeeze concessions out of them behind the scenes, or to pull them down a peg or two should they prove uncooperative.  Unfortunately for him, the other two members of the committee, Senator Aks Moe from Malastare and Senator Passel Argente of Kooriva, are both strongly linked to Trade Federation and other Corporate interests.  Ever since the committee arrived on Naboo hard on the heels of the successful rebellion against the occupying droid armies, they have been stonewalling, nitpicking and tying the investigation up in bureaucratic red tape.  Senator Oped is getting increasingly annoyed.------------------------------------------Sidara started the game as a Noble 2/Force Adept 5, from Loratha, a small, little-known planet ruled by Force-strong noble families.   She is a near-human, generations of subterranean existence have made her people pale blue in skin tone and with sensitive eyes that are vulnerable to bright light.  She wears a light-attentuation visor around almost all the time.</blockquote>

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