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Synopsis:
Rokur Gepta manages to lure Lando
Calrissian into Oseon space with an anonymous message
offering great gambling wins. Gambling on the asteroid
Oseon 6845 (and 2,300 credits ahead), Lando Calrissian
finds himself a walking target. However, an invitation
to a sabacc tournament is an inescapable lure for
Calrissian. And if he sticks around long enough, he can
see the Oseon sun flare into the legendary Flamewind. He
does okay, until the Millennium Falcon is
sabotaged and he is attacked by (and forced to kill) an
Oseon cop. He is not charged for killing the cop, but
sentenced to death for carrying a gun. As always, he is
offered a deal - to free himself, he must get two cops
to Oseon 5792 to entrap and arrest a drug-using
trillionnaire named Bohhuah Mutdah, thus allowing his
rivals a chance at his fortune. And survive the lethal
radiation of the Flamewind in the process. And survive
Rokur Gepta's numerous attempts to kill him. Fighting
his way to Mutdah's home, Calrissian is stunned when one
of the cops kills the other, and then Mutdah (who talks
to the cop like he is an employee) shoots him. And then,
suddenly, Mutdah's morphs into his true form - that of
Rokur Gepta, who is set all of this up (and killed
Mutdah to take his place) just to kill Lando. The
gambler barely survives Gepta's mental torture, stabs
him in the eye, and makes off with twenty million of
Mutdah's fortune. On the way out, Lando and Vuffi rescue
Klyn Shanga, a Renatasian with a grudge against Vuffi.
Synopsis taken
from Christopher G. McElroy's
Time Tales, www.theforce.net/timetales.
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