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Synopsis:
A quick job nets the smugglers 1,500 credits and lands
them on the University world of Rudrig in the Tion
Hegemony. Here, Han encounters Alexsandr Badure, an old
smuggler who had once saved their lives. Badure has
fallen on hard times himself and had been working
contract labor at a quasi-legal mining camp on the
planet Dellalt, where he has befriended two sisters,
Hasti and Lanni. Lanni, a pilot, had discovered what
they believe to be the log recorder disk from the
long-lost Queen of Ranroon, the fabled treasure ship of
the warlord Xim the Despot. Millennia earlier, the Queen
and her cargo of treasure and a legion of Xim's
warrior-robots were lost en route to Xim's sprawling
treasure vaults on Dellalt.
Dellalt is now a minor backwater world with a meager
Human population of Tionese origin out in the largely
disregarded Tion, and now Badure needs Han and Chewbacca
to take himself and Hasti back to Dellalt, along with
the Ruurian professor Skynx, who's job is to translate
the disk and lead them all to the treasure. Lanni
stashed the disk in a lockbox at the vaults, which are
now partially used for public storage, before being
murdered by the mine operators, who are now pursuing
Badure and Hasti to claim the disk, and the treasure,
for themselves.
To make things more interesting, Han is also being
pursued by Gallandro, the deadliest gunman in the
galaxy, who is bent on avenging a point of honour with
Han over their dealings in Han's adventures in the
Corporate Sector.
Shortly after arriving on Dellalt, the mine operators
manage to steal the Millennium Falcon and take it
back to the mine to search for the disk. Han's party
decide to hike across several hundred kilometres of
Dellatian open country to reclaim her. Along the way
they meet up with the Survivors, a clan of inbred Humans
who have evidently lived in the mountains for
generations and who keep their existence secret by
killing any outsiders who stumble upon them, as Han and
Chewbacca have.
It turns out that the Survivors have a bigger secret
than just their own existence in the mountains to hide.
They also hold the key to Xim's treasure and the fate of
the Queen of Ranroon, all Han has to do is get his ship
back, defeat an army of killer robots and steer clear of
Gallandro, who has managed to track him to Dellalt and
team up with the mine operators.
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