Many Bothans died to bring you this AMA thread.

[Ydran Esk'avar]

Usually I'm the one asking the questions, but in this case I'll make an exception. This interview is strictly off the record. Tell me what you want to know, and I'll do what I can to oblige you.

If I feel like it. :wofl

[Lyydea Amarra]

What's your most favorite candy? Like which one is just Ahhhhhhhhh the best? Mine's lemon candy, because first it's sour then it's sweet!

What's yours!

[Ydran Esk'avar]

Cardellian mints. They stimulate the nasal passages and clear the mind. I'm afraid I don't have much of a sweet tooth.

[Lyydea Amarra]

Do you have any? Can I have one? I won't eat it till after dinner I promise!

[Ydran Esk'avar]

I'm afraid it might take more than one to clear your mind, Miss Amarra.

[T'yeellaa Meorrrei]

Arre jyou a sspjy? Not that jI'd beljieve jyou.

[Ydran Esk'avar]

Was a spy, Captain. I cut my official ties with the Bothan Ministry of Intelligence after my daughter Ytrell died conveying planted information about the second Death Star. I still maintain my personal network of informants, a fact for which you and the rest of Jovan Station should be grateful.

[Gradoona Pod-Floewander]

Willikers, you're always soo serious, yaknoo! Doon't ya ever just take a load aaff? Whaddya doo when you're aaff the clock?

[Ydran Esk'avar]

Some of my most important work is done off the clock, Miss Gradoona. If I go for a drink, or a few hands of Sabacc, or the betting tables at a shockboxing match, you can be sure I'm interested in more than just the entertainment value. That said, there's something bracing about a competition of guile and nerve. I've been known to strap on a set of shockboxing gloves myself. Even outside of an interrogation room.

[Narssiska Vraska]

Do you have a lady friend, Inspector? If not, I can provide you one. At a price, of course.

[Kes Akiena]

Being that you were a part of the Ministry of Intelligence, I'm sure that you have spent a lot of time here and there with a little bit of everywhere thrown in. Out of all of the places that you've been, where did you spend the longest amount of time?

[Ydran Esk'avar]

Do you have a lady friend, Inspector? If not, I can provide you one. At a price, of course.

I have a lovely wife named Azira with a lucrative advertising career on Bothawui. We're quite happy together, provided we're never actually together for more than a few hours at a time. Ytrell was her favorite of our four children, and Azira never fully forgave me for leading her to a career in intelligence. I doubt very much Azira would care if I did fraternize, but the truth is that I find non-Bothan women to be about as sexually engaging as a bowl of fruit.

...by which I mean not very, just for clarification. I don't want to consider what your employees might do with a bowl of fruit.


Being that you were a part of the Ministry of Intelligence, I'm sure that you have spent a lot of time here and there with a little bit of everywhere thrown in. Out of all of the places that you've been, where did you spend the longest amount of time?

Much as I hate to disappoint you, Commander, the greatest amount of time for most intelligence agents is spent behind a desk. Our business is more about cultivating and maintaining a network of informants than performing the sort of risky, violent, theatrical nonsense you see in spy holos. Every scrap of information, no matter how trivial, must be analyzed, correlated with other sources, and evaluated for both accuracy and currency. A source's reliability in small matters can tell you a great deal about their reliability in large ones, when urgency may supersede due diligence.

But as for your question, I've had desks on Dac, Nar Shaddaa, Corellia, Bespin, Coruscant, and a few other places not worth mentioning. Then I retired from the field and served for five years as an instructor and handler before my resignation.