The Exchange
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Information & Smuggling
Around 4000 BBY, The Exchange was an interstellar crime cartel involved in a variety of underworld enterprises - the spice trade, smuggling, weapons trafficking, slave trading, extortion, bounty hunting - within the Galactic Republic, the Sith Empire, and Hutt Space. They were particularly active during the time of the Jedi Civil War, Great Galactic War, and the first Cold War.
In 10 ABY, information broker Atton Kira and smuggler Emelie Shadowstar entered into an arrangement to build an underworld enterprise that would combine their areas of expertise. Shadowstar provided leadership and direction, while Kira provided experience and finances, on the understanding that for the first ten years the business would be divided 50:50, after which Kira would retire and leave Shadowstar with complete control. "The Exchange" was chosen as a name to obscure ties with either individual and their legitimate enterprises.
The Exchange has tentative ties to Black Sun. Their relationship with the Ouishii Kajidic of the Hutt Cartel is negative and competitive, but is not openly hostile. The Exchange has had a number of run-ins with a shadow organisation known as Sarlacc, who once attempted to kill Shadowstar because of her former association with the shipping company Silenus Corp.
Locations
- Cloud City - the Exchange is headquartered on Cloud City, Bespin.
- Elysian Acquisitions - a front for smuggling, with offices in the Administration District.
- Elysium - a nightclub and front for information brokering, located in Port Town.
- Jedi Enclave (Bespin) - used as a smuggler hideout with the grudging "permission" of Inyos Aamoran.
Organisations
Elysian Acquisitions
Officially a courier business operating out of Cloud City, Elysian Acquisitions additionally acts to "acquire" items on behalf of their clients: be that ingredients, artefacts, information, missing persons, or other items of a less-than-legal nature. Occasionally that extends to smuggling contraband, but most of Elysian's work is not illegal: just discreet, exploiting loopholes and shortcuts to avoid any undue Imperial entanglements. Elysian Acquisitions is also the holding company that owns the Elysium nightclub and casino, which is used as a front by the Exchange.
A small number of ships and transports are registered under Elysian Acquisitions' courier licence: including the Crimson Tide, used by the bounty hunter Vittore Montegue.
Tempest
A holding company, Tempest is owned by an alias of Atton Kira, and is used primarily to disguise any real estate ownership, large transactions, and assorted other business from his time as an information broker. Most of the Exchange's assets are owned by Elysian Acquisitions, but Tempest still owns the odd off-the-books safehouse, warehouse, and landing bay. In particular, Tempest owns the private landing bay frequently used by Vittore Montegue to store the Crimson Tide on Cloud City.
Characters
- Emelie Shadowstar - founder and leader of the new Exchange.
- Atton Kira - founder and financier of the New Exchange.
- Amaros Koine - a Mandalorian mercenary employed to assist Emelie Shadowstar with security.
- Vittore Montegue - a bounty hunter "on retainer" to hunt down threats to Emelie Shadowstar and her enterprises.
- Sleazy (CZ-41) - a comms droid owned by Vittore Montegue, skilled at forging documents.
- Katie (R2-K8) - a utility droid owned by Vittore Montegue.
- Bumblebee (21-B) - a medical droid owned by Vittore Montegue.
- Sadie K'Vesh - a slicer on the Exchange payroll, and frequent hunting "partner" of Vittore Montegue.
- Nen Lev'i - a slicer on the Exchange payroll, and the personal assistant to Emelie Shadowstar.
Associates
- Sanis Prent - the Exchange's contact with Black Sun.
