Star Wars: Pirate's Price

Star Wars: Pirate's Price — page 7
Glancing above the roofline of the buildings Bazine could see how the place found its name Rising above the shops and dwellings were the petrified trunks of what were once giant trees that had dominated the skies of that world Now their blackened remains stood as silent sentinels on the outskirts of the town The outpost was not an easy place to find unless you knew about it first It was located where the Unknown Regions met Wild Space a stopover for smugglers and those of less savory occupations a place for rogues and opportunists con artists thieves and of course pirates So it made a sort of sense that her target would be there After all the infamous Hondo Ohnaka had been all those things and more Bazine's intelligence had told her that the notorious Weequay scoundrel was there on Batuu where he was running a shipping operation called Ohnaka Transport Solutions Doubtless it was a thin front for a smuggling operation But it didn't matter to Bazine what it was She wasn't interested in his services just his ships or rather one of them in particular One very special ship She found the old pirate in a busy cantina where a repurposed RX-series pilot droid was playing upbeat music to an audience that mostly ignored it But there was Hondo He was sitting at a corner table playing