<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/57/StarWarsSmuggler1.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/b/bb/Smuggler_Spaceship_Four.jpg/800px-Smuggler_Spaceship_Four.jpg)<br/><div align="center">The <em>Nightfall</em></div></div><br/>Coruscant.....<br/><br/>Coruscant is, arguably, the most well-known planet in the entire galaxy.  It orbited around the star, Coruscant Prime, in the Coruscant system, which was located in the Coruscant subsector of the Coruscant sector of space.<br/><br/>Yeah, the planet was a big enough deal to have a system and sector of space named after it.  You see, some up-and-up person had found the planet and decided that it was perfect.  So, before the galaxy realized it, mountains were torn down, oceans were drained, and massive buildings from the ground up to the skies above were built.  In the span of a couple of thousand years, the initial human groups who discovered the planet had turned it into a massive city the size of a planet!<br/><br/>Over the course of the many centuries, Coruscant basically became the center of the galaxy!  After all, it officially had the coordinates of 0-0-0.  Over time, one could find just about every species imaginable along all levels of the massive city.  The higher one went, the higher the quality of life.  As one traveled downwards, towards the surface, one faces slums, decrepit machines whose functions have long since passed, and hideouts for criminals and the unwanted.  In fact, the lowest two hundred levels were deemed by everyone to be completed uninhabitable.  These levels were where strange beasts and monsters roamed and who knew what else.  In addition, those who lived in the lower thousand levels were forced to wear protective filters and air supplies because the air down there was almost unbreathable and toxic.  Between there and Level One Thousand, Five-Hundred, the most lawless groups and individuals made their homes.  From that point upwards, until one reached Level Six-Thousand, the poor and middle classes carved out a living.  Only the richest and most influential beings could afford the upper five hundred levels.<br/><br/>The lowest level was designated as Level 1 while the highest level currently was designated as Level Five-Thousand, One-Hundred, and Twenty-Seven.  It was on Level Three Thousand, Six-Hundred, and Eighty-Eight that this story begins.  This level is perfectly on the boundary of the old and the new where many structures are made of archaic materials and others made from new Transparasteel.<br/><br/>Sethcor Traven, Seth to his friends, was publicly known as a reliable trader who piloted a fairly sizable ship that could carry quite a lot.  It was also fairly well armored.  In truth, the average height man, lean with muscle and perhaps a couple of skipped meals here and there, was a smuggler.  He had been on the massive city planet for ten days now and only just now were the Scandoverian Wailer eggs he'd smuggled here taken from his ship's sealed, hidden compartment.<br/><br/>Of course, while the eggs themselves paid easily twice as much as he had gotten from the legitimate cargo he brought in, Seth believed that being mostly legit gave him more freedom than other smugglers.  Never was more than a quarter of his ship's cargo full of illegal goods.  Any more and it became harder to hide them.<br/><br/>So, what was the reason the smuggler remained on Coruscant?  It was simple!  As of right now, the new cargo he was to deliver was being loaded.  There was a Republic training base that required supplies and he was one of but a few ships that would be delivering them.  On another note, there was a certain crate that had been loaded and concealed that he was to deliver to a small moon a few days journey out from the training base.  He had no clue what it was and didn't really want to know.  He was being very well paid for its delivery.<br/><br/>That was why he was found here, at one of the nicer bars, waiting for word from his droid that the cargo was loaded and ready to be delivered.  If only he had known before he returned to the ship that he wasn't just delivering the supplies, but was also going to be accompanied by another, he likely wouldn't have taken the job.....