Moon Bandits
| The Moon Bandits | |
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| General Information | |
| Status | Destroyed |
| Leader | Friar Blues |
| 2IC | Tal'ord |
| Historical Information | |
| Founder | Friar Blues |
| Founded | Circa Year -1 |
| Dissolved | Year 0 Day 218[1] |
| Political Information | |
| Affiliation | Bounty Hunter Alliance |
| Industry | Pirate Outfit |
The Moon Bandits was a pirate clan that once threatened the space-lanes. Notable gang members of this organization included the legendary Friar Blues and his loyal companion Tal'ord the Wookiee. They were beaten back by the efforts of the Bounty Hunter Alliance. After their defeat, the remnants of the organization were later annexed by the Bounty Hunter Alliance as a squadron and rechristened the Screaming Banshees. The core personnel eventually joined Owan D'arc's Centrepoint Space Station and, after several years, departed to establish the long-lived Juganoth Mining Corporation.
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History
In the inky twilight where smugglers roam the galaxy, beyond the reach of Imperial law, one pirate clan briefly existed circa Year -1. Calling themselves the Moon Bandits, these brigands were the jackals of the shipping lanes, and they plundered any space caravans which attracted their short-attention spans.[2]
The Moon Bandits were captained by Friar Blues — a one-legged Corellian pirate with an insatiable thirst for Lum and a certain rough-edged charm. In addition to his blue-tinted spectacles, gnarled crutch, and pirate argot, Blues enhanced his loutish appearance with a talkative Chandrilan Bulabird ever-perched on his shoulder. His second-in-command was Tal'ord the Wookiee, an unusually short-tempered member of an already short-tempered species. He lacked two fingers on his right paw due to an unfortunate incident involving a razor-teethed cookie jar. This Wookiee had all the usual virtues of a space pirate: He was deceitful and disloyal, gloomy and greedy. Although he didn't care much for the company of perfumed humans, the eight-fingered Wookiee could be relied upon to cover Cap'n Blues with a blaster rifle and to take care of any back-shooters.[2]
For a while, Blues' Bandits briefly dominated the space lanes, but another outfit dared to challenge them. Led by former officers of the Rebel Alliance High Command,[3] the Raptor Pirates sought circa Year -1 Day 300 to make a name for themselves by muscling into the Moon Bandits' territory.[3] Alarmed by their incursions, Cap'n Blues sprang into action. Via backroom negotiations, he made clandestine alliances with other nefarious organizations, including giggle-spice dealers and mercenaries. (Blues even reached out to more hardened criminals such as ship insurance salesmen and bank loan officers.) Together, this unstable coalition countervailed against the upstart Raptors. Beaten back, the Raptors lost their chief strategist Dane within two months,[3] and they grudgingly yielded to the Bandits' supremacy.[2]
Alas, times changed with the ascension of the Bounty Hunter Alliance. They ravaged small crime organizations like wild fire. After their defeat by the Bounty Hunter Alliance, the Bandits merged with that organization. As such, the Moon Bandits dissolved on Year 0 Day 218 and became the Screaming Banshees, a Bounty Hunter Alliance squadron. Eventually, the Screaming Banshees attracted the unwelcome attention of Princess Gabriella Storm's Black Sun crime syndicate. The exact cause of the feud between the two collectives remains undetermined, but some claim it was the bitter rivalry between Friar Blues and the ruler of Black Sun, Princess Storm. At the height of this feud, an unfortunate accident forced Friar Blues to retire from the Screaming Banshees. Sometime later Friar reappeared as head of the station security of Centrepoint Space Station. In later years it was rumored a Lum addiction had finally caught up with him; however, there were whispers that he was plotting a new scheme.
This was confirmed when a long time comrade, Tal'ord the Wookiee, joined Friar at Centrepoint Space Station as second-in-command of station security. Soon afterward, Friar, Tal'ord, and several ex-Moon Bandits broke off once again to establish the JUGANOTH Mining Corporation.
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References
- ↑ Moon Bandits - News (Year 1)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Juganoth Mining Corporation - History (Year 3)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Raptor Pirates - About (Year 2)
