Ryll Runner
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Ryll Runner, a S40K Phoenix Hawk-Class Light Pinnace , is a storied smuggler vessel, which has earned itself a reputation as the worst smuggler craft ever to try to run a blockade. It has been impounded at least once by most governments, once even by two governments simultaneously.
History
Originally built by Hoersch-Kessel Drive, Inc., Ryll Runner sat on the show room floor for about a year as the test model for the company. It was then sold to Gerad Ellinof, a Corellian spacer looking to run the Imperial defenses of Coruscant with a weapon's shipment. He named the ship the Flying Dagger. The dagger apparently went into him instead of his enemies. He attempted to run the defenses of Coruscant, only to be interdicted, arrested, and imprisoned. The Flying Dagger was impounded and sold at auction. It changed hands cheaply for a while before ending up in the hands of rising crime lord Bliht Derjo. He gave it the name it currently bears, Ryll Runner, as a mind game. He intended to use it to smuggle Eidola Ryll into New Republic territories and thought that no one would believe his pilots were smuggling with a ship with that name. However, the ships luck did not change. After being captured four times, and each time reclaimed at impound auction, Derjo finally gave up on the ship his pilots were beginning to call cursed. Instead of tasking it with smuggling, the Nikto turned it into a personal gunship, decking it out with multitudes of weapons, sensors and upgrading the engines. It was this ship Derjo would use in his infamous attempt to take control of Kintan Beta.
Bliht Derjo
The Kintan Beta Affair
Having risen to power on Kintan itself, Derjo began turning his avaricious eyes south east, toward the small companion moon of Kintan, Kintan Beta. Kintan Beta was in turmoil at the time. It's longtime leader had just been assassinated, and several strongmen were warring on the moons surface for control of his legacy. Derjo bypassed the struggle, appealing to the people of the moon, to contrast the peaceful state of Kintan with the turmoil on their moon and make a decision to allow him to take control. They fell for the ploy, inviting Derjo to come and defeat the warlords. He and his crime forces did exactly that, easily taking control of the world. However, one of the defeated strongmen, Walzea Klatoo, went to Eidola's rival in the sector, The Knights of the Fountain, claiming that Derjo had forced himself on the world, and promising to rule for The Knights of the Fountain should he be installed as the leader of the planet. The Knights of the Fountain immediately jumped at the opportunity and financed Klatoo as he built up for a counter strike against Derjo. The citizens of Kintan Beta had also realized that Derjo was not all he claimed, and set up resistance to him, something Klatoo tapped into brilliantly. He re invaded the world, and, after a long campaign, forced Derjo to engage him head on. Klatoo's personal gunboat, a JM 5000 christened Adjudicator, which has a history of it's own, came face to face with the Ryll Runner. Neither ship would die, and both pilots fought with skill, however, a random ground AA shot, sprayed shrapnel into the Adjudicator's cockpit, killing Klatoo outright. His crew landed the vessel, allowing Derjo to escape. However, Klatoo's forces had done their work and Derjo was forced offworld. He fled to Cyborrea, where he was pursued by a relative of Klatoo, Emanon Klatoo. In a brief, bloody, Cantina grudge match, Klatoo killed the pirate overlord, and captured his ship. He added the trademark blue flame to the ship.
Double Detention
Emanon Klatoo was also a smuggler, and he had plans to smuggle raw materials stolen from Total Outer Rim off of Averam and use them to help secure Knights of the Fountains hold on Kintan Beta. However, the ship's luck was still running low. Total Outer Rim interdicted the ship as it was outbound. However, simultaneously, Rogue Squadron, the system government, also interdicted the vessel. They did not care about the stolen raw materials, but they did care about the massively augmented weapons on the Ryll Runner, which put it at odds with Rogue Squadron's weapon possession laws. Both governments boarded the vessel. Klatoo skillfully played them against one another and managed to escape with his ship. However, the materials were confiscated, and he had to pay a fine to both governments. In order to pay the fines, he was forced to sell both the Ryll Runner and the Adjudicator ships. The Ryll Runner ended up in the hands of Looma Karwt who currently possess it.
