Traveling Meliorist Museum & Artifact Collectorium

Without a doubt, the greatest collection of artifacts in the galaxy is housed inside the tongue twistingly named "Belloq Tull's Traveling Meliorist Museum and Artifact Collectorium." The name itself is a mouthful, but has a simple distinction: "meliorist" simply means leaving a strong impression on the observer's or participant's mind.

The History of Belloq's Collections

Belloq begun his professional career as a pilot at a time when sentients were still prohibited from leaving a planet's surface by planetary shield grids. These restrictions led to suffering on an almost unimaginable scale: he'd often see hundreds of bodies just lying in the streets on planets like Kashyyyk, Gamor and Tatooine. As horrific as it sounded, Belloq found he could help in some small measure by packing his cargo ships with as much food and water as he could in whatever space wasn't taken up by paid deliveries, and sharing such items with a desperate public.

The locals were incredibly grateful, and in return, many offered him whatever small tokens that they could. Belloq realized that if he paid for these mementos, he could help some refugees in turn pay to escape their prisons. And so, Belloq became a trader in antiquities. And while he gladly paid vast sums for these items -- as of Year 26, some estimates suggest he's spent upwards of 6 billion Galactic credits on his collection, including finders fees and financing expeditions -- he has as yet never sold a single item. He does part with copies of some of the items, especially the Gree tech known as The Jade Sands Hourglass.

He'd also come into contact with exploratory parties who had uncovered ancient technology without any way to profit from their discoveries. Belloq offered to purchase whatever he could afford, and became acquainted with several research groups willing to exchange what they considered useless, nonworking devices for modest bundles of coins. Rather than have them collect dust in some university basement, Belloq has provided space in the Museum to display such prizes of past sentients' accomplishments.

After many years of buying rarities and unearthed ancient tech, Belloq decided he needed a home for his expanding collection. He acquired a barely-used Prometheus-class Starship, and set about modifying its 55 rooms to accommodate his collection.

He soon realized that some visitors wanted to see more than just dusty oddities, so he haad installed a massive stable for a few of his more tame creatures, including his pair of trained Vornskr, and at least one real-live adult Rancor, affectionately known as 'Grumpy.'

Eventually, Belloq's many collections outgrew even the Prometheus. So in Year 25, he contracted with Endless Endeavors to acquire an even more massive Kandosii Dreadnaught with a more expansive 88 rooms.

But Belloq didn't want just any old ship out of the yards: this time, he did some private research. Through exhaustive data mining and a few credit bars pressed into the right hands, he was able to trace the YT transport his Kel Dor Master was last seen alive on, to a recycler who sold that ship's raw materials to one of the shipyards where Endless Endeavors produced their Kandiis.

EE's master seller Kez Aak was able to locate a very specific ship per Belloq's unusual request, made with those particular mats. It came with the auspicious serial number of #2771776. Belloq could never prove the spirit of his previous Master was somehow connected to this new ship, but he couldn't disprove it either.

Belloq, with the help of a few trusted curators, is now in the process of transferring more than 1400 items from their original installations onboard the Prometheus to the more expansive quarters on the Kandii.

The Creation of G.A.S.P.

Somewhere in Year 25, Belloq realized he needed an arbitration body to assist in his efforts to catalogue all of the rarities he'd helped uncover. So was born the semi-voluntary body The Galactic Artifact and Souvenir Project (G.A.S.P.). As of early Year 26, there were already a few dozen artifacts recorded with the Project, with new additions being added every week, as its curators find time.