Museum of Natural History (V)

Private collector Enkarn Lightmist has recently offered to the Museum of Natural History newer specimens from his botanic collection. These have been added to the Flora Room and are available to see.

Despite the begign aspect of most fruits and vegetables, it is important to stress the difficulties associated with their gathering. Indeed, these wild specimen have been gathered in hostile environments and their collection itself was faced with inherent challenges, time consomption being the most obvious one, but also, the presence of forage worms and of aggressive foragers may have jeopardized the process. Thus, the Museum is doubly grateful for the gift, knowing the risks that were taken.

This exhibit's duration will be limited in time as the Flora Room will soon be entirely refurbished in order to accomodate for the large number of new pieces. The new decoration will display the various exhibits in a clearer way so as to enable for easier examination. Each category of flora will be placed accordingly with fruits, vegetables, woods, jars being placed together.

Until then however, visitors will have the opportunity to closely examine the new additions: Yot Beans (Dantooine), Qana Beans (Dathomir), Beebleberries (Dathomir), Plaitfruit (Dathomir), Grapes (Dathomir), Driblis Fruit (Dathomir) and Drickle Fruit (Dathomir).

These fruits and vegetables will be further examined in order to determine if they are related to similar looking extraplanetary flora. The duration of the examination is expected to last for several weeks.

Community and Friends (July)

Community members and friends of the city having logged :

TMB city & guild
1. Darkossk
2. Tarn Pagott
3. Enkarn Lightmist

TMB city
4. Kawi Aenebaf
5. Ibeoki Nao

TMB guild
6. Febostaf Asaky
7. Fluffy-Stitch
8. Revelations

Alumni
9. Looser Bottom (former guild)
10. Dar'Ness Mandilor (former guild)
11. Doman (former city)
12. Ashelin (former guild)
13. Vurkuran (former city)
14. Af-ro (former guild)
15. Iascoeto Fepa (former guild)
16. Brite Sunwalker (former guild)
17. Kohaeg Noubat (former guild)
18. Vewock Eisis (former guild)

City Maintenance (VI)

rom: City Hall
Object: City Maintenance
Date: Mon. Jul. 07

Mayor Tarn Pagott,

A total of 54350 credits has been paid from the city treasury for maintenance and upkeep of structure.

Lumps

From Tatooine to Rori to Lok and of course Corellia, the Intergalactic gang of Meatlumps has been keeping everyone busy. With the many puzzles to solve for, oftentimes, scant rewards, emerges a curious sub-culture. Vani Kor and the Corellian Times reporting team fail to answer at least one major question : how are they funded ? While the gang is known for destroying private property, mostly in relation with technology, such vandalism does not generate the kind of money required to produce uniforms, travel from planets to planets and maintain equipment and facilities (well, maintain may be too strong a word...). Meatlumps assets are pretty impressive and their ranks are quite high, if their King seems quite aloof, some directions still must be given - if only to run the daily operations.

If time allows, it's nevertheless a great opportunity to look into Meatlump assets further and also into other criminal / gang organizations, such as the Rag-Tags or the famed Hutt and Black Sun criminal empires...

From Mustafar to Tatooine to Lok

On Sunday, what started as a simple Mustafar trip - a visit to the Blackguard camp to, ahem, discuss with their leadership and to help solve an archeologist's problem, ended as a galactic trip to save Mos Espa from the Tusken King and to enter IG-88's factory compound. While the first lag of this trip - a pure TMB two man team (Enkarn, Tarn), met with success, the remaining mixed group failed in both heroics (phase II and phase III respectively). It was nevertheless an opportunity to meet and work alongside new people and to have an overall good time. More success next time !

Chamber of Banishment (II)

A mixed Imperial / Rebel strike team, with two TMB members (Darkossk, Tarn) entered the Chamber of Banishment at the bottom of the Cave next to the Nightsister Stronghold. The team battled all the way down and entered the Chamber to face Axkva Ming and her supporters. After the witch's defeat, the group shortly disbanded.

Empire Day Celebrations

Twin Mountain Base's Mayor, Tarn Pagott, has been decorated during the Empire Day Celebrations by Lord Vader in Theed. This decoration was part of the numerous decorations offered to loyal citizens and Imperial officials whose work contribute to the Imperial rule. This decoration comes as a tribute to General Otto's strategy on Lok of installing strategically located small outposts in order to extend planetary control.

As Mayor of one of the oldest Imperial outposts on Lok, Tarn Pagott was chosen for his continued efforts for the city and the Empire. Mayor Pagott may be considered a controversial choice; self-styled liberal and outspoken critic of Imperial excesses, his work alongside Sean Trenwell in Bestine and author of an open letter to the Emperor his promotion as Hero of Empire Day may be seen as a gesture to Imperial liberals. While the Rebellion is reported to have gained grounds on some worlds, the Emperor may have chosen to woo back potential Rebel sympathizers. Since the dissolution of the Imperial Senate, moderate Imperials have found themselves facing mounting difficulties to express their concerns.

Is the Empire losing the battle for hearts and minds?

This very question can be asked when during the Empire Day Celebrations, Lord Vader failed to show up on July 2nd in Theed. An expectant crowd of wannabe Heroes were left stranded but the Dark Lord kept postponing his arrival. While it is likely this will be fixed shortly, it does send a mixed signal to loyal servants of the Empire.

While the Empire Day Celebrations are marked with gifts and special rewards, failing to decorate Imperial officials whose efforts contribute to the Imperial grandeur sends an ungrateful message to the crowds, as well as sowing resentment in otherwise devoted servants.

It is this kind of sleight that makes local politicians, civil servants and ordinary citizens look favorably toward the Rebellion. And while none of them is in a position to significantly alter the course of Intergalactic affairs, their common ire seriously hinders the Empire. Indeed, they may provide shelter, contraband goods, funds, equipment, knowledge or muscle to the Rebellion out of spite.

In this context, let's not be surprised that the Rebellion is reported to gain strength everyday as the highest levels of the Imperial leadership seems to ignore the efforts of those working beneath it.

Museum of Natural History (IV)

New additions to the Flora Room of the Museum of Natural History have been reported. These fruits, berries and plants have been graciously offered to the Museum by Enkarn Lightmist. These magnificent pieces come from the wilds of Dantooine and Dathomir.

From top to bottom, a Shef'na Fruit, a Celonsay, a Barabel Fruit, a Dorian Passion Fruit, a Tritacale and Hwotha Berries.

Visitors to the Flora room will be able to observe the similarities between various sorts of plants and vegetables. Thus, the Tritacale and the Ko Do Fruit, the Dorian Passion Fruit and the Aurilian Fruit as well as with the Maroj Melon, the Celonsay and the Charbote Root and the Sosi Hodor.

The extraordinary similarities between the plants tend to lend credence to a common ancestry and / or exopollination by accident - such as a cosmic fragments travelling with DNA strains - or design - such as artificial transplantation and adaptation.

Whatever the answer, and there may be several, visitors will have the leisure to observe these splendid specimen at their leisure.

Chamber of Banishment

On Monday evening a mixed group of Rebels and Imperials fought its way down the Nightsister Cave to enter the Chamber of Banishment. Despite skills, experience and spirit, the group met with demise as opposition refused stubbornly to be subdued. While it could be looked as a shame, it was actually due to a bug and hope it will be soon fixed.

Meanwhile, rumors have it that Darkossk is hoarding on Meatlump chests in order to find caged animals, an endeavor for which we wish him to find success - and as a matter of fact, laud his trailblazing spirit as a ranger highly interested in gaining identical treasures will soon follow suit...