After his ordeal at the Valley of the Jedi, Kyle Katarn dedicated himself to protecting and upholding the New Republic as a Jedi Knight. The New Republic cannot always find enough supplies needed to fight the remnants of the empire through legitimate means. Thus, the New Republic must sometimes turn to shady arms dealers selling ammo and supplies while on the run form various law enforcement groups. It has been arranged for Kyle to meet with a gunrunner on the station of Nar Shaddaa to retrieve a shipment and take it back to Coruscant.

The blue swirls of hyperspace stretched into starlines as the Moldy Crow reentered realspace around the station of Nar Shaddaa. Nar Shaddaa, or the Vertical City, as some called to it, was basically a maze of kilometer-tall buildings in orbit around the Hutt homeworld of Nal Hutta. The lower levels of the city housed the massive repulsorlifts that maintained a stable orbit. It also housed the reactor that provided power to the forcefield that surroundsthe entire superstructure. It's purpose is to block solar radiation and space debris as well as to keep the oxygen within the city from escaping into space. The forcefield parted as the Crow entered the city area, then closed again behind Kyle's ship. Nearby oxygen synthesizers produced more arificial oxygen to replace that which was lost when the Moldy Crow entered.

The Moldy Crow swooped towards the nearest docking port, a square alcove near the roof of a massive building. After the droid traffic controller gave the Crow landing instructions, Kyle landed his ship and opened the canopy.

Later, Kyle was seated in a cantina hidden in the rooftop levels of the Vertical City. Even from where he sat, Kyle could hear the air currents rushing up from the bowels of the city a kilometer below his feet. He was seated across from a Garindan, a methane-breathing alien that required a breath mask while off of their homeworld. This one wore a black robe to blend in with Nar Shaddaa's dark rooftops and causeways.

"The gunrunner that you're looking for is waiting for you on the other side of Nar Shaddaa. Since you're a Jedi Knight, Ve'da the Hutt has placed a bounty on your dead body and the rest of your kind. A gang of grans that works for Ve'da wants the reward, so they will kill you and bring you back to Ve'da. The easiest way to avoid the bulk of them is to enter the water purification plant on the third level down of the nearest building and use the water pipes to swim to the other side of Nar Shaddaa."

Kyle, satisfied, leaned back in his chair, and gave the Garindan a handful of credits. The Garindan got up to leave.