Planet: Tatooine/Lok
Region: Mos Eisley/Northern Lok
Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).
Both Tatooine and Lok are known as havens for criminals of all sorts. Mos Eisley on Tatooine in particular has a reputation as a hive of scum and villainy, where the popular opinion is that more criminals than law-abiding citizens roam the streets. And Lok is, outside a few outposts and settlements controlled by the Empire, populated by various pirates, feuding with each other and Nym, the pirate king of the planet.
As expected violence is very common in those places, and sometimes a murder can be bought for less credits than a drink. People are used to violent clashes between gangs or mercenaries and are rarely fazed by blastershots not aimed at themselves. Sometimes however they make an exception.
Such is the case with a recent string of killings in Mos Eisley and on Lok. Several local thugs have been found dead, killed in a peculiar way. Their bodies were left "lifeless husks", to quote a witness, with a a set of claw wounds from a five fingered hand or paw on their chest the only clue.
Corpse found in Mos Eisley
No one seems to know what killed the gang members, or even how, but the first theory that it was a single mutated animal of sort - like a mynock - was discarded when bodies turned up on two planets. While it's not impossible that this is the result of a new species brought to both planets recently, the lack of sightings and the general probability imply that this is the act of a sentient being - a serial killer with so far unknown means.
Corpses found on Lok
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