Monday, January 4, 2010

Luxury yacht boarded by pirates and blown up

Date: 040110
Planet: Tatooine
Region: Tatooine system

Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).

Last night the luxry yacht "Pearl of Mantiar" sent out a distress call in the Tatooine system, alerting the authorities that it was under attack by an unidentified "Vigo"-Class gunboat. Communication with the yacht was lost soon afterwards.

An imperial patrol was immediately sent to the coordinates given but when the TIE fighter arrived it found the yacht in the process of being boarded. The starfighters engaged the gunboat at once, but could not prevent the pirate from undocking. During the undocking process the "Pearl of Mantiar" suddenly exploded for as of yet unknown reasons. The gunboat managed to escape afterwards.



The "Pearl of Mantiar" was the personal yacht of the Isariani Family, a noble house of Mantiar, and at the time of the incident Lady Isariani, second in line to the family fortune after her elder twin sister, was using it for a tour of the Outer Rim.

While the system authorities consider it very unlikely that Lady Isariani survived her family announced a reward of 1'000'000 credits for the safe return of her daughter.

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