HoloNet

They successfully stole a giant Sith holocron from Ronan Tag, but at what cost? The crew now prepares for a new adventure.

We're gonna open up in Grakkus's garage, and you're all watching HoloNet News with Grakkus.

Ugh.

Great.

I saw the whole thing.

In fact, Buff and I believe we know who is responsible for this crime.

My photoreceptors recorded some shady figures boarding the supposed Nihil ship, and I'll reveal it on my HoloNet account live at the Jedha Dust Bowl.

Follow me there, smash that like button-

Okay.

Years of you watching the HoloNet.

That's right.

Not just Zinn played by Frank Hamilton, hauled up in a room, checking the bounty on Poser and watching a crap ton of, of, uh, HoloTube, right? Dr.

Leth has watched HoloNet for years and years.

Recalling relevant and interesting facts and anecdotes during the conversation that they're having, um, because as you are listening for, you know, Empire this or whatever, they would talk about the benefits.

Like, why? Why would they join? What's good for the planet or the system in the long run, right? So with a success, you overhear, um, a little bit of, um, back and forth, and their opinion is jaded from something they don't know.

They don't do anything there.

Oh, I wrote at one point, uh, You know, Lando, he's like, in theory, only the Empire could use the expensive and restricted HoloNet.

In practice, anybody with a little primary electronic education could tap into the net, use a few relays and make calls easy and to easily and to add insult to injury, make the Empire pay for it, too.

So I wrote Lando is phone freaking here, which is fun.

You're going after this cultist group called the Infinite Coil and the Shadow Plague, and you start to get some sense of how does this tie in with some of the characters we know in the wider war? But it doesn't feel super gimmicky.

It's like you're getting HoloNet updates on, "Oh, I see.

We're at that stage of the Clone Wars." But you feel somewhat separated because you are a separate independent operator to some extent, though you then get embroiled with this wider war and it becomes all-encompassing.

So it's a great kind of threading the needle of, yes, we're in one of these well-established, well-covered Star Wars eras.

Leth and TLDR Professor Notescliffe, because when we woke up TLXS after he went under the knife, remember? He finally, after a lot of back and forth with Stitch about shutting him down and rebooting him and pulling the memory core and all this kind of stuff, and does he have the backup core, all that kind of thing, we haven't really played TLDR.

And now we've asked Doug to have his character accept a false identity from Bail Organa's office, plus Dr. Leth digging with his, um, technical knowledge, actually both of them using their technical and computer knowledge to slice into the HoloNet and come up with even better background IDs for just about everyone, which will probably stand up much better than the Kmart version from Bail Organa's office.

Um, remember, no matter who you are, your name in the invitation is attached to the senator's office of Bail Organa here in Alderaan.

So you all work for Senator Organa, no matter who, what walk of life or who you come from.

The first step to get into the gala itself is, of course, security.

So as we were talking about in the intro, let's start with the man himself.

Um, Doug, are you fully in your character for this transition, and we'll just have to learn as the seasons play out how much TLXS is still in there? Because we have someone reading your HoloNet ID, and you are listed as TLDR Professor Notescliffe, Attaché and Emissary and Envoy, and all those other special titles, to the Organa office, Senator Bail.

Is this correct?

yeah it was a good story

yeah Now let's check the Holonet for messages.

We received a very nice tweet from Jeff earlier this month.

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