Corellian Campaign

The Corellian Campaign was a sequence of events on Corellia involving the 1337 N00B5, CorSec, and Black Sun.

Background
The 1337 N00B5 aimed to build a large enough force in order to hunt down and capture Count Dooku, one of the Sith Lords. In order to do so, Wongata Kelvin suggested that they set up base on Corellia and search for Black Sun forces, and then proceed to forge an alliance with them so that they could leech on to the gang's resources.

The campaign
The 1337 N00B5 relocated to Corellia, hiding their base in plain sight in one of the cities and using Kaffman's father's connections to keep them from being detected. It was there that the 1337 N00B5 committed their first acts of legitimate piracy, capturing civilian freighters and ransoming either the vessels or the cargo. It is presumed that Grmek ordered these raids, and that the former Blood Karvers' squadron conducted most of them. Meanwhile, due to Wongata's plan to negotiate with Black Sun to get a jump start, Radar Spectros and Kaffman searched for evidence of Black Sun activities, despite Radar's doubts. Also during this time, PK-10 and Wongata used the rescue shuttle to recruit new followers, with moderate success.

Using Jett Worrap's programming skills and Radar Spectros's engineering ability, the 1337 N00B5 constructed a small-scale factory that was capable of reproducing ships using their designs. With this factory, several new Eta-2s were manufactured in those weeks, while ransom money was used to purchase vintage YT-1300 freighters and possibly even a C70 Corellian corvette.

Discovered
Their immunity to CorSec's searches did not last long, however. Two CorSec Officers stumbled upon the 1337 N00B5 base by accident, and briefly contacted Jett Worrap. Alerted to the coming danger, Kaffman, Grmek and Worrap formulated a plan to escape. CorSec acted quickly, showing up with a fleet of several C70 corvettes and Y-wing bombers. Grmek managed to buy time by "negotiating" with the CorSec officers, sometimes even going as far as to accuse them of racism, while Kaffman and Radar sneaked away in the Ferrier-class shuttle, appearing at the Corellia Senatorial Embassy, where Senator Garm Bel Iblis was working. Jett Worrap's hacking skills allowed Kaffman and Radar to secure an appointment with the Senator, but they were almost stopped when a Senate Guard recognized Vergere's Holocron as a Sith artifact. Thinking fast, Radar pretended to use a Jedi mind trick on the guard, which seemed to fool the guard's mind into thinking it was being altered. The guard permitted them to pass, presumably under the influence of a psychologically-induced stupor that came about from Radar's implication that he was using a mind trick. Kaffman was greatly impressed by this, especially since Radar had never taken psychology. Radar surmised it was because he hadn't that he managed to pull off non-Force-induced hypnosis.

When they entered Garm Bel Iblis's office, much to the Senator's unpleasant surprise, PK-10 jammed the building's communications. Iblis immediately recognized the two as the professors who had supposedly been kidnapped by pirates. Kaffman and Radar then proceeded to explain to the Senator the true story of their disappearance.

Meanwhile, the time given to the 1337 N00B5 to turn in their personnel expired, and the CorSec fleet opened fire on the 1337 N00B5 base. Despite her relatively small resources, Grmek was able to outsmart the attackers, using the Ancient, which was the same class as the CorSec ships, to confuse the enemy while the base revealed ion cannons that disabled two of the enemy corvettes.

As Garm Bel Iblis exchanged information with Kaffman and Radar at gunpoint, it became clear that the 1337 N00B5 were only responsible for a small portion of the attacks. With that realization, Kaffman informed Garm that they could track down the Black Sun operations and drive them offworld on the condition that their gang be left alone. Showing the Holocron to the Senator, Kaffman explained their gang's motives. Garm, who had more appreciation for morality than Kaffman assumed, dodged the 1337 N00B5 attempts to force him into conceding, but rather called off the attack on the 1337 N00B5 out of his own accord.

Pirate wars
However, the local media were closely following the developments on the "Corellian pirate wars," and in order to divert the attention of reporters away from the secret deal the Senator made with a pirate gang, the 1337 N00B5 were instructed to surrender their base to make it look like CorSec had triumphed as it should have, getting away with their ships. The CorSec officer leading the fleet, however, did not give up pursuit as he was ordered, and the 1337 N00B5 were forced to shoot down his ship, capturing the crew. Some of the CorSec crew defected to the 1337 N00B5, and the rest were freed. Two journalists who were covering the "pirate wars" story, Syal Niccin and Waber'ought, were captured in the battle by the 1337 N00B5, and were forced to publish stories on the Holonet detailing a decisive Corellian victory, but also reporting that the real pirate threat was far from eliminated. The journalists were released, but constantly supervised by Wongata Kelvin. During a disastrous encounter on the front lines of a confrontation between CorSec the newly-discovered Black Sun forces, Syal Niccin and Waber'ought got in the way and were fired. Kaffman proceeded to offer them a job with the 1337 N00B5, which they both accepted, with rather contrasting degrees of enthusiasm.

Using the connections with CorSec, the 1337 N00B5 uncovered and destroyed a Black Sun base by neutralizing their shield generator with L-96 Repulsor Gunboats, claiming rights to all plunder and driving the Black Sun presence off of Corellia. The Black Sun survivors mostly joined up with the 1337 N00B5, as they had nowhere else to go. The two journalists, now working for the 1337 N00B5, began working with Kaffman and other members of the 1337 N00B5 to publish the first issues of the 1337 J0URN41Z, a propaganda pamphlet meant to shift public perception in whatever ways the 1337 N00B5 needed. This chain of good fortune led the 1337 N00B5 to begin a massive development campaign, purchasing new ships and training new pilots. However, since the people of Corellia believed that the pirates were defeated, they were unable to carry out any more ransom missions on that planet without breaking the deal with Senator Garm Bel Iblis.

Final actions
Soon after, however, a CIS Providence-class destroyer appeared in orbit and picked up the Improbus, which had been used by Cad Bane's posse to abduct former Jedi Thracia Cho-Leem and her family. The appearance of a CIS military vessel in the neutral space of Corellia caused political turmoil on the surface, and Garm Bel Iblis, who wished to keep the peace and not get dragged into the Clone Wars, told the 1337 N00B5 to drive off the Separatists before the Republic could force Corellia into reconsidering their diplomatic stance.

The Trade Federation Cruiser did not intend to cause any trouble, but the 1337 N00B5 interceptors quickly approached the cruiser. Mistaking the 1337 Eta-2s for Jedi fighters, Cad Bane ordered Aegrus Claustrum to use the Improbus to cover their escape, a suicide mission by all accounts. Though Aegrus succeeded in keeping the 1337 N00B5 away from the cruiser as it escaped into hyperspace, Jett Worrap's squadron was able to shoot down the state-of-the-art gunship and kill the bounty hunter in the process.

Alternate options
Though the game treats the information in this article as "canon," the player has the option to do things differently. The player is not required to use, or even design, L-96 Repulsor Gunboats to destroy the enemy shield generator, and can use different methods to shut it down (though using the large tanks is the easiest way). The player also need not publish the 1337 J0URN41Z, though it is recommended as it makes it easier to recruit new members.