Mos Shuuta

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Mos Shuuta[edit]

Mos Shuuta is a small city on the planet Tatooine, and the location of the palace of Hutt Cartel crime lord, Teemo the Hutt. Mos Shuuta is situated on the top of a tall, rocky bluff, with nothing but endless desert in every direction around it.

Mos Shuuta

Notable Places in Mos Shuuta:

  • Electrogate - The only way off the rocky bluff of Mos Shuuta is the stone spur at its southwest corner. The spur is guarded by a normally-dormant electrogate and a group of four guards.
  • Teemo's Palace (ruins) - this was the home of the Hutt named Teemo. When Teemo the Hutt was outed as a Rebel sympathizer, the palace was bombarded by TIEs and Teemo disappeared. Now the palace is rubble and was picked clean by the townsfolk
  • Bounty Office - this is a small space where bounty hunters can check the board for local and regional bounties. The place is in rough shape, it's maintained by a malfunctioning droid, but it does have a functioning holding cell (with a dead body inside, nobody came to pick them up)
  • Jawa Traders - Under a torn sailbarge wing strung between three buildings is a small market stall where jawas gather. They swarm droids and vehicles that stop for too long. Get past their scavenger nature and their lack of Basic language skills, and you'll find that the Suluc clan are well connected. Their stock is constantly changing, and cheap, but not always in the best condition.
  • Barracks - these small homes once housed Teemo's guards - now they're apartments
  • Customs Office - This was an Imperial facility that was shuttered when the rebels won. There are rumors the New Republic might open it again soon
  • Broken Acres Dewback Farm - Lomez Gomes employs about a dozen farm hands who are very loyal to him and the operation. There isn’t a great deal of honest work around Mos Shuuta, and life at Broken Acres is a thing worth protecting. Gomes doesn’t approve of the workers having blasters, but there’s a cache of them hidden on the southern end of the compound.
  • Water Tower - The water tower is the tallest structure in Mos Shuuta. It stores the water from the aquifer below. The people of Mos Shuuta have an unspoken agreement to keep the water tower safe, because water is life.
  • Desert Survey Office - This unassuming sandstone building is dominated by a large metal door, though to enter the building, you have to find the smaller door around the side complete with a tiny plaque stating "scouts welcome". The owner of the building is a retired podracer named Tars Vulnrick, and he pays creds to folks who bring him maps, pictures, and tales of new places out in the wastes.
  • Our Lady of the Whills - a nunnery. Most of the nuns here used to be sex workers, criminals, runaways. They turned from those dark paths to a life dedicated to quiet contemplation and penitence. They are wary of outsiders, but they are also charitable, and will take in other women who have come upon hard times and honestly seek help. They will be less hospitable to males, generally distrusting them, and in some cases being outright hostile. In dire circumstances the sisters are prepared to defend the convent (there’s a couple of old blaster rifles hidden in a tabernacle in one of the basement chapels).
  • Vorn's Junk Shop - The junk shop is immediately obvious by the scrapyard adjoining the low pourstone building. It is operated by an old human named Vorn and his astromech R5 droid.
  • Offworld Trader's - Just across the alley from Vorn's Junk Shop is the Offworld Trader's, marked by a rusty old stylized rocket ship. Bengara, the male Twi'lek proprietor, specializes in fine goods from offworld, including luxurious clothing, exotic art objects, and difficult-to-find foodstuffs and spices. In short, Offworld Trader's has anything one could want, but absolutely nothing useful, and always at too high a price. It's a wonder he stays in business!
  • Drask's Cantina -
  • Bath House - Sand gets everywhere, and most species that call Mos Shuuta home are unadapted to the coarse substance. The bathhouse is a communal building, with a large central pool of diethyl ether peroxide for bathers to cleanse themselves in. Surrounding the central pool are air-shower cubicles, useful for either a pre-bath cleanse (to remove most of the sand), or a post-bath cleanse (to remove the acidic residue).
  • Building 1704 - An otherwise unremarkable factory on the outskirts of Mos Shuuta where cheap fireworks are made and housed. The working conditions are very poor and although there has never been a catastrophic explosion there have been many smaller gruesome injuries. The place is literally a powder keg ready to blow.
  • Spaceport Control - The spaceport control facility is a low, squat building clinging to the edge of the Mos Shuuta bluff. It was an Imperial facility, but when the Empire fell, the team continued working under their diligent manager. It's a job that doesn't pay well, but the team feels it's their duty to protect the town and keep business moving in and out of Mos Shuuta.
  • Medical Center - A victim of one too many mob attacks, with gangs of residents attempting to get at the injured parties within its walls have left the windows smashed and boarded up, and the heavy blasteel door hanging from its hinges. Within the small building is a small waiting area, a reception office, a medical officer's room, and the main surgery room. Wind-blown sand is heaped into every corner, and the remaining recovery bed and bacta tank have seen better days.
  • Baba's Grill - It's hard to see the inside of Baba's Grill, a small property built next to the power station. That's because there is always a crowd of people outside the shop, and its not uncommon to queue for half an hour to get to the front and order one of the few items Yaga has on sale - Bathan burger or Dewback ribs. Yaga, the Rodian who runs the joint, kept the name of the grill even after his father, Baba, died in gang fighting.
  • Power Station - This large domed building forms the corner of a small grouping of properties. Getting close to the building, you can hear the thru of its generators, their ducts delving deep into the planet's crust, drawing on the heat from the planet's core. Large metal tubes burst out of the molded sand walls of the station itself, some thrusting into the air, before ejecting a network of cables that run to different segments of the mesa. Other rubes form a shiny walkway between the nearby buildings, while others dive back underground carrying power conduits to the spaceport and slagworks. The power station is a popular gathering point in the early house, as Jawas hang around eager to trade with the owners who bring their droids to the station to be recharged.
  • Acevedo's Weapons - Acevedo the trandoshan use to sell weapons to anyone who wanted them, but during the gang wars, he left town because one of the gangs decided he was helping the other side. Now, the building, which was once a small fortress, lies broken and empty.
  • Slagworks - Three Gamorrean Overseers keep the wretches who labor in the Slagworks. The Slagbworks consists of several mineshafts descending into the Mos Shuuta bluff as well as a smelting facility where the ore removed from the mines is converted into a useable state.
  • Trader's Ledge - Hanging from the northern side of the mesa, in the shadow of Docking Bay Aurek, is a series of rickety wooden platforms, held aloft by gigantic gas balloons. On the canton floor hundreds of meters below are piles of dewback dung, sweating and rotting in the sunlight of Tatooine's twin suns. A small processing plant pumps the gas up to the balloons, providing a floating platform for the verpine trader Vi'grax to land hissmall freighter shuttle on. Vi'grax runs an irregular cargo service to other cities on Tatooine such as Mos Espa and Mos Eisley.
  • Shantytown - A riot of ramshackle tents, huts, and hovels clinging to outcroppings of rock, the shantytown represents the (completely unsafe) dwellings of Mos Shuuta's poorest population. The various "islands" of the shantytown are connected to Mos Shuuta proper by rickety rope bridges with planks of rusting scrap metal.

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