Skirmish in Docking Bay 84

"The kidnappers are threatening to kill Doctor Tarnis, but they might be bluffing. I'm not even sure they have him."

- Kira Carsen

During the Cold War, members of the Black Sun criminal syndicate infiltrated the Senate Tower on Coruscant and kidnapped the Republic scientist Doctor Eli Tarnis. Tarnis, in actuality a Sith Lord, had hired the criminals to stage his kidnapping, and slipped away to the Justicars' Sector while the kidnappers drew the attention of Coruscant Security at the nearby spaceport. In an attempt to rescue the scientist, the former apprentice of Jedi Master Orgus Din, T7-O1, and Padawan Kira Carsen fought and defeated the criminals, and learned that Tarnis had been taken to Black Sun Territory.

Prelude
During the Cold War between the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic, the Jedi Council sent four Jedi&mdash;Masters Bela Kiwiiks and Orgus Din, Kiwiiks' Padawan Kira Carsen, and Din's former apprentice&mdash;to investigate a dark presence that the Council sensed on the capital of Coruscant. There, they learned that the design files for the Planet Prison superweapon had been stolen by Vistis Garn, a thief working for the Migrant Merchants' Guild criminal organization. While Kiwiiks, Din, and General Var Suthra met with Supreme Chancellor Janarus in orbit on the Chancellor's personal cruiser the Founder, Din's former apprentice&mdash;now a Jedi Knight and Carsen worked to recover the files with Agent Galen of the Republic Strategic Information Service and Doctor Eli Tarnis, the creator of the Planet Prison.

Galen sent the Knight and the astromech droid T7-O1 to the Guild-controlled Old Galactic Market to recover the design files, while Carsen and Galen worked with Coruscant's security network to distract the gangsters. T7 and the Jedi were successful in recovering the files, but learned in the process that Vistis Garn had been hired by the Black Sun criminal syndicate. Unfortunately, while the Knight was in the Market, a team of Black Sun criminals infiltrated the Senate Tower and kidnapped Doctor Tarnis. Tarnis&mdash;who was actually a Sith Lord&mdash;had hired Black Sun to stage the kidnapping as a diversion, so that he could slip away to a secret facility in the Justicars' Sector while the kidnappers distracted Republic security.

Fight in the spaceport
Carsen and a team of Coruscant Security personnel pursued the kidnappers to the nearby spaceport, while the Knight returned to the Senate Tower to deliver the files to Galen. While the agent explained the situation to the Jedi, Galen received a holocall from Carsen. She and the CSF had pinned down the kidnappers in Docking Bay 84, but they were unable to make anymore progress against the criminals. The Knight and T7 raced to the spaceport to assist Carsen, finding that the Padawan and the CSF had set up a barricade in the hangar's entrance, and they were locked in a stalemate with the kidnappers. Speaking with Carsen, the Knight learned that they were threatening to kill the doctor and that their leader had shot at the Padawan when she tried to negotiate, but Carsen wasn't sure that Tarnis was even present in the hangar.

The Knight placed Tarnis' safety as a priority, and Carsen offered to use a stealth field generator that she had borrowed from Agent Galen to sneak by the criminals. The Jedi agreed, and stormed the hangar while Carsen activated the field and slipped inside. Together, the Knight and T7 defeated almost a dozen Black Sun members in the docking bay, and then attempted to access the control room. Opening the door, the Knight was almost ambushed by two gang members on the other side of the door, but the cloaked Carsen knocked them out before they could attack. However, the kidnappers' leader&mdash;a man named Zeer&mdash;saw the field flicker and shot in her direction with a blaster. The bolt dissipated over the field, shorting it out and knocking Carsen unconscious. The Knight and T7 rushed in to protect her, charging Zeer and the other three criminals in the room. Zeer and his men attempted to fight, but were no match for the Knight's martial prowess and quickly fell.

Aftermath
Injured, Zeer fell to his knees and cursed the Jedi. Recovering from the stealth field's feedback, Carsen joined the Knight and T7 in interrogating the criminal. Zeer laughed at the trio, revealing that he and his men had been decoys. Carsen then pretended to read Zeer's mind, making the criminal panic and tricking him into telling the Jedi that the head of Black Sun, Salarr, was holding Tarnis in his headquarters. Laughing, Carsen revealed that she wasn't able to read minds, and the Jedi handed Zeer over to the CSF before the Knight and T7 returned to Agent Galen.

Behind the scenes
"I can sneak in first, then when you attack, I'll take a few thugs by surprise. What do you think?"

- Kira Carsen offering to help

The skirmish in Docking Bay 84 was created for Star Wars: The Old Republic, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game released by BioWare on December 20, 2011. It appears in the Jedi Knight class story mission "Kidnapped!" on Coruscant, where the player is instructed to rescue Tarnis from the kidnappers in the spaceport. However, the player learns in the next mission, "Rescue", that Tarnis was in fact a Sith Lord, and that he had fled to the Justicars' Sector while the kidnappers served as a distraction. When Kira Carsen offers to use a stealth field generator to help the Knight, the player is presented with two options. The player can refuse Carsen's help, which results in loss of affection with both Carsen and T7, or they can accept and Carsen will help interrogate Zeer without injuring the criminal. Also, accepting Carsen's help will reduce the number of enemies that the player must face.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Old Republic