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"You did it! Valarian's so pleased she's told me to let you into the inner sanctum. That means you'll be dealing with Ind from now on."
―Kavas Urdano, to a spacer[2]

Ind was a female Gran criminal who lived on Tatooine during the Galactic Civil War. She worked for Lady Valarian.

Biography[]

"Ind says she has some work for you, or if you want I have something else for you to do."
―Kavas Urdano, to a spacer[2]

After the Battle of Yavin, Ind worked for Lady Valarian, the leader of the Valarian criminal syndicate, in Mos Eisley's Lucky Despot cantina. The Gran was one of the two main lieutenants of Lady Valarian, the other being the Chiss woman Kavas Urdano. Ind and Urdano had a very conflicting relationship as both rivaled to get Valarian's attention.[3]

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The Lucky Despot

In 1 ABY,[4] the conflict between the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure and Lady Valarian, her biggest competitor on Tatooine, turned to open war. At that time, Kavas Urdano recruited skilled spacers to help her with several missions. Those adventurers later went to work for Ind and the Gran provided them with Republic blasters. During one of their first missions, the spacers rescued a Valarian's compound guard who was carrying a rill casserole for Lady Valarian from a Jabba's henchman. Later, Ind was informed that a scientist specialized in beam weapons named Kaum had been recruited by Jabba. As the scientist was just arriving on Tatooine and did not know any of Jabba's men, Ind tasked a spacer with picking him up before Jabba's thugs. The spacer thus encountered Doctor Kaum upon his arrival in Mos Eisley and escorted him back to Ind at the Lucky Despot. Unaware that he had been deceived, the scientist began to work for the Valarian syndicate rather than for Jabba's organization. A short time later, Ind discovered that the assassin Roden Venthrall had been hired to assassinate Lady Valarian. The Gran promptly dispatched a spacer to find and kill the assassin before he could murder Valarian. Later, Ind found out that Jabba was attempting to poison the water supplies of the Lucky Despot. Fortunately, the spacers killed the three Jabba's enforcers and recovered the toxic rations. Thereafter, Lady Valarian tasked Ind with stealing an expensive avian egg that had been ordered by Jabba himself to be cooked by his chef Porcellus. After the spacers succeeded in stealing the egg from Jabba's enforcers, Lady Valarian was so pleased that she requested Ind to have the spacers working personally for her.[1]

Behind the scenes[]

Ind was a non-player character in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[1] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[5] Ind was present in the original release of the game, being part of Lady Valarian's Quest Series.[1]

With "Publish 20" released on July 19, 2005, it was announced that the "Valarian Quest Series" would be phased out during "Publish 22" to make way for a revamped questline during "Publish 23."[6] The story of this new Themepark was centered on the rivalry between Ind and Kavas Urdano.[3] While the old Valarian Quest Series was fully deactivated by Publish 23 on August 31, 2005,[7] the newly proposed questline was never fully implemented to replace it. Ind remained present in the game but was not involved in any quest anymore.[8]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided — Static Quest: "Ind" on Tatooine
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided — Static Quest: "Kavas Urdano" on Tatooine
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 In Development on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  4. ↑ The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
  5. ↑ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  6. ↑ Valarian Quest Update on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  7. ↑ Update Notes: Publish 23 on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (original site is defunct)
  8. ↑ Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Publish 25

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