"...there's always the right smuggler for the right job, but sometimes it gets a little ridiculous. Like this man Karl, he tries to hire me to move four hundred tons of blaster gas clear across the next sector and drop it off on an impounded planet. All I could do was laugh. I mean, what did he expect me to do? Push it out the back when I got there? I told him to go find himself a psycho who doesn't mind flying straight through the Imperial Navy and make a drop-off, that is make the drop-off IF he don't get disassembled in the process. I figure that idiot will probably run out of people to ask around midnight."

- Berin Havaliss, professional smuggler

"He's paying me 80,000 up front and another 100,000 on completion. I'd rather be a rich psycho than a poor coward. Anyday."

- Ralston Quev, professional blockade runner

"If smuggling is sending a box of chocolates to a heart patient in a hospital via first class mail, then blockade running is Fedexing a crate of common sense to the KKK. It's almost impossible to get through, but they really need it."

- Nealos, webmaster


Smugglers, by definition, are those who seek profit by the transport and delivery of illegal goods. Their methods usually include hiding cargoes in secret bays or burying them in a hold full of legal cargo. They consider themselves rather subtle, sneaky individuals; the less trouble they get in, the better offers they get. Everybody likes a clean smuggler.

Blockade Runners, by definition, are those who seek profit by the transport and delivery of illegal goods by any means necessary to destinations which are locked down by the military or other massive force. They consider themselves a cut above smugglers, because after all, "smugglers try to hide." They are often seen as somewhat suicidal types by others; the bigger the force they can "bust," the better offers they get. There is no such thing as a clean blockade runner.

They are, next to the Jedi and the Alliance, among the most wanted individuals in the galaxy. But unlike the Jedi and the Alliance, who must hide as smugglers do, blockade runners enjoy showing the Empire who's boss through force and being back in time for breakfast. Welcome to Blockade Running...

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