Star Wars the Dark Times, episode 1

A writeup of Monday nights Star Wars Saga edition rpg session.

The campaign picks up after quite a long break, in universe it ran from about 5 years before the start of the clone wars, and ended a few months after order 66. The characters started out doing odd jobs and involved in minor issues, before eventually becoming jedi knights & generals in the Grand Army of the Republic, but these are all tales for another time....

 

the Dark times, episode 1.

The cast:-

Darjan: Human force adept (Tony)

Kel Orta: Kel Dor jedi knight (Kev)

Cyrus: human jedi knight (Dave)

Sai Rye: human soldier (Chris)

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Along time ago, in a galaxy far far away....

  It has been 2 years since the betrayal of the Jedi order, darkness has

 descended on the galaxy. Emperor Palpatine grows more powerful

every day, bringing his own brand of peace and order to the galaxy...

 On the Outer rim, aboard a marauder corvette belonging to the Blazing Chain raiders, victims of their latest attack are being brought into the hangar bay to be relieved of their valuables. The converted freighter they were travelling in waits outside, dwarfed by the corvette.

 

 

  Among the passengers are Darjan and Sai Rye. Also in the hangar bay is a small scout ship, which was being piloted by Kel Orta.

  As the raider’s apparent leader comes in, Darjan and Kel Orta recognise him as Cyrus. Cyrus and Kel Orta have a flash of insight from the force, and find there is something familiar about Sai Rye. All three recognise him as a clone trooper, having served in the Clone wars themselves.

  Cyrus takes the Darjan, Kel Orta and Sai Rye to a meeting room, whilst the passengers are stowed in cabins and storerooms whilst their ship is dealt with. Cyrus explains he has been with the raiders for the past 5-6 months, and that they are not as bad as they seem, unlike normal pirates they don’t murder or torture their victims. Instead the raiders take what they want, then put the passengers back on their ship with only the backup hyperdrive working so they can limp back to port.

  Whilst the 4 are chatting, the corvette is rocked by an explosion from the engineering section, they dash to investigate only to discover that the main and backup hyperdrive have exploded. As they investigate it becomes clear that both drives have been sabotaged. They signal the captain to start securing the ship. As Sai Rye is working on the computer system they receive a message that a transmission is being sent from the secondary comms system. Darjan and Cyrus sprint through the ship as Kel Orta and Sai Rye start sealing bulkheads aboard the ship. As Darjan and Cyrus arrive in the comms room they see the operator dead, neck broken, the message sent gives the position of the ship. As they stand and ponder, they realise that the saboteur is probably using the air ducts to get around the ship, bypassing the bulkheads. Checking the transmission, it gave the ships current co-ordinates, allowing anyone to find them.

  A search of the ship starts to get organised, as well as asking the captain if any of her crew are disgruntled or have been acting suspiciously lately. Also they start to think about salvaging the hyperdrive from the passenger ship sat outside. Unfortunately as they are thinking, they hear the low bass sound and vibration of one of the turbolasers firing. Again Darjan and Cyrus sprint through the ship towards the turrets, just catching sight of a foot running round a corner. Calling on the force they both surge forward, knocking the saboteur to the ground whilst Cyrus knocks him out. Looking outside the passenger freighter can be seen listing, its entire engine section destroyed by the turbolaser blasts.

 The saboteur awakes to find himself bound to a chair with 4 unhappy people around him. Sai Rye tries to intimidate him, but he is too tough for that. Instead Darjan uses a jedi mind trick to get him to talk, learning that the Empire had been taking an interest in the raiders, and that the Venator destroyer Achilles is less than 2 hours away.

 

 

 

  In discussion with the captain, Kel Orta suggests that some of the crew escape in the scout ship, whilst the crew tries to mingle in with the captured passengers, and when the corvette gets taken aboard the Achilles the 4 of them will be in vac suits on the hull, to sneak aboard the destroyer, free the captured corvette crew and then escape in shuttles.

  They manage to avoid detection, and sneak into the air ducts as the corvette is tractor beamed into the dorsal hangar bay. The team makes its way to secondary engineering via a trooper barracks, stealing a couple of sets of clone trooper armour, and using the ‘prisoner transfer’ trick to bluff their way through. Sai Rye manages to rig the computers to overload main power in 30 minutes. Next they head to the detention blocks, getting the drop on the officers and troopers there, overriding the security locks and releasing the captured raider crew.

 Heading to the hangar bay, they manage to avoid or deal with anyone they come across. Timing their arrival to coincide with the power overload, they all dash forward in the confusion, knocking troopers and deck hands aside. 4 Shuttles are commandeered, overriding the upper hangar doors, despite the efforts of the destroyer crew to reclose them. As the shuttles go full throttle to escape, the turbolasers open up, shuttles take glancing hits and one of them is disable, the other three jump to hyperspace....

 Ten days later, the shuttles revert back to realspace above Tatooine. The Captain of the Blazing Chain raiders arranges to dispose of the imperial shuttles, and compensates the team for their troubles.

 Whilst on Tatooine the character talk, discovering they all have a common enemy in the Empire, and decide to try and work together against it...