The Great Insurrection Part 1 - The Lay of the Land

## **Previously**

*After a chance encounter with deadly force user aboard a mercenary vessel, Genos loses a hand but manages to save his lightsaber. After this mysterious menace flees the ship and its pirate crew is subdued, Genos works with Ronia to focus on calling out to the force to see where this unknown force user is located.*

*This question is answered in short time...*

## **Recap**

### **I'll Sleep When I'm Dead**

Even though the group has just returned from a mission, they are greeted with news: Blaine's 'uncle' has passed away and he along with Kai (who was still filling in for Tal and becoming fast friends with Ronia), depart on the *Jinxed Starhawk* to his home planet of Zaralner.
> "My dad has about 5 friends total and this is the 3rd to die in the last year." - Blaine Hansom
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With Genos barely recovered, Bota catching up with the executive staff, it's only a few hours before the group is called back into action.
### **Vision Quest**

Ronia, the rescued Dark Jedi minion of the Asilay, began to focus on the mysterious force user Genos had encountered on the pirate vessel. For her effort, she was plagued with nightmares. As Ronia’s nightmares get worse and worse, the vision she receives becomes clearer.

She sees a foggy, forested world deeply in conflict. She sees three shadows in the night, and then three lightsabers igniting. A man steps up to them, in the rain, his lightsaber steaming, and then a woman running out of her house yelling and crying, she is decapitated by one of the three. The man yells out and then savagely attacks them. Ronia knows that something has to be done, and she knows the force will be able to guide her there.

Surprising Genos in the middle of the night, she urges him to take her there and to stop the vision from becoming a reality. Guiding the group just outside of a planet’s orbit, it looks like three small and sleek black starfighters of an unknown origin have completely disabled a much larger, capitol-class space cruiser. Startled by the appearance of the group's ship, they land on a seemingly quiet, backwater planet.

### **Where Everyone Knows Your Name**

Using the *Red Shift,* the group descends on a forested and foggy plannet and lands near where Ronia feels the presence of the force.

Walking an old, cobbled road to the nearest tavern, they see a group of lively patrons in common, but not backwater, clothes; singing a happy song along with a musician onstage. Confused by the lack of danger and the hospitality, the group remains on alert and on edge. Bota, approaching the bartender, is greeted with a warm response.
> "Hello, Bota Zi."
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> "What the? How do you know name?"
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> "Well, you've been here before."
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> "Wait, what's going on with this crazy planet?"
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> - *Bota to the bartender on Zaralner*
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The group themselves, never bothering to check with astrogration charts has seemingly followed Blaine to his home planet.
### **Meet the Parents**

Blaine is surprised to receive a local comm from the group and shows up at the tavern and brings the group back to his family's house. They are introduced to his parents, Thom 'Tuck' Hansom and Dinna Hansom.

Dinna's family can be traced back to the original colonists of the small settlement, while Tuck was part of a flux of Clone War refugees who migrated to the planet. He, along with a group of others who arrived at the time, have ingratiated hemselves with the populace over the years but they have remained a secondary closeknit community - dressing differently and wearing ancestral markers as tattoos on themselves. It was this group of refugees that Blaine spent most of his childhood with.

Confused, Ronia feels the presence of the Force all around her and after dinner, the group takes a well deserved rest as the rain begins to fall.

Awakened by horrible screams, each member of the group rushes towards the entryway in various states of their night clothes, only to see a trio of force wielders with red lightsabers in the rain, a decapitated Dinna in the entryway, and Tuck in his robes holding a blue lightsaber of his own.

Immediately, the three attackers use the force to speed away, with Tuck immediately chasing after them, out into the night.

While Blaine mourns his mother, the group decides to get to the bottom of this mystery and eventually finds out that the attackers came from inside the Hansom's residence - through a hidden passageway behind a bookcase. The passageway looks cold, dark, leads downward; into a cavern. Genos ignites his lightsaber and the group travels below Zaralner's surface.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Blaine Hansom
* Bota Zi
* Genos Ia'danian
* Zuda Zorbo

### **NPCs**

* Ronia Del Vath
* Kaimitscoborro
* Thom 'Tuck' Hansom
* Dinna Hansom

## **Notes**

* Bota, for my knowledge, had not actually been to Blaine's home planet before In a mission but I think my logic was, as the GM, I assumed that since they've been close friends for years now, he'd likely have gone there before
* The group was absolutely surprised it was Zaralner and they did not do an astrogation or planetary systems check before exiting their ship - and they never even just asked 'what planet is this?' which was hilarious
* Originally 'Dinna' was named 'Mynna'
* For a period in the late 90s I wanted to rename 'Blaine' to 'Thom' but instead added 'Thom' as Blaine's middle name. Retroactively, I then made 'Thom' the name of Blaine's father as names are recycled throughout Star Wars
* We rolled to see who in Blaine's family would be killed