Star Wars: Age of Rebellion

> *"...because we can fight, we have to for those who cannot. The Rebellion may break, but our* spirit *never will. That's why we'll win this war."*
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> - Rulso Quillon
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***Star Wars: Age of Rebellion*** is an roleplaying series serving as a prequel to ***Star Wars: Edge of the Empire***. It is heavily connected to its sister campaigns including ***Edge of the Empire***, ***Force and Destiny***, ***Alliance at War***, ***A New Dawn*** and ***Age of Resistance***. It features the Retired Clone Soldier ARC-8192, stoic Kyuzo Soldier Neme, the indebted Gank Technician Korvas Noth, galaxy weary Klatooinian Soldier Barada, disgraced Sullustan Commander Exleire , and aspiring Human Guardian Kel Forsec fighting for the early rebellion against the Empire in 3 BBY-2 BBY.

Although it is primarily an *Age of Rebellion* campaign, the game crosses over into elements of both *Edge of the Empire* and *Force and Destiny*, all three mixed to create a rich *Star Wars* roleplaying campaign set in the years prior to the Galactic Civil War.

## **Synopsis**

### **Season One:**

#### **Episode I: FLIGHT OF THE SCRAPPER**

*It is a pivotal time for the galaxy. The evil GALACTIC EMPIRE controls most of Known Space, conquering innocent worlds with propaganda, fear, and supreme military might.*

*The young REBELLION, an upstart group of various resistance cells scattered across the galaxy, fights a new war from the shadows to topple the monstrous regime.*

*Three new recruits, now sworn members of the Rebellion, find themselves ambushed by an Imperial Star Destroyer and begin racing away in their swift starship, desperate to live to fight another day....*

##### **New Rebels**

Just after being sworn in as new members of the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire, three fringers aboard their custom VCX-100 freighter, the *Scrapper*, are fleeing an Imperial Star Destroyer in deep space. Inside the cockpit, Korvas Noth, a Gank technician and spy, charts a course to Nar Shaddaa on the navicomputer where he claims they can lay low with his connections to the Hutts. The jump point, however, his behind them and the Star Destroyer. Cara, a retired clone ARC trooper, and currently the only person flying the freighter, responds, “Roger that! Moving into attack position!” as he swings the ship around. In the nose gun, the third member of their party, a short Sullustan named Exleire, blasts away at the Star Destroyer's bridge as the *Scrapper* flies above it, distracting the Imperials as they duck for cover. Reaching the jump point, the *Scrapper* makes the jump to hyperspace. In the Star Destroyer, the bridge captain tells his aide that the matter is now in the hands of Governor Tarkin.

Arriving at Nar Shaddaa, the crew flies the ship down to the surface of the city moon, being hailed by “spaceport control” to send their clearance codes to land. Distrustful of the infamous treachery of the Hutts, they send their clearance codes, and are told to rendezvous at Hangar Bay L789 in the Red Light Sector, and that an administrative assistant would meet them. They land in the hangar bay, lock up their ship, and meet with the administrator, a human male who is wearing a cape and covering up a plaque on his chest. He takes them to the Cluster Cantina, where they are almost swindled by an Ithorian selling spiked drinks, but are rescued by the administrator before anything bad happens. He assures them that he means no harm, and he takes them in a backroom where he introduces them to another young human male wearing a rebel uniform and cap, as well as a captain insignia. The administrator, actually named Lieutenant Keyes, introduces the new rebels to Captain Quillon, who tells them that they are part of a small rebel safehouse in the cantina.

##### **The First Mission**

He gives them a mission if they are up for it, which involves travelling to Ord Mantell, rendezvousing with the only remaining rebel contact there who goes by “Goose”, and pick up a shuttle of rations and ammunition and bring it to Bestine, where the rebel ground forces are being besieged by the Empire. They agree after being promised 30,000 credits, and set off to Ord Mantell. Arriving at the planet, they set down on the outskirts of Wolport, the capital city of the planet, in a fishing village.

Upon exiting their ship, the fishers offer them a ride into the city on their open bed speeder truck, which is full of bubble-eyed green-looking catfish-like fish. They bring them to the fish market, and when Cara gives them some credits for their trouble, the fishermen give them a fish for free, telling them to let it warm up in the sun or near a vehicle engine for 3 hours, otherwise it will fatally poison them. They thank the fisherman and venture into the city, with Exleire shouting randomly, “Goose!” as they walk around the city for an hour.

Making their way back to the market, they eventually hear, “Duck!” whenever Exleire shouts, “Goose!” and run into a G2 repair droid and his street urchin friend. Taking them into a back alley, the G2 droid jokingly reveals that he is the rebel spy named Goose, and introduces them to his friend, Corbin Holsite. Together, they take the rebels to where the Imperials are loading up a *Zeta*-class cargo shuttle with cargo, protected by a squad of stormtroopers. While Goose, Corbin, Exleire, and Korvas take cover for the anticipated firefight behind various dumpsters and landspeeders, Cara wanders up to one of the stormtroopers, praising them for being the next generation of troopers protecting the galaxy. They thank him for his service as a clone, and even tell him that he is welcome to join the parade as a guest during Empire Day, but they tell him he needs to leave the area. Cara nods understandingly and walks away, turning and blasting at the stormtroopers with his pistols.

##### **Causing a Ruckus**

Taking their cue, Korvas and Exleire also shoot back at the stormtroopers from their hiding positions, and a raging firefight ensues with the troopers killed. During the fight, Goose races into the shuttle and powers it up, drawing concern from the others, especially Corbin. While the others race onto the shuttle, Korvas inspects the body of one of the stormtroopers, discovering a clear crystal and also gets on the shuttle. They take the shuttle to the *Scrapper*, and Korvas and Exleire get onboard it as Cara, Goose, and Corbin stay on the shuttle. Both ships lift off from the planet, making a jump to Bestine, where they encounter an Imperial fleet blockading the planet. Exleire and Korvas take the *Scrapper* away from the blockade, while Cara takes the shuttle to the middle of the fleet to be scanned after he is hailed by the fleet and questioned as to why they are there.

#### **Episode II: THE RANCORS OF BESTINE**

*The GALACTIC EMPIRE is at the height of its power. With the traitorous JEDI and the corrupt Republic both gone, this is an era of peace and stability. Seemingly nothing can stand in its way.*

*Banding together from resistance cells across the galaxy, the young REBELLION strikes from the shadows against their oppressors, waging a fierce guerrilla war to liberate the vast swaths of space from the Emperor's rule.*

*Journeying to BESTINE on a mission vital to rebel operations, the daring crew of the Scrapper is trapped by an Imperial blockade, desperate to deliver their shipment of supplies to the rebel troops trapped on the surface....*

##### **The Imperial Blockade**

Cara, Goose, and Corbin are onboard the stolen shuttle, trapped in the middle of the Imperial fleet. Seeing their friends in their precarious situation, Korvas and Exleire fly the *Scrapper* to one of Bestine's moons and set down on the surface. Cara manages to bluff his way through the blockade, and the shuttle descends down to the surface of the planet, escorted by two TIE fighters. Reaching the Imperial base, Cara and Corbin set the shuttle down on one of the base's landing pads and prepare for what they think will be a fight. An Imperial lieutenant ascends the shuttle's boarding ramp and requests proper identification after Cara sticks his clone helmet in the lieutenant's view and motions for him to come into the shuttle. Goose waddles up to the lieutenant and tells them that he is now under the authority of the Rebellion, and Cara knocks the lieutenant unconscious, telling Corbin to tie him up as the old clone lifts the shuttle off from the base and sets out on a flight path across the world's large oceans.

Meanwhile aboard the *Scrapper*, Exleire and Korvas check the freighter's remaining fuel supply, discovering that they will be out of fuel after their next hyperspace jump. Contacted by Cara and the others, they make a plan to leave the system and find a clue to where the rebel outpost is at, realizing that they don't have a chance against the Imperial forces. Suddenly, the cockpit of the *Scrapper* is completely darkened, and Korvas notices that they have been discovered by an Imperial light cruiser. Exleire races to the dorsal cannons, being knocked around as he straps in the seat by Korvas' desperate attempt to lift their ship off the moon's dusty surface.

Pursued by the light cruiser, Korvas takes the *Scrapper* into an ancient dry riverbed, snaking the freighter through the cracks and crevices before leaving the moon entirely. Exleire blasts away at the two TIE fighters pursuing them as well, missing his shots due to Korvas' poor skill at flying the bulky freighter. Before they are completely annihilated by the turbolasers on the cruiser, three A-wing starfighters contact them, telling them that they are coming to the rescue, and transmitting the coordinates to their outpost on Bestine. The A-wings distract the TIEs, allowing the *Scrapper* to fly as close to the light cruiser's underbelly as possible to outrun the Imperial cruiser and make a quick run to the surface. The gun crew aboard the cruiser opened fire instantly when they got a shot, accidentally shooting the cruiser's engines and causing major damage when the smaller freighter was able to fly faster than they could track.

##### **Reunited Rebels**

With the A-wing pilot's help, Korvas and Exleire have a safe flight to the rebel outpost on a small island. Landing in the outpost's small docking bay, they are reunited with Goose, Corbin, and Cara, who tell them that they asked the rebels to help them out when they learned of their situation. Reunited at last and embracing one another as friends, they are asked to meet Commander Deso Horain in the operations room.

When the fringers arrive at the ops room, they are questioned by Commander Horain, a very short and angry Lannik, about their mission and requested to do another. He needs them to recover the reactor core of a Corellian corvette on the opposite side of the island, which crashed on the beach after being attacked by the Empire. Goose and Corbin stay at the rebel outpost while the three main heroes venture on foot to the crash site, wandering through small patches of trees and grassy plains along the way.

##### **Searching the Corvette**

After an hour of trekking through the wilderness, the rebels notice that the corvette is being searched by an Imperial Army platoon. Exleire crawls his way to one of the Imperial Troop Transports, purposely making a scene to distract the Imperials. It works, and twelve Army troopers pursue him along the beach and into a nearby grove of trees. This gives Cara and Korvas an opportunity to deal with the remaining six troopers and one officer. Cara overpowers his DC-17 hand blasters, killing the Imperial officer with a two long range shots from an overlooking sand berm. Korvas rushes in and blasts two Army troopers, and the two of them work together to deal with the other four troopers, taking a few blaster bolts to themselves in the firefight. Before searching the corvette, they meet up with Exleire, who explains how he lured the overconfident troopers off a cliff, and the three of them were shocked to meet a small group of strange-looking aliens holding candles and dressed in white garments, calling the rebels "warriors from the beyond", who would "defeat the evil in a great battle in the stars". Not fully understanding, and a little unbelieving, the three rebels brush off their encounter with the aliens before searching the corvette.

Working their way inside the starship, the rebels faced a race against time as they struggled to retrieve the reactor core before the ship descended deeper into the sea. Making it out with the reactor core just as the corvette slipped into the watery depths with a great crash of waves, the three of them loaded up the reactor core into one of the troop transports and prepared to travel to the rebel outpost. Surprised by an Imperial scout trooper team aboard speeder bikes, the rebels were pursued by the scout troopers through the forests. Korvas drove the transport through the trees, having more luck with it that their freighter, giving Cara with the transports cannon a perfect shot on one of the speeder bikes, throwing it into one of the trees. Exleire managed to wiggle his small Sullustan body through the transport's side hatch, pulling his blaster pistol and blasting the remaining scout trooper, removing the threat of the Empire for the rest of their trip.

Reaching the outpost's trench line of rebel troopers, they assisted in handing out rations and ammunition from the stolen shuttle while the transport was brought back to the docking bay. Summoned by Commander Horain, they were then paid in full for both missions and allowed to go their own way. As they regrouped with Goose and Corbin, the five fringers were approached by Captain Derlin and asked about what they were going to do next. Before they got a chance to respond, they were interrupted by one of the deck lieutenants, who informed Derlin that the *Tythos* had been reequipped with the new reactor core. Derlin thanked the lieutenant and his technical crew, telling them to prepare it for takeoff. Turning to the five rebels, Derlin asked them if they would want to accompany them while the *Tythos* rallied with a supply ship in orbit. Catching Cara's attention with the mentioning of the *Tythos*, the same ship he, Chalkurra, and the Jedi strike team used during the Clone Wars, he agreed to escort them with the *Scrapper*. The others agreed as well, and they, the *Tythos*, and the three A-wing starfighters of Green Group left the rebel outpost, ascending into Bestine's low orbit.

##### **Skirmish Above Bestine**

As the rebel convoy reached the planet's orbit, they noticed that the Imperial fleet had left the system, leaving only a lone light cruiser, they same one they dealt with earlier, to patrol the system. The rebel forces made a plan; the crew aboard the *Scrapper* would board the cruiser while Green Group and the *Tythos* distracted them. Once onboard, they would make their way to the secondary control systems and disable the ship, allowing the *Tythos* to make the flight to the rendezvous point safely without being destroyed. Seeing no other option, and realizing that the *Scrapper*'s crew had earned a solid reputation, Captain Derlin sent Green Group to attack the cruiser head-on.

Latching onto the starboard airlock, Cara, Exleire, and Korvas boarded the cruiser, blasting any stormtroopers they found on their way to the control room. Exleire broke off from the group, making his way to the cruiser's bridge. Exiting the turbolift, he walked up to one of the bridge crew, tapping him on the shoulder and giving a jaunty salute before throwing his bag of collected explosives as far as he could into the bridge. Dodging the blaster shots aimed at him, Exleire only heard behind him, "Sir, what is that thing?", and the reply, "I don't know. I'm in the Navy!" Boarding the turbolift, the Sullustan regrouped with a furious Cara and Korvas, who demanded "what all that was about?" Telling them to wait for it, the bridge partially exploded, and Exleire simply told them it was all a part of the plan before accompanying them to the control room.

Once inside the control room, the rebels were able to take control of the cruiser without any problems, since the primary controls in the bridge had been blown away. Contacted by Captain Derlin and alerted to the recent arrival of another light cruiser, they sent the cruiser in a tight port-side turn into the other cruiser. Racing to the cruiser's escape pods, they met a young Imperial ensign, who they captured and threw inside the *Scrapper* after it docked with the cruiser. Boarding their ship, the rebels race away from the two colliding ships, whooping and hollering with the other rebels at their small victory.

##### **Meeting the Supply Ship**

Rendezvousing with the supply ship, an Action IV bulk freighter, which they discover to be a Hutt Gorensla kajidic ship, they help Captain Derlin and the other rebels on the *Tythos* transfer the cargo, and Korvas meets up with one of the Hutt enforcers, who tells him that Sinasu the Hutt would like to see him again about his duty to the clan. The episode ends with the crew of the *Scrapper* being asked by Green Leader and Green Three about accompanying them on their adventures, hoping to really battle the Empire and not waste their lives like what happened to Green Two during the battle.

#### **Episode III: NEVER UPSET A WOOKIEE**

*It is a lawless time. With the backdrop of the growing war between the Rebellion and the evil Galactic Empire, citizens of the galaxy are trapped in between the two forces, turning to black marketeers and criminals for basic supplies.*

*The treacherous SINASU THE HUTT has contacted one of his Gank killers to serve him once again, fully aware of his servants' newfound alliegance to the fledgling Rebellion.*

*In these trying times, real loyalty is scarce, yet certain individuals remain true to those they care about....*

##### **Rebel Troubles**

After receiving the supplies from the Hutt gangsters, the small rebel fleet travels through subspace, with the *Tythos* leading a GR-75 transport and a small flight of Y-wing starfighters. Docked with the frigate, the *Scrapper* is being repaired by Goose and Corbin, working together to repair its sparking power conduits. The three rebels are walking past them, getting ready to meet Commander Horain in the briefing room onboard the *Tythos*. They notice that Goose just ripped out a major wiring component, and a red light keeps blinking and flashing as the terminal begins to smoke.

Complaining that the repair droid never does any actual repairing, they help Corbin fix the conduits, telling him to keep an eye on Goose while they go meet with the commander. Once onboard the older frigate, Commander Horain briefs the rebels on a new urgency. The fleet needs a secure hyperspace route through the Outer Rim, once which they could avoid Imperial patrols and dangerous pirates. They also have a second problem; Sinasu the Hutt, Korvas' employer as well as the seller of the cargo they just purchased, has demanded that Korvas capture and deliver a Wookiee to Jabba the Hutt on Sinasu's behalf. If he refuses, Sinasu will leak the location of the fleet to the Empire. Not wanting this information to fall into the Empire's hands, Korvas, Cara, and Exleire agree that the risk is too great, and embark on the *Scrapper* to Tatooine to meet with Jabba, agreeing with Green Group that they should stay with the fleet.

##### **Mission to Tatooine**

Once on Tatooine, they search the Dune Sea for Jabba's Palace, finding it among the canyons and rocky crevices of the Northern Dune Sea. They land their ship a kilometer away from the palace and set out on foot through the canyon, telling Corbin to keep an eye on the Imperial ensign and Goose while Goose counts the thickness of flimsiplast sheets in the cargo bay to keep himself distracted.

Walking through the canyon, the three adventurers are suddenly attacked by a group of five Tusken Raiders, who open fire on them with their slugthrowers before jumping down off the rocks to attack them with their gaffi sticks. Korvas and Exleire defeat the two rushing at them with their gaffi sticks, while Cara overloads his DC-17 pistols again and blasts the rocks below the other three Tuskens, throwing them off the cliff as it shatters in a fiery explosion. With the Sand People dead, the group cautiously makes their way up to Jabba's Palace, not encountering any more Tuskens along the way.

Once reaching Jabba's Palace, Korvas knocks on the door, and a droid eye popped out from the wall, asking who they were in Huttese. Korvas replied back, understanding Huttese, and the droid made a laugh before disappearing back into the wall. Ready to just give up and walk back, the group was surprised when the door opened, with a Gamorrean Guard ushering them inside. Cara made a slight joke with the Guard, causing the Guard to laugh and throw his arm around the old clone soldier in response, slapping Exleire on the back as well. Bib Fortuna approached them as they ventured deeper into the palace, telling them that they would have to wait to speak with Jabba while he was meeting with another visitor.

Once at the Hutt's main audience chamber, the group was stopped by a leashed frog-dog, requesting that they stop to let Jabba finish speaking with his mysterious visitor. Noticing that the chamber's guests were against the walls in fear and awe, they saw the Hutt lord speak with a black armor-clad individual, speaking with a robotic voice and rasping in a built-in helmet respirator. After finishing his conversation with Jabba, telling him that the Emperor did not approve of the Hutt's recent actions and that their would be consequences for such future actions, the individual turned away, striding past the group of rebels, turning and glancing at Cara's clone armor for only a second before continuing to walk out of the palace undisturbed.

At Fortuna's motioning, Exleire and Korvas approached Jabba's dais, telling him that they were serving Sinasu the Hutt and ready to bring in a bounty on behalf of him. Cara blended back into the crowd, watching the pair speak with Jabba and keeping an eye out on the crowd, active and alive once again with the band playing a rousing jizz tune. He noticed that they were being watched by three Trandoshans, eyeing them at the mentioning of a Wookiee. Speaking with Jabba, Korvas and Exleire discovered that Jabba wanted Chewbacca, a mighty Wookiee, to be captured and brought to him. Korvas and Exleire nodded and agreed to the Hutt's request, and the three left Jabba's Palace and met up with Corbin and Goose aboard the *Scrapper*.

Deciding that their next move would be investigating Mos Espa, Exleire, Cara, and Korvas departed the *Scrapper* once again aboard their freighter's VCX-series auxiliary starfighter. Once at the spaceport, they landed the shuttle in once of the docking bays, venturing out into the crowded streets in search of the Wookiee.

##### **The Chase Intensifies**

While Cara retrieved some basic supplies like water and food, Korvas and Exleire made their way to a nearby cafe, agreeing that was the best place to start their investigation. When the Gank asked the cafe's waiter if he remembered seeing a Wookiee and a Corellian, the waiter, a Kiffar, excitedly replied back, telling the two aliens that the pair of smugglers had been chased by a pair of Weequays, with the Corellian racing off aboard their starship, accidentally leaving his Wookee friend behind in the spaceport. With their new lead and two fresh cups of caf, Korvas made his way to where the smuggler's freighter was at while the Sullustan waited behind for Cara to catch up with them.

The Gank was disappointed to see the docking bay empty, yelling a string of obscenities. Jumping out at Korvas, Chewbacca emerged from the shadows, throwing the Gank to the ground and placing a large foot on his chest, believing he was another one of Jabba's enforcers. Cara and Exleire raced up to their trapped friend, with Cara managing to calm the Wookiee down after speaking a small bit of Shyriiwook. Trusting the clone soldier after learning that he was best friends with Chalkurra son of Ossichutick, a distance cousin of his, Chewbacca helped Korvas to his feet, patting the Gank on the back.

With their new Wookiee friend explaining his predicament, the group agreed that they couldn't hand him over to Jabba, appealing to their inner consciousness'. Instead, they wandered through the markets and bazaars of the spaceport, searching for a source transmitter to fix Chewbacca's broken locator beacon to the *Millennium Falcon*, which he hoped would lead him to the ship's location. After finding and quickly installing the missing piece, the group was attacked by the three Trandoshan hunters from Jabba's Palace, turning the bazaar into a large firefight, with the rebels hiding behind a moisture vaporator, overturned tables, and cargo crates while the Trandoshans took cover behind a very antique landspeeder. Working together, the group defeated the Trandoshans, accidentally setting the bazaar's large amount of tents and shady rags on fire when one of Korvas' blaster shots grazed the top of a pool of fuel from the landspeeder the Trandoshans were behind, setting the fuel on fire. This attracted the attention of the Imperial garrison, with six sandtroopers aboard an Imperial Troop Transport sent to investigate the fire.

Exleire raced out from cover to distract the Imperials, failing to really grab their attention. Instead, Chewbacca and Cara blasted away at the sandtroopers, taking a few grazes from the Imperials overwhelming firepower while Korvas and Exleire worked together to knock out the transport's repulsor veins, sending the transport crashing onto the sandy streets of the spaceport. The group then raced back to their shuttle, taking off from the spaceport in a hurry to not attract any more unwanted Imperial attention.

Making it back to the *Scrapper*, Cara and Chewbacca took the controls of the freighter, flying the ship off Tatooine and into its orbit, where Chewbacca and Goose installed the locator beacon into the navicomputer. With the beacon installed, the group launched the *Scrapper* into hyperspace, setting off for the Gulf of Tatooine. While the group recovered from their adventure on Tatooine, Chewbacca began tinkering with the *Scrapper*'s engines and power conduits, fixing a few minor issues and boosting the engine power of the freighter.

##### **Future of the Rebellion**

Once reaching the Gulf of Tatooine, a starless void in deep space, the crew used the freighter's many sensor beacons to search for the *Millennium Falcon*. Locking on to its depleting power source, Cara docked with the YT-1300's airlock, and the crew boarded the hunk of junk with Chewbacca's blessing. Once onboard, they found the *Falcon* in total disarray, and Han Solo and Chewbacca greeted each other with a large hug. Barely able to trust the group of outlaws obviously sent to capture them, Solo nevertheless agreed with Chewie to let them use the Tatoo Twirl, a smuggler's hyperroute, for the rebel fleet. After helping them fix the *Falcon*, the group of rebels departed from their newfound Wookiee friend and his gruff captain, rendezvousing with the fleet and giving them coordinates from Solo for the Tatoo Twirl, allowing the rebel fleet to bypass several Imperial patrols and live to fight another day.

#### **Episode IV, Part One: AN UNLIKELY TRIO**

##### **Arrival on Peldaasa**

The IG-100 MagnaGuard droid "Drone" has traveled aboard a Garr Services transport ship to the remote Outer Rim world Peldaasa in search of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi after rumors have circulated in the criminal underworld about his presence on the arid planet. As Drone disembarks the transport, he ventures out into the dusty streets of Yus Kreega spaceport, a small cattle town and the only real spaceport on the entire planet.

The imposing war droid asks a local merchant where he can find the nearest cantina, and the Aleena merchant points down the street, directing him to Duster's Cantina, one last time asking Drone if he would want to buy a counterfeit chrono he is selling. Drone politely tells him no, and wanders down to the cantina. Arriving at it's entrance, Drone notices a young human male pushed roughly out of the doorway, falling into the dusty and dingy street in the process. An overweight Houk tells the boy in broken Basic that he better not see him in the cantina again, or he'll finally put a blaster bolt in his head. With that, the Houk returns to the cantina's interior, and the boy runs into Drone as he races down the street, telling the war droid to watch himself after he bumps into him. The boy doesn't even seem nervous or shocked after seeing the imposing battle droid, which slightly impresses Drone.

The old droid enters the cantina and sees that it is fairly empty, with the early morning shift having only a couple customers; the overweight Houk now eating something at the bar, and a human woman sipping her cup of caf in a darkened booth. He also notices that the band isn't playing, instead cleaning up their instruments and preparing to leave and rest for the next night. Drone walks down to the bar next to the Houk, who looks up at Drone in annoyance and then looks back down at his bowl quickly. Drone asks the bartender, the Duros Naid Deg, about the possibility of seeing an old Jedi wizard anywhere around the settlement. Naid chuckles as he continues to polish a shot glass with a dish rag, telling Drone that the rumors weren't true and that Kenobi must be dead for almost twenty years.

Frustrated with being eluded once again by Kenobi, Drone asks Naid where he might be able to go to see about some bounties, hoping that he might be able to scrape enough credits together to get a passage offworld. The Duros directs him towards the holographic bounty board near the bar's grill, telling him to look there. Drone goes to it and powers it up, thumbing through the bounties for the entire galaxy, the sector, and finally the Peldaasa system.

Meanwhile, the young human boy that ran into Drone has made his way down the street and through a few alleys, stopping to rest in a shady spot in a cramped and trash-heaping alley. He notices a large barn near him, and he wanders up to it, finding that it is unlocked. He opens the door slightly upwards with the control panel, and then crawls inside, seeing several cargo crates and speeder parts dotting the interior. The boy is almost about to leave, thinking it's just some typical farmer's barn, and then notices a strange music being played around the side. The boy peeks around the side and notices a short, furry alien tinkering with a large cage.

Scaring the alien, who he discovers is a Drall, the boy introduces himself as Kel Forsec. The alien likewise gives a greeting, introducing himself as Nivian. After explaining why he is in the barn, Nivian almost tells him to get out, thinking he is just some local scrumrat. Kel instead makes a deal with Nivian; find and bring back his Kintan strider. Knowing he needs credits, Kel agrees, and the two slap hands in a traditional business deal. Kel then wanders out in the streets towards the Veerchok Valley, where Nivian says the Kintan strider was last seen.

##### **The search begins**

During this time, Drone has found a bounty that he thinks he can have success on; locate and capture a Kintan strider for an anonymous client in Yus Kreega. He notices the same human boy from earlier now walking across from him in the dusty streets, muttering to himself about Veerchok Valley and a Kintan strider. Drone grabs and lifts the boy by his collar, slamming him against the cantina's exterior wall. Demanding an answer from the boy, Drone is shocked when the human uses the Force to push him backwards, causing Drone to let go of him and allowing him to now run away. Recognizing this as a Jedi power, Drone chases the boy out of the town and into the surrounding fields. The two eventually meet and agree to work together, rustling a nearby Gison and using him as a mount.

After an hour of traveling the wind-blown fields, the unlikely duo arrives at Fort Gison, a small outpost built into the cliffs at the entrance to the Veerchok Valley. The two give their Gison to the militia soldiers and meet a group of scouts at a campfire preparing to embark on a scouting mission into the valley the next morning. With the sun already set and the stars above them, Drone and Kel agree to spend the night at the fort, drinking with the scouts and swapping stories late into the night.

The next morning as the planet's only sun rises to greet them, Kel and Drone gather some supplies and prepare for their travels into the dangerous Veerchok Valley. While Drone grabs the last of the blaster gas that they will need, Kel climbs up into Lookout One, a large circular watchtower. He introduces himself to a lone Dressellian scout sipping a cup of caf and peering out into the Veerchok Valley. Pulling out his macrobinoculars, Kel notices a Kintan strider walking through the valley, dragging a dead anooba behind him. Kel races out of the tower and out of the fort, yelling at Drone to hurry up and follow him.

The pair of adventurers race through the red rock hills of the Veerchok Valley, following the trail left behind by the Kintan strider that eventually leads them into a small cave. Drone ventures inside cautiously with his electrostaff, preparing for a fight. Before Kel can warn him after feeling a disturbance in the Force, Drone sees a large, white tunnel worm snaking its way through the cave towards him. Holding his electrostaff before him, Drone causes the tunnel worm to stop and then dive headfirst into the rocks, digging a new tunnel with its acidic, oozing saliva and chomping teeth. Drone then sees its pursuer; an angry looking Kintan strider striding towards his direction and outside the cave.

Drone races backwards to Kel, and the pair are shocked when four thugs ambush them outside the cave, also confused as to what is happening and who each other are. The Kintan strider reveals himself to everyone, and Kel uses a Jedi mind trick to convince the Kintan strider to help them defeat the thugs. Swinging his hammer with such might blows, the Kintan strider knocks three thugs to the side of the rocks. The fourth one, a skinny Weequay armed with a slugthrower, exclaims that "its not worth it" and races out of the valley. Calming the Kintan strider and showing it they mean no harm, Drone and Kel peacefully lead him out of the valley and past Fort Gison, befuddling many of the militia members as they pass by, heading towards Yus Kreega.

##### **Dust and Diamonds**

After a few hours of walking through the grassy fields, the trio enters Yus Kreega. Stopped at the intersection of Gison Avenue and Trader's Plaza by a group of armed humanoids, Drone and Kel are demanded by the group's leader to give the Kintan strider to them. As further encouragement, the thugs' E-Web heavy repeating blaster cannon is set up on a building's rooftop and aimed at them.

After the Kintan strider gives them a scared look, Drone and Kel tell the armed thugs no, and ask them who they think they are. The thugs claim to be the Black Diamonds, and give the adventurers one last chance to give the Kintan strider over to them. Kel challenges the "Black Diamonds" leader to a duel instead, arguing that whoever wins takes him. The thug agrees, and the two line up in the street, staring each other down. The town's inhabitants clear the streets around them, and Kel and the thug both pull their blaster pistols at the same time, both hitting each other in the leg and shoulder. A firefight breaks out, and the adventurers eventually beat their opponents after Drone climbs a ladder and jumps down into the thugs with his vibro-swords, the Kintan strider smacks the leader with his club, and Kel blasts the thug shooting the E-Web.

The trio then head to Nivian's barn, where they discover that the shifty Drall plans to sell the Kintan strider to Jabba the Hutt or some other powerful crime lord. After taking his credits, they refuse to hand him over, and instead take him back to Fort Gison. Drone and Kel ask the militia to watch over the Kintan strider, who they name King Crush, and the militia agrees, making him an honorary member and a mascot of their unit.

##### **A Jedi parting**

Drone and Kel eventually part ways, with Drone stating that he plans on heading out to the Anoat system after hearing about a new job. He asks Kel if he wants to come, to which Kel politely declines, informing the MagnaGuard that he feels he has more work to do on Peldaasa. Drone then boards a transport ship preparing to leave, telling Kel the words he knows the young Force-user knows all to well; "May the Force be with you."

#### **Episode IV, Part Two: THE FIRST STEPS**

*The GALACTIC EMPIRE is at the height of its power. With the traitorous JEDI and the corrupt Republic both gone, this is an era of peace and stability. Seemingly nothing can stand in its way.*

*But there is still hope. With the memory of the Jedi and the fallen heroes before them, brave citizens of the galaxy rise up against the Empire. Some rumors claim that the Jedi live among the galaxy's populace in secret, growing in power and waiting for the right time to join the fight.*

*Ambushed by an Imperial flotilla at a secretive rally point, the combined REBEL FLEET flees the mighty Imperial vessels, vying time to escape before they are all destroyed once and for all....*

##### **Ambush and escape**

The session begins with the view panning upwards from the screen crawl, showing the combined forces of the rebel fleet fleeing a task force of Imperial warships above Haaridin. The Mon Calamari captain aboard an impressive MC75 star cruiser, the largest ship in the rebel fleet, shouts into the fleet-wide holocall, calling for the new T-65 X-wing starfighters to cover the cruisers as they prepare to jump into hyperspace.

Onboard the *Tythos* Commander Horain meets with Korvas Noth, Cara, and Exleire in the bridge of the ship, asking them if they can join the starfighters in protecting the fleet. Suddenly, a turbolaser barrage from one of the Imperial warships slams into the *Tythos* with a mighty thud, rattling everyone in the ship as they scramble to grab something to brace themselves. Alarm klaxons begin blaring through the ship, and Korvas tells Commander Horain that he'll check and see what damage he can fix after the *Tythos*' pilot tells them the hyperdrive has been knocked out. Grabbing G2-9T on his way to the engineering bay, Korvas races through the corridors of the starship, knocked around as more Imperial laser fire slams into the cruiser.

Meanwhile, Cara and Exleire have made it to the *Scrapper*, which is temporarily docked with the *Tythos*' airlock. Racing inside and powering up their nimble freighter, Cara disengages the airlock and maneuvers the ship around behind the fleeing fleet, drawing the attention of a Imperial TIE fighter. Exleire, now in the dorsal twin laser cannon, blasts away at and hits the TIE with laser blasts, only slightly damaging it as it begins to spark, but not be completely destroyed.

Inside the engineering section of the *Tythos*, Korvas and Goose work together to repair the hyperdrive, installing the hyperlink that fell out of the hyperdrive's now-smoking terminal. Looking out the tiny viewport to the battle raging outside them, they see that the rest of the rebel fleet has jumped into hyperspace, leaving only the *Tythos* and the *Scrapper* to make their narrow escape.

Cara, inside the cockpit of the *Scrapper*, links hyperspace coordinates with the *Tythos*, yelling at Exleire to prepare for the jump to lightspeed. After Korvas and Goose barely manage to fix the hyperdrive, the *Tythos* launches into hyperspace, and Exleire blasts away at the sparking TIE fighter, destroying it, as Cara pushes the *Scrapper*'s throttle forward to jump into lightspeed as well.

As the remaining forces of the rebel fleet jump into lightspeed, the bridge captain inside the *Prosecutor* asks for a status report. His bridge aide, a young fresh-faced lieutenant, walks up to the captain and tells him that two rebel starfighters were destroyed, as well as one CR90 corvette, but the rest of the rebel fleet had escaped. The captain, still looking out the viewport, tells the lieutenant to deploy probe droids to search the surrounding areas of space, fully believing that the rebels couldn't have gotten that far. The lieutenant notifies his superior that he will begin immediately, and then informs the captain that "one of the mystics' ships" is preparing to dock with the warship. The captain tells him to carry on with his duties, and that he will go greet him in person in the docking bay.

##### **Planning ahead**

Only a few hours after jumping to lightspeed, the rebel fleet rendezvous near the very large Valsunic Nebula in deep space, slowly venturing into the ginormous fields of yellow and red orange plasma. After docking with the *Tythos* once again, Cara disembarks the freighter, feeling dizzy and woozy. Barely entering the cruiser, Cara falls over onto the ground after loosing his footing, and Exleire and Korvas rush him to the medical suite. There, the medical droid tells them that Cara has suffered a concussion and will need to be treated before he can return to the field.

Trusting Cara in the hands of the medical droid and the faithful watch of Corbin Holsite, Exleire and Korvas make their way to the *Tythos*' bridge, meeting with a stressed Commander Horain. The commander tells them that they are stuck; they can't stay in the nebula forever due to the unpredictability of its shaping environment, and they can't wander the space lanes in the sector because of the increasing numbers of Imperial patrols. Worried about an ambush, Horain tells them that they are trapped, with the Imperial Starfleet slowing creeping towards them.

Exleire points to one unmarked spot on the holographic map, telling the stressed Lannik that there aren't any Imperial patrols in the system. Commander Horain, with the click of a button, zooms in on the planet. Telling them its name, Peldaasa, the commander says that they don't know if any Imperial forces are on the planet's surface, and that the fleet can't take any chances of being ambushed once again. Exleire volunteers to scout out the planet, taking an A-wing starfighter to Peldaasa to avoid any attention. Korvas stays behind knowing he and G2-9T are the only living crew members who can fully repair the *Tythos*' hyperdrive.

##### **Arriving at Peldaasa**

Jumping out of hyperspace, Exleire sees Peldaasa, noting that it appears to be an arid planet of sorts. Flying towards the planet's surface, Exleire notices lifeforms showing up on his A-wing's scanners, flying towards the strongest source. After some time of venturing through the atmosphere, the Sullustan flies out of the clouds, seeing a small spaceport below him. After noticing that the three circular docking bays seem to be used for large freighters, Exleire sets his A-wing down outside the town on a dirt landing pad, disembarking the starfighter and ditching his rebel-issued armor. Walking into the town, the brave Sullustan looked for any signs of Imperial forces.

A young human male peeks his head out from behind a building's smooth yet cracked duracrete wall, noting a Sullustan offworlder wandering through the streets, obviously new to the planet. Seeing the alien as an easy mark, the young man sneaks behind the Sullustan and casually steals 200 credits out of the Sullustan's pockets. Feeling a tugging at his pants pocket, Exleire sees a young human walking away from him, tossing some credit chips into the air with a giddy smile.

Exleire calls out to the boy, who races away from the short Sullustan. Just as the two catch up to one another, they hear a loud shrieking sound overhead, noticing an Imperial shuttle flying above the town and landing at one of the landing pads on the outskirts of the dusty spaceport. Taking that as his cue, Kel Forsec races away down a few of the streets, bumping into an Imperial stormtrooper patrol, who demand what he is doing in a restricted area. Exleire runs up behind Kel after noticing a red and black armored trooper disembarking the shuttle, and is also noticed by the stormtroopers. The stormtroopers grab both of them by the wrists, telling them that they are going in for questioning.

Kel uses the Force to push the stormtrooper away from him, revealing himself as a Force-user. The boy then turns and sprints away from the stormtroopers, who shout that "it's the one we're looking for!" and begin shooting stun bolts at the boy. Exleire pulls a frag grenade from his gear, throwing it at the stormtroopers, killing two of them while also slightly harming himself from the ensuing blast which is too close by. Hearing more stormtroopers chattering with one another around the corner racing to reinforce their brethren, Exleire attempts to hide behind some nearby cargo crates, bumping into them and creating a commotion. The stormtroopers notice the clattering crates and arrest Exleire for killing two stormtroopers. Kel looks out from cover and sees the Sullustan being arrested, and calls for his astromech droid to meet him at Trader's Plaza.

Kel carefully makes his way to Trader's Plaza, grabbing a hat from a stall and attempting to blend in with all of the surrounding fellow denizens of Yus Kreega. Looking for the fastest way out of the settlement and to Fort Gison where he knows he'll be safe, Kel spots a landspeeder being disembarked by its Nimbanel driver, who staggers his way into Silero's Weapons Shop. Kel casually walks up to its driver's side, hopping over it and hotwiring the landspeeder with R5-A8, his astromech droid, they successfully start the green and brown landspeeder, racing out of Yus Kreega's dusty streets and to Fort Gison.

##### **Rebel problems**

After about fifteen standard minutes, Kel and Arfive arrive at the rocky, craggy entrance to Fort Gison. One of the militia soldiers opens the large blast doors to the fort, inviting Kel in for a short while. Mentioning how nice of a new speeder the boy has, the militia soldier helps Arfive disembark safely off the vehicle, handing Kel a cup of water to hydrate himself. Discussing recent matters, the two of the humans walk through the fort for some time. Soon after, the Imperial shuttle lands in the open area of the fort's interior, several stormtroopers and an officer disembarking with a captured and binded Sullustan; Exleire. Kel immediately feels guilty for leaving Exleire behind after he saved his life, and makes up a plan to rescue him. While Arfive distracts the stormtroopers by hijacking the fort's broadcasting network to put out a fake call of attacking nomads, causing the officer to send stormtroopers to "defend" the fort, K

el walks up to the officer and uses a Jedi mind trick to convince the captain to release Exleire and leave the fort with his troops. The captain obeys, and the Imperial forces leave the fort, the stormtroopers confused over their lieutenant's recent change of behavior.

Formally introducing themselves to one another, Exleire asks Kel "where he learned that cool trick". Not telling him his secret, Kel instead avoids the question and asks what they should do next, wary of any more Imperial entanglements. Before they can come up with a plan, Gav, the same militia trooper who talked with Kel earlier, tells the pair to follow him out into Veerchok Valley, telling them that there is a way they can escape. Venturing out into the sandy red rock hills on foot, the four ragged-looking adventurers travel through the valley well into the night.

Onboard the *Tythos*, Korvas looks out from the viewport into the same stars Exleire can see from Peldaasa while he takes a break from his work. Goose continues working on the smoking hyperdrive, accidentally knocking a hydrospanner onto the deck, causing Korvas to look behind him and continue helping Goose on the vital key to their safety. A call for pilots to prepare for patrol outside the nebula over the ship's interior intercom concerns Korvas, and talking to himself more than Goose says, "C'mon Exleire old buddy. We don't have much time."

In the dusty, parched deserts of Peldaasa late at night, the four adventurers make their way to a cliff overlooking a large group of humanoids dancing around a fire, beating drums and chanting. Kel and Exleire ask what they are looking at, and Gav tells the suspicious pair to not act hostile, because they've been tracked and followed for some time now. Immediately, a group of short humanoid aliens with red war paint painted on their faces surrounds the group, aiming slugthrowers at them and motioning them down to the camp.

While walking carefully down to the camp below them, Kel and Exleire ask Gav who these people are, Gav telling them that they are the Gobi Gobi, the natives of Peldaasa, and his people. Glancing at each other in worry, Exleire and Kel prepare for a fight if necessary. Once at the camp, the warriors stop aiming their slugthrowers at the wanders, and the Gobi Gobi chief invites them to sit near him. Gav and the chief speak in a strange language of grunting and abnormal syllables. After a short conversation, Gav tells Kel that he noticed how Kel used a power not seen by the Gobi Gobi in an uncounted number of generations, and begins translating a story told by the chief.

The story goes that a number of generations ago, a strange man from a burning chariot streaked down from the stars to Peldaasa. The Gobi Gobi went and visited the churning, twisting metal of the chariot, finding a man of another kind in the wreckage tinkering with a piece of the chariot. They took the man back to their village in the red hills, trying to learn what the man was doing there. The man told them that he was from another land in the stars, where countless others like him and more inhabited vast swaths of the blackness and the stars, and that he was a strange word that they translated to Ja'chok'nah. After using a strange magic to heal a sick boy, the Gobi Gobi thought he was a god sent to save them. They told their new "god" that a large beast had killed a whole herd of their Gison, and that they wished for him to destroy it.

The man ventured out into the desert, slaying the beast in a mighty battle with his sword of fire. The Gobi Gobi hailed him as their savior, taking him back to the village and thanking him with a large feast. Days after, another chariot descended down to Peldaasa from the stars, taking their new god with them. Before he left, the Ja'chok'nah told him that he saw into the future, and that another Ja'chok'nah and his friends would arrive to free their people from a great evil. The man then left, and it has been an unknown number of seasons since he left.

The chief then looked at Kel, telling him that he had the same magic and that he is the new Ja'chok'nah. Kel completely wants nothing to do with the legend, claiming that he just wants to get off the planet and away from the Empire as far as possible. Exleire then says that he is from a group of people who fights a great evil Empire across the stars, and that the "great evil" must be the Empire. The chief vigorously shakes Exleire's hands, telling him that he is one of the Ja'chok'nah's friends. Dawn then appears, the sun's light beginning to snake against Peldaasa's red, rocky hills. Pulling out a folded rag, the Gobi Gobi chief holds it out to Kel, motioning for him to take the object inside it; an ancient sword given to them by the first Ja'chok'nah. Kel takes the blade, thumbing its power switch on and noticing a blue laser appearing on the edge of the sword, reminding him of the lightsabers of the Jedi Order.

Before they can prepare for the day, the tribe and their guests hear a whining noise approaching them from the desert. Exleire recognizes the sound instantly, already prepared for the two scout troopers aboard speeder bikes, who swoop towards the village and blast at the congregated Gobi Gobi with their speeder bikes' laser cannons.

Exleire and Kel start firing back at the scout troopers, Exleire managing to strike one of them in the chest with a blaster bolt from his holdout blaster. The dead trooper falls of the speeder bike, and the craft swirls around itself before crashing into a large rock in a fiery explosion. Kel swings at the remaining speeder bike with his ancient laser sword, missing it and its pilot. The trooper swings back towards the boy to fire at him with his own holdout blaster, missing Kel and speeding towards Yus Kreega.

Knowing that the trooper is going to report their location, Exleire gathers his things to go scout out the Imperial forces, telling Kel that he has to stop them before the rebel fleet arrives in the system. Kel tells him he'll help, but before both of them can leave he is summoned by the chief, who is dying from a laser blast to his chest. The chief begs Kel to save his people as the first Ja'chok'nah foretold, and dies in the boys arms. Kel vows to help his people and avenge his death, unknowingly truly beginning his journey as a Jedi.

##### **Battle for survival**

Several hours later Kel, Exleire, and Gav have made their way to the entrance of the Veerchok Valley with a large group of Gobi Gobi, who Exleire inspired to help them fight the Imperials after a short speech translated by Gav. The three crawl up to a cliff edge, Gav and Kel using their macrobinoculars to view the Imperials setting up a large dish outside Yus Kreega. Handing his macrobinoculars to Exleire, Kel tells them that they could possibly use the shuttle to destroy the dish by crashing the craft into it at high speeds. Exleire points out the obvious fact that their are too many Imperials, and rallies the Gobi Gobi to follow him as they sneak their way through the tall grass towards the Imperials. Kel also sneaks to the Imperials, successfully making his way to the shuttle, which he quietly boards. Exleire bumps into a stormtrooper when he looks behind him at the warriors, and the stormtrooper, shocked, asks what Exleire is supposed to be. Exleire simply shouts "charge!", and the Gobi Gobi rush the stormtroopers, killing many of them by surprise with the loud banging of their slugthrowers.

While the effort to destroy the dish begins on Peldaasa, the rebel fleet has been finally found by the Empire. Rebel starfighters moved to intercept the Imperials while the cruisers prepared to jump to Peldaasa, after Commander Horain argues that there is nowhere else to go. Korvas and Goose are almost finished with the hyperdrive, but tell them that they need a few more minutes to get it online and linked with the navicomputer.

On Peldaasa, the Gobi Gobi and rebel forces have nearly defeated the stormtroopers, Exleire inspiring the Gobi Gobi to continue fighting for their people. Inside the shuttle, Kel powers up the shuttle's engines and begins the startup sequence. A black and red armored Purge Trooper traps Kel in the shuttle, igniting an electrostaff and telling him that he finally found the Force-user he was looking for. Kel and the Purge trooper begin their duel for control of the shuttle, which begins lifting off the ground and rocking around with the two battling inside. Kel swings at the Purge trooper with his ancient laser sword after blocking many swipes from his masked opponents electrostaff, cutting the trooper in the chest and leaving him inside the doomed shuttle as it speeds towards the dish. Kel jumps outside the shuttle, narrowly escaping the ship as it explodes along with the dish. The remaining Imperials stand down after they see their lieutenant killed and the dish gone, and Exleire stands triumphant with one foot on a dead stormtrooper, holding his blaster in the air.

The rebel fleet finally jumps to hyperspace, and Korvas and Goose complete their repairs on the *Tythos*' hyperdrive, with the cruiser launching into lightspeed, making it to Peldaasa with the rest of the rebel fleet. Time passes by and the *Tythos* lands outside Yus Kreega, with Commander Horain, Korvas, Corbin, and Goose exiting the starship, meeting with Kel and Exleire outside. The captured stormtroopers are taken aboard the starship, flanked by rebel troopers, and the rebels thank Exleire and Kel for their hard work to protect the rebel fleet from total destruction. Commander Horain asks Kel to join the rebellion, telling him that he could help them fight the Empire and that the rebellion could use someone like Kel. The young man agrees, and is informally inducted into the rebellion.

##### **The First Son appears**

Onboard the Imperial warship's bridge, a robed figure with his hood over his head stands near the viewport, appearing to stare out of the glass and into the vast darkness. The bridge captain and his aide stand behind the figure, and the lieutenant asks why "this mystic" has to be aboard. The captain tells the young lieutenant that Governor Tarkin ordered that he accompany them after a Kyber crystal was stolen from Imperial forces on Ord Mantell, and that he should probably give him a report. The captain walks up behind the mystic, telling him that all Imperial forces on Peldaasa were either killed or captured, and that the Purge Trooper he sent had not reported in, wondering out loud how he could have been killed in combat. The mystic looks up and lifts his hood off his head, telling the captain that there are only a few who could have killed him. The mystic, a masked Miraluka, smiles devishly and quietly chuckles to himself.

### **Season Two:**

#### **Episode I:** **DEAD IN THE WATER, Part One**

*It is a perilous time. Despite recent victories, the Rebellion flounders in its struggle against the evil Galactic Empire, failing to unite the distant resistance cells into one unified alliance.*

*RANCOR'S FANG, one of the most militant rebel cells, battles the Empire for the freedom of an entire sector. Desperately short on supplies, Commander Horain has sent two of his most daring operatives on a risky mission to resupply his forces.*

*Having come under attack, the operatives have sent out a desperate message, a message received by the bravest of Rancor's Fang....*

##### **Rescue of the *Spinster's Loom***

The view pans down from the screen crawl to reveal twinkling stars in deep space. Suddenly, a rebel transport flies into view, flying as quick as it can away from the *Prosecutor*, an Imperial Star Destroyer, which is blasting away at the transport with green laser blasts as it fills the entire view with its massive bulk. The transport is fleeing as fast as it can, but is continuously shaked and rocked by its enemies’ overwhelming firepower.

Inside the Star Destroyer’s bridge, the First Son walks up to the viewport, his hands clasped behind his large black robes. Commanding the ship captain, the Inquisitor orders, “Admiral, lock onto the rebel’s ship with the tractor beams, then destroy its engines. I want them alive for interrogation.” Admiral Danodel rushes off, shouting orders to the crew pits. The First Son smiles devishly as his eye covering seems to stare out of the viewport.

Inside the transport’s command pod, a Wookiee female growls at at an LE-series repair droid as the transport rocks back and forth. “Get to the escape pods, Lelu!”

The droid looks up from the ship’s sensor readings, saying, “Brahtikka, three ships are jumping out of lightspeed at point 39!”

The Wookiee looks out the ship’s viewport, howling and shaking her hairy arms in the air, “They got our message! It’s the rebels!”

In the void of space, the *Scrapper* and the two A-wings of Green Group pop out of hyperspace, racing towards their friends. Cara, seated inside the *Scrapper*’s cockpit chair, keys the communication channel to the *Spinster's Loom*, saying, “Rebel transport *Spinster’s Loom*, this is Captain Cara of Rancor’s Fang. Looks like you’re not having the best day!”

Brahtikka howls a reply back over a hologram visible in the *Scrapper*’s cockpit, “No Captain, this is no blue milk run, that’s for sure!”

“Well don’t worry! We’ll get you out of here! Exleire, what do you think?”

Exleire, racing up the ladder of the dorsal turret, sits inside and starts buckling up. “Let’s try to disable that tractor beam. Burt! Keep an eye out for enemy fighters!”

Seated inside the lead A-wing, Burt replies, “Copy, *Scrapper*. We’ll make a run past their hull. Green Two, on my wing!”

As the rebel starships race toward their friends, Admiral Danodel inside the *Prosecutor* walks up to the First Son. “Mystic, I shall dispatch all fighters.”

The First Son barely turns his head, “No, Admiral. The rebels are just on time. Dispatch only two of the prototypes.”

Danodel, obviously confused, states, “At once, my lord”, turning and giving the order to a bridge aide.

Behind Cara in the *Scrapper*'s navigator's chair, Kel leans forward and asks, “So, what exactly am I supposed to do? I could always fly this thing, you know.”

The old clone throws his head back and laughs, “Not a chance, kid. But it’s your choice on what else to do. Hey, where’s Korvas?”

As the two humans are too occupied on the ensuing battle raging around them, Korvas has been silently tinkering with the *Scrapper*’s sensors behind them both, shocking them as he replies, “I’m right here. And by the way, we have two marks at point five-eight. Don’t know about you all, but I suggest blasting them.” Just as he says this, two TIE starfighters of an unknown model fly straight at the rebel ships, blasting away with their wing-mounted laser cannons, the green laser fire spewing from their four dagger-shaped wings.

Kel reaches out with the Force, grabbing one of the TIE pilots inside his starfighter and throwing him up into the top hatch of the TIE's cramped cockpit, which causes the pilot to hit his armored head on the hatch, knocking him unconscious and sending his TIE on a course flying straight out into deep space. The other Interceptor pilot swings his ship wide, turning and getting the advantage behind both pilots of Green Group.

Seeing their friends predicament, Exleire blasts at the Interceptor with the dorsal turret, hitting it square in its cockpit, causing the craft to explode in a great ball of fire. "Thanks, *Scrapper*! Nice shot, Exleire!", Burt shouts, and the two A-wings begin an attack run on the Star Destroyer before them.

While Cara sends the *Scrapper* on a course following the A-wings, Korvas successfully slices into the *Prosecutor*'s weapon systems, disabling the tractor beam and allowing the *Spinster's Loom* to make the jump to hyperspace. Brahtikka reports, however, that they will have to restart their engines to make the jump, since they shut them down earlier to save power and keep the ship from tearing itself apart when the tractor beam locked onto them. While the Wookiee and her droid co-pilot begin the startup sequence, the rebel starships make an attack run on the Star Destroyer's bridge, with Exleire, Burt, and Green Two unleashing a hail of laser fire that doesn't penetrate the powerful shields, but does blind the bridge crew and serve as a distraction for their jump calculations to Peldaasa. With all four ships' navicomputers and hyperdrives ready, the rebels make the jump to hyperspace, escaping the Empire and Korvas disabling their sensors to keep the Imperials from determining where they jumped.

##### **New command**

As the rebel ships blast off one by one into lightspeed, the First Son drops his smile, turning towards where the Admiral is standing at the navigator’s console. The Inquisitor strides toward him, hands dropping to his sides. The Star Destroyer’s crew pit stares up as he walks past. “Admiral, where have the rebels gone?”

“We don’t know, my lord.” The Admiral turns his head towards the Inquisitor’s invisible gaze, standing only two feet away at this point. Nervously stammering, “I-I-I-t appears we didn’t analyze their trajectory in time, and our security systems were not able to stop a breach of our sensors from the VCX-100.”

The First Son frowns at the terrified officer, “You have failed me for the final time. You are no longer fit for command. Demarcis!” As soon as the First Son shouts the name, the bridge’s blast door opens wide, and another officer with a red cybernetic left eye and robotic right hand walks in, striding up behind the First Son, giving the Admiral enough of a view of the both of them. “Danodel, this is your replacement, formerly known as *Captain* Demarcis. You are no longer needed by me, the Emperor, or anyone. Suffer, weakling!” The Inquisitor grabs the officer’s head, squeezing as tight as possible. The Admiral screams in terror and pain, then drops to the floor after his eyes roll to the back of his skull, blood pouring from his eye sockets.

The First Son lets go of the officer’s head, shoving the dead body into the wall and turns to Demarcis. “The *Prosecutor* is yours, *Admiral* Demarcis.” Before walking past the officer, the dark warrior stops, keeping his head facing straight ahead as he speaks to the officer on his left, “I sense a great destiny before your name. Do not disappoint me.” The First Son then strides out of the bridge, his black hood and long robes swirling around his feet as he walks.

“All hands to your stations and begin the search for the rebels. Security! Clean this mess up!”, Nalon Demarcis orders his crew, walking away from the dead body of the poor officer as he is dragged off.

##### **A new mission**

As the rebels fly through the hyperspace tunnel, Cara, Korvas, and Kel are speaking with Brahtikka over hologram, with the Wookiee mentioning how this is the third attack in the past week, and she has no idea how the Empire keeps finding them. Korvas offers the possibility of roaming Imperial fleets, but none of the rebels quite know for sure how the Empire keeps finding them. Exleire walks in from the cockpit's door, stating how badly the rebels need a suitable base, especially one that could sustain itself. Brahtikka shrugs her shoulders, grunting and growling in Shyriiwook that either way, she and her droid need to offload their cargo, mentioning that its all medical supplies, food, water, and even stolen Imperial ammunition. The Wookiee states that Commander Horain would like to hear their report as well, and gives them a Wookiee goodbye as she signs off the hologram.

The rebel starships blast out of hyperspace, arriving at the arid planet of Peldaasa and notice two comets streaking past the world. Descending its orbit and atmosphere, the four ships fly over Fort Gison, where King Crush looks up and sees them fly towards Yus Kreega and land amongst its outskirts. Exleire, Kel, and Korvas exit the *Scrapper* to report to Commander Horain, but Cara stays behind to fix whatever he needs to with G2-9T.

Before they arrive at the *Tythos*' boarding ramp, Burt and Green Two exit their A-wings and begin walking towards Yus Kreega, waving at the three and saying how they always love flying with them. The three also notice the *Spinster's Loom* offloading its cargo with its loading crane, setting down the much needed supplies on the grassy surface to be cataloged by inventory droids. They start ascending the cruiser's ramp, but are stopped by a rebel trooper who requests their identification cards. Korvas and Exleire hand theirs over, but Kel uses a Jedi Mind Trick to convince the guard to let him in, and the trooper opens the door for the three rebels without any refusal.

The three rebels board the antique Republic Cruiser, making their way through its access ports and passageways to the command center, where Commander Horain is leaning over a large holotable and studying several star charts and battle maps. He notices the three make their way into the dimly-lit room, and shuts off the holograms and turns his attention to his agents. He thanks them for rescuing the *Spinster's Loom*, but informs them of another mission, one suited to their particular backgrounds. He can't give them specific details, but he assures them that the mission is more important than they can imagine. They ask if they can take the *Scrapper*, but he orders them not too, and instead they'll have to take the *Spinster's Loom*.

The three rebels exit the *Tythos* after Commander Horain dismisses them, once again thanking them for responding to the distress call. Disembarking the ship, they walk across the small landing area, seeing Goose and Corbin walk up inside the *Scrapper* to give Cara a helping hand. Before they enter the *Spinster's Loom*, they are greeted by LE-LU979, otherwise known as Lelu. After the droid gives them a few simple rules for being passengers, they load up on the ship and venture to its bridge.

Brahtikka greets them as soon as they enter, grabbing each one of them and giving them a big hug, thanking them for rescuing she and Lelu. She asks them to strap in prepare for takeoff, and soon they take off when Lelu finishes the pre-flight checks and refueling. Travelling to deep space, the rebels are surprised when they suddenly latch onto another ship's airlock, asked by Brahtikka to go to the *Spinster's Loom* primary airlock.

##### **Boarding the *Shadow Raptor***

Once at the airlock, the three rebels were suddenly met by a Bosph. Introducing himself, Navigator Tay Coomsay invited them onboard, walking them through the frigate's passageways to the bridge. Upon entering the bridge, Kel noticed that he was the only human onboard, with every crewmember being an alien or droid. Navigator Coomsay ensured that he was welcome, but that many of the frigate's crew had suffered horribly under the Empire, with many of their worlds being subjugated or devastated by their opponent.

After giving them a brief update on the ship, Navigator Coomsay introduced the three to Captain Hylo Sortuli, commander of the ship. The Mirialan female gave thanks to them for coming, shaking Exleire's hand from commander to commander. After a brief and slightly flirtatious verbal quarrel with Kel, the Captain invited them to the briefing room off of the bridge, turning the central holocommunicator on and giving a greeting to General Airen Cracken.

The General gave thanks to the three young rebels, but got to his point quickly. Telling them that a pirate crew had recently captured a shipment of Imperial droids, the General asked if they would use their prowess and connections with the criminal underworld to purchase the droids and bring them back to the *Shadow Raptor*. He answered all of their questions about payment, transportation, the location where to meet the pirates, and emphasized the importance of droids to the fledgling rebellion; that if droids were used for more dangerous missions, it would keep many rebel cells out of the Empire's aim and allow them to focus on unifying into one alliance. With a final "Godspeed rebels", General Cracken signed off, and the rebels were left to themselves once again. Captain Sortuli gave the credit transfer case to Korvas, telling him that her cell was only able to pay four million credits for the droids. The three returned to the *Spinster's Loom*, chartering a course for Port Tooga, and blasting off into hyperspace after.

##### **Another hive of scum and villainy**

After roughly five hours of flight time, Brahtikka and Lelu announced that they were coming up on Port Tooga and dropped out of lightspeed, the glimmering shadowport ahead of them. Brahtikka donned a pair of industrial welding goggles, explaining to her passengers that the station orbited the Listehol system's main sequence star, and the sheer amount of radiation and light was blocked by Port Tooga's extremely powerful alien ray shields.

Under Brahtikka's direction, the *Spinster's Loom* pulled alongside the station, passing a group of bulk freighters being unloaded by cargo tugs. Docking with an airlock from the incredibly large Docking Ring, the transport clasped with the boarding tube, and after a few minutes of hissing and clamping told her three passengers that they were free to disembark. Korvas led the way out, dealing with a troupe of Mirialan and Gigoran security officials while Kel and Exleire slipped by. Korvas eventually escaped their attention, telling him that he was on official business for the Gorensla clan.

The three then spent a couple of hours looking for gear, weapons, and cybernetics at the Tooga Bazaar, with Exleire enhancing his Gank body even further with a questionable surgery from a Trandoshan physician to install a new cybernetic. Exleire bought only a few things, namely power packs and some frag grenades, and then notified his friends that he was going to begin looking for the Barvy Harpy, the spot where General Cracken told them the pirates would most likely be.

Kel did what he almost always does, wandering around by himself. He remembered that a Jedi's lightsaber could be constructed by various pieces and searched for them, giving up after awhile and declaring outloud that he would never build one. This attracted the attention of a nearby H'drachi , seated on the ground next to a large tent in the middle of the bazaar. The elderly alien called out to Kel, who wandered over in sheer frustration and a little bit of casual interest. The alien introduced himself while he began charming a dancing snake-like creature, which began crawling up from a sack and swerving its two heads with Malari's hand movements.

Malari began telling Kel that he felt a strange burst of powerful anger from him after he exclaimed his frustration, asking the young man why he was so upset. Kel told the mystical alien that he wasn't able to find an item he sought for, and the alien quickly asked with a sly grin if it was a lightsaber. Astonished, Kel leaned in and confirmed Malari's theory, to which the alien struck the snake on the head and invited Kel inside his tent. Once inside, Kel noticed the tent was very dark, with only a few lanterns providing light for the small group of denizens meditating near a pair of power generators. Malari introduced Kel to an old woman who did not give her name, instead providing Kel with a sage word of advice; that high aspirations without guidance leads to inevitable failure. Before Kel could respond, the woman gave Kel various pieces of a lightsaber hilt, telling him that all he needed was a crystal to power its heart. Before leaving, Kel turned and thanked her, asking her who they were. She simply turned and told the young Force-user, "The Jedi may be scattered, but the Church of the Force remains strong." Kel then departed the worshippers to meet with his friends at the Barvy Harpy after receiving a comm alert from Exleire.

With the three rebels reunited, they ventured inside, finding the Harpy to be an extremely rowdy cantina. Searching through the dancing and chanting crowd for a Captain Oglerk, Korvas stumbled into a drunken Wookiee. The Wookiee declared his anger at the Gank for impounding his ship after believing the rebel and his friends to be Imperial Customs agents. He then threw his drink at Korvas and punched him, which threw him back against the bar. Kel stepped in to guard his friend, assuming a defensive stance with his hands up. Exleire dealt with the Wookiee's cohorts, the four Weequay and Twi'lek attacking the trio. A massive fistfight broke out in the cantina and the entire bar erupted in a violent fray. The rebels stunned Roowarra and his friends before meeting Captain Shyndi Oglerk. The human woman had also joined in the brawl, and after casually defeating three attackers led the rebels out of the cantina.

Captain Oglerk led the trio to her ship which was parked in Docking Bay 99. There, the three bantered back and forth with her first mate, an older human male called Kog, after inspecting one of the cargo containers full of droids for themselves. Settling on 4 million credits, the rebels shook hands with the pirates, claiming the droids and directing Roowarra to dock near Docking Bay 99 and begin transferring the containers to the underside of the *Spinster's Loom*.

##### **An unfortunate circumstance**

After half a day of loading the crates and the subsequent flight time back to the *Shadow Raptor*, the rebels met with Captain Sortuli, confirming the mission a success. She contacted General Cracken through the bridge's briefing room. The General thanked the three for their help, telling them that they were free to leave the frigate whenever they wished before signing out. Captain Sortuli shaked their hands and thanked them as well before leaving to conduct her duties about the ship. The three had a few moments to themselves, with banter going back and forth along with congratulations.

Suddenly, the ship went into hyperspace, then immediately was thrown out after only a few minutes upon a massive banging sound below them. The ceiling lights in the briefing room flickered three times before resuming full power, and the three received a message from the briefing room's wall terminal from Lieutenant Hastings. The Lieutenant reported a momentary power surge and that the four doors in the briefing room were locked, but that a maintenance team was on their way to fix them. Blasterfire erupted from outside, and the rebels heard the clanking of mechanical feet on the deck. Lieutenant Hastings then shrieked in terror, alerting the three to something happening before going silent.

Captain Sortuli contacted them right after, telling them that she was locked in the refresher but saw that the ship had been taken over by droids, unfortunately the same ones they brought aboard. She told them they had to stop the droids from stealing the data onboard the *Shadow Raptor*'s databanks, or thousands of lives across the galaxy would be lost from an inevitable Imperial attack. She then screamed in rage before the comm went silent.

Kel began to run out of the briefing room, but was stopped by Exleire's cautioning and Korvas' logic that the doors were locked. Frustrated with the inabilty to act, the young Force-user then felt a presence telling him that it was time to build his lightsaber. Kel asked if it was really the time or place, which drew concern from Korvas and Exleire, who thought their friend was suffering from delusion. The presence simply told him that events had come into play that would be difficult to deal with without a Jedi's weapon, and Kel saw an intense beam of light sourcing from Korvas' pocket. He rummaged through the Gank's deep pockets, pulling a kyber crystal to power his weapon. Korvas snatched it out of his hands, telling him that it was rightfully his, to which Kel simply asked if he knew what it was. Studdering that he pulled it from a stormtrooper's body at Ord Mantell, Kel told him that it was a kyber crystal and that he needed it for his lightsaber.

The Gank allowed his friend to keep it after coming to the conclusion that he would use it better than he would, but made it clear to Kel that he owed him. Kel then began crafting his lightsaber, and used his electronic lockbreaker to open one of the door's to free the bridge. With the door open, Korvas and Exleire fanned out through the room with their blasters only to discover that it was an adjoining command room, with the bridge on the other side of an open door. An armed protocol droid armed with a blaster pistol clanked into view, causing the rebels to take up positions alongside the wall to avoid detection. However, Kel stepped in the droid's way after hearing pleading coming from the bridge, causing the droid to raise his blaster at the human and alert his fellows.

Korvas ordered Kel to drop and the Force-user reluctantly did so. The Gank stepped into view with his two blaster pistols, striking the droid in the chest with blaster bolts two times. Smoke pouring from the droid and his red photoreceptors shutting off, Korvas and Exleire stepped out into the bridge after Kel jumped up to his feet, blasting at the remaining four protocol droids guarding ten rebel bridge techs. Kel ignited his blue lightsaber, leaping over a crew pit and cutting down a droid. Both Exleire and Korvas moved together and blasted the protocol droids, helping Kel defeat the two astromechs attempting to steal precious navigation data.

After saving the rebel techs and liberating the bridge, Lieutenant Hastings alerted the three heroes that there were still many droids onboard and that they had captured Captain Sortuli and Navigator Coomsay. The rebels then looked out of the bridge's viewport to see that they were now slowly drifting into a massive black hole.

#### **Episode II:** **DEAD IN THE WATER, Part Two**

*It is a time of security and prosperity, now that the traitorous Jedi are gone and the corrupt Republic is no more. The Galactic Empire is at the height of its power, but its brutal oppression is driving more and more beings into active resistance.*

*A secret rebel starship is being used as an intelligence hub for multiple resistance cells, and is now the target of a cunning Imperial attack, with the entire craft having been swarmed by deceptive sabotage droids.*

*After taking back the frigate's bridge, the rebel forces decide what to do next to save themselves and the valuable intelligence onboard before they are sucked into a massive black hole....*

It is only minutes after Kel Forsec, Exleire, and Korvas Noth have taken back the bridge of the *Shadow Raptor*, freeing its technical crew and locking down the entry doors. Lieutenant Hastings, at the control panel of the ship, tells the three heroes that the frigate's life support has been shut off. Korvas asks how long it will take before the ship's atmosphere is completely gone, to which Hastings tells the Gank that it will take only about two hours.

While Exleire helps the bridge crew set up barriers and positions of cover in case of a droid counterattack, Kel rushes off to the ship's life support. The young hopeful Jedi stealthily passes through the gleaming white hallways, avoiding several patrols of armed protocol droids. He makes it to the turbolift which, after activating the controls, alerts two droids, who Kel destroys in a matter of seconds with a few swipes from his gleaming lightsaber. The boy decides to take an adjacent ladder down the levels rather than run into any more droids, ruining the turbolift after cutting its controls out.

Meanwhile, Korvas continues to monitor the ship's bridge terminals while Exleire wanders out into the frigate's passageways. After the Sullustan runs into a locked hatch he returns to Korvas, notifying him of the obstacle standing in the way between him and the rest of the ship. Both rebels make their way to the hatch, alerting a few droids that they defeat after a brief blasterfight. Korvas and Exleire then slice into the hatch terminal, opening it halfway to allow them to force the circular metal panels open. They then begin to carefully walk to the foreward hangar bay, which they find completely swarmed with droids.

Before Kel can make it to the bottom of the shaft the *Raptor*'s crew falls unconscious due to a lack of oxygen, and the rebels are unable to contact the bridge. Kel enters a large room where the ship's life support is at, cutting apart a few armed astromechs and protocol droids that attack him without hesitation. Upon careful evaluation of the life support, he realizes that he has to crawl underneath a crawlspace to splice several conduits together. After about twenty minutes of hard work, the young Jedi is shocked to see five protocol droids, armed with blaster rifles, enter the room on what appears to be a routine security check. They notice his head sticking out from the bottom of the crawlspace and begin firing at him, with the boy shrugging off several hits and using the Force to throw them at one another. He finishes the last two with his lightsaber and then begins climbing the ladder to rendezvous with Korvas and Exleire.

But before their comrade can reach them, Exleire and Korvas are spotted by the overwhelming number of droids, who march towards them in formation and begin shooting large amounts of dangerous red laser fire through the hangar bay. The two rebels take up cover behind the hatch's adjacent wall space, peaking out on occassion to shoot back at their opponents. Exleire tosses a frag grenade into the droids, which bounces against the hard metal floor with a clatter and fails to detonate. The Commander suddenly came to the conclusion that he forgot to prime it. Korvas shoots the grenade and it explodes in a dramatic fireball, destroying several of the droids. At this point Kel rushes past his friends and ignites his lightsaber, moving forward to cut several of the droids in pieces. Korvas and Exleire nod at one another, and the two rebels move out from their measly defense and help Kel destroy the remaining droids.

After securing the foreward hangar bay, the three rebels wake up the crew, telling them that the life support had been knocked out of commission but they had repaired it. The hangar crew take up the droids' blasters, moving to take cover after Exleire points out excellent positions of cover in case the droids attack. Their comlinks beep to life, and Lieutenant Hastings reports that they are slowly spinning into the black hole, telling them that if the ion engines aren't repaired they will be sucked inside. The three take off from the hangar bay, travelling down the long boom to the aft section of the ship with the help of a flight crew shuttle.

The three heroes raced to the engineering section, battling more droid patrols along the way. They eventually made their way inside the main engineering room, destroying more astromechs and protocol droids, with Exleire almost being stabbed to death several times by an aggressive astromech. The Sullustan had shot it twice, but it took Kel's help to finally beat it before it killed Exleire. Korvas unlocked the supply room where the droids were holding the engineers, and Chief Duago fell out along with several other engineers. Duago helped the three rebels repair the disabled machinery and engine 5 of the ion propulsion systems kicked to life. With even a single engine online, Lieutenant Hastings and the bridge crew diverted the frigate's path right before they were sucked into the black hole, alerting the three that the aft hangar bay was being scrambled.

Once the three made their way to the hangar bay they saw it was completely overrun with droids, and the droid's leader, TJ-11, escorting Navigator Coomsay and Captain Sortuli into his shuttle. Kel, igniting his lightsaber, rushed out into the droids, cutting through several on his way to the shuttle, which powered up and flew out of the hangar bay. Through the magnetic field the rebels noticed an Imperial Star Destroyer reverting to realspace, pursuing them and beginning to fire its green turbolasers at the frigate. Korvas and Exleire assisted Kel in fighting the droids, and before they were almost killed by their enemies overwhelming firepower, the combined forces of the liberated crew bursted through the blast doors, reinforcing the heroes.

Before long, the remaining sabotage droids in the hangar were wiped out, with Kel leading a charge up the boarding ramp of shuttle. Unfortunately, his efforts were in vain, and as he was preparing to board it, the ship lifted up and exited the hangar.

With the droids defeated, the rebels struggled to determine what to do next. Seeking retribution for the attack and wanting to rescue Captain Sortuli, Kel, Exleire, and Korvas left on their own to recover the her on Teagan, where they learned through Korvas' examination of the droids that they were manufactured. Landing on the peaceful world and asking the locals where the droid factory was located, they eventually entered the premises and discovered its empty contents. Before long, they engaged the forces of the First Son, who had entered the picture to secure the Jedi hopeful he had been searching for.

A lengthy and dangerous firefight erupted, with Korvas leading the fight against the heavily armed stormtroopers while Exleire, coordinated the rescue of Captain Sortuli. During the scuffle, Kel finally entered the Lambda shuttle, where he captured the deceptive Captain Shyndi Oglerk. Taking her as prisoner, the rebel freedom fighters rapidly escaped their enemy through the roof of the abandoned factory complex, taking shelter aboard the *Scrapper* as Ace and Corbin made a daring flight through the city.

With Captain Sortuli rescued, the Imperial spy "Shyndi Oglerk" captured, and the *Shadow Raptor* saved from a terrible fate at the hands of Imperial sabotage droids, the young rebel heroes departed for their own fight on Peldaasa, promising to support the *Shadow Raptor*'s crew whenever possible.

#### **Episode III: JEDI AND JAWAS**

*It is a time of security and prosperity, now that the traitorous Jedi are gone and the corrupt Republic is no more. The Galactic Empire is at the height of its power, but its brutal oppression is driving more and more beings into active resistance.*

*With the Jedi having passed into the annals of history, only a few scattered remains of their ancient order persist, hiding from the might of the Empire and struggling to make a difference in the galaxy.*

*One of these hopeful Force-users, Kel Forsec, has unknowingly begun his journey as a Jedi, with a destiny far greater than he can possibly imagine. He must rely on his new friends, such as the cunning Exleire, to help the oppressed citizens of the galaxy and bring forth a new generation of Jedi....*

Kel Forsec and Sergeant Exleire are among the few starships of Rancor's Fang in their landing area on the outskirts of Yus Kreega, Peldaasa. They decide to head to a medical facility to heal some of their wounds received during their previous mission on the *Shadow Raptor*, walking through the knee-high grass being grazed by a herd of Gison. They make their way through the town, entering a clinic called Dontu's Clinic. There, they pay Doctor Dontu a hefty sum of credits to heal some of their wounds, such as minor cuts, and a few critical injuries. After the doctor helps heal them with kolto packs and and a strange gel-like antibiotic substance, Exleire tells Kel that he wants to check up on Fort Gison and see how the local militia has been, possibly forging some ties between the rebels and local defenders.

As Exleire begins walking through the fields toward the red rock bluffs in the western horizon, passing several Gison along the way, Kel wanders the busy markets and merchant booths of Trader's Plaza. The young Force-user is looking for a speeder bike, but none of the merchants seem to be selling any. He bumps into Nivian, who happens to have the particular type of speeder bike Kel is looking for, and agrees to sell it to him after using a Jedi mind trick to convince the Drall to lower the price to 3,000 credits. Under the influence of the Force, Nivian agrees, with both of them agreeing that Kel's purchase would serve as compensation for he and Drone's failure to turn in King Crush. Nivian tells Kel that he was going to ship the creature to Lady Shoola to fight in her pit fights, and that he now had the credits to satisfy her. Kel and Nivian go opposite ways, and Kel buys a blaster cannon for the speeder bike, and 610-AvA, as well as a Wilderness Survival Kit. The boy then heads towards Fort Gison to meet up with Exleire.

By this time Exleire has made his way to Fort Gison. The Twi'lek guard allows him in, and the Sullustan wanders through the fort for awhile after being told by the guard not to enter Lookout One. Bored by the appearance of nothing to do at the fort, he decides to go looking for a cave, figuring that if he can find one large enough for their starships then they can use it for a base. As the Sergeant leaves the fort he notices an Imperial *Lambda*-class shuttle near the base of Lookout One, but decides to depart rather than checking up on it.

Shortly after Exleire leaves the fort Kel arrives, pulling up to the entrance on his speeder bike and asking the guard if he has seen a "short mouse-looking guy". The Twi'lek nods his head, pointing in the direction of the Veerchok Valley. Kel pulls his macrobinoculars out of his gear and searches the valley for his friend but doesn't see him anywhere, firing up his speeder bike and giving a little salute to the guard before taking off into the wilderness.

Exleire had eventually found his cave, wandering inside with his glowrod and blaster, coming upon a split in the cave with two different paths. He stacks a few stones atop one another as a marker and leaves the cave, walking back through the wilderness to return to the rebel forces. Kel sees Exleire walking through the valley and pulls up near him, asking where he has been. The Sullustan replies back stating he was looking for a cave and had found one, but that there was a split and he was going to get help before venturing any further. Kel argues with the Sullustan, telling him to get on the speeder, to which Exleire reluctantly does. Kel asks him why he would even want to go in one, telling him that he and a former partner of his were attacked by giant worms while exploring a cave. Exleire tells the boy that he was looking for one for a base.

Before they leave, Kel hears a voice tell him, “Kel”, which causes him to look up and see a humanoid figure in a brown robe and a blue aura stand before them, then has vanished when he looks away and back again. The boy then hears several voices, each saying "Kel" in their various accents. Noticing his holocron glowing bright blue in his pocket, Kel pulls the polyhedron out and looks in the direction of the cave, which makes the holocron glow even brighter. The boy pulls out his holotransmitter, contacting Cara and telling him what they are going to do after Exleire convinces him to explore the cave. Cara wishes them luck and closes the transmission after a short conversation.

Kel parks his speeder bike at the entrance and the two rebels head inside, using their glowrods as illumination devices as they get further and further in the dank interior. The pair soon reach the marker Exleire had set up previously after Kel trips on it. They decide that Kel will take the left and Exleire will take the right. They both venture further and further into the cave on their own.

Soon, as Exleire was creeping through his passage of the cave, he was ambushed and knocked unconscious after a burst of crackling energy. Kel just shrugs and continues on in the cave, seeing an orange and yellow flickering light up ahead beyond a turn in the cave. The young Force-user pulls his blaster out from its holster, sneaking up and peering out into the cave. He is shocked by a creature in a dingy brown robe with yellow eyes, thrown back against the cave wall. The creature welcomes him inside with a wave of his hands and a burst of strange language, bringing him over to the sleeping body of Exleire. Kel wakes his friend up, and the two ask who the large group of creatures are.

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#### **Episode IV: FALL OF PELDAASA**

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#### **Episode V: SIEGE OF YUS AJEZ**

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#### **Episode VI: SPECTER OF THE PAST**

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#### **Episode VII: A GANK'S PROMISE**

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#### **Episode VIII: THIEVES OF NECESSITY**

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#### **Episode IX: EMPIRE OF DOMINATION**

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#### **Episode X: ASSEMBLY OF REBELLION**

*Hope has been found in the galaxy. After escaping from the dangers of a sinister plot, rebel agents have stolen an Imperial dungeon ship and rescued hundreds of innocent people, capturing their own Imperial rivals in a victorious twist of fate.*

*With the future of the Rebellion looking brighter, the PROTECTORS, an adventurous rebel movement based on the backwater planet Peldaasa, look to expand their forces. They call upon brave and restless individuals to stand up against galactic tyranny and join their heroic cause.*

*Sergeant EXLEIRE, the de facto leader of the resistance cell, prepares himself for a priceless opportunity to recruit several rebel sympathizers. Inspired by their victories, the rebels look to brave COMMANDERS to lead them in their quest for peace and freedom....*

The view pans down from the screen crawl to show Peldaasa from orbit, the darker shade of the planet creeping slowly across the surface as night descends on the inhabitants. The *Prosecutor* lumbers into view, its massive bulk slowly flying towards the Comet World. A small *Lambda*-class shuttle descends out of the ventral docking bay, flanked by two TIE Strikers, and it unfolds its wings and quickly makes way for Yus Kreega.

Flying over the spaceport's docking bay district, the Imperial pilots are oblivious to secret rebel activity below them. Inside Docking Bay 49, Sergeant Exleire and his rebel comrades Korvas Noth and Kel Forsec are going over battle strategies, preparing raids and strike missions, and combing over intelligence data gathered over the past standard week in their Command and Control Center. Looking up from the large circular holotable, Kel states, "I think we've waited long enough. It's time to do what we -*I*- do best."

"What exactly is that?" Korvas looks up inquisitively from the holotable.

"Why, beating the bantha milk out of those Imp Stormtroopers, of course! Besides," the young, prideful Jedi grins smugly, "we've got me. And I'm the best at it."

Exleire, not even looking up from the holotable, interjects in Sullustese, "We should be more careful before we hit the Empire again. We don't want a Yus Ajez situation forced down our throats."

Kel rolls his eyes, pushing himself up from the holotable and walking around to stand next to his Sullustan friend, throwing an arm around him, "Look, Exleire, you're tactical genius is appreciated. But there comes a time when we have to actually fight, not just make fancy plans and dream that they might happen."

Before Exleire or Korvas can retort back, a chirping notification plays through from the holotable. G2-9T, one of the only resistance agents allowed inside for maintenance duty, looks over at Korvas. "Looks like we're getting a call. You might want to answer that. Or should I?"

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### **SEASON THREE**

#### **Prelude: Rage of the Dead**

*It is a time of great upheaval. A group of brave rebel insurgents, the PROTECTORS, have liberated an entire planet from the evil GALACTIC EMPIRE with the powers of a heroic Jedi Knight and the skills of its cunning leaders.*

*Hoping to join a slow-forming alliance of rebels, the Protectors escort their damaged flagship to the neutral shipyards of Sullust. Having evaded the dreaded Imperial starfleets, they now prepare for the last hyperspace jump above a mysterious world.*

*But the rebel fleet has been exposed. As the last starship, the Storm Striker, arrives with its capable handpicked crew and Jedi pilot, an Imperial flotilla races to their position. Its capable commander will stop at nothing to destroy the intrepid rebels once and for all....*

The view pans downward to reveal a group of motely rebel starships exiting hyperspace above a crimson planet. As the rebel ships gather together and prepare for their last jump to Sullust, Kel Forsec, flying the *Storm Striker*, jumps out of hyperspace last and gathers his handpicked crew to the cockpit.

As Barada and Neme, two newcomers to the Protectors, Korvas Noth, R5-A8, and G2-9T come together in the cockpit Kel opens up a secure hologram transmission to the rebel's flagship: the *Valiant*. Onboard the bridge of the vessel Captain Ace and Lieutenant Exleire begin a conversation with their friends, thanking them and the other rebel ships for escort past the roaming Imperial fleets searching the northern Outer Rim and preparing for the last jump to Sullust. The group says their farewells and begins to prime their hyperdrives for their own jumps to lightspeed.

Suddenly an Imperial fleet jumps into the system and cuts off their escape. Scrambling Comet Squadron, Lieutenant Exleire puts the CR90 into a defensive position and asks for cover as they try to find another jump point. Kel then tells his crew to assume battle positions and keys Comet Leader, their old ally Burt. The Jedi Knight tells him to have his fighters make an attack run on the TIE fighters quickly approaching their position while they find a jump spot.

The battle begins as the rebel and Imperial starfighters engage one another with the *Storm Striker* running interference. As G2-9T and R5-A8 monitor the navicomputer for the nearest system that they could jump to lightspeed to, Neme and Barada man the ship's laser turrets, shooting at TIE fighters zipping around them. Korvas begins an immediate jamming attempt, succeeding and causing the Imperial ships to lose communications for a shot while.

As the battle rages on the two droids find a suitable location to escape to: Ord Cestus. Kel opens a fleet-wide comm and orders everyone to jump to Ord Cestus. Unfortunately, the Empire's Gozanti-class assault cruiser is blocking the way, and Kel tells Comet Squadron to launch an attack on the ship for the fleet to move past. Barada and Neme continue blasting away on the guns, with the Klatooinian unfortunately destroying an A-wing and Korvas ordering him to leave so he can shoot.

The rebel cruisers steam towards the jump point, blasting at the Imperial ships with turbolaser fire and putting almost full power into the engines. Kel leads the fighter attack, dodging TIE laser fire and rolling past the Gozanti's bridge as the Y-wings fire their ion torpedos, disabling the cruiser and causing it to drift out of the rebel's way.

Out of nowhere, all Imperial TIE fighters begin attacking the *Valiant,* severly damaging it and causing Kel to swerve his ship around to attack the TIEs head-on. The other rebel ships continue on to the jump point with the *Valiant* in tow, rescued by the *Storm Striker* as Kel whips around the starship's comm tower and grabs every TIEs attention. Each and every Imperial starfighter then attacks the *Storm Striker* and the *Valiant* is saved, jumping away with the other rebel ships.

The *Storm Striker* unfortunately cannot jump and is cut off by the Imperial fleet. The ship's Jedi pilot skims the surface of the Dreadnought heavy cruiser as Neme and Korvas destroy two more fighters. With the jump clear, Kel begins to launch into hyperspace when the TIE Ace flying the last surviving TIE Interceptor disables the hyperdrive. As Kel throws the ship into an aggressive set of maneuvers to avoid the sheer firepower of the Imperial fleet, Korvas notices through the turret's transparisteel viewport that the planet below has cloud formations they could hide behind. Kel then throws the ship's engine power forward, thrusting the rebel scout ship into the planet's atmosphere, TIE fighters directly behind.

Banking behind red cloud formations, the *Storm Striker* loses the TIEs but is ambushed by the TIE/IN and its ace pilot. Skimming over the surface of huge brambly tree trunks and crumbling rocky cliffs, the TIE Interceptor disables the ship's engines as it crashes straight into the planet's mysterious wilderness. Satisfied with his kill, the TIE Ace flys overhead to the waiting Imperial fleet, unaware that the rebels have survived the crash encounter.

Kel, R5-A8, and Korvas immediately shut down all auxilary power save for life support and emergency lights. The red lights, mixed with the outside scarlet landscape, draws an eerie sense of dread as the ship's crew gathers in the cockpit. Discussing what to do, the group immediately hushes as a pack of strange grey creatures chase a Rancor out of the brush and past their smoking starship.

## **Short Stories**

### **The Battle of Farnelli Pass**

*A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....*

The skeletal metal frame creaked and groaned as Corporal Turbus yanked on the door, dust and sand raining down on his helmet, the tiny particles scattering over the slick, rounded surface. As the Corporal shined his glowrod into the ancient hangar bay, his young human exterior shone through the light, the tiredness of patrolling etched upon his face, deeper than any Coruscanti tattoo artist could ever replicate.

Turbus decided to venture further into the hangar bay, figuring that the chance of ceiling panels hitting him on the head sounded better than pulling security outside the compound, what with those giant ape lizards and all. Ignoring the requests from other troopers, asking for reports of what was found, the Corporal walked further into the bay, bumping into a light switch along the way. After spending a considerable amount of time dusting the handle off, Turbus yanked upwards on the switch, throwing far more light into the hangar than what his glowrod could do as the overhead panels lit up one by one. “Guess I don’t need you anymore, old friend” the Corporal said out loud, turning and looking behind him to make sure no one heard him talk to himself.

What he saw gave him a sense of pride more than anything else that day. A long row of repulsorcraft lined the far side of the hangar, fuel veins laying off to the side and munitions canisters stacked up behind them. *Great, the mynocks already got here*, Turbus thought, noting the exhaust vents already cleaned off.

“Corporal, what did you find?” a voice rang out from the exterior hallway, approaching closer with the figure’s shadow bobbing and growing larger.

“Combat assault vehicles, sarge. A whole hangar of them!”

Turbus’ team sergeant peeked in and grinned, pushing the front of his helmet up his head while resting himself against the partially-opened door. “Excellent, Corporal! This is just what we need!”

Turbus turned and glanced at his sergeant, grinning just as wide, his hands on his hips, “Intel checked out, sarge. That pirate didn’t lie for once.”

“Ha! First time that’s happened. We’ll get the technical crew on it right away.” What he said next made the young Corporal’s eyes roll in annoyance, “Go pull security outside.”

*Yeah. Pull security. Total use of our time. Not like there’s a war going on or anything.* Turbus thought, shouldering his rifle as he pulled out his canteen. Shrugging past the blast door frame, the annoyed Corporal bumped a desk, causing bits and pieces of a targeting computer to fall on the ground next to a small holobook. Seeing his mess, Turbus peeked outside the hangar, happily noticing no one saw his mistake to ridicule him later with and ducked back inside the hangar. Picking up the pieces and placing them back on their rightful resting place, the Corporal also picked up the holobook, noticing it was a private holojournal. With nothing else to do, Turbus decided the owner wouldn’t care too much after thirty years, and stuffed the journal in his assault pack, exiting the hangar bay and meeting with his comrades outside.

There, the Corporal took a knee near a hollowed-out tree stump, which had a perfect vantage spot on the river valley below near the base’s large blast door entrance. The Corporal opened the holobook, thumbing the blue prompt button for the most recent entry. Leaning back into the tree, Corporal Turbus of the Resistance Army read up on the previous liberators of the galaxy.

*7979 C.R.C.*

*Uvoo Prime, Rolion Sector, Outer Rim Territories*

*Two days ago, I never thought I would be writing in this holojournal again. Two days ago, I thought I would be creamed to the side of a canyon wall, with only a small stain underneath those walkers’ legs to carry on my legacy. Poor boys that actually happened to never had a chance. Those Imps are monsters.*

*It all started with the briefing, the commander stating that we had a chance to cripple Imperial operations in the whole sector. Supposedly, a small speeder convoy was going to be passing through the Farnelli Pass, an area that we had scouted out quite a bit for the past few months. The convoy was going to be carrying Moff Sacul, probably going out to see for herself the vast mining operations going on in the low-lying regions, past the Turass Mountains. We had a chance to capture or kill her, and the commander didn’t want to waste any time.*

*So, we jocked up, grabbing only the barest necessity of power packs and water to keep our movement light and quick, and set out down the valley towards the Farnelli Pass. The plan was to set up an ambush along the treeline of one of the ridges, where we had set up a small amount of covered areas to harass Imperial patrols. I’d been on many of those patrols, and already had a bad feeling about today. Why would the Sector Moff be travelling by a lightly guarded speeder convoy through an area the Imps knew we ambushed them in quite often? She could easily take a shuttle, provided the monsoons didn’t come in, but the commander didn’t want to listen, and instead told me to fall back into my squad’s diamond formation. So, I did, but not happy about it.*

*Once we reached the ridge, the commander had us set up our skirmish line, me having the honor of feeding power to the E-web cannon we brought along with us. It wasn’t really an honor; you never get to see the actual firefight, cause your so concerned with making sure the power runs clean and smooth from the generator. Probably a disciplinary measure from the commander, most likely to make sure I wasn’t able to interfere with the strategy.*

*However, the skirmish line was now overgrown with vines, so the commander instead had us clear them out. Not a problem if we had our vibro-machetes, but we left them back at the base. The commander was clearly pissed, so instead, she set the E-web up on a rock face, figuring that once it opened up, it would be too late for the Imps to find and target with effective fire.*

*We moved positions, settled in, but before we could reconnect the power lines from the generator to the cannon, the convoy came through the pass. We actually heard it before we saw it, and instantly feared the worst; walkers. In case you’ve never seen an Imp walker, imagine a towering fambaa, only three times the size, covered head to toe in thick armor, and armed with an impressive array of cannons. They were almost impossible to take down. We heard Bitter Pill Company had managed to take one out with concentrated disruptor fire, but we didn’t have those. We didn’t have anything.*

*Instead of ordering a tactical retreat up the hill, the commander instead had us settle in, figuring that the convoy must have an escort. So we did. The first vehicle was a walker, then came a second, then a third, all accompanied by chicken walkers. You’ve probably seen those in the holovids. They walked through the Pass, crushing boulders, avoiding rock falls, and making quite a mess of the place. They didn’t stop for anything though, and that’s what scared me the most. I looked over at the E-web gunner, Horrel, and told him we needed to leave NOW. He had never seen a walker before, and his face said it all. I crawled over to the commander and tried to reason with her, saying that we didn’t even have the weaponry to take out the chicken walkers, but she was determined to stop the Imps, fully believing the Moff was inside one of those walkers. I told her she was insane, and she gave me this look. Can’t really describe it, just sheer anger directed at me. She told me to get back to my position and open up on the lead walker with the E-web. Instead, I grabbed Horrel and the cannon, and crawled our way back to the skirmish line.*

*The idiot commander decided to make a career-ending decision right then and there, grabbing the cannon out of my hands and opening fire on the lead AT-AT. It didn’t come close to puncturing that armor. Just bounced off of it with a bunch of flashes. The other troopers opened fire on it as well, only armed with blaster rifles. They must have ran out of ammo, cause the entire skirmish line fell silent at the same time. The walker simply turned its head, aiming its massive cannons at our line of brave yet very underequipped Rebel soldiers, and blasted away.*

*The first salvo killed half of our forces, including the commander. I rolled over to her body, my ears ringing louder than any zee rock performer could scream. I picked up her long-range comm, calling for a QRF, screaming into the mic. The next salvo knocked those of us remaining onto the bottom of the pass, and as soon as I hit the bottom, I realized I must have broken something, but I couldn’t tell what. I opened my eyes, looking up at the imposing walkers crushing the other rebels underneath their massive treads, walking forward and blasting away at the troopers behind me. I picked up and ran, so glad that I decided to work on my cardio, those blaster cannons ripping the dirt and packed rocks around us to shreds, throwing residue up in the air and in our faces. We reached the end of the pass, which continued on to the left along a small cliff face, but ended on the right, only going into the tree line. I thought we were goners, but what I saw next gave me some small hope.*

*Actually, I heard it before I saw it, but it was a whirring of repulsors, not the crushing of walkers. Around the cliff face, an entire squadron of our ULAV’s whipped around the corner, throwing more dust and dirt into our faces. I didn’t realize at the time that they were on standby the entire time, and once they got the call, they came as fast as they could, which was* really *fast. They soared ahead at the walkers, blasting one of the chicken walkers with their laser cannons, destroying one of them. The AT-AT’s weren’t prepared for their arrival, and couldn’t track them fast enough before they were swerving around them, blasting at the chicken walkers with their rear guns and distracting the AT-AT’s with their forward cannons. I had never liked those cocky pilots before, but all I wanted to do now was give them the biggest hug and the largest pints of Andoan ale.*

*Us ground-pounders ran up the tree line, pursued by a small amount of stormtroopers that the walkers had deployed. We took cover as we ran, turning and blasting several of the troopers along the way. When we figured we lost them, we ran back towards the Farnelli Pass, encountering the remains of the stormtroopers. We exchanged fire with them briefly, and Horrel passed in my arms, moaning softly about his dad before going limp. Poor kid was barely eighteen. He didn’t deserve to die like that.*

*With a sudden amount of rage, I picked up my A300, giving the other troopers covering fire as a ran at the stormtroopers, using the natural vegetation as cover and blasting the remaining two stormtroopers. I was boofing pissed. I grabbed the other rebels that were there, and we decided to try to help the flyboys out as much as we could. We arrived just in time to see the lead walker fall, hit in one of the legs by a salvo of concussion missiles from the ULAVs. Those walkers were scary, but not very stable once one of the legs were knocked out from underneath them, and it crashed on the floor of the pass with a gigantic thud. Ten out of the eleven ULAVs I had encountered earlier raced back along the pass, rushing towards our base. We cheered them on from the treeline, and I saw one of the pilots give us a jaunty salute and a huge grin. We still had the E-web, as we didn’t want it to fall into the Imps hands, so we blasted away at the fallen walker in sheer fury before throwing it down the ridge, happily surprised to see the neck explode in pieces.*

*We barely made it back to the base, and the Imps never followed us. Follow-on scouting missions determined that they were trapped behind the lead walker, unable to get around it. They instead salvaged what they could, and the new commander wants us to go out and do the same. Hopefully this one won’t be stupid enough to realize it’s a trap. And yeah, I did get those pilots some Andoan ale.*

*-Sergeant Yosha, First Rebel Infanty Brigade, Uvoo Prime*

Corporal Turbus closed the holojournal with a click of his thumb, the blue power node going out. He looked out over the river valley, seeing Farnelli Pass in the distance. Rubbing his chin, he set the holojournal in his field pack, thinking about the Sergeant’s story. He realized the
Rebellion was up against the same type of odds, barely making any scratch into the Empire with every battle. He sat up against the tree, turning and looking at the blast door entry to the base. *If they could do it, so can we. The First Order isn’t invincible*. The Corporal picked up his rifle, shrugging his pack over his shoulder once hearing his team sergeant call for him, telling the other Resistance troopers that the ULAVs had been loaded onto one of the transports. *The rebels had hope. We have it too, now*.

### **TriNebulon News Report: Live from Tantive!**

The crackling holonet channel transitions from an office at Imperial Center to another location, showing a young and pretty human female standing in front of a large balcony overlooking a large city, the planet's sun dipped just below the horizon and throwing a purple and dark red sunset across the sky. "Thank you, Rush. Hello everyone and welcome to the Tantive system, home of the largest Imperial military base in the entire sector." A human male wearing an grey Imperial officer's dress uniform stands to her left, the reporter's camera droid panning the view to reveal him in the footage. "I'm standing here with Admiral Demarcis, who is overseeing the buildup of an impressive garrison here. Admiral," the reporter turns her body to the Imperial, "what exactly is the purpose of such a large force in one of the most safe locations in the Northern Outer Rim?"

Admiral Demarcis smiles slightly and turns to her, his hands clasped behind his back, "Well, madame, the purpose of any Imperial military force is to bring peace and order to the galaxy. With the ever-increasing amount of pirates and terrorists in the Outer Rim, a sufficient number of forces are needed to keep the peace and protect the Empire's citizens."

"Of course, sir. I suppose my main question in; why such the large buildup? Is there an operation about to begin? Many ships from various locations in the Oversector are reporting here, only to leave after making formation with other units."

"Yes, madame, there is an official operation taking place. Though I do not believe I have the approval or authorization to give any more details. All the citizens of the Empire need to know is that they are entirely safe, and that the troops among them and above them are doing their utmost duty to preserve the peace."

The young woman looks inquisitively at her datapad in her hand, "Thank you, Admiral. Those of us loyal to the Emperor know this. However, many citizens in the sector and specifically the Tantive system itself fear widespread conflict not seen since the Kwymar Suppressions. Is the Imperial military going to keep its citizens safe? Or are they once again going to be at the whims of Separatist sympathizers and terrorists?"

Admiral Demarcis frowns, looking at her and saying, "My lady, with all due respect, the Kwymar Suppressions was a reclamation effort to take back the Empire's rightful territory from old Separatist loyalists. The Empire is in complete control of the sector. Unfortunately, an upstart group of rebels has targeted Imperial personnel throughout the entire sector. We seek only to bring these rogues to justice." The Admiral turns and looks directly into the droid camera, gazing at it with his red cybernetic eye, "and we will bring justice to them. Sooner or later. Long live the Empire."

The young reporter turns to the droid, its camera lens focusing on her as she smiles widely. "Well, thank you Admiral Demarcis. Once again, we are reminded that the Empire protects us, guides us, and will be in place for one thousand years and more. This is Madlyn VanMeer, reporting for TriNebulon News in the Tantive system. Rush, back to you."