Aftermath (TPS)

*Reference Book: Star Wars Saga Edition Galaxy of Intrigue*

*Main Page: The Perfect Storm*

*Preceded by Part 3: The Coming Flood*

Depending on the outcome of the previous encounters and related Skill Challenges, one of the following two scenarios plays out:

## The Deluge Device Has Been Deactivated

Through challenges and difficulties, the heroes persevere and save Nyriaan, at least for the time being. They might even be carrying the Deluge Device's schematics for the Republic for additional rewards once they can reunite with Ghurn.

Since the Deluge Device was active for only a relatively short time before it was deactivated, little damage has been done to Nyriaan's climate. No one in orbit, not even the Tempest Observation Bureau, has a clue as to why there was a sudden boost in tempest activity surrounding the Final Rest plateau. Nevertheless, the anomaly is logged and will be analyzed by physicists and meteorologists for years to come.

Of course, the CSA knows exactly what happened. Although years of work and billions of credits are lost in a single instant, The Corporate Sector Authority doubtless continues its research into permanently altering Nyriaan's atmosphere. In the meantime, several high-level CSA employees find their positions, as well as their lives, terminated.

## The Deluge Device Has Not Been Deactivated

If the heroes are unable to deactivate the Deluge Device, then Nyriaan's atmosphere is irrevocably changed. The initial effect manifests slowly, during nearly a week of constant rains and receding clouds. Planetary flooding is disastrous, both to native communities as well as to colonists and mining facilities. Local wildlife, although mostly amphibious, is eventually driven to extinction by the vast influx of standing water on Nyriaan's surface. Full-scale evacuations begin shortly after the planetary scope of the disaster becomes obvious.

Ghurn welcomes the heroes back, but he is not happy with the results. The heroes are allowed to keep any retainer they managed to negotiate, but Ghurn does not pay them any bonus unless they have a copy of the Deluge Device's schematics and plans. If they do, it is the heroes' one saving grace. Using the schematics, the Republic initiates a project to reverse the effect, using knowledge of how the Deluge Device operated. Nyriaan might be saved, eventually, but not before hundreds of thousands of lives are lost.

## Further Adventures

Since this adventure deals with possibly extensive changes to the planet Nyriaan, the heroes might find themselves embroiled in even more adventures on the planet. The following adventure hooks can serve as a jumping-off point for a continuing campaign on Nyriaan. One of the hooks is outcome-neutral, but the other two rely on one of the two outcomes of this adventure.

### A New Master

Regardless of the heroes' success or failure on Nyriaan, they have come to the attention of the powerful noble house currently sitting on the Council. The heroes are approached by a representative of the house with an offer of employment. If they are willing to leave the employ of the Republic, the house promises them a regular retainer and employment as agents of the house. However, the heroes soon discover that the nobles have dangerous work in mind. The noble house wants the heroes to seize control of one of Nyriaan's orbital space platforms currently controlled by The Corporate Sector Authority and to then destroy the platform, planting evidence that the act of sabotage was the work of Republic Intelligence.

### Power Grab

If the heroes succeeded in deactivating the Deluge Device, they find themselves with powerful enemies in The Corporate Sector Authority. After assassins try to eliminate the heroes, they discover that the Corporate Sector's permanent seat on the ruling Council is in jeopardy and that the assassination attempt was a play to keep the heroes from interfering in Council business. One of the other seats on the Council has learned of the heroes' actions in deactivating the device, and is planning on putting forward one of the heroes as a candidate for replacing the CSA representative. The heroes have a chance to put one of their own on Nyriaan's Councilor to put someone else of their choice there, instead.

### The Madilon Rush

If the heroes failed to deactivate the Deluge Device, Nyriaan's ecosystem is radically altered for years, if not forever. This leads to a short-term influx of outside factions and Madilon miners who, without the cloud layer to interfere with landing, have started a "Madilon Rush." As miners and others come to Nyriaan without the Council's permission, the resources of the world are being rapidly depleted, and the power of the Council becomes destabilized. The heroes are hired by Nyriaan's Council to stage a Starship crash, sabotaging an independent mining vessel as it descends onto the planet. The Council plans to release a bogus scientific report in the wake of the crash, declaring that "Ambient ionic energy" lingers over Nyriaan, making it unsafe to land. The heroes must decide whether to go through with the plan, slowing the drain on the planet's resources but resulting in a major loss of life, or to reveal the Council's plan to the galaxy.