Star Wars: Age of Resistance

> *"The Rebellion is reborn today...*
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> *...the war is just beginning...*
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> *...and I will not be the last Jedi."*
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- Luke Skywalker

***Star Wars: Age of Resistance***, otherwise known as **Age of Resistance**, is a multi-session, fan-run, non-canon Star Wars Roleplaying Campaign set chronologically during and after the events of ***Star Wars*: Episode VIII *The Last Jedi*** using Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars Roleplaying system.

*Age of Resistance* is set in 34 ABY, or 34 years after the Battle of Yavin. It is connected to it's sister campaigns, ***Star Wars: Edge of the Empire***, ***Star Wars: Force and Destiny***, ***Star Wars: Alliance at War**,* and ***Star Wars: A New Dawn***. It features three main Player Characters named Koren Forsec, Jarux Sental, and Jason Sarkin, the son of Jedi Knight Tam Sarkin, all three serving the Resistance as soldiers combating the evil First Order.

## **Synopsis**

### **Season One**

#### **Episode I: Rebels on the Run**

Opening crawl:

*The FIRST ORDER rules. Having taken complete control of the major systems of the dead New Republic, they leave little chance for the reborn REBELLION. Only the legends of the Jedi and a small band of rebels bring hope to the galaxy.*

*General LEIA ORGANA has sent a personal message out to the last remaining holdouts of the Rebellion scattered throughout the Outer Rim, begging for help in this dark time.*

*One of these holdouts, home to a small group of young rebels, has received the message, not realizing that the First Order is soon to arrive….*

Opening scene:

The view pans down to a spottled brown and red planet, with rings filled with icy ruined asteroid bits and frozen methane and water vapor. Moving towards a small space station floating amid the ring, a holorecording plays inside, with three individuals watching. On the message, General Leia Organa begs for help and support against the First Order, asking for the remainder of the Resistance to regroup on Crait, a planet deep in the Outer Rim. She finishes her message with, “If any of you can hear us, it’s now or never. May the Force be with you all.” The holorecording ends, and the group turns and faces each other.

Right after the message ends, a First Order *Resurgent*-class Star Destroyer jumps out of hyperspace, TIE fighters racing out of the numerous hangar bays toward the small space station. The holocommunicator blinks and beeps, notifying the three shocked Resistance fighters of a message. Clicking the button, a First Order officer, dressed in a black uniform and slate grey overcoat, with glistening slick backed hair pops up on the holocommunicator, hands held behind his back. “Rebel scum, I am Baron Demarcis of the First Order. Your fleet has been destroyed and your leadership killed. Surrender now, and you will be given a quick death. Resist, and you will meet a very painful end.”

Synopsis:

The Resistance fighters receive General Organa’s message asking them and others scattered in the Outer Rim to rally on Crait. Deciding what to do, their small space station listening post is suddenly attacked by a *Resurgent*-class battlecruiser, captained by Baron Demarcis. Jarux Sental, the station's technical operator, rushes to the sole defensive system, a twin medium laser cannon built into the side of the station. He misses his shot on several TIE fighters, and his turret is blown apart, creating a vortex that tries to suck him out into space. He grabs onto some pipes running along the ceiling, and decides what to do next. Meanwhile, ace pilot Koren Forsec races to the docking bay, scavenges for explosives, and sets a few old rotting thermal detonators along the doorway. Jason Sarkin, an amateur spy, follows him as well, and tries to find a hiding spot behind the wall grating. He fails, and as he does so, the door blows open, three First Order stormtroopers rushing in. Koren remotely detonates the detonators, and the three stormtroopers are blown back into the hangar. Koren rushes in, blasting two more stormtroopers, and heads to the only escape craft other than the stormtroopers' landing ship. Jason races to find Jarux, who doesn’t know that they can now escape. He finds him, and tries to rescue him, failing to do so, and also grabs the pipes along the ceiling before being sucked into space. Linking hands, they try to pull themselves along the pipes to the only door they both entered, and fail, with Jason being sucked out into space. Jarux contacts Koren on his comlink, notifying him of where they are, and asking for help. He is sucked out into space immediately after. Koren powers up the ship, and flies out of the hangar, with more stormtroopers pouring out of the landing ship and firing on him as he leaves.

                Koren races to where Jason and Jarux are slowly dying in space, both of them holding their breath. Lowering the boarding ramp, he flies straight into them, with both slamming into the inside of the ship. He barely closes the ramp, with all three of them falling to the ground regaining their breath. The three of them race to the cockpit, making a random hyperspace jump, and escape as TIE fighters and turbolaser fire streaks past.

                Some time later, Jason takes a nap in the small cargo section, Koren and Jarux bicker in the cockpit about what to do next, and they get a warning cry from the navicomputer stating that they are going to crash into a planet. They pull out of hyperspace, but the gravity well of the planet destroys their engines in the process, and they crash onto the planet on a beach with lapping purple waves softly hitting the ship. Jarux inspects the ship, and learns that it will no longer work. He wipes the flight logs, but is not able to erase the data saying that it is a Resistance transport. Koren and Jason wander outside, looking for intelligent life and any sort of scavenge. A drunk Aqualish wanders from behind a sand dune, tells Jason them of a city, and goes back behind it.

                The three Resistance fighters all go behind the sand dune, and find a large circular city built of wood and rock, with the primary focus of the city being a large cantina made up of large bones and stone holding up very bright canvas which covers the interior of the cantina at the bottom of a large hill. After trying to carefully make their way down they tumble down to the bottom. Picking themselves up and venturing inside they discover it to be a pirate town named Gabo Beno, with the planet being named Gabo. Koren tries to find a ship to steal, and finds the *Shadow’s Scepter*, Rahvin Dovar, and Cain Klivian, who are loading cargo onto it. Jarux ventures inside a cantina, orders blue milk from the gruff Besalisk bartender, and receives a shot of Corellian brandy compliments of “the droid in the back”. Jason is waiting outside the cantina, as he does not like cantinas. Jarux meets HK-51 who, after a brief conversation, offer the three Resistance fighters passage to Crait aboard the *Shadow’s Scepter*.

                The Resistance fighters and the old four heroes travel to Crait, finding its orbit littered with destroyed starships and the *Supremacy* being tended to by a whole fleet of First Order Star Destroyers. When everything feels hopeless, they receive a faint signal bleeping on the holocommunicator. Accepting it, Admiral Rulso Quillon asks them to meet him on Wul’ur V at his Resistance base. They travel to Wul’ur V which is deep in the Mid Rim. They land on the forested, mountainous moon easily, meet with Admiral Quillon, and are assigned to the 1st Reconnaissance Platoon. Admiral Quillon promises the old heroes of the *Shadow’s Scepter* their pay for transporting the young Resistance fighters to Wul’ur V, and requests that they stay to help the Resistance, now interchangeably known as the Rebellion, as they are a symbol of hope and are heroes of the Galactic Civil War. The three fighters are walking to their barracks, Cresh Barracks, talking about the future and their place in the Rebellion. Several X-wing’s and A-wings’s fly overhead towards an old *Recusant*-class light destroyer, painted orange and with the Resistance starbird, knowing that they war will be long, but they will win, because they have hope.

#### **Episode II: Rebel Raid**

Synopsis:

The young rebels are gathered in a briefing room at the base on Wul’ur V. Koren, Jason, and Jarux are all talking with each other, reminiscing their escapade at the listening post above Palathac and joking amongst themselves.

A small chime rings, and everyone in the room immediately stands at attention as Admiral Quillon walks in with his aides. He smiles and shakes his head gently, “At ease. Take a seat everyone,” he waves his baton around the room, approaching the circular holotable in the center of the room. “A major First Order target has been revealed and the time for our offensive operations has begun.” He looks to his two human aides, then presses a button on the holotable. “A First Order starship refueling station has been revealed to us at the gas giant Arkanis IX.” As an orange planet pops up on the holotable, he presses another button, making the hologram zoom into the planet’s southern hemisphere, showing three large triangular refueling stations, and a First Order *Resurgent*-class Star Destroyer docked at one of them. He continues, “This refueling station uses the locally mined tibanna gas to refuel Star Destroyers and smaller cruisers. We believe that we can destroy these stations.” He turns to one of his aides, a short squat Mon Calamari male with a brown cape holding a clipboard. “Chief Helsk.”

Chief Helsk steps up where Admiral Quillon was, and begins speaking, his voice coarse and rough. “Our intelligence points to the First Order using this station heavily for their ‘pacification operations’ in the sector. The stations are heavily shielded, and have enough firepower to take down any large capital ships that might assault them.” He clears his throat, swipes his cape across his left arm, and continues, “As such, the best way to destroy them is to utilize our snub fighters to assault the station’s defenses and TIE squadrons, while a well-placed operative will sneak inside and deactivate the shield generators protecting the station.” He points with his clipboard at a few domed shield generators situated in the middle of the three triangular stations. “Agent Sarkin has been chosen for this mission.”

Jarux looks over at Jason and says, “Good luck, you’re gonna need it.” Admiral Quillon steps forward, saying, “Silver Squadron will assault the stations in two standard hours. Once the shields are down, our fighters must hit the fuel lines connecting the first station to the Star Destroyer, and hit the fuel containers ringing each station. Doing so will start a chain reaction that will bring down each station and the Star Destroyer docked there. The flight using switchback hyperspace routes will take three hours, so they cannot track us back to our base. The attack will commence in five standard hours. May the Force be with you all.” The briefing room starts to break up, with chatter beginning all around.

Cpl. Jarux tells Koren and Jason that he has been temporarily assigned to the Engineering Section of the *Inek*, so he will not be involved in this operation. Jason has been given a stolen First Order sergeant black dress uniform, as well as a stolen *Xi*-class shuttle, as well as clearance codes to land at Station Aurek. He puts on the uniform, finding out that it fits perfectly, but he thinks he has it on right. He lifts off from the base, heading to Arkanis IX.

Koren heads to his new T-70 X-wing, meeting his plucky black and white astromech droid and gets adjusted to the controls, which are fairly simple. He meets the rest of his squadron and finds out that his callsign is Silver 9. His squadron leader, Kass Meckley, instructs the squadron to lift off and reach orbit to make the jump. After making several switchback hyperspace jumps, they finally arrive about five hours later, giving Jason a head start with the shield generators.

Jason reaches the refueling stations, and lands on a circular landing pad jutting out from the triangular station. Four stormtroopers walk out to meet him, standing at attention at either end of the boarding ramp, splitting into pairs of two, facing each other. When Jason walks out, they tell him that they will stay at his shuttle and wait for him to return. He simply nods and walks out to the direction of the shield generators.

Stopping at the tibanna fuel containers, Jason inspects them and tries to figure out a way to blow them up. After inspecting them, he finds out the easiest way to do it would be to shoot one with a blaster. While he is inspecting the containers suspiciously a group of three stormtroopers, one wearing an orange captain’s pauldron, asks him what he is doing, consistently calling him “sergeant” rather roughly. Jason tells them that he is inspecting the fuel containers for transportation, and they ask him for his identification number.

Jason tells them that his identification number is on his ship, and the three stormtroopers escort him back. They walk past the stormtroopers guarding the shuttle, telling Jason that he must have some pull. Going up and into the shuttle’s cockpit, the
stormtrooper captain once again asks for his identification number. He tells them a random number. The captain tells one of the troopers he is with to run it through the system, the trooper punching the numbers in a datapad. The stormtrooper captain takes the datapad from the other stormtrooper, looks at it, and says that there is no number that Jason told him. They aim their blasters at him, telling him that they knew something was suspicious from the start with the rumpled uniform, and tells him that he will come with them.

Silver Squadron has now started their attack run, and Kass tells them to open their S-foils. R2-D7 argues back and forth with Koren after they cannot get the S-foils open, and Kass tells them to get it together. After they get it fixed, Kass orders Koren to take out a TIE fighter hovering in front of Jason’s shuttle.

Meanwhile, the total of seven stormtroopers races out of the shuttle and off the landing pad, with Jason turning around in horror as the TIE is about to blow his shuttle cockpit to bits. It suddenly blows up, with Koren’s T-70 X-wing flying past. Looking out the window Jason notices that the rest of the squadron has silver markings on their fighters. TIE’s race out of the station’s hangar and a dogfight ensues.

Jason races back to the fuel cylinders and shoots them. The explosion starts a chain reaction that blows each fuel cylinder up ringing the station, and the shield generators explode as well. The explosion knocks him back against the wall. An officer in a white uniform races out of the main building, ordering Jason to stand down. They both attack each other with their respective melee weapons, Jason with his vibroknife and the officer with his ceremonial officer vibrosword.

In the skies above and around them, Koren and the rest of Silver Squadron make their first attack run, with Koren blowing up one of the fuel lines running into the Star Destroyer. It causes a huge explosion, but the Star Destroyer is not destroyed. Several TIE fighters get on Koren’s tail, but he twists his X-wing through a pair of weather veins on the bottom of one of the stations, two of the TIEs crashing into them. The other one continues following Koren, but he loses it in the maze of fuel lines, blowing more of them up. When the rebels start hitting the fuel lines on the Star Destroyer, the view shifts to the Captain on the bridge shouting orders to, “Raise the shields and disconnect those fuel lines!” Before transitioning back to them.

Jason continues his duel with the officer and starts to lose. After being cut up several times, he pulls his holdout blaster and blasts away at the officer. The officer ducks into a doorway, pulls his blaster pistol and begins shooting back at Jason. The station starts to turn on its side as the repulsorlifts holding the station in place are weakened with every explosion. Jason figures out that its better to run than sit there, so he and the officer race off in different directions. He climbs up the station as it continues its slow descent, and reaches the shuttle. Not able to lift it off the landing pad, it goes skittering off the side, tumbling quickly to the planet’s gaseous core.

        Koren and the rest of Silver Squadron make the rest of their attack run, with Koren shooting down several TIE’s and blowing up more fuel lines. The stations start to explode, and the Star Destroyer begins blowing up from the inside, from the fuel intakes all the way to the bridge. They fly away with the facility and the Star Destroyer blowing up around them. Five of their squadron are killed, but Koren, Kass, and the others make it out.

        Jason is struggling to restart power to the shuttle, failing completely. He descends through the planet’s core, feeling the intense gravity constrict his shuttle. Popping out the other side, he jumps into a tiny two-man escape pod and launches away from the shuttle, heading to deep space in the planet’s orbit. Arriving safely in the gravity well of the red gas giant, he calls for help. Kass orders Koren to pick him up using the magnetic locks on the bottom of his X-wing, and to meet them back at the base. The rest of the squadron jumps into hyperspace, and Koren picks up Jason.

        The valiant heroes return to Wul’ur V and receive 1,000 credits per their salary. They meet with Jarux, and are told to go to the briefing room of the *Inek* for a top secret assignment.

#### **Episode III: The Blades Fly Again**

Opening crawl:

*The galaxy is in disorder. The evil FIRST ORDER is on the rampage, quickly taking over the galaxy with the apparent destruction of the Resistance and the death of Luke Skywalker.*

*A small Resistance cell continues to fight back however, building upon their forces to ignite a spark of hope to restore the Republic.*

*Seeking potential allies and assets among the Outer Rim's nefarious denizens, Admiral Quillon sends two promising Resistance fighters on a mission of great importance, which could determine the fate of the fledgling rebellion....*

Synopsis:

Corporal's Forsec and Sental are onboard the *Inek* at their duty stations, with Koren working on his X-wing in hangar A, and Jarux in the engineering section. They both get summoned to meet at a relatively isolated engine deck, and they both arrive there rather quickly. An ensign in a mustard brown uniform and cap approaches them, thanking them for meeting with him, and explaining that they must be discreet, for Admiral Quillon has a mission for them of great importance to the Resistance fleet. Ensign Beelan continues talking, informing them of three B-wing starfighters at Mos Eisley, Tatooine that have come available for purchase and use for the fledgling Resistance fleet. With Jarux’s mechanical expertise and Koren’s flying skills, they are to travel there, make contact with a Resistance asset that informed them of the B-wings, purchase them, and fly them back to the fleet.

Koren returns to the hangar and informs his squadron leader Kass Meckley that he will be gone. Jarux travels to the armory and picks up some additional ammo and gear, and the two of them meet Ensign Beelan in hangar A. Travelling in an old *Lambda*-class shuttle, the two heroes make the jump into hyperspace, making it there in only an hour.

As they descend the atmosphere and travel over some of the bordering mountains they arrive at Mos Eisley, seeing it’s decadence and strange denizens. Calling spaceport control to find a decent place to land, they get in contact with an elderly human man who informs them of his open docking bay. As they descend into docking bay 82 to land, a bulk freighter rises below them in a collision course. Koren barely pulls out of the way as they see the pilot, a strange alien with two long eyestalks, shake its fist at them and fly up and away from the city. They set the ship down, and as they do so they see the controller peer over the dusty glass viewport and wave at them. The two rebels exit the shuttle and go into the control room where they knock on the seemingly locked door. After hearing a lot of arguing and grunting, and with the door slowly rising as it screeches, it finally opens up for them. They meet the controller, an 87-year-old human male named Roonian, or Roon for short. Hobbling around the room with them Roonian tells them that the door has been broken for 47 years, and he uses a backup elevator to enter and exit the control room. Jarux offers to fix the door and with R2-D7’s help he manages to get it working. Roonian thanks him very much for it, and they continue to converse some more, with talk of the B-wings coming up and Roonian informing them of Oldie Oliseia’s starship lot on the outskirts of town. Before they leave he gives them a holokey to get in and out of the docking bay after he closes it up, and also gives them his comlink code to contact him.

Jarux travels to the starship lot and discusses the B-wings with Oldie after he shows them to him in his fenced-in lot outside his shop. Oldie informs them that he was the Resistance contact, and they will still need to pay him in order to keep FOSB from getting suspicious. He also tells him that they are already sold to the First Order, and that they can win them back in the preliminary podrace that starts in three hours. Unfortunately, he does not have a pod for them, and they will need to find one if they want to race. Meanwhile, Koren an R2-D7 head to the nearest market to find some modifications for his gear and weapons, doing so and meeting with Jarux and Oldie at Oldie’s shop.

Looking for a pod for Koren to race, the three of them make their way to Chalmun’s Cantina, where they hear a bunch of the podracers will be before the race. Venturing inside and out of the heat of the late afternoon, Koren meets with some Corellian pirates who tell him that they do have a pod, but he will need to do something for them if they are going to let him use it. He will have to steal back a crate of Whyren’s Reserve from docking bay 47 that was stolen from them and return it to their ship. After that he will get the pod.

As Jarux heads to the bar he notices two Abednedos who nod to him. Asking Wuher, the grizzled bartender, what drink the other two Abednedos have he buys three Tatooni Junkos, sharing two of them with the Abednedos and downing the third. He makes acquaintance with them and they tell him that they can help him anytime. He then walks over and meets with Koren, who is wrapping up his conversation with the Corellians.

Together, R2, Jarux, and Koren venture to docking bay 47. Approaching it they see a lone Weequay guarding the entrance, which is sealed tight by the blast door. They try to negotiate with him, but it turns into a brawl with Koren gunning down the Weequay. R2-D7 heads to the data terminal where he opens the door just high enough for the two humanoids to duck under. Grabbing R2 and pulling him inside with them, Koren and Jarux see an old YG-4020 light freighter. In front of it is a large crate locked with a padlock. Blasting the lock off after an unsuccessful lock picking attempt, they open it to see a whole crate of Whyren’s Reserve. Hearing voices approaching the ship both of them hide behind the crate with R2. Koren pops up with his blaster pistol after they listen in on the conversation for a bit, meeting Hondo Ohnaka and another large Weequay. Hondo, Jarux, and Koren negotiate back and forth, and they eventually reach a compromise. Jarux and R2 head back to Oldie Oliseia’s shop where they inform him that they have a pod that they got from Hondo that he stole from the Corellians, and R2 and Jarux haul it to the small racing track as the podrace is getting ready to begin. Hondo and Koren arrive soon after, meeting with Jarux and R2 and prepping the pod.

Koren boards the pod, taking off once the race begins. Jarux and Hondo head up the wooden bleachers to meet with Roonian and the Abednedos, and cheer on Koren as he takes off. Koren is soon after knocked to the ground by a large Weequay who picks a fight with him among the pods that are racing by, blaming him for his brother’s death. Jarux manages to evade every attack he makes and calms him down. The Weequay then walks out into the desert.

Koren has an extremely thrilling ride, racing past every contestant in sand dunes, narrow canyons, and even over a sarlacc. As he approaches the end of the race he sees a Dug racer’s pod being held up by the sarlacc’s tentacles, and races underneath him and pulls him out of the Sarlacc’s grasp. He drops him in the dunes, and races ahead, encountering the lead racer. The lead racer is actually Baron Demarcis of the First Order and is racing a very sleek black and white pod. Koren rams into him, setting his pod on top of the Baron’s, who tries to shoot him. Koren gets to the trigger faster though and fires into the Baron’s pod, sending it crashing through a very large sand dune where it bursts out on the other end. Koren races ahead and wins the podrace. He wins 20,000 credits and moves on the the Quarterfinals.

By this time it is night, and Koren and Jarux pay Oldie what he asks for the B-wings. Over two hours of hard work follows as the PC’s work to mount the weapons systems and parts to get them functional, and they eventually succeed. Koren heads to the shuttle in docking bay 82 to inform the Resistance that they have the B-wings, but is confronted by the Resistance cell leader. He does not know who he is though and stuns him, waking him up after seeing his holodossier. The cell leader, Caladan Cors, tells him that he will fly the shuttle to the fleet while they pilot the B-wings, informing Koren that the third B-wing can be slaved to the shuttle.

Jarux quickly slaves the B-wing to the shuttle and it takes off to meet with the shuttle. Koren and Jarux promise Oldie and Roonian that they will return to help the people of Mos Eisley throw off the yoke of the First Order. Oldie and Roonian thank them, and the PC’s fly the B-wings up and out of the city. As they pass over the mountains they notice three TIEs gaining on them from their rear, and Koren banks off to confront them. He destroys one of them, and gains on the leader. Jarux tries to do the same as well, missing his shot on the other TIE/fo. A dogfight ensues, with Koren shooting down the TIE/sf. It spirals out of control to the desert below and a parachute opens up before it crashes. Jarux follows the other TIE into a narrow canyon, hitting it but not completely destroying it. Koren follows him also, and with Jarux’s help blasts the TIE into pieces. As they fly out of the canyon they see the TIE’s remaining wing fly into an AT-ST on patrol, slicing it in half. The PC’s meet with the shuttle in orbit, where they blast off into hyperspace to rendezvous with the *Inek*. Little do they know that they made an enemy out of Baron Demarcis, who emerges from the parachute to see the PC’s escape, removing his helmet and contacting his superiors, telling them that the Resistance has arrived.

At the *Inek* Admiral Quillon congratulates the Jarux and Jason and thanks them for their heroism. He tells them that the B-wings will be a great addition to the fleet. He also tells them that since their escape from Mos Eisley cries for freedom have been ringing out from the planet, begging for help from the Resistance. He tells them that they will work with Agent Cors to defeat the First Order on Tatooine, and that the *Inek* will be forming with other small Resistance ships to create an actual fleet. He assigns Cpl. Sarkin as well to the Mos Eisley operation and promotes Koren and Jarux to sergeant.

#### **Episode IV: Spark of Rebellion**

Opening crawl:

*Hope lives in the galaxy. The FIRST ORDER has taken over much of the major systems in their conquest, yet it begins to receive fierce resistance against their quest for galactic domination.*

*On the backwater planet TATOOINE, a local rebel cell begins targeting the First Order in a brave effort to throw off their new oppressors, receiving little support from the greater Resistance.*

*Needing vital supplies to begin their operations in liberating the world, the young and fledgling rebel cell comes together to plan a mission which could determine the uncertain future of the small band of freedom fighters….*

Opening scene:

The view pans down to the vastness of deep space, stars twinkling in the background. Slowly showing the thee moons of Tatooine, the view stops. Overhead a large First Order Star Destroyer’s silhouette appears, blocking out each moon’s illumination. Ten atmospheric landers fly out of one of its many hangar bays, descending down to the desert world below. Flying towards the illuminated city Mos Eisley, its lights and fires twinkling in the night like the stars above, the landers stop and land at its outskirts with First Order stormtroopers rushing out of their descending boarding ramps. Receiving not one single enemy blaster bolt, the stormtroopers fall into formation and begin marching into the city.

                At this time, the three young rebels are walking through the city streets, joking and talking amongst themselves. Walking past several street vendors as they close their stalls and pack up their personal gear, they eventually walk around a sandstone building’s corner. As soon as they do they are met with the screams of men, women, and children, both human and otherwise, as several people rush past them. Peering ahead, they three see a whole company of First Order stormtroopers marching through the city’s streets. They toss over tables, burn rugs and tents with the fires of street lanterns, and knock over anyone who gets in their way.

Synopsis:

The rebels fight back against the First Order's invasion, with Jason leaving his datapad in a closed furnace vent, Jarux and Koren rescuing a young woman, and all of them barely escaping in their ship after a firefight with Captain Skobra and her group of stormtroopers. They travel to Piroket to recover some supplies, bringing Roon with them and then returning to Tatooine. They see the First Order unloading shuttles and barges down to the planet and return to Anchorhead to drop off Sonya, the young women they rescued, after they receive an emergency distress signal from their friends at Mos Eisley.

#### **Episode V: A Sinister Conspiracy**

Opening crawl:

*Hope clings on. Amidst a turbulent moment in galactic history, the heroic RESISTANCE holds up against the burgeoning First Order, desperate to loosen their grip on the galaxy.*

*Returning to the desert planet TATOOINE after a successful cargo recovery mission, three daring rebels race to Mos Eisley upon learning that their fellow resistors are in a perilous situation.*

*The malignant ace pilot BARON DEMARCIS, obsessed with destroying the three young rebels, activates one of his many assets to bring an end to their hazardous lives….*

Opening scene:

The view pans down to the desert world Tatooine, showing a First Order Star Destroyer, the *Sovereignty*, orbiting the planet. Onboard the bridge’s central catwalk, Baron Demarcis, dressed in his charcoal grey officer uniform and pilot overcoat, paces back and forth in front of a large hologram. “If you weren’t able to destroy them the last time, I don’t understand why you could be able to this time.”

                The figure in the hologram, physically disguised in a cloak concealing their features and speaking in a monotone voice scrambler, replies, “The only chance I had to kill them was offworld. Drawing attention to them would only delay the inevitable, something neither of us want.”

                Demarcis stops pacing, his back to the figure. “You are being activated, beginning after this conversation. Put the contingency plan in motion and follow through to the end. Your support will be the primary concern of Storm Squadron. Notify fleet command of your progress at the end of every standard rotation. Colonel Kreen of FOSB is now your handler. Is that clear?

                The cloaked figure looks up, his or her face still concealed, “It is clear, Baron. Dealing with these rebels should be your last concern. General Hux will be demanding a reason as to why the pacification operations of this sector are taking a long time, and I wouldn’t be too eager to disappoint him.”

                Demarcis whirls around, his face flushed with anger, which really brings out his pencil-thin mustache and slicked back black hair. “You do not answer to Hux, but to me! If you weren’t so concerned with my progress, perhaps you would be making some with your own!”, Then the fuming Baron leans in to where no one around him can hear and whispers, “My orders come from the Grand Mage himself. And if I were you, I would be more concerned about upsetting him.”

                Synopsis:

                The rebels return to Mos Eisley and are notified by Roon that Admiral Quillon has an urgent communique for them. They land in Roon’s civilian docking bay and report in at the rebel cell’s small safehouse in his control center/studio apartment in the docking bay ring. After Jarux fixes the derelict holomessenger in the safehouse, they get in contact with Admiral Quillon, albeit with lots of static, and he tells them that there has been a leak from their cell, emanating from a datalink in Mos Eisley. He orders them to investigate it, even though they just got there. While they are having their conversation with him, they experience some issues with the hologram, and they hear one of his onboard techs yell, “sir, Star Destroyers incoming!” before he looks at them one more time and mouths something, and then the transmission cuts out. One of the Resistance techs tells them that the First Order is jamming all communications.

First Order stormtroopers are everywhere in the city, as well as numerous walkers and TIE fighter squadrons overhead. They even see an entire fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers in the orbit of the planet as well as a *Resurgent*-class battlecruiser, the *Sovereignty*. Koren begins racing to his X-wing after they hear numerous TIE engines overhead, and it and their freighter explode, throwing he, R2-D7, and Jarux onto the ground. In the control room the windows shatter as everyone is thrown back as well, and Jason tells everyone to begin packing everything up and to evacuate. He helps Roon up, who they notice gets up a little too quickly for his age, and Roon begins packing a bag of his personal possessions.

                Koren and R2-D7 begin racing out of the docking bay searching for a ship, with Koren ripping the Resistance starbird patch off his jacket and finding a ship, a Firespray system patrol craft, but under heavy guard. He continues onwards until he finds a stormtrooper lander guarded by only one stormtrooper, who he blasts and then steals the ship. Meanwhile, Jason finds an exit through the ventilation shaft in the control room after they hear stormtroopers barking orders and shooting fleeing Resistance fighters outside the docking bay, and he and Jarux get Roon inside after him right before a pair of stormtroopers blow the door in and race inside. Jarux throws a frag grenade at them right before he jumps in, which kills them both. As time passes by they find a way through the ventilation shafts to the outside of the docking bay, however, they come across a womp rat rummaging through some trash at the grate they need to exit. Jason jumps out with he and Jarux’s combat knives, killing the womp rat before it bites him. The three of them then exit the ventilation shaft and contact Koren, who rendezvous' with them as they race up into the lander. Koren then departs Mos Eisley and they try to figure out what to do next.

                While they are flying away from the city they get a transmission from a First Order officer who demands an answer as to why they are leaving the city. Koren, pulling off his best impression of a First Order accent, lies to them about being ordered to capture a group of rebels in the mountains. The officer believes him, but sends two TIE fighters to escort them. After thanking him and shutting off the comms, Koren races into a canyon, which causes one of the TIEs to get stuck in between the tight corridors, and the other one to become suspicious of them. While Roon and Jason desperately cling on to the lander’s interior cargo nets, Jarux races to the dorsal open gunner position, opening the hatch and taking control of the light repeating blaster. He swings around and opens fire, not even damaging its shields. The TIE then opens fire on them, damaging the lander’s engines. Koren sends them plummeting down on the other side of the mesa once they clear the canyon, and the TIE pilot, confused and shocked at the sudden maneuver, barely follows behind him, clipping his TIE on a rock jutting out from the wall and crashing into it. They then land the ship in the desert and plan on travelling to Anchorhead to find a ship, venturing into the Dune Sea to get there.

                After a few hours wandering the desert they encounter a Jawa Sandcrawler, and after making a deal with them the Jawas give them a ride to their ship and then to Fort Tusken, where the Jawas plan to trade some of their junk from the lander with the traders and moisture farmers. Arriving at Fort Tusken, the five rebels venture into the fort, meeting Rahvin Dovar and going into the small cantina; Dust Winds Saloon. Looking for a “Selerra” after Rahvin tells them to talk to them, they ask the bartender where he is. Pointing at a drunk in a booth chanting “98 bottles”, they try to talk to him, learning that he is Ryko Selerra, hero of the Rebel Alliance and a nefarious pirate. Jason and Jarux, hungry and needing nourishment, ask for a meal from the bartender, who tells them that he’ll make the special of the day, Carnelion stew, which has been the special there for 12 years. After a conversation about the past with Ryko, combined with his extreme drunkenness, Ryko attempts to shoot the two other men at the bar, the only people in the cantina other than them. Koren tackles him and keeps him from shooting the men, who are undercover Guavian Death Gangers sent to guard Ryko until he repays the Guavian Death Gang what he owes them. The Gangers start trying to shoot Ryko and the Resistance fighters, and after a lengthy fight in the cantina, along with the reemergence of a very angry Rahvin, the PCs barely kill the Gangers.

                Ryko, upon having been told by Rahvin that he was saved by the young rebels, makes a deal with them. If they liberate his ship from First Order hands, a modified Firespray system patrol craft called the *Moldy Crow*, the same one he has had for years, he will deliver them to the Resistance and do nothing more. The episode ends with the Resistance fighters, Roon, R2-D7, and Rahvin and Ryko walking up into the Jawa Sandcrawler, hopeful of the future, the binary suns showing through the Sandcrawler’s large doors ahead of them.

#### **Episode VI: Grain of Hope**

Opening crawl:

*It is another dangerous time for the Resistance. After being attacked once more by the evil First Order, the small rebel cell on Tatooine is in shambles.*

*Worried that their only remaining fleet is under attack, and with no reason to stay on Tatooine, three young but loyal rebels travel back to MOS EISLEY to recover Ryko Selerra's ship from the clutches of the First Order.*

*Desperate to leave the desert planet and reunite with their comrades, the group now arrives at the desert city aboard a Jawa Sandcrawler, hoping to blend in with the local denizens of the now occupied city....*

Synopsis:

The view pans up to show the desert world Tatooine, blockaded by a fleet of *Imperial*-class Star Destroyers and one *Resurgent*-class Star Destroyer hovering over the planet like birds of prey. Following a small shuttle travelling to the surface of the planet, the shuttle breaks the atmosphere and flies above Mos Eisley, its lights shining bright among the nighttime sky. A Jawa Sandcrawler reveals itself on the far side of the city, rising up and over one final rock formation and reaching the outskirts of the city.

Inside the Sandcrawler, Koren, Jarux, and Jason sit with Roon, Ryko, Rahvin, and R2-D7, currently being jostled around inside the lumbering junk pile as Jawas and droids move around them. The Sandcrawler continues for a little bit of time as the rebels attempt to heal themselves from their injuries received the previous day. The Sandcrawler stops abruptly, and the rebels can tell that the Jawas seem even more tense and skittish than normal. They hear outside a group of stormtrooper chatter and the stormtroopers bang on the Sandcrawler, telling them to “open up in there”. The Jarux and Jason quickly stuff R2-D7 in a ventilation shaft, then Koren and Jarux climb up in after him while Jason climbs into a makeshift ceiling panel. Leaving Roon, Rahvin, and Ryko alone to deal with the stormtroopers as they enter the Sandcrawler and push their way past the protesting Jawas.

After Ryko, Rahvin, and Roon are questioned by the stormtroopers as to why they are on the Sandcrawler, and after Roon gives them a false excuse for being traders hitching a ride to Mos Eisley, Koren opens fire on the stormtroopers through the grate, hitting one on top of the head and killing him. One of the stormtroopers, a Megablaster heavy trooper, begins firing randomly up at the ceiling in response to the shot from Koren. She doesn’t hit them but manages to shoot out the ceiling panel holding Jason up, causing him to fall on the ground. He begins to fight them with his fighting knife, failing to injure any of them.

Another one of the stormtroopers fires up at the ceiling also in confusion, seeing it as the location from which their primary threats are coming from. He hits the locking mechanism holding the ventilation shaft grate shut. It causes Koren and Jarux to fall on the ground, from where Koren joins Jason in fighting against the stormtroopers. Jarux crawls to cover next to Roon and Ryko behind a pile of old droid parts, and Rahvin joins the fray as well. With Rahvin’s help both Jason and Koren defeat the stormtroopers, sending them flying against the Sandcrawler walls. Jason goes through their belongings, finding a deed to a droid in Mos Eisley. Once again, they set off towards Mos Eisley after the Jawas come out of the woodwork after the fight and shoo them off the Sandcrawler.

Koren searches for some stimpacks to help heal themselves from previous injuries, finding some and giving both Jason and Jarux two. Then they all go to Tlizz's Junkyard, where they find the droid that the deed belongs to. Chasing off two stormtroopers who yell for help after the droid fights them off, the heroes meet a blue and grey BB unit, designated 3BB-3. Together with “Threebs” the heroes, now all nine of them, go find a motel room to spend the night in and avoid the roaming stormtrooper patrols. After finding one and catching some sleep they head out in the morning to figure out a way to free Ryko’s ship.

Walking through the city and trying to figure out a way to free Ryko’s ship, which they see is under heavy guard and clamped by two magnetic clamps on its side, the heroes decide to try another route. Koren searches for a lone stormtrooper and succeeds in doing so, and after Jason pretends to act drunk to trick him, Koren has Rahvin mug him and take his armor off. Meanwhile, Jarux speaks with an Abednedo merchant who sells him a box of jogan fruit.

Koren gets a comm call in his stolen helmet from a First Order officer demanding that he return to the Citadel. He travels that direction, knowing where the Citadel is at from where Ryko pointed it out earlier in the morning. Meanwhile, Jason, Threebs, and Jarux retrieve the datapad from where Jason hid it when they fled Mos Eisley the first time, and he notices something different on it, though he can’t figure out what has changed. Contacting Koren to figure out what is going on, they go to a tall building across the street from the Citadel to get a good vantage point in case things go wrong for Koren. They tell Roon, Ryko, Rahvin, and R2 that they will be back, hopefully with a way to free the ship.

As Koren enters the Citadel, once the main administrative building for Mos Eisley, he sees that it is a hub of First Order activity, with technicians, stormtroopers, and mouse droids everywhere setting up terminals and hardware. Asking an officer which way he should go, he is told to go to the commander’s quarters, making his way up to the top floor level, where he meets Captain Skobra and she tells him she knows he is a Resistance spy after viewing the helmet cam footage of Rahvin taking down the stormtrooper and Koren putting the armor on. Two executioner stormtroopers come out of the doorway, grabbing him by the arm and igniting their laser axes.

While all this happens, Jarux and Jason reach the top floor of the building, which they discover to be a museum, and help a frazzled and quick-tongued Duro engineer complaining about the artifact cryofreeze generator not working. Fixing it with a missing gear and asking if they can stay up top, the Duro agrees and leaves, falling down the stairs goofily as he does so. They take up a sniping position from the room where they see Koren being held by the executioner stormtroopers and questioned by Skobra. Jarux fires a shot off at Skobra, which throws her onto her desk, and the room lights up into a fury after Celia, a Resistance fighter that somehow fled the assault on their headquarters the earlier day, has been brought in as well. Koren, with the help of Jarux, manages to defeat the stormtroopers in a vicious duel with their laser axes against his riot baton, and Jarux shoots Skobra off of the building through the open slats in the building from which he can see through. Jason and Threebs also defeat two stormtroopers that ambush them in the museum, with Jarux helping a bit as well.

Jason and Jarux get a call from Ryko on their comlinks, and they hear and see the *Moldy Crow* rising up from the street and being flown by he and Rahvin, missing its laser cannons from being ripped off when they stole the ship with the help of R2 and Roon. The three heroes jump into the ship from the museum, and Ryko flies the ship over to the Citadel where Koren and Celia jump onboard as well. Blasting off from the city and into the atmosphere, they are chased by a pair of TIE fighters as they head straight up into the sky. Rahvin orders Jarux and Jason to load two seismic charges into the loading port, and after many tries they get both into the port. Koren fires one off manually, which ejects from the ship and blows the two TIEs apart and scatters the cloud they are flying through.

Koren races into the cockpit and tries to get them a jump to hyperspace with the navicomputer, but Ryko swats his hand away as they tell them that they’ve been locked onto with multiple tractor beams. Looking up they see the *Sovereignty*, a *Resurgent*-class battlecruiser, looming over them. After being contacted by the ship’s flight officer and told to power down and prepare to be boarded, Rahvin tells them to hide in the ship’s sole escape pod and wait until they are gone.

### **Season Two**

#### **The Final Disciple**

*The RESISTANCE fights back. After barely escaping the clutches of the FIRST ORDER on the scorching desert planet Tatooine, new heroes of the rebellion have once again been trapped by their devious foes.*

*Intercepted by the evil Baron Demarcis' imposing battlecruiser, the SOVEREIGNTY, the crew of the Moldy Crow prepares to be boarded after being locked onto by the Star Destroyer's multiple tractor beams.*

*Holding vital intelligence for the Resistance on Jason Sarkin’s encrypted DATAPAD, the few yet brave band of rebels must find a way to permanently escape the First Order and rally with their fellow freedom fighters....*

The view pans down to reveal the *Sovereignty*, blocking out the view of Tatooine’s binary suns for the crew of the *Moldy Crow*, quickly pulling them into the Star Destroyer’s starboard hangar bay with its invisible tractor beams. Over the cockpit’s communications terminal the brave rebels hear an officer speak, “Firespray System Patrol Craft, you are being detained for unlawfully departing Mos Eisley Spaceport. Do not resist or you will be destroyed."

Koren leans forward, tapping the *Moldy Crow*'s communication console's switch, "uh, no, I think we were just trying to leave peacefully."

The officer replies back on the comm frequency, "any and all statements can and will be used against you in your trial. Turn off your primary engines and prepare to be boarded."

With that, everyone on the *Moldy Crow* tries to figure out what to do. Before they can do anything though, the starship is finally dragged into the *Sovereignty*'s massive hangar bay, stormtroopers rushing forward and surrounding their ship. Koren, Jarux, Jason, 3-BB3, R2-D7, Roon, and Celia hide in one of the escape pods, all of them barely managing to squeeze inside. Shutting the pod's door, Jason and Jarux can see the stormtroopers arresting Ryko and Rahvin, restraining them with binders and roughly forcing them out of the ship, leaving only two stormtroopers to guard the ship.

Jarux slighly opens the pod's sealed door and leans out to disable the ignition switch, which will keep the ship from being able to lift off until it is switched back on. Jason sneaks out and reaches the open door, attacking one of the stormtroopers with his combat knife and killing him after Koren does an excellent womp rat impression. After hearing Jarux climb up the metal stairs and into the cockpit, the other stormtrooper ventures inside and is attacked by Koren with his shock baton. After knocking out the stormtrooper they hear a couple technicians with scanning equipment getting ready to enter the ship. Koren and Jason take positions behind some crates and along the wall, leaping out and incapacitating the two technicians.

Celia, Roon, and the droids all climb out of the escape pod as well, and they all discuss what they need to do next. After a short and hushed conversation, the seven of them agree that Jarux and Koren will disable the tractor beam with one of the last seismic charges hidden in the scanning equipment crate, and that Jason will go and free Rahvin and Ryko from the detention block. Jarux and Koren slip on the stormtrooper armor, with Jarux barely managing to fit the helmet over his head, claiming that he can't see anything with it on. Jason puts on one of the technicians uniforms, fitting the black uniform on perfectly.

After almost getting compromised after a random mishap, Jason frees Ryko and Rahvin and rendezvous’ with Koren and Jarux after they rig an IED out of the seismic charge next to the reactor. Meeting up over a large catwalk over the engine heat buildup vent, they start across, seeing Roon captured and ambushed by stormtroopers on either side of the catwalk. Reth Bogan appears choking and cutting down Roon with his crimson-bladed lightsaber in front of them, who mysteriously vanishes after being killed. Detonating the seismic charge before Reth and the stormtroopers can capture them, they are nearly thrown over the edge by the extremely large explosion, and are instead rescued by R2-D7 and 3BB-3 aboard a fleet transport speeder. Racing back through the ship after it is slowly drifting apart in two parts, they reach the *Moldy Crow*, reactivate the ignition switch, and take off. Chased by Baron Demarcis and a whole squadron of TIEs, the rebels are delightedly surprised with the *Millennium Falcon* reaches them and helps take down some TIEs. Together with the help of Rahvin, they detonate the last seismic charge from the *Moldy Crow*, which destroys the TIEs and nearly kills Demarcis. Demarcis escapes, and the *Falcon* sends them rendezvous coordinates.

Meeting General Organa, Rey, Finn, and Chewie aboard the *Falcon*, the rebels receive their orders from the General; go to the Western Reaches, build a cell, make allies, and start performing guerrilla strikes on the First Order. Receiving their team's codename, Storm Cell, the rebels depart, travelling to Taloraan to start off their journey. Arriving their and dropped off by Ryko and Rahvin, who tell them that they will try to make amends with the other Heroes of the Tumble, they turn in their weapons to Taloraan City security, and eventually meet the former New Republic Senator from Mintooine; a Quarren male by the name of Ralsus Panter. He meets them incognito at a cocktail party he is throwing in the penthouse suite of the luxury suites, and makes a deal with them. If they can take out a pirate crew onboard an incoming bulk freighter which is supposedly loaded with pure sansanna spice, the Senator might be able to get them their own ship and help them out here and there with whatever they need. Agreeing to his proposition, Storm Cell meets with his security chiefs, a gruff pair of Gamorreans, and retrieve some basic weapons and explosives from the small armory they have.

#### **Episode I: The Resistance Rises**

*It is a period of galactic domination. The evil FIRST ORDER finishes its conquest of New Republic space, dousing the spark of hope for the rest of the galaxy.*

*On the urbanized trade hub ORD GIMMEL, a new threat reveals itself to the First Order, sending a dash of rebellion and resistance to the planet's new regime.*

*Meanwhile, in the far reaches of the Outer Rim, a daring raid against a First Order treasure ship leaves the members of STORM CELL exposed and vulnerable, with the full First Order fleet steaming towards them....*

Opening Scene:

The screen pans down to reveal a blue ocean moon and its dead planet in the distance, with the burning of massive fires raising from the moon’s surface. A First Order Nebulon-K frigate travels upwards from the planet, clearly the most dominating ship around.

        On the rear side of the frigate, almost entirely underneath the fore starboard armor plating, the Foxhound Aurek rests against the hull and locks onto the emergency airlock. Inside the transport both Jarux and Jason prepare themselves for their insertion, with Koren’s voice coming over both their comlinks.

        “Guys, I really appreciate the caution, but you might want to hurry it up. “ The screen flashes to Koren seated in his X-wing’s cockpit, “These guys are better than I thought!” Koren looks up and behind his cockpit canopy at a TIE fighter that rolls over his shots and appears around behind him. “Yeah, yeah, I see him!” He shouts after R2-D7’s concerned whill.

        “We’re getting ready to make our entrance. Don’t worry.” Jarux replies, setting aside the fusion cutter he used to cut the airlock’s emergency door bolts. He glances over at Jason who is currently staring hard at his datapad and asks, “Ready?”

        Jason puts one finger up to Jarux and replies, “Ready…..now!” Jarux shoves the airlock door open, and a bright beam of the frigate’s interior lights flood them both. Threebs rolls up to them from behind, beeping and whirring in excitement. “Here’s where the fun begins!”

        Synopsis:

        It has been two standard months since Storm Cell rescued King Ebrahi and departed Ord Gimmel. Needing funding to support their operations, Storm Cell worked jobs for the pirate Hondo Ohnaka, stealing various First Order supplies and munitions across the Western Reaches to fund his operations on Batuu. Learning of a job from Hondo about a First Order treasure ship departing a colony set up on a oceanic moon in the space surrounding the Induparan Crown Worlds, Storm Cell launched a daring two-fold plan to steal the valuable cargo; Koren would launch away from the *Foxhound Aurek* on the outskirts of the system, engaging the frigate and its complement of TIE fighters. Meanwhile, while the First Order was distracted by Koren, Jarux and Jason would fly the *Foxhound Aurek* to the frigate and dock with its emergency airlock to avoid detection.

        Once they had done so, Jason sliced into the frigate's security system, deactivating it and pulling up a three-dimensional map of the frigate's interior. Jarux cut the airlock's exterior door bolts with his fusion cutter, allowing them access into the ship. On Jason's mark, the two of them, accompanied by 3BB-3, entered the frigate.

        Meanwhile, Koren had destroyed two TIE fighters in a daring flight maneuver called a Corellian Sendoff. Barrel rolling out of the way right before the two TIEs shot at him, the two of them collided with each other, with only the remaining four fighters pursuing him.

Koren, meanwhile, continued to engage the fighters. He destroyed two TIEs in a hail of laser cannon fire after performing a daring Koiogran turn. Turning towards the ship, he raced alongside the frigate, performing a Corellian sendoff on the remaining TIE fighter. The TIE glanced off the frigate’s shields and slammed into the cargo hold, destroying the cargo hold. Jarux and Jason, inside he ship and preparing to enter the cargo hold after a brief exchange of blasterfire with two stormtrooper guards are almost sucked into the vacuum of space after cargo hold explodes, sucking the remaining stormtrooper into space and blowing the cargo holds cargo containers and treasure chests outside. Barely getting safe and communicating with Koren, they both run back to the *Forxhound Aurek*. Jason jumps into the cargo masters chair to prepare to pull the cargo into the *Foxhound Aurek*'s cargo bay once they are there, and Jarux hops into the pilot's seat to fly them to the crates, scattered out in space. Threebs helps co-pilot. By the time they had loaded the cargo, the victorious rebels notice the First Order's fleet bear down on them after coming out of hyperspace, and the rebels jump to lightspeed before they are destroyed.

While the rebels determined their next move, they are greeted by Hondo Ohnaka, who was in the galley of their ship the entire time drinking a strange type of alcohol and listening to his favorite rock song. He makes a deal with the PCs, taking a few of the items they stole and taking off in his ship. Before he leaves, Hondo notifies the PCs that Hond ells them about the flooding of different valuables on the black market
throughout the entire Western Reaches after the First Order has completely destroyed Ord Gimmel’s monarchial dynasty and taken the nearby Induparan Crown
Worlds. With the fallout of the war, the Order is in complete control of the
galaxy, and faces little resistance elsewhere. The First Order is also making
big moves by bringing in barge freighters from Wild Space. Nobody quite knows
what they are doing with the freighter’s cargo, but it isn’t anything good. He
hints that he would like to rob one of the freighters purely out of curiousity,
and also potential profit.

an Ithorian called Dok-Ondar is a collector of rare antiquities on Batuu and would love to purchase the items they have.

Once the *Foxhound Aurek* arrives at Ord Gimmel, they receive a transmission from King Ebrahi, who begs for their help and declares that they are his only hope. They travel to Ord Gimmel and land on Meihanna Island, where they have tricked the security forces, who they believed to be First Order, into thinking they were ambassadors from the Induparan Crown Worlds. They land on LP 01, where they are greeted by Captain Salana and her contingent of security troops. They meet with the King, clear up any confusion, and are begged by he and Captain Salana to help them defeat the First Order and remove his aunt, Ambassador Meilarra, from the royal throne, who rules in the First Order’s place. They pledge their forces to the Resistance, and the rebels agree. Storm Cell roams Meihanna Island, discovering an ancient Jedi memorial protected by a lone elderly Cosian male who calls himself "the Watcher", and eventually repel a First Order walker attack on the island, revealing their presence to the First Order.

Unaware to the Resistance, Ambassador Meilarra is contacted by Baron Demarcis, who tells her to finish her assignment and capture the King. She tells him about the Resistance fighters who destroyed her walkers, and Demarcis informs her are not just any Resistance fighters, but they are Storm Cell, an elite Resistance special operations team. Demarcis also notifies her that Reth Bogan is travelling to the planet to oversee her operation. Petrified with fear, Ambassador Meilarra sinks her knees to the ground and shakes with terror.

#### **Episode II: The Rebellion Grows**

Opening Crawl:

*It is a time of civil war. On the cosmopolitan trade hub ORD GIMMEL, the ruthless First Order battles the heroic Resistance for control of the planet.*

*After mounting a failed assault against the rightful King's island retreat, AMBASSADOR MEILARRA prepares for the arrival of one of her direct superiors, fearful for her own life.*

*Desperate to restore freedom to the citizens of Ord Gimmel, the Resistance prepares for their next move against the Order, unaware of a greater conspiracy unfolding before them....*

Synopsis:

More information will be entered.

#### **Episode V: Return to Ord Gimmel**

On Batuu, Koren has returned from a flight mission, descending from his X-wing and greeting his fellow Resistance fighters as he rushes through the abandoned ruins-turned starfighter base. Arriving at the entrance to the command center, Koren runs into his old friend Jarux, who informs Koren that he also has been summoned to the command center. Together they enter, with the Major overseeing the command center. He dismisses his aides, going elsewhere to allow the two brave Resistance fighters a chance to speak with General Organa alone.

The General greets Koren and Jarux warmly, informing them of a mission of desperate importance to the Resistance's survival. She needs them to return to Ord Gimmel and search out the source of a communications request the base has been receiving. She doesn't know who it is from, and she wants the two to try to find the source and either recruit them or keep them from leaking the location of their base and any possible Resistance secrets.

The two agree to the General's orders, embarking on a quest to improve the defenses of the *Foxhound Aurek* as they believe they will need to run the blockade set up by the First Order in response to their previous insurrection on the cosmopolitan world. Koren meets with the Gatherers of Savi and Son Salvage. He makes a deal with one of the scrappers, procuring a reinforced shield generator scrapped from the wreckage of an old smuggler's freighter, purchasing the modification and hauling it the the Resistance base, where he and R2-D7 work together to install it and upgrade its systems. With Jarux ready as well after looking for a few quick items, they take off from the Resistance base, blasting off into hyperspace once the coordinates for Ord Gimmel are set. Unbeknownst to the rebels, a group of mynocks have attached themselves to the *Foxhound Aurek*'s hull, sucking the energy of the ship as they make headway.

Once the *Foxhound Aurek* arrives at Ord Gimmel and drops out of lightspeed it begins its descent down to the planet.

### **Ascension of the Sith**

#### **Episode I: One Step Forward**

*It is a perilous time for the galaxy. The evil FIRST ORDER, heir to the Empire, has crushed the New Republic and conquered all the major systems of the former government, swiping away any hope for organized democracy.*

*Even more sisister forces conspire at the heart of the Order, however, as its leaders struggle to mount the pole of leadership under the totalitarian rule of the new Supreme Leader Kylo Ren. Seeking out other sources of power, the last Disciple RETH BOGAN, journies to an ancient bastion of evil to destroy his enemies and their legacy before them.*

*Unaware of this turn of events, the RESISTANCE prepares to answer a desperate call for freedom from the citizens of the river moon of Jago Hur, with General Organa sending one of her best teams, STORM GROUP, to strike a crucial blow for freedom....*

General Organa sends Storm Group to destroy a outpost of the First Order's overseeing a village on the remote moon Jago Hur. After a few days of undercover work, Jason Sarkin manages to secure the codes needed to contact Storm Squadron to signal the raid, with Jarux Sental inputting them in the village's large signal antennae. Storm Squadron attacks the outpost, obliterating it while Jarux and Jason race to the *Foxhound Aurek* outside of the village. With their mission complete the Resistance fighters exit the system, travelling back to Batuu to recover and celebrate their success.

General Organa thanks them over hologram for their work, but she asks them to seek out and confirm a rumored First Order shipyard churning out new Star Destroyers. Rose Tico, now a leader of the Resistance, tells them that they will need a long range transceiver to keep in contact with the base, and she asks if they can procure one in Black Spire Outpost. The three rebels take a junky landspeeder to the outpost, wandering the exotic streets until venturing to Savi and Son's Salvage to retrieve what they need.

The three split off in their own ways, curious and totally captivated by the various artifacts and antiques scattered about the workshop's interior. Koren feels a unique feeling he only feels when he is flying, entering a small room and seeing a wooden chest on a shelf. He picks the lock open, seeing and lifting a strange cylindrical device out of the chest. Just then he hears a voice asking if he recognizes the device, which causes the young ace pilot to whip out his blaster pistol and aim it at the voice's owner.

Savi, who had been curiously watching Koren the entire time, ensures the pilot he means no harm, and simply states that he know who Koren is and his affiliation. He advises the young man how to activate the lightsaber, telling him the story of his father and entrusting the lightsaber to him. Jarux and Jason enter just then, with Jason making a deal with Savi about the transceiver they need and Jarux purchasing a helmet from the old man. They load up on the speeder and hear Savi state, "May the Force be with you", riding back to the base and gathering their things before departing.

The Resistance fighters travel to Port Tooga after Lieutenant Connix asks them to think of a shadowport they may be able to learn information at. Emerging from hyperspace and boarding the hive of scum and villainy, they meet a shifty Weequay. The pirate informs them that Shoola the Hutt wishes to speak with them, taking them to the Hutt Lady's lair within the lower levels of the strange space station.

Seeing Lady Shoola surrounded by her Gammorean guards, Jarux pushes Jason into the room as he and Koren hide behind the dark pillars surrounding the room. Shoola becomes enraged at the sight of Jason, repeatedly calling him "Tinki Waki" and ordering him in Huttese to jettison himself out of the airlock. Koren and Jarux reveal themselves, with the trio eventually discovering that Jason's twin sister Janna used Jason's holo-image on an Holonet dating site to sneak her way into Shoola the Hutt's vault and steal an item from her. Lady Shoola claims her heart broken, and orders her translator droid to magnetize to the deck as she opens the airlock. The Resistance agents manage to hold onto the pillars, and the Hutt tells them that unless they bring Janna's head back to her, she will send her bounty hunters after them. Koren becomes very frustrated, and the three Resistance fighters draw their weapons on each other and argue about what choice is more ethical.

Jason turns and blasts Lady Shoola, turning and clinging to a pillar after believing she will attempt to suck them into vacuum again. The obese Hutt simply draws her own large-bore blaster pistol and blasts Jason twice, greatly injuring him. The room turns into a frenzy with Koren killing the Hutt Lady with his father's lightsaber and his comrades killing her tough Gammorean guards, who have returned once they heard the blasterfire.

They eventually realize the First Order is on their way after Shoola's protocol droid contacts them, informing them it was simply his programming. They race back to the *Foxhound Aurek*, launching away from the no-longer shadowport as Star Destroyers and TIE fighters destroy fleeing starships. They race through the blockade and make the jump to hyperspace after they decide to travel to Tatooine to search for better clues. Aboard the *Entillia*, Baron Demarcis informs Supreme Leader Kylo Ren, who was personally venturing to Port Tooga to destroy the Resistance agents, that the rebels of Storm Group once again got away. A furious Ren states that Demarcis will have no second chances and exits the room.

Across the galaxy, a lone shuttle descends to the surface of a volcanic planet, venturing through the magma caves to the entrance of an ancient crypt. Reth Bogan departs alone, striding inside and finding an altar for the Sith. A shadowy figure emerges along with dozens more and proclaims the dark warrior as Lord Neran, a Sith Lord. Neran asks how he can serve the Sith and gain the full power of the dark side, and the being orders the Sith Lord to kill every member of the Resistance and destroy the line of Jedi within.

## 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, bumping his helmet up his head, 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 though 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*.