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Re: FTJ's Dark Age Sourcebook
« Reply #90 on: December 30, 2018, 07:00:25 am »
Dead Suns #3

The story arc concludes before the end of 2018. :) I skipped the middle adventures in the AP, mostly due to the fact that they unnecessarily dragged ou the investigation - although it's possible the investigation could continue after this conclusion.

At the end of the last adventure, both the bad guys and the PCs had discovered information on the Gate of the Twelve Suns, and ancient megastructure thought to contain a superweapon called the Stellar Degenerator which can drain the life from stars.

As the Sith Emperor Callidus led his fleet into the unknown regions to try to claim the superweapon for himself, the Jedi Council assembled their own fleet to stop them. With Taryn as the diplomatic point man in the breakaway Corellian system, she had to persuade their government to join the Republic in this vital mission, despite objections from some on Corellia that the Jedi Council would just use this as an excuse to reassert their own jurisdiction over Corellia.

A major space battle ensued as a backdrop, during which the PCs managed to fend off Sith fighters an infiltrate a planet orbiting one of the twelve dwarf stars which was thought to house the control center for the Gate. Down on the planet, they were ambushed by Sith forces but fought their way through them. They then tried to use the disguise trick that Han used on Endor, but the Sith forces inside the base saw through the deception, and the PCs ended up being taken prisoner once they were inside.

However, Ayfour avoided being spotted, and he snuck in and stealthily managed to free the PCs from their binders while a Sith scientist was monologuing about opening the Gate and gaining control over the superweapon which would allow them to rule the galaxy. Taryn killed him like Kylo Ren killed Snoke, then pulled her confiscated lightsaber to her hands and another fight commenced, which was successful in short order. It concluded with Neeko finishing off a Sith soldier who had been referring to him as a "swamp rat". Neeko had warned the guy he would pay for that, and he did when Neeko coup de grāce'd him with a knife to the throat. He basically just murdered the poor guy.  :o

Afterwards, the PCs could not figure out how to use the ancient technology to close the Gate again, so they decided to just blow up the whole control complex before the Stellar Degenerator was completely free of the Gate. This casued the Gate to collapse in on itself, destroying the Stellar Degenerator in the process. So Emperor Callidus was unable to get his hands on the superweapon, but he did escape and flee back to Sith space.

There are still unanswered questions about the mysterious ancient race and whether they might have left more technology behind in the unknown regions, which could provide the source for further investigations.
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Re: FTJ's Dark Age Sourcebook
« Reply #91 on: December 30, 2018, 10:05:49 pm »
He basically just murdered the poor guy.  :o

BECAUSE HE CALLED ME A SWAMP RAT. That was not murder. That was defending the honor of the Rodian people.
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« Reply #92 on: December 31, 2018, 08:30:54 am »
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Re: FTJ's Dark Age Sourcebook
« Reply #93 on: January 18, 2019, 07:49:35 pm »
Episode X.5 - more bluebooking

After another encounter with Ambassador Mireya of the Tapani Sector, Taryn becomes even more suspicious of him (although she's been suspicious of him ever since she came to Corellia). She investigates him, and goes to the Corellian bureau of shipping to look up House Mireya's holdings and see if they raise any red flags. At the bureau, she deals with an administrator droid called R-0Z, who has the voice and personality of Roz from Monsters Inc.  ;D

The initial search doesn't turn up anything, but Taryn thought to cross reference Mireya holdings with the shady corp from the beginning of Dead Suns, and she gets a hit - they're joint owners of a small mining colony. Taryn sends a Hammerhead corvette and crew to check out the colony, and they report back that it's abandoned, but they find signs that a Sith cult used it as a base at one point before abandoning it.

Taryn senses a conspiracy to overthrow the Corellian government, and so she does some wheeling and dealing, which is where she usually shines. She goes to the leader of a Corellian smuggling ring, an alien called Lady Q'lista, to strike a deal with her. Q'lista's ne'er-do-well nephew is currently in prison for spice smuggling, but Taryn uses her pull to get him early parole, in exchange for Q'lista making her services available in case Taryn ever needs them.
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Re: FTJ's Dark Age Sourcebook
« Reply #94 on: January 19, 2019, 03:47:58 pm »
And here is the opening crawl for The Shadow Rises
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« Reply #95 on: January 25, 2019, 07:44:52 am »
Admiral Veers, a Corellian nationalist, launches a coup against Prime Minister Thracken's government, which he sees as being too willing to sacrifice Corellia's sovereignty to the Jedi.

Neeko and Lagg are busy making repairs to the Gondar when martial law is declared, and Veers' troops seize the spaceport. They break through communication jamming long enough to contact Taryn, who is with the Prime Minister, and she tells them to get to Coruscant and report what's happening. They manage to escape and survive a dogfight in their half-repaired ship, and make the jump to lightspeed before one of the Corellian cruisers can lock onto them with a tractor beam.

Meanwhile, Taryn and Thracken escape the government district through the sewers and make it safely to Lady Q'lista's hideout. Thracken refuses to leave the planet, but Q'lista's smuggling network can get him out of the sprawling cityscape and into the countryside, where he hopes to rally with forces still loyal to the legitimate government.

Taryn then ambushes a couple of Veers' troops and acquires a uniform, which she uses to get back into the spaceport. She then mind tricks an officer to file a flight plan for her, and takes a small shuttle past the blockade on a supposed courier mission to the Tapani Sector (as she suspects the Tapani ambassador is supporting the coup, therefore this will seem legit to the ships supporting the coup). She jumps to lightspeed heading toward the Tapani Sector, but then alters course, using the Council's secret deep core beacon network to plot a course to Coruscant while avoiding any space lanes that the Corellian fleet might be monitoring.
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Re: FTJ's Dark Age Sourcebook
« Reply #96 on: February 02, 2019, 11:47:18 am »
In a Jedi Council meeting, various options are discussed for dealing with the Corellian situation. Eventually it is agreed that the threat to the Republic is too great to ignore, and the Jedi will send a fleet to oust Admiral Veers and return power to the elected government.

Chancellor Wuhai wants political cover for this, and goes to the Senate to propose a resolution declaring the coup illegal. The Viceroy of Alderaan supports the resolution and offers ships to aid the Jedi efforts. The resolution passes, and the fleet sets out for Corellia.

They hope a show of force will convince Veers his cause is hopeless, and he will step aside, but he rebuffs them and sends his fleet into battle. At first the Corellian fleet has the advantage, but the tide turns and the Republic fleet pushes through. Veers' regime collapses. He had been promised support from the Sith fleet if he was attacked, but he realizes too late that he was betrayed. Lord Callidus was just using Veers to advance another agenda...

We switch to Coruscant, which is only lightly defended, with most Jedi either on the Corellian mission or manning border posts elsewhere in the Republic. With the Jedi fleet lured away, the Sith launch an assault against the Jedi Temple!

A team of 40 Mecrosa assassins storms the Temple, led by Callidus' new apprentice, Darth Furia.



The Jedi at the Temple mount a defense, led by Tembo Busara, the Council master who remained behind as Temple guardian during the Corellian mission. The Mecrosa assassins are wiped out, but only after softening up the Jedi with their poisoned weapons. Darth Furia herself then joins the fray, backed up by assault droids.



While the droids blast through the ranks of the weakened Jedi, Darth Furia engages Tembo Busara in a duel, which turns out to be pretty one-sided. Tembo is feeling the effects of the Mecrosa poisons, and Furia is a whirling dervish of rage-fueled power. She strikes him down, then cuts off his hands and nails them to the doors at the Temple's main entrance. Then she proceeds inside the Temple to get what she came for...
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Re: FTJ's Dark Age Sourcebook
« Reply #97 on: February 02, 2019, 09:25:25 pm »
Preview: the opening crawl for the next chapter, Path of Vengeance
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Re: FTJ's Dark Age Sourcebook
« Reply #98 on: February 10, 2019, 08:06:12 am »
Path of Vengeance starts with a cut scene (watched by the PCs on security footage) of an attack on the Jedi's deep core prison, carried out by Emperor Callidus himself. He dispatches some Jedi prison guards (predecessors of the temple guards from TCW) and frees Osslac, the Sith mad scientist who was responsible for the creation of the Golden Order clone soldiers in the past.

Meanwhile, autopsies on the fallen Jedi at the temple reveal the source of the poison used by the Mecrosa assassins - venom from spider-bats that nest in caves on Arkania. Hadesh Gan is sent to Arkania, with Neeko and Lagg dressed as Republic navy officers, on the pretext of conducting an inspection of the Republic's border defenses in light of the new threat posed by the Imperials.

They meet with Senator Skane, a shady Arkanian scientist and politician. Ayfour searches the Arkanian hyperspace tracking logs and finds some anomalies, and also uncovers a suspicious top secret file called Project Glimmer.

Skane ducks out of the meeting on a pretext, and when the PCs try to follow him, they are confronted by Darth Furia! Hadesh fights Furia in a lightsaber duel while the others fight their way past security droids to reach their ship. The lightsaber duel ends up on a narrow ledge overlooking a long drop down a snow-covered mountainside. Hadesh eventually succeeds at knocking Furia off the ledge, but she grabs him on her way down and they both fall. When Hadesh gets to his feet, Furia is nowhere to be found.

Hadesh is picked up by the ship, and they then give chase as Skane is trying to escape in his personal shuttlecraft. They warn him to surrender or they will blow him out of the sky, he ignores them, and they blow him out of the sky.  :)

When more Republic ships arrive to put Arkania on lockdown, a tech team succeeds in decoding the files of Project Glimmer, and they discover it was an attempt by Skane to reverse engineer the Golden Order clones. He had been partially successful, but because Osslac's cloning process combined biotech with Sith alchemy, Skane was unable to fully duplicate the procedure. This appears to be why the Sith orchestrated Osslac's escape from prison....
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Re: FTJ's Dark Age Sourcebook
« Reply #99 on: February 17, 2019, 03:05:51 pm »
Taryn has an idea to give the Republic some breathing room, and goes to Nar Shadda to look for information on other Sith Lords who are not aligned with Callidus - specifically, military bases, weapons factories and so on. She insinuates that she's one of Callidus' agents looking for information on his Sith rivals, as if he might be planning to attack them and annex their domains.

She meets a Bothan who agrees to do some digging for the info she wants, but when she goes to the rendezvous with him to obtain the information, she finds him dead, stabbed through the chest with a lightsaber. One of the Sith Lords in question got wind of someone snooping around, and sent a couple of his acolytes to eliminate the spies.

Taryn then fights the two acolytes, who are woefully outmatched by her. She taunts them mercilessly before finally killing one of them. She lets the other one escape, saying he should tell his master that the Emperor sends his regards.

So she doesn't get the information herself (which could've potentially been useful) but she accomplished her primary goal which was to sow mistrust among the Sith, hoping to provoke some internecine conflict that will distract Callidus from his plans to attack the Republic.

(Luckily she's the one Jedi in the galaxy who doesn't have a green or blue lightsaber, so it's plausible she could pass as an Imperial agent. :) )
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