Unless stated otherwise, assume the material used in the campaign is consistent with the "canon" pages on Wookiepedia, or "legends" pages where there is no canon page or the canon page is very limited. Except for Bothans, because they are not canon as of 2024 LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. Wook editors are so silly.
We also do not recognize Star Wars Episode IX as canon on this website - I haven't seen it so I can't know what's in it. That means Exegol is NOT CANON. We're decades away from Sequel Era stuff in this campaign anyways, so don't worry about it.
The campaign starts at roughly the beginning of 17 BBY (which is 17 years before Luke blows up the Death Star - that's the dating system we use. There are some other in-canon dating systems but those haven't stuck among fans and Wookiepedia editors - and neither George Lucas nor Mickey Mouse particularly cared). As of 17 BBY it has been two years since the Clone Wars ended. The Galactic Empire reigns over almost all of the known galaxy - exempting Wild Space, and technically Hutt Space. As of this period the Stormtroopers have not yet been fully deployed, but will soon arrive
All over the known galaxy. The crew got a ship, a civilian C-ROC Gozanti class cruiser pretty early on, after they left Rodia. Are you a murder hobo if you live in a van?
Ali and his family are from a Zygerrian minority religion called Pashrati. They are strictly anti-slavery , which has locked them out of planetary power for as long as they've existed. They are geographically concentrated on a few cities. They include not just Zygerrians but also various freedpeople of species that had been enslaved by the majority group. During the Clone Wars they fought against the renewed Slave Empire, but since then haven't been very friendly to the Empire.
Ichta's existence off Geonosis is extremely illegal under the Empire's laws. He cannot wander the galaxy, and takes steps to hide his identity and species when in public. He'll often tell people he's a Verpine or something. He's just a little shrimp.
Rodia has quasi-ethnic clans which form the basis of political participation in the state. For a long time they would engage in low level conflicts that would result in casualties, including deaths, but were semi-symbolic. The dictator Navik the Red escalated a conflict around 17 BBY with support from the Empire. Going beyond normal neighborhood fights, he pursued full on warfare in an attempt to ethnically cleanse the Tetsu clan. The players helped some refugees escape, but decided not pursue their path further into the galaxy - the NPCs for Clan Tetsu were kind of annoying and standoffish, and a bit violent for the players.
Sentinel is allowed to keep his clonetrooper armor as an informal retirement package as compensation for being lost for years while the Empire didn't look for him. The Empire doesn't care too much about clones, you see, sees them all as just the same.
It's based on Forge of the Nightscales, modified pretty heavily. With that premade adventure being based on the DnD adventure The Forge of Fury.. I removed a lot of the Sith stuff on account of the players already encountering their fare share of Sith ruins - I just wanted them to have a nice dungeon to explore, with ONE lethal Acklay nest in a basement cavern.
The Galactic Empire was a revolutionary regime, and so desired to extend the underlying ideology every single corner of society. This meant Imperalization, the process of making every major economic institution subordinate to Imperial goals. Nationalization was one method, but there were more subtle methods before state ownership would be necessary - favorable policies for entities with loyal leadership; overt social and political pressure to conform to Imperial goals including through state affiliated media; bribery; unfriendly takeovers by Empire aligned corporations and entities while allowing formal independence from the state; assassination; new laws criminalizing non-compliance or anti-government speech.
What uncle Morko feared was that his large mobile hospital ship would be subject to one of the less over forms of Imperialization - and that this would jeapordize his ability to use the Magnificent as a means to engage in anti-Imperial activity. It is a matter of thoroughness that a weakness in even a medium sized entity, such as independent hospital, should be exploited to ensure it falls into line with Imperial dictates before compliance is even needed.
Blasyndel is a moon of Kwenn, a Mid Rim world that was once saved by the Jedi from environmental degradation. Since the late Republic the planet has fallen into environmental decay once again. Mining companies that were responsible for the damage to Kwenn now eye it's moon, Blasyndel, but are wary of the moon's vulnerability to raiders. Of particular importance is an ancient fortress which has often been a base for pirates in the system . . .
Quoting the adventure module Forge of the Nightscales: Two centuries ago, the Mandalorian armorer Durj Ne'tra travelled with a small fleet of Mandalorian settlers to establish colonies in the Outer Rim; during their expedition, the fleet was ambushed and decimated by a large band of pirates, killing their fleet's leader and forcing the survivors to escape into hyperspace. Entering the Kwenn system and forced to crash-land their damaged ships on the moon of Blasyndel, Durj took charge and led the destitute remnants in search of a temporary stronghold where they could hide and repair what was left of their fleet.
Before long, the Mandalorians discovered a great cavern system and ancient ruins of a past civilisation beneath a rugged, forested hill crowned by a bare rocky crag. There, Durj and his followers founded the stronghold of Choruk'Ed ('Stone Tooth'), named for the cliff it was built beneath. It was at this point Durj declared his intentions to his followers: as vengeance for the destruction of their fleet and to make the galaxy safer for Mandalorian settlers of the future, he would lead a guerilla war against the pirates of the Outer Rim. Though he gave his followers the choice of moving on to form new settlements, all present swiftly rallied behind him in the name of Mandalore's honor.
Over the following decade, Durj and his warband - calling themselves the 'Nightscales' - conducted several raids against pirate gangs and warlords across the Outer Rim, striking from their hidden base and slowly threatening their influence. Ten years into the conflict, a Nightscale lieutenant was captured by a powerful warlord's forces, and the pirates learned the location of their enemy's hidden stronghold. Jumping at the chance to re-establish their power, the pirate warlords raised a contingent army of their forces and began an assault on Choruk'Ed. Though the stronghold's entrenched fortifications allowed the Mandalorians to hold out for some time, the pirates eventually managed to secretly excavate their way around the Mandalorian defenses and killed every last Mandalorian within the stronghold, though not without the loss of a great number of raiders.
In the years since the great battle, various marauder groups have occupied the stronghold and used the place as a base for their raids. At other times, the caverns have lain empty except for the mindless and bloodthirsty monsters that haunt such places. Today, legends of Ne'tra's Vengeance (or the Nightscale War) and the extraordinary weaponry that the Mandalorians forged in anger still surface from time to time in the regions near the Kwenn system.
Since the fall of the Mandalorian fortress, the area has been occasionally occupied and abandoned by pirates. Now a mining settlement called Blasyndel Outpost has been set up not too far from the mountain. Trandoshan pirates who currently occupy the fortress have sized dozens of hover-trucks from the miners, and the local mayor (and owner of the town) Baron Ahl Thon sent out a call for aid. His saviors ended up being the Sunstrider Crew. Now the fortress is in the crew's hands, and nearly all of the pirates captured in the custody of the Outpost.
A wealthy Shistvanen family from Bothawui. They may have been behind the death of Nosha's family. They were aligned with the Empire, before they fell out of favor due to certain events. . . .
". . . It is thus a mistake to conclude that Skywalker significantly steered the Rebel Alliance toward political egalitarian ideals. His critical support within the alliance for Princess Leia of Former Alderaan, and by extension Lady Mon Mothma of Chandrilla demonstrated personal affinity for members of the galactic nobility. The role of the nobility in opposing centralizing projects stretched back at least to Count Dooku. Other nobles who opposed the Empire such as King Lee Char found their status inherently in contradiction with the absolute authority.
Because of their shared opposition to absolute authority Dooku had been able to join the nobility and the libertarian corporations in common cause during the Clone wars. In that case it had been absolute authority approved by democracy rather than military forced that had triggered opposition. The diffusion of power in the Late Republic had protected the fiefdoms of noble and corporation alike, just as it also left them to their own devices when faced by more powerful antagonists.
It was that lack of protection which triggered the centralizing project initiated by Palpatine that found ideological partnership with meritocracy. Numerous coreworlders had identified nobles as dominating the stagnant Senate. The well documented political agitator Syril Karn is a prime example of this demographic, and itstransformation by the Empire. Gone were Dukes, Princesses, Kings and Barons. In were Generals, Admirals, Governors, Moffs and Directors. The former group would never welcome ecumenopoli underdwellers into their ranks, but the latter offered potential membership even if competition was ruthless. Ironically, the Rebel Alliance and the Confederacy were more conservative than the revolutionary and dynamic Empire.
Of course, new records regarding Palaptine's Sith cult show that his contempt for Jedi such as Skywalker was rooted in their spiritual egalitarianism . . ."
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