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Revision as of 11:57, 14 April 2014

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The Retrieval story line is partially based on events and missions from Star Wars: The Old Republic and GMed by Carsten. He will also be doing edits on the pages of this story line, but as chronicler, it will be my main task to keep this as up-to-date as possible.

--Kurst (talk) 01:26, 2 May 2013 (CDT)

Campaign Set-Up

Type
Standard Star Wars Universe (epic and cineastic all the way!!!!)
Time
The Old Republic (ca. 3700 to 3600 BBY; Cold War era)
Retrieval's Old Republic Sourcebook
Charakter Creation
Mostly standard rules - all special cases subject to GM approval.
  • all characters start with 18D in Attributes, + 7D in Skills
  • basically all templates and all races allowed
  • original templates and races are allowed as well
Original races created for the storyline:
PC: UrRu
NPC: Skek
Original Star Systems & Planets created for the storyline:

The Cast of Charakters

The Protagonists

Two female smugglers - they wanted to make a delivery on Ord Mantell but were double crossed by Risha Drayen and had their ship (the Khan, a Kazellis Light Freighter) stolen.

... took a rest from her last catch and wanted to go from Ord Mantell to Nar Shaddaa.

The UrRu, was on a search for the lost fragments of the Ur-Crystal of his cultural heritage that had been lost in space and time. Codi was on the trail of Kyra Danjapa, a Mirialan Jedi student, who seemed to have lost her mind when investigating an old holocron - she killed her master and stole the holocron. The trail of this renegade led them from Tython to Ord Mantell, but vanished there.

The Antagonists

Risha Drayen
An exceptional female smuggler in her early twentis, who hijacked the Khan, the spaceship owned by Tee (prelude for Tee and Ri). She seems to be bold and self confident.
She hacked a take-off block force barrier on Coruscant and took off together with Kyra Danjapa and several crates full of holocrons in the direction of Nar Shaddaa (episode 2), where she hacked the system of the luxury liner Queen of Nal Hutta to create a cover for Kyra (episode 3), but was caught.
After Epidoe 3 she switched sides, but can the heros trust her?

- known history:

Daughter of Nok Drayen, known as the infamous Black Baron, a space pirate of some repute who simply disappeared at the hight of his career about 10 years ago. He left Risha nothing except for a vague hint to find several clues to his legacy. She was following her own career as a criminal until she stumbled over his hints. Tracking down the clues brought her in contact with the heroes.
Risha Drayen
Kyra Danjapa
Renegade Jedi who seems to have gone mad after "reading" one of the holocrons on Tython she killed her master, stole the holocron and fled the planet (prelude for Codi Ita).
She has taken sides with Risha Dreyan and fled Coruscant with her on board the Khan (episode 2), the ship that Risha stole from Tee and Ri (prelude of Tee and Ri).
On the Queen of Nal Hutta she hid away as a high class massage specialist and stole the precious family gem of Lady Qi'ellani Del'herrow under the cover of a distraction affected by Kyra (episode 3).
After Episode 3 she is on the run again and not to be found. The stolen gem turned out to be one of the Ur-Crystal shards that UrYōma is seeking.
Kyra Danjapa
Grandmoff Kilran
Imperial Navy, Commander of the Korriban (a Harrower Class Dreadnaught) that blockaded Ord Mantell and attacked the Esseles on which the characters tried to leave Ord Mantell. He had correctly suspected a repulic spy on board, but had not acted quickly enough to detain her before the characters could escape (episode 1).
He turned up again on the Queen of Nal Hutta, accompanied by the Lady Qi'ellani Del'herrow and the Sith Lord Jevan Cadav. He made it clear to the troupe that he was aware of them. He was last seen in the panicking crowd aboard the Queen (episode 3).
Grandmoff Kilran
Lord Jevan Cadav
Sith-Lord, personal advisor of Grandmoff Kilran and probably Lord of the Sith Student that the characters encountered on board the Korriban (episode 1).
Shot down in episode 3 (probably by Kyra Danjapa), but we probably haven't seen the last of him...
Lord Jevan Cadav

The Extras

Senator Ahri Sega
male human Republic politician on Coruscant (met during episode 2)
Jenna Valentine
Jenna Valentine
female human ex-librarian of the great library of the Jedi temple on Corsuscant (met during episode 2)
Aaren VanMeer
Fence and now contact on Coruscant (met during episode 2)

The Story So Far ...

Episode 1 - The Esseles Incident

or: Smugglers! in an Adventure with Jedi.

The Protagonists all discovered that Ord Mantell was being blockaded by the Empire who did not allow any republican trade ships to pass. So the only way off the planet was the Esseles, a Wanderer-class passenger transport named after the planet in the Essesia system, bound for Coruscant. The two smugglers wanted to find the thief who stole their ship, the two Jedi followed the trail of the renegade and to find information or rumors about the crystal shards, and for bounty hunter to simply leave the planet.

Unfortunately the spacecraft was attacked and stopped by the flagship of the blockade, a sith-battlecruiser named Korriban under the command of imperial Grandmoff Kilran, on grounds of a female Twi'lek spy being on board and an ultimatum was delivered to surrender her. As the captain of the Esseles had been killed in the first attack the second in command, the first officer Haken who had been elected to be the new captain performed a frantic search of the ship and shortly after ambassador Asara surrendered herself to the crew.

While the new captain was still thinking about how to proceed and the protagonists were thinking about how to escape and save the ambassador the Esseles was attacked by boarding vessels. After a short fight on the bridge the protagonists figured out a plan. They would pretend that the boarding droids had captured their mark and returned with her in order to sneak onto the enemy ship and disable their tractor beams and turbo lasers. All went well - including the crash they caused when landing on the enemy ship that whiped out the droid squad that awaited the prisoner.

A group of security guards that had acompanied them was left in the hangar with the ambassador to clear a shuttle for take-off. Sealing the side-corridors on their way to the technical center of the vessel the protaginists charged into the room. After the technicians had fled and all the doors were sealed Ri and Tee went on to take out the Tractor beams, but before they could disable the lasers, an attack droid had managed to cut his way through a heavy door. The group fled and could barely close the hangar bulkhead in front of the droids nose - but before them lay the security guards, dead, and Asara, unconcious at the feet of a Sith who slowly drew and activated his ominously red-glowing light saber. The Jedi and his Padawan knew immediately that this one was more powerful than them together. UrYōma and Codi Ita distracted the unknown Sith so that the others cound board the shuttle to finish the take-off preparations. They managed to surprise the Sith who was struck down after loosing his light sabre in this first contact.


After the return of the protagonists to the Esseles the ship managed to make the jump into hyperspace before the enemy ship could open fire and so they escaped...

Episode 2 - In the Heat of Coruscant

... where things start out easy and become complicated

After a 10 day flight on board the Esseles the protagonists arrived at Coruscant. They planned on going their individual ways when they were all invited to the Senate Building. Hoping to be rewarded for saving ambassador Asara they complied. While a small reward was indeed given, the Jedi UrYōma took the chance to see the Coruscant Jedi in the same building to learn more about their quests. They met Jenna Valentine the "librarian" of the Jedi temple, but she could not help because the whole library of the Coruscant Temple had been cleared out years ago.1) At the same time Lee (hired by Ri and Lee) had found some clues to the location of the stolen ship, but was interrupted by a call from the two smugglers:

When leaving the Senate Building they had encountered an unlikely pair. An unknown droid-type spoke to senator Ahri Sega, but in such a strange way that it could not be understood. It was speaking of black circles, yellow offset, black bisectors and other strangenesses, but eventually the troupe managed to make sense of it: the facilities at the bottom of Coruscant which had been built by the Gree were being sabotaged. Tee immediately volunteered to end the threat if the Senator would aggree to have the area where Lee had located her stolen ship locked down, so no craft from that port could leave the planet. The driod who presented itself as In-iK, Science-Unit gave them directions and a repair-unit that would mend the damage that had been detected.

The whole troupe went down to the deepest levels of Coruscant and found that the Gree-technology had actually been used by someone to reprogram the service units to do the sabotage themselves. In the control center they fought several war driods who were guarding a technition and managed to captured him. Unfortunately he was only overseeing the operation and had not done the programming himself, so Ri had to deactivat the service droid of the whole section and place the repair-unit. The technician was given over and everything else was left to the authorities as the troupe wanted to get to the location of the stolen ship as quickly as possible.

The hangar where Lee had located the ship was locked, so the troupe waited in the cantina on the other side of the street. When finally a techie approached and opened the hangar door, they forced their way in. Unforunately Risha Drayen had been in the hangar, within the stolen ship all the time, so that she now held the posse at bay with the laser turret of the ship while hacking the security system that kept the hangar force field closed (because of the take-off block that the senator had erected). But in the end the troupe was not quick enough so she could lower the force barrier and take off.

Rounding up the hangar, the protagonists met Aaren VanMeer the fence who had been safeguarding Risha's wares until today, who admitted that she had to leave some of her belongings here because of the haste required. He freely volunteered the 8 crates that she had left behind, which included stolen wares of Tee and Ri, two crates containing artworks from various worlds and one with several holocrons. He also admitted that Risha was bound for Nar Shaddaa to sell more of these "artifacts" and that she was accompanied by a female that fitted the description of Kyra Danjapa. The crate of holocrons was quickly reported to Jenna who came also with news of a vision that she had - that the mission of the two Jedis was closely connected to the one of the Tee and Ri. When asked for transportation to go to Nar Shaddaa, Jenna readily aggreed to volunteer a Jedi cruiser and a pilot to get the group to the place of her vision: a luxury liner bound for a round-cruise. She also aggreed to pay the fees of that cruise as well as offering a reward for the rescue of the priceless holocrons.

Notes
1) During an attack on Coruscant 10 years ago the Jedi Temple had been destroyed. The order relocated all of their facilites to Tython and and other worlds afterwards. This "Sacking of Coruscant" (in 3653 BBY) had ended the Great Galactic War with the Treaty of Coruscant. The last 10 years had been something of a Cold War between the remains of the Rebublic and the Sith Empire.

Episode 3 - Pleasure and Pain

...its getting tighter than it used to be

Episode 3 - Intro

After a bit of shopping to dress the part as passengers on a luxury liner, the troupe left the republic capital heading for Nar Shaddaa, the starting point of the cruise. They were astonished by the sheer number of spaceships that were arriving, docking, being loaded and leaving busy moon of Nal Hutta, home of the Huts. Even an Imperial Dreadnaught was waiting in orbit of the space station where the Queen of Nal Hutta, the luxury liner was currently docked. Although the characters got a bit wobbly in the knees when they recignized the dreadnaught as the Korriban (see episode 1), nothing actually happened.

After finishing the official procedures, the pilot of the Jedi consular-class space cruiser [[File:Jedi cruiser.jpg|thumb|210px|Consular-Class Space Cruiserthat had brought the group took off again, retreating to safer sectors. The five crossed the docks to get aboard, all dressed up in the best fashions that they had bought on Coruscant as their normal outfits would have stood out too much as being too "normal". The young Jedi Codi Ita was fitted out as a young rich aristocrate from Ryloth with the rest of the group as entourage. Soon after they moved into their suite onboard, the Queen slipped into hyperspace.

After a week of unsuccessful undercover legwork, hacking and researching, and being distracted by the multitude of recreational services that the Queen offered, the team was invited to one of the VIP-platforms, surprisingly meeting an old "acquaintance". Greeting them was Grandmoff Kilran in company of a mid-40s human woman, who was introduced as Lady Qi'ellani Del'herrow, and a creepy sith lord named Jevan Cadav who were all having a drink with a Hutt, introduced as Durga, the owner of the Queen of Nal Hutta. Kilran greeted the team with courtesy, but showed that he knew who the team was and what they had done and that he was watching them. Durga especially seemed to enjoy the show, especially the looks between the Sith and the Jedi but made it more than clear that none should even try to hurt anybody aboard his ship. The conversation was cut short when UrYōma suddenly fell unconcious, overpowered by the feeling that a jewel around Qi'ellanis neck was one of the missing shards of the Ur-Crystal. The team quickly bid their farewell after UrYōma came back to his senses a few moments later.

Researching the necklace later, they found that it is named "The Dark Eye of Sejhel"

The Dark Eye of Sejhel

and it had been in the posession of the Del'herrow family for ages. Legend says the jewel protects his owners by bringing bad luck to all who oppose them. They also found that they currently had no options to approach this problem in any sesible manner an UrYōma did not push the subject.

Two days later the Queen took a stop in the Asuba-3 system at an orbital space station to take on new supplies and guests. Taking a good look at the new arrivals they finally found Kyra among the service people that came on board. Hacking a terminal they found her record under a cover identity - a high class massaging specialist in the recreation area. But Risha was nowhere to be found. The group planned to confront Kyra but while still planning and keeping an eye on the Grandmoff and his entourage, suddenly things took a completely different turn. The lights systems shut down and after a few seconds the holo systems showed the image of an man that greeted passengers and crew alike: "Good evening Ladys and Gentlemen, I am the Black Baron. Keep calm for your life is not in danger. Keep your wealths ready. This is a robbery. Thank you for your patience."

In the following chaos Kyra Danjapa managed to snatch the Dark Eye of Sejhel before the group could even get near it and fled for the hangar where her partner Risha Drayen had landed and was lying in wait for her in disguise. Unfortunately Ri and Lee found out about this and took Risha by surprise, replacing her to lay a trap for the approaching Kyra. Unfortunately Kyra somehow smelled the trap and made a close escape despite being trapped between Ri and Lee waiting for her and her chasers Lee, UrYōma and Codi. The group even managed to get the stolen necklace, but had to realize that the central crystal had already been removed by Kyra. But at least they had Risha together with the Khan (a Kazellis Light Freighter that now included a few modifications) that she had stolen from Lee and Ri (prelude of Lee and Ri) with which the group made their own escape from the well armed Queen of Nal Hutta.

On their way back to Nar Shaddaa the troupe managed to uncover Risha's story through her diary that they found aboard the Khan and by questioning her:

The Black Baron, an infamous pirate, who had disappeared about 10 years ago, was actually called Nok Drayen and had fallen mortally ill with Malastaric Yellow Fever which was a very rare and equally deadly disease. He had his body frozen in carbonite to outlive his death and had it placed in a hidden cargo compartment of the Khan, his old pirate ship. He had also left his then 12 year old daughter Risha holomessage that stated that she should follow his steps to find his "legacy" and had included clues proper for a lost pirate treasure. First of all Rish's necklace held part of a map to a certain region of space that has not been explored yet. The map showed the general layout of the Unknown Regions beyond the Ansion-system. The necklace that had contained the Dark Eye of Sejhel was the second part of the map, together pointing to an unknown system that contained a secret hideout where an old Gonk-droid (an old version of the popular EG-6 Power Droid) would hold a special circuit board. That circuit board with a chip that Nok had on his frozen body would then chart out the way to his legacy.

Tee, Ri and Lee cut a deal with Risha. She only wanted the "legacy" part, a good share of the valuables or treasures would go to the ship holders for the transport and for help on the way - while the Jedi simply decided to come along to help Risha find her legacy. As there was still a crate of holocrons on the ship the Jedi decided it would be best to return these to Tython first and try to find a healer for the illness of Nok Drayen in order to rescue him for his daughter. A healer was found and Nok was defrosted in his presence, but it all turned out to naught. Nok died of the disease just a few minutes after he awakend, too weak to survive the shock of revival and the illness, but at least had a chance to talk to his daughter.

Now in possession of all available clues for the first part of the "legacy run", Risha and the heroes embarked for the Unknown ...

Episode 4 - The Abandoned Asteroid

Legacy Run Part 1 - WTF!!!!!
Asteroids

The heroes followed the map that was hidden by the two necklaces deep into the Unknown Regions.

They travelled for weeks through hyperspace, while the young Jedi padawan Codi Ita was being trained by UrYōma and Risha kept mostly to herself, generally understanding the mistrust and hate by Ri and Tee. Finally they arrived in an dark and empty system - empty? The scammers registered a large asteroid field after a quick adjustment, but the initial enthusiasm of the group was smothered as they realized that it would need days or weeks to search the full area in detail - they did not have a clue as to what exactly they were looking for. Then, after a few days of uneventful searching, the ship suddenly shivered as it was hit and captured by a green tractor beam that dragged it towards the deep shadows of a large, cratered asteroid. Slowly a hidden bulkhead opened. No lighting beyond, just a deep pit of utter blackness, that even the ship's floodlights could barely pierce. A bad feeling grew in the stomachs of our protagonists, but the tractor beam safely moved the ship through the narrow tunnel that was barely wide enough to let the Khan through - finally the beam ceased when the ship entered a great cavern and a pressure door closed behind it. The bright beams of the exterior lights the group caught strange objects covered in sheets. After few seconds the shapes appeared on the sensor screen. The computer searched its memory banks looking for matches. One by one, familiar shapes lined up at the side of the screen, but the hangar bay remained dark and without atmosphere.

ASP-7 Worker Droid

What the group had in front of them was a dark, creepy, but empty asteroid station, devoid of life, air and energy - except for some emergency power that could bring a or two terminal back to life, a flock of hungry mynocks attacking everything that even contained a tiny bit of energy, and a number of old ASP-7 Worker Droids that had been fitted with blasters, but not with programming to use them effectively. Unfortunately when they tried to reactivate the main power plant to shed some light on their search for the Gonk droid with the circuit board they were looking for, it malfunctioned showering Lee with an unhealthy dose of radiation - they also found the local med-bay, but could not activate the med-droid and Kolto tank without additional power.

The search continued until they came into the station's main control room from which they managed to activate the backup power plant. The bright light flooding the room also revealed a dozen armed ASPs flanking an odd-looking one dressed in a black hooded cloak. Odd little sparks buzzed and crackled between its metallic fingers. Two glowing eyes stared at them menacingly from the dark shadow beneath the hood. It introduced itself as "Naga Sadow, greatest Sith Lord ever, for he defeated death in his mechanical suit". As the strange creature raised its crackling hands, the heroes dove for cover, but Lee, never impressed by speech pulled a thermal detonator and made a perfect throw. Seconds later the Sith and his mechanical bodyguards were gone and the protagonists took a deep breath.

There had been many odd things about this abandoned asteroid base, but here was even another: on the far side of the control room, half in shadow, Mara Ri spotted a pair of stubby little tracked astromech feet, a utility closet door concealing its body. This droid proved to be the ultimate pain - paranoid, quirky, troublesome, destructive, and worst of all: a thief and scavenger. It put up quite a fight before it was caught and the missing circuit board was found in one of it's storage compartments. Afterwards rounding up the bases had been quickly accomplished. It seemed that it had been abandoned a good score of years ago by a number of pirates that left the traps that the group had encountered, their story told by a lonely datapad that had been left behind. In the end there was nothing left than to salvage the place: an ancient Sithsabre, the med-droid from the med-bay and the brain-wiped little astromech, plus a few spare parts for repairs.


X2-C3 Astromech Droid


Episode 5 - Mandalorian Honeymoon

Legacy Run Part 2 - Prisoners!!!!!

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