Otherspace An Adventure for use with STAR WARS: The Roleplaying Game
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Beyond the sane normality of realspace, in a dimension one step removed from the shifting colors of hyperspace, Rebel heroes face a deadly threat from another galaxy. Otherspace by Bill Slavicsek
Development & Editing: Greg Gorden • Development Assistance: C. J. Tramontana Art Direction: Stephen Crane • Graphics: Bernadette Cahill, Rich Hawran, Sharon Wyckoff Cover and Interior Art: Jeff Dee • Map Art: Stephen Crane • Production: Steve Porpora Rules Upgrade: Greg Gorden, Bill Slavicsek
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The theater darkens. Anticipation builds clarifications for Star Wars: The Roleplaying as the curtain slowly rises. Light splashes Game. Be sure to incorporate the new rules onto the silver screen, projecting images and into your gaming sessions. shadows that will captivate the audience for • The Pullout Section. This eight-page the duration of the show. The music pullout section includes the adventure intensifies, the credits roll by, and another script, maps of the Alliance transport action-packed episode of Star Wars: The Celestial, the gamemaster s key to the full- Roleplaying Game begins... color map, non-player character templates, Otherspace is a Star Wars adventure for the "red mist cards" that simulate the effects two to six players and a gamemaster. of the alien nightmare gas, and the battle Gamemasters should read the entire map that is suitable for use with Star Wars adventure before play begins so that the Miniatures Sets. action and storyline can progress naturally, • The Full-Color Map. This poster-sized map without a lot of page flipping and details the interior of the alien vessel undramatic pauses. Desolate, the locale of the major action in Players, however, should stop reading this this adventure. booklet now. The information contained • The Battle Counters. This strip of cut-apart herein is for gamemasters (GMs) only. counters features PC markers and other markers that can be used with the battle In This Adventure ... scenario in episode five. ... a group of Rebel heroes fight in a place • Additional Materials. Other items needed far removed from the galaxy they are to play this adventure include Star Wars: struggling to liberate. A problem with their The Roleplaying Game, pencils, paper, and ship's hyperdrive engine deposits the Rebels lots of six-sided dice. The Star Wars in a galaxy beyond realspace, in a dimension Sourcebook, The Star Wars Campaign Pack past the shifting colors of hyperspace. They (which features an updated gamemaster find themselves in — otherspace. screen), and Star Wars Miniatures Sets are In this strange, unexplored dimension useful but not necessary for play. between the hyperlanes and realspace, the Rebels discover a harbor of lost ships — of Difficulty Numbers both known and unknown origin. The and Game Balance abandoned, deserted vessels orbit a giant As GM, you must modify this adventure to craft that resembles a decaying asteroid fit your particular group of players. Use the floating upon the ebony sea of space. Difficulty Number Scale found in the rules Something awaits the Rebels within the upgrade to accomplish this. dark interior of the desolate vessel, For example, if the text says that PCs must something terrible. It has waited untold ages make Easy con rolls to perform a given task, for their arrival, planning for its eventual turn to the "Difficulty Number Scale" in the escape from this in-between place. And upgrade. Assign a number between 6 and 10, when it reaches realspace, then the galaxy depending on the level of skill of your PCs. will die! Note that, in the text, attributes are capitalized and italicized, skills are only Adventure Materials italicized. In addition to the adventure booklet, Also remember that the number of PCs Otherspace includes: and what template types they use affects the • Star Wars Rules Upgrade. This four-page outcome of each encounter. This adventure folder contains important additions and is designed for six beginning player
2 -STAR. WARS' characters with a good mix of skills. If you The PCs were dispatched to meet the have fewer PCs, you may need to scale down recently-loaded transport, their mission to the encounters accordingly. pilot the ship to its destination and deal with any untoward incidents. But before they Adventure Background reached the vessel, things went wrong Between realspace and hyperspace there aboard Celestial. Bane Nothos broke free and exists another reality — otherspace. Here, released the other prisoners. The Imperials space is slightly warped and light shines less caused a power loss in the Rebel ship that brightly. It is a galaxy of things strange and damaged the Celestial's hyperdrive engine. familiar ... and deadly. The prison break turned into a mutiny when Otherspace has become a final resting many of the Rebel crew, adrift with no place for ships that travel the hyperspace immediate hope of rescue, submitted to the lanes and lose their way. Those that once powerful leadership of Nothos and Ravik to inhabited this dimension are gone. Only the see them through the crisis. Nothos ships remain, floating silently like promptly sent a distress call to the nearest mausoleums in a star-filled graveyard. One Imperial base. such ship is the massive vessel Desolate. It Celestial's captain, forever loyal to the epitomizes all that otherspace is: dark, Alliance, played her final gambit before the compelling, dangerous. Imperial forces arrived. Plotting a jump Drifting like a massive castle in space, through hyperspace, despite the obvious Desolate is a beacon silently calling to its dangers inherent in operating a mal fellow derelicts. It draws the lost vessels like functioning hyperdrive, she punched in the a strong navpulse in the middle of an ion command code. An explosion rocked the storm. Many of the ships are connected to ship as it plunged through the shifting the larger craft, forming a patchwork of corridors of color that mark the hyperlanes. damaged starships. Many more orbit But the ship didn't stop there. With a burst Desolate, caught in its pull and decaying of bright darkness and a tear in the colored slowly, steadily. wall, Celestial was deposited into Within the dark interior of the quilted otherspace. craft, the Charon rule. These spider-like aliens sleep, waiting for their commander to The Main NPCs lead them into the Void. Here are brief explanations of the major The Charon — violent, evil, and totally non-player characters, including their plans alien to the Galactic Empire — are ruled by and motivations. More information is the being named Ber’asco, he who bears the available in the pullout section and in the title "Final Prophet." Traveling from galaxy to various episodes in which they appear. galaxy, the Charon transformed every living world along the way, leaving dead and empty Bane Nothos: Once Bane Nothos was a husks in their wake. Otherspace is the District Commander with dreams of cumulative work of an ancient career. advancement up the Imperial ladder. But the event that should have been his greatest The Void must be honored and served by destroying the living, says an old Charon victory turned into his most bitter defeat. In proverb. The ships which circle Desolate the Roche asteroid field, Nothos was moving have provided Ber'asco with the knowledge in to capture the Rebel leader Ackbar and that other bastions of life still exist. It is to his top-secret project when disaster struck. A group of Rebel agents actually used the these contaminated realms that Desolate secret weapon against him when Nothos must go to cleanse them of the hated life. ordered his flagship to attack before the rest The long awakening has begun, and soon the mighty ship shall make another journey. of his blockade fleet arrived. Ackbar and the Rebels escaped, and Nothos was demoted to Recent Events commander of an Outer Rim Territories The Rebel transport Celestial, converted patrol fleet. (See the Star Wars adventure into a prison ship, held the Imperial agents Strike Force: Shantipole for more Commander Bane Nothos, the bounty information.) Hoping to win back his hunters Zardra and EL-434, the pirate Celis position, Nothos again ordered his ship to Mott, and Governor Moff Ravik. move into a hostile situation without
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adequate support. He was captured and nasty and enjoys what he does. His last placed aboard Celestial for transport to a mission was to invade a Rebel base and safe location. destroy everyone and everything. But the Grand Moff Ravik: Imperial Governor Grand Rebels were ready for the Droid and Moff Ravik has risen rapidly in the service of subdued it. The assassin Droid overrode his the Empire, but not quickly enough to keep self-destruct program, calculating that the pace with his ambition. Ravik coveted the Rebels will take him to an important base or position and influence of the late Grand Moff safe-world. Then EL-434 will be able to Tarkin. Ravik ruled Tolonda sector with a accomplish his programming in grand style. masterful iron hand. Fear kept his planets in Ber'asco: The leader of the alien Charon and line, and Ravik was a grandmaster of fear. commander of the strange starship Desolate, But a Rebel strike team hijacked his shuttle Ber’asco leads the Charon's cult of death. on its way to an Imperial conclave. He was He has awaited the enlightenment promised taken to Celestial for a different kind of with the extermination of life, but the meeting. While angered by the Rebels, he answers have not yet come. After a long desires power more than revenge. thought-sleep in the silence of otherspace, Celis Mott: Pirate leader Celis Mott life awakens the Charon. Ber'asco realizes commanded a loosely associated armada his mission is not yet complete, and the that operates along the Nanth'ri space route. word of the Void must be spread to another Recently he took an Imperial commission, universe before his peoples' promise can be selling his armada to the Empire. In fulfilled. exchange for the freedom to plunder Charon: Charon are spider-like beings from merchant ships without fear of Star a far away portion of otherspace. Humanoid, Destroyer reprisal, Celis Mott agreed to turn these spider beings are tall and thin with over any and all suspected Rebels multiple appendages. Sharp claws, used in encountered in such raids. A Rebel fleet was combat, are coated with a poison that dispatched to put an end to the pirate attacks an enemy's central nervous system. attacks, and Mott was captured. Now he Charon venom progressively destroys nerve seeks to bargain his way free and return to cells. Victims are first rendered helpless by his fleet — which he knows will disintegrate pain and hallucinations, dying when every without his leadership. nerve cell crumbles. Charon are excellent climbers, using their powerful limbs and Zardra: Zardra, the mysterious bounty hunter who loves the challenge and danger claws to move over most obstacles. They associated with each hunt, has been busy produce a sticky webbing employed in a since she took the job to find Adar Tallon variety of uses. Not all Charon hated life. But Ber'asco's cult found meaning and (see the Star Wars adventure Tatooine Manhunt). She has continued to work for the purpose in the destruction of the universe; Empire, but a branch of the Imperials the other Charon were the first victims of decided to single her out as the reason for the cult's beliefs. In their crusade against the failure to capture Tallon. Zardra has life, the Charon have developed a since found herself the target of several technology that uses life and lifelike bounty hunters. She never trusted the processes to create undead machinery of Empire, but her need to continue in their destruction. They developed death mist, a employ and her bent for danger causes her compound similar to their natural poisons, to the see the bounty hunters as a challenge with which to wage war on living star systems. The Charon aboard Desolate which keeps her sharp rather than as a believe Ber'asco to be their Final Prophet, threat. Her last assignment went sour when for he led the last campaigns of the great her informant turned on her and sold information to the Alliance. Zardra was crusade which destroyed otherspace. His followers entered death-sleep until Ber'asco captured by the very Rebel she was found the answers for the Charon. But as tracking. Zardra vows to find the informant more ships were lost into otherspace, select again. Charon awoke to investigate. EL-434: EL-434 is one of the many assassin Droids now serving the Empire. EL-434 is
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One Armada
Summary TIE Attack The adventure begins with a group of When the players finish the script, read Rebel heroes on their way to meet the the following passage out loud. Alliance transport Celestial. But when their Dozens upon dozens of TIE fighters ship comes out of hyperspace at the pre scream past your ship. A blaster bolt arranged meeting place, the Rebels find explodes off your starboard bow as two themselves in the middle of a TIE fighter TIEs take up an escort position alongside wing! you. A voice crackles over your ship's comlink. "Unidentified vessel. You have entered a restricted sector of space. By ead Aloud order of the Empire, identify yourself A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far immediately and stay on your present away ... course. Any deviation will be dealt with A small group of Rebels race across accordingly. Our next shot will not be a space to meet up with the Alliance warning." transport Celestial. They have been It's time for the PCs to discuss their ordered to take command of the vessel choices and options. But they must be quick and its secret cargo, then see it safely to a about it. Have the voice break in on their hidden Rebel outpost in an as yet discussion with threats and questions to unnamed sector. speed them up and keep the tension high. But the Empire has a special interest in Here are the important options the PCs will the secret cargo, and even now Imperial most likely consider. agents comb the galaxy in search of Celestial. What awaits the Rebels at the end of the jump may be more than they Fighting the TIEs bargained for, and more than the galaxy The Rebel ship isn’t as fast as the Imperial is ready to handle ... TIEs, but it can sustain more damage and has good shields. The Rebels best course of action is to fight and defend themselves as they prepare the ship to jump back to Start the Adventure lightspeed. They should quickly realize that Locate the script in the pullout section. they cannot take on a full TIE wing and an Assign each player a part, from "1st Rebel" Imperial Star Destroyer. Here is the way the to "6th Rebel." If you have fewer than six combat should progress. players, assign additional parts as Combat Round 1: As soon as the Rebels do necessary. Pass out the script. We suggest anything that makes their ship deviate from you make enough photocopies for everyone, its present course (speeding up, slowing but you can share the copy from the pullout down, turning), or if they refuse to identify if you don't have access to a copy machine. themselves, or if they take a shot at the two The player assigned the role of "1st Rebel" nearest TIEs, then combat begins. The battle starts the script and the adventure is uses the "RPG Starship Combat" system. The underway. two TIES start at short range to the Rebel When the players finish the script, pick up ship. All other TIEs are considered to be at the action with "TIE Attack" below. medium range, but none of these get 5 -STAR. WARS'
laser cannons (fire separately); fire control 3D; damage 5D. Shields: 3D. *These statistics are for The Long Shot , the short hauler supplied to the PCs by the Alliance. If the PCs have a different ship, use its stats instead. TIE/ln Starfighter: Hyperdrive multiplier zero. Sublight speed 5D; maneuverability 2D; hull 2D. Weapons: Two laser cannons (fire linked); fire control 2D; combined damage 5D. Shields: none. Starship piloting 3D+1; Starship gunnery 3D+1. Fleeing the Battle The Rebels can attempt to flee the scene at any time, either as their first option or after a few rounds of combat. If they open up their ship's engine and try to speed away right from the beginning, use the combat round schedule above with the following modification; if the the Rebels start the calculation for the jump to lightspeed before speeding away, there will be four rounds of involved until the specified round. The Star combat before the jump to lightspeed can be Destroyer is beyond long range this round. made (Imperial sensor sweeps of the ship Combat Round 2: Four more TIEs join the would pick up impulses from the nav battle, starting at medium range to the PCs' computer as it made its calculations). If the ship. Rebels are making a hasty jump, the Imperials have no time to react. Go to "The Combat Round 5: Six more TIEs join the Jump" below. battle, starting at medium range to the PCs’ If they start making calculations after ship. combat begins (assuming they fought from Combat Round 6: After six rounds of the start without trying to race away), they combat, the Imperial Star Destroyer begins must survive for 12 combat rounds while to move into attack position. they build up speed and make their calculations for the jump. They are, of Combat Round 7, 8, 9: Two more TIEs join course, free to try and make a hasty jump, the battle each round, starting at medium which takes a round. range to the PCs' ship. Combat Round 10: Eight TIEs attack, Surrender starting at medium range and using If the Rebels decide that they cannot fight combined fire to their best advantage. or escape such a large force, they may decide to surrender. If this happens, go to Combat Round 13+: On the thirteenth "Captured!" below. round, the ISD begins to fire its tractor at the Rebel ship from long range. If the Rebel ship Captured! is hit it is captured. Go on to the section If the PCs surrender or are captured by the entitled "Captured!" Star Destroyer's tractor beams you will have to improvise a storyline. So it is probably The Rebels' ship is The Long Shot, the craft better to give the Rebels a break ... but make detailed in the Star Wars Campaign Pack. Its them earn it. statistics are provided here for ease of play. If they are captured by a tractor beam, The TIEs are standard TIE/ln starfighters. they could try to jump to hyperspace while Rebel Modified Short Hauler*: Hyperdrive in the beam; with such a screwy jump the multiplier xl. Sublight speed 3D; players should not be too surprised to end maneuverability ID; hull 4D. Weapons: Two up in otherspace. The Rebels could play
6 -STAR WART chicken with the ISD, running full throttle up The Jump the beam. Captain Westen would turn the As the PCs prepare to make the jump to beam off rather than severely damage his lightspeed, read the following passage out Star Destroyer. loud: If the Rebels get dragged into the hangar More and more TIE fighters close in on bay, there could be a confiscated smuggler's your ship as you finish programming your vessel also in the bay. The Rebels could astrogation computer. The calculations hide and make a run for the ship, or blaze have been made and a course has been away and make a run for it. plotted. Now all you have to do is punch If the players get stuck in the detention home the command. block, you are on your own. The Star Wars adventure Starfall provides details on the (Ask for an astrogation roll at this point to inside of the ISD's cousin, the Victory-class increase the suspense. Nod when the player Star Destroyer, if you really want to run a informs you of his or her roll, then pick up breakout adventure. the narrative.) The hyperdrive makes a grinding, popping noise. For a split second nothing ut-Away to Star Destroyer Bridge changes; your ship continues to hurl As the PCs either fight or flee from through realspace as dozens of TIEs pull the TIEs, pause the action in order to cut steadily closer. Then, all at once, reality to the following scene. Read aloud: shifts. Describe to the Rebels the different feel to EXTERIOR: IMPERIAL STAR DESTROYER this particular jump through hyperspace. As RELENTLESS. The massive ship of war their ship moves faster and faster, the moves gracefully against the backdrop of streaks of color begin to break up and drift space, turning to meet the camera as it away. Weird holes appear in the hyperlane zooms in to focus on the command tower. corridor, holes that exit into pinwheels of The scene shifts to reveal ... light or maws of absolute darkness. The ship INTERIOR: RELENTLESS BRIDGE. The shakes, the instruments go wild, and vessel's commander stands before the suddenly they arrive at a place they have forward viewport, watching the flashing never imagined. They have reached battle-dance of TIE fighters. A lesser officer "otherspace." waits nervously beside him. "Lieutenant, have you projected the Otherspace Celestial's probable jump routes?" Read: Captain Westen hisses. Your ship emerges from the strangest "Sir, we have several possible light jump you have ever experienced. But coordinates to which they could have something remains not quite right. Instead jumped, but none stand out." of the ebony sea of space, you stare out Westen turns on the junior officer. " But into a storm-gray pattern of nothingness. this Rebel ship is here to meet the Swirls of colored gases break up the ashy transport. When the crew is in detention, I expanse like jagged bolts of lightning shall question them. Perhaps they have cutting through billowing thunder clouds. better information than you do, But the most alien sight of all is the stars. Lieutenant. Parian disappointed Lord Not millions of pinpoints of dazzling light, Vader — I have no such intention. If I fail, I but billions of holes of shining dark that do not intend to fail alone. Understood pepper the storm-gray space. Lieutenant?" The Lieutenant swallows and nods, remembering to salute a fraction of a second late. Cut to ... INTERIOR: REBEL SHIP LONG SHOT.
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pisode Two Celestial Found
Summary the damaged drive unit shot the ship into In this episode the PCs find the Celestial, hyperspace — and beyond into a different floating quietly before a swirling cloud of dimension. A course can be plotted back, fiery gas. Within the transport, the PCs try but the ship can travel that course only if to discover what happened aboard the ship the hyperdrive unit is repaired. If asked to as they wander its deserted corridors. determine where the Rebels have ended up, the nav computer uses its semantics circuits Examining the Rebels' Ship to name a place that is not realspace or When the immediate danger of a squadron hyperspace. The computer names it of TIE fighters is past, the Rebels may want "otherspace." to determine the status of their ship. Here is Attempting a Sensor Sweep. While clouds what they can figure out using their own of charged particles obscure and block skills and equipment. detailed sweeps, some knowledge can be Checking the Hyperdrive. Any PC with gleaned. All sensor operations have +5 Technical skills can examine the ship's added to the difficulty number; sensor hyperdrive engine. An Easy starship repair operations is a Knowledge skill. Successful roll or better indicates that the unit is scanning reveals a ship approximately 120 damaged. An Easy Perception roll allows a sublight units distant off the ship's forward PC to attribute the damage to the initial right arc, but it is near a particularly dense collision with the TIE fighter when they first energy cloud that masks further details. came out of hyperspace to meet Celestial. It Using the Subspace Radio. Scanning is apparent that the damage caused the through the full range of communication hyperdrive to malfunction and burn out. It bands turns up an almost totally silent cannot be used again without major repairs, galaxy. There is no traffic talk, no warning and the ship lacks the spare parts to make beacons, no subspace chatter, nothing. The such repairs. A replacement hyperdrive only channel with anything of interest motivator must be found or built — contains a carrier signal on an Alliance cannibalizing the motivator they have the frequency. No message comes across the Rebels are still short five parts: a hypercoil, open channel. It's as though someone an influx capacitor, a power coupler, a turned on his com unit and then stepped 4-axial stabilizer, and a realspace away from the controls. An Easy astrogation compensator. roll allows a PC to follow the signal to its Checking the Sublight Engines. The source near the dense cloud picked up on sublight engines work. While they cannot be the sensors. Following the signal leads the used to get the PCs home, these engines do PCs to "The Nebula" section below. provide maneuverability in this strange environment. The Nebula Examining the Nav Computer. A Moderate astrogation roll allows a PC to gain As the Rebels approach the nebula, read: information from the ship's onboard nav There, against the steel-gray expanse, computer. The nav computer plotted a spins a rainbow nebula. The cloud of course through hyperspace that the swirling colors throws out waves of hyperdrive was unable to match. Instead, energies of every type. You notice your
8 -STAR. WART ship's instrumentation acting strangely. Readouts randomize and screens blink off and on. The miles-long cloud produces static that obscures your sensor sweeps and limits visual perception. Between the cloud and your ship floats another vessel. This is the Alliance transport Celestial, dead in space. Life support seems minimal. PCs making Moderate Perception rolls notice that several escape pods have been jettisoned but that the cargo racks are still full. The Rebel ship can dock with the larger vessel only at the airlock over the engines or at the docking station under the cargo pods. Docking with Celestial requires a Moderate starship piloting roll as the transport is drifting and tumbling, its engines cold and inoperable. Exploring C elestial The Rebel transport Celestial has two upper decks, and rows of cargo pod racks tucked snugly under the hull shell. The only noticeable damage is a dark scorch near the occurred internally. On a Difficult engines. A Moderate starship repair roll Perception roll a PC spots strands hanging allows a PC to determine that the damage from the lower docking platform; (Charon webbing). In the odd light of otherspace the strands have a crystalline gleam. therspace The Celestial is a dying ship. It is cold, ____ Otherspace is a universe beyond the dark, and its air is stale. Some rooms have bounderies of realspace and hyperspace. no gravity, and emergency lights are all that Unlike the blue-black expanse of shine in the dim corridors and chambers. realspace, otherspace is a silver-gray void Refer to the ship descriptions below for filled with clouds of energy and dark details as to what the Rebels can see and stars. what they can find on Celestial. The charged clouds and swirling spirals of energy form storms which can wreak Celestial Room Descriptions havoc with navigational computers, Each room aboard Celestial is numbered sensors, and communications equipment. to match the map in the pullout section. The dark stars appear as holes in the Please refer to it to aid your descriptions. fabric of the gray expanse. While planets 1. Upper Airlock. One of the two places orbit these voids, all are cold, lifeless where the Rebel ship can dock to Celestial , rocks. Many are shattered and blasted this standard airlock opens into an upper smooth, the result of the Charon's chamber. The chamber contains a locker, a thorough violence passing through this ship-wide com unit, and a ladder leading galaxy. down. The locker contains two vac-suits, Devoid of life, otherspace now serves as two medpacs, a glow rod, and a rations kit. a way station for ships lost in hyperspace. The ladder descends to a vestibule. Most arrive here damaged and adrift. The 2. Rec Room. This chamber is dedicated to energy storms serve to further damage relaxation and exercise. Gravity gone, the and confuse their remaining instruments. Rebels see a small gym set, a holochess Many fall to the Charon. Only those table, and a zee-gee table (a game popular recently arrived intrude upon the silence among the Corellian traders) floating about of otherspace. the room.
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3. Galley. Inside are scanovens, sonic ^ elestial's Tale 1: Imperial Escape cleansers, and a storage pantry. This room is strung with Charon webbing. They have ___ The following information is for you, taken what few stores were left for testing the gamemaster, only. Do not reveal any of by their bioscientists. An Easy Perception this data unless the PCs search the roll reveals scratches and gouges on the appropriate areas within Celestial and equipment, signs of cursory Charon make the proper rolls. investigation. Bane Nothos sat waiting, impatiently 4. The Engine Room. The engine room twisting his massive Imperial signet ring spans two levels, forming a large open area around the first finger of his right hand. around the main engines. The gravity here is He didn't like waiting. He hadn't liked very weak. A series of catwalks and ladders waiting when he had been an Imperial connect the levels and the various stations, District Commander. He liked waiting even consoles, controls, and maintenance ports. less now, as a prisoner aboard the Smoke fills this area, and scorched and Celestial. What he was waiting for finally shattered equipment is evident. PCs making happened. The service Droid bearing Easy starship repair rolls can learn that Nothos's evening meal entered the cell something unsynchronized the engines, and proffered the dinner tray. Nothos destroying them and knocking out power to accepted the tray a bit more slowly than the ship. Without power, the air circulation usual, allowing the guards to pass by his system, life support, sublight drive, and cell. He squeezed his ring between thumb most computer operations are impossible. and forefinger. The ring's single-charge Backup batteries provide enough energy to laser proved sufficient to disable the the computers to maintain limited access Droid. Nothos reprogrammed the docile and data retrieval. The hyperdrive is an mechanical, watched it leave, and sat to unusable, fused hulk. Nothing from this unit eat his meal. One last time, he waited. is salvageable. Nothos wiped his lips, placing his 5. Tech Shop. The tech shop features a napkin on his empty dinner plate. The limited repair station that can also be used Imperial, plate, and napkin were thrown in to fabricate some machinery. It is useless separate directions amid the metallic without ship's power. shrieks and the tumbling throes of 6. Medical Bay. This rudimentary medical Celestial being torn from its course. bay lacks most of the basic comforts. Two Nothos smiled. The reprogrammed Droid beds and a diagnosis computer make up the had done its work. The unsynchronized facilities. PCs searching here find that the engines had heated themselves to slag ship's small bacta tank has been removed, and brought the vessel to a halt. with claw marks left as evidence of the In the confusion of the disaster and in Charon theft. Most of the storage lockers the dim light of the emergency power have been raided, and all have been webbed system, Bane pushed at the nonfunc closed. Cutting through the webbing tioning lock and left his cell. He moved to requires a Moderate Strength roll; inside the Grand Moff Ravik's detention cubicle and lockers are four medpacs. opened the door. Ravik was standing. 7. Crew Quarters. These spartan chambers "Situation report, Commander." feature double bunks, desks, chairs, and Nothos blinked once before replying to storage lockers. A miniature asteroid field of Ravik's order. "The Celestial's crew is crew memorabilia spins about the room. ordinary, Grand Moff. Ordinary men panic Some clothing has been taken, but much when their ship loses power and mobility. remains. With Moderate search rolls, the Survival becomes paramount." PCs uncover two medpacs, a glow rod, a coil "Scared men are easy to command," said of syntherope, a cube of detonite, and a Ravik, "given the promise of safety." blaster pistol. "Some will stay loyal to Gryphon." 8. The Bridge. Through the blasted door to Ravik saw EL-434 silently exit its the bridge the PCs see a deserted room detention cubicle. A smile twitched on the made all the more eerie by blinking Grand Moff's face. "I am sure we will think instruments and the strange light cast of something, Commander." through the viewport by the nebula cloud. Battery power temporarily keeps the -STAR. WARS monitors and computers operational. A this is Relentless. We have your signal and Moderate security roll allows the PCs to play are on our way." back the ship's log. The final log entry pops The Rebel captain glances out the bridge up as a holographic image, placing viewport and her face tightens. She then transparent figures on the bridge beside the runs to the helm and hits a button. PCs. The holorecord plays out as follows. Immediately the hyperdrive is activated Read: and the ghostly images fade into streaks of Ghostly holographic images appear upon light. the bridge as the ship's final log entry The record monitor shows that the ship plays back. A thin man in a severe entered hyperspace cold, without any Imperial uniform is visible through an astrogation calculations. This further arched doorway near the com station; depleted the remaining power and ended crew members and a heavily armed Droid any additional recording. stand next to him. "Imperial emergency As the holorecord fades, the PCs see a new code three-delta-delta," he says. "This is sight through the bridge viewport. A large Grand Moff Ravik. I have taken command ship emerges from the swirling cloud of of the Rebel vessel Celestial and await color that fills the steel-gray expanse. It is pickup by the ISD Relentless. I am huge, dark, and alien to all known ship- broadcasting our coordinates now. Request design theories. Around it, orbiting like tiny immediate response as the situation is still satellites, are hundreds of smaller ships. fluid." Each appears lifeless and dead, as still and Ravik's sentence is punctuated by an cold as the giant craft. explosion at the bridge door, blaster fire 9. Communications Station. This pouring through the breach. A woman, sophisticated com station contains a wearing the rank of a Rebel transport subspace radio, a subspace monitor, captain, leads the attack. The Droid and recording controls, and other standard nearby crew members fire at the attacking communications equipment. A PC can check party as Ravik moves out of view. A voice the communications record (by making an crackles from an unseen com: "Celestial, Easy computer programming roll) to
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code and reveals Gryphon's mission. She elestial's Tale 2: Exodus was to pick up a group of Imperial prisoners and prepare the transport for a two-month A mutinous crew member applied a journey. She was to meet a group of Rebel medpac to Grand Moff Ravik as the smoke agents who would take responsibility for cleared the damaged bridge. Zardra and and command of the transport for the EL-434 herded the Rebel prisoners to the duration of the journey, which was to take lower loading dock while Mott and Nothos them on an evasive course to an Alliance retrieved what data they could. The pirate safe-world. There the prisoners would be gave a long, dramatic sigh which annoyed turned over to Alliance authorities, and Ravik nearly as much as his wound. command of Celestial would be returned to "She's dead, Moff," said Mott, " Celestial Gryphon. has had it. We couldn't build a solid 12. Storage. Clothing, sleep gear, food, system boat out of what's left." water, and other essential supplies for the "Nothos, what have you got on that long trip Celestial was undertaking drift asteroid or planetoid...whatever...out throughout this chamber. there," asked Ravik. 13. Detainment Cells. These storage rooms Bane Nothos looked out the viewport. have been converted to detainment cells in He looked back at his sensors. Then back order to transport the prisoners safely. out the viewport, a pause, and then a While not as escape-proof as an Imperial slight shake of his head. "Grand Moff, I detention block, these sealed chambers are believe the object out there is a ship." designed to hold most normal prisoners. "Abandoned like all the rest? Signs of Unfortunately, without power for the life?" magnetic seals, the doors can be pushed Nothos hesitated. "It is not abandoned. open with little trouble. Each cell is a bare But the life scanners are giving confusing chamber containing a bench/sleeping readings." platform along the far wall. Only five of Ravik rose, waving off the aid of the these cells were occupied: Celis Mott in A, crewman. "Your opinion, Commander." Nothos in B, Ravik in E. C and D still have No hesitation from Nothos this time. "If traces of their recent inhabitants. it's a ship, I can command her." Cell C. This cell, once occupied by the Droid Ravik looked Nothos over. Celis Mott EL-434, shows signs of damage. Long shifted his attention to a dead readout as scrapes and gashes in the metal walls Nothos met the Grand Moff's gaze. The indicate something with a lot of strength pirate waited until he heard a soft noise was attempting to escape from the confining from the Grand Moff, and then glanced up chamber. to see Ravik nod curtly. Cell D. The air of this cell is redolent of a "We now have a destination for the life heady scent, with an underlying touch of pods. Get us there, Commander." Togorian belladonna. This was Zardra's cell. Any PCs who met her in Tatooine Manhunt will recognize her exotic, deadly scent. discover the last com transmission was to 14. Loading Area and Lower Docking the ISD Relentless. Platform. The Charon entered through this 10. Captain's Office. This well-appointed platform. Charon warriors immediately set room contains a desk, chair, and couch. One up a defensive position — the hundreds of wall is made of transparisteel, providing a strands of webbing are the result. Some of breath-taking vista. Data pads and other the strands are thinner than a man's finger records here show this to be the office of by half; these resist damage with a Strength Captain Alain Gryphon, commander of the of 2D. Others have been braided together to transport Celestial. form supporting cables thicker than a 11. Captain's Quarters. This stateroom Wookiee's thigh. These last are contains a large bed, a private bath area, tremendously strong and resistant to and a locked storage bin. It takes a Moderate damage; a direct hit from a blaster pistol security roll to open the bin. Inside, the PCs usually results in a scorch mark and a small find a data pad with coded information. A divot in the webbing (they resist damage Difficult security roll breaks the data pad's with a Strength of 9D+2).
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berths are empty. Should the Rebels want to use the last life pod, they have to free it elestial's Tale 3: Probe from the criss-cross of webbing which A voice awoke Ber'asco from secures it to the floor (the net of webbing thought-sleep. Not the deep, reassuring resists damage with a Strength of 5D+1). voice of the Void, but the vibrating rasp of 15. Guard Station. This control room one of the bioscientists. Ber'asco focused contains detainment cell monitors and other most of his eyes on the speaker, now security equipment. There are four dead hearing words as well as sound. guards here. The Charon have taken two "...again. The disease has even invaded others as samples, and a PC making a our vessel. Our numbers are few enough Moderate Perception roll can see that two that —" bodies were dragged from here. A PC making Ber'asco's synchronized three-limbed an Easy computer programming roll can motion silenced the bioscientist. "Pull access the prisoner roster. The following warriors from death-sleep. Have them information scrolls across the monitor report on the pathology of the disease screen. "Prisoners: Extremely Dangerous: within our vessel. Take warriors and Grand Moff Ravik; Imperial District your brethren to their ship. Determine Commander Bane Nothos; assassin Droid metabolism, biodefenses; form eval EL-434; the bounty hunter Zardra; Nanth’ri uation for resistance to treatment. pirate leader Celis Mott." Prepare the mists. Pull me from thought- 16. Guards' Quarters. Six bunks and six sleep when you have or need answers. storage bins are all that make up this Now leave me." chamber. Nothing of interest can be found in The bioscientist prostrated herself, the personal effects. genuflecting on all limbs. Before she had 17. Sensor Suite Station. An open archway righted herself, Ber'asco sank again into leads from the guard station to this area, thought-sleep. and a ladder ascends up to the communications station. Charon can nibalization has made this equipment The floor of this open area is made up of unusable. divided lift platforms. Sections of the lift can The Next Step be lowered to the docking platform, or the Before the Rebels travel to the Desolate, entire floor can descend to haul up larger present the read-aloud section below. loads; currently webbing binds together all but one of the sections. A computer access port in one corner shows signs of damage, and a Droid lies ^ ut-Away to Desolate nearby. An Easy Droid repair roll shows that ___ I Read aloud: its power center was disabled using a low- EXTERIOR: SWIRLING NEBULA. The powered laser of some sort. Its camera pans across the expanse of color programming was altered and its computer and drifting mist that makes up the access jack has suffered a power feedback swirling nebula. It moves closer, passing surge that melted the Droid's circuits. A drifting ships that have become nothing Moderate Droid repair roll allows a PC to more than space debris, to settle upon the get the Droid to talk for a few brief seconds. huge, dark ship that emerges from the It repeats back its last programming. "Find nebula cloud. Alien in design, the ship computer access port. Plug in. Relay signal appears as just another dead wreck in the to power cells to fire simultaneously." The galactic sea of otherspace. Droid then shudders, and its memory Then, without warning, eerie lights begin circuits short out. to flick on. The dead ship begins to stir ... The lower docking platform is surrounded by five escape pod berths. Four of these
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pisode Three Desolate Awaits
Summary that the Rebel ship collides with the wreck This episode takes the Rebel PCs through (taking 3D damage) and careens off it. the sea of abandoned starships and into the Inside the wrecks, the PCs find similarities alien craft Desolate. On the first level of the between these ships and Celestial. The giant vessel they explore Desolate's strange vessels were all deserted quickly, and only architecture and technology, discover the essentials have been taken. Strange strands fate of Captain Gryphon, battle the pirate of sticky webbing can be found, most Celis Mott, and experience the mind-altering frequently in medical and engineering effects of "death mist." sections. In the engine room, the PCs discover that the engines — specifically the The Sea of Dead Ships hyperdrives — have sustained damage. The approach to Desolate takes the Rebels Moreover, the equipment has been torn through the myriad wrecked spacecraft apart and major pieces of machinery are orbiting the alien ship. Read: missing. You maneuver your ship through an Entering the Unknown Ship armada of derelict craft. The scene Refer to the full-color map and the reminds you of a busy spaceport with one gamemaster's map key in the pullout section important difference — the silence. These when describing the interior of the alien vessels are deathly quiet. No subspace vessel. chatter fills the void, no engines flare to There are four obvious entry points on adjust courses, no running lights glow Desolate's exterior. These openings are warmly on these empty hulks. There floats evenly spaced along the outer hull, each a startug. There a freighter spins wildly. near a concentration of patchwork wrecks. And there, beyond the blast boats and One opening contains the four crashed cruisers and transports, awaits the largest escape pods from Celestial , and the details of these desolate vessels. As you watch, that follow assume this to be the entry point strange domes on each end of the the Rebels choose to use. If they opt for a unusually designed craft begin to glow different entry point, adjust the descriptions with an otherworldly light. accordingly. The wrecked ships loosely orbit the giant The cave-like opening looms before you craft. As the PCs' ship gets closer, the as you guide your ship toward the massive congestion thickens. The Rebel pilot must vessel. The opening is big enough for your make three Moderate starship piloting rolls ship to enter, and the area inside is to navigate safely through the field of suitable for landing. You pass through the wrecks. Every failed roll indicates a collison cave mouth and meet resistance. A with a wreck. Crashing into wrecks causes transparent membrane of some sort covers 3D damage against the Rebel vessel. the opening, but your ship passes through Entering a Wreck it unharmed. If the Rebels want to investigate any of the The membrane maintains the vessel's abandoned ships, they must make a atmosphere. Ships may pass through it, as Moderate starship piloting roll to dock with the membrane automatically seals itself a wildly spinning wreck. A failed roll means when breached. Inside the cave is a large,
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flat landing deck within a rocky pod. An he Alien Vessel Desolate opening in the pod wall leads further into Desolate's depths, but the ship cannot fit The Charon craft Desolate is an through this passage. amorphous mass rising over 450 meters If the PCs land in the same area as the from base to summit. Domes of eerie light escape pods, they can tell all of the escape cap each end of the massive vessel, and a pods arrived intact. The atmosphere within smaller dome engraved with a weird, Desolate is thick and wet, but breathable by weblike design, tops one rocky the PCs. They do not need breath masks or outcropping. Weapon pods dot the hull, vac suits. growing from the surface material. These The PCs find a common shipboard pet pods open to reveal huge, oddly-angled wobbling about the cave. A Very Rasy alien projectile weapons, but when closed they races roll indentifies the pet as an Adoris appear as disfiguring lumps upon the Feline, a small catlike animal favored by vessel's rocky exterior. many freighter and long hauler crews. But Hundreds of wrecked craft orbit something is wrong. Force users making a Desolate, but many of their kin have been Very Easy sense roll detect no life within the meshed with the amorphous vessel. These creature. In fact, the feline registers as a ships cling to the jagged surface, total absence of the Force. Easy medicine connected by thin, sticky webs and in rolls determine that while the creature some places even fused with Desolate's mimics life functions, it has been altered and outer hull. These wrecks form a is no longer alive. Most of the nerve cells are patchwork of damaged ships that cover destroyed, some replaced with the exterior surface. Near a large mircomechanical switches, circuits and concentration of these quilted vessels, a fibers. cave opens into Desolate itself. Inside, Desolate is a hollow cavity Platform One Encounters formed around a thick, central power and Events core. The core pulses with inner energy and has some disturbing qualities. The Connecting Ramp Created to be a living ship by an unknown Another nearly-invisible membrane race, the Charon have taken Desolate and stretches across the portal that leads made it their own. In doing so, however, further into Desolate. The Rebels can feel it they "improved" upon the vessel. Now reseal itself as they pass through it. On the Desolate is dead — or, better yet, undead other side of the membrane a long, three- — warped into the very essence of the meter wide ramp stretches from the entry Charons' beliefs. The ship does what living pod to a series of platforms that appear to things do; it absorbs material for energy, it float within the inner cavity. Thin tubes of grows, and it repairs itself. It should be light extend in all directions, connecting the alive — but it isn 't. central power core with the cavity walls. Far Thin strands of hollow tubing connect below the ramp, barely discernible in the the undead core to the cavity walls. The deep gloom, is a thick, red mist. The ramp energy that runs through the tubing leads to platform one and the great hall. creates beads of light that give the interior a golden glow, much like sun-sparkled dew The Great Hall upon a spider s web. This irregularly-shaped chamber features a Four overlapping decks surround the wide, open area nestled between three- central core, each connected by crawl meter tall organic-rock walls. The smooth tubes. The bottom area of the ship is filled floor is engraved with an unknown star map with thick extensions that branch off the overlain with a constricting web pattern. power core and attach to the cavity wall The Growing Chamber like the roots of some massive tree. This large area, built around the pulsing Around these extensions swirls a red- power core, is filled with pods that grow tinged mist. from the chamber's floor and walls. These pods have stony peels and thorny tendrils
15 w 16 growths (seethe sidebar on characters life within can no detect these h cr intothe pools, the core sucking paste the the core. Thin tendrils twist and wind from the Force"). the between paths canopied form that h bece pd. er h pwr core, power breached pods. thethe Near reual sae rw. Force-using rows. spaced irregularly backinto the pulsing column. paste from these pods forms pools around broken pods are scattered everywhere. The revealthick yellowpaste thatbubbles out of specificpatches. The Fate of Captain Gryphon Captain of Fate The oe f h wbie aeil covers material weblike the of more one Captainwounded lies. An Gryphon Alain comes from a thick It moan. clump low overgrowth a of hear a PCs the conflict, of clothhang from thorny torn roots. of Scrapsblaster A fire. lies blaster from scarring by crushed been have pods and Tendrils icre t oe de f h pt, and path, the of edge one to discarded ekes asg, n ohr so deep show others and passage, reckless Easy metersfew the path, off where mortally- a read: Event One: Event h hr otr el cn e broken to be can peels hard outer The Aftersome moments of examining thissite h ae aed a be disturbed. been has ahead area The As the PCs explore the growing chamber, medicine ol eel ta se has she that reveals roll "Desolate T R A W - R A T S and
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therspace Adventure Script
Use the following script to start your adventure. Your gamemaster will tell you what part (or parts) to read.
Start the Script slip-up and we could be leading the Empire 1st Rebel: Hyperspace is so beautiful. The right to one of our safe-worlds. colors remind me of Kallakean rainbows. 4th Rebel: Back up a second. What's a safe- 2nd Rebel: We get a priority assignment world? from Alliance High Command and you think 1st Rebel: How long did you say you were about rainbows! with the Rebellion? A safe-world is a planet 3rd Rebel: Some assignment. So far all we not under Imperial control where the got were jump coordinates and a holodisk. Alliance maintains facilities for the families of the Rebel soldiers. 4th Rebel: Speaking of the holodisk, it's time to play it and get our orders. 6th Rebel: On each safe-world, men, women and children not directly needed as combat GM: A holo-image appears before you and personnel remain in hiding. Commander Avalon addresses you. "As you 2nd Rebel: They stay safe and the front-line approach the end of your jump, be advised soldiers don't have to worry about their that you are to meet the Alliance transport families while they're off fighting the Empire. Celestial. You are to take command of the ship and see it to its destination. Further 5th Rebel: Okay, let's get ready. We re about coordinates will be provided in due course." to come out of hyperspace. 5th Rebel: How come they never tell us 1st Rebel: Realspace is so dull compared to everything all at once? How can we work like the shifting colors along the hyperlanes. this? 2nd Rebel: Look out! We've emerged in the 6th Rebel: Would you rather jeopardize a middle of an uncharted asteroid storm! And mission needlessly by knowing too much? you said realspace was dull ... That would work out great if an Imperial GM: A round object smashes into your ship's interrogator Droid ever got a hold of you. rear section, then goes spinning away in GM (as Commander Avalon): "The transport flames. Warning lights flash, but the ship's carries cargo for an Alliance safe-world — systems remain on line. supplies and the like. It also carries Imperial 4th Rebel: Those aren’t asteroids. They're prisoners for transfer to a secure Alliance TIE fighters! And there are dozens of them! location. Guard them well and arrive safely. 3rd Rebel: A full squadron to be precise, Good luck, and may the Force be with you." and they're being supported by an Imperial The holo-image fades. Star Destroyer. 3rd Rebel: Imperial prisoners! This is a 6th Rebel: I don't see any sign of Celestial, bigger mission than I imagined. but those TIEs have noticed us. Prepare to 5th Rebel: And a more dangerous one. One take evasive action.
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Red Mist Scene Cards Gamemaster's note: When a player’s character is overcome by the red mist, hand the player a "Red Mist Card." After the player describes the scene to the other players, return to episode three for more information.
Red Mist Card #1 Red Mist Card #4 Describe this scene to the other Describe this scene to the other players through your character's players through your character's eyes, then wait for instructions. eyes, then wait for instructions.
You wander within the deep red The mist ahead parts and you see mist, feeling alone and separated. the others from your group. They are Strange sounds echo around you, bouncing through the laughing and joking, full of life and vitality. You hate crimson tendrils. You can see dark shapes begin to form them! Don't they realize the futility of it all? Only death in the fog. For a moment you think they are your fellow awaits you within this desolate place. The image fills Rebels, but then the shapes become more pronounced, your mind, and you long for the peace and security of the more definite. They are alien, insectlike shapes that Final Jump. Life has become too stressful, too random. seem to change in the swirling fog. Then, like flitting It must be destroyed. You reach for your blaster, ready to shadows, they begin to move, darting through the mist extinguish the curse of life from the others. toward you.
Red Mist Card #2 Red Mist Card #5 Describe this scene to the other Describe this scene to the other players through your character's players through your character's eyes, then wait for instructions. eyes, then wait for instructions.
Through the swirling tendrils of Ahead of you, through the billowing mist you see a tall, black monolith. clouds of red, lies a pile of strange The smooth stone absorbs all light, all heat, all life into objects. Pushing past the clinging tendrils of fog, you see its shadowy depths. It calls to you, silently beckoning large pods scattered across the floor. You can see a shape you to step forward. You refuse, holding your ground in within each pod, and your curiosity forces you closer. this fog-filled terrain. Then the monolith begins to grow, Suddenly you are surrounded by hundreds of pods. its dark outline coming closer and closer. You turn to Those nearest you crack open, spilling bodies onto the flee, but the spreading darkness engulfs you, wrapping floor. You try not to look, but you know who these bodies around you like the cold of eternal night. are — they are your friends.
Red Mist Card #3 Red Mist Card #6 Describe this scene to the other Describe this scene to the other players through your character's players through your character's eyes, then wait for instructions. eyes, then wait for instructions.
You move forward, wading through Shadows dart around you, obscured the crimson mist to find an exit from by the crimson mist. Dark shapes this chamber. Each step becomes more difficult, swirl in the thickening fog, silently stalking you. You however. The tendrils of fog cling to you, pulling at your continue through the chamber as sounds start to assault limbs and hindering your movements. Like webbing, the you. Something scrapes across the stonelike floor to your mist wraps around you. It covers your weapons and right, quickly joined by a symphony of scraping sounds. equipment, binding them in place. Soon the red mist is The scraping intensifies, getting louder and louder as so thick that you cannot move at all, cannot see, cannot the increasing number of shadows turns the crimson fog breathe. Then something begins to drag you down. black. Then, all at once, the sounds stop. -STAR W A R f PULLOUT SECTION Q Q Q.
haron History and Beliefs The Charon's home star was caught in return, and return we shall. But why has the influence of a huge black hole. The the Void issued us if only to consume us Charon death cult grew from attempts to directly? Order guides the Void. Such is explain what the Charon saw as the futility the natural order of things. of their existence — the eventual death of "The Void has chosen us. We, children of their entire system. The cult was the Void, exult in this knowledge. For the dangerous but small — until the Charon Void is opposed by Life. Ever changing, developed sublight drive. Given a grand ever growing, Life seeks to triumph over purpose, the philosophy of the death cult the Void. Life refuses to acknowledge the spread through Charon culture like primacy of the Void. Such is unnatural. radiation from an uncontrolled reactor "We are humbled by our responsibility. leak. The first world to fall victim was their For only the Charon are chosen. Among all home system. As the vast majority of the living, only we understand that Life is believers had left the world, it was fitting not natural. We must return Life to the way that the unbelieving among the chosen of the Void. Such is the natural order of race be the first to join the Void. For things. millions of years the Charon have brought "Among us shall arise the Final Prophet. death to otherspace. The following This Prophet shall lead us to the final document is taken from the holodocs in victory over Life. This done, the Void shall Ber'asco's computer. It gives an overview be pleased; the Void shall answer the of the beliefs of the death cult. Prophet and the way and the order of the "The Void is the way of the universe, the eternal universe shall be revealed to the fate of the universe, the truth of the Prophet. The Prophet shall speak to us. universe. All shall go to the Void. Such is Once we have heard, we shall all be free to the natural order of things. return to the Void, to take our part in the "The Void consumes all, yet we issued Forever. Such is the natural order of from the Void. The Void calls to us to things."
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22 -STAR. WART PULLOUT SECTION r Bane Nothos r Zardra Template Type: Imperial Commander Template Type: Bounty Hunter Ht: 1.85m Sex: Male Ht: 1.7m Sex: Female
DEX 2D+2 PER 3D+1 DEX 4D PER 3D Blaster 3D+2 Command 5D+2 Blaster 5D+1 Con 4D Dodge 4D Hide/ Sneak 4D+1 Dodge 4D+1 STR 3D+2 Heavy Weapons STR 3D Force Pike 6D Brawling 4D+2 4DMelee 4D+2 Stamina 3D+2 KNO 2D+2 TEC 2D KNO 2D+1 Cultures 4D+2 Starship Piloting 3D+2 Bureaucracy 4D+1 TEC3D+1 MEC 2D+2 Cultures 3D Comp. Prog./Repair 6D Comp. Prog./Repair 3D Technology 5D+1 Demolition 4D MEC 3D+1 Medicine 4D Physical Description: Zardra is a tall, dark-haired human, Starship Gunnery 5D Security 4D+2 Her appearance is striking, sensual; she prides herself in Starship Piloting 4D+1 Starship Repair 3D+2 projecting a hint of danger. A flowing cloak and a long force Starship Tactics 5D+2 pike are her usual accessories. Equipment: Force pike (damage 5D + 2), blaster pistol Physical Description: Nothos has a square face lined from (damage 4D) thermal detonator, knife, stun cloak (wraps exposure to stellar radiation. His dark eyes sharply around victim, stun damage 5D). contrast his white-blond hair. His motions are abrupt, his Background: After a disastrous performance on Tatooine, speech percussive and precise. Zardra found herself the target of bounty hunters even as Equipment: Blaster (damage 4D), laser ring (damage 4D+2, she continued to accept missions. She was captured by the one charge). Alliance when one of her informants decided to play both Background: Bane Nothos saw his career shattered by the sides of the airlock. Shantipole Project failure. Later, as commander of an Outer Personality: Zardra loves violence and personal combat, Rim Territories fleet, he improved his tactical ability. His and has relished the chance to reverse roles with pursuing capture by the Alliance was due to a flaw in his crew's bounty hunters. She deeply resents her betrayal and execution of his orders, not his tactics. capture; the informant had best crawl into a deep crater. Personality: Nothos is ambitious, headstrong, and enjoys Quote: "Darling, soon I shall embark on my finest hunt." taking risks when the reward looks promising. He has no Note: If in your campaign Zardra died in the adventure patience for underlings who fail to grasp his concepts. Tatooine Manhunt, substitute another bounty hunter. Quote: "History has proven precision and speed decisive." V r /* Charon Bioscientists Celis Mott Template Type: Charon Warriors Template Type: Pirate Ht: 2.1 m Sex: Female (Immature) Ht: 1.65m Sex: Male DEX 2D PER 4D DEX 3D+2 PER 3D Dodge 5D Hide/ Sneak 6D Blaster 5D Bargain 5D+1 Melee Parry 5D Search 5D+2 ^ Dodge 4D+2 Command 4D Brawling Parry 4D STR 2D Melee 5D+2 Con 4D+2 KNO 4D Brawling 3D+1 Melee Parry 5D+2 Gambling 4D+1 Alien Races 5D Climbing / Jumping 6D KNO 2D STR 2D+2 Languages 4D+2 TEC 4D Bureaucracy 4D Brawling 4D+2 Planetary Comp. Prog./ Repair 5D MEC 3D+2 Stamina 3D+2 Systems 5D+1 Construct Design 7D+1 Astrogation 5D TEC 3D Technology 6D+1 Medicine 6D Starship Piloting 4D+2 Security 4D MEC 2D Starship Shields 5D+2 Starship Repair 5D+1 Physical Description: Charon bioscientists are smaller then Physical Description: Celis Mott is used to eating well; it warriors. Their reactions are less quick, but their bodies shows in his bearded face and around his gut. He trims and are more agile. In contrast to the uniform, dull coloration dyes his eyebrows in the Peluchian style. of the warriors, most bioscientists have iridescent cilia on Equipment: blaze-cutlass (damage 4D+1), blaster pistol their forelegs. (damage 4D), 2 grenades, 6 medpacs. Equipment: Web spinneret (traps victim, STR 4D.), clawed Background: Mott's armada plies the Nanth'ri space route, arms (brawling damage 4D), medprobe, diagnostic sensor, or did until a Rebel fleet stopped him. Mott knows that plasma scapel, neuro-replacement chips. without him, his pirate fleet will disintegrate in a series of L Background: Bioscientists use their extensive knowledge internal squabbles; he cuts any possible deal to get himself to create motile, thinking biological constructs which lack back to Nanth'ri. the blasphemous free will and variability of life forms. Personality: Celis Mott is dashing, only not as dashing as Personality: Bioscientists display a wider range of behavior he believes himself to be. Mott is shrewd, a good than warriors. Bioscientists are fervent about their work, negotiator, but not courageous. and are bred and taught to think in longer term goals than Quote: "Please sit down...have some Corellian whiskey ... I warriors. am afraid it is time to discuss the nasty business of having Quote: (drone and rising tone) "ss'hss'ssp'spss'okss'(claw to push you out an airlock." ^ ______) JTAR PULLOUT SECTION WARS' — EL-434 Grand Moff Ravik Template Type: Imperial Grand Moff Template Type: Assassin Droid Ht: 1.9m Sex: Male Ht: 1.5m Sex: None DEX 3D PER 4D DEX 4D+1 PER ID Dodge 4D Command 6D+2 Melee Parry 5D+1 Hide/Sneak 6D KNO 4D Con 5D Heavy Weapons 7D+1 Search 8D Bureaucracy 6D Search 4D+2 KNO ID STR 5D+2 (+1D Armor) Languages 5D Interrogation 5D+1 MEC ID Brawling 6D+2 Planetary Systems 6D+1 Survival 5D TEC ID Technology 4D+2 STR 2D MEC 3D TEC 2D Physical Description: EL-434 is made from a cerillium Comp. Prog./Repair 4D composite, giving him a dark sheen. His motoball forms a Security 4D+1 base for his crustacean-like upper body. All of EL-434's critical systems are well armored, and the Droid is in peak Physical Description: Tall, thin to the point of emaciation, condition. Ravik looks 10 standard years older than he is. His Equipment: Blaster cannon(damage 6D), concussion movements are brittle and slight. missile launcher (damage 7D), motoball, electro-photo Equipment: Comlink, pocket computer, blaster pistol. receptor, infrared sensor, corn-signal detector, motion Background: Ravik rose quickly through the Imperial sensor, chemical sensor, auditory membranes. hierarchy, a man born with an instinct for the true nature of Background: Little is known about EL-434. The Droid has the New Order. His heartless rule of Tolonda sector is been efficient in eliminating all records and witnesses. infamous. His sector has been given a brief reprieve with Alliance intelligence guesses he was built in the Junquers Ravik’s capture, but the Grand Moff has plans enough to system, and that EE-434 has been active for many years. grind down the spirit of Tolonda when he returns. Personality: Cunning, ruthless and violent programming. Personality: Brutal and delighting in his brutality, Ravik No discernible personality. shows no emotion other than anger or hatred, and shows Quote: (mechanical whisper) "Target acquired." those only rarely. Calculating and assured of his superiority, Ravik is slowly eroding the command of Bane Nothos in order to take charge. Quote: "The tragedy of the weak is their lack of apprehension of their value as a resource for the strong." V ______/
Charon Warriors r Template Type: Charon Warriors Ber’asco Ht: 2.3m Sex: Male (Immature) Template Type: Charon Leader Ht: 3.2m Sex: Male (Mature) DEX 4D PER 4D Dodge 5D Hide/ Sneak 6D DEX 4D PER 4D KNO 2D Search 4D+2 (reduced to 3D) Bargain 4D+2 Survival 3D STR 4D Dodge 4D Command 6D MEC 2D Brawling 4D+1 KNO 4D Search 4D+2 Climbing/ Jumping 5D Alien Races 5D STR 4D (+2D armor) TEC 2D Languages 5D Brawling 5D Survival 4D+2 Climbing/ Jumping 4D+1 Physical Description: Charon warriors are spiderlike MEC 2D Stamina 5D+1 beings with eight appendages that can be used as both TEC 2D arms and legs. Usually they stand upright, towering over all Computer Prog./Repair 5D but the tallest opponents. Dark, shadowy masters of stealth, Charon are not often seen unless they want to be. Physical Description: A mature Charon male, his natural Equipment: Web spinneret (traps victim, STR 3D+1), body armor has been augmented by his bioscientists into a plasma blaster (damage 4D), clawed arms (brawling formidable defense. damage 5D); poison. Targets taking non-stun damage from Equipment: None. All needs are taken care of by warriors, poisoned claw make a Moderate stamina roll. Failed roll bioscientists, or by accessing the computer. means target takes an additional wound. Charon must Background: Ber'asco led the campaign to extinguish the spend one round secreting poison. life on the last few living worlds in otherspace, claiming the Background: Hailing from a planet which orbited a black title of Final Prophet. Now he must renew the crusade to hole, the Charon adopted a religion which worshipped the destroy the galaxy of realspace. Void, and through the Void, death. Tens of thousands of Personality: Ber’asco believes that his every move is Prophets have led them on a crusade destroying millions of guided by the Void. He sees the discovery of life in another worlds. Ber'asco is their Final Prophet. dimension as proof his job in otherspace is finished. He Personality: They believe unfettered life is a blasphemy, also believes hyperdrive technology to be another sign. For and plan to send all life, including themselves, to the Void. with it worlds shall fall to the Void far faster than before. They are hunters, and all living things are their prey. Quote: "The disease is strong; its strains resist fiercely. But Quote: (rasp of claws) "s^'hss'okss's" (descending bi-tone). the Void shall prevail." -STAR. WARS alter the stark contrast between this area membrane separates the lower area from the and the overgrown one you just left. But rest of the cavity. Periodically, thick clouds the stony floor is not perfect. A large, of red bubble up through the barrier to send gaping hole fills the middle of the chamber wisps of death mist into the upper area. floor, and great cracks run from it to create Every so often the swirling mists part to canyons that fall deeper into the craft. show the pulsing, interconnected roots of Glowing light spills from the cracks, the power core. painting the chamber in arterial red. Event Two: The Mad Pirate The lower cavity can be seen if the PCs get Celis Mott, scourge of the Nanth'ri space close enough to either a crack or the large route, has gone mad. The first Charon attack hole. Looking into these pits reveals an area drove him into a swirl of red mist which filled with clouds of blood-red mist. A made him insane. He vacillates between the cunning cutthroat he is and the dashing pirate he believes himself to be. q tun Damage Mott has claimed the overlook as his territory, along with three equally-mad ** When blasters are set on stun, or members of Celestial's crew now serving as when characters are attacked by loyal henchmen. When the PCs enter this weapons designated as "stun only," these area, Mott sees them alternately as loyal rules are used. Note that these rules crewmen to be commanded with brag replace "Setting Blasters on Stun" on gadocio and Rebels to be looted and then page 48 of Star Wars: The Roleplaying sold to the Imperials. Game. Also note that weapons set on Mott starts this meeting in "shrewd stun retain their normal damage codes, cutthroat mode," ambushing the Rebels with but use the table below for the effect of hopes of plunder. The pirate and his three the damage. assistants attack the PCs from behind jagged Stun Damage Summary rocks, firing warning shots and calling for DR
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ut-Away to Ber’asco After the scene with Mott, read aloud: INTERIOR: THE ALIEN CRAFT. Strands of webbing reluctantly part as the camera gains speed. Soon it passes openings quickly, giving you brief glimpses of shadowy movement. Weird light begins to spring on off-camera, just out of sight, causing the barely-seen shadows to move faster. A passage opens and the camera turns, traveling up through a vertical tube, up to a higher level of the ship. Then, abruptly, the camera stops. The scene is dark, yet the 'light of otherspace filters in from somewhere above. Undefined shapes loom in the blackness, barely visible in the dim light. quietly). The crewmen's moods follow that The scene gets brighter, the shapes become of Celis Mott. During this event Celis Mott switches clearer, more distinct. But before you can between "shrewd cutthroat mode" and focus on any particular thing, a shadow snaps into the frame and a multitude of "dashing pirate mode" as many times as you can get away with. alien eyes look directly at you. Celis Mott has not been exposed to "The illness has returned, my children," enough mist to kill him, but he will not be whispers a frightening voice. "Let us cure free of its effects in time to matter for this it." encounter. If the Rebels knock Mott Wipe to ... unconscious, he awakens back in his normal INTERIOR: THE ALIEN CRAFT. Where a frame of mind and agrees to help them until group of Rebel heroes continues to such time as they no longer serve his explore ... purposes. If they kill him in combat and check his body, a Moderate medicine roll determines that Mott had nerve tissue pods, jutting out at various angles to form damage, but not as extensive as that canopies above the narrow spaces between suffered by Captain Gryphon. the column rows. Celestial Crewmen: DEX 2D+1, blaster 3D, As the Charon are not familiar with much dodge 2D+2. All other attributes and skills of the technology used by the Empire and 2D. Blaster damage 4D. the Alliance, many useful items can be found in this chamber. If the Rebels search around Cargo Hold and open a few of the pods, they discover This chamber serves as a cargo hold for common items carried on spaceships. One the Charon ship. Remnants of equipment pod contains cartons of supplies for a from the many vessels stranded in mining colony. Another is filled with spare otherspace have been stored here for use by Droid parts. Yet another has survival tents Desolate's crew. Read the following out loud shoved into it. when the Rebels enter this area. If the Rebels search more pods, allow them Within this odd-shaped chamber, to find items that could prove useful but do dividing columns rise to a ceiling some 20 not provide them with an undue advantage. meters overhead. The columns are long So, they may find syntherope, glow rods, and thin, made from the rocky material power shovels and protective vests, but not used throughout the ship. But stuck into weapons, explosives or complete hyper the column are thousands of hexagonal drives.
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However, if the PCs make a Moderate difficulty check, and the third and final search roll, they find one important piece stamina roll is a Difficult check. If any roll is they need to repair their hyperdrive unit. less than the needed number, the mist's They find a brand new hypercoil, one of five effects manifest in frightening hallucinations. components that make up a hyperdrive Locate the "Red Mist Cards” in the pullout motivator. section. When a player character fails a stamina roll, hand the player a "Red Mist Mists of Death Card." He or she must read the card. Leave When the PCs reach this area, they meet a that player in suspense until all other PCs more resistive membrane. They must make have reached the crawltube or read a card. Easy Strength rolls to pass through this After reading a "Red Mist Card," the PCs find doorway, or slice open the transparent themselves at the crawltube. covering with lightsaber, vibroblade, or knife After all PCs have made it to the crawltube (this membrane has a Strength of 2D). go on to "The Way Up." Blasters can only poke holes in the membrane, and these repair themselves immediately. Once the Rebels are through the eath Mist Effect Chart membrane, read: Wisps of red mist hang low in this Failed Roll #of Effects chamber, obscuring the floor and making it Easy Three difficult to judge distance and size. Clouds Moderate Two of the crimson fog float freely, hiding and Difficult One revealing other areas as they drift by. In Each effect temporarily lowers an the distance you occasionally catch a attribute by ID. Have each PC roll a six- glimpse of a tube-like column rising into sided die to determine which attribute is the ceiling, but the drifting fog encloses it lowered by ID for the duration of the next before you can determine more details. episode. No attribute may be lowered by While the mist obscures vision, the room more than ID; roll again if the same is flat and unadorned. A crawltube stands attribute is affected. across the chamber, leading up to the Roll Lower This second level. Attribute by ID The red mist is the Charon "death mist." 1 Dexterity It is their primary tool in their mission to 2 Knowledge eradicate life from the universe. In small 3 Mechanical doses it causes pain, madness, and 4 Perception hallucinations as it first attacks the nerve 5 Strength cells in the brain. Larger doses lead to death. 6 Technical Event Three: The Death Mist Cards Within the death mist, the Rebels must fight off the affects of minimal exposure to the gas. Even breath masks offer little The Way Up protection, as the mist clings to exposed The Rebels have successfully crossed the flesh and enters a person's system through mists of death. Read: pores. Only a sealed vac suit provides complete protection, and a PC wearing one The frightening images fade as clouds of crosses the chamber with no problem. mist part to reveal a column that rises into Others must make stamina rolls to fight off the ceiling high above. There is an opening the poison mist. in the column which leads into a hollow In the mist, even Rebels close to each tube. other feel separated and alone as visibility This is a crawltube. The hollow tube leads constantly shifts and worsens. Each Rebel up to the second level of the ship. The must make three stamina rolls as he or she handholds lining the tube walls are too wide crosses the room to determine if the death for humans to use comfortably, and are thin mist has affected him or her. The first is an and deep. The climb to episode four is Easy check, the second is a Moderate clumsy. -STAR. WARS
pisode Four Heart of Darkness
Summary One small opening exits toward the Desolate's second level is more challenging computer room, while two large openings for the Rebels, whose abilities are reduced exit into the hangar decks. due to the death mist. They also learn more about the alien ship and its crew, and meet Hangar Decks Beyond the vehicle pods, through two Bane Nothos. large openings covered by more of the Platform Two Encounters membranous material, are the domed and Events hangar decks. These flat, circular platforms lie beneath rocky domes that can be opened Vehicle Bay to provide access to otherspace. Several The crawltube leads up to a cavernous, alien ships rest upon one of the decks. One hilly area — hills which are actually huge, is the same as the ships stored in the translucent pods. Dark shapes can be seen vehicle pods, and was recently within the within them. One pod is split open, but pod the PCs found split open. nothing remains within the hollow shell. If the Rebels examine the ship they can tell An Easy search roll allows a PC to the craft was used not too long ago. The discover a small, round protrusion on each engine area, which resembles the power pod. A slit runs across the protrusion, core within Desolate, is still warm. Web forming a pocket. If anyone reaches into strands cling to the interior of the vessel, these pockets, they can feel three knoby and stored within the webs is a power growths. Moderate Technical rolls let the coupler whose markings identify it as PCs manipulate the knobs to open the pod. having come from Celestial's engines. This is Read: another necessary piece for rebuilding the The pod splits open, each side falling Rebels' hyperdrive motivator. away with a wet, sticky sound. Within the Computer Room moist interior you see an alien construct of The computer room is two connecting some sort. It looks more grown than built, chambers. Within the smaller, circular room as though its genetic material was are pulsing fibrous coils that surround a manipulated to form unnatural shapes for central pillar. The pillar is covered with some unknown purpose. monitors and screens in the shape of A Moderate technology roll lets a PC insectoid eyes. Most of these eyes remain determine that these constructs are ships. dead and lifeless, covered by a thin layer of The technology leans more toward the membranous material. Others glow with biosciences than engineering. The ships alien writing that flashes across their convex appear to hold crews of two, like star- surfaces. Some show scenes outside the fighters, but do not appear to use anything ship, monitoring the derelict vessels. remotely equivalent to hyperdrive The connecting room contains thick, technology. translucent tubes that stretch from floor to The PCs can figure out how to operate the ceiling. Dull-colored liquids bubble through Charon ships only on Very Difficult these tubes, feeding the once-living brain Mechanical rolls or better. None of these cells that operate the computers. The Rebels ships have been used in a long time. cannot understand the language which plays Three portals lead out of the vehicle bay. across the strange screens, nor can they
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figure out a way to access these alien these dreadful living creatures. Within the computers. suit, the warrior feels supremely confident and may make tactical mistakes while Chamber of Armor battling the PCs. Once the suit is Set off from the vehicle bay is a room incapacitated, the Charon flees into the containing examples of Charon bioscience at darkness, giving the Rebels only a glimpse of its best — Charon battle armor. Made from their enemies. the same organic stone used throughout Desolate, battle armor is powerful and Charon Battle Armor: DEX 4D+1, dodge deadly. 4D+2, plasma cannon 4D+2; STR 5D, brawling 5D + 2, climbing/jumping 5D+1, lifting 6D. Event Four: Charon Attack Armor attacks: The armor can make no more As the PCs enter the chamber of armor than two attacks in a combat round. Plasma describe the large, alien forms. Made of the cannon (damage 4D+1), armor claws organic rock, the suits appear to be alive (damage 6D). Charon biosensing technology even though they aren't moving. The dark allows the battle armor to automatically interior heightens the tension of the scene. acquire targets which are obscured by the Then, one of the suits moves. Read: environment, and to make a free 6D search roll against any hiding or sneaking The dark forms tower above you, giant character. figures that look as though they might move at any second. The stillness and quiet There are six suits of armor, each designed hangs ominously as you enter the chamber. to fit and be controlled by the Charon. A Somewhere off to your right you hear a Rebel can operate a suit if he makes a small, scraping sound. One of the large Difficult technology roll. As the suits are not shapes turns, and an alien scream shatters built for non-Charon bodies, +2 is added to the quiet as the shape moves toward you. all difficulty numbers when using the suit to perform an action. While in a suit a Rebel is A Charon warrior has entered a suit of protected from Charon poison and the death battle armor and has decided to eliminate mist until the suit takes damage to in capacitate it. ^ arkness on the Battlefield Chamber of Nutrients Even though Desolate is not alive in the Darkness and other battlefield normal sense, it maintains organic systems. conditions can obscure targets, making For this reason, parts of the ship need combat more difficult. Firing at a fully nutrients for power and material conversion. obscured target adds +10 to the difficulty This large chamber is the main nutrient number; darkness in a cave would fully processing facility aboard the ship. When obscure a target. The darkness inside the Rebels enter this area, read: Desolate is partial, adding +5 to the difficulty number to hit. If the target has Another membrane gives way to a large been spotted (if the attacker has seen the chamber that appears to be a storage tank defender fire a blaster, for example) the of some sort. Completely sealed except for environment acts as medium cover, +2 to the membranous openings on each end of the difficulty number. the tank, a thick green paste covers the Spotting an obscured character requires bottom of this chamber. Translucent tubes a Perception check, which counts as an run everywhere, distributing the paste to action. If the obscured character is silent other parts of the ship as well as dumping and did not move last round the check is more into the room. Large yellow floating Difficult; if the character made noise or globs drift lazily around the chamber. moved last round the check is Moderate; The Rebels must cross this chamber to and if the character fired a blaster last proceed further into Desolate. The paste round the check is Easy. rises almost a meter high, and the PCs must The Charon are used to the gloom wade through it to reach the exit. Currents inside Desolate — their difficulty number created by the distribution tubes make to hit does not change. footing treacherous. Four Easy Dexterity rolls are needed to cross without incident. A
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The Fuel Pods Long, thin pods fill this chamber that surrounds part of the power core. Thin fibers stretch from the core to the walls of the room, running directly above the pods. The pods glow with energy and every few moments one explodes, sending streams of power along the fibers into the core. Rebels in this area must make Moderate Dexterity rolls to avoid being caught in an explosion. Those that fail must roll against 5D+1 concussion (stun) damage. These pods can be removed for use as bombs, but as they explode at random intervals this may not work very well. Ber asco s Holopark This area is made up of five flat platforms surrounding a circular display. The display is a holographic representation of an unknown galaxy, a galaxy with an absence of stars at the very center. PCs making an Easy failed roll means that a PC slips. Slipping is planetary systems roll explain that the void at not dangerous, but falling in the gooey paste the center is a black hole. The display is set is annoying. The danger comes after the first at a speed about one billion times faster round of movement in event five. than real time. This is just the centerpiece of this display. Event Five: Waste Conversion As the PCs wander from platform to platform After the Rebels have made one Dexterity the following holoimages snap on. check to move through the chamber of The first shows a civilization inhabited by nutrients, read: a spiderlike race. The planet orbits a star The warm paste pulls at you as you wade that is slowly being pulled apart by a black across the chamber. You notice the floating hole. As the civilization grows beneath this globs again, because a few of them have frightening spectacle, it turns to embrace drifted closer. Long tendrils unravel from the black hole as a powerful god that is the bottom of the globs, ending in spiky eating its source of life. balls that sway menacingly. The second platform shows the rise of a powerful cult upon this dying world. Instead These globs function as waste removal of working to save the star and its planets, units. They attach their tendrils to foreign the cult calls for worship of everything the matter and drag it up into their hollow void represents — an end to existence, bodies where acids convert it into usable nothingness, death. paste. As Rebels are not normally within the The third platform details the cult's leader, nutrient chamber, the globs treat them as an armored spider-being who oversees the foreign matter. No more than one glob construction of an armada of crude attacks a PC at one time. Once the PCs spacecraft. Within the spacecraft are tanks cross the chamber, the globs stop attacking. of red mist. With these items, the cult leader There are over 40 globs. makes his first sacrifice to his cruel god — Floating Globs: DEX 3D, PER 2D, STR 3D. he releases the mist over the planet and the Four tendril-maces damage 4D. Acid sac people die in madness and pain. 6D+1 damage. A floating glob gets an attack The fourth platform shows the deaths of with each tendril-mace at the full 3D numerous other worlds, each flipping by at Dexterity; the multi-action penalty is not amazing speed. The spider beings applied. If all four tendrils hit, that PC is incorporate the technology of each dead entangled and dragged toward the glob's world into their growing armada. Then the acid sac. images freeze upon a fleet of vessels much
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like Desolate, only these ships are vibrantly wield no weapons but their own deadly alive instead of dead and shadowy. The claws. From the shadows 20 meters away view zooms to a single craft, with spider- Nothos tries to convince the Rebels to beings crawling upon its surface, using weird surrender. He will stress the need for "new instruments to inject material into the ship. soldiers in this new era," but will refuse to Then the scene speeds up again, and as the elaborate except in cryptic ways. Rebels watch, the ship decays and If the Rebels do not agree to join him, deteriorates before their eyes. Its change to Nothos orders the Charon to destroy them. Desolate complete, the ship and the scene The four warriors battle to the death. blink out. Nothos may not combine with the Charon as The final platform shows Desolate he does not understand their tactics or their crossing countless galaxies, leaving nothing language well enough to coordinate his but darkness behind it. The holoimages efforts with theirs; what little he knows of fade, leaving only the void display to the aliens is what Ravik taught him in a very continue its destruction of the universe. hectic time. During the contest, Nothos pulls The Living Hall a thermal detonator from his belt and moves forward. If any PC blasts him before he can The Charon use this large hall as a toss it, the detonator smashes into the floor common room. Webbing stretches every near Nothos's feet and explodes, sending where, forming a canopy overhead where chunks of the floor cascading down to the the Charon can hide and rest. Event six takes lower level. The Imperial falls through the place when the Rebels enter this area. hole along with debris and webbing, Event Six: Bane Nothos Appears disappearing from sight. Grand Moff Ravik is a master of The Crawltube manipulation. Since most of the group from In the corridor between the living hall and Celestial was either captured or killed, it fell the fuel pods is a crawltube up. to Ravik and Bane Nothos to vie for command of those remaining. The bounty hunters wanted nothing to do with the uidelines for Combined Actions military men and went off on their own. Ravik slowly eroded Nothos’ command until _____ Use common sense when deter the Grand Moff was in control of the mining whether an action can be remaining crew; Bane Nothos soon fell in combined. Most actions can be combined. line. As Ravik made overtures to the Things that cannot be combined include Charon, he instructed Nothos to remain all reaction skills, movement rolls vs. behind to prevent any interference, although terrain, beast riding, operation of a single the trouble he expected was from the vehicle (co-pilots don’t combine, they bounty hunters rather than the Rebels. perform other actions), climbing/jumping Nothos sees the PCs as a tactical problem (although circumstances might make it to be solved. If he recognizes these Rebels possible to combine a climb), stamina, from the Strike Force: Shantipole adventure swimming (sometimes), and Force skills. he will be looking for a chance to avenge his To figure out how many people can defeat. When the Rebels enter the living hall, combine to do a single action, use the skill read: of the lead character. For example, if they are searching and the lead character has Webbing presses down oppressively from 4D, no more than three additional people above, and you are certain that something may combine with the leader. In the case up there is watching you. Scuttling sounds of combat use the command skill to overhead confirm your fears, but before determine the maximum number of you can act an authoritative voice calls out. combined fires rather than the blaster "Members of the Galactic Empire. Throw skill itself. Note that stormtroopers are down your weapons in the name of Bane not under this restriction — this is one of Nothos!" their advantages. Whether the Rebels comply or not, four Charon warriors drop from above. They
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pisode Five The Great Contest
Summary pods. They rip the pod free from the Three events spur on this episode. First, dividing wall and carry it toward the power the Rebels discover what befell the crews of core. Just as the pod reaches the core, the the many derelict ships that orbit Desolate. core opens to accept the pod — occupant Then they battle undead constructs in a and all. contest staged by the Charon bioscientists. The PCs cannot revive any of these people. Finally, the Rebels witness the great If they continue to search, they find 10 awakening as the Charon warriors answer crewmen from Celestial. their prophet’s call. The New Engine Platform Three Encounters Beside the power column is a room where and Events a Charon experiment is underway. Here, the bioscientists are working to combine the Gamemaster's note: The effects of the mechanical technology of the derelict ships death mist wear off once the Rebels reach with the organic technology of Desolate. this level. Their attributes and skills return Read: to normal, not including any penalties for damage they may have sustained. An unsettling conglomeration of metal and organic material has been constructed Food Storage Pods in this chamber. Recognizable ship parts The crawltube from level two deposits the have been combined with the alien organic Rebels inside a cool, moist area. Like the technology to create a hybrid of the two. cargo hold on level one, this room has pods The entire works connects to the power connected to dividing walls, forming stacks core, forming an instrument of unknown of stored items. But what is being stored design and purpose. here is not spare machinery, but the crews from all the wrecked ships. Read: A Moderate technology roll lets a Rebel recognize this as an alien modification of a Thousands of pods are stacked high in hyperdrive engine. It is near completion and this chamber, attached to tall dividing should soon be in working order. walls. The air is cool in here, and you can If the Rebels search the chamber, they find see your breath as you walk around. a usable 4-axial stabilizer within the hybrid Within the pods you see familiar shapes, mess. This is another of the pieces they but you cannot quite identify them through need to rebuild the hyperdrive motivator in the translucent shells. The Long Shot. If the pods are opened, the PCs find the Hall of Contests crews from the wrecked ships. Humans, A membrane-covered portal leads into this Wookiees, Mon Calamarians, and even strange room. There is no floor, just small unidentifiable races are stacked beside each oddly-shaped platforms that hang other in this chamber. An Easy medicine roll suspended across the hall. Each platform allows a PC to examine one of the bodies. connects to another by a short, fragile- While the person isn't technically dead, looking web bridge. Here the Charon enough toxin has been administered to bioscientists conduct their favorite destroy much nerve tissue in the brain. experiment. They pit living specimens As the Rebels watch, long tendrils drop against their constructs to learn how to from the ceiling and attach to one of the improve their own creations. 32 -STAR. WART
Event Seven: The Great Contest spinning ability (Web-spinning 5D, strength Find the map of "The Hall of Contests" in 5D/3D+1; see below). The weaver may use the pullout section. Also find the counter the web in one of three ways each round: strip provided with this adventure and 1. Obstruction. The weaver spins a well- carefully cut apart the counters. Place the anchored web with solidly constructed six counters labeled "PCI" through "PC6" strands within a square, blocking passage to outside the entry portal. Place the six any character who must pass through the construct counters, labeled "1" through "6", square. The web has a Strength of 5D for the on the starting spaces marked on the map. purposes of resisting damage, and provides Place EL-434 under a webbing marker on the light cover (+1 difficulty) to any character square with the web symbol. The other hiding behind it. The web must take damage counters are placed to one side for the equivalent to incapacitation or mortal moment. wound before the web can be passed. This contest combines the roleplaying combat system with a visual setting. If you 2. Entanglements A melee attack which may have any of The Star Wars Miniatures Sets, be made at range. The base difficulty to they can be used with this scenario as well. entangle is 5, plus 2 for every square The Rebels must cross the platforms to between the weaver and the target; thus the reach the exit portal. The Charon constructs weaver needs a 5 to entangle an adjacent stand in their way. These constructs are character. The attack may be parried by a converted creatures whose life force has melee parry. Once entangled, a character been subdued to create zombies for the can do nothing until he or she has torn, Charon to command. Like robots or Droids, blasted or otherwise damaged the web the constructs unerringly obey the orders of sufficently to pull free. When the web has their masters. But unlike Droids, there is no taken incapacitating damage or greater the personality or life-spark present. character is free. An entangling web only Each square on the map represents two has 3D+1 Strength — the strands do not have meters. Movement on the shaky, woven the same structural integrity when thrown at surface requires a movement roll, either a range and not spun in a pattern. Dexterity roll or a climhing/jumping roll; the 3. Shield. The web may be used as a choice is up to the moving character. reaction skill much like shielding — the web Walking moves a character two squares and roll is added to the difficulty number to hit requires a Very Easy movement roll. Running for a "web total." If the to hit roll exceeds moves a character five squares and requires the web total, the attack hits the weaver an Easy movement roll. The web bridges directly. If the attack hits but does not which connect the platform are difficult to exceed the web total, the web Strength of cross — add the number printed beside 3D+1 is added to the weaver s Strength of each web bridge to the movement difficulty 2D+1 for a total damage resistance of 5D+2. whenever a chracter moves across any The web may be used to shield from all portion of the bridge. Every square (or attacks on the weaver in a single round. The portion) jumped adds +3 to the movement shielding is only usable by the weaver. difficulty. A failed movement roll results in C2, 3 (Shootcrawlers): DEX 3D+1, blaster the Rebel taking ID of stun (from tripping 4D+1; KNO 2D; MEC 2D; PER 3D, hide/sneak and falling), stumbling at the end of the 5D, search 5D; STR 3D; TEC ID. declared movement. Shootcrawlers have a blaster weapon built The Hall of Contests is as gloomy as the into their right forward appendage. The rest of Desolate. Remember the darkness weapon does 4D of damage, but has the modifiers when the Rebels are fighting in range of a blaster carbine. here — the Charon constructs are not affected by the darkness. C4, 5 (Jumpers): DEX 2D+2; KNO 1D+2; MEC ID; PER 3D, Search 6D+1; STR 4D + 2, The Constructs climbing/jumping 8D; TEC ID. Jumpers were Cl (The Weaver): DEX 3D+1, dodge 4D+1; designed to collect "diseased" (living) KNO: 2D, MEC ID; PER 2D+2, STR: 2D+1, TEC specimens, doing as little damage as ID. The bioscientists constructed the possible so the bioscientists could study the weaver with a variation of the Charon web life processes of the captured beings. They
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are programmed to do only stun damage. The constructs make brawling attacks, p ailing Inside Desolate including jump-attacks. Jump-attacks may be made at range; the base difficulty is 5, ___ The interior of Desolate has been plus 2 for each square jumped, up to a altered to suit the Charon. Consequently, maximum of 15 squares (30 meters). webbing is everywhere, as rigging, Damage is brawling damage (4D + 2). support and crawlspace. When a char Jumpers may choose to use jumping as their acter falls from a platform on any level normal mode of movement, at a difficulty of there is a good chance he will snare (or be 2 per square jumped. snared) by some of this webbing before he has a fatal collision. A character gets C6 (The Gatebeast): DEX 4D+1; KNO 3D; three Dexterity checks; the first is MEC ID; PER 3D; STR 3D; TEC ID. Gate Moderate, the second two are Easy. If he power 5D. The gatebeast is constructed succeeds at any of them he has from a lifeform the Charon extinguished maneuvered himself into some webbing. centuries ago. The gate power is not fully If the character succeeds the first time, he understood by the Charon, who can climb back up to a platform in five programmed the construct to use it in very rounds. If he succeeds on the second, it limited ways. When the gatebeast targets a takes 10 rounds, and climbing back up character, place the target marker takes 20 rounds if the character caught underneath the character's piece. The himself on the final try. If a character falls difficulty to hit is Easy unless the character in the Hall of Contests and catches dodges — but dodging the gate power is himself, he may resurface on any square unusual. A character s Knowledge or of any platform within the hall. control skill is used to dodge the gate power. It is not necessary to run to do a "full mental dodge"; in other respects this mental dodge works the same as a physical dodge. The bioscientists retreat if they are fired Knowledge is used to resist the effects of on by more than one character (including the gate power; EL-434), if two Rebels reach the exit portal, DR
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Zardra Put Zardra in play when the battle is well underway. Zardra enters the hall from the exit portal. She is pursued by Charon warriors (one if the PCs already have more than enough competition, up to four if the PCs have a decided edge; use your own markers for the warriors). Ravik requested that the Charon hunt her down. Zardra is fighting and fleeing with the hopes of rejoining Celis Mott or EL-434 and finding a way off Desolate. When she sees the Rebels her plans shift — after all, their ship cannot be any worse off than Celestial. If she can strike a deal with the Rebels (negotiated during the combat, involving transport off Desolate and at least 100 credits for her services, a mere honorarium for a bounty hunter of her caliber), she joins the PCs cause. Otherwise, she heads for the entrance portal alone. Construct Chamber This is the bioscientists' laboratory. Many bodies are stacked in preparation for the process that will turn them into Charon slaves. Eight bioscientists are here (less any killed in the hall of contests). They flee if possible, fight if pressed. If the Rebels make an Easy search of this room, they find an influx capacitor; another part for reconstructing their hyperdrive motivator. Chamber of Sleep When the Rebels enter this area. Readr Silence fills this web-covered chamber. Across the room you see another crawltube rising up to the next level. Because of the low-hanging covering of webs, you cannot see the ceiling of this room. As you walk toward the crawltube you hear a light scratching sound. It becomes louder, more insistent. Then you hear the sounds of the first round of combat. If the PCs run tearing material. toward the crawltube immediately, they The Charon warriors awaken from their escape these horrors. Otherwise, they have sleeping pods as the PCs enter the room. to fight their way to the tube. After every six rounds of combat, another five Charon Event Eight: The Charon Awake emerge to join the battle. The Rebels see the pods above split open The Charon can use the tube more as the Charon emerge. The Charon warriors efficiently than the Rebels. It is up to the PCs then lower themselves through the webbing to somehow block off the lower level using to snuff the hated life-spark that each PC either concentrated blaster fire or possesses. explosives. Either attempt causes the walls There are 200 Charon awakening in this of the tube to collapse, sealing the army of room, but only five are ready for battle on Charon warriors below.
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pisode Six Into the Nest
Summary Cathorn now has these features plus one In this episode, the Rebels have reached other. Grafted to its undead body is the Desolate's summit. Here they confront spiked tail of an Ithorian Barbed Flyer Grand Moff Ravik and the Charon leader (captured from a lost ship), giving it an Ber'asco in order to save themselves — and additional attack from this new appendage. the galaxy they left behind! The Cathorn leaps into the altar of death chamber and battles the PCs to the best of Platform Four Encounters its ability. It goes after Force-using Rebels and Events first. The construct, not being alive, is not The Ship s Brain affected by the power of the monolith. The crawltube opens into a chamber built The Cathorn: DEX 4D, PER ID, STR 3D+1 around the power core. This is the ship's (4D + 1 with armor). Claw attack damage "brain," the organic computer that controls 5D+2, spiked tail damage 4D+1. the ship's systems. A jumbled mass of coils grows from the core, and thousands of The Living Computer tendrils of varying thickness branch through This is another of the living computers the room to disappear into the walls. The found throughout the ship. Its description is chamber hums and pulses with energy. The the same as the one on level two. The noise, compared to the gravelike silence of computer has many brain nodes throughout the rest of the ship, is deafening. this level, including the nest, which allow communication with the main systems. The Altar of Death Accessing a brain node is not difficult, but This chamber is the Charon temple, it is not for the queasy. A PC who thrusts his dedicated to the black hole that destroyed hand into a brain node feels a grinding at their home world. In the center stands a his fingertips as thousands of microincisions solid black monolith. The monolith has an are made and minifilaments attach to nerve aura of death about it, and Force-sensitive endings. Communication connection Rebels dislike it immediately. This object established, a PC may attempt to use the epitomizes the total lack of Force the PCs computer on a Difficult com puter have felt throughout the ship, and like a programming/ repair roll. The computer net black hole it pulls at the Rebels’ life forces. does understand Basic after Ber'asco had The effects of the monolith wounds all the Ravik go through connection and Rebels; the wound disappears as soon as translation. The computer will give they leave this chamber. Medpacs or other information, but will not change the status of healing can repair the wound, but it the ship in any way. Only Ber'asco has reappears two rounds after healing. A clearance for that, clearance established by character who makes a Difficult control roll thought and DNA pattern matching. ignores the effects of the monolith. Monolith: STR 7D+2, temporarily wounds The Nest living creatures other than Charon. Underneath an unusual web dome, the nest is Desolate's command bridge. The light Event Nine: The Cathorn from otherspace streams through the dome The Cathorn is another Charon construct. creating strange shadows in this area. A Once a large armored cat creature, the command center, built to accommodate the
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alien physiology of the Charon, fills the The Grand Moff tries to play down the room. Through two alcoves the PCs can see Charon's obsession with death and smaller organic computers. emphasize their usefulness in dethroning the Emperor. Ravik also overstates his Event 10: Grand Motts' Gambit ability to control the Charon in order to Ravik learned much from the holopark, quiet fears about the danger the Charon including the Charon language, and figured pose to the Alliance and the free worlds. out how to turn the Charon to his side. Appealing to the spider-beings' lust for Event 11: Meeting Ber'asco death, he negotiated with Ber'asco to lead Once they have accepted or rejected the Charon to a new galaxy if they would Ravik's offer, the Rebels meet Ber'asco. help him destroy his enemies. The Charon Read: ostensibly agreed. The Charon above you become a hurry Ravik is smart enough not to trust the of brushing, scraping motion, as waves of Charon more than necessary. He hopes to sharp clacking sounds roll back and forth recruit the Rebels to his cause, using them across the canopy of darkness. Then they as envoys to the rest of the Alliance. He stop. A tall armored figure emerges from wants the Alliance to work with and act as a behind a mass of fibrous coils. The figure balance against the Charon until the Empire is one of the spider-beings you have been is finished. Ravik plans to consolidate his battling, larger, more ponderous than the position after the victory, replacing the rest. He pauses, and the diffuse glow of an Emperor as the leading power in the galaxy. activated computer node reflects in ripples If the Alliance is destroyed in the process, so off his armor. The being rasps his claws be it. Read: together is greeting. The dozens of Charon You hear the faint rustling of Charon in the darkness above mimic the greeting warriors as they move on strands far above in unison. you. Shadows seem to melt from a figure If the Rebels have made a deal with Ravik, standing 15 meters away. As he steps into use "The Speech" below. If they attack, the light, you see that it is the tall, thin Ber'asco plunges a clawed hand into the man from Celestial's hololog. "I am Grand brain node to command the computer to Moff Ravik. I am hoping you have the defend him. As his armor deflects the first sense and decency to join me in a grand few shots, he has time to arrange his and noble cause — the annihilation of defense. Go directly to "Defense of The Emperor Palpatine and the New Order." Nest."
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the PCs go that far the adventure is over. he Nest Grave Ber'asco has won. Let the PCs know that they become NPCs if they become Tangled within a large web are some constructs, as they lose their free will. 20 men and women, the last of Celestial's Defense of the Nest: Ber'asco activates the crew. Venom has destroyed their minds nest's defenses if the Rebels do not submit but left their bodies intact. Ravik offered to his will. Six tendrils snap free and swing the crew to Ber’asco as a gesture of the toward the Rebels. Each tendril is capped Moff's sincerity. with a glowing sphere that fires plasma bolts Neatly stored in the web, suspended once per combat round. In addition, each of near the bodies of the crew, are 10 Charon these tendrils has two appendages of its vac suits. While these suits are not built own which it uses to capture and hold prey. for humans, the Rebels can fit into them. Once this battle starts, Ber'asco moves into They function as normal vacuum suits, the darkness of the hall, commanding his providing an artificial environment for warriors to evacuate the nest, but guard all survivial in deep space. membranous entrances from the other side. A final item can be found within the nest. It is the realspace compensator, the Brain Tendrils: DEX 3D, PER 2D+2, STR final piece needed for the Rebels to build 2D + 2. Plasma bolt damage 3D+1. If an a hyperdrive motivator. Ber'asco brought appendage hits, it wraps around a PC and the piece to the nest to have Ravik reduces Dexterity by ID. explain the design of the compensator. Once the Rebels appear to be on their way to victory against the brain tendrils, read: Ber'asco is illuminated by the activation The Speech: If Ber'asco is allowed to speak, of several brain nodes. His armor shifts, he sinks a claw into the brain node. The drops over his eyes and seals completely, voice generated by the organic computer is one limb connected to a node. Still in Basic, but sounds rasping and alien. "The translating, the computer says, "Cleanse the disease rarely has vectored to Desolate, wound." The slow rending sound is lost as never before within The Nest. Your strain is the dome tears open and a great howl of most resistant. Ravik-culture has convinced air escapes the ship. You don't have long me of your value in service to the Void. I am before you too are pulled into the vacuum the Final Prophet of the Charon. I am of otherspace. Ber'asco. Submit to the will of Void; The Rebels have six rounds to get into the bioscientists can evaluate, cultivate your Charon vac suits before they are expelled strain. Agree to construction; we shall cross into space. Getting into an unwieldy Charon you with finest of Charon warriors. You vac suit while being pulled by the force of accept our offer?" the exiting air requires two rounds. Rebels Ber'asco shows patience with the Rebels must make an Easy Strength roll each round. as long as they can convince him there is Combined action is possible, with no more some chance they will agree to his proposal. than two characters trying to cram a Rebel If the Rebels stall for too long, or act into a suit. aggressively, Ber'asco defends the nest. Very Easy Dexterity rolls let the PCs catch From Ber'asco's point of view, aggressive the outside of the dome. The sticky pads on actions include trying to "infect" (move to) the vac suit appendages provide adhesion to other areas within the nest. the outside of the ship. The Rebels must What if the PCs join Ber'asco? The first climb across the outer hull to reach their step is to be injected with Charon poison; if own ship and episode seven.
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pisode Seven Back to Realspace
Summary A warrior leaps for you — a gun turret The Rebels must make their escape under on The Long Shot turns and fires on the harrowing conditions. Not only must they Charon, reducing it to a burnt husk. A climb across the outside of the alien ship familiar voice crackles over your com unit, while wearing alien vac suits, they must "Darlings, I am feeling most generous rebuild their hyperdrive engine while deadly today. Forget my fee — kill those three Charon starfighters attack. pests to prove you are worth my trouble while I discourage our pursuit. When you Escaping Desolate are finished I shall open the hatch and we The Rebels must make their way back to can leave. Do hurry. My markmanship the entry pod where they left their ship. isn't good enough to kill all of those Crossing the pocked, irregular surface is things." slow work. Moving at a walk requires an Easy Dexterity (or climbing/ jumping) roll, Putting it all Back Together moving at a run (or while dodging) requires The Rebels can take off under sublight a Difficult Dexterity or climbing/ jumping speed as they begin to put their hyperdrive roll. Failure means loss of adhesion to the engine back together. They need all five surface; the character begins to float away parts: the hypercoil, the influx capacitor, from the surface of Desolate, as the ship has power coupler, 4-axial stabilizer, and the an extremely low natural gravity. realspace compensator. A Very Difficult The Rebels have to cross 100 meters of the starship repair roll is needed to rush the craggy surface to reach the cave and their repairs and get it working perfectly — time ship. The Rebels can see vac-suited Charon is very short and not all the parts are in emerging from portals behind, slowly pristine condition. If the Rebels are willing gaining on them. to fuse their motivator for good, they can switch some parts around and get it to work Returning to the Rebels' Ship on an Easy starship repair roll. Do not tell When the Rebels enter the entry pod, they the players the difficulties of the initial find their ship where they left it — but it is repair attempt — let them try for the Very covered with thick layers of webbing! Four Difficult. If they fail the Rebels hear that Charon warriors await the PCs, ready to stop awful noise as they try to jump to them from entering their craft. As they finish hyperspace. Then let them switch the parts, off these warriors, they see dozen upon and make the jump. dozen upon score more warriors boiling across the floor, walls and ceiling toward The Charon Starfighters The Long Shot. While the Rebels repair the ship, the pilot What Happened to Zardra? notices two blips on the screen, a pair of Charon starfighters at long range. Another If Zardra went her own way in the Hall of pair of starfighters engage the Rebels at long Contests (or was tossed off a platform by a range after three rounds of combat. The construct, to catch herself far down in the Rebels must battle them until the engine is webbing), she made her way to The Long repaired. Shot before the Rebels. As the PCs engage More starfighters are erupting from the the Charon warriors, read:
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long moments only black stars streak by. Then you see light and color as your ship enters hyperspace. The instruments check out and you lean back to wait. Stars move by in colored rainbows, then they shift back to normal as you emerge into realspace. Rewards Give each player between 5 and 10 skill points for completing this adventure. If the PCs discovered what they could about the Charon, engaging Ber'asco and Ravik in conversation to uncover information rather than immediate gunplay, nudge the reward to the top of the range. Replace any Force Points used during the adventure and award additional Force Points for exemplary play. See page 94 of the roleplaying rulebook to refresh your memory on awarding skill and Force Points.
^ ut-Away to Otherspace ----- Read aloud: EXTERIOR: THE ALIEN SHIP DESOLATE. The camera pans the dark surface, sweeping up toward the web dome. Pan to ... surface of Desolate, but they cannot reach INTERIOR: THE NEST. Ber'asco sits the PCs before the hyperspace motivator is within the command center, idly dis repaired. assembling a Rebel blaster. Bioscientists scurry by carrying surgical instruments and Charon Starfighters: Hyperdrive Multiplier: things which look wet and unwholesome. none. Sublight speed 5D+1; Maneuverability He addresses someone we cannot see. 2D; Hull 3D+2. Weapons: Tri- laser pulse- "The others of your strain have fled, cannon (fire linked, damage pulsed); fire running to hide in a place we cannot yet control 1D+2; combined damage 7D. Shields: reach. The Void is disappointed. Ravik- ID. culture is all we have left. We are taking Pilot: starship piloting 5D, starship shields utmost precautions in constructing you. 5D. Gunner: starship gunnery 4D+2. When you are free of the disease you shall Realspace or Bust! lead us to your strain. The Void is patient. The Charon are closing fast, but the Soon its patience shall be rewarded." hyperdrive engine is ready to fire. An Easy Cut to ... astrogation roll to plot a course, an Easy CREDITS AND CLOSING THEME. piloting roll, and: The storm-gray expanse shifts and expands as your ship leaps forward. For
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The following upgrades should be made to your Star Wars: The new sequence divides combat into combat rounds. Each round Roleplaying Game rulebook. They replace the previously publish represents five seconds. Each round is divided into the following ed rules. Any rules not covered in this upgrade remain the same five segments. You keep on playing one combat round after another as they appear in the rulebook. These upgrades were instituted to until one side is dead or has fled or surrendered. increase enjoyment of the game, clarify certain rules questions, and Each combat round follows this sequence (which replaces the to further enhance the movie-like spirit of the original rules set. sequence on page 46 of the rulebook): Difficulty Numbers 1. Declare Actions. Characters declare all actions for this combat round. The full dodge option must be declared now. The character The difficulty numbers listed for each type of task are guidelines, (PC or NPC) with the lowest Dexterity code declares actions first, numbers which can vary from task to task, even when the tasks followed by the other characters in ascending order of Dexterity. are similar. They were not intended to be absolutes. Swinging across a shaft in the Death Star, one hand on a rope, the other around 2. Declare Reaction Skills. Characters declare combat dodges. a princess, is a difficult task. So is swinging across a mine shaft while The character (PC or NPC) with the lowest Dexterity code declares being pursued by stormtroopers. But the Death Star is the Death first, followed by the other characters in ascending order of Dexterity. Star; swinging across a mine shaft is a bit easier, although it’s still 3. Roll Reaction Skills. Characters who declared the use of reac tougher than a moderate task. To reflect this in the game, the dif tion skills (full or combat dodges) roll skill dice. The gamemaster ficulty numbers are now presented as a scale. determines the to-hit difficulty numbers for this combat round. Task Description Difficulty Number Scale 4. Roll Actions. Characters who declared actions roll skill dice. Very Easy 3-5 Actions are resolved in descending order of the number of haste Easy 6-10 actions taken; a character who takes three haste actions would act Moderate 11-15 before a character who took one or two haste actions. Actions with Difficult 16-20 the same degree of haste are resolved simultaneously, with all non Very Difficult 21-30 movement actions occurring first, then all movement. There are similar scales for combat, knowledge, general 5. Calculate Damage. Roll damage and strength dice for all targets knowledge, and medpac use. See the revised “Difficulty Number which were hit, and determine the effects according to the “Damage Chart" at the end of this pullout. Summary” chart. Any targets hit early in the “roll actions" segment Certain types of tasks can and should be scaled according to cir because of haste actions must calculate damage at that time, before cumstances. Medpac difficulty numbers, for example, are based on lesser hastes or simultaneous actions occur. These damage results the extent and severity of damage. Was a PC wounded by a single affect the outcomes of the remaining actions in the segment. blaster bolt? Use 6 as the difficulty number. Was a PC wounded by a thermal detonator? Slide the difficulty number up toward the top Actions end of the wounded scale, which has a maximum of 10. Actions, which must be declared during the first segment of a Until your PCs have advanced to a great degree, use the task- combat round, are movement, skill and attribute use, haste, and related difficulty numbers at the low end of the scale. These numbers preparation. will provide exciting challenges without frustrating players with im Movement during a combat round is either a walk or a run. A possible tasks. Reserve the top end for exceptional circumstances. character can walk up to five meters without any penalty. A run Combat (Revised) ning character can move up to 10 meters, but this counts as an action. Remember, every action after the first one costs ID. Reduce Sequencing any skill or attribute roll made while running by ID. As a bonus, To provide a faster, simpler combat environment that makes running characters add ID to their full or combat dodges (see below). visualization easier, we have redefined the combat sequence. The In these revised rules, there are no movement points.
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Haste allows a character to perform his actions first during the "roll are strictly individual actions may not be combined. For insl actions" segment. Every haste a character declares counts as one TIE pilots may not use a combined action to increase their action. The character declaring the greatest number of haste actions speeds. The speed of each TIE fighter is independent of the : performs the first actions. of another. They may use a combined action, however, to fire Note: Actions by subsequent characters must take into account any a Rebel vessel. damage results that occur due to the haste actions. Stance Preparing an action lets a character increase one skill code by ID A character can either be standing or prone. For game pur| on the next combat round. During the round that a character standing includes crouching, kneeling, or any position in wl prepares, he can do nothing else. In the next round, he makes his character is not lying down to avoid fire. Prone is deliberate improved skill roll. ing down to avoid fire. A character can fall prone at any time wi Dodging and Other Reaction Skills penalty. A character who is prone can get up and use skills i There are now two options available when using a reaction skill same combat round, but this counts as an action. Prone char; — a full reaction and a combat reaction. are harder to hit; add +2 when determining to-hit difficulty nun Full dodge is similar to the dodge rule described in the basic rules. Damage Effects You add the number a character rolls using his dodge skill to the Stun results now reduce all skill and attribute codes of the 1 difficulty number of the attacker. The character making the full by ID for the rest of this combat round and the next combat i dodge must move at full speed (take a running action) although he only. However, strength codes are used at full value when res does not have to move the full distance allowed. He cannot per damage. Stun effects are cumulative. A character stunned form any other action that round. In a starship combat situation, times in the same combat round would reduce his codes t a full evasion would require the pilot to do nothing except try to through the next combat round. attempt a fancy maneuver in hopes of decreasing his ship’s chances of being hit. Other crew members, however, can use other skills Grenades and Thermal Detonators To determine distance scattered (in meters), roll ID at short r this round — including starship gunnery. See “Evasion” for details, 2D at medium range, and 3D at long range. details. Combat dodge allows a character to substitute his skill roll for the Optional Combat Rules — Surprise attacker’s difficulty number. The defender rolls his dodge dice, and Surprise gives a character two free haste actions for the co then chooses the difficulty number of the attack, either his dodge round. These actions do not lower any of his die codes. roll or the original difficulty number. The combat dodge lowers a Example of Play (Combat) character’s skill codes by ID for that combat round. Four Rebels encounter seven Imperials in the corridor of a : One reaction skill roll affects all combat directed at a target for station. They are at medium range to each other, and all chan the entire combat round. are armed with blaster pistols. Combined Actions The Rebel group consists of a pilot (DEX 3D, blaster 5D, c 4D, STR 3D), an engineer (DEX 2D + 1, blaster 3D + 1, dodge 3 Two or more characters can now combine their actions for a single STR 2D+2), a smuggler (DEX 3D+1, blaster 5D + 1, dodge 4 round in order to more effectively accomplish a single task. To per STR 3D), and a Wookiee (DEX 2D+2, blaster 4D+2, dodge 3 form a combined action, all characters involved must declare they STR 5D). are combining. One of the involved characters must be chosen to The Imperials include a bounty hunter (DEX 4D, blaster 6D, c actually perform the action, using his skill code for the roll; others 5D, STR 3D+2), and six stormtroopers (DEX ID, blaster 3D, c involved are simply adding support. For every additional character 3D, STR 3D). (other than the chosen one) involved in the action, add one pip for every full die of skill or attribute or Fire Control the supporting Both groups decide to attack, so combat must be resolved e characters have. Then roll once for each combined action declared. ding to the combat sequence. We’ve described the first rou Example: Two stormtroopers and an Imperial officer declare a combat so that you can see how all the elements work tog< combined shot at one PC. One trooper is chosen to roll his blaster 1. Declare Actions. Characters declare actions in DEX order, lowest to highest. skill code of 3D. The other trooper (3D) and the officer (2D + 1) add Stormtroopers *1 and *2 combine with the bounty hunter tc one pip for each full die of skill they have, for a total of +5. So the chosen trooper rolls 3D+ 5 to make the difficulty number deter one shot at the Wookiee. Stormtroopers *3 and *4 combine to take one shot at the eng mined by the gamemaster. Stormtrooper #5 takes one shot at the pilot. Every combined action counts as one action. Reduce every in volved character's skill or attribute codes accordingly, depending Stormtrooper #6 takes one shot at the smuggler. on the number of actions declared in a round. The engineer declares a full dodge. The Wookiee decides to take a haste action to move to c Example: The two stormtroopers and the Imperial officer declare then take one shot at the bounty hunter. two combined shots at one PC. Their skill codes are each reduced The pilot falls prone (increasing the difficulty number to hit by ID for taking two actions. The troopers now have blaster codes +2), then fires twice (once at trooper *2 and once at troope of 2D, and the officer has a code of 1D + 1. So the chosen trooper The smuggler takes a haste action to shoot once at the be rolls 2D + 3 twice to make the difficulty number. hunter. Combined shot damage is calculated normally. For each hit, roll The bounty hunter combines his fire with stormtroopers * the damage dice of the chosen weapon. Do not combine the damage *2 to take one shot at the Wookiee. dice of every weapon involved. In effect, every combined shot is actually a volley of shots directed at a specific target in order to 2. Declare Reaction Skills. The bounty hunter is the secure a hit. character to declare a combat dodge. Note: When using this rule, the gamemaster must take into 3. Roll Reaction Skills. At medium range, the difficulty nu account the sorts of actions which can be combined. Actions which to hit is 11. Reaction skills could increase that number. All chan
2 -STAR. WARI who declared reaction skills roll their dice. 4. Roll Actions. Characters who declared actions roll skill dice. Ac The engineer rolls his full dodge. He rolls a 13 and adds that tions are resolved in descending order of the number of haste ac number to the difficulty number, increasing it to 24. tions taken; a character who takes three haste actions would act The bounty hunter rolls his combat dodge. He rolls a 17 and before a character who took one or two haste actions. Actions with decides to substitute that for the difficulty number. the same degree of haste are resolved simultaneously, with all non 4. Roll Actions. Haste actions are rolled first, then other actions. movement actions occurring first, then all movement. Smuggler declared two actions, a haste and a shot at the bounty 5. Calculate Damage. Roll damage and hull dice for all targets hunter. Reducing his skill by ID, he has 4D + 1 to make a difficulty which were hit, and determine the effects according to the “Damage 17. He rolls 16 + 1 for a 17, a hit! Damage for this haste action is Summary” chart. Any targets hit early in the "roll actions” segment calculated now. Smuggler rolls a 12 for damage, bounty hunter rolls because of haste actions must calculate damage at that time, before a 15. The bounty hunter is stunned; his codes are reduced by ID lesser hastes or simultaneous actions occur. These damage results for the rest of this round and all of the next. effect the outcomes of the remaining actions in the segment. Wookiee uses his haste to move to medium cover (+2), increas ing the difficulty number to hit him to 13. Evasion All other actions, which have the same degree of haste, occur Full evasion is the evasion described in the rulebook. If a pilot simultaneously. They can be resolved in any order. chooses a full evasion, he may perform no other action that round. Stormtroopers *3 and *4 take a combined shot at the engineer. This is different from the full dodge; in full evasion, the evading The chosen trooper rolls his 3D, adding 3 pips from the other trooper. ship cannot increase its range. Piloting rolls are only made to deter That makes it 3D+ 3 to get a 24. He rolls a 10, a miss! mine if the attacking ship moves closer; if the evader rolls higher, Stormtrooper #5 shoots at the pilot. He has 3D to roll a 13. He the range remains the same; if the attacker rolls higher, the range rolls an 11, a miss! decreases by one step. Stormtrooper #6 shoots at the smuggler. He has 3D to roll an 11. When a pilot declares a full evasion, he is desperately trying to He rolls a 12, a hit! avoid enemy fire. His efforts make it considerably more difficult The bounty hunter rolls his dice, 6D reduced by 2D due to actions to hit his ship. Such a wildly gyrating, unpredictable flight path also and stun. The two stormtroopers add 6 pips so the bounty hunter makes it more difficult for any gunners on the evading ship to hit has 4D + 6 to roll a 13, the difficulty number to hit the Wookiee. their targets; add the evasion roll to the difficulty number to hit He rolls a 12 + 6 for an 18, a hit! enemy ships. The Wookiee shoots at the bounty hunter with 4D+2, reduced Combat evasion functions exactly as a combat dodge. The pilot may by ID because he took two actions. He needs a 17. He rolls an 11, choose to substitute his skill and maneuver roll for the attacker’s a miss! difficulty number. A combat evasion has no effect on the fire of The pilot shoots twice with 5D, reduced by ID because he took gunners aboard the evading ship, or on piloting rolls (except for two actions. He needs an 11. He rolls a 12 and a 14, two hits! the action cost). 5. Calculate Damage. Each target hit rolls STR dice against damage dice to determine the extent of damage. Shielding The smuggler rolls 9, but the damage roll is 12. He’s wounded! Shielding is a reaction skill, declared during the "declare reac The Wookiee is hit for 15 damage, but he rolls a 24. He’s only tion skills” segment of the starship combat sequence. Shield attempts stunned. are made during the "roll reaction skills” segment. The shield Stormtrooper *2 and stormtrooper #5 roll 10 and 11, but the attempt roll is added to the difficulty number of the attacker. This damage rolls are 14 and 17 respectively. They’re both wounded! sum is called the shield number. If the attacker rolls above the dif At the end of the first round of combat, the smuggler is wounded ficulty number to hit, but less than the shield number, he hits the (codes reduced by ID), the Wookiee is stunned (reduced by ID ship but the shield dice are added to the hull dice when calculating through the end of round two), stormtroopers *2 and *5 are wound damage. ed, and the bounty hunter is stunned through the next round. Example: The pilot of Silver Bolt rolls an 18 for a combat eva Will the Rebels win the day? Or will the Imperials combine their sion against TIE fighters at short range, choosing that number in powers to overwhelm our heroes? Only subsequent combat rounds stead of the difficulty number of 6. The co-pilot, operating the will tell. shields, rolls a 16. The shield number is 34. If the TIE fighter pilots roll 17 or less, they miss Silver Bolt. If they roll 18 through 33 they Starship Combat Sequence hit the ship, but the shields help protect the hull. If the TIE pilots Each starship combat round follows this sequence (which replaces roll 34 or better, they hit the ship while avoiding the shields; only the sequence on page 61 of the rulebook): hull dice are rolled to resist damage. 1. Declare Actions. Characters declare all actions for this combat Starship Damage round. The full evasion option must be declared now, as well as The description of ship ionization (page 63 of rulebook) is modified attempts to increase and decrease range during the “roll actions” as follows. segment. The character (PC or NPC) with the lowest Dexterity code If shields were not used successfully, or the ship has no shields, declares actions first, followed by the other characters in ascending or all shields are blown, when a ship is lightly damaged its controls order of Dexterity. are ionized. All ship codes (except hull) are reduced by ID for the 2. Declare Reaction Skills. All pilots declare combat evasions. rest of this round and the next combat round only. The ship and The character (PC or NPC) with the lowest Dexterity code declares crew may take actions with the decreased die codes; they do not first, followed by the other characters in ascending order of Dexterity. have to forfeit a round. The ship recovers from ionization at the 3. Roll Reaction Skills. All pilots who declared the use of reac end of the next combat round. tion skills (full or combat evasions) roll skill dice. Shield operators Other Vehicles roll for shielding attempts. The gamemaster determines the to-hit The starship combat sequence is used whenever the combatants difficulty numbers for this combat round. are in vehicles. A speeder bike chase uses the same sequence as a dog-fight between starfighters. 3 STAR WARS CHARTS AND TABLES UPGRADE D ifficulty Difficulty No. This section STARSHIP replaces the standard journey 11-15 bottom portion no nav computer 2 1 -3 0 COMBAT SEQUENCE of the ‘ Astro hasty entry + 10 gation Chart" light damage + 2 1. Declare Actions. Characters declare on page 140 of heavy damage + 5 all actions for this combat round. the roleplaying Full evasion option, and attempts to game rulebook. each extra day taken - 1 increase or decrease range, must be each day saved + 1 declared now. Lowest DEX declares first, then others in ascending order. 2. Declare Reaction Skills. All pilots declare combat evasions. Lowest Melee Weapons Damage Difficulty Scale DEX declares first, then others in This section han ds str 3-5 ascending order. replaces the clu b s t r + lD 3-5 3. Roll Reaction Skills. All pilots who bottom portion gaderffii s t r + l D 3-5 declared use of reaction skills (full or of the “Weapons spear s t r + 1D + 1 6-10 combat evasions) roll skill dice. Chart" on page v ib r o a x e str+ 2 D 11-15 Shield attempts roll now, as well. GM 139 of the role- v ib r o b la d e s tr + lD + 2 11-15 determines to-hit difficulty numbers playing game lightsaber 5 D * * 16 -20 for this combat round. rulebook. 4. Roll Actions. All characters who de * Damage at point-blank range (see SW.RPG page 47). “ Characters with the control skill add skill clared actions roll skill dice. Actions code damage. Anything less than 3 meters away is point-blank range for ranged weapons. are resolved in descending order of the number of haste actions taken. Actions with the same degree of haste are resolved simultaneously, OPTIONAL FIRE MODIFIERS CHART with all non-movement actions occuring first, then all movement. 5. Calculate Damage. Roll damage, Combat D ifficulty hull, and shield dice of hit targets. Situation Number Target Prone +2
DIFFICULTY NUMBER CHART Terrain Task Difficulty Scale Light Cover + 1 Very Easy 3-5 Medium Cover +2 Easy 610 Heavy Cover +5 Moderate 11-15 Difficult 16-20 Aperture adjacent to firer + 1 Very Difficult 21-30 Door (otherwise) +2 Combat Difficulty Scale Window (otherwise) +3 Slit (otherwise) + 4 Point-Blank Range 3-5 Short Range 6-10 Medium Range 11-15 Target Size (personal combat only) Long Range 16-20 less than 1 cm tall + 15 Knowledge Difficulty Scale 1 - 10 cm + 10 Everyone Knows 3-5 11 - 50 cm +5 Common Knowledge 6-10 No Secret, But Not Widely Known 11-15 51 cm - 99 cm + 2 Specialized Knowledge 16-20 1 - 3 m — Expert Knowledge 21-30 3 - 9 m -3 General Knowledge Difficulty Scale 10 - 99 m -5 Pretty Ignorant 3-5 100 m or larger -10 Knows a Little 6-10 Broad General Knowledge 11-15 Specific, Detailed Knowledge 16-20 COMBAT SEQUENCE Truly Comprehensive Knowledge 21-30 1. Declare Actions. Characters declare all actions for this com bat round (movement, skill or attribute use, haste, or full Medpac Use Difficulty Scale dodge). PC or NPC with lowest DEX declares first, then others Wounded 6-10 in ascending order. Incapacitated 11-15 2. Declare Reaction Skills. Characters declare combat dodges. PC or NPC with lowest DEX declares first, then others in Mortally Wounded 16-20 ascending order. 3. Roll Reaction Skills. All characters who declared the use of reaction skills (full or combat options) roll skill dice. Game- HEALING TABLE This section master determines to-hit difficulty numbers for this round. replaces the top 4. Roll Actions. All characters who declared actions roll skill Medpac Difficulty Number Scale portion of the dice. Actions are resolved in descending order of the number “ Healing Table” of haste actions taken. Actions with the same degree of haste Wounded 6-10 on page 140 of are resolved simultaneously, with all non-movement actions Incapacitated 11-15 the roleplaying occuring first, then all movement. Mortally Wounded 16-20 game rulebook. 5. Calculate Damage. Roll damage, strength dice of hit targets.
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Beyond realspace, past the time-bending corridors ot hyperspace, another galaxy waits to be discovered. When a problem develops with the hyperdrive engine ot an Alliance prisoner transport, members ot both the Rebellion and the Empire are deposited into a strange, unexplored dimension between the hyperlanes and realspace. Here abandoned ships trom all over known space float beside those of unknown origin. These desolate craft orbit a giant vessel, drawn to it like moths to a flame — or a spider’s web. Within the dark interior of the giant ship, the war between Rebel and Imperial finds new battlegrounds and new weapons with which to destroy each other. But they also find som ething else, som ething that just may find them first. It wants to escape otherspace, to reach realspace. And when it does, the galaxy will die!
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40-page booklet features: • Character scripts that start the adventure and plunge the players right into the Star Wars galaxy. • Maps of the Rebel transport Celestial for visualizing the fast-moving action. • Details about new alien races and strange creatures never before encountered in the Star Wars universe. • Non-player character templates, player handouts, and additional props for extra roleplaying excitement. Also includes: • A poster-size, full-color map o f the alien vessel Desolate — including complete descriptions and pre-set encounters. • A miniatures scenario, including combat map and color counters. • Scene cards that add a new dimension to the Star Wars game. A complete adventure for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. For gamemaster and one or more players.
West End Games isbn D-ayMBi-iafl-M RD 3 Box 2345 WART Honesdale, PA 18431 Adventure from 40018 WEST For ages 12 and up.
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