I had run through the beginner game with my players before and they loved it. We finally got to play the game proper, with custom characters.
I wanted them to feel like what they had done in the beginner game still mattered so this is what I did.
The three players wake up in a jail cell aboard a starship. (A gozanti cruiser but they don't know that.)
After they realize they can't escape their cell, a mandalorian woman bounty hunter named Taryn Gev comes in and talks with them, explaining that the bounty on the droid and the Twi-lek politico is very high. She's getting paid a lot from a source she refuses to reveal.
After bantering with them for a bit she leaves and another much less intimidating pirate walks in to guard them.
They feel a subtle thud shake throughout the ship and not long after the door opens and none other than 41-Vex comes in and sticks a needle in the guard's neck, putting him down.
He frees the heroes and they take off.
My players were stubborn and made Vex go first into the upcoming ambush, so he got incapacitated immediately.
They eventually make it to the main level where Osaka, Pash, and Lowhrick are in a firefight with Taryn Gev, a Journeyman Bounty Hunter, and two minion groups of 3 apprentice bounty hunters.
They see Taryn shoot Osaka and she goes down hard. Lowhrick rages and charges Taryn, shrugging off blaster fire. They both disappear out of sight.
After they players helped Pash and Osaka finish off the bad guys they find Lowhrick's crumpled form on the ground by a hatch on the lower level.
He's in a pool of his blood and there is also a severed arm next to him that clearly used to be attached to Taryn Gev, though she is nowhere to be found, presumably she escaped in the star-fighter that was docked below the ship.
Pash emplores the players to help him, since 41-Vex is still out of commission.
The devious Politico in the party does a daunting medical check to save him, which he succeeds at, but then decides to do a daunting deception check to let the wookiee die, but make it look like he did everything he could to save him.
He succeeded in murdering Lowhrick without arousing anyone's suspicion.
Pash is grateful for his attempt to save Lowhrick. Osaka, Pash, and 41-Vex, thank the players for their help in taking the ship, but they need them to leave.
They give them the Krayt Fang, as they want to keep the Gozanti Cruiser for themselves and won't need it anymore.
As soon as the players are off the cruiser the airlock seals and Pash, Osaka, and 41-Vex jump to hyperspace to mourn the loss of their friend.
