Episode I

The party consisting of Sneake and Sharke get a job from their father to rescue a group of Incom scientists from a research bunker. The payment is a YV-560 Freighter. Our father is the VP of Corporate Security for Incom and serves on the board of directors.

We head to the Unknown Regions to the planet and discover that Imperial war droids and their controller have the scientists hostage. The controller is a bounty hunter named Wither and was hired by the Empire to seize control of a new starship engine design. The group manages to take down all the droids with no casualties among the scientists. We secure the technology and the schematics before blowing up the bunker.

Wither was interrogated and released to the Rebellion for further investigation.

Episode II

The group heads to Tython after Sneake receives a force vision about the planet and performing the Great Journey. He guides his brother as they travel through the Deep Core from Fresia. On the way, they run into a freighter filled with pirates. The pirates lay in wait near an asteroid field, but Sneake manages to slice their computer systems and takes their sensors offline.

The pirates surrender without a shot being fired and the captain ends up joining the group. Jaken turns out to be force sensitive and Sharke takes him as his padawan. The pirates lead us to Tython and we end up going to Kaleth which is the Temple of Knowledge. The party ends up taking out 6 Tythonian War Droids and 2 Flesh Raiders before reactivating Beatty. Beatty is a Tythonian War Droid and asked for an identifying code. Sneake turns him off and reprograms him with a new ID code that allows the party to take control of him. Also we find more deactivated war droids and take them with us.

Episode III

After leaving Kaleth, we hurry to The Forge and complete that portion of the Great Journey. Sharke and Sneake build their lightsabers. Sharke builds a lightpike with a gold blade and a lightsaber with a silver blade. Sneake builds two lightsabers with one blade being gold and the other being silver.

After The Forge we leave to head off the two Imperial ships that are heading towards Kalikori, a ruined village. We contact the villagers to let them know of the assault and personal shuttle headed their way.

Sneake and Sharke have Jaken land on the opposite side of the town from the projected Imperial landing zone. We order Jaken to stay with the ship and await for further instructions as we head to meet the Imperials. We pause within the ruins by the landing zone and see a squad of Stormtroopers disembark.

Sharke throws a stun grenade into the middle of the formation and stuns 7 of them. Sneake does an acrobatic flip to land in front of the closest Stormtrooper and strikes him with a lightsaber. Three of the Stormtroopers head towards the northeast to engage the villagers shooting from cover.

Combat proceeds at a brisk pace with some of the squad decimated in short order. Stepping from the personal shuttle is a red robed figured with red hair. She calls for a pause in the fight and a conversation ensues. Sneake attempts to bluff the group's way out of this by using forged documents that show they're an archaeological expedition to the planet. The documents are poorly forged and she sees through it. At the end of the conversation, she attacks with a vibrosword and engages Sharke.

Sneake has a Stormtrooper behind him and spins around with his lightsaber outstretched. The Stormtrooper's head flies off his neck and the body collapses. Sharke engages the woman and manages to miss her. Jaken responds to a call from Sneake and brings the Emerald Explorer into the landing zone doing a strafing attack that kills the bulk of the Stormtroopers around Sneake and Sharke.

Sneake does a flip and lands next to the woman. He attacks with his lightsaber and scores a hit against her leg. She collapses to the ground and Sneake orders her to surrender. She does and orders the remaining 3 Stormtroopers to surrender as well.

Sneake and Sharke take Mara Jade to the just landed Emerald Express to reattach her leg. With both of them talking to her, they find out that she was tasked to eliminate the villagers and return the terraformer to the Empire. The dialog eventually turns to having her defect from the Empire and the party attempts to sever the connection she has with the Emperor. It fails and to protect us from the Empire, Mara escapes from the Explorer.

The villagers agree to help the party in restoring the planet to its original beauty. They agree to help with the terraforming by manning the machine.

Episode IV

Sneake is worried about Mara and contacts her. He finds out the reason why she left and they part on good terms. Mara tells him that if he needs anything to contact her. Previously, Mara had provided all the security codes for the group to travel in Imperial space to avoid scrutiny.

We end up meeting Killgore, an IG Assassin Droid that is looking for us. He ends up joining the group and Sneake reprograms him to ensure that he doesn't attack the group plus puts in a shut down command and the dance routine Poplock.

The group ends up heading towards Anil Kesh, the Temple of Science and continues on the Great Journey. At the temple, we secure more war droids and find valuable information about ancient starship and starfighter designs. Part of the information also pertains to the teachings of the Je'daii Order and how training is done.

After the Temple is secured, Sneake, Sharke, and Jaken head out the back door and follow a path to a cave. Once in the cave, Sneake stealths ahead of the group and sees that it is inhabited by Flesh Raiders. He strikes from the shadows and takes down the first one in the center of the cave. The rest of the party moves up and is swarmed by more Flesh Raiders.

The fighting is intense, but ultimately, the party prevails. We explore the northern part of the cave and find the chief plus women and children. The chief is angry that we killed all the males in the village and refuses any overtures of peace. He ends up attacking the group and we quickly put him down. We end up finding two holocrons. One holocron is from a Kwa force master and the other is from a Je'daii Journeyman. We learn more about the Flesh Raiders and the early history of the galaxy plus more about the Order.

Episode V

The party heads back to Fresia to work on various projects and to prepare for a meeting with the board of directors at Incom. Sneake redesigns all the ships and creates production ready schematics for the Hunter-Class Starfighter, Hunter-Class Tactical Bomber, Peacemaker-Class Assault Corvette, Diplomat-Class Frigate, Peacekeeper-Class Heavy Cruiser, and the Negotiator-Class Battlecarrier.

He also repairs and reprograms the other 17 war droids the group has collected. Sharke continues to train Jaken in the way of the Je'daii Order.

Sneake calls Mara to see how she is doing. They have a warm conversation and they both enjoy each other's company, so they make a date to meet on Fresia in two weeks.

Probably the only thing I might add is that things seem to be going really well. Inventing ship specs, hacking ships remotely (which in regards to star wars fluff s generally impossible unless a spike was inserted before hand.) and a romance with the Emperors one of many hands. Almost smoothly infact, and this is coming from a guy who rebuilt a old lightsaber after a brief examination (double triumph), preformed an almost solo raid on the skyscraper of a Hutt (with support from a rival hutts hired muscle) and rigged one of his personal droids to systemically see the poor fellows art collection as hostile targets. XD To me, just because she's willing to go with you doesn't mean that she's free. Ohhh no, if the GM didn't take this oppertunity to have a huge imperial fleet show up over the moon after she was severed from the force having pulled information from her mind, I would be disappointed as a player. XD

That being said, as long as your having a barrel of laughs thats awesome! In all honesty our team is akin to wraith squadron from the EU material, assembled from rogues, misfits and force users, with original team consisting a band of low class scum, washed out merc and a outlawed droid that preformed a heist for Lando C for a goveners vault back when he was running a less then honest business. I might have to something akin to this to give a bit of a read.

Thank you and I'm glad you enjoyed the read.

Re: Slicing remotely; I described it as a low level com frequency that is detected by the com system, but not powerful enough to raise an alarm. I rolled a triumph on the slicing roll.

The thing with Mara is definitely going to be hairy. The first encounter with her we attempted to sever the connection the connection between her and the Emperor. I don't know if we outright failed or weakened the link. Between everyone rolling we ended up with 2 triumphs, about 10 successes, about 7 advantages, and she personally got 3 threats. It'll be interesting to see how things will go down when the party severs her force connection.

I'd enjoy reading about your group's adventures.

Episode VII

The Shikaakwa Speak

We hadn't left Fresia yet since we had a lot to do. The IG Assassin droid liked my idea of converting his chassis over to a BD-3000 Luxury Droid. That went really well. I made a lot of improvements to his systems and added a customized arm built specifically for him. It looks like a regular droid arm, but splits apart with the hand flipping back to reveal a VX "Sidewinder" Repeating Blaster. The VX has modifications to enable him to carry the weapon and use it effectively. The weapon mods are a built in weapon harness, a telescopic optical sight, and superior weapon customization. Also, he now sports heavy armor plating that no one can see, so maintains the original style of the chassis design. He received an Enhanced Optics Mod and Range Finder Mod for his photoreceptors. An internal comlink was placed in his and the overall frame received a strength enhancement. He decided to have the droid body and personality to be female, so I reprogrammed with a High Society personality that speaks like a very polite murderer does.

After that, Sneake decided it was time to get the plan in motion for Mara's rescue from the clutches of the Emperor. I made contact with my Rebel contact and arranged for them to find a duplicate body of hers. In exchange, I would give them the Imperial code database that we got from Mara. After that, I contacted Mara, who seemed really unhappy, about having her add Twin Industry to the Imperial Archives as owners of the Tython System.

Sharke spent a lot of time training Jaken in the way of the Je'daii, force power usage, and lightsaber training. It went rather well.

Killgore went out on a bounty hunting mission in his new chassis and the target didn't know what to expect. Here is a high end luxury droid pointing a VX Repeating Blaster at his knee and asking politely to turn himself in. The guy refused so Killgore blows his kneecap off and hogties him, so Killgore can search for things in the guy's house. Killgore finds 7,000 credits and a credit sifter. He didn't know what it was so he called Sneake to ask about it. Sneake listens to the description and knows that it's a credit sifter. He explains that it's for money laundering. Killgore turns in the bounty and makes 4,000 credits.

Sneake is handed the credit sifter and manages to locate the accounts associated with it. He also finds out which planets the accounts are located on. The disappointment is that there's only 1,000 credits in the account used by the Empire and it can't be touched. In the end, Sneake reprograms the credit sifter for Killgore to use in case he gets dirty credits.

Sharke, Sneake, and Jaken get their Je'daii Heavy Armored Robes and look dashing in them. The helmets are of different designs that suit the personality of the wearer. Sharke buy a crate of 100 stun grenades to use in combat. We finally decide that it's time to head back to Tython and get back to the Great Journey.

After we arrive in system, we notice that the Force Storms are subsiding due to the actions of Sharke and Sneake being balanced in the force. While we are amazed by that and exit the asteroid field we are face to face with an armada of pirate ships. The armada consisted of 4 freighters and 2 dozen starfighters. We were hopelessly outgunned. Sneake attempts to bluff his way through by posing as Rear Admiral Greer of the Imperial Archeology Division. The pirates didn't take the bluff and so we went with them to Shikaakwa.

Once we had landed we were ordered to disembark and follow a whole lot of pirates, thugs, and other lowlifes into the huge fortress. We walk through and eventually get to the meeting hall where there are 9 chairs and 1 throne at one end. Sneake tries to charm his way out of this and fails. He ends up trying to deceive them and that route fails. The crime lords want 50% of the profits from anything made by Incom and Twin Industries. Ultimately, a Hutt decides that he's going to sit on the empty throne in the center, but he gets assassinated from behind. A Twi'lek woman steps forward and introduces herself.

Sneake makes it clear that he and Sharke own the entire system, due to Mara putting our names to the deed for it in the Imperial Archives. The Twi'lek says that we're free to go, but wants more from us in the future as a favor. Sneake informs her that because we are the owners of the planet, we will leave her in place as the Queen-Regent to rule in our stead. We tell her that no ships from Twin Industry or Incom will be touched. If they do then it wouldn't be a beneficial arrangement. We know that the Queen-Regent is a descendent of the Despot Queen Hydria from the Despot War in the earliest history of the galaxy. Hopefully, we can end up being friends and in an alliance.

Killgore's New Look

Mulling over the events of yesterday's game, I've come to the realization that Jaken's pirate crew has betrayed us. I've discussed the matter with my character's brother and we decided to hold a trial for them to get to the bottom of it. If they are guilty of treason then they'll be executed. If not then they'll be fired.

Since Sharke and Sneake are co-owners of the Tython System that would make them be co-emperors. That's pretty cool to think about.

The group does have ordered 2 Peacemaker-Assault Corvettes (Reskinned Marauders), 2 squadrons of Hunter-Class Starfighters (Reskinned X-Wings), and all these war droids with equipment. I'm thinking of just switching them to the original versions so we can get them delivered ASAP so we can protect the system against the Shikaakwa criminal syndicates. They'd be in for a rude surprise of having 2 platoons plus two squads of war droids dropped on their heads using Sentinel-Class Assault shuttles and 2 corvettes blockading the planet with the squadrons of X-Wings. All of the droids, ships, and starfighters are all upgraded to be better than the original designs, so they should be no problem for a bunch of criminals using freighters and starfighters.

Well I have great news. Our party is going to be getting 2 more players. One of them will be playing a fleet commander type of character that knows Sneake, Sharke, and their mom and dad. He is from Alderaan and retired from Incom Corporate Security Forces to pursue putting the hurt on the Empire. Jerrick Bess, VP of Incom Corporate Security and Sneake/Sharke's dad, is close personal friends with the commander. Both Sharke and Sneake served with him on board the ship he commanded when they did their stints in the ICSF. Sharke knows him better since he was in the Starfighter Corps and his squadron was assigned to the commander's ship. Sneake knows him because of several missions he performed was launched from and recovered to there.

The other one we don't know what the character will be.

The fleet commander would be awesome to introduce at the same time the group gets their delivery of their navy and army. Go us!

I forgot to add that after talking to the GM, he'll let us retcon the naval and army order. Instead of getting the custom designed ships that we get 2 Marauder-Class Assault Corvettes, 12 B-Wings, and 12 A-Wings. This way we get them this session instead of waiting till who knows how long.

I came up with a crazy and epic plan to throw Shikaakwa into chaos. The plan is to have Killgore go and collect the bounties on 8 of the 9 crime lords in order to throw the entire planet into a cycle of replacing the crime lords in the now open power vacuum. When Hydia gets in over her head we pull her off planet as a way of "helping" her. This way it forces her to lose her army and make her indebted to us for saving her life.

Here's a detailed Insurgency and Destabilization Plan for the planet of Shikaakwa.

Episode VIII

These Are Not The Spies You're Looking For

We begin with the episode with Rax and his four man crew being invited aboard the Pride of Tython. They are there to discuss promotions. Well, Sneake believes one of them to be a spy hired by Queen-Regent Hydia, so Sneake, Sharke, and KC decide to interrogate them. Sneake went a little overboard and sliced one of the crew member's legs off and due to his anger felt the dark side fully flowing through him. In the end, none of the crew were spies, so Sneake had them an all expense paid vacation with their families. Two of the crew quit.

After that, we finished The Great Journey and ended up in the Temple of Balance. Sneake meditated in the Temple Masters room to get back into balance. Sharke and KC discover a holocron from a Je'daii Temple Master that leaves instructions for us to not get involved in the Galactic Civil War and choose a side. Sneake also feels the force to tell him that the Temple Masters chamber would be the perfect place to use sever force on Mara.

We left off with us exiting the chamber and seeing a fleet enter local space. The episode ended on a cliffhanger.

Episode IX

Blast from the Past

The game picked up from where we left off. The party is running out of the Temple of Balance and boards the Emerald Express. We finally find out that the invading fleet is 3 Rakatan Corvettes in formation around a Thor Yor. Sneake manages to convince the center corvette to get out of the way of the Thor Yo and explains to the Rakatan scientist leading the fleet what the Thor Yor is. A deal is struck between the Tythonian forces and the Rakatan invasion fleet. The Rakatans will bring down one shuttle and be able to investigate the Thor Yor.

The Tythonian fleet is put on alert and moves to intercept the invaders while the Emerald Explorer follows the Rakatan shuttle to the surface. The Thor Yor settles into its landing cradle next to the Temple of Balance with the Emerald Explorer and the shuttle landing nearby. Sneake rushes out to greet them and they try to ignore him. Sharke and KC prepare for the worst and have the 30 war droids on stand by. Sneake and the Rakatan party move to the Thor Yor. As Sneake approaches the door to the Thor Yor it opens and attempts to seal from the inside. The Rakatan scientist manages to duck inside while his armed guards are locked out of the ship. Sneake manages to change the door code without anyone noticing and sends it to his brother Sharke. During this, Jaken heads to the control room of the Temple of Balance to activate all the war droids on the planet. He leaves on the speeder bike.

The scientist wanders ahead of Sneake and ignores him. His mistake as Sneake turns around to stealth up behind the scientist and spears him in the knees in a tackle. In a deft move, Sneake slaps on binders onto the scientist's hands and feet to keep him from moving. Outside, Sharke 'attempts' to open the door and the Rakatan guards get upset. KC tells them to disarm as the 30 war droids approach and one Rakatan gets the bright idea to pull out an EMP grenade. In response, KC pops out his VX Sidewinder Repeating Blaster and kills two of the guards. One of them was the one with the EMP grenade. Sharke throws a stun grenade into the remaining Rakatans and they fall down stunned. The war droids bind them up and disarm them.

Inside the Thor Yor, Sneake heads to the closest computer terminal and hacks into the system. He finds that it is carrying several thousand individuals of all species in cryofreeze. He notices that the manifest lists that 60% of them didn't survive the trip as their pods failed. He downloads the data to his P2 Attache' datapad and exits the ship. He approaches his brother and shows his findings. As two of the war droids are carrying the scientist out, the scientist manages to pull out a distress beacon and the invading fleet begins to attack. Sneake decides to stay behind and begin the process of unfreezing the people on the Thor Yor while Sharke and KC head back up to space to participate in the battle.

Queen-Regent Hydia offers a favor to Sharke that she will help with the Rakatans if we will come to her aid in the future. Sharke decides to make the deal and the criminal syndicates of Shikaakwa join with the Tython fleet in the defense of the system. At the same time, Sneake manages to get ahold of Mara for further support. Ultimately, she convinces him that it wouldn't be a good idea to have the Empire involved and he acquiesces to her wisdom. They both smile at each and say that they miss each other. They can't wait till they can meet again.

Sneake waits for Jaken to return as he watches the Emerald Express fly out of range and into space. Sharke expertly pilots the Express and dodges several Rakatan fighters. Captain Rax of the Fires of Tython, a Marauder-Class Assault Corvette, is leading the two squadrons of fighters and the corvettes against the invading fleet. Since Rax has total control over the battle, Sharke decides to let him continue to lead. As the Rakatan fighters get closer to the Express, KC opens up with the ship's guns and takes both of them out. Sharke devises a plan to board the closest Rakatan corvette and KC blows open a hole where a hangar bay is near the command module. Sharke flies into the hole as KC opens fire on the Rakatan crew inside the bay.

The Emerald Express comes to a hover and Sharke locks it into place. He exits the ship with 20 war droids following him. He strides confidently through the ship as the droids make short work of the remaining crew. KC continues to man the guns and inflicts massive casualties on the remaining Rakatans in the bay. As Sharke and the droids move to the command center, he helps the droids in taking out the Rakatan soldiers on the way. Eventually, he ends up in front of a blast door and begins to cut his way through it.

Back on the planet, Jaken finally returns and Sneake has him take over guarding the prisoners. He heads inside the Thor Yor to the central command station. Once there, he begins the process of defrosting the people in there and heads to where the pods were stored. He sees aliens of all races that are in shock because of the failed pods. He comforts them with calming words and leads them out of the Thor Yor. Once they are outside, Sneake explains that they had been in cryosleep for 30,000 years and gives a history of the galaxy since they left. He also removes his helmet to show the people that he is not a monster, but a normal alien species. After his rousing tales and speeches about what will happen to them on Tython, many of the people view him as a messiah figure. Prior to the defrosting of the frozen aliens, Sneake contacts the Twi'lek that runs Kilikorik and asks him to bring food and other supplies for the new arrivals. The Twi'lek arrives with members of the village aboard the shuttle and hands out the necessities.

Sharke manages to finish cutting through the door and kicks the section into the bridge. The Rakatans gasp in fear as they see a tall armored robed figure carrying a lit lightsaber step inside then followed by the war droids. He orders the crew to stand down and declares them to be captured. All, but the captain complies. The captain gets belligerent with Sharke who responds with cutting off the captain's arm. He again demands their surrender which the captain complies. Sharke opens up a channel to the last remaining Rakatan corvette and demands their surrender. The captain insults him and orders his ship to flee. Sharke responds by having the recently captured corvette and the Tython fleet open fire to disable the ship's hyperdrive and weapon systems. The final corvette surrenders without further blood loss.

Rax sends over two platoons of war droids to capture the final corvette. During the battle one of the enemy corvettes was destroyed. At the end of the session, Tython's population has increased as did its military forces with the recent capture of two Rakatan Corvettes. The future looks bright for the resurgent Je'daii Order since Sneake explained that is why the people were gathered onto the Thor Yor to begin with.

Yesterday's session the GM couldn't make it, but gave me permission to run a maintenance session. There were a lot of things that needed to be taken care of like redoing the custom armor that we had previously bought using the rules from Keeping the Peace. The four suits of armor were taken care of and took about 30 minutes to do.

The next thing that we worked on was setting up the government. Sharke and Sneake are Co-Emperors of the Tython System with there being a branch for the civilian bureaucracy, military, and Je'daii Order reporting to them. The civilian government is split into two branches with one branch representing the interests of the Emperors and the Planetary Senate. The Planetary Senate is for representatives of the other planets within the Tython System to have a say on how the government works. The military is split into the Army and the Navy with a commander overseeing each department. The final branch is the Je'daii Order with the nine temple masters. The Co-Emperors cannot be temple masters. An advisory council is made up of the guy in charge of the bureaucracy, the president of the senate, the army and navy supreme commanders, and one of the temple masters. A second advisory council is made up of the governors of the inhabited planets of Tython.

The Imperial government is an absolute monarchy, but with a Bill of Rights. The people are assured of being innocent until proven guilty and have rights that cannot be taken away. The oldest child of Sneake and Sharke will inherit the role of Co-Emperor upon their deaths. We made everything legal and subject to taxation in order to attract people to the system to buy goods and services. A simple 10% tax is levied upon a planet's income which 75% goes to pay for the government and the remainder is profit for the company.

The final thing we worked on was the disposition of the remaining planets that are uninhabited. The worlds of Sunspot, Maltara, Krev Coeur, Obri, and Mawr will be used for mining and automated with droids. Nox is already licensed to Incom, but it was agreed to transfer ownership of the planet to them. This way they will colonize the planet and allow the group to make money on taxes while integrating them into the Empire of Tython. Kalimahr and Ska Gora will be sold. Kalimahr will become a Sports paradise of various sports with gambling allowed. Ska Gora will be preserved, but will have 4 city ships flying across the surface of the planet. Special permits will be issued to groups of 50 to set foot on the ground under armed escort. No one is allowed to defile it.

Furies Gate will be a military training center and Fury Station will be rebuilt for the military to have a base of operations on the edge of the system. The moons of Ashlan and Bogan will be prisons for unbalanced Je'daii and serve as military bases.The military will also use Tython Station as a base of operations to cover the populated planets and guard the inner planets mining operations.