I think the next box will be pre Episode 4. Why? Because the logical move forward in Imperial assault timeline is post Endor (like post Yavin, Hoth and Bespin) The post Endor period is a HUGE question in the new canon. What is it? What happened? "Aftermath" the book plays with a small section of what happened, and Jakku's debris hints at something happening but we really don't know yet. I think Episode 8 and the books down the line of "Aftermath" will give us more information in this and I can just hear Disney saying to the creators of IA

"Just wait, we're working on it"
Because IA is not the medium in which they'll reveal the answer to that huge question in. When they do though, we'll see the IA version of it, no doubt. And in that, I think we'll get a big box.

So we all have our dreams, what would they actually look like, component-wise?

Scum & Villainy - Big Box (spans Tatooine & Coruscant)

3 Hero figures (is it too odd to actually want a Jawa hero??)

Weequay Mercenaries (3 figure troop) x2

Gammorian Guards (2 figure troop) x2

Dewback Rider

Sandtroopers (2 figure troop) x2

Villain/Ally packs

Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight

Rancor

4-LOM & Zuckuss

Emperor's Hand (Merc/Imperial unit??)

(Alternately, the Rancor can replace the Dewback Rider in the expansion and Jabba can be a Villain pack - Dewback Rider could just as easily be an unassociated Villain pack like the Bantha Rider.)

If you look at this as an expansion that spans the time between ESB and ROTJ, it can play homage to SOTE but not actually be the same thing. While we do get more desert tiles, this would be a good place to put in more city-scape tiles to add to the variety.

Over-arcing story is gathering intel on the Imperials and attempting to acquire the Death Star II plans (before eventually handing them off to the Bothans). Alternately the storyline could be gathering info on Han's whereabouts to report back to Luke, Leia, et al. Self-contained campaign like RtH.

Start off with a mission or two on Tatooine, move the action to other planets with a strong focus on Coruscant. Characters are being pursued by 4-LOM and Zuckuss as well as the mysterious "Emperor's Hand". Luke shows up in a few missions on Tatooine as he's there building his new lightsaber & getting ready to spring Han from Jabba's Palace.

Stormtroopers, Probe Droids, Imperial Officers are complimented by the Sandtroopers & Dewback Rider in the expansion while the Merc units would compliment the Trandos and Nexu to make an interesting retinue for Jabba's Court You could also technically toss in some of the characters from the Ally/Villian packs from wave 1 since those tokens are in the core set and it's required for playing any expansion so they could show up in the missions. RGC could show up in a Coruscant mission, Chewie could tag along with the heroes and IG-88 could team up with 4-LOM and Zuckuss.

Well, I was not too far off on my "dream expansion" guesses.

Nope, you were darn close. I think sandtroopers are just heavy stormtroopers. Still, I'm not a fan of jump troopers. I guess the Empire needed something. I'm sure they will make up for it in the inevitable Endor expansion.

With Jabba's Realm we'll have 2 full expansions set on Tatooine and the core that has missions taking place there... and no Jawa.

Jawa would probably be suited to a stand-alone Scum Villain Pack...

Jawa would probably be suited to a stand-alone Scum Villain Pack...

NOOOOOOOO!!!

There was supposed to be a Jawa hero in this set!!

Blizz, the Jawa companion in SWTOR MMO is pretty awesome! A Jawa hero would be great.

Blizz, the Jawa companion in SWTOR MMO is pretty awesome! A Jawa hero would be great.

Yeah. A Jawa would be good with tech skill, decent on perception, and crappy on melee. Though if they just gave him 2 yellow, 1 green on the tech, I'd be okay with perception and melee both being a blue dice only.

~D

Blizz, the Jawa companion in SWTOR MMO is pretty awesome! A Jawa hero would be great.

Yeah. A Jawa would be good with tech skill, decent on perception, and crappy on melee. Though if they just gave him 2 yellow, 1 green on the tech, I'd be okay with perception and melee both being a blue dice only.

~D

Honestly, I just want justification to yell "Utinni!" as much as possible while gaming.