From the Scout the Streets of Coruscant article:

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You start with Dark Recon , flying over the busy streets of Coruscant toward a rendezvous point with a group of local contacts claiming to have information on a team of Rebels that recently went missing. As soon as you land, though, the campaign explodes into action.

The way this is worded, it sounds like the first mission literally has the heroes flying over the city, scouting various locations.

Jabba's Realm did have various side boards in missions- could this be something like that? Maybe the Rebels have to fly around in a sideboard to various other sideboard maps, scouting each one.

Alternatively, there's the possibility that it has something to do with this interesting map notation, that someone noticed the other day:

Or, I guess there's always the least interesting possibility, that the entire mission simply takes place inside a freighter or other ship. But that doesn't really sound like scouting.

I don't know, the way that description was worded just makes me feel like we might be in for a pretty unique initial mission. Thoughts?

Hard to say without the mission rules having been revealed. Obviously the rebels have arrived to the rendezvous point and landed.

(I don't know how graphics with deployment points have ended up in previews, whether they are actual or made up. I wish they were not quoted or put into spoiler tags. Maybe FFG has switched to actual spoiler articles now....)

To me, it looks like they're just saying the campaign starts when the Rebels have landed. So just like every other mission on the ground.

2 hours ago, a1bert said:

Hard to say without the mission rules having been revealed. Obviously the rebels have arrived to the rendezvous point and landed.

(I don't know how graphics with deployment points have ended up in previews, whether they are actual or made up. I wish they were not quoted or put into spoiler tags. Maybe FFG has switched to actual spoiler articles now....)

Yeah, that bothered me too

You start with Dark Recon , flying over the busy streets of Coruscant toward a rendezvous point with a group of local contacts claiming to have information on a team of Rebels that recently went missing. As soon as you land , though, the campaign explodes into action.

The campaign starts after you land, so no flying over the city mission.

Also, those shaded parts of the map have been used before, its in one of the finale missions for Bespin Gambit where the carbonite chamber is shaded in the same way but in red. It just means those squares are areas of importance for the mission.

Yeah, I just assumed the mission rules will elaborate what the highlighted area is special for...

On 7/28/2017 at 9:23 PM, Tvboy said:

The campaign starts after you land, so no flying over the city mission.

Also, those shaded parts of the map have been used before, its in one of the finale missions for Bespin Gambit where the carbonite chamber is shaded in the same way but in red. It just means those squares are areas of importance for the mission.

See, the way I read that is Dark Recon is the first mission, and that "As soon as you land, though..." implies that landing takes place either during or after the first mission.

[You start with Dark Recon, flying over the busy streets of Coruscant toward a rendezvous point with a group of local contacts claiming to have information on a team of Rebels that recently went missing. As soon as you land, though, the campaign explodes into action.]

In every campaign so far, the action starts as soon as the mission starts, I think it would be weird to read into that sentence that there is a mission going on before the action has started. But there's nothing wrong with wishful thinking and speculation.

Something I would like to speculate on is who the "group of local contacts claiming to have information on a team of Rebels that recently went missing" are going to be, since in every expansion campaign intro since Twin Shadows the Rebels start off with an ally in play. Will it be a shapeshifter? Ahsoka Tano? It does say it's a group though.

6 minutes ago, Tvboy said:

[ You start with Dark Recon, flying over the busy streets of Coruscant toward a rendezvous point with a group of local contacts claiming to have information on a team of Rebels that recently went missing. As soon as you land, though, the campaign explodes into action.]

In every campaign so far, the action starts as soon as the mission starts, I think it would be weird to read into that sentence that there is a mission going on before the action has started. But there's nothing wrong with wishful thinking and speculation.

Right, but as I've bolded, it literally says "you start with..." then proceeds to describe the flying recon situation.

It could totally just be a poorly phrased sentence, but I'm not totally sure that the first activation of the intro mission takes place after landing.

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Something I would like to speculate on is who the "group of local contacts claiming to have information on a team of Rebels that recently went missing" are going to be, since in every expansion campaign intro since Twin Shadows the Rebels start off with an ally in play. Will it be a shapeshifter? Ahsoka Tano? It does say it's a group though.

My guess is that it'll be a Rebel cell that doesn't directly translate to allies in missions- think Benex and Haven in Return to Hoth.

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The "you start with" refers to the first mission of the campaign, not that you start in a flying ship. The paragraph you quoted even goes on to explain that the action starts as soon as you have landed.

5 minutes ago, Majushi said:

The "you start with" refers to the first mission of the campaign, not that you start in a flying ship. The paragraph you quoted even goes on to explain that the action starts as soon as you have landed.

Like I said, that may be the case, but the wording is quite strange.

I don't really feel we need to get in a debate about this, but I guess I'll try one more time to describe how I'm reading this:

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You start with Dark Recon

Ok, we can assume Dark Recon is the name of the intro mission.

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flying over the busy streets of Coruscant toward a rendezvous point with a group of local contacts claiming to have information on a team of Rebels that recently went missing.

Notice that the sentence (that began with "You start with") ends here. We have not landed yet. We are still going "toward" the group of Rebels.

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As soon as you land, though, the campaign explodes into action.

I do think that there are two ways to read this. The first is the more traditional approach- the idea that the campaign explodes into action when it starts , thus making the "as soon as you land" the beginning of the first mission. The other is that it reads "As soon as you land, though" implying a switching of action, if there is a new campaign mechanic.

Or, I guess another alternative is that all of the pre-landing stuff occurs in the mission text before the mission technically starts, and that the actual mission begins after. The core campaign, if similar, could've read like this:

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You start with Aftermath, running through the jungles of Yavin toward an Imperial compound where a small group of stormtroopers is broadcasting a signal full of Rebel intelligence. As soon as you arrive, though, the campaign explodes into action

I'm sure either way , I'm way overanalyzing this. That's what coffee does to someone who doesn't usually drink it, I guess.

I totally get what you're saying, and I agree that it's a weird way to write it.

i think it's just flavour really, and the latter part of your analysis is probably the correct interpretation of the text.

the flying is intro text, and mission starts after you've landed.

Just now, Majushi said:

I totally get what you're saying, and I agree that it's a weird way to write it.

i think it's just flavour really, and the latter part of your analysis is probably the correct interpretation of the text.

the flying is intro text, and mission starts after you've landed.

I have a feeling Occam would agree