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Post by meribson on Dec 10, 2018 4:08:01 GMT
I have a campaign in mind for a dark side aligned campaign akin to the early years of the Sith Empire after the Great Hyperspace War. Essentially, the PCs will be colonists, soldiers, researchers, and Force Sensitive lords of an ancient and previously forbidden sector of space.
In the years following the death of the Emperor and Darth Vader aboard the second Death Star, the Empire sold off a large amount of territory, among other things, in the need to obtain the funds to continue fighting the New Republic. One such individual was a devaronian entrepreneur named Markath Lukinal, who purchased a sector of space that was highly restricted during the Emperor's time.
A few weeks later, Lukinal funded countless ads and the like, offering a new frontier for those disillusioned by the wars the galaxy had undergone. Countless refugees, displaced migrants, even those in the Empire and Rebellion tired of fighting flooded this new system, emboldened by the message of forging their own destiny.
Thus a new nation was born, its military headed by a paler skinned, yellow eyed human called Red Marshall Kraujas.
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Post by meribson on Dec 10, 2018 4:33:50 GMT
Thirty years after the call went out for colonists, three planets house the majority of the nation's population.
The dark, jungle world of Darund Kass houses most of the military training camps as well as R&D facilities. The barren planet of Zos has been turned into an industrial, mining/factory world. The atmosphere breathable yet no life to be found on its surface or in the oceans. Athiss serves as the bread basket of the burgeoning nation, with wide plains and fertile forests providing rich farming and ranching.
However, not all is well. In every frontier, there are those that seek to take advantage. Pirates and other outlaws think that without the Empire, the settlers will be easy pickings.
In the halls of stone that form the center of government on the desert world of Khorban, lords, military officers, and others dance the old dance of intrigue and politics.
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Post by DM Onesie Knight on Feb 17, 2019 1:15:13 GMT
Why was the territory so restricted in the empire’s time, and why were they so quick to sell it off in desperate times? To me, this suggests something dangerous; something you wouldn’t want people blundering into/rebels getting their hands on, but that’s expensive to guard.
You could go a few ways with that. Something lovecraftian, like a powerful ancient (non-Sith) relic. Maybe a powerful alien civilization in hiding/exile/indefinite hypersleep. Or maybe the region is stupidly rich in spice or khyber crystals or some such, and it’s going to bring pirates and Hutt gangs swarming in like sharks in a feeding frenzy.
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Post by meribson on Feb 24, 2019 17:39:42 GMT
The territory was basically forgotten during the time of the Clone Wars to all but a few, there wasn't anything of importance to most of the galaxy, and the Emperor had placed a top level classification on why it was restricted. When the Emperor and Vader were lost with the cataclysmic defeat over the moon of Endor, and the massive depression hitting the Empire with the destruction of TWO projects that would bankrupt all of Earth several times over, EACH, the surviving leadership saw some business magnate looking to buy real estate in the galactic version of bumf***-nowhere, all while the Rebels were scoring victory after victory, imperial leadership basic took the money being offered and threw the territory at the guy.
The reason that the Emperor restricted travel there however, was that it was once the heart of the ancient Sith Empire: Dromund Kaas, Ziost, Athiss, and Korriban.
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