Sunday, March 7, 2010

This qualifies as continuity porn

As it's been over a year since I last posted a timeline of events, here is the new, updated timeline, incorporating more of characters' backstories and campaign events. I also took a little bit of liberty with the time measurements, to stretch out how long the campaign has been going on a little bit.

60 years before the campaign
  • A merchant ship crashes into the Draethos homeworld. A young On-Warr Bistellion is the only survivor; he is trained by the Keetael master Alhu-Zun in the ways of the Force.
43 years before the campaign
  • Bao Koon is born to a mother who is a private investigator and a father who is a Baran Do Sage.
38 to 37 years before the campaign
  • The Great Sith War begins. In response to a dark side cult terrorizing the Empress Teta system, a young Jedi named Ulic Qel-Droma decides to infiltrate and destroy them from within, but fails and falls to the dark side. At the same time, another young Jedi named Exar Kun betrays his Master, falls to the dark side, and begins creating an army of alchemical mutants on Yavin IV. When Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma meet for the first time, the spirits of the ancient Sith appear to them, branding Kun the first Dark Lord of the Sith and Qel-Droma his first apprentice. With an army of Sith mutants, Mandalorians, and converted Jedi, Kun and Qel-Droma carve a path of destruction all the way to Coruscant and the Senate Chamber itself. Ulic is finally brought back to the light when he accidentally kills his brother Cay, and he leads the Jedi to Yavin IV, where the combined Jedi destroy Exar Kun and his army. By the time the war is over, many Jedi have been killed or abandoned the Order, the Republic is in tatters, and the Mandalorians have retreated back to the Unknown Regions. These events are detailed in the Tales of the Jedi comic series.
37 to 17 years before
  • The Jedi engage in the Great Hunt, searching for and destroying the tarentateks, fierce predators that hunt Force users. These events are detailed in the Star Wars Tales #23 story Shadows and Light.
  • Ulic Qel-Droma, in self-imposed exile on Rhen Var after turning away from the Sith, is killed by a pilot looking to make a name for himself.
  • Because of the disastrous events caused by two rogue Knights, the Jedi Order receives more scrutiny from the Republic, and the Council works increasingly with the Supreme Chancellor and the Senate. Under governmental pressure, the Jedi constructs a Temple on Coruscant, which will act as a capital for the Order.
  • On-Warr Bistellion, already in his thirties, is discovered on the Draethos homeworld by a Jedi Knight and taken into the Order.
  • Devo Morden, Kazbich, Gobmush, Kelif Binks-Fett, Lyta Selistan, Dhiel Fek, Rek Luk, Ras Patul, Logger, and Zhen Craval are born.
  • Riga the Hutt tries to kidnap the toddler Rek Luk to force a deal with his father, Areta Luk, but the kidnapping is foiled, beginning a lifelong enmity.
30 years before
  • Bao Koon is taken as a Jedi Padawan, having already received some Baran Do training from his father.
24 years before
  • While on a mission on Nal Hutta, Bao Koon's Master is captured by Riga the Hutt.
17 years before
  • Drallon and Haesh are born, and shortly thereafter taken by the Jedi Order for training.
17 to 5 years before
  • The Mandalorians, having rebuilt their numbers since the Great Sith War, begin a new crusade by raiding planets in the Outer Rim and Unknown Regions. Because these planets are not members of the Republic, the Senate refuses to intervene.
  • A few Jedi decide to take the fight to the Mandalorians, over the objections of the Jedi Council, who don't want to get involved in another war. Led by the Revanchist and Alek "Squint" Squinquargesimus, these Jedi work to retake territory stolen by the Mandalorians.
  • Cariaga Sin abandons her Jedi training and joins the Revanchists.
  • On-Warr Bistellion discovers the alien orphan Aya Lim living on Nar Shaddaa. He trains her in the ways of the Force. Though she is a troubled student, On-Warr eventually decides her training is complete.
  • Gobmush wanders the galaxy, working for many different masters, including Gorrak the Hutt, as a bodyguard, surveyor, and hunting guide.
  • Lyta finishes her medical training and joins the Republic. She discovers her Force sensitivity and briefly trains with the Jedi under Master Neyeria before leaving.
15 years before
  • Bao Koon is knighted.
12 years before
  • At the behest of her guardian spirit, Mur Haddin, Ras Patul leaves her homeworld of Umbara to escape her people's "conniving ways." She spends two years on the backwater world of Rishi, training with a lightwhip and keeping to herself.
  • Bao Koon takes his first Padawan.
10 years before
  • Ras Patul is found by Jedi Covenant member Asa Ulara and taken to the Temple for training.
5 years before
  • The Mandalorian Wars begin, with the Mandalorians launching simultaneous attacks in three separate Republic sectors. The Republic is hard-pressed to defend its worlds against the vicious assaults, and the Mandalorians commit various atrocities to goad the Republic into fighting them on their terms. The Jedi Council still refuses to join the war, believing there are greater forces at work behind it.
  • Zayne Carrick is blamed for the Padawan Massacre of Taris. After living on the run, he eventually uncovers evidence proving his innocence, and the Jedi Covenant, a secret organization of seers dedicated to preventing the Sith from returning, is disbanded. These events are detailed in the Knights of the Old Republic comic series.
  • Many of these Covenanters are imprisoned and tried on a case-by-case basis. One of the Jedi Council members vouches for Asa Ulara, and she is allowed to re-join the Jedi Order.
  • Aya Lim becomes a doctor in the slums of Nar Shaddaa.
  • Ras' family is killed on Umbara in a political struggle.
  • Gobmush returns to Gamorr after wandering the galaxy and attempts to find a place with his clan. He makes an enemy of Globmulch, however, who sees Gobmush as a threat to his authority. Gobmush resolves to kill Globmulch, but a rival clan's attack disrupts his plans, and he is enslaved by Gorrak the Hutt.
5 to 1 years before
  • The Mandalorian Wars continue in earnest. The Republic is repeatedly devastated by superior Mandalorian forces.
  • The Revanchist discovers the Mandalorians slaughtered the Cathar people, prompting more Jedi to flock to his banner, creating a schism in the Jedi Order. The Revanchist takes the name Revan. (These events are detailed in Knights of the Old Republic #42.) Many see the Jedi Council as cold and distant, as they continue to be unwilling to get involved in the war and save millions of lives. The Jedi under Revan and Malak's leadership are able to turn the tide of the war.
  • Fighting for the Republic during the Mandalorian Wars are Devo Morden (and his squad), Zhen Craval, and Wertsnik. Among those fighting for the Mandalorians are Kazbich, Dhiel Fek, and Kelif Binks-Fett. Mr. Skee fights with the Rodian rangers to protect his homeworld.
  • Bao Koon's first apprentice joins Revan to fight the Mandalorians. Devastated by the betrayal, Bao takes Haesh as his new apprentice.
  • Ras Patul turns to the dark side, believing she can control Sith artifacts and try to use them for good. On-Warr Bistellion confronts her on Mustafar, where he turns her back to the light.
  • Gobmush buys his freedom from Gorrak the Hutt, and begins working for Czerka.
1 year before
  • Devo Morden's squad is ambushed just before the Battle of Malachor V, and most of his squadmates are captured. Although he is assigned to lead a battle group at Malachor, he goes AWOL and joins a ragtag groups of adventurers to locate the captured members of his squad.
  • Using the taboo world of Malachor V, Revan's forces lure the remnants of the Mandalorians into a trap. While the Mass Shadow Generator destroys the structural integrity of the planet, dooming the ships battling above, Revan personally kills Mandalore, the leader of the Mandalorians.
  • Revan takes the remaining Republic fleet into the Unknown Regions immediately after, saying that he is pursuing Mandalorian survivors. The fleet is not heard from for a year, leading many to believe they are dead. The Jedi dispatches several Jedi Masters to the Unknown Regions to search for them. On-Warr Bistellion is one of these masters; while searching the planet Endor, he takes the young seer Logger as his apprentice.
  • The Republic sentences the defeated Mandalorians by destroying their weapons, armor, and ships in front of them, disbanding their clans and letting them settle the Outer Rim. Many become soldiers, mercenaries, bounty hunters, or simple criminals.
Six months before
  • A former Mandalorian soldier named Kazbich and his friend Marina Scywel attempt a coup of the Exchange syndicate on Taris, but are betrayed by Kelly, one of Davik Kang's lieutenants. In the ensuing panic, Kazbich and Marina both escape, but are separated. Kazbich loses an arm in the struggle.
  • Devo Morden locates the survivors of his old squad, only to find that many died in the original attack or were executed later. He takes up mercenary work for a while before settling on Rodia, where he works with their rangers corps and learns advanced Rodian combat techniques.
One month before
  • The Republic shipyards at Foerost suddenly fall under attack; many Republic ships are either destroyed or stolen. The attacking forces hijack the communications relays, and Revan and Malak declare themselves lords of a new Sith Empire. Their army is composed of the Republic soldiers who followed Revan to the Unknown Regions, supplemented by ships of unknown design, including Sith destroyers and Sith fighters. The Jedi Civil War begins.
  • On-Warr Bistellion is taken captive by Cariaga Sin, one of the Jedi who followed Revan and Malak to the Unknown Regions, now a fearsome Sith.
  • Gobmush gets bored working for Czerka, and decides to live on Ithor. He is disappointed to find out he's not allowed to go hunting on the planet's surface.
One week before
  • Forcing him to prove his new loyalty to the Sith, Darth Malak orders Admiral Saul Karath to bomb his homeworld of Telos. Telos is the first large population center destroyed by the Sith, dealing a terrible psychological blow to the Republic. Many worlds flock to the Sith banner out of fear or opportunity.
Start of the campaign
  • Duros pilot Rek Luk, son of the owner of Luk Shipping, receives a ship from his father, which he dubs the Raraza, and decides to earn money as a Republic agent. He hires Kazbich, a slicer looking for easy credits, and Logger, a Force adept looking for his tribesmen who have been enslaved and his kidnapped master, to crew his ship.
  • Jedi Master Vima Sunrider hires the party to travel to Hutt Space to deliver a message to Republic-general-turned-crime-lord Galduran Calrissian, who is believed to have information about the Sith's battle plans. However, upon arriving at Sleheyron, the party finds Galduran is missing.
  • Searching for a swoop bike in a junkyard, the party finds and keeps a utility droid, T3-H8. Sponsored by Rodian crime boss Mr. Skee, who wants to see his rival's racer fail, the party wins the Sleheyron swoop championship and learns that Galduran is being held by Riga the Hutt. The party rescues him from Riga's air-conditioned palace on Nal Hutta as it comes under attack by the Sith. Riga had agreed to turn over Galduran to the Sith, but instead decided to sell him to the highest bidder, prompting swift retribution.
  • Deep in Riga's palace, Kazbich encounters Kelly for the first time since his betrayal on Taris, but Kelly walks away from a gunfight.
  • The party learns from Galduran that the Sith are planning to attack Ithor.
A week later
  • On Ithor, the party meets up with Gorrak the Hutt, who loans out two of his best people, Zhen Craval and sometimes-freelancer Gobmush. The party helps defend Ithor against the Sith, helping the Republic score its first victory in the Jedi Civil War. The party protects an Ithorian herdship from a saboteur. While storming a Sith cruiser, the party frees On-Warr from Cariaga Sin. After helping Ithor, Zhen leaves, to be replaced by the Shistavanen wolfman Dhiel Fek.
  • Inspired by the victory at Ithor, Devo Morden decides to rejoin the Republic as a freelancer.
Three weeks later
  • With the support of Gorrak the Hutt and Mr. Skee, Rek Luk goes to Nar Shaddaa in search of information to use against Riga the Hutt. He finds a datapad containing many of Riga's under-the-table deals, but is convinced not to publish it when he finds his dad's name on the list for having made a nonaggression deal with the Mandalorians during the Mandalorian Wars.
  • Logger meets Aya Lim, On-Warr's first apprentice. She quickly reveals that she is working with the Sith and attempts to kill Logger, but escapes. T3-H8 is destroyed in the struggle.
  • Logger learns that Sair Arcturus, the Corellian slaver who took his fellow Ewoks, has traveled to Taris.
  • The party goes to Druckenwell, an industrial planet, for some R&R and to upgrade their ship. They stay there for about six weeks.
2 months later
  • The party travels to Taris to track down Sair Arcturus, the slaver who captured Logger's tribe. Dhiel, having once served with the Mandalorians, is also searching for Canderous Ordo, who he believes knew his former commanding officer.
  • Logger finds out that Sair Arcturus joined a salvage operation in the Undercity and is believed to be dead. The party mounts an expedition to the lower levels, where they are attacked by rakghouls but find information on Sair's corpse indicating he sold the Ewoks to a buyer on Myzil V.
  • Dhiel works with Kazbich's old employers at the Exchange to find Canderous Ordo, and agrees to sell out Kazbich for more information. Kazbich narrowly escapes his old employers, who have hired Calo Nord as new muscle.
  • Rek Luk joins House Tresario of the Bounty Hunter's Guild and helps track down the pirate Dyani Zaan, who was in hiding on one of Taris' moons.
  • Before taking off for Myzil V, Gobmush's corporate droid contact, GE-3-RX-34, hires on to the group the Gungan mercenary Kelif Binks-Fett and Arkanian lawyer Novin Ealynos, just as Rek Luk sells out Dhiel to the Exchange.
3 months later
  • The party arrives at Myzil V. Logger immediately wanders off on his own in search of his tribesmen, and is soon captured by the mysterious Eutix Research Laboratories. Independently, Novin becomes suspicious of Eutix's using alien technology to search the deep levels of the planet and hires himself on as a consultant.
  • Rek Luk hits the jackpot at the Aunaumi Casino and rethinks his life plans. He leaves the Raraza to the party — at a cut of the profits, of course — and goes into starship design.
  • Kazbich is hired by a Herglic to steal a Sith shuttle from their embassy on the planet. He enlists Gobmush and Kelif to help, but things go horribly wrong: Kazbich shoots a storeowner, and the three of them are arrested for attacking the Sith (as it's a neutral planet). Novin gets them off the hook, and Kazbich gets a reduced sentence for assault. While hunting on a game preserve later for some R&R, Kelif gets into a duel with a Mandalorian Wars veteran, which ends with Kelif humiliated for trying to turn the duel lethal.
  • Jedi Padawan Ras Patul and Republic doctor Lyta Selistan arrive at Myzil V, where they will help the Republic in negotiations with the Techno Union, who owns the planet and is deciding between the Republic and the Sith. There, they met up with Republic agents — Novin, Gobmush, Kazbich and Kelif — although the "Republic agents" bit is mostly a cover story by Novin to requisition more resources to find out more about Eutix.
  • Ras and Lyta investigate a chemical attack on the Skakoan colony, which was originally unsuccessfully perpetrated by Kazbich; the attack was caused by a Force-sensitive Skakoan who wanted to keep the Republic and Sith away from the planet.
  • Gobmush decides to find out more about Eutix by hiding himself in a crate and letting himself get shipped. He wakes up at a distant dig site and radios the rest of the party, who arrives in the Raraza. They find ancient ruins staffed by Eutix employees, and deep inside the planet, holding tanks with many different species inside — as well as a strong taint of the dark side. The party finds Logger and his fellow Ewoks inside, so they release them and make their escape, fighting past dark side dopplegangers the whole time.
3 1/2 months later
  • The rest of the Republic diplomatic delegation arrives: Corellian Jedi Master Jenica Vigil and her apprentice, Bastila Shan. The Republic embassy convinces the party to sign up with the Republic properly.
  • Bao Koon and Haesh begin quietly tailing the party, Bao having seen a vision of the future that their paths would cross in a meaningful way.
  • Kazbich hires a ditzy Zeltron lawyer named Jazz Sharmista on retainer. Lyta decides to hire an assistant of her own, a Mon Calamari named Oro.
  • Lyta, Oro, Kazbich, Jazz, and Gobmush cure an outbreak of Cardooinian chills on the Republic ship Champion of Dantooine, discovering that the ship's captain is a traitor and promptly arresting him. Kazbich finds Marina is still alive and in captivity on the Champion, having been arrested recently for smuggling; he frees her and hires her to be the new pilot for the Raraza.
  • Ras, Kelif, and Logger track down Aya Lim, who has captured On-Warr and is hiding on Myzil V. After a brief melee, they retrieve On-Warr and Ras tries to convince Aya to abandon the dark side. Aya seems willing to comply, but then Kelif shoots at her and she runs off.
  • On-Warr and Logger take the recovered Ewoks back to Endor.
  • Negotiations begin between the Skakoan Council for Development, the Sith (represented by Cariaga Sin), and the Republic. During the talks, the serving droids explode, and both sides accuse the other of sabotage. After a short fight, Cariaga Sin escapes, and the Republic forces are arrested on suspicion. Ras and Bastila use the Force to convince the guards to let them go free.
  • Republic Commander Levatt tells the party the Sith, ever the sore losers, are planning to destroy the entire colony by bombing the casino, sending it crashing into the Skakoan colony below. Half the party deactivates the bombs while the other half raids the Sith embassy. The bombs are deactivated, but the party at the embassy is captured by Cariaga Sin. Kazbich and Gobmush lead Republic troops to storm the embassy again, driving the Sith away. Myzil V agrees to join the Republic.
  • The party examines the security tapes from the negotiations and determines the Sith did not rig the droids to explode. Backtracking where the droids came from, Ras, Gobmush, and Kazbich find that the Herglic who hired Kazbich to steal a Sith shuttle and launch a chemical attack against the Skakoans was responsible but is now dead. Evidence points back to Wertsnik, a Trandoshan shopkeeper Kazbich had met who Ras knew as a Republic secret agent.
  • Ras Patul is informed by the Jedi High Council that she has passed her trials and is to now report to Coruscant to be knighted.
  • Devo Morden decides to end his freelance relationship with the Republic and becomes chief of security for Aluni Medon on Chommell Prime.
4 months later
  • The party travels to Coruscant, where they are met by Crask Luk, Rek's cousin and a hotshot air taxi pilot.
  • Lyta pursues medical contacts to form her own Red Cross-type organization. She makes connections in the lower levels among some of the doctors who help the poor.
  • Ras and Kelif go to the Jedi Temple, where Kelif searches the archives for information on his homeworld of Naboo, his birth father, and the Mandalorian who convinced him to leave Naboo, Kaius Fett. He is unable to find much, as the world has only recently been colonized. Ras, meanwhile, researches Cariaga Sin, learning more about her past among the Jedi.
  • Ras builds her own lightsabers with Master Muz, a Duros artisan. Ras is knighted, and makes her first mission tracking down Wertsnik.
  • Kazbich tracks Wertsnik's shuttle to the Works, a factory district on Coruscant, but by the time they get there, it's already been abandoned and the logs have been wiped clean.
4 1/2 months later
  • Mr. Skee taps Kazbich to pursue Gaph, a particularly bloodthirsty Ryn crime lord in the lower levels of Coruscant who is using some sort of Sith artifact to his advantage. Lyta finds Gaph has been stealing medical supplies from clinics in the lower levels.
  • With the help of a guide, the party tracks Gaph's base to the abandoned deep levels, where most civilized beings fear to tread. The party talks their way into his camp, where Gaph reveals he retrieved a Sith spinal graft from the Draay estate after a Mandalorian terror attack five years ago (this is a reference to Haazen and the Yoke of Seeming from Knights of the Old Republic #32-35). His body is rejecting the implant, and Lyta diagnoses that he needs constant blood transfusions to stay alive. Gaph lets the party go and thanks them for their help, but warns them never to return.
  • Ras uses the expertise of the Jedi Masters at the Temple to help track Wertsnik — meeting with a Yarkora at the Galactic History Museum. Asa Ulara helps determine they're meeting a third party the next day at the Royal Icqui Aquaria.
  • The next day, the party stakes out the aquarium, but Kazbich is arrested for trying to smuggle guns and death sticks inside, then bribe a guard about it. The rest of the party sees a meeting between Wertsnik, a Yarkora named Nemor, and a Draethos named Alhu-Zun. Alhu-Zun reveals that he engineered the sabotage of the negotiations at Myzil V, as he wanted to stack the deck in favor of the Republic by letting the Skakoan Council believe the Sith were responsible for terror acts on Myzil V — he wants to help the Republic by any means necessary, including committing atrocities for the greater good. He then reveals his considerable mental powers and escapes, Wertsnik and Nemor in tow.
5 months later
  • Kazbich is put on trial for his crimes at the aquarium. His case is not helped by Rek Luk, who testifies that Kazbich shot death stick dealers on Sleheyron. Despite his best efforts, Kazbich is sentenced to hard time.
  • During Kazbich's trial, Kelif has his Mandalorian armor disguised so he can move around Coruscant freely without being arrested. Ras, doing some research at the Jedi Temple, uses her leadership skills to keep two Jedi Padawans from leaving for the Sith.
  • On the way to a holding facility on Coruscant for transfer to a more secure location, Kazbich is knocked out. He wakes up in a strange location, realizing his appearance has been cosmetically altered. Kelly and a man named Rulan appear and tell him that the Genoharadan, a secret assassin society, intercepted his prison van and replaced him with a double. They say they want Kazbich to join their group and have given him a new cover identity to make it possible. They also hint that Kazbich's father was once a member of their secret society. Kazbich takes on a new identity: Yvegeny Reminsky.
  • "Yvegeny" rejoins the Raraza crew, claiming to be a black ops Republic agent sent to keep an eye on them. Initially, none of them recognize him as Kazbich, and they accept his presence.
  • Gobmush meets up with an old associate, Pedric Graff, and begins to do some corporate muscle work for Czerka, his old employer.
  • Marina reveals to the party that she is searching for the lost "treasure planet," Iego. Ras helps her search the Jedi Archives, but doesn't find any concrete information.
  • Ras is informed that Lyta's former Jedi Master, a Miraluka named Neyeria, has been murdered while on a mission. Ras, Lyta, and Yvegeny put the squeeze on Prello, a Hutt information broker, and find out Cariaga Sin ambushed and killed Neyeria. The Sith try to lure them into a trap, but the party springs the trap, capturing Cariaga Sin and taking her to the Jedi Temple for holding. Lyta nearly gives into the dark side, but decides not to kill Cariaga Sin after learning Cariaga was really looking for Lyta, because she was also pursuing whoever was behind the negotiations sabotage at Myzil V.
  • Ras realizes that Yvegeny is really Kazbich, and meets with the "Kazbich" being held in prison. The double admits that he was surgically altered to look like Kazbich, but his family is being supported for as long as he's in prison.
5 1/2 months later
  • A Sith fleet attacks Coruscant by surprise: several Jedi and Republic ships are captured, Darth Malak leads an attack on the planet's water supply, and armored Sith marauder Talvon Esan, known as "the Butcher," attacks the Jedi Temple. The party fights the Sith at the Temple, who nearly destroy the Archives. A Sith strike team kills the captured Cariaga Sin before she can talk. Ras Patul loses an arm and a leg trying to fight Talvon Esan, but emergency care by Lyta recovers her lost limbs. The Republic tracks Talvon Esan's warship, the Devastator, to the Chommell Sector in the Inner Rim, and the Council dispatches several Jedi Knights to investigate different planets in that region. Ras is assigned to the recently colonized Naboo.
  • Before the party leaves, Ras pursues Gaph one last time — unaware that Lyta has made a deal with the crime lord to leave her clinics alone. Ras is ultimately frustrated by Yvegeny's attempt to build a legal case against Gaph, and uses the Force to convince Yvegeny he's allergic to death sticks to break his dependence on the drugs.
  • Bao Koon receives a new assignment and loses track of the party, not following them to Naboo.
  • Upon arriving at Naboo, the Raraza is attacked by Mandalorian gunships claiming allegiance to "Mandalore the Divider." After a short battle, the Raraza is disabled and lands in the wilderness; Ras and Kelif are injured in the crash.
  • Gobmush suddenly returns, telling the party he was working for Czerka, who learned Eutix was up to some shady business on Naboo. His ship was also attacked and crash-landed not far away, and he was the only survivor.
  • The Raraza is captured by Mandalorians after the party is forced to abandon it in order to head to the nearest settlement, Deeja Peak.
  • The party finds Deeja Peak is occupied by Mandalorians, who are forcing the colonists to conscript. Yvegeny steals a modified Republic mess ship, the Capanata, which helps them pose as Mandalorians so they can move about freely.
  • The party goes to Theed, to find it's also being held by the Mandalorians. Ras and Yvegeny make contact with a resistance movement and begin making plans to retake the planet. Ras learns that a few escape pods recently landed on the planet — from the Sith. If they can find the Sith officers, they can find out where the Sith went after attacking Coruscant.
  • Lyta and Oro continue establishing their medic corps, taking the opportunity to help out the now-destitute colonists.
  • Marina tells the party that Yvegeny is actually Kazbich.
  • The party visits the Mandalorian war forge, a giant underwater factory that builds new Mandalorian arms, armor, and ships, which accidentally avoided discovery by the Republic after the Mandalorian Wars ended. They free the Sith officers, who were being held prisoner, led by Ordal Naberrie. Naberrie says their navigation officer was in a different escape pod near an abandoned Eutix research site, and agrees to help the party free the planet if they can provide shelter from the Sith once they get off Naboo.
6 months later
  • The party checks out the Eutix site, which houses the other Sith officers. The other Sith say they've detected a strange signal coming from deep inside the planet core.
  • The Capanata goes to the site of the signal, a hidden Eutix research facility. The Selkath researchers say they're working on midichlorian research on a leech-like predator called a beck-tori. The party talks them out of scuttling the facility, as the beck-tori has the potential to destroy Naboo's ecosystem. The Eutix scientists agree to use their hidden base to help the growing resistance movement.
  • The party returns to Deeja Peak, but the Mandalorians have gotten wise to them and arrest them. Ras smuggles her lightsabers into a holding cell and frees the party. Kelif and Yvegeny go on a suicidal rampage through town, drawing attention from the Mandalorians while the rest of the party escapes. After being pinned down by snipers at a barracks, Kelif and Yev set fire to the building, using the smoke as a cover to escape aboard the Capanata.
  • The group returns to the Eutix site, finding that many of the colonists used the distraction at Deeja Peak to steal Mandalorian ships and escape. Their resistance movement has grown considerably.
  • The party goes to Keren, the capital of Naboo, to begin their liberation. Yvegeny lures the Mandalorian forces into an ambush, then takes the Capanata to secure a captured Republic comm tower that the Mandalorians are using to coordinate their ships. He destroys the facility, disabling Mandalorian communications, and rescues Gobar Binks, who claims to have been the Mandalorian/Gungan liaison. He says he can get some of the Gungans together to help overthrow Mandalore the Divider, and provides intelligence that Mandalore is currently at the war forge. Gobar also reveals he is Kelif's missing father.
  • While Gungans and Sith help retake the other Naboo cities, the party launches an attack on the war forge. The party docks and fights its way to the central chambers, taking on Mandalore the Divider himself. He is swiftly killed and revealed to be an imposter: a Neimoidian who built a facsimile of Mandalore's helmet to try to get his own planet. "Mandalore the Divider" is nothing more than a pretender.
  • Rek Luk helps retake Naboo and reclaims the Raraza from the party, disappointed to not receive any profits from loaning it out. He also makes inquiries to the Republic about purchasing the war forge and repurposing it for Luk Shipping.
  • Gobmush breaks off from the main group, destroys the Eutix facility, and kills the beck-tori, as per his instructions from Czerka.
  • Kelif Binks-Fett has a strained reunion with his father, but decides to stay on Naboo and help rebuild. He bids farewell to the party.
  • The navigation data provided by the Sith shows that the main fleet went to Chommell Prime after their attack on Coruscant. The Republic sends a fleet there and gives the party some R&R time.
  • The party returns to Coruscant. Ras and Yvegeny go to apprehend Gaph once and for all. With the help of a Rodian Genoharadan agent named Shodu, they arrest Gaph, who names Lyta as an accomplice.
  • Bao resumes tailing the party upon their return from Naboo.
6 1/2 months later
  • Marina leaves the party, saying she'll try to find Iego on her own. She also warns Yvegeny that she made a bad deal, and now someone else (she doesn't know who) knows Yvegeny is really Kazbich. She also says she hired a new pilot for the Capanata, a reprogrammed archive droid named A9G-E5, who Yvegeny nicknames "Aig."
  • On his first assignment for the Genoharadan, Yvegeny assassinates Geonosian Senator Mazzag, who had formed a coalition that could drastically alter the balance of power in the Senate.
  • The Jedi Assignment Council gives Ras a new Padawan, a Quarren named Drallon. Drallon used to be the apprentice of Muz, the Duros artisan who helps Ras build her lightsabers, before Muz was killed in the attack on the Jedi Temple. Drallon is gunshy about using his lightsaber now, having witnessed such violence close up.
  • The Council also assigns another Jedi, the Kel Dor investigator/Republic Intelligence agent Bao Koon and his Yarkora apprentice Haesh, to go with Ras to Chommell Prime.
  • Ras, Drallon, Bao, and Haesh sense Aya Lim on Coruscant, but fail to catch up to her before she boards a cruiser to Chommell Prime.
  • The party goes to Chommell Prime, a gas giant held by the Medon family, a group of Pau'ans who have helped finance Republic exploration for millenia. The Sith are negotiating for control of the planet, but their fleet is hidden somewhere in the clouds. The party meets up with the fleet, where they're met by Jedi Masters Kavar, Jenica Vigil, and an Aleena tactician named Geis Choi. They're teamed up with Lokksnek, a Trandoshan member of the Republic Diplomatic Corps, and assigned to meet with a young, influential scion named Ladow Medon.
  • Ladow reveals he invited both the Republic and Sith to meet with him, and the party is forced to dine with Darth Malak, Undawai (an Arkanian Offshoot scientist), and Stragos (a Cathar financial advisor who used to be a member of the Jedi Covenant).
  • The party is approached by Aluni Medon, a young manager who wants to help the Republic. Aluni assigns her chief of security, Devo Morden, to serve as her liaison and Ras' bodyguard. Aluni is the younger sister of Tarn Medon, an influential member of the family, and she promises to try to set up a meeting to convince him to join the Republic.
  • The party disrupts a meeting by the Anti-Jedi Alliance and frees Plutara, a Miraluka Jedi who once fought alongside Devo. Devo explicitly avoids seeing her, however.
  • Ras helps train Drallon, slowly bringing him out of his shell.
  • Ras turns up leads on Aya Lim, but when they run into each other, she runs off. A Gand approaches Ras, saying Aya has since joined the Jal Shey and is working on shaking off the dark side. Ras and Aya meet up and bury the hatchet.
  • Ras, Yvegeny, Aya, and her Gand advisor meet with a businessman to help make a fuel deal for the Republic, but it's interrupted by a sniper. Ras and Yvegeny catch up to the sniper, steal his security clearance card, and learn about another Medon, Sabinus, who openly supports the Sith.
  • Keane, a crime lord/janitor on the Expanse, the main floating shipyard on Chommell Prime, turns up that a mercenary ship has recently found the hidden Sith fleet.
7 months later
  • Aluni sets up a meeting for Tarn Medon. He says he'll support the Republic if the party finds the Sith.
  • The party discovers the mercenary who found the Sith is Nasha Luk, Rek's older sister.
  • The group plus Nasha borrow a cloaking ship from Tarn Medon and find a hidden drydock deep in the clouds, serving five Sith Centurion cruisers. The party damages the station and frees more than 40 Jedi Padawans who had been captured on Coruscant. They also capture Undawai and Stragos, bringing them back to the Republic fleet.
  • Aluni contacts the party, saying she has information they need to hear in person. The meeting turns out to be a trap set up by Sabinus as revenge for having found his Sith allies. The party rescues Aluni, who had been carbon-frozen.
2 years later
  • The Jedi set a trap for Darth Revan, capturing him. Darth Malak becomes leader of the Sith Empire. The Sith's battle strategy changes nearly overnight from preserving the infrastructure of conquered planets to merely razing them and slaughtering the people.
3 years later
  • Darth Revan, his memory reprogrammed by the Jedi Council, leads the Republic to the Sith Empire's secret weapon, the Star Forge. These events are detailed in the Knights of the Old Republic video game.
8 years later
  • A Jedi general, who had gone into exile after the Mandalorian Wars, returns to the galaxy and finds herself the last known Jedi, and the target of a new Sith Triumvirate. These events are detailed in the Knights of the Old Republic 2 video game.

1 comment:

Merin said...

Since it qualifies...

I go blind.