Who's Who's.....Again

As we have a new player on the team, here's a short description of the characters involved in the current storyline...treat this as a reference sheet for people mentioned.

If I have forgotten anyone, or have questions/comments, post ahead!

Note: Some info  taken from earlier posts..... also, yes it's long, but again, it's a guideline, not something meant to be read completely.  Unless you want to of course.....

Recap: Into the Heart of Cloud City

Roklo and Lance negotiated a contract to transport their passengers (Jedi and Sith) on their missions, Jack had meetings with Jastus and Jacques, Ayla with Petro and Gunner, and Atty with Rei and Brucbacca.  The team then assembled, where Jedi Master Koffi Arana inform the team they would be taking one of the late Fy-Tor Ana's padawans, Spark, a green skinned reptilian Clawdite and would be traveling to Cloud City to gain intel on thee wherabouts on a potential ally.....Commander Savaya of the Aldaraan Forces. 

The team then heads off to Cloud City, where Sith Lord Visarias and Atty begin  tenuous relationship on the ship.  As the team arrives amid uncomfortable living arrangements, the ship is hacked into by a force user, and the ship nearly crashes, though the combined efforts of the team, though led by Roklo, save the ship.  After insuring the shps' landing payment, the team separated into two teams: Ayla, Lance, Roklo and Spark went to Port Town, where the worse elements live in, while Visarias, Jack and Atty headed to the luxury casinos.

Ayla, Lance Roklo and Spark headed and ran into a gang of thugs, who tried to steal Roklo's medpack but failed; revealing the leader's sister was sick, the team helped him, who in turn told the team that Joklo and a Rodian female duo were often hanging out at the Blue Squirrel.  They headed to the Blue Squirrel where they found out that the duo was in town to get a shipment of Tibanna Gas for their boss; that Savaya was heading into town that day to get a shipment of the gas; and found Neeta, another Rodian Merc from Tattoine.  While Lance, Roklo and Spark followed Neeta, Ayla headed back to her jedi friends, concerned for them.  The three headed to the warehouse distract where Neeta was and found the warehouse....only to be slightly ambushed by Neeta, Quinas (The Rodian Sith Padawan dumped away), Joklo (Roklo's brother), Lily'Na (Twi'Lek female) and their boss.....the basilisk Gorgon.

Meanwhile, Visarias, clearly having been in town before, heading with the team right to the Black Sun's casino, and uses the force to win her funds. The group is then asked to a shadier part of the Casino, where they are attacked by Poison Gas, clone war droids and more droids.  The Black Sun operator, Mr. Barker then informs the team that Savaya is landing on the 42 floor to acquire a shipment of gas, but the Apprentice, a Force User, would be causing problems.  In addition, The Apprentice has been poisoning the old administrator slowly for a new one to take his place, a Mr. Randa Wheeler.  With this intel, the team parts way, with Visarias heading to Savaya and the two jedi to Ayla and crew.  While traveling, with Revan's idea, JAck did his best to provoke Atty to anger, and the two nearly clashed before stopping where Ayla was (somehow on the 42nd.....?).  Atty and Ayla went towards Savaya, after forcing Jack to head to the 66th floor.  The two arrived where the Helmet landed, only to see Savaya already arrested for the Baron's death, with Mr. Wheeler watching the scene.  Outside the helmet stood stunned followers: Akkan the Mandalorian, Hakim the Naboo Technician and Do Ji Wacao, the Sith Padawan. 

The apprentice, wherever he/she may be, smiled in glee with these developments...

Preview: Cloud City

City Name: Cloud City
Planet: Bespin
Location: Outer Rim (And the streak continues!)

History of Bespin: Found during the Mandalorian Wars, the initial outpost was promtly destroyed by.....Mandalorians, this being about 4000 years ago.  2000 years ago, a small gas mining outpost was established and was decently profitable.  The gas, tibanna gas, was and still used as a conductive agent to increase the firepower of blaster and ship cannon; in addition, due to the process of manufacturing the Tibanna Gas, it was very expensive to do the manufacturing anywhere but in Bespin (how convenient).  The colony was fought over during the New Sith Wars, but gained no great prominence.  It was only 400 years ago that Cloud City was ordered to be made by a mining corporation, a Mr. Figg (still famous), and became the mining/gambling city that we all know and love now.  The Figgs are still the main family, so the founder of the city passed its rule to others.  Small battles took place here during the Clone Wars.

Major Export: Tibanna Gas, Cloud Cars
Major Import: Food, Technology
Less to be Learned: Star Wars Planets are really fing good at economics.  There's not one planet that is seemingly good at everything, at least in the Outer Rims.

Population: 5.5 million at Cloud City, 6.5 on Bespin; tourist population around 500,000 on average.
Of which, 70% are humans and 20% Ugnnaughts, and 10% other.

Ugh what?  Ugnnaughts, the almost native species of the planet.  Yes, they fortunely emigrated here.  No, I have no clue why you would emigrate to a Gas Giant if you didn't mine the gas.  Yes, we're going to move on.
But they're mini-Ganons, creatures of evil?  Moving on!

So how big is it?  Pretty big; it has 360 levels of people, of which 100 was luxury housing, casinos (Vegas style), museums, clubs, etc; 20 for admin staff; 40 for private industrial areas which is apparently like Hell's Kitchen; 210 floors dedicated to mining, miner residences and processing areas; and 20 to actually keep the city afloat.  About half the floors have residencies needed for the about 6 million people there, so it's pretty well sized.

So there's this Sabbac Tournament?  Yep.
What's Sarbaac? "In rules and concept, sabacc contains elements of both the real-world games baccarat and blackjack, with the obvious distinction of being played with what is essentially a Tarot deck."  Sometimes Wookiepedia is awesome.
What's baccarat?  You're on your own.  I just know it's the game James Bond plays and I can never quite figure out the rules.

Current Baron Administrator: That's a secret.........

Darth Revan - Continuity Messup

Warning: Spoilers to Knights of the Old Republic (X-Box Bioware game) are here; course, the game is 9 years old now, so you know, statue of limitations and all that.

The basics of Darth Revan in our game is pretty well established; Darth Revan was, until the current Emperor, the most successful Sith Lord of all-time, handily nearly eliminating the Jedi Order in the 2nd Sith War (aka Jedi Civil War) before somehow being taken and laid to rest in Korriban about 4000 years ago.  He's a pretty powerful, dark side user in our game, one to be feared and a front runner in the overall game last final boss.  And this is insured by what the great Wookiepedia says

"Revan rejected the darkness of his past, turned Shan—whom Malak had broken to his will—back to the light and vanquished the reigning Dark Lord, playing his part in the battle that brought the war he had instigated to a close........the canonical ending features his return to the light side"

Well...........crap.  So, for those out there who are confused, this post is meant to clarify why our game is going aganist the actual continuity, have a brief rundown of who the bloody Darth Revan, why is it that those who know him think he's very much an interesting figure, and how this game treats him.

Failures in Darth Revan Merchandising

As we all know, you get into one somewhat popular aspect of a franchise and then bam!  Down the road you get a figure, maybe even two if you're lucky.  Revan though?  Well, lucky in getting some, not so much in the way of quality though....

Recap: Jedi-Sith Conflict Conclusion

As Jack laid unconscious, and Ayla hurried back to her team, a reincarnated Cyborg Sith Lord Grog Wahil and a group of apprentices fought with the team; Ayla came back in time and together defeated the apprentices, though Grog was able to escape.  Meanwhile, Jack was awakened and tortured by Aria, who had gone unhinged due to Jack's taunting.  Jack, desperate to survive, call on his Master, Revan, to save him, and that's what Revan did.  After convincing most of the team that Aria was killed by the mech from before, the team healed up and then received a message from Coleman Kjac, requesting aid.  The group went there, only to find Coleman killed by the Agent, who promptly disappeared.  Getting orders from Jastus and Brucbacca, the group then headed to the arena, where they met with most of the Jedi....surrounded by the Sith.  The Sith then gave a request/order: join in a temporary alliance with the Sith, or have one last single big fight.  After a ton of debate, the team agreed to a truce with the Sith, and together the two forces have joined to fight the Empire, with the goals being to kill Vader, Emperor, half of the moffs and the takeover of Coruscant. 

The team was then given new orders....a recruitment drive....but who to recruit?  Isabel Yassa and the pirates?  Argas Vicious, Moff of the Empire?  Or Commander Savaya of the Aldaraan Rebellion Forces?

Ig-88 Song

In Honor of the Droid Post....Enjoy....

Droids and Conflicts and Sentience

Droids are a concept in Star Wars that, from the outward appearance of things, always confused me.  I mean, from the original Episode 4, droids are a rare thing that has some level of sentience.  As the movies continue to be made, they became more and more prevalent....but it was almost always an ideal style of living.  Yes droids are the bad guys in the prequel trilogy, but I think we all knew that was so the Jedi could kill a ton of people and keep the movie PG, and so the army would disappear easily after the trilogy was completed.  But we hardly see, in the main movies any signs of droid hatred, presence or conflict.  Why is there no conflict with Droids?  Why is it yet another thing Lucas chooses to ignore?

Well, turns out the Expended Universe covers a lot of this material.  The 2nd arc in the first expended universe content, the Marvel Comic Books, has a cyborg who hates all droids (and cyborgs....oh irony!) and makes it a point that there are a lot of people who don't like droids.  Similar to the much earlier Jedi Conflict Post, this post will review the history of droid conflicts and their fight....for their right......to exiiiiiiiiiiiiiiist!  (Ok not as catchy)

Recap: Sith Stalker

After the battle with the Land Gars, the team went to bed, the Jedi in the Padawan Quarters, the Privateers in the Starfire.  Roklo and Lance talked with Isabel Yassa, and recruited Wilkins, Dead Tom and one other NPC to join their ship (that's to arrive sometime next session).  Isabel then retreated off the planet; Mr. Shadow stayed behind to go with Lance.  Meanwhile, Aria talked in private with Ayla, and then the Jedi and the privateers were summoned to the Jedi Council Building.

At the Jedi Council Room, the team had a debate over how to handle the Sith, with some, led by Coleman, wanting to defeat the Sith who attack; other, led by Koffi, wanted to eliminate the leadership of the Sith, and merge the two forces together.  After the debate, Ayla and the team was assigned to investigate the death of two padawans found mysteriously dead with an engraved S; Ayla had a quick meeting with Coleman as well.  Checking out the scene, the team discovers a secret passage from a still recovering area to the padawan training area, the arena.  However, while going through the secret tunnel, Roklo falls down a pit, revealing a room with a Mech inside.  The team is able to defeat the mech, but it was a difficult fight.

The team discovered two more secret passages and the team split in half.  Atty, Roklo and Lance went down one to another part of the hallways, running into Valeria, a prideful human female padawan.  Valeria and Lance continued to establish a relationship throughout the game.  Meanwhile, Jack and Ayla ran into the secret drinking room, and played around with Padawan Kolg Slog.  The team met up and ran into Padawan Luminare, who told them about some potential candiates of who the killer could be.  The team split up again, but eventually united to protect Valeria against the killer, another padawan, Repasur, and were able to apprehend them. 

The team was the ordered to guard the north side of the Jedi Council Building; Ayla went to get permission to hack into the security cameras, while Jack went off to "meet" with Coleman.  However the passage Jack was a trap, and he was defeated by a Mech; just as Ayla gotten permission and was returning, the Sith began to arrive....

Recap: Politics as usual at the Jedi Camp

The team, after recovering the Manuscript of Zargon, ran into Fy-Tor Ana, who talked about the camp and the people there after healing the team.  The team handed the manuscript to Koleman, who handed to Crystal to give it to Jastus.  The team then went off into their own ways, which is as follows:

• Ayla caught up with Joseph Gunner, an old friend who had survived a duel with Vader;
• Atty caught up with Rei Silvia, a Cathar, old traveling companion of the team, who revealed she helped Atty with her training so the two can rescue Brucbacca from the dark side (Rei and Brucbacca are former master/padawan and lovers...)
• Jack tried to force Aria into a fight situation, but Aria ran away, vowing to kill the Jack;
• Jack then talked to Koffi and Jastus, and the two revealed they had no problem with Jack's taint, in fact, they convinced him to go with their plans to eliminate Coleman so they could unite the Sith and the Jedi to fight the Empire;
• Lance (with Roklo in tow) ran into Daren Naluel, who asked the two to investigate Jastus...the two snuck into his room, and found evidence of possible betrayal, but Jastus caught the two.  Lance was able to talk his way out of the situation, and have some fun with Naluel;
• Ayla and Atty talked more about Brucbacca;
• Ayla and Jack talked about Aria;
• Lance warned Coleman about certain issues.;
• The team learned that Lord Petro was a former founder of this colony and had founded most of the Jedi here.

After everyone had their solo scenes, the team went to a dinner honoring the group, where they were attacked by Ground Gars (look up alligator gar, make them ground based and much larger), where the team proved themselves once again by killing the King Gar...but not before Jack accidently stabbed Lance in the back, nearly killing him.  The team were sent to their rooms afterwards, but the next morning....a body of a padawan is found....engraved with a giant "S"....

Recap: Haashimut Arrival

After escaping the Sith Camp, the team began to fly to Haashimut.  On the Starfire, the crew have various scenes taking in what has happened; Ayla harshly criticized Atty, Roklo and Lance discussed what Roklo's brother; Aria freaked out and had to be calmed down by the crew; Aria and Atty discussed about their relationship, what will happened to them and what not; Ayla and Jack discussed about their different ways; and Lance made a business deal to acquire his old ship with Mr. Shadow. Oh, and Wilkins, after being a jerk, lost his captain position to Isabel Yassa (who also had a scene with Lance). (if I forgot anything, let me know!)

Finally, the team arrives on Haashimut, only to be surrounded by a bunch of Jedi.  Ayla manages to peacefully resolve the situation, with Mr. Shadow leaving the group with a Red Skinned Gorilla Jedi Master, and walk unarmed with Jedi Master Doma and Crystal to the new Jedi Council Room, where the council, led by Coleman Kcaj, after interrogating the team, decides to let the team stay on the planet....but only if they prove themselves by acquiring a rare artifact.  The team went through numerous death traps, including a cliche riddle and three mechs, but finally acquired the manuscript they were sent to acquire.....

But now, the question is, with the Jedi so far showing some of the same qualities of the Sith, can even the Jedi be trusted now?  Or is there nothing worth believing in anymore?

Jedi Council

Recap is coming, but here is the so called "new" Jedi Council....