TL;DR Summary:
- Star Wars Universe
- 0BBY (Before Battle of Yavin, or that is to say -- Episode IV)
- Rebellion Era
- The Tengaru (I made it up) Sector of the Outer Rim; contains the planets Tengaru, Rhysul and Urtan and a number of others.
- The characters are the bodyguards and other useful specialists in a Rebel task force assigned to Tengaru to negotiate the addition of Tengaru's disparate anti-Imperial groups into the Alliance. The characters are part of the advance team intended to help set up and lead the resistance in the region.
- Characters are members of Rebel Alliance Intelligence's Special Operations
- The characters decisions will affect the outcome.
- This is in casual for a reason; keep the posts relatively short (a few paragraphs max) and interactive.
- Collaborative GMing; I have final say, but I want to encourage people to have ideas on side quests and so forth.
- Multiple characters allowed
- 0BBY (Before Battle of Yavin, or that is to say -- Episode IV)
- Rebellion Era
- The Tengaru (I made it up) Sector of the Outer Rim; contains the planets Tengaru, Rhysul and Urtan and a number of others.
- The characters are the bodyguards and other useful specialists in a Rebel task force assigned to Tengaru to negotiate the addition of Tengaru's disparate anti-Imperial groups into the Alliance. The characters are part of the advance team intended to help set up and lead the resistance in the region.
- Characters are members of Rebel Alliance Intelligence's Special Operations
- The characters decisions will affect the outcome.
- This is in casual for a reason; keep the posts relatively short (a few paragraphs max) and interactive.
- Collaborative GMing; I have final say, but I want to encourage people to have ideas on side quests and so forth.
- Multiple characters allowed
In Character Info:
The Republic has fallen and the Empire has risen in its place, having undermined and manipulated its way into power -- what seemed rational and logical turned out to be a manipulation. The Jedi are gone, the law no longer protects and the military no longer defends. The Empire has turned everything into an instrument of oppression under the New Order.
Still, there has always been resistance, even through the dark times. The young take up the fight against the tyranny, filling the ranks of the opposition to the Empire with a generation that does not justify the Empire by claiming that the Republic was more corrupt, worse and so forth. Some are idealists, others have their backs to the wall. The Empire creates its enemies -- the harder it squeezes, the more people consider banding together against the Empire. And now the Empire's enemy has a name
The nascent Rebel Alliance is generally unable to mount more than harrassing attacks against the much larger Galactic Empire, but it has the advantage of surprise -- the Empire has to defend the entire Empire, whereas the Rebels can disperse their forces and often can strike where they care to, though if they are caught in one place too long, they are crushed. It has to, by necessity, wage a grim and dangerous guerrilla war in the shadow of the Empire's might, wagering their lives and freedom for small victories in a long, long war that has anything but a certain outcome.
And yet, the Alliance gathers its strength, it sends out diplomats to seek out groups that oppose the Empire, to band them together and recruit more to the cause -- little by little, in cantinas, in universities, in spaceports, in small moisture farming communities. It finds the disaffected and tries to bring them in, despite the ever-present danger of enemy infiltration, despite the odds they are fighting against.
That is, of course, the job of Mission Group Nexu, Alliance Intelligence Special Operations, whose broad mandate is to build an effective and organized resistance against the Empire by any means necessary. It is a small group, with few resources and a big task ahead of them but this group of talented individuals, misfits considered too talented to simply serve in the Alliance military, are led by the respected diplomat, former Senator Nath Brujan. The expectation is that Brujan should be able to efficiently weld together a resistance in Tengaru; after all, he was their senator.
Still, there has always been resistance, even through the dark times. The young take up the fight against the tyranny, filling the ranks of the opposition to the Empire with a generation that does not justify the Empire by claiming that the Republic was more corrupt, worse and so forth. Some are idealists, others have their backs to the wall. The Empire creates its enemies -- the harder it squeezes, the more people consider banding together against the Empire. And now the Empire's enemy has a name
The nascent Rebel Alliance is generally unable to mount more than harrassing attacks against the much larger Galactic Empire, but it has the advantage of surprise -- the Empire has to defend the entire Empire, whereas the Rebels can disperse their forces and often can strike where they care to, though if they are caught in one place too long, they are crushed. It has to, by necessity, wage a grim and dangerous guerrilla war in the shadow of the Empire's might, wagering their lives and freedom for small victories in a long, long war that has anything but a certain outcome.
And yet, the Alliance gathers its strength, it sends out diplomats to seek out groups that oppose the Empire, to band them together and recruit more to the cause -- little by little, in cantinas, in universities, in spaceports, in small moisture farming communities. It finds the disaffected and tries to bring them in, despite the ever-present danger of enemy infiltration, despite the odds they are fighting against.
That is, of course, the job of Mission Group Nexu, Alliance Intelligence Special Operations, whose broad mandate is to build an effective and organized resistance against the Empire by any means necessary. It is a small group, with few resources and a big task ahead of them but this group of talented individuals, misfits considered too talented to simply serve in the Alliance military, are led by the respected diplomat, former Senator Nath Brujan. The expectation is that Brujan should be able to efficiently weld together a resistance in Tengaru; after all, he was their senator.
Out of Character Info:
This RP will center around a specific sector of the Galactic Civil War, but it involves a lot of small sub adventures for a group. For the sake of convenience, I have decided to set it up so that the characters are assigned to the same group and on the same ship, supporting their leader. I have certain ideas on how to start off the RP and for various nemesis character types, but I am open to other people's ideas -- in fact, I'd like to provide enemies that people want to fight, and find interesting. I'd like to keep the whole thing going, and I've tried to craft a scenario where smaller operations feed into the overall large-picture; moral decisions -- who to recruit, and what actions to take that may bring some groups closer while alienating others, akin to the relationship system in a lot of RPG's; praising one character pisses off another.
So what kind of characters do I have in mind for this? Smugglers, mercenaries, slicers and others that are a cut above the typical rebel recruit -- people that are too talented and perhaps too set in their ways to fit right into a line regiment. For example, can you imagine a highly trained Mandalorian warrior being put into a platoon of troops led by an Alderaanian officer, more skilled and ferocious than any of them, scary to his comrades, trained from the age of eight but in a culture with very different values? Where do you put someone that doesn't necessarily play well with others to do the most damage? Not SpecForces, who train the same way and do things by their methods. In intelligence, where talented individuals can do their thing. That's just one such example. Any sort of character that might be somewhat wasted working within the confines of military discipline (like, for example, Han Solo and Chewie) but can certainly contribute to the cause. These characters are irregulars, in every sense of the word. In fact, a criminal background is a plus in that a criminal's skillsets are often of a benefit to a guerrilla.
Casual standards apply, but I absolutely insist that people have to use their spell-check and grammar check. I'm not trying to be offensive, I'm just stating from the outset that I want people to make the effort to use punctuation, capitalization and so forth.
So what kind of characters do I have in mind for this? Smugglers, mercenaries, slicers and others that are a cut above the typical rebel recruit -- people that are too talented and perhaps too set in their ways to fit right into a line regiment. For example, can you imagine a highly trained Mandalorian warrior being put into a platoon of troops led by an Alderaanian officer, more skilled and ferocious than any of them, scary to his comrades, trained from the age of eight but in a culture with very different values? Where do you put someone that doesn't necessarily play well with others to do the most damage? Not SpecForces, who train the same way and do things by their methods. In intelligence, where talented individuals can do their thing. That's just one such example. Any sort of character that might be somewhat wasted working within the confines of military discipline (like, for example, Han Solo and Chewie) but can certainly contribute to the cause. These characters are irregulars, in every sense of the word. In fact, a criminal background is a plus in that a criminal's skillsets are often of a benefit to a guerrilla.
Casual standards apply, but I absolutely insist that people have to use their spell-check and grammar check. I'm not trying to be offensive, I'm just stating from the outset that I want people to make the effort to use punctuation, capitalization and so forth.
