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The Rebellion doesn’t look so glamorous from the mud-side…

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  • Star Wars Universe, but I decided to go with a Starship Troopers feel to this RP.
  • 0BBY (Before Battle of Yavin, or that is to say -- Episode IV)
  • Rebellion Era
  • 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 2nd Uslam “Liberators” Regiment, is a unit without a home planet, as the Uslam Liberators were forced off-planet during a vicious crackdown by the Empire. The unit has since become part of the fleet, as a strike force. Not all the new faces brought in to replace Uslam natives are from there; the new guys come from all sorts of places.
  • The platoon is currently billeted aboard the Corellian Corvette Intruder attached to whichever Roving Line or Sector Force requires its services; the platoon specializes in a number of different operations that require a quick reaction force of specialist infantry. It primarily operates in the Outer Rim and near Hutt Space.
  • The characters are members of this outfit, from a variety of backgrounds and formed as an ad hoc fire brigade intended to be able to provide an extra punch; a lot of its recruits are former bounty hunters, smugglers, pirates and assorted other fringe and Outer Rim native types, with a diverse skillset and hardy but also a degree of discipline problems. These are not Imperial Stormtroopers. They aren’t big on parade marches, but at least they can shoot straight.
  • 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 harassing 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.

All the same, when sector forces and fleet assets get in trouble, and need a hard target cracked, they need a little something extra, a strike force with the skills, training and specialized equipment to handle something that takes more than a moisture farmer militia. That's where 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 2nd Uslam "Liberators" Regiment gets called in. The natives of Uslam, a mining planet in the Outer Rim decided to rise up in support of the Rebellion, but were crushed. The survivors of its military units that got off-world in an evacuation were put into ships as security crews and boarding forces, to make landings. They became part of the disparate fighting forces of the Rebel Alliance. Replacements from other planets filter in, and yet the Liberator ethos prevails -- hard-nosed, cynical and ready to do whatever it takes to fight the Empire, stormtrooper by stormtrooper, ship by ship, planet by planet.

They have one of the crappiest jobs in the Rebel Alliance and it seems like sometime 1st Platoon is the only platoon in the whole damn Rebel Alliance and everyone else is in Supply, Intelligence and Starfighters. They don't get the glory like the Starfighter boys do, but without them, there is no alliance.

Out of Character Info
This RP will center around a specific unit within the Rebel Alliance, 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? These are the infantry of the Rebel Alliance, the guys that carry a rifle and do the fighting in the mud, with blood on their boots. They aren’t as clean-cut as Stormtroopers, and there are plenty of aliens in the ranks, but they can shoot straight even if they aren’t as easy to lead. The veteran characters of the unit are from Uslam, a planet that just got beaten down by the Empire. The survivors were in what was a baptism by fire for most of them, and got their teeth kicked in by the Empire. Uslam’s rebel uprising was put down and the regiment was forced off planet, broken up and put into small ships all over the Fleet, platoon by platoon. The replacements are coming in, but Rebel training isn’t the best and they’re learning on the job. Still, the fight won’t wait and you go to war with what you have, not what you want. That, ironically, is what Supply likes to say along with ‘figure it out.’

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.
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Really interested. Would a former droid mechanic with a Chewie-esque buddy be cool?
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I'm interested as well. I would like to role play as a Ubese mercenary named Bok Tule. He gets contracted out by the rebels in a desperate attempt to increase their numbers. Surprisingly Bok Tule has never killed anyone important, he just relies on the urban legends of other Ubese for contracts. Bok Tule has a lucky streak as he is the luckiest Ubese in the galaxy and has survived many contracts. Will his luck run out?

*I prebuild my star wars characters*
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I'm sorry, I'm not sure a mercenary would be suitable here. Ex-mercenary that's enlisted? Sure. But the reality is that this is a bit of 'you're in the army now' RP as opposed to being some sort of freelancer.
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Statement: This unit would love to join as a repaired HK-51 unit. Perhaps repaired by SuperTacticalDerp's character?
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What would the droid's actual mission and programming be, though, especially after all that time?
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@The Fated Fallen Would that model even be salvageable at this point? It would probably break the Rebellion's bank just getting the basics together.
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@The Fated Fallen Would that model even be salvageable at this point? It would probably break the Rebellion's bank just getting the basics together.


Technology has a funny way of bouncing around in Star Wars, HK-47 is still around (though he is a special case). And it wouldn't be rebel funds, just a particular Master's talent
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Technology has a funny way of bouncing around in Star Wars, HK-47 is still around (though he is a special case). And it wouldn't be rebel funds, just a particular Master's talent


If the GMs are cool with it, I am. I just want to keep my droid buddy.
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If the GMs are cool with it, I am. I just want to keep my droid buddy.


Could I find a place in your heart? Can love truly bloom from assassination protocols?

Lol jk, this is Grimdark! Not some mamsey pansey romance RP!!!
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What would the droid's actual mission and programming be, though, especially after all that time?


To serve the current master, and shut down upon termination of that master
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Might be doable, but I think they need a good reason to use such a droid in the first place. Then again, HK units can masquerade as protocol droids and provide translation services.
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Could be that my Ubese is a sentient that doesn't traditionally speak basic and maybe he enlisted for steady pay. Ubese are pretty crass maybe his translator can be the assassin droid.
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Well, it takes more than three, so we'll see what goes. Basically, they will be part of the infantry and it means they'll be under Rebel regular command and probably in some sort of uniform. The Rebellion isn't all about spit polish perfection, but the characters will probably be getting their supplies from the same sources, so they'll probably start looking like each other eventually.
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My character will probably wear standard issue gear and decal his droid with the Rebel Insignia.
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Sounds great, count me in.
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I'm interested if you are still looking. Would a former Hutt smuggler have a place in the group?
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My character will have the exosuit with the helmet, but it looks like and is colored like the rebel uniform. He more or less looks like a rebel in full armor and a helmet.
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I'm interested if you are still looking. Would a former Hutt smuggler have a place in the group?


Is that a smuggler who formerly worked for the Hutts, or a Hutt who used to be a smuggler? Or maybe you're a smuggler who used to smuggle Hutts?
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@Witch Beatrix Yes, a smuggler that worked for the Hutt Cartel would work wonderfully; while some of the characters can be part of the original Uslam Liberators, it's not necessary, and there are replacements coming in to fill out the ranks as they make drops off the Intruder.

Anyway, I'll get coffee in and work on the OOC and sheets.
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