A/N: I hope I don't pre-empt Dr. Snark's
actual turn results, but this reaction post turned from 'goofy riffing on the roll results' to actual serious 'I checked the wiki and these are the possible goodies we might get from that super-crit you just rolled'. Anyway, reactions and (possible) results to follow!
CNS Defense Taskforce Rolled 57 + 15 + 20 = 92
...The CNS is now Switzerland. And with Garm Bel Iblis's militia and the Republic fortress/depot on Ord Mantell, we're ready for anything the
Nazis Sith might send against us. Also, at Thrawn's instigation we set up a proper
Admiralty Board for the CNS Navy, to ensure our fleet is competently commanded.
Watching The Watchmen Rolled 47 + 5 + 20 = 72
Turns out the Jedi Sentinels lost Lady Ciaran's comm-channel number after a faulty security patch roll-out by the Technical Division led to the Jedi Temple's computers crashing. "It was like Y10K all over again," explained a blushing Jedi Technician.
At least the intel exchange between our organizations is back up and running.
But What About The Younglings!? Rolled 91 + 10 + 20 = 121
Ciaran intervenes in the nick of time -- after ensuring that the younglings are evacuated, she persuades the Jedi High Council to venture out of their Tower and meet with the leaders of the protests. The Jedi Order sees how it is perceived by the broader galaxy, and promises to do better. The protests sputter out when the protestors realize the Jedi aren't Stupid!Evil, but an organization that's a little too hidebound, filled with people who have good-intentions despite their occasionally calamitous mistakes.
The reforms don't happen overnight, but there's been a clear shift in the Order's balance, in favor of the younger reform-minded crowd. Windu sulks, Yoda chuckles enigmatically, and Palpatine gnashes his teeth in frustration.
Sienar Custom Vessel (Chu'unthor) Rolled 43 + 10 + 20 = 73
It was expensive, but Raith Sienar got his hands on enough stygium to outfit a stealth field to cover the full 2 square kilometer breadth of the capital ship. The internal repairs were less satisfactory -- the training rooms are crude but usable -- but the
Chu'unthor is at least able to fly without being detected, and we have enough engineers and other personnel to upgrade the internals even after it takes its maiden flight. (+1 Diplomacy/Lore Action for making contact with other Force Sects,
Chu'unthor becomes an Abyss Watcher Base.
Deepen The Baobab Partnership Rolled 2 Rerolled 17 + 10 + 20 = 47
We meet Mungo Baobab. He's the heir of a financial empire, but has too much wanderlust to settle down in a corporate job. Sounds like a perfect fit for our organization, and I'm sure the rest of the family would appreciate our keeping an eye on him and helping him out of tight spots....
One Fried Paranoiac, Extra Crispy Rolled 47 + 10 + 20 + 12 = 89
Well, it certainly did nothing to ameliorate his paranoia, but Talesan Fry is now
fully on board.
NB: We'll want to be somewhat careful in how we use him ('Remember Darra Thel-Tanis', but there should be plenty of innocuous actions (anti-Palpatine, pro-CNS) we can use him for.
Return to Tipoca City Rolled 80 + 15 + 20 = 115
Well, we got what we came for -- we know which units were implanted with the broken inhibitor chips, how the chips are implanted, and how to modify them. We also got a whole lot more -- our agents gathered a significant amount of data on Kaminoan cloning techniques, which should be very useful for our employees and allies aboard the
Arkanian Legacy.
We also discovered a
recorded conversation between Chancellor Palpatine and Prime Minister Lama Su, indicating that the Republic would soon 'phase out' their purchase of Kamino-made clones, and start producing its own army of flash-grown clones via Spaarti cloning chambers. ("Now isn't
that interesting....")
Or, you know, Kal Skirata (
finally) trusts us enough to hand over
those Republic Treasury encryption codes. Which means we get
all the money.
Operation Ultra Rolled 32 + 15 + 20 + 2 = 79
Fry's Codebreaker is so absurdly powerful, that it hardly took a week after our agents returned from Kamino, before we intercepted a communications from Palpatine to the administrator of his secret cloning facilitis on Centax-2.
NB: with 'Tipoca City', counts as auto-success for 'Bad Moon Over Coruscant' and unlocked follow-up action. Also gives better odds/results for 'Treasury Auditing' (Stewardship), 'Rumblings of a Giant', 'Grassroots Movement' and 'Black Information' (Intrigue).
Carrot and Stick Rolled 47 + 15 + 20 + 12 = 94
Thyferra takes the carrot, and shies away from the stick. Even better, Silas was able to orchestrate the sabotage and blackmail campaign before arriving on the planet, where he promptly offered his services to find a solution. Thyferra knows they're not welcome in the CNS, but think that
other parties were responsible for the cold shoulder. And they're quite pleased to reap the rewards of Silas's smuggling expertise (increased trust in our organization means they won't think anything amiss if a few shipments go missing...).
Rust And Metalorn Rolled 96 + 15 + 20 +10 = 151
We steal the CB-3 cortosis droids.
All the cortosis droids.
We also steal the schematics for some of the other droids being built in Metalorn's foundries -- which might include blueprints for the
Hailfire-class droid tank, the 'seismic hover tank',
Hyena-class droid bomber (all from Haor Chall Engineering), the P-series, W-series, and Q-series
droideka droids, the droid tri-fighter, the
Pistoeka 'buzz droid' (from Colicoid Creation Nest), the AAD-4 assault droid and
Viper probe droid (from Arakyd Industries).
NB: Yeah, Metalorn is a major foundry world, and all of those companies are affiliates of the Techno Union, so this super-crit might be the equivalent of an auto-success for either 'Ball Busting' or 'Simply Mechanical Heist' or both. There are a lot of potential goodies here. If I had to pick and choose, I'd probably prefer the Colicoid droid schematics -- all of them appear in the films and seem incredibly useful, and could plausibly be found by hacking a single terminal. Plus the Mechis III action might let us steal schematics for non-battle droids, since the entire planet is dedicated to building all kinds of droid models for all kinds of companies, including Industrial Automaton (astromechs) and Cybot Galactica (protocol droids).
We also stumbled upon the '
Unreal City' prison complex and staged a jailbreak, freeing a number of political enemies and unhappy competitors to Wat Tambor. (We may or may not have rescued Shaak Ti at the same time).
Finally, thanks to our earlier surveillance, the Silencer led a team to capture Wat Tambor without much difficulty and brought him back to Neutral Space as a captive. (They flew away on a small squadron of stolen
Sheathipede-class shuttles -- those should come in handy for future missions).
Archaeological Expeditions (Yavin IV) Rolled 44 + 15 + 20 = 79
We visit a few temples, take a few corusca gems and ancient relics for 'study'... before we stumbled across a long-abandoned cargo pod containing a ancient battlesuit made of cortosis alloy that seems to
sing of the dark side of the Force. Asajj claimed it for herself, obviously.
More interesting, the data terminal on the pod indicated it came from a space station registered to Suvam Tan, a Rodian inventor and treasure hunter who lived during the time of Revan! Ciaran's shatterpoint has been not-so-subtly hinting "There's more where that came from."
(NB:
@Dr. Snark, it's not a super-critical success, but it's hard to find
anything on Yavin IV (let alone the rest of the Yavin system) that isn't ludicrously valuable to some degree. I figure the Suvam Tan pod would be a decent enough reward without being OP, while also giving a sufficient hint to return or set up a permanent base to do more exploration.)
No Match for a Good Blaster At Your Side Rolled 80 + 15 + 20 = 115
It turns out that designing custom Force-blasters is even easier than designing a new lightsaber -- so much that Ciaran should be able to get hers finished in short order. (This would either count as an auto-success for Ciaran to construct her own lava-crystal force blaster, or give a Personal Action to construct it as a 'free action' next turn).
Personal Shield Technology Rolled 47 + 20 + 20 = 87
It might take a few more months, but the Foundry assault has demonstrated the need for our agents to be outfitted with high-quality personal shields.
Sair Frame Integration Rolled 31 + 20 + 20 = 71
Thanks to her previous work with
mechu-daru, it takes very little effort for Cheriss to adapt her custom frames to all kinds of droid variants, from basic battle droids to vulture-class starfighters, not to mention the slew of droid schematics returned from Metalorn. Of course, that doesn't take into account how her research into her own frame has advanced by leaps and bounds....
Padme is a bit busy when Ciaran comms her out of the blue, but she quickly gets over it when Ciaran tells her about her dinner with Count Dooku...
Form III (Soresu) Training: Reward: Martial Increase, Form III training Rolled 16 + 15 + 20 = 51
Obi-Wan sure was surprised when Ciaran's lightsaber starting leaving a trail in its wake.
Ciaran sure was surprised when Obi-Wan told her to put it away and gave her a training blade instead, so she can focus on getting the right form. Progress is slow and counter-intuitive (given her strengths and previous training), but Obi-Wan is patient and a master duelist. Slow and steady it is.
Miss Ciaran, I Expect You To Dine Rolled 77 + 5 + 20 + 40 + 17 + 8 = 167
Dooku tries ambushing us, to see how far our Makashi has advanced... only to be handily defeated after Ciaran pulls out her Moonlight Blade (Sora Bulq and Quinlan Vos try to intervene, but only succeed in embarrassing themselves). Dooku admits his frustration in his own master for not spending any time training him to a higher level; Ciaran surprises him by offering a helping hand.
Only now does Dooku realize the
power of the Troll Side of the Force.
Under The Knife (Asajj, Miraluka) Rolled 61 + 25 + 20 = 105
Ciaran volunteers her own DNA for the Miraluka genes. Asajj goes through the genemod and comes out with a slightly higher midichlorian count and an instinctive grasp of Force Sight. Also, she seems to have developed an appreciation for Ciaran's sense of humor. Be warned.
Cheriss Sair - Experimental Frame Development 59 + 20 + 26 + 20 = 125
At this rate, Cheriss might be able to beat HK-47 in a head-to-head spar. More importantly, all of that 'experimental technology' panned out
magnificently -- she was practically
vibrating in excitement when she told Ciaran about how much progress she'd made on those anomalous materials the Svivreni mineralogists had been sending her way.
Asajj Ventress - Journeys Of An Exile 60 + 5 + 19 + 20 = 104
Asajj Ventress gains a couple Minions of her own, and the Blackguard jump at the opportunity to join our nascent Moonlight Council.
NB: 'Moonlight' is more poetic than 'Gray', and Ciaran wields the signature weapon, and all our Abyss Agents wield silver lightsabers.
Jango Fett - Those Who Do Not Exist 32 + 5 + 24 + 20 = 81
The Cuy'val Dar ride again. Long ago, Jango recruited "
the best in your field—the best soldiers, tacticians, sappers, communicators, survival experts. I picked you personally because I want you to train the best commandos in the galaxy." Now they all work for us.
Notably, this list includes Kligson (who runs his own paramilitary group), Cort Davin (a Mandalorian cowboy), Vhonte Tervho (a dual-wielding Mandalorian bounty hunter), Llats Ward (military historian, strategy & tactics teacher), and an unnamed Corellian mercenary (headcanon: he's Han Solo's deadbeat dad).
Corellia: 93 (+100 & Event)
Okay, there are a
lot of possibilities here. The big question for
@Dr. Snark is whether our salvage teams for 'Corellia' are limited to the surface of Corellia
proper, or if their remit includes the rest of the Corellian
system.
If we're limited to the surface, our salvage teams might have found artifacts related to the history of the Green Jedi, which might put us in contact with their Order now that we're on the planet. Or we might have discovered an entrance to the 'Selonian Tunnels', an underground metropolis where a race of isolationist otters find their home away from home. Or we might have rediscovered the swoop-racing course that once crossed through the Agrilat Crystal Swamps. Or we ventured into the disused Labor Valley and found long-buried caches of raw materials used by the 'Black Hole' hypermatter refinery. Or our paths might have intersected with any one of the dozens of corporations and organizations on Corellia proper.
If our salvage teams can venture throughout the system... well, that technically includes Centerpoint Station, but I'm sure Ciaran would have warned them to steer clear until we can send a properly-kitted team to look it over. The Corellian system, however, includes a number of other inhabited planets. One of these is Selonia, the homeworld of said isolationist otters, an industrial waterworld with a below-ground ecumenopolis, known for the legendary ruins of Kas'as Chen'ru Den.
Another nearby planet is Drall, homeworld to a race of burrowing rodents generally regarded as exceptional scientists, best known for the 35,000-year-old 'Great Archives of Mastigophorus'.
Notably, Drall is also the home of a former Jedi named
Meloria. Just read her wiki page and tell me it isn't one ginormous plot hook.
Discovered to be Force-sensitive soon after her birth, Meloria was inducted into the Jedi Order to be trained in the ways of the Force. Meloria passed through her training half-heartedly; always resenting the fact that her destiny was supposedly predetermined.
...
While attempting to arrest a bounty hunter, Meloria accidentally killed an innocent bystander. She became distraught and found herself unable to deal with the anguish; she severed all ties with the Jedi Order and vowed to never use the Force again. Meloria fled to the nearby planet of Drall
...
Meloria used the last of her savings to purchase a cryogenic hibernation capsule. Safe inside her cave, she then froze herself within the unit. Meloria knew that if the Force willed it, she would be free, but until that time, she'd remain in stasis.
She doesn't like the Jedi, and so swore off using the Force. And now here we come, telling her that you don't have to be a Jedi to use the Force....