Mission 1 (Brianna and Mira, Core)
On our way back to Dantooine for the Council Meeting, we received transmissions from a decrepit Sith frigate. Ignoring, for the moment, the very good question of "how did Sith get so close to the core in the first place?", it looks like nobody's there.
Which is the surest sign that somebody is on the thing, and wants us to think otherwise.
Brianna and I will board the ship-- but in case we fail, I'll be having the captain we hitched a ride with have all his cannons pointed at it.
Mission 2 (Visas and Mical, Mid-Rim)
Ourselves and our new initiate were traveling aboard a Republic cruiser when we came across a derelict, unknown vessel. It does not match any known vessels from any of the major States in the galaxy, which is not historically a great sign.
We will board and investigate, and report our findings.
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Mission 3 (Atton Rand+Initiate, Outer Rim)
So I've been asking the kid questions. If he knew anything about more slavers, or what their plans were.
Schuttas thought they could have a little meeting right beneath our noses- turns out they're planning on dropping off some cargo on Dantooine. I'd say some farmer doesn't want to pay fair wages. At all.
But, I've been wrong before-- so just in case, feel free to, you know, meet me at the coordinates?
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Mission 4 (Bao-Dur)
The Republic workers and I have been trying to open one of the sealed doors on the first level-- something has it jammed shut.
We think this might be the old sparring grounds.
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Mission 1 (Brianna and Mira)
I was, as usual, correct. We entered the ship, and immediately Brianna and I both felt something.
At a guess, I'd say deserters from after Malak betrayed Revan. In any case, Brianna and I have come up with a plan-- you remember what Visas had us do on Dxun, right?
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Mission 2 (Visas and Mical)
We entered the ship only to immediately be set upon by droids. Big ones.
We felt nothing organic on the vessel-- or perhaps, more fairly, we felt the screaming lack of life thereof. Whatever species once crewed this vessel, they were all dead-- and at a guess, I'd say the droids did it.
We're going to cut our way through to what seems to be a records room of some sort.
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Mission 3 (Atton Rand)
Welp, I did not realize you could get anymore Isolated in Dantooine. Somehow, these scumbags managed it.
They're meeting in some chunk of plain, three hours from the nearest settlement. They're planning a bazaar, or some kind of messed "industry meeting". They're going to trade tips, merchandise, make a few connections, then go on back to being the worst scum in the galaxy.
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Mission 4 (Bao-Dur)
I think I found the corrupted power pack-- just need to replace it, and we should be good.
It's odd, though-- something seems to be drawing much more power than it should. I don't like it-- feels like I'm missing something.
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Mission 1 (Brianna and Mira, Core)
I was correct, there were Sith.
Keyword:Were. I imagine they expected we'd pull a Jedi, come in lightsaber hot and slowly, methodically cut them down. Now, to be fair, we could have, and it probably even would have worked. Hell, Brianna could have done it on her own, probably.
But why make their lives easier and our lives harder? So instead, I snuck into their computer control room, and activated the Foothold Protocol.
Like I said, I imagine they were ready to fight two Jedi. Decidedly less ready for their own droids and turrets to fire on them, and definitely not ready for both at the same time, never mind that I also set off as many power conduits as I could.
So by three, four hours later, the ship was ours. We made our way to the captain's quarters, and found his journal, along with a few Jedi relics no doubt smuggled out of the Temple on Coruscant.
Seems his plan was simple enough. The stuff he stole, it was all to find and train Force sensitives. He was going to kidnap those kids, knock over some as yet unindustrialized worlds on the Outer Rim, and begin building a new Sith Empire until he was ready to march with an army of Dark Lords at his back.
Unfortunately for him, we showed up, and were not impressed by this "Darth Dioltas".
We've claimed the stolen relics, and the crew was just happy they didn't have to fight. They're going to pour over the ship's charts, see if there's any other logs of some other missing Sith vessels, then destroy it after taking nearly everything of value.
On another note, I claimed a freighter from the Hangar, the least edgy looking one I could find. No more hitching rides from Onasi and friends.
(+15 PP, +5 Knowledge)
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Mission 2 (Visas and Mical+Initiate)
This, I suspect, for the moment will remain one of those terrible mysteries which haunt the galaxy.
I do feel confident in saying, at least, that that paranoid notion which so many of us now have-- of this being Sith, true Sith-- is not true, unless their skin turned green at some point.
In any we managed to cut down the droids and found the records room.
Most of it was worthless-- they don't seem to like the Force very much, though. They tend to gravitate between what I can only describe as "offended at the idea there is something beyond matter and this moment" and "afraid of what the Jedi or Sith can do", along with a very bad understanding of what balance in the Force actually means.
On a more practical note, they had scans of a number of Jedi worlds-- Ossus, Jedha, and Ilum, especially-- along with a number of looted artifacts.
(+5 Knowledge)
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Mission 3 (Atton Rand+Initiate, Outer Rim)
They might have been stupid enough to try and fight me. They might have been stupid enough to try and fight me and the kid, who went into this even more trigger happy than I was.
They were not, for the most part, stupid enough to try and fight me and the kid and the militia, which was also very eager to not have this filth on their planet anymore. Those who surrendered are currently being held in the local jail, and a converted warehouse.
Those who did not are currently one with the Force.
We freed hundreds of slaves, who are currently being taken to therapy and, eventually, home.
There was one thing that you might find interesting-- they had a number of star charts and maps stolen from the enclave, with the location of undeveloped and underdeveloped worlds with secret Jedi caches-- you know, supplies for those long voyages, a number of them on Dantooine. I'll head and grab what I can before I check back in.
(Reward: +10 PP, +10 Dantooine Progress)
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Mission 4 (Bao Dur)
The Sith left a trap for any Jedi who dared return to the Enclave-- a dozen sabotaged training droids, equipped with fully functional lightsabers and the combat ability to match. If I hadn't been there, it would have been a blood bath.
But I was, and so it wasn't. I managed to cut them down, and reclaim the room.
Beyond the spacious area in general, it seems this was also used for lightsaber construction-- there are piles of all the basic parts for one, and a small crystal growing station. Yellow, blue, and green crystals-- basics, but it should be safer for new students than having to go into the Crystal Cave until we can deal with the Kinrath.
(+50 Dantooine progress)
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Alright, research post up tomorrow, and today I'm going to edit in a state of the order post on the front page.