ES2 said:
Everybody here should go to
http://www.starwars-rpg.net/journal/indexb.php and check out Volume 2, Issue 2. It has an alternate Rebellion era option that just kicks so much butt. It's probably the best rebellion idea I ever read, and if we did play rebellion, I think this is the kind of game we should try out.
It is pretty cool. Isnt it alot like the Dark Empire series? I really dont know I dont alot of the EU stuff very well. The only thing I dont like is that it takes away the Emperor as the master plotter/villian of the whole piece. But definately nice as an rpg setting. I love all the charts btw.
Here's my <ahem> idea for the post Endor, thumbnail sketch style. It is one year after the Battle of Endor. The Emperor and his feared Sith Lord Darth Vader are dead. The Imperial Fleet has been swept out of the core worlds to the rim. All should be well in the galaxy, but it isnt.
Four months after the destruction of the second Death Star, the Alliance scored victory after victory, liberating countless systems. Although many Imperial Admirals surrender to the Alliance, 13 Grand Moffs manage to slip away toward the Corporate Sector with their commands nearly intact. The Alliance flush with victory, and now without a single focal point with which to turn their energies slowly turn away from the business of war to of reconstruction of the Core Worlds.
The Galactic Senate is reconstituted, and the Republic is re established. Princess Leia Organa is unanamiously appointed Chancellor. However, not all is well. As the imperial prisons are emptied many political captives of the Emperor, most of them non Human, begin a wave of denuciacion against what they saw as Human co-option by the Empire. For months recriminations fill the Senate and disrupt their bodies proceedings, as the 'Alien' species demand more power and control in the new Republic for years of suffering.
As this furor died down, Luke Skywalker hero of Yavin petioned the Senate to establish a training center for the Jedi Order. This too ignited a firestorm of contention as the place of the Jedi was debated. Many feared and distrusted the practioners of the Force after the rule of Palpatine and Vader, and many with an eye to history remembered the destruction the Sith/Jedi conflicts brought to the galaxy.
Then rumors began to spread. The two greatest figures of the Rebellion Chancellor Organa and Jei Skywalker were rumored to have been the offspring of the hated Vader. This revelation caused the resignation of Chancellor Organa eight months after her election and Skywalker to retreat to the Outer Rim away from public life. The "Alien" faction in the Senate immediately manipulated the elecetion of the recently retired Admiral Ackbar as chancellor.
As time passed, the old bonds of the Allinace began to fray. Regional wars, many borne of hatreds fueled during the Empire erupted. The most destructive was the Wookie/Trandoshan conflict which would quiet but never cease. On the Outer Rim the Hutt lords slowly expand thier domains, and many other fringe systems refuse to acknowldge the validity of the new Republic.
Well thats at least the start.
