[Saga] Star Wars: Rebels with Style OOC

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Ok, I am back and I have a bit of catching up to do.

It looks like we are flying while looking for a jump vector, as well as being pursued by 6+ too many Tie Fighters?

Right?

AMG: Is there anything I need to know for my character, before I post again?

Gah. For some reason I didn't catch this until now.

Give me a bit and I'll add a quick little post for Garret as a more detailed update on the situation over in the YT. Glad you're back, now hopefully you won't get shot down!

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

And there we go for Garret.

I'm definitely taking mental notes on a lot of this. I do like how the starship combat works, but I'll admit this wasn't the best of ways to go about it with this group. Too little things for everyone to do. Will have to rectify that in some way if/when starship combat comes up again...

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Okay, some thoughts.

Its kind of slowed down more than I wanted to, and that's basically a combination of my fault with how the space combat works out in this case and some slowdown with the server here. We're to the point of just 2 rounds to jump for both ships, and that's really all due to movement. I have half a mind to say 'forget it' and go ahead and assume you guys make it out alive and jump this ahead as planned. Likely should have done this a few rounds ago, but hey...better late than never. If you guys REALLY want to go through with the last two rounds, feel free to yell at me.

Even if we do them, though, I wanted to go ahead with a few other things in preparation for the next stuff. I've definitely learned a lot from this prologue, and it wasn't really as quick as I had hoped(mainly due to this escape being slower than I'd hoped), but still this was fast for a PbP. I'm much more comfortable with the system now, though the space combat stuff will take some tweaking if/when it comes up again. Mostly on getting everyone involved in their own way...likely more ships or people on the ground doing things simultaneously is best. If you guys have any suggestions, again, fire away. I'm all for it.

Now, time to get into the 'meat' of the game, as it were. We're going to jump ahead roughly a year, likely a month or two under that but the exact amount of time isn't that important. What is important, is its enough time that you guys have gone through a few other missions together and established yourselves as a unit or sorts. In that vein, feel free to come up with your own 'what happened' during those past missions we won't be covering. On the NPC end, Valin Droma from the very beginning of the Yavin mission is still the guy giving the orders and such. Also, as a sort of support crew, Sya White takes up the roll of flying you guys into locations when necessary, with Sara Ines(one of the three captives) helping out on that end as a co-pilot. I'll throw up some stats for those two in the character thread at some point.

Beyond that...backstory wise its all up to you guys. Even feel free to name the unit if you'd like.

Just as importantly, we're also going to go ahead and jump you guys up 2 levels, to 6. Consider that representative of the action you guys have seen in between. So lets try to get that as quickly as possible, and if you guys are up for just jumping ahead now we can get a new thread started and have a little briefing for the fun to come...

 

[drothgery]

Well, here's what happens to Istara during the 'down time'
- Immediately upon the completion of the current mission, someone requests that she accept an engineering officer's commission in the rebel Navy and permanently join [the group the PCs are part of], and after much soul-searching, she accepts
- At some point -- probably the next time she sees him -- she marries Waric Serrano (a fighter squadron commander for the Rebellion at the time of the first adventure, who she's currently engaged to)
- The other PCs eventually learn who she really is (i.e. the only child and heir of a weapons manufacturing magnate who's been secretly supplying the rebellion, a doctoral candidate in economics, and was working for the rebellion as a slicer/spy before the first adventure)

From a game mechanics perspective, she's working on the prereqs for the Officer PrC and developing her existing skills. So she'll take levels 3 and 4 as Noble.

 

[FreeXenon]

Garret's Downtime

Perhaps with Lt. White's recommendation I am able to jump straight into a recon/sniper program instead of being pulled into commanding infantry.

I have started to date Lt. White and we have grown a bit serious. Following training, and a few training and not-so-training missions I have returned to our base and have been reassigned to our group, as well as having been reunited with Sya. I imagine that we would have just returned to the group from a few days together.

=)

(Assuming, of course that this is all OK with the AMG)

 

[Shalimar]

Kay will take 2 levels of Scout bringing her closer to Bounty Hunter. In the next 3-4 levels if we ever get that far her blaster work will become a whole lot deadlier. She'd end up doing 4d8+9 damage + an extra 2 levels on the mod tracker when she aims, 3 levels if the target is flat footed. Probably makes her one of the best gunslingers out there. This is in addition to her Diplomatic and Impersonation skills getting better due to putting them to use (they are at the best they can be beyond just level gains).

What was the fall out of our first mission? Did we get medals, etc? At that point I think we were all just volunteers and hadn't been integrated yet into the Rebellion. What is our permanent rank, etc? I'd figure that looking at Wraith Squadron as an example Valin would probably be a Commander, and the rest of us would probably fall around the level of Lt. with the Field officer (if Valin doesn't jon us in the field) being a Captain, or a Brevet Captain if they hadn't already proven themself.

 

[possum]

As the Galactic Civil War intensified after the battles of Yavin, Lia Merridon found herself more and more drawn into the combat side of battle, as the cause of drawing other species into the rebel fold was soon overwhelmed by the simple need to survive the oncoming conflict.

Lia took more combat training than she really wanted to, and participated in small military actions on her former home planet of Selvernos. While not successwful at freeing the planet from its recent Imperial occupation, she and the others were successful at organizing its resistance.

Unlike Istara's secret of being the child of a weapon manufacturer, Lia's own secret of her family's Jedi connections have been kept hidden from the others, out of fear of her children being turned in by any potential traitor.

Mechanics: I'll probably add in an additional level of scout and finally a level of soldier.

 

[drothgery]

Oh, just to make things clear here, I've got no problems with skipping ahead.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Ideas for how things advance with your characters generally look good...I'll address a few things specifically as needed. Also worth mentioning, if you guys are not too happy with the character you've made, this is the time to address that. If you just want to roll something else entirely to fit into the mold, that's fine.

(Assuming, of course that this is all OK with the AMG)

I'll have a more detailed background for Sya(and the other NPCs) up in a day or so when I post their stats. Generally, the Garret/Sya thing works just fine, though he should probably understand that dealing with a fighter pilot stuck flying around a covert ops team isn't always fun. But, considering her roots as a starfighter pilot(which didn't really come up, but that's why she was down on Yavin IV...her Y-Wing was shot down), she does keep herself a bit detached from people. If anything, just means she can come off cold at times.

What was the fall out of our first mission? Did we get medals, etc? At that point I think we were all just volunteers and hadn't been integrated yet into the Rebellion. What is our permanent rank, etc? I'd figure that looking at Wraith Squadron as an example Valin would probably be a Commander, and the rest of us would probably fall around the level of Lt. with the Field officer (if Valin doesn't jon us in the field) being a Captain, or a Brevet Captain if they hadn't already proven themself.

Honestly, I try to play rank loosely if only because it can become a real headache. Besides, this is the Rebellion and its pretty loose there, too. When I DO deal with rank, however, I've taken a liking to a chart that's a compilation from many sources and done as best it can since we have no real exact rank structure for any military organization in Star Wars.

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/order.html

Technically, its focused on the Empire, but I just apply it across the board for ease of use. You guys are, indeed, probably around the Lt. area of things. I've already got Valin labeled as a Captain(Navy), and that's probably where he'll stay.

As for fallout...it would have mostly consisted of finding the small Rebel fleet and catching one's breath. There likely wouldn't have been any medals or celebration, if only because from that point until Echo Base is fully set up, the Rebellion is entirely on the run without much of a chance for things like that. Course, there would have been commendations, much thanks, and then the formal formation of the unit. Its mostly likely that, only a couple of days after the escape from Yavin, you guys were off again trying to find a suitable base location or dealing with something else important to the Rebellion.

 

[drothgery]

Honestly, I try to play rank loosely if only because it can become a real headache. Besides, this is the Rebellion and its pretty loose there, too. When I DO deal with rank, however, I've taken a liking to a chart that's a compilation from many sources and done as best it can since we have no real exact rank structure for any military organization in Star Wars.

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/order.html

Technically, its focused on the Empire, but I just apply it across the board for ease of use. You guys are, indeed, probably around the Lt. area of things. I've already got Valin labeled as a Captain(Navy), and that's probably where he'll stay.

That's about how I'd see things, though coming into this adventure Istara was a civilian intelligence agent, and I think Duerr's background (and possibly Lia's) comes off as more enlisted than officer. Still, I'd definitely agree with not making a big deal of rank for now. It might become more important down the line, though, especially if I keep Istara on the track for becoming a fleet commander.