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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jacob Lewis" data-source="post: 7880159" data-attributes="member: 6667921">The current Edge of the Empire campaign I've been running since September has five players. They have each seen the new movie multiple times already; the highest count so far is seven. I have not seen it yet,  and have neither intention nor desire to see it in theaters. Maybe not even when it comes to streaming. It just doesn't interest me as much as the story in our game.I have been running the adventure module, Beyond the Rim, which takes place during the classic era between Episodes IV (Hope) and V (Empire). But the story isn't about the adventure itself. It is about the characters. Each came individually with their own special agendas, motivations, and obligations to work for a twi'lek named Reom. The crafty owner of a small black market tech company, called IsoTech, Reom operates his business from an autonomous space station located at the outer edge of the Mid Rim known as The Wheel. The group consists of Reom's half-sister, a scientist who has been secretly studying the Force while trying to earn the respect of her siblings. She is force-sensitive but has not manifested any powers yet. However, a newcomer has alerted her to the possibility that the Force can be found in anyone, maybe even herself. A young and talented thief, the zabrak has recently manifested her abilities to enhance her own athletic skills without any knowledge about the Force. Until she joined the twi'lek's team, she had never encountered another Force user before and is now becoming self-aware of her own talents. Unfortunately, she is being blackmailed by the Empire to spy on Reom's operations while they hold her friend captive for leverage. The crafty twi'lek, however, just revealed that he has known of her situation all along and promised to help after taking care of business. Meanwhile, a young mandalorian trying to make a name for himself is hired by Bargos the Hutt, who has decided to call in a favor from Reom. Promising to surrender a suit from the mando's clan, the Hutt sends him to the Wheel to bring Reom's team to Tatooine for a special job. But before the team is assembled, they run into a troublesome pair, a human smuggler and a trandoshen who had stolen a ship from a rival company, operated by the aggressive rodian Yiyar clan. The rodians cornered them at a local lounge where a young zeltron performer was making a name for himself on stage. After a close encounter,  Reom diffused the situation by returning the ship to its rightful (if angry) owners and offering the pair an opportunity to repay him. The zeltron turned out to be Reom's ward, and he sent him along with the group to gain some real-life experience. And that was the first session. Since then, the group had set loose a group of killer droids, stole a lot of credits from the hutt (and gotten away with it, so far), bested their rivals in a Hutt ceremony to win back the zeltron who had inadvertently become property of the same Hutt, rescued a protocol droid from the rodians attempting to steal it, landed on a jungle planet where a legendary Separatist treasure ship crashed landed at the end of the Clone Wars, and discovered the graves of the zeltron's parents who were on that ship. The smuggler and trandoshen have left, but we picked up a human mercenary who used to serve the Rebellion.Point is, the galaxy is a big place. Not everything needs to revolve around one story or a small set of characters. And there are many story arcs left to explore after this adventure concludes. We are just getting started!</blockquote>

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