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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jonesy" data-source="post: 6038891" data-attributes="member: 10324">From wookiepedia:"Around 30,000 BBY, the domain of the Celestials was usurped when the Rakata slave race revolted whereupon they waged a war against the other servant races. Some hypotheses over the hyperspace turbulence in the Unknown Regions also claimed that it was created to serve as a barrier between the Celestials and the upstart Rakata."Have the characters hear about, be told about, or find, a Celestial hyperspace barrier generator. These devices are usually cloaked, but the cloak on this one has started malfunctioning after a swarm of comets struck through its failing defenses and part of the time the cloak allows through it radio bursts (that are created by as a side-effect of the creation of the hyperspace barrier) which have now at last begun to reach the nearest inhabited star system ('nearest' could be very far away indeed).The radio bursts point to a specific direction and travelling in that direction the characters are sure to find the barrier still preventing travel to the generator. They will have to figure out a way to get past the hyperspace barrier. Something that would have utterly stumped the Rakata, but which the characters might be equipped for.When they figure out a way to get through the barrier and make a jump to the location of space the generator is near they are immediately fired upon by its defenses. Make up defenses here.Defeating the defense system also shuts down the cloaking device because the defenses will rout all of their power into the weapons system.Once the defenses are killed and the cloak powers down:"What you see is a curious looking planet. The continents, for that is what they most resemble, appear to be sculpted into symbols of immense size. There seems to be vegetation growing on them, but it grows in strangely shaped clusters. Rivers of blue run from the continents into maze-like oceans. Between the oceans and continents run massive mountains of red stone. Looking at the planet as a whole the immediate impression you get is one a circuit board. A massive circuit board built using the natural surface of the planet. Just as this thought begins to sink in your gaze turns to the eastern edge of the planetary horizon. As the planet slowly turns the horizon becomes more and more pronounced until you realize that the planet has been neatly cut in half and both halves are several hundred kilometers away from each other. "The planet is cut in half like an orange, and like an orange the characters can clearly see the rings of earth on the planets insides all the way to the two fiery core halves which are connected together with what looks like an axle made of magma. Somehow none of the insides are spilling out and into the planetary gravity well at the center. The axle made of magma is spinning like crazy and generating/sending all sorts of particles all over the place. This is also the source of the radio bursts. The planet is the hyperspace barrier generator, and somewhere on or in it is a way to find out where the Celestials travelled to.Edit: and no, I'm not saying that oranges have fiery cores. Well, not most of them.</blockquote>

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