GM – Note – Wanting to play a little more I decided to start a campaign that included only the players here in New Mexico. I decided to go with Edge of the Empire mainly because I wanted to get away from the Rebellion and explore the Edge of Star Wars society. Our group is also based on McDougal’s world (a moon) but not working for the Rebellion.
The time period our characters find themselves in is just after the fall of the republic. Bale Organa and Monmathma are still in the Senate. The corruption of the new Empire is just taking hold. People are worried and frustrated but nobody is rising up in rebellion. Nutral worlds like Mandilor and seperdist strongholds are just intigrateing back into the unbrella of galactic civilization. . Things like the purge of Mandalor and the massive work quotas from the empire have not happened yet.
Our group has been gathered by McDougal a rich salvager and engineer. Each owed him quite a bit of money. He needs people to go out and scout locations for future salvage jobs. A new company has made its way into the outer rim. “The Rock Salvage” company has suddenly made its presence known stealing several jobs he would have gotten.
His agents had found out that the company belonged to “Rock Mining” a major member of the mining guild. That means that the imps were making moves to start controlling the mid rim. So far they had not tried to get any jobs on the outer rim but he knew it was only a matter of time and it still means someone was still cutting into his bottom line. The individuals in front of him was his opening gambit in fighting for his territory.
There was Sulizan a Fringer and her droid who had other things to worry about stood beside him awaiting the rest of the crew. There was an engineer a specialist in modifications. A gambler charmer and our pilot. Another droid a medical droid with a statistic streak. He had paid a slicer to get the torture routines out of the droid but he was only partially successful. He had pulled the pathfinder out of mothballs for them to use. How he missed that faithful little ship. It had got him out of many scrapes in the old days.
Well folks what I need is a scout crew. Someone to go out and look at potential jobs and report back so that I can lay claim to those jobs before our competition. I need a small little crew to be my eyes and hopefully stay ahead of the competition. In return I will let you use Pathfiner here. You will follow leads that you come up with and ones that I assign you. You looking for large salvage jobs that I can take on with the Reclaimer. In addition I will be asking you to do certain support jobs for me when the need arises. Any salvage you bring back I will buy off you for a fair price. Any other jobs I will pay you directly for keeping 50% for your debt. So what do you say?
The three debtors all relluctly agreed. Well in that case lets do a test run. A couple years back I was flying over the southern continent of Rylath. It was far away from that war torn little world. I am sure nobody had disturbed it but I could not explore it as I was a little pressed at the time. I want you to fly to Rylath and look it over. Any salvage you bring back will go toward your debt. The coordinates have already been uploaded into D23 (the astromech).
The 5 of them shuffle off to the ship. Tippy the sullizan looks at McDougel. “Really, this is the crew you are giving me?” “If you and your friends want to use my company as a cover you are going to have to take my people.”
She sighs “Fine.” her and the droid head off to the ship.
Cut Sene: We find ourselves into the Cockpit of the freighter Pathfinder. All of the party is present. There is an awkward silence as everyone tries to figure out where to sit. Tippy comes in and sits in the copilot chair. The gambler takes the pilot chair. The human with a Mandalorian helmet and mismatched armor sits at the gunnery station. The medical droid stands in the back and D23 stays in the common area. The next week in hyperspace is a quite one there are several conversation mostly get to know your stuff but otherwise it is pretty quite.
The alarm rings letting everyone know that they are reaching the end of the hyperspace lane to Rylath. They all converge on the cockpit and the stars slow down. Rylath comes into the cockpit widows. The ship lines up and over the comms is traffic control. Pathfinder please state your business?” Hekin hits the comm this is Pathfinder with business on the southern continent. Do we have you permission to land?”
To be continued,,,,
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