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A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far, Far, Away...

Greetings everybody!
Besides work, work, more work, getting sick, juggling responsibilities and schedules, and of course eating sleeping, and nabbing some video game time, I've been very involved over the last couple of months in a Star Wars RPG Campaign I myself have written (and as GM make up as we go along ^^) and participate in with a group of four players.

This thread is going to become a little research/multimedia info section for the work, where the players and I, along with anybody else who's interested in contributing can voice theories, add images, brainstorm plot lines or new characters, and in general stay informed and updated on the project.

I'll eventually have a intro up here, complete with a cast list and some other fun tidbits.

Its been a fun project so far, and I just thought I'd share it with you guys here, watch this space for future updates, and as always, May the Force be With You...

The Cast...

The following is a list of characters and villians from the campaign.

(note: each introduction is accompanied by a place holder picture that should give you an idea of what the characters look like, but will be replaced by more accurate art if any is ever produced)

The Party



Horus Vaner
Race: Iktotchi
Affiliation: The New Jedi Order
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Height: 1.8 M
Weight: 78 KG
Class:Jedi Knight

Since youth Horus has been plagued by troubled visions of the future, and has always, despite his Jedi master's teachings, followed these visions, attempting to achieve their prophecy, or avert the disasters they speak of. His "ignorance" of the living force and tendency to react in an emotional manner has always made him enemies amongst the Jedi order, but few can compare to his fighting prowess and his talent with the force is legendary for one "so young."

He once trained under Jedi masters during the clone wars, but was locked for decades within a Sith oubliette upon awakening into the world of the Empire, he was forced to adapt, and forged alliances with the new Jedi order under grand master Luke Skywalker.

Even in the Jedi praxeum he was an outcast however, his tendencies to ignore protocol and constantly seek out the end of his visions caused many to label him a failure, and despite many of the jedi's support for him, including his continued training under Kam Solusar, many others considered him too dangerous to stay in the order.

He went AWOL during the Vong war, fighting against their forces on the frontier for three long years. During this time his ever present struggle with the dark side took a turn for the worse and Vaner nearly lost himself. He now seeks to "heal" the galaxy, and hopes the end of the Vong conflict means a long peace is immanent. His visions however, tell him otherwise...

Venon-Gortu



Race: Yarkora
Affiliation: Independent
Age: 54
Gender: Male
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Class: Scoundrel / Master Privateer

Venon is a expert duelist and master privateer with a knack for finding the true motivations of just about any sentient he crosses. Battle scarred and gruff, he is stand offish but very dedicated, a man of his word, and one who would hold you to yours.

In his time he has been a smuggler, a pirate, an arms runner, and with experience he has developed a wisdom many would do well to adhere to. Usually short with words, Venon is a man of action, and is never found without a trusty blade and blaster by his side, though truth be told, his knowledge of the martial art Teras Kasi is extensive.

Venon is a tactician as much as he is a warrior, and every bit as good a pilot as he is a swordsman, he also has a special talent for computers, possessing the ability to hack or reprogram almost anything with a code, this talented yarkora can reverse or cause nearly any computer virus, as well as crack nearly any security program.

The Vong war held a great personal tragedy for Venon who as a result, nurses a deep seeded grudge toward the Vong even after the war. Alone he drifts through the galaxy, searching for a cause, searching for a purpose...

Supporting Cast...


Tanus Ky



Race: Kaminoan
Affiliation: The Scars of Hope War Relief Effort
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Height: 2.8 M
Weight: 72 kg
Class: Noble / Corporate Agent / Medic

Tanus Ky is a powerful member of Kuat Drive Yards Development Division, and a important corporate CEO of the industry. It was he who spear headed the Scars of Hope Relief Effort that was supposed to bring peace and hope to the war ravaged galaxy.

Tanus is a intellectual, a scientist, and accomplished surgeon. Rescued from death at birth, where he was due to be smothered due to being born with the Kaminoan taboo, "the genetic defect" of a pair of green eyes, he has worked his entire life to change the galaxy, to use science, and knowledge to fill the gap war and hate has created.

It is he who gathers the party and sets out on a crusade to retrieve the "Force Splinter" an ancient powerful artifact Tanus learned about from ancient Rakatan texts. Force sensitive himself, he feels a "great disturbance" upon meeting the party on Bespin, and promises to pay them handsomely if they will join him in his quest.

Haunted for years by strange visions, as well as dark specters who warn him not to pursue the Splinter, lest it bring him to ruin, Tanus is convinced the mysterious Icon is the key to his work, and the power that will heal the galaxy and bring it into a new age of hope.

Tanus is eager and enthusiastic, but equally mysterious and cryptic, his motives seem altruistic, but he is often reckless. However, even if he can be trusted, it is possible he exists at the center of a web of intrigue that even he does not yet fully understand...

Null Ko'nex



Race: Yuzhann Vong
Affiliation: Independent
Age: 42
Gender: Female
Height: 1.6 M
Weight: 50 kg
Class: Shaper / Medic

First encountered by the party on the Spaceport Fluxxa's Folly, the rouge Vong shaper is a unparalleled surgeon, with a intricate and extensive understanding of Vong Biotech. Her skills made her a coveted commodity on the outer rim in the days before the Vong war,before the galaxy understood what she was. Following the war she had been held as a bonds-woman in service to Fluxxa the Hutt, an arrangement that protected her from most of her pursuers, but became increasingly dangerous as it proved impossible to heal the medical condition that afflicted the hutt's family.


Once freed from the Folly she agreed to return to Belkadan, the place she had once been assigned to watch over by her Vong overseer. She had been charged with protecting the very tomb in which Tanus belived the map to the Force Splinter was hidden in, the tomb of the Ancient Force user Kerriboss Sulak.

At first untrusting and extremely combative, Ko'nex joins the party thinking they will all die on Belkadan, as the adventure continues, she begins to relent, and enjoys the chance to prove herself with her shaper powers, eventually warming up to the party and their 'strange ways.'

Ko'nex is a fatalist, her beliefs lie with the ancient gods of the Yuuzhan Vong, and after the end of the Vong war she believes as many of her kind do, that the gods are dead and that the existence of the Vong if not all sentients is now extraneous. This does not however prevent her from taking part in the quest for the Force Splinter amused if not incredulous as to the optimism and determination demonstrated by the party, intrigued by the potential they exhibit...