New Adventure Brainstorming

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So I'm going to finally run my first SW adventure in 10 years! D&D and the D20 system is fun, but D6 Star Wars has always been where my heart is.

Anyways, onto the adventure. The time frame is going to be either just prior to ANH or following ANH.

It's going to be a fairly small core group; two players and a GM. Though I will have slots for others who might pass through. (Inner-office group, who knows who might want to stop by for a session or two.)

The players are still developing characters, and while they do that I'm working on the initial story arc.

Since the group is so small, I've allotted them an extra handful of skill dice. But to balance things out they're starting at the bottom of the equipment barrel so to speak. Sporting blaster pistols, Vibroblades, combat jumpsuits and a voucher to top off their transport fuel cells.

Their transport is a derelict Ghtroc 720 that's barely space worthy. The original owners made some quality modifications like replacing the double laser with a double laser turret, and mounting an underside speeder scale blaster. But none of the following owners had any ability to maintain the ship. The cockpit upholstery is less comfortable than a sack of potatoes, the port and starboard sublight engines constantly leak coolant (every time you patch a leak two more spring up), the hyperdrive is in such poor shape it's only safe to operate it at x4, and the backup hyperdrive has been salvaged to keep the primary afloat. Heck, the entire starboard cargo hold is filled with junk used to keep the ship running.

But it's all they have, and without a source of income they'll have to make do. Which brings me to the first story arc; despite whatever grandiose plans they have, they're going to have to get the ship fixed. My hidden agenda here is to build camaraderie between them and a sense of accomplishment from turning the 720 from a flying casket into something formidable.

Without any cash, and a ship no one would trust to ship cargo on they're going to have to turn to salvaging. We're talking boneyards and battlefields; the kinds of places your likely to find adventure (trouble).

My question is, what locations would you suggest? The only idea I'm turning up is Raxis Prime. I've toyed with the Alderaan Graveyard, but really, could you expect to find anything worth salvaging there? Also, perhaps Yavin 4, but then again it would probably be a hive of activity for sometime after the battle.

Any help and input would be greatly appreciated!

[CRMcNeill]

[Bren]

[garhkal]

If they go that route, how will they handle 'salvage' jumpers with only 2 people?
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[2E151]

[Praxian]

Depends on what all you'd like to do.

The PC's will need a couple of things, but Raxis is a bad idea unless both PC's have fairly good technical skills for fixing.

Bespin would be a good place. PC's can make a contract using the "ship" as collateral, in exchange for "ship repairs", they make x runs for Bespin for free. (Say 2 free runs per 10,000 creds in repairs). Then it's easy to come up with ideas of where to send the PC's.

"Today's run brought to you by: Bespin! Today we're delivering Tibanna gas to a guy with the name Solo over in the Yavin system".

With the characters working for an organization, they can build up contacts on they're "Home Base", and if they deliver to repeat customers, they can build a working relationship up with anyone they see often.

If you're not comfortable using various "Canon" places, it really isn't that hard to use planet creation and simply make up a system somewhere in the Mid Rim and place a system there.

Edit:

Just because the players deliver to the rebels, doesn't mean they can't also deliver to the Empire. It's just as easy to deliver gas to the Rebellion and then restock, and have a contract to meet up with the Executor to deliver the gas for things there.

[TheDoctor]

Why not make up your own planet or system?

A long time ago (not in a galaxy far, far away), I started creating my own sector. I recently found my old notes for it and used it for an adventure I ran last weekend.

Essentially the PCs discovered rumors of an abandoned Separatist base on the sparsely populated world of Gelroon. Gelroon itself was a quasi-desert world (not Tatooine desert, more like Bakersfield, CA type terrain) with almost no Imperial presence. The settlements on the world are Wild West Like with the various humans and common aliens (Rhodians, Twi-Leks, Sullustans, etc.)

The PCs found that the more accessible parts of the base had already been ransacked, but they ended up finding a hidden cache of Droid Army hardware!

In my adventure, it turned out that the local crime boss had already laid claim on it, but ended up hiring the PCs.

That's just an example of stuff you could make up. Hope it helps!
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[Bren]

[ZzaphodD]

[Bren]

[garhkal]

[Bren]

[2E151]

[garhkal]

What you going to look at for combat capabilities of these 2? Ground and space wise?
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