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Introducing Starfinder Society Year 4

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Battle taking place on the top of a high speed train

Art by Mark Molnar

It’s time for the Starfinder Society to rally together against a mysterious new threat! A series of digital attacks unleashed simultaneously across the Pact Worlds throws the system’s status quo into chaos, leaving an opening for an army of unidentified robotic attackers to storm the Lorespire Complex on Absalom Station. Can the Starfinders defend their headquarters while navigating the technological pandemonium caused by this Data Scourge, discover who or what is behind these attacks, and stop them from destroying the Pact Worlds as we know it?

Welcome to the Year of the Data Scourge.

Year of the Data Scourge Symbol

Art by Mark Molnar

We are excited to return to a traditional metaplot for Starfinder Society Year 4. Scenarios that directly influence the Data Scourge metaplot will be marked with a special image. Scenarios without this branding are stand-alone adventures that do not tie into the events of Year of the Data Scourge. The metaplot kicks off with a scenario titled, appropriately, Year of the Data Scourge, written by yours truly, Jenny Jarzabski. If you have a PC in the levels 1-4 range and you’re ready to find out what this new season is all about, make sure you don’t miss this one! And if you don’t have a character made yet, what are you waiting for?!

In addition to our campaign’s new season, we’re pleased to announce that the Society’s efforts detailed in the Vast Experiment series have finally paid off! Starting in Year 4, Starfinders can choose to take the Society’s newest ship, the Azata, for a spin on their missions!


Starfinder Society Azata ship

Art by Mark Molnar

The Year of the Data Scourge and the Azata will both debut at PaizoCon Online 2021, as part of a series of three introductory scenarios for first level characters. Check back for next week’s blog, when we reveal more about the first scenarios in the Year of the Data Scourge.

Before then, though, tune into Know Direction next Wednesday, March 17th at 6PM EDT., to see me chat more about Year 4! Bring your questions and see what plans we’ve got in store for our stalwart Starfinder Society agents.

Until then, explore, report, cooperate!

Jenny Jarzabski
Starfinder Society Developer

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Paizo Employee 2/5 Organized Play Developer
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I'm *so* excited for this. Nice work, Jenny!
Paizo Employee 5/55/5 * Organized Play Associate
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Dataphiles 5/55/55/5 Venture-Agent, Netherlands
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All Aboard the Hype Train!
Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo) 4/5 5/55/5 *** Venture-Lieutenant, Tennessee—Cookeville
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I 100% have a character to debut for this season!
Scarab Sages 4/5 5/55/55/55/5 ** Venture-Captain, Indiana—
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I want that metaplot image as a pin!
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I'm so excited for this!
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Sounds like an exciting season!
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Ooooohhhhhh so exciting!!! Also, THAT ship!
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Can't wait!
Paizo Employee 2/5 5/5 Organized Play Developer
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I'm VERY excited to see this art and the Data Scourge concept out in the wild today!

I have big plans. I hope to see all of you along for this wild ride! :D
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Jim Crase wrote:
I want that metaplot image as a pin!

Seconded!

Very excited to see where this goes!
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:D
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I sense a disturbing lack of Ramming Prow...
Second Seekers (Jadnura) 5/55/55/55/5
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So excited! And I get to run the new scenarios at PaizoCon!
Exo-Guardians 2/5 5/5
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I feel like I've seen something about this before.

Season 2 scenario:
Does this have anything to do with 2-04?
Did the Starfinders who went into that vault cause this?

About the ship: Maybe the Azata has some reinforcement in the forward section not depicted in the art.

I’m glad to see the new season start and looks to be going to a interconnected plot similar to season one and two. Is boons and rewards likely going to be adjusted by print date or will this be left blank?
Silver Crusade 5/5 5/55/5 **** Venture-Captain, Germany—Bavaria
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I am confident saying, that is a mighty pretty ship.
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Please tell me the Azata has a ramming prow option! Looking forward to a new ship and a new season!
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The first thing that came to my gremlin brain after seeing the logo for Season 4 was "Ms. Celita, I don't feel so good..."
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Robots huh?

-punches in a comm number-

Yes, Multifold Industries? How much does your biggest ion cannon cost? ... I'll take three.
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Hakuna azata

What a terrible phrase
hakuna azata
There is no latent phase

It means you re mama for the rest of your days
Then it's bursting free
Of your anatomy
Hakuna azata
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Why do I have the feeling that somewhere a hellknight is saying I told you so...
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Last Slamurai wrote:
The first thing that came to my gremlin brain after seeing the logo for Season 4 was "Ms. Celita, I don't feel so good..."

Just you wait, I've got plenty of pain—I mean, exciting narrative events!—in store for you.

Dataphiles 5/5
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The data plague has returned! I mean, it has finally arrived! Time travel is complicated!

The point is, I told you this would happen!
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I got suspicions, namely that an enemy from the distant past has somehow survived destruction, survived the Gap, and has now finally regained enough strength to seek revenge on its child and retake the mantle of divinity they stole from it on Lost Golarion!
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At last! Thankfully I've prepared and bought a safari hat. I think that was the take-away lesson...
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May I have permission to use that splashy art any time someone complains that a story is too "on-rails?" ;)
Liberty's Edge 5/5

It's... it's... it's green!
Liberty's Edge 3/5 5/5 **** Venture-Captain, Nebraska—Omaha

Ohhh Sexy ship! Have the stats been published yet?
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We've saved the Society. Now, we have to save the entire Pact Worlds!

Bring on the 'bots!

(And, yeah, the Azata looks awesome.)
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wolaberry wrote:
I feel like I've seen something about this before. ** spoiler omitted **
BigNorseWolf wrote:
Why do I have the feeling that somewhere a hellknight is saying I told you so...

Hnngggghhhrrr *theorycrafting intensifies* I have hype, y'all! Hype and insane theories about a certain android in the wind from season 1, or a certain herald from the blogs

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Yay new ship! :D :D :D
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Cool can't wait for season 4 love the new starship.
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Really curious about the new ship stats too!
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Oooh, that's a sleek ship!
Paizo Employee 2/5 5/5 Organized Play Developer
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Stats for the new ship are coming...SOOOOOON! :)
Second Seekers (Luwazi Elsebo) 5/5 5/55/55/5
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Do we need to welcome our vesk overlords now?

**prepares BBQ**
Grand Lodge 2/5 *

Time to get your lightning guns!
Grand Lodge 4/5 5/55/5 ***

Robots or is it safe to call them droids? If so all we need is a clan of Jawas with a space crawler and we can save the day!
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TwilightKnight wrote:
Robots or is it safe to call them droids? If so all we need is a clan of Jawas with a space crawler and we can save the day!

Ysoki could be wear hoods with face wraps and goggles to emulate them. Crawlers sound Akitonian...

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Kishmo wrote:
wolaberry wrote:
I feel like I've seen something about this before. ** spoiler omitted **
BigNorseWolf wrote:
Why do I have the feeling that somewhere a hellknight is saying I told you so...
Hnngggghhhrrr *theorycrafting intensifies* I have hype, y'all! Hype and insane theories about a certain android in the wind from season 1, or a certain herald from the blogs

One of my favorite things about my home game is when my players go on weird tangents. I get some great ideas for the campaign and the players get to say "oh crap I was RIGHT!" Doesn't work as well in org play. Well, the first part about weird tangents does.

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wolaberry wrote:
One of my favorite things about my home game is when my players go on weird tangents.

"...so in conclusion: AbadarCorp, in conjunction with Baalzebul's Cybertyrants, under the supervision of the Azlanti Reverse Space Vampires, are forcing Historia-7's Emancipated Guilt Module to corrupt the Church of Triune's Beacons, in a fiendish plot to add micro-transactions to The Drift!"

Dark Archive 4/5 *** Venture-Agent, Finland—Tampere

On sidenote, took me a long time to realize "wait a sec, that person with shield and spear is copaxi" :O

I wonder if we get new copaxi starfinder character or if its just for same reason as why that previous starfinder society art had morlamaw in it: Since copaxi and morlamaw are species introduced in society scenarios
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Kishmo wrote:
wolaberry wrote:
One of my favorite things about my home game is when my players go on weird tangents.
"...so in conclusion: AbadarCorp, in conjunction with Baalzebul's Cybertyrants, under the supervision of the Azlanti Reverse Space Vampires, are forcing Historia-7's Emancipated Guilt Module to corrupt the Church of Triune's Beacons, in a fiendish plot to add micro-transactions to The Drift!"

Every time you activate the drift drive, it rips off a tiny bit of another plane.

The Drift *is* Micro Transactions.
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Jared Thaler - Personal Opinion wrote:
The Drift *is* Micro Transactions.

*wide-eyed stare*

Oh God...
...we're too late.
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