Okay, so wasn't sure where to post this, At first I thought in 'other rpg's' . . but it said no d20 stuff . . . so yeah.
But, anywho . . . I've been running a Star Wars Saga edition game for a while now and I've run into a road-block. I know the next big thing that I want to have happen plotwise, but I'm not sure if I should do it, or mix in something small before it.
Essentially, I'm running the star wars game during the same timeframe of Episode 4, but it's an alternate universe game . . . the Duel between Vader and Obi-Wan in Episode 3 saw Vader coming out the victor.
Vader left Mustafar, with the corpse of his wife and the two babies. Yoda came and picked up Obi-Wan, who refused cybernetics to replace his two lost legs and left arm. Fast forward 18-20 years . . . Emperor Palpatine still has a firm grip on the empire, though the Imperial Senate has convinced him to name an heir, Lady Shalla, in case anything bad were to ever happen to the old man. Shalla is a young resourceful woman who took a shine to political machinations at a very young age, and while just barely out of her teens, has a very sharp mind on her shoulders, and is currently being courted by the great naval officer, Admiral Solo.
Vader on the other hand, has obliterated the Sith rule of two and re-built the old Jedi Temple as a Sith Academy. There, anyone the Empire finds that is Force Sensitive gets trained to be a Student, force users devoted to the Empire. Vader's star pupil is a young boy, who has recently taken the title of Darth Hel.
So, enough on the differences between my star wars galaxy and what people would expect. The first session started with my three players (one a Sullustan Scoundrel, one a Duro Soldier, and the last a human Jedi [being trained by the Force Ghost of Qui-Gon Jinn]) on the planet of Corellia, deciding that they want to find and join the Rebel Alliance.
They meet up with the Alliance, and get sent on a mission to free a Bothan spy from an Imperial Stockade. They get the spy out, but while running away, the bothan gets shot in the back and dies. He gives to them the death star plans, which they get back to their alliance contact.
They are then told to take the plans to Mon Mothma on Alderaan. Without a ship, they head into a bar to try and hire a pilot. They refuse the offer made to them from Boba Fett (before they realized who it was), but then end up winning a ship called the Millenium Falcon from a black guy in a game of sabacc.
They fly to Alderaan, just in time to witness the Death Star destryoing it. They then high-tail it out of there, not wanting to be seen by the DS. On a whim they head to Tatooine (one player noted that all Star Wars stories get to Tat at one point or another, might as well get it over with now), to try and find shield for the Falcon and figure out where to go with the DS plans now.
They meet up with another member of the alliance who's also a Jedi in hiding being trained by the ghost of Qui-Gon, and he tells them that Mon Mothma is hiding out on Dantooine. After running a quick mission for a Hutt that's trying to wrestle control of Tatooine back from Jabba's killer, Owen Lars, they head off to the person they're supposed to pick up the payment of shield from.
Right after he tells them where the shields are, the guy gets killed by a red lightsabre blade. A Student of the Academy had caught up with the group, tracking htem as fugutives for freeing a high profile prisoner from Corellia.
They defeat the Student, and then the four (the second jedi decided to come with them) head off to Dant. When they get there, they deliver the plans to a Captain Ackbar, and then decide to start exploring the rebel base.
The two Jedi get visited by Qui-Gon and he tells them to go into the Dantooine foothills . . . they leave and find a hidden enclave of Jedi, training under Master Yoda, Obi-Wan and others . . .
This is where the last session ended. I know I'm going to have the group take part in the Battle of the Death Star (not sure if it'll still be at Yavin). But I don't know if I should put anything before it, something character scale rather than ship scale. (if I do it'll also give me time to get my hands on the Starships of the Galaxy book for the BotDS). The PC's are at about fifth level I think, and their combat encounters have been about 50/50 since getting the falcon.
Any suggestions on what I can put in front of them. I would expect that once the ANH story arc ends and we start with the ESB story arc, I'll have them start searching for LS crystal's for the two characters with lightsabres (the human Jedi of course, and the Duro Fighter picked up the Students lightsabre's, getting proficiency withy them when he next leveled)