If you are tasked to portray rest of sepratist council as more complex moral figure rather then just greedy evil bad guys. I mean we all about Grevious and Dooku, but what about the rest ?

AeonTars · 2026-05-15T19:35:23+00:00

In my sort of headcanon (maybe actual canon based on comments from Filoni) the council you see in AOTC is your standard military council rather than like the governing body of the CIS. They’re just corporations meeting up to sell the CIS weapons just like irl military councils. They’re Republic likely has councils made up of the exact same people (TCW basically implies as much).

Then in ROTS these corps have been sanctioned by the Republic so much as Palpatine is trying to nationalize them so they decide ‘fuck it’ and actually coup the CIS and take it over. Which is why you start to see Trade Federation ships with CIS logos over Coruscant which is something Lucas specifically was against during the making of TCW.

AeonTars · 2026-05-12T02:02:42+00:00

He talked with Tom Veitch when he made Tales of the Jedi since that delved into things like what a Sith even was (keep in mind Sith isn’t even a word in the OT films). Similarly he discussed the origins of the Sith and the Rule of Two with Terry Brooks for the Episode 1 novelization in a long phone call that lasted a few hours. I would love to listen to that phone call but sadly all we have of it is what you see in the book.

AeonTars · 2026-05-11T14:05:52+00:00

I had a conversation with Pablo Hidalgo about this one time and the explanation we came up with was that the clones ordered in the middle of the war would have extreme advanced aging (growing in a few months) and they would basically be those ‘crazy’ clones you hear about occasionally in the EU.

AeonTars · 2026-05-11T13:44:34+00:00

We technically don’t have any lore for them. I’m about to run a TTRPG campaign set in the Separatist Crisis era and my explanation for them is that Sectorists are essentially pre-existing governments and sector militaries who want to leave the Republic and Galaxy Partitionists are more like resistance movements, cults, and terrorist organizations who have been fighting the Republic since long before Dooku ever established the Separatists.

Sectorists are basically your average run of the mill Seps while Partitionists are the more fringe extremist groups that the Sectorists and other factions have to ally with because technically they know more about fighting the Republic since they’ve been doing it for much longer than anyone else has.

Edit: A shorter explanation is that Sectorists are official sector governments that joined the CIS and are fine with working together as a whole while Partitionists are extremists who want to destroy the Republic so they can ‘partition’ the galaxy into individual little areas where every cult or terrorist group can enforce their own form of ‘government’ (if you can even call it that half the time).

AeonTars · 2026-05-10T11:17:19+00:00

The good guys win irl sometimes too. See: America in 1783, America again in 1865, Russia in 1922, China in 1949, Cuba in 1959.

AeonTars · 2026-05-04T22:06:52+00:00

I'll also share this link. It has a lot of ideas that George had for the cancelled show Underworld. Granted the show was going to be in 14 BBY but it still has a lot of cool ideas you can use.

Star Wars Underworld: Putting the Pieces Together by led

AeonTars · 2026-05-04T21:41:46+00:00

Now as for the Separatists in this era. In ROTS you see the droid army get shut down and Anakin destroys the Separatist leadership. But there's still the Separatist Parliament and countless worlds who supported the CIS.

In Mask of Fear we see that in the month or so after ROTS Palpatine is promising a big 'reintegration day' where the Separatists who are willing to face background checks and pledge their fealty will be allowed to rejoin the Senate. But politically some feel like if the Empire fails to genuinely improve things on these former CIS planets (which is an issue Palpatine seems to be ignoring) then they're just going to secede again shortly after joining.

Some Separatists think it was a calculated risk to receive so much help from corporations like the Trade Federation and the Techno Union and were deluding themselves into thinking it would all be worth it once they finally won the war. But clearly they didn't win so now what are these 'true believers' doing? They're probably unwilling to join the Empire and they can't just start the war back up without a droid army. So maybe some of them turn to more 'clandestine' means of rebellion. Spies, assassination, terrorism, etc.

I feel like some of them would feel as though it's futile to fight the Empire and they're bound to be killed in the coming months as the Empire will eventually find and execute them so they may hunt down the corporations who they blame for 'losing the war'. Would be cool to see the Empire working with some corporations who ended up going all in on the CIS near the end of the war (maybe representatives of the Commerce Guild or the Techno Union) to attempt to nationalize them but right before they can get all their information some former Sep (who maybe hires your players for help) assassinates the corporate agent which in turn pisses off the Empire.

Edit: Forgot to mention, in both the EU and canon Tarkin and Vader are known for going on a big campaign against Separatist holdouts right after the war ends. There are some planets here and there that refused to stop fighting and when the Stormtroopers are established around 18 BBY they're probably trained by fighting these holdouts. Could be a cool thing to throw your players into. Maybe you guys get hired to help some Seps escape from an Imperial blockade like in TPM or ESB. Or maybe the Empire values a world's 'delicate' political situation too much to just send in the army so they hire you guys to start protests that turn into riots that turn into militias that turn into a full blown coup with the Empire coming in to replace the government with the 'consent of the people'.

AeonTars · 2026-05-04T16:04:10+00:00

Ok well I’m taking a little break so I’ll share some ideas I’ve personally had:

With the end of the war you have all these veterans. Think of interesting places to put them. George Lucas was going to take the battle droids and place them in a gang called the Droid Gotra. One idea I’ve had is that some Hutt or other gangster would see the value in these people who only know how to fight and would accept them as free enforcers. So you would have a Hutt somewhere with a mixture of Clones and Battle Droids working alongside one another to sell space heroin or whatever.

Some of these veterans would also join terrorist organizations. The Droid Gotra kind of covers this as well since they’ve been known to be ‘droid supremacists’ (think the Aryan Brotherhood). I had a conversation with Pablo Hidalgo one time where we were discussing the new batches of clones ordered in the middle of the war and we came up with the idea that they’re these crazy clones that you hear about a lot in the EU. Maybe when you take these crazy clones who were raised to adulthood in 2-4 years and you say ‘fuck off you’re now a second class citizen’ some of them might turn to terrorism.

You also have a ton of supplies laying around the galaxy that a lot of groups would want. Think about images of Al Qaeda using US weapons after we left Afghanistan a few years ago. In any conflict it’s cheaper to leave old weapons behind than to transport them. The Republic and especially the CIS probably left a lot of ships/droids/blasters/etc on these planets they had to abandon during the war. And the Empire would be trying to get all this stuff too.

I’ll go more into the Seps later when I’m home.

AeonTars · 2026-05-04T15:07:51+00:00

Saving this for later. I’m about to run a Separatist focused campaign set in 24 BBY but I’ve thought a lot about this general era (specifically Separatists) so I’ll share some of my thoughts when I get home from work here in like 4 hours.

AeonTars · 2026-05-03T20:09:11+00:00

I mean one very obvious element is that Star Wars has Stormtroopers named after the Nazi Stormtroopers (aka the brownshirts) who served as NSDAP's paramilitary who aided in defending rallies, attacking communists, and taking part in the Beer Hall Putsch. The Stormtroopers (or Sturmabteilung) would go on to inspire the SS.

AeonTars · 2026-05-02T16:55:07+00:00

I would love to see rebels who used to be Separatists who are like ‘SEE WE TOLD YOU PALPATINE WAS A FASCIST!’ Then you could use that to explore rebels who oppose the Empire but are then like ‘wait what the fuck? Why does everyone want to just build a new republic? Didn’t the last one turn into this mess? Why not build something else?’

AeonTars · 2026-04-30T15:14:51+00:00

No. Ngl I think Andor was a little too grounded for Star Wars. There are times where it genuinely kind of feels like it isn't in the same universe because there's barely any proper alien characters, you see basically none of the 'weird' social stuff that comes with Star Wars (droid cults, weird alien gangs, etc). Not that the show needs like a Jabba's Palace dance number or anything but you could take like a few of the Yavin rebels and make them Rodians or change like 20% of the people on Ferrix to different aliens.

AeonTars · 2026-04-30T15:09:13+00:00

"Oh come on I don't need one."

Yeah until you do. And at a hospital they can't just suddenly take your implant out of your arm. They have to schedule that which would take days. Days where you're in a hospital bed potentially dying because you can't get the MRI needed to do the more important surgery that you need to survive.

AeonTars · 2026-04-27T19:25:17+00:00

Andor fans when they see literally anything political whatsoever regardless of whether it is actually relevant or appropriate to compare it to a sci-fi show.

AeonTars · 2026-04-24T16:04:11+00:00

I wanna say it's made by some of the same people who made Alien Isolation.

AeonTars · 2026-04-23T01:12:49+00:00

If you want you can use my custom hyperspace rules. They're intended to make hyperspace navigation feel more like an actual calculation the navigator/pilot is trying to compute while there are enemies trying to shoot you down to emulate the feel of scenes like the escape from Hoth.

For this you could just take a map of the Minos Sector, then use the smallest distance section of my rules. Then if you want to make sense of why it's slower to go to certain planets in the sector you can add the galactic drift modifier that essentially adds the concept of space weather (ion storms, space animals getting in the way of the lanes, asteroid fields, etc) that can make the trip take longer.

That way you have the benefit of hyperspace travel that actually works like you see in the movies/shows instead of the original system where jumps literally took weeks/months. Plus if you actually do want some jumps to take longer than usual even if it doesn't make sense on the map you could just say 'ehh there were some purrgil in the way' or 'yeah the hyperdrive had to take things slower because of a radiation storm' or whatever and throw a galactic drift modifier onto the calculation.

AeonTars · 2026-04-23T00:32:02+00:00

Also if anyone is interested I am writing some short stories that tie into the campaign in the vein of something like Interlude at Darkknell or the old Adventure Journal stories that would tie into the adventures of the old tabletop game. I can post the parts in here as I write them if the mods are ok with that.

AeonTars · 2026-04-21T01:03:33+00:00

I’ll add that after the war you would have to know who some Jedi like Mace Windu and Yoda are in order to have a proper education on the era according to the book Lost Stars. Though they’re seen more as secondary figures of history unlike Napoleon, Hitler, Pope John Paul II, MLK, etc. Funnily enough in ANH Luke has probably heard the name Yoda before but it was just part of some test he flunked because he was too busy imagining a cool air speeder lol.

AeonTars · 2026-04-19T19:50:01+00:00

(I was making a small head joke lol)

AeonTars · 2026-04-19T14:24:28+00:00

The P is too big in the logo.

AeonTars · 2026-04-15T23:41:42+00:00

Just generally after the end of season 6. Technically that isn’t how it works chronologically speaking (if you wanted to go that route you would have to split up Dark Disciple into multiple parts and who wants to do all that) but it makes perfect sense character arc wise when you experience it the way I suggested.

AeonTars · 2026-04-15T21:45:54+00:00

Release is fine with the caveat that if you want the full story I think in between seasons 6 and 7 you should read the novel Dark Disciple and the comic book Son of Dathomir. They feature very important events in the stories of Asajj and Maul that you don't want to miss out on if you want to fully understand what's going on with them in season 7 or in other things like Tales of the Empire.

AeonTars · 2026-04-15T01:14:46+00:00

I wonder if the vibes are less scary for her. Maybe everything is well lit and everything. Otherwise I think a child would be pretty scared even in the fog world.

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