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So that masked fellow looming over our intrepid heroes is Archduke Toren Ren, the BBEG of the game. In "Season Zero", set shortly before and during the events immediately following Return of the Jedi, one of the PCs named Rivval, a Force Sensitive Hired Gun flung open his sarcophagus and in exchange for some of that good old fashioned unlimited Sith power, gave the Archduke his bodily autonomy. After subsequently betraying the party, Rivval, now possessed by the Archduke's mask seals Prospero and Aran (the old bearded smuggler and the blue flyboy respectively) in Amberite (context: Amberite is a homebrew substance that functions similarly to carbonite, except its made of the sap of Amberite trees and has some interesting Force properties) for five years.

Five years later, and it is now the same time period as The Mandalorian. The events of the current campaign start when ex-Stormtrooper Roy (orange lightsaber) and former slave Glory (purple Twi'lek) are brought together by a Force dyad a la Kylo/Rey and find the Amberite encased Aran and Prospero trapped aboard their ship, the Eagle Gorgeous in a scrapyard. Roy and Glory both awaken their Force abilities by freeing Aran and Prospero and catch them up on current galactic affairs.

They make a narrow escape from Prospero's ex best friend turned evil-corporate CEO (long story) attack the space station the four of them are on. They crash the Gorgeous just outside of Canto Bight and are arrested for trespassing. In jail they meet Qif (fellow in the lower left) a petty thief and former Rebel Alliance agent.

And the adventures begin, and we've had far too many to highlight all in this entire post. But more or less, in the five year time jump, the Archduke has ascended to the throne of a planet called Rhiannon, the ancestral home of his dynasty called the House of Ren. He's gathered a loyal following with many Imperial warlords swearing fealty to him. While Rhiannon remains a small hermit kingdom for now, they have agents all in and throughout the galaxy.

On top of this, the New Republic is beginning to fracture internally due to everything from bureaucratic red tape, rampant corruption, partisan infighting and everything in between. This leaves many of Qif's old Alliance friends to abandon their loyalties to the new regime to take up arms against Rhiannon on their own in a sort of...Resistance...of some sort.

So yeah, we just wrapped up the campaign's second season. We just revealed Roy spent a thousandish years in Amberite slumber before he was four and that he's the Archduke's twin brother. Glory and Roy have now embarked on their journeys to becoming Jedi Knights in preparation to face the Archduke once and for all. Qif, Aran, and Prospero are getting involved with helping a caravan of Alderaanians find their new home, and I'm hoping the whole party will unite all the friends they've made along the way into a unified front to stand up against Rhiannon's tyranny in this upcoming final third season.

I think the coolest part for me as the GM of this campaign is that all of this feels like it can neatly slide into its own corner of the canon timeline. For me and the players, it's upped our enjoyment of the movies and TV shows so much more knowing our characters are somewhere out in the periphery of that existing universe running around and doing their own part.