"Famous" Guest Stars in Your Game

! That's awesome, nice one

The trap has been sprung.

The PCs were basically working for the Separatists through Passel Argente, the head of the Corporate Alliance, setting up a smuggling network to get small-scale shipments to isolated Sep outposts and the like. They got fairly chummy with Argente's chief military advisor/protege, the Mon Cal military genius Commander Merai. They've been enjoying the fruits of this alliance for a little while now.

Of course, the players hadn't read SW: Republic #50, where it is revealed that Argente has been planning a coup against Dooku, and has been grooming Merai to head up the Sep military when he (Argente) comes to power. Argente pushes Merai into committing his forces to a major assault on Kamino, which will cripple the Republic war effort and provide the Argente/Merai faction with enough support to topple Dooku.

Or so he thinks, anyway. Dooku, not being born yesterday, knows all about the coup plotting, and works with Sidious to ensure that the Kamino assault fails and Argente loses backing and credibility, which, of course, is what happens.

Now, we know from Episode III that Argente survives and remains an important member of the Separatist Council up until the very end of the war. Since Dooku isn't known to be especially forgiving, I figured that once his plan fell apart, Argente must have grovelled like all hell to get back in Dooku's good graces, and he probably offered up a fall guy as a sacrificial pawn, someone he could blame the whole thing on.

Enter the PCs.

They've spent quite some time now living large on Argente's generous backing, completely unaware of the fact that their immediate contact person and supervisor within the Separatist hierarchy was making a play for the top seat, and, of course, they only found out after he failed, and they realized in the middle of a delicate mission to Hutt Space that someone inside the Separatist hierarchy was setting them up to fail.

Imagine their horror as they realized that simply by being associated with Argente they were now marked as traitors by Count Dooku. They had no idea what was going on, but they've been framed so well they're now desperately looking for a fall guy of their own they can drag in front of Dooku for a chance to clear their own names.

Oh, and of course, they totally blew the mission to Hutt Space, and they ended up making an enemy of Aruk the Hutt in the process and getting imprisoned. They only got out by promising an agent of Black Sun they would try to infiltrate the Separatist hierarchy for them once they cleared their names....

So, to sum up, Passel Argente set them up as the fall guys for his own failed coup attempt. In the process of extricating themselves from the mess Argente threw them into, they became indebted to Black Sun. Now they are trying to clear their names with the Separatists, by framing someone else, so they can worm their way back into the Separatist leadership as double agents working off their debt to Black Sun.

Oh, yeah, and one of the characters was secretly working for the Bothan Spynet the whole time, and so he's stuck being a triple agent. He's in a total panic trying to figure out if he should be a Bothan agent pretending to be infiltrating the Seps for Black Sun, or a Black Sun agent pretending to be infiltrating the Seps for the Bothans. Of course, if any of the people he's working for find out what a little weasel he's being, his life expectancy could be very short indeed. I doubt the rest of the party would be happy he's been keeping this from them - even the other players don't know, much less their characters.

Of course, the Bothans only recruited him in the first place so they could help him get to a high-ranking position with the Seps, making him more attractive as a potential recruit for Black Sun, hoping that Black Sun would approach him so they could use him to infiltrate them and find out the identity of the new Underlord. Confused yet?

Man, they are screwed.

And man do WEG characters get screwed over these days. I'd much rather read about Tremayne and Platt than another gorram scene with Saba or Jae and the ewok.

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I don't know who he'd be, but Kiefer Sutherland screams out for star wars, but i just don't know which char he suits best

ohhh... Kiefer Sutherland could be Corran Horn maybe.

Nah, I always thought of him as a Tom Welling.

Kiefer might make a good Wedge Antilles though.

Casting:

Brian Blessed as a tyranical imperial warlord (instead of the voice of a stupid, bloated, CGI frog)

Julian Sands as a corrupted jedi apprentice or an idealistic jr imp officer

young Timothy Dalton as a minor noble or House Pelagia knight

Ian Richardson as either Xixor or some other senator out to oust Palpatine

Malcom McDowel as a Quixotic Jedi

Martin Sheen as an Imperial Academy lecturer

Michael J Fox as a rebel spy who has been tortured by Imps

Richard E Grant as a protocol droid or a House Mecetti Nobleman

Penelope Keith as a Rebel leader

Christopher Lloyd as a Quixotic Jedi

"Great Scott!"

Singing such hits as "Beat it!" and "Bad"

I've always imagined Sir Ian McKellen as Pellaeon, myself.

As far as guest stars in my game, I managed to slip in Qui-Gon's name in one of my campaigns.

One of the players in my campaign, a Jedi Apprentice, was asked by his Jedi Master to gamble in order to access funds that would gain them access to information concerning a Separatist stronghold (i.e. story progression.) The Jedi Apprentice asked how gambling was proper to the Jedi ways.

Jedi Master: "Remind me to tell you about an old friend of mine, named Qui-Gon Jinn."

That fits in perfectly Darth Mark. Anytime I try to use or mention a character of note it seems to start a contest of "Who can get off the most jokes about said character wins even if the the jokes dont even make sense as long as they start yet more jokes...(cont.)"
it will also sometimes start up about any other NPC char in game thats in the storyline alot of course there r key players that start off the whole process to begin with so i try to keep them from starting up.

This campaign was a few years ago, but is was quite action packed. The first guest star we had was General Crix Madine... sorta. We received the briefing on the Battle of Yavin via secure holonet, and we (the PCs) were given the mission of a simultaneous strike against an Imperial shipyard where the Tantive IV was being held. We were to retrieve the ship as it was believed that there was still valuable intel on board the ships computers (not to mention that it was needed for the war effort).

The next BIG guest star we had was.... Inquisitor Tremaine. Since we had 3 Force users in the party, I guess we were attracting quite a bit of attention. Next thing I know, Tremaine shows up and starts to kick a**. The character I was playing was an ex-stormcommando with a VERY personalized blaster carbine. After I hit Tremaine with a few blaster bolts, he waltzes over and proceeds to SUNDER my very expensive blaster. Needless to say, my character was royally pi**ed off! So he decides to do what any self respecting stormcommando with advanced martial arts would do - grapple the lightsaber-wielding psycho! This actually proved to be a VERY effective way to deal with Jedi.... NOTE: A lightsaber is not a "light" weapon, and therefore can't be used in a grapple (or if it can, you are at serious penalty).

Long story short, my stormcommando actually did most of the damage to Tremaine, drove him off, then picked up the seriously wounded Jedi, loaded him onto the ship, and we blasted our way out into space. (I can't remember where we were, but I think it was Nar Shadaa).

"You've never heard of the Viridian Eagle? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 18 parsecs. I'd like to see some hotshot pilot with a beat-up rust-bucket beat that record!!"