@darthbernael, @galactic-vagabond422, @JediMasterAnne, @Jerjerrod-Lennox, @HanSolo29, @TheSilentInfluence, @darthhelinith

Welcome; my friends.

I expect suitable amounts of OH CARP to occur here.

 

Plants flag.

Claiming it in the name of the Eternal Empire.

 

The full OP will be up later todayyyyy.

Just wanted to give peeps time to read the finale.

 

*bows to @BobaMatt*

Thank you for that beautiful ending and scene, my friend. He drafted that months ago now and has been a saint waiting for me to be ready.

 

Special GM edict:-

The only parties who know Ben Solo’s true lineage are...

Drum roll.

1. Han.
2. Xaverri.
3. Lumpawaroo.
4. Feyna Organa-Chume.
5. Winter Celchu.
6. Isolder.
7. Anakin Skywalker.

@Jerjerrod-Lennox, @JediMasterAnne!

If you have a view on this, please PM me.

 

MmmHhmmm, fun this will be.

Slams the tip of his cane onto the ground as he speaks.

 

Sits in corner reassessing her life choices.

 

Hmm...we certainly have some homework to do, my brother.

 

Oh yes we do.

Begins cataloging the neutral and light sided Force users. Preparing to issue orders to the Knights.

 

Hmmm, wonders who that Vong was who just passed by. Especially wondering if they're someone familiar.

 

Why would Xundel try anything? He's just coming back to Known Space because he saw Palpatine's message. He knows no one, you all are all unknowns to him, he's been gone that long.

 

Hmm? Try what? All I said was that we have some homework to do. I never mentioned what that may entail.

However...


/Sistros/

The Force has given you a gift in the form of that child. But such things can be so...fleeting.

The boy will shine like a beacon to the Eternal, so vibrant and pure.

It's only a matter of time, my dear General. You cannot outrun a God.

 

Hmmm, a politician in our pocket, always handy.

 

Oh, definitely! This is going to get very interesting.

@Narancia, expect a PM from me shortly. Emperor Graal may have some details he wishes to discuss with you.

 

The Timeline Between​

Just after Twilight of the Force II - with @TheSilentInfluence

Madelyn, Leia, Alfred and Arthur regroup after the Battle of Exegol and Mandalorian aggression on Taris.

One year after Twilight of the Force II - with @JediMasterAnne

Nola and Winter meet on New Nubia to absorb the losses they have each felt - and wonder aloud about Arb, Ike and the mysterious Black-Coat

Three years after Twilight of the Force II - with @galactic-vagabond422

Mandalore the Vengeant has a call from the Speaker of the Roche Asteroid Field... what will arise as a result of it?

Five years after Twilight of the Force II - with @Jerjerrod-Lennox

Qwi Xux and Beaumont Kin lead a Keshiri uprising against the Lost Tribe of the Sith - and have a concerning conversation with Ship.

Six-seven years after Twilight of the Force II - with @JediMasterAnne

It is the end of Feyna's term! Will she escape the grip of autocratic rule? It's a question that her and her husband will answer together, as a family.

Eight years after Twilight of the Force II - with @HanSolo29

The Eternal Family make a trip to a world and decide it's fate... and test the peace.

Nine years after Twilight of the Force II - with @TheSilentInfluence

Madelyn is called to Tython by the Jedi Council to make a decision.

Ten years after Twilight of the Force II - with @TheSilentInfluence, @darthbernael, @darthhelinith

The training of Leia comes to an end, and the Council ask Renn and Vhardia how they intend to fit into the future. Theirs, and that of the New Jedi Order.

Twelve years after Twilight of the Force II - with @galactic-vagabond422

Tor has a confrontation that will leave the Mandalorian wondering what they will do next.

Thirteen years after Twilight of the Force II - with @darthbernael

Bernael's time on Anzat is rudely interrupted by the Orphan - and an opportunity is both taken and lost.

On the day that Twilight of the Force III begins - with @Jerjerrod-Lennox

Fourteen year old Ben Solo heads with his father Han to scout out Vector Prime the day before Empire Day - and discovers a terrible truth.

 

ticks off combos

Only four left to finish my friends!

 

GM Note: I intend to do these little State of the Galaxy posts and then move them to the Library thread when all the sheets are up. I thought it’d be neater.

State of the Galaxy

The New Republic

With half the galaxy settling into their control, the New Republic remains the primary galactic power. It is however subject to shading, overlap, and centres of intrigue. The Mandalorians exert indirect and direct influence on the Rimward worlds, and the so-called Corellian Confederation is a radical minority party that dominates the news with its fiery rhetoric.

Form the capital of Hosnian Prime in the Core, the New Republic has hunkered down and suppressed any cause for war, but also armed itself in anticipation of the invasion to come in 29 ATA.

Politics

The Chancellor and Vice Chancellor are supplied with an Advisory Council of key worlds, including, at the time of Empire Day, Hapes, New Nubia, New Alderaan, Rodia, Bastion, Kuat, Mon Calamari, and Neimodia.

Corellia was a member of the Council until Thrackan Sal-Solo was voted Senator of Corellia, at which point relations between the world and the Senate soured. Prime Minister Aidel Saxan remains the controlling influence in the Corellian Sector, but Sal-Solo is expertly preparing propaganda pieces in anticipation of system-wide elections.

Otherwise, the Senate remains as determined to fight and win the war to come, raising fleets, armies, wielding refugee plans and sponsoring development of Rim worlds as fortresses - Dubrillion, Garqi and Gyndine, among others. Also, it authorised the creation of Sector Fleets, which can be no larger than the numbered Federal Fleets.

Several worlds with sufficient funds and political clout managed to raise their own fleets. This included Corellia, Commenor and Kashyyyk. Hapes also fields its own Home Fleet, patrolling the Transitory Mists that separate the star cluster from the Inner Rim, and the Imperial Remnant had their own fleet and the prototype SSDs Megador and Dominion. The two lesser powers also contribute fleets to the federal military.

Military

The New Republic now fields nine fleets, each made up of some five thousand ships. The Fourth is made up of Imperial contributions, and the Seventh and Eighth were raised and donated by Hapes. Kuat and Mon Calamari have added to these fleets massive dreadnoughts - two Super Star Destroyers from the former, and three Viscount-class Star Defenders from the latter.

The First and Sixth Fleets hold in the Core, ready to defend any key world within it - and patrol the border with the Eternal Fleet. The Second Fleet is following the ‘invasion corridor’ - a trail of worlds that New Republic Intelligence has ferreted out of Yuuzhan Vong infiltrators - all who killed themselves rather be captured.

The Third and Fifth Fleet patrol the Outer Rim, prepared to reinforce the Second as necessary, while the Fourth Fleet is positioned at Balmorra, protecting its battle droid, munition and defence platform production. The Seventh Fleet defends Kuat with the SSD Guardian and Star Defender Krakana.

But the Eighth Fleet holds at Hosnian Prime with the Star Defender Viscount, rotating with whatever capital is selected by the Senate. Last but not least, the Ninth Fleet holds at the Bilbringi Shipyards, peering into the Unknown Regions as well, even as, separately, the Star Defender Bounty defends Mon Calamari.

All in all - the New Republic is as well prepared as it can be, and it’s only sin would be what it has sacrificed to keep the peace.

TAG: @JediMasterAnne, @Narancia, @Mitth_Fisto as current members of the New Republic Senate, and @Jerjerrod-Lennox as a General in the New Republic Defence Force.

 

The Eternal Empire

For fifteen years the Twin Emperors have built up their militaries and their knowledge of the Dark. The capitals of Bakura and Anzat - the second technically inside New Republic space - split that dynamic, with the former as political centre, and the latter as the secret heart of the Force.

The former droid factories of the Separatist Alliance proved easy to retool to produce Skytroopers and GEMINI droids for the battlecruisers built at Sluis Van, Eriadu and Fondor, and now each Emperor has twenty thousand cruisers at their command, topped off by a single flagship with their Eternal Throne aboard.

The members of their Cabinet, including the leaders of the Sesswenna, Anoat, Lambda, Arkanis and Senex sectors supply the Eternal-Imperial Defence Fleet, a five thousand ship deployment made up of more traditional forces rather than just Eternal vessels. Of course, the Empress sits on the Cabinet and represents Bakura and its contribution.

Beneath the Cabinet is the Eternal Senate, some three hundred representatives who debate matters of state that are beneath the attention of the Twin Emperors. They are lead by Emperor Graul himself when in session, who has final approval of anything that they do; such mundanities are beneath the interest of Emperor Bernael.

From Anzat, sixty-four Jensaarai have been trained and raised, giving the Twin Emperors some punch in the Force besides the so-called Eternal Family.

Massacres and oppression is commonplace in the Eternal Empire - and even occasionally outside its borders - reports of which are suppressed by the New Republic Chancellor for fear of igniting the war before the Yuuzhan Vong arrive. The Chancellor has even kept them from the Senate!

The Eternal Empire has regular border skirmishes with the Empire of the Hand, but the true strength of either side has not been deployed. Conversely, the Tapani Sector remains nominally independent but controlled by House Mecetti, which is heavily inclined to the Eternal Empire, supplementing Anzati assassins with those of the Mecrosa. This suits the Eternal Empire as they have exclusive access to the Tapani shipyards even though Thyferra remains free of them, and the Twin Emperor’s like the ability to apply a scalpel to a problem as much as an Eternal Fleet bombardment.

Mutual-aid-treaties have been made between the Eternal Empire and the Bothans and Hutts, giving them a diplomatic reach as far as the Perlemian - which remains overwhelming Republican. The Bothans themselves have raised three fleets, and the Hutts a singular one, the latter preferring economic control of territory immediately rimward to it rather than military control.

TAG: @HanSolo29, @darthbernael, @Shadowsun as current members of the Eternal Empire.