Shard of Alderaan Closed RP Scenario Planning Thread

In effect, this RP will be constructed in such a way that it will consist of several (perhaps a half dozen, or more) major RP arcs that will serve as checkpoints for the story to progress. These major arcs will also try to include a majority of the characters involved in the RP as a whole, bringing multiple plot lines together and having the largest ramifications on the story and the galaxy at large. Think of these like mandatory stopping points that split the intervening material up into nice, neat pieces. In between the major RP arcs will be more minor encounters that will include fewer characters, and have lesser consequences, but that will be good opportunities for character-building and that will help set up the larger major RP arcs.

Feel free to contribute ideas, locations, and motivations for any RP in this thread! Have a planet? Try to think of something unique it offers that will make it a great RP. Try to avoid offering a planet up as a location for just a huge battle - we can have battles anywhere! Instead, think of what your/a planet offers that makes it a unique place. For example - the planet Kashyyyk offers some of the greatest computer processing facilities in the galaxy. The Sith want these processors for their ships, so they launch plan to take over a few of them. The Jedi catch wind, and eventually a battle breaks out as the two sides meet. This will help develop not only the characters involved, but also the planets we visit!

As far as story material, keep in mind that a major plot point will be the relative scarcity of the materials needed to build a superweapon - therefore, the Sith will be trying to target a way to raise an army, facilities for building something as large as a superweapon, and all the materials needed to basically make war on the galaxy. The Jedi will initially be taking an investigative type role, only discovering the true magnitude of the plot after the first major arc or two. Ergo, the Jedi will know SOMETHING is up, but the true horror of "they're building a superweapon and are banding together!" won't be revealed until much later. Suspense!

So! If you have an idea for an RP, pitch it forward. Please don't just post "I control [Coruscant] and would like an RP there." That tells us nothing - tell us what makes your planet special and that would encourage either group IC to go there for some reason. What have you done to the planet in-character to modify its canon nature? On the flipside, suggest locations to go with your RP idea. Don't just say you want a train heist - tell us where it might/can happen! Let's collaborate!

The prologue RP is wrapping up (to be followed by the meeting of both the Jedi and Sith sides) so time to start laying out a concrete plan for the first major RP arc: Kamino. I'll detail the general plan in the top post but any sub-plots or other events folks are after, feel free to post on here.

^ I like this. I'll do a little formatting and add it to the list. Do we want to roll with this as the 2nd major arc or can we think of anything in the interim that would go better?

Additionally, is there something we can do to get the Jedi involved that's got a little more meat to it than "Force vision?" Maybe the Jedi set the thing up in the first place, or at least leak the intelligence about it to lure the Sith out?

I think having it as the second arc would work perfectly after Kamino.

And as for the Jedi working into the second arc, I think those that were involved in the first arc could return to the NPC/PC Jedi Council and say that the Sith are starting to get a little worked up and doing something insidious. So they work through friendly Mando contacts to set up this lovely little trap, purposefully leak the intelligence to garner the Sith's interest, and we've got some Jolly Co-Operation* (See Below.) going on before you know it. Now, granted this is rough, but I think it could work to connect the two arcs.

Alrighty, the Sith side is concluding their meeting and so we're ready to start rolling on the Kamino RP! Here's an approximate layout:

Phase 1: The Sith pose as a high-end corporation needing a high-volume order of capable clones, prepared in a short amount of time. After some brief negotiation, the Kaminoans reveal the existence of Verula City, an underwater cloning facility used for premium clients and capable of fulfilling our needs IC. Kel, posing as a negotiator for said corporation, is taken to Verula on a tour and accompanied in secret by the infiltration team, who sneak their way into the city via magnetic attachment to the submersible or something. Over the next few days IC, the infiltration team commits various instances of sabotage on the city, first taking out the city's submersibles, then communications, and finally the city's defensive grid. Meanwhile Kel will be working from the inside to subvert the authority of the city's overseer, and upon deactivation of the city's defense grid will kill the overseer paving the way for the meat of the Sith forces to arrive, leading to...

Phase 2: The Sith arrive via dropship provided by Bloodrage, and a pacification team sweeps through the city eliminating all non-essential personnel. Once the city is controlled, the Sith begin the process of initiating the cloning procedures, which will be overseen by Stormro. Basically this is our chance to do some side-stuff as this will largely be our "down time" as we let the cloning procedure do its thing. As a subplot, Kel will commission four clones of himself in secret that are to act as his operatives and body-doubles. Ultimately, the Jedi will learn of the situation at Verula, sending a pair of Jedi infiltrators to assess the situation. The Jedi will be captured after reporting back to the Jedi, whereupon a brief interrogation/torture scenario will go down, which the Jedi ultimately escape from. Having gotten word out, the Jedi will mass for the attack culminating in...

Phase 3: The Jedi arrive en masse at the station, launching a pitched battle for the facility that the Sith quickly find themselves outnumbered in and needing to bail out of (in part to secure their investment of clones). As a buying-time move, Kel orders the decanting of his four clones, and the early decanting results in them being more or less insane, leaving the Jedi to fight four insane Sith Lord clones while Kel and friends make good their escape off the planet, setting a destruction charge behind them. The Jedi defeat the clones and escape the city just as the reactor goes critical, destroying Verula City and leaving the Jedi to figure out the Sith group's next move.

What we need from folks now are two things: Subplots for inclusion and a roster of who's in. Subplots can be pretty much anything that doesn't interfere with the main story but that adds to it - maybe your character has their own agenda here, maybe you want to duel someone, maybe something else. Post your ideas up! As far as the roster goes, here's what's taken and what we'll need:

Leader of Infiltration Team: Kel Sentries
Infiltration Team (Max 2 PCs):
Pacification Team (No limit)
Sith Clonemaster: Stevan Stormro

Jedi infiltrators (Max 2 PCs):
Jedi Assault Team (no limit):

Please consider carefully the role you would like to pick as much will be based on availability. You can only post once every three days? Maybe consider a more back-seat type role so that we can have you involved but without having to slow the pace of the RP down. I should point out that this will still be a longer-term thing, probably taking several weeks, so there will be roles for anyone interested and by all means, feel free to pitch role ideas out if it sounds like it's needed/it's unique enough to warrant specific allocation for.

Otherwise, who's got ideas?

I'll volunteer to be the second fake representative if the position is still open. If not, sign me up for the infiltration team.

Sorry Sel, Kru beat you to the punch on the infiltration team. That said, if you really want to join in we can roll with three PCs on the team. Let me know in the next 24 hours if you want to join in that part still - otherwise plenty of room on the reinforcements roster.