went to https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Ziost/Legends
met Arnie the terminator skull.  Learned nova's ancient history.  including cyber immortality cult.  necro kid stunned that Luke defended him from ghosts.

Tim G- squeeezed in combat.  Luke fighting ghosts we couldn't see.  Nice to peek into Nova's history.  Even if Lili's appearances were brief.  I'm glad her personality means i don't have to say too much.  Ugly to Byron for 2 things.  Maniacally pressing the necro kid kill switch.  and forcing the middle finger to zeke even when suit is dead.  Good for making game happen in spite of bluh.

B: Yay playing.  Bad?  being tired.  Ugly to Liz.  For zeke rescuing tom first.;

Lotta talk about the implications of immortality.  Nova learns of her past from Luke.  How do we shoot ghosts?

Tim G: lotta exposition, history, RP.  Ugly to Zeke: 1. I can help Luke become one with the Force.  All about how to shoot ghosts.  Hon

Liz: G i didn't have to pick up my dice.  nice to once in a while just have a character interaction game.  Bad: have to leave and be up early.  U: Andrew for his banter with Arnie the skull.

B Good: got to play w/ Liz.  Did like the whole philosophical montage.  Bad?  How some of the montage bits were handled.  Just finding something to be a bad. U: for being the social and emotional linchpin for the group.

find "The Sacred Guardian"  https://i.pinimg.com/originals...36ceb7558dbf092c.png  Is piloted by parents of Zeek's cousin.  They recognize Zeeke and refuse to attack him.  But kill both rebel leader and Nova.  Darksider, couple imps, and guardian are captured.

Tim Ugly to hacker face.  for making the armatures flip off the darksider.  and curb stomping him.  Good there was a combat just for Zeke.  Did not pull punches in either combat.  Even with the force being with us, Nova got ripped in two.  Your Krendis the Wretched is showing.  Full on map battle.  Plenty of RP.  Cant think of a bad.

B: Ugly to Liz for playing Lion King when you described the wilderness.  G:  Wow. Yeah.  Game.  Gaaame.  Right.  Bad?  Felt a little disconjointed at first.

L: Good the whole damn session.  Did feel a little slow at beginning.  I like it when my char gets into trouble.  Gunna be pissed when he realizes all his stuff is gone.  Being horrified by Nova being ripped in half.
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Zeke haz pet!

Tim:  Starting out wiht combat.  Clearly not holding anything back whatsovever.  Such dire straits that we were convinced we were going to roll new characters.  You clearly had it planned about this 3rd entity.  Forshadow: "The ancient guardian!"  Got ripped in half.  Very well thought out RPing of the Empire's antics.  Methods and extremes just to get control of this entity.  Had a lot of thought out science like how the interface works, the forcefield.  the light show that the lightsaber caused.  Hon mention to Zeke for being our only connection to the Lion.  Ugly to Not drunk enough.  Esp.  Waking up from LUke

B: G for starting off w/ combat.  Got back into the swing.  There was a little confusion as to who was where and what had been done.  Tim with the prisoners.  Ugyl to Liz for the floating popcorn.  Watching the show.

L: Exciting combat in which the Red Lion went out and destroyed stuff.  Bad I feel like we died a little bit in the end.  Getting tired.  U: Tim for juggling Lelu and Lillian.

Decided to go to Vortex to get closer to Illum without going directly through wild space and stopping in empire controlled systems.  Lilly hits a wall looking into Nova's repair: the original parts were built using the Force.  Hits a wall researching how to manufacture Nova parts without the Force.  Has R2 detour to Muunilinst, homeworld of the InterGalactic Banking Clan to try and make money for paying for upgrades.  The world's police catch on due to a crimestopper call, but the group escapes.

B: G-we played.  Rather interesting twist that you rolled with as we went.  Bad?  I know my personality lends, but Andrew doesn't need to be and shouldn't be the leader.  Ugly to Tim for "beautiful design.  can you add one little thing."  And for skirting the line of the darkside.

T: G-allowing us to be trillionairs.  even if it was short lived, man that was fun.  not giving the money to the rebellion.  another narrow escape.  Ugly to Byron.  his mad scientist revelation that lilian has become a monster and he's happy.  and including lilian in his activities.
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https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tython/Legends

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Je%27daii_Order

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Flesh_Raider

Tonton for Luke.

Villains: Rancor, Krayt dragon, Rathtaur, abominable snowman, Reek.
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Lelu gets Creon up to speed on what's happened.  Arny gets a shock treatment failsafe.  Lelu converses with Arny and he mentions a destiny.  Finds that Luke is sick.  Sings for him and Luke learns astral projection.  Arrive at Vortex.  Get royal treatment.  Repair on ship will take a few days.

(Note to self: Muunilinst reps know that the account is being accessed and where.)

Tim good: R2!  Nice to have our dreams come true for just a session.  Really enjoying actually experiencing being rich.  Not being in danger.  For like 2 seconds.  Like Tom was saying.  And he's not wrong.  I like the interplay with Arnie and Andrew.  Arnie is definitely an eccentric character.  I felt like a lot of RP loos ends i've been meaning to get around to.  Gunna be cool to buy a new ship.  Ugly to Byron.  Not just helping out Lelu, but the mad scientist love of shocking Arnie.

Byron good: Definitely actually letting us be NOT on the run at this moment.  Enjoying the spoils of our efforts.  Bad?  Spaced out a couple times.  Ugly definitely to Tim for the small alien spokesperson for the ship on imperial controlled worlds is frikkin hilarious.

Miri: Now knows why she didn't like certain games I ran.  So now I have feedback.
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Zeke has vision of the past.  Shares with Lelu.  Escaped Vortex before Empire arrived.  To Barenth.  Met with Rebel Commander and Muun banker.  Hammered out a deal for new ship, big money in exchange for the money making routine.  There'll be a secret account for retirement.

L: Good was very amused by how we brought Zeke back in.  Bad, didn't get to shoot anything yet.  Ugly ...  I guess I can't give ugly to Tom even though his parents are brains.  Giving to Andrew for the nice new armor.
B: Good, progress.  We're still getting the effect of having the money.  Even though we don't have it anymore.  Bad?  Pacing?  Mostly just to give a bad.  Ugly: Wunna give to Liz.  Lelu for using receptive telepathy on the meeting.
T: Bad - I noticed when you were half way through spiel with zeke.  all the sudden brain freeze.  But what if it had been written down.  Good - nice RP session.  Neat that you had us on our toes just when we thought we could be treated like royalty.  Hon mention to Andrew, "you were the last vestage of normalcy, Zeke!" and taking charge of the game.  Ugly to Zeke for keeping Tom with him.  Played up how freaked out and weirded out the character was.
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Ideas: Luke asks R2 for heroic things to do in order to cleanse.  Wants to take Arnie and Creon.  Ancient Guardian is against Lelu and Luke taking part since they're already so very unbalanced, "Bogan is in near total eclypse, Ashlan nearly completely full." but agrees that Arnie and Creon need to correct in the direction of Ashlan.

L4000 transport "Payday" obtained along with sweet gun.  Will kid's parents be transferred to new ship?  No.  Kid and parents are transferred to Alliance medical ship.  Will Nova?  Yes.  Along with plenty parts for her repair.  Also plenty of parts for ship upgrades.

Find a world where the natives are being oppressed by a cookie-cutter Imperial garrison.  The religious leader of the natives was imprisoned by the Imps and wants out.  In exchange she'll teach Luke how to cleanse the Darkside.  Plan is to purchase her as a "slave" then secretly release her.  Imp commander the one who can authorize it.  His right hand man wants to kill him, but is on his back foot because the boss thinks a bribe was stolen by him.

Byron good that we played.  Bad did seem a little aimless at times.  On the one hand we haven't played in a while.  Ugly to tim for "how to deal with the light and darkside using musical theory.

Tim good Creon's idea to swap cred sticks.  Ugly to Andrew.  Coming to a meeting with Luke prepared with lots of drink.
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Went to the commander's office.  Lelu learns that commander and subordinate both plan to murder each other and pin it on the heroes.  Sudden explosions outside kicks off combat.  Group takes out guards then heads for garrison prison.  Andrew hacks through the doors then closes them behind the group.  At the jail, encountered the Shamaness.  We rescue the other political prisoners and head for the ship.  Encounter resistance at the caffeteria.  Necro kid uses mind trick to frighten off 2 of the officers.  R2 maneuvers the ship to block the firefight from hitting the team so we can board.  2nd ancient guardian in the sky fighting off the Tai!  We exit atmo.

B: Good game.  Battle.  Bad?  Don't have one.  Ugly to Zeke.  "Bad Zeke" after
Liz: Yay I got to shoot things!  My back allowed me to sit up.  Bad? a little tangenty sometimes.  Ugly to Lelu using control pain on me to help me return fire.
Tim: Tom was so right about our group.  Mass combat.  Numbers mattering.  Giving us a little bit of "we need to run."  Yay for escape from the garrison.  Ugly to Byron for delaying the enemy with closing the doors.
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https://dorksideoftheforce.com...2015/06/Gorgodon.jpg  Big Monster

https://imagesvc.timeincapp.co.../06/Ilum-TOR.jpg&;  Illum from orbit

https://allforthewookiee.files...12/02/ilum_moons.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfw1nSBjClg (illum's sky)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iJu3...%2520on%2520Ilum.png  Big robot

a gree https://vignette.wikia.nocooki...st?cb=20150914151154

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2ajL...600/Gree_Event_5.png more gree

While Luke is trying to get reinforcements to help get the natives back to their world, Andrew antagonizes the fleet deployment officer who hangs up on them.  Zeke took pot shots at the Imp garrison.  We scram when they scramble the Tai.  Lelu convinces Leah to lend some help.  While we wait, Luke and Lelu take private lessons from Shamaness on how to atone from Darkside taint.  New guardian hacks the coms to listen in.  Lilian notices and things escalate quickly.  Guardian fires a hole into the room where the lessons were.  Lelu confronts the guardian and gets a vision identical to the one Zeke had.  Much speculation on the meaning of it all.  Arnie guesses that the guardian may be from a time in history before the light/darkside divide in the Force and perhaps the guardians are weary of their destiny.  Luke guesses that the conversation about purging the Darkside was what triggered the guardian's aggression considering that earlier the first guardian objected to the idea, saying that only the Darksiders needed correction.  When allowed to listen in, the 2nd guardian didn't attack.  Lelu even convinced it to let her ride on it's back.  Leah's minions show up and take the natives off our hands.  Andrew makes a breakthrough and will only need an afternoon to repair Nova.

Tim: Mentioned you were more prepared than what we were going to allow you to do.  Sadface we didn't play on the monitor.  I don't have a bad.  Exciting that the guardian shot our ship.  Especially that it led to a lot of depth with the guardians.  Ugly: Hon mention to Andrew for telling off the commander.  And being fine w/ that.  Also summoning a mouse droid for a drink.  Ugly to Zeke for "i got to shoot things" in response to apology.

Liz: Good - the monitor.  Good that I feel comfortable leaving you guys in charge of my char.  Ugly to Andrew for "WHO'S DOUBTING US?!"

B: Yay playing.  Cant think of a bad.  Ugly to Tim for Lelu stuttering while talking to Leah.
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Nova is brought back.  Lelu and Luke sense she's Force Sensitive.  Arnie speculates it's because she had a force cloaking power.  Andrew fits a suit of armor for Nova.  Arrive at Illum.  Monster attacks.  Shrugs off blasters.  Grenades not much better, but it flees into nearby cave.  From inside we get signal.  "We're researchers.  Haven't had company in a long time."

Tim G: lots of prep.  B: 2 laptops are dieing.  U: hon mention 2 zeke for "try it".  ugly to byron for the huge selection of armor for nova.
Byron: G.  yay playing.  glad that my mood got enhanced from leaving work.  Bad?  Yeah we were yapping, but it's been how long since we played?  Ugly to Liz.  hypothetical "Think fast, Luke"
Liz: I really like the monitor map.  can see turn coming up on turn order.  Loved the planet visuals.  Bad: crashing laptop.  Ugly: "You're going to need more boxes to put people in"
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Byron: G. Got some combat in.  Yay playing.  Bad is on me.  Not in the right headspace.  Ugly to Liz.  Fun times in trick shots.

Liz: G.  combat.  tentacle monsters.  Got the guardians involved.  a decent amount accomplished in spite of the things being scattered.  Ugly to Lelu for hopping onto the robot.

Tim: G. Map. Visuals.  Spoiler alert: i finally know the game's plot!  Ugly to Byron for gaming in spite of bad headspace.  Running right back into combat after being blasted all to hell.  Prepared with a multi-facedted idea for the crystals.

Tim: Good AT-AT battle yaay.  Hurray for finding an excuse for having us battle.  Love that they were arguing behind the scenes whether to fight us.  Good: Creon doing something other than raise the dead.  Technically not Darkside to give them nightmares.  Kuddos to Byron for writing up a proposal.  Bug splatter on the ATAT windshield.  Hon mention to Liz for blowing up some badguys.

Byron: Yay playing.  Are they enemies are they not?  Captured ATAT in the snow.  Cant think of a Bad under your control.  Ugly to Liz for being the most tactically minded.

Liz: Good i feel like we got quite a bit done.  ATAT fight was good.  I've never felt like Luke Skywalker's overshadowed us the entire game!  Bad.  Nothing under your control.  Ugly to Lelu for pulling Luke across the ground.

Decided to drop off the ex-cons and stranded scientists on nearest civilized world: Kri'Dor.  Discovered new ancient guardian had snuck onboard.  Looked for trouble to help out with and found Ansion was being enslaved by ex-empire deserters.  https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Ansion/Legends  They fooled the people into thinking they needed to evacuate and what the people think are evacuation ships are actually slaver ships.  The slavers and imps don't like one another, but they have a mutually profitable arrangement.  The PCs are inside the flagship of the imps pretending to be parts salesmen.


OOC: Hyperlane travel is MUCH faster than non-hyperlane travel.  What would otherwise take minutes takes weeks.  https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Hyperlane

Byron: Yay playing.  Bad: this one's on me.  the hyperspace stuff in the beginning.  threw me outta game for the rest of the evening.  Ugly to Liz for "bold of you to assume i shower with the armor off"
Liz: Seems like it's been a while.  Bad the thing at the beginning.  Was this something from the new cannon?  We got it worked out.  We can continue going forward as we have been.  Ugly to Cpt Lelu the small female teddy bear talking to the imperials.
Tim: G that there was a lot of research done.  Good that there was an option offered at the beginning that we could get the game rolling.  Bad: perhaps next time there is research of this magnitude, send a general email.  Ugly: Thought it was cool that Andrew came out in his new Mk 4 and he zipped his lips and it made him look intimidating.
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The team decides to capture Rear Admiral Giles Brentioch in order to force him to stop the mass kidnapping of the nearby world's population.  On Creon's suggestion, Lillian inserts false information into the capitol ship that tricks the guards into thinking that the Rear Admiral invited the heroes to his private quarters while also fooling Brentioch into thinking he needed to take a call at the same location.  The heroes arrive first and wait for the Admiral in his private quarters.  But at the last minute, Brentioch anticipates that he's walking into a trap and orders his guards to ambush the heroes.  Once things start turning against the Imperial deserter troopers, Brentioch attempts to flee, but is stopped by Layloo's Ancient Guardian.  Brentioch agrees to cooperate but is of little help figuring out how the people who've already been sold to slavers could be recovered.  It is decided that Zeke will pose as an Imperial Admiral and assume command of the deserter fleet in Brentioch's stead.  Now the heroes must figure out how to reverse the colossal kidnapping ring with as little risk to the victims as possible.


Good: GAME! And good challenge of a combat! Yes, there was some things stacked in our favor, thanks to the GM, but still!!
Bad: Slow start, which I know was partially my fault, but there has got to be a way to get us caught back up more quickly. If Tim's taking notes, maybe shoot an email the Friday before, so we can all read it?
Ugly: Tim for the "Very Good! And next well work on colors and shapes!"

Tim:

Liz: Good: Not missing much even an hour late.  Got to shoot thing.  Always good when Zeke shoots things.  Bad?  Very tired.  Ugly to Andrew:  "Really you're going to try and lock the doors?"
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After some discussion, Luke is selected to be the imposter Admiral in Zeke's stead.  He's dubbed "Admiral Salazar Lincoln."  He's given a disguise and Zeke puts on a looted set of Storm Trooper armor.  A video is made of Rear Admiral Brentioch surrendering to "Admiral Lincoln."  Luke has Nova give Zeke a syringe filled with tranquilizer in hopes of taking out the officer left in charge of the bridge without him causing trouble.  Lilian uses her control of the ship's systems to clear a path to the bridge.  The two confront the bridge officer, but Zeke is unsuccessful in administering the tranquilizer.  Zeke is mortally wounded in the resulting combat, and Luke is forced to use a lightsaber to deflect a deadly blaster shot.  Andrew, Lelu, and Nova show up to help out and the guards are eventually taken out.  Everyone but Luke returns to the Payday.  Luke orders the slavers to halt the offloading of the world's population and discovers that they don't know exactly where their Big Boss is.  R2 sets course for Celanon, the last known location of the Big Boss of the slavers.

Note:  The lightsaber's blade color was red.  Luke had brought along Vader's saber just in case people asked questions about a Jedi Admiral.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Celanon/Legends

B: yay game, not sure of good/bad: plans just got to sh*t.  Bad though i was partly to blame - slow start.  G: the briefing you posted up.  U: to Liz for "you SHOT me!"

L: good we got some planning in, combat in.  i liked the recap posted before game.  definitely helped.  B: slow start.  (though getting dinner ready, etc.)  U: Tim for coming in bow a blazing.

T: ugly to andrew "do i have to do everything for you?"  G: going with the dice.  I liked that the best of plan can go to crap in 2 seconds flat.  loved how he RP'd the NPC being a jerk.
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On the way, Andrew recalls that Celanon is within the territory of Warlord Zsinj.  The team arrives and are invited to land at "the big auction" at the space port in Celanon City.  There a merchant displays thousands of captured people and suggests bidding begin at 1 credit per slave.  Leloo convinces him to set up a meeting with the Pirate boss Merl Duskweaver to discuss the purchase of all 600,000 slaves.  Back at the ship, Andrew begins working up a plan for disabling the droid guards surrounding the slaves.  Lelu contacts Luke to discuss how to offload so many people.  Luke says he called the Alliance to help with that.

Colonel Enif Waterfire, supervisor of Luke and his group, says he convinced the Alliance High Command to lend him a small fleet for rescuing the slaves.  Lelu speaks with the Colonel and is instructed to give a precise arrival time for freeing the slaves.  At the meeting with the slimeball slaver, Creon informs the group that the negotiator is an imposter and not the real pirate boss.  Lelu uses telepathy to find out he's a proxy so she completes the deal with him.  Lilian steals funds from suspicious bank accounts to pay for the slaves.  Zeke tags the leaving slimeball with a tracer, but it wasn't activated.

Warlord Zsinj arrives, demanding a huge "sales tax" on the transaction.  Colonel Waterfire convinces the Warlord to not interfere.  Though Lilian's trick is uncovered before the group leaves, Pirate Boss Merl Duskweaver is powerless to stop the slaves from being offloaded and the heroes leaving the planet.

Tim: G map.  Competent warlord showing up to circle like a vulture.  Competent boss of Luke coming up with a cover story.  Things went well because we put effort into things going well.  Hon. mention to Liz for itching to kill these guys.  Ugly to Byron for multiple ideas including how to deal with the droids.

Byron: G playing.  Impressive map.  Shit going on in the BG.  Your universe is moving and not just around us.  Like my universe.  (Tim: I'm reminded of Sinkhole).  Bad?  Tech issues.  Felt a little lost here or there.  Hence my, "OK so... THIS is he plan, right?"  Ugly to Liz for after looking at a picture of the sleeze "I REAALY want to shoot him now." and the flubbed bat tracer throw.

Liz: Map impressive.  I liked the scenario of trying to figure out how to move that many people.  Despite the hiccups the plan went according to plan.  Didn't get in a huge naval battle.  Bad?  Tech issues.  Ugly to Tim for Lelu being the cute captain.  Some of the shit Lilian does is hilarious.
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A quick discussion is had whether the Payday should transport any rescued people, but R2 warns that there's 2 darksiders and 3 unpredictable superweapon droids onboard.  Andrew questions the purpose of remaining with the group and decides a nap is in order.  Lelu dreams of a large bird being torn apart by familiar looking animals.  On arrival, R2 and Lelu find out from Luke that he was able to convince most of the Imperial fleet to join the Alliance, and Lelu informs Luke about her dream.  They speculate that it is a premonition regarding the guardians.

Nova stays with the ship to babysit Creon.  The rest of the group gets a heroe's welcome, each provided with a fancy room.  Soon they meet up with Luke, and discuss the upcoming award ceremony.  Once at the capitol plaza, the Prime Administrator praises the heroes in front of a large phoenix statue- (Kril'Dor's?) cultural symbol.

Lilian notices the guardians want out and lets them go.  They head for the plaza.  This alarms the heroes so Andrew carries Lelu to them to "talk."  Lelu tells them about her dream and the guardians look ashamed.  Once Lelu and Andrew learn that it's nothing threatening they return to the plaza with the guardians.

About when the Prime Administrator awards the heroes with phoenix medallions, Andrew loses contact with Lilian.  The group race to the ship and find it powered down, with Nova, Creon, and Arnie all missing.  (Note to self, they'll later find a written note in Nova's room.)  Once powered back on, Lilian says that the main breaker got flipped off by telekinesis, then soon after she was severed from her backup power.

Lelu follows Nova's faint scent trail to where a speeder was, then her guardian takes over following the speeder's ion trail.  The group arrives at the dock which is very crowded.  Andrew has a picture of the missing people broadcast, but no one in the crowd saw them.  The ion trail leads to an empty dock, and the port authority confirms that an Alliance ship belonging to a mercenary group took off just minutes ago.  Their stated destination was the Alliance fleet, but Luke expects they'll never arrive.

After some questioning the guardians, Lelu then talks the Prim Administrator into allowing the group to excavate for the 4th guardian beneath the phoenix statue.

Behind the scenes:
"Hello.  Your friendly

Byron Good - Yay game and recap. I like how it helped us get back into things fairly quickly
Bad - Miscommunications and tech issues. You'd almost think Mercury was in Retrograde!
Ugly - Liz for the "No Promises" when I said to bring them back alive! Also for the "not in party mood" You can be our protection, "That I'll do!"

Liz Good: Got to play, Discord voice was stable for the most part until it decided that it was done with me and I needed to leave the call. Liking the short recaps before the beginning of the game.
Bad: We didn't get too far.
Ugly: Will go to Tim for scaring the hell out of Andrew with Layloo listening in on Andrew and Zeke's conversation

Good: Once again, yay for background stuff - PLOT TWIST! Betrayed by a dark sider! Oh no! XD Yay for planetary celebration. Yay for Andrew's guardian! Yay for backstory guardian. I get the feeling each guardian has its own unique story and I like that the guardians had some infighting thing that they are ashamed of. (And Zeak's guardian had been tricked by the empire...) so yeah. Fun stuff.
Bad: Nothing that could be helped
Ugly: Andrew for sudden mini existential crisis.
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Andrew repairs the 4th guardian enough to move. The guardian attacks Andrew nearly killing him. Layloo calms the guardian and gets their story on why the other guardians attacked her. Apparently the phoenix guardian is more hero aligned while the others are programmed with a very strict "only things concerning the destruction of the Force" ideal, so they attacked her to keep her "on track". Various methods of tracking Nova were discussed. The Alliance informs the group that the Empire is wanting to take Bespin back.

Byron: Yay finally getting some answers.  Bad?  Couple of spots you were waiting on us when you could kept things going.  Ugly to Zeke for successful wiki search and finding Mandalorian iron info.
Liz: G We got some backstory stuff.  Bad I didn't get to shoot anything.  Ugly:  Lelu being the lesion between guardians and everybody.
Tim: G for recap.  No need for windup.  Given multiple venues for tracking Nova and the others.  Glad for the exposition.  Balance that the jerk gets the goodie goodie guardian.  Still don't know who the nihilists are.  Bad?  Dunno.  Ugly to Byron for interacting with phoenix, putting his foot down and getting answers.
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We set course for Bespin. Andrew works on Armor Mark 1.2-Z for Zeak. Initially, Layloo meditates with Luke, but senses that while her darkside point is gone, Luke has gotten darker. So she does the cleansing cerimony with Luke. We arrive in Quamar and get news that the Empire is just outside the Bespin system. We board a Mon Calamari cruiser. Luke updates his commander while Layloo and R2 tour the ship. She gets along with R2 famously. Luke pulls Layloo aside to an interrogation room to bounce thoughts off her. Emperor Sate Hestage has offered a proposal; In exchange for him being allowed a posh retirement, he's willing to hand the empire over (vital info, open announcement of Alliance's legitimacy, etc). But the Alliance would need a legitimate government to really be ready for this. The idea has been brought up that Leia be the legitimate heir of Darth Vader. Is it really a good idea for her to be the next "Palpatine"? // Back on the ship, R2 reports that Creon has been found, deep inside imperial territory as a biological hazard. Just so happens he is kept in the rear of the invading fleet back at Bava. The group decides to go rescue Creon. During the trip, Luke reveals the thought about Leia being the next empress. Andrew checks that Sate Hestage has the backing of the warlords (it is strained). // We run into a moon. Andrew orders the parts be jetisoned to make us look more like a crashed ship.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Sate_Pestage/Legends proposes selling out the Empire to the Alliance in exchange for immunity and wealth.

Destination:  https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Bavva/Legends  because Creon is held there.

Controlled by https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Delak_Krennel who is attacking Bespin area.

Luke no longer in charge of the defector Imperial fleet.

Tim: Ugly to Byron.  Make annoyingly good points about Leah like I predicted.  Pretty good plan with jedisoning the junk.  Still working on projects for teammates.  I feel like we accomplished a lot.  We got to Bespin.  2 huge news drops.  Acting Emperor's offer, Creon found.  Appreciate that you rolled for R2's astrogation.  Wound up with a neat little situation.  It's cool to keep NPCs in check.  Because GMs *can* it's tempting to have NPCs always succeed.  Lotta good stuff between Lelu and Luke / R2.  No bad.

Byron:  Good, game.  There's a part of me that doesn't want to give this good, 'cause I dunno where this is going.  Not necessarily irrelevant shit getting thrown at us.  Bad?  Partially because of the design.  Liz didn't have much to do.  Ugly to Zeke for agreeing with Andrew.

Liz:  Do feel like we got a lot accomplished.  Lotta good character moments.  Surprised that Luke suggesting that Leah take the throne.  Bad Zeke didn't get to shoot things.  Ugly to Lelu for banter with R2.
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Byron: Game and progress.  Interesting turn w/ Creon.  Bad?  Pacing and flow.  Ugly to Liz for not using the targeting computer and still kicking butt.
(Tim:  Liz going "Awww..." in response to "Stun please.")
Liz:  Got some combat in.  B: reeeally slow.  having to get up at 5am.  Ugly: Lelu for taking on the "interrogation."
Tim: Good cop really really worked, apparently.  Byron: hacking the ship so they couldn't jump, also blocking backup, also rolling with forgetting to put sensors on the armor.  G: got us in a combat.  completed the rescue Creon arc.  Threw us a curb ball when zombies show up.  Then they attack the scientists!  Like that we're getting steps closer to finding out what happened with Nova and Arnie.  And what's with the guardians.  Phoenix explaining their mentality.

R2 gets us into position, just outside sensor range of the fleet. Layloo talks to the guardians about sneaking aboard the science vessel Creon is on. The guardians agree, granted that Layloo and Creon teach each other in order to "meet in the middle" to balance themselves. Phoenix Guardian stays behind, but recommends taking a spare suit for Creon's trip back. Luke points the way. The guardians warp to the science vessel. We find an airlock near the science room Creon is in. We go in, defeat some guards. Andrew seals off the ship. We go to the science room and the scientists use Creon to release zombies to attack. But the zombies turn on the scientists. While Zeak and Andrew attack the zombies, Layloo carves open the container Creon is in. Luke informs the group that the captain is being ordered to make a jump. Andrew hacks the ship to make sure they can't make a jump to the fleet. The group makes it back to their ship with Creon and heads out. Luke tells us that he found out (by reading minds) that the Empire gave Creon a truth serum and he spilled everything about us. When Creon recovers, he tells us: Arny floated out of his box, Nova shut down the ship, took Creon and took off in a speeder then handed him over to the Empire. He remembered Arny saying "You're doing the right thing. Don't forget what you want for this group." Creon reads Layloo's mind to see how serious she was about being his mom. Of course, being the same age as Creon, Layloo was only half serious (even if she is developing maternal feelings). Layloo tells Creon she trusts him. Andrew and Zeak threaten to kill Creon if he betrays them. She then tells of her promise to the guardians to learn from Creon (as she teaches him). Creon asks, "I don't have anything to teach except zombie stuff.." Layloo is willing to learn to keep her promise.
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Creyon uses telepathy to try to teach Layloo. They use a piece of meat from the fridge to try animating it. Andrew trains Zeak on how to use his new armor features. Ship then drop out of hyperspace in Q'mara. The group decides jumping multiple jumps to get back to the Alliance fleet. Layloo continues teaching Creyon Jedi perspectives. The group arrives in the Ogem system. There is a firefight between the Imperials and the Ogemites (who are Alliance allies). The imperials "conscript" us, then the Ogemites com us. Layloo tells the Ogemites we have Luke Skywalker. Combat begins (Zeak blows up a tie with one shot, then misses a second tie) but quickly turns into allowing the imps to board us, which then turns into us boarding the imps (Creyon causes a tie to crash into the capital ship). Once we board the capital ship, the guardians rush past us and slaughter the welcoming comitee. Andrew and Zeak start heading for the capital ship's bridge (and are of course met with resistance). Andrew blows away an opponent in one shot. Creyon animates that guy's corpse. Luke yoinks a gun from another guy. Zeak blasts a guy, Layloo finishes him off. The unarmed guy leaps to the downed guy and gets his gun. Creyon animates the downed guy. Andrew gets the guy to surrender. The zombie uses the com to say "the intruders have been dealt with." and we entered the bridge. Layloo makes the point that "dying a glorious death for the Empire" would be pointless because their dead can be brought back as undead slaves. Luke offers a ceasefire and the captain complies.

Tim: Got an exciting combat in.  Feels very SW to suddenly be in a firefight between 2 armies.  The Imperials trying to conscript us.  And the Ogemites too.  Creon using the zombie to say, "we took care of the invaders."  Ugly to Zeke for getting to do zeke's thing.  1-shotting a Tie.
Liz:  Game.  Combat.  Bad?  It was short, but I gotta get ready 2 go.  Ugly:  Andrew for accidentally sending himsel to a turret that was gunna get shot.
Byron: Yay playing.  Especially since we had to cancel last week.  Bad: I wasn't paying full attention.  Ugly to Lelu for freaking me the frack out.  Teddy getting creepy.
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