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02:11, 29th March 2024 (GMT+0)

Star Wars: The Darkness Beyond

719 BBY.

The Republic is enjoying its third consecutive century of peace. Its enemies seem vanished, a footnote in history, a shadow on the bedroom wall which the morning sun sends scurrying into the dark corners of the room. Guarded by the Jedi and led by the Senate, the future looks bright at the centre of the Galaxy.

But light, for all its benefits, can often illuminate what perhaps should have been left unseen. As space becomes safer, the Republic once again looks outwards, to expand and grow, to tame the wild frontier and bring new riches for its citizens.

Danirith is one such planet. Found almost by accident a few decades ago, it is seemingly flooded with rich mineral veins and ore deposits. No wonder, therefore, that the Republic was eager to settle and plunder its rocky plateaus and acid seas for treasure.

If all was left there, Danirith would have been little more than a tick on a ledger in the Coruscant databases. But soon after the decision to colonise was made, a greater discovery had been made.

The Republic weren't the first ones there.

Danirith, it appears, had been settled before. And these settlers, whether local or colonisers themselves, appear to have been more than miners and traders. Carvings seem to give an indication of some sort of mystical energy that imbued certain individuals with great powers. Some sort of... Force.

And thus, the Jedi Council acted. A trio of representatives were dispatched to Danirith, to guard the new colony and find out what they could about those who came before. It would, the Council thought, be a blue milk run.

Unfortunately, there is more to Danirith than meets the eye, and more eyes than those of the Republic are set on it.