Exploring the Unknown - Part 1

[Topher]

1. What is going to happen in your plot?
The crew of the Praenunitus set off for the first leg of their exploration of the unknown regions, discovering new planets, and species, whilst uncovering the initial indicators of perhaps a strong dominant species within the Regions (Similar to Chiss empire)

2. What other players will be a part of this?
Characters:
Eisa Nimbus - Captain of the Praenuntius
Darth Evandrus - Remote Sith Lord
Crew TBC Post interest check

3. Where are all the places (if more than one) that your plot will be taking place?

As per Thread breakdown below

4. Please provide a basic in-character timeline of what you expect to happen.

Thread 1 - Setting Off
Eisa and assigned crew (PC's Pending Interest) Gather at the Drydock where the Praenunitus is brought back online following the repairs and systems calibrations following it's inaugural deployment for the Naval battle over Kessel - The crew board, and make ready for the jump to hyperspace.

Thread 2 -Qoribu
The Praenunitus crew drop out of hyperspace in orbit of a Gas Giant Qoribu - carry out scans of the local sector and identify the surrounding moons, before making leave to further investigate

Thread 3 Qoribu - Jwlio, Eyyl,
The Praenunitus crew investigate the food worlds of Jwlio and Eyyl, and encounter the native Killik species for the first time. Initial response to the new discovery likely to erupt in an engagement between the Sith and the Killik

Thread 4 Qoribu - Zvbo, Ruu
The Praenunitus crew investigate the food worlds of Zvbo and Ruu, and once again encounter the native Killik species. Unlike the initial response to the new species the Sith would be better equipped to deal with the native species and able to subjugate the Killik

Thread 5 Qoribu - Nrogu, Kr
The Praenunitus crew investigate pass the barren moon of Zvbo, launch a probe and proceed towards Kr. Where they encounter the Dark nest, a hive of Killiks that are unlike the previous hives they had encountered, these ones were embued with the powers of the darkside following the consumption of some ancient (Massassi / Fallen Jedi) Unlike the previous encounters the Sith crew present themselves to the Hive queen, using their own Darkside connections to subdue / intimidate the lesser hive creatures - The crew broker a deal with the Hive queen offering the species access to the teachings of the Sith order in return for their Service to the Empire. The crew also discover a source of Ethmane Ice and harvest the gas for future experimentation.

Thread 6 Snevu
The Praenuntius Crew drop out of hyperspace out side of the Orbit of Snevu, and travel to wards the planets surface to find that a battle had had been carried out between two species one recently discovered to be the Killiks, the second an unknown species (Chiss) The crew Salvage what they can, abandoned weapons data cores etc to (dice rolls for determining importance) and return to the Praenuntius

Thread 7 - UR-2212-GR system
The Praenuntius Crew drop out of hyperspace near a blue Gas giant, and discover an Ice moon orbiting the planet. The crew travel to the moons surface to discover an abandoned research facility - Likely to be a clear out and capture type mission

Thread 8 - Giaca
The Praenuntius crew arrive at the outer orbit of an untouched wild world and land the ship down to carry out maintenance and replenish food stores from the untouched wild fauna. Agree for a shore leave break, but find that several of the crew fail to report in from their exploratory patrols to discover they had fallen to the automated defenses of an Ancient surveillance station of a lost civilization.

Thread 9
Following the discovered deaths of the patrols the crew amass at the surveillance station and prepare to seize and capture the automated facility
- Likely to be clear out and capture type mission against droids / automated defenses

Thread 10 - Durace
The Praenuntius Crew arrive in the orbit over Durace, a barren and desolate world that was corrupted by a cataclysmic event from millennia prior. The crew reach the surface and explore the ruins ash wastes of the planet, encountering abominations originating from a cave network. Once cleared out they discover the the cause of the planet's demise - Likely to be a darkside ritual gone wrong

Thread 11 - Reporting In
Eisa contacts Darth Evandrus to Provide a status update and report on Findings on the first leg of the Exploration Mission

5. What do you or your character hope to achieve with this plot? What is the "end-game"?

Discover planets, force an allegiance with a new species, capture and secure abandoned facilities and just general discovery

6. Do you need any involvement of canon NPCs or faction leaders to be DMed by a staff member? If so, please detail who/what and for what purpose.
Likely to be Dice rolled or Non Staff DM

Tagging in Faction Leader
@Sreeya

 

[Nefieslab]

Yo @Plebometer !

Alright so right off the gate I'm pending this since it can't start without the Void thread having a conclusion.

The Killik - aren't they native to Alderaan?

With the Ethmane Ice, I'm happy enough for you to locate a source of it. But shouldn't it scramble your sensors so badly the probe wouldn't work?

Equally - why would the Chiss battle the Killik? The Chiss have their own insectoid enemy in the Unknown Regions already. The Inferius.

I'd honestly replace all mentions of the Killik and work on the assumption that you're dealing with Inferius - just be aware that they are orders of magnitude more dangerous than Killik and very hostile to all life that isn't them...

Please note that we'll need a list of all facilities found and secured and they may need their own lore write ups.

PENDING

 

[Topher]

No probs Nef with the holding, does make sense to hold in case the void ends up killing off all hopes of doing this ... Figured would best get the paper work sorted ahead of time rather than last minute it

Alot of what had put up there was a start for 10 from the legends articles for the respective planets, and the moons around Qoribu had extensive reference to Killiks, but can easily shift it over to the Inferius since that would probably tie in better

Think with the Ethmane ice, its more going to be a case of happy accident rather than a probe, where they come down onto the surface and find take a sample for further study

Will work on getting lore write ups developed for the captured facilities, though can get that tied up closer to the threads.

And like you said there are definitely much more dangerous threats out there, which will get fleshed out as the plot's move on, kinda the deeper into the dungeon they go the more perilous it becomes. Which the follow on plots should be a lot more intensive, just to allow for the crew to get a dynamic established before going into the more perilous stuff, which would hopefully test them

 

[Nefieslab]

No probs Nef with the holding, does make sense to hold in case the void ends up killing off all hopes of doing this ... Figured would best get the paper work sorted ahead of time rather than last minute it

Alot of what had put up there was a start for 10 from the legends articles for the respective planets, and the moons around Qoribu had extensive reference to Killiks, but can easily shift it over to the Inferius since that would probably tie in better

Think with the Ethmane ice, its more going to be a case of happy accident rather than a probe, where they come down onto the surface and find take a sample for further study

Will work on getting lore write ups developed for the captured facilities, though can get that tied up closer to the threads.

And like you said there are definitely much more dangerous threats out there, which will get fleshed out as the plot's move on, kinda the deeper into the dungeon they go the more perilous it becomes. Which the follow on plots should be a lot more intensive, just to allow for the crew to get a dynamic established before going into the more perilous stuff, which would hopefully test them

All good :D

Don't worry about the lore articles for now anyway - just when you get the time but definitely before you would submit this thing for completed

And I certainly like the idea of the rabbit hole getting darker the deeper you go ;)

 

[Topher]

Aye, thought as it was all to build towards either getting the Chiss / eternal empire or etc to side with the Sith Empire, we will want the crew to become hardened bad-asses before we reach part 5, doubt would get away with Hi want to join us, yes, k bai and come back with another factions worth of support.

Appreciate to get something like that for the faction then all involved will have to properly work through the long hard slog lol