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Jaws of the Sarlacc

Episode x of Star Wars: Dawn of Defiance

RODNEY THOMPSON

Design

Rodney Thompson

Editing

Ray Vallese

Jaws of the Sarlacc is the tenth and final adventure in the Dawn of

Defiance campaign, which should take heroes from 1st level through 20th

level in a continuous storyline designed to give players and Gamemasters

a complete Star Wars Roleplaying Game: Saga Edition experience. This

adventure sends the heroes to the Deep Core world of Byss, where the

Sarlacc Project—the construction of a massive Super Star Destroyer

prototype—is underway. The heroes should advance to 20th level by the

end of the adventure. Over the course of this adventure, the heroes will

have a chance to finally confront and defeat the traitorous Admiral Varth

and the vile dark Inquisitor, Valin Draco. Jaws of the Sarlacc is the finale

of the story arc that makes up the Dawn of Defiance campaign. After

completing the adventure, the heroes will have saved the galaxy from an

Imperial superweapon and paved the way for other rebellious elements to

strike back at the Galactic Empire.

Typesetting

Ray Vallese, Gary M. Sarli

Production

Chad Laske

Cartography

Corey Macourek

Lucas Licensing Editors

Leland Chee, Frank Parisi

Design Manager

Christopher Perkins

Director of RPG R&D

Bill Slavicsek

What Is

Dawn of Defiance?

Dawn of Defiance is the name given to a series of 10 linked adventures

that Gamemasters can use to create an entire campaign for their players.

Set in the months after the events of Revenge of the Sith, the adventures

in the Dawn of Defiance campaign are designed to provide players and

GMs with the iconic Star Wars Roleplaying Game experience, set against

the backdrop of the tyranny of the Galactic Empire. The Dawn of Defiance

campaign takes the heroes all the way from 1st level up to 20th level and

features an ongoing storyline that progresses over the course of the

campaign. Each adventure can also be played individually and should

provide the heroes with ample challenges to gain two levels per

adventure. Gamemasters should feel free to use the Dawn of Defiance

adventures either as an entire campaign or as fillers for their own home

campaigns.

If you are a Gamemaster wishing to run the campaign, read the GM’s

Primer, which summarizes the overall plot of the campaign and the

events of each adventure. The GM’s Primer is available at the Star Wars

Roleplaying Game Web site ( www.wizards.com/starwars ) . The site also

features other articles related to the Dawn of Defiance campaign,

including the official campaign standards and an FAQ.

Warning! If you will be playing in a Dawn of

Defiance campaign or in a campaign using its

adventures, read no further.

Adventure

Background

The entire Dawn of Defiance campaign has led up to this point. Having

finally uncovered the truth about the Sarlacc Project and traveled to the

Deep Core in pursuit of their ally, Jedi Master Denia, the heroes are poised

to shut down the Empire's plans. Lady Alya Aldrete, an ally they made

during a recent visit to Alderaan, has provided them with aid thus far.

Now, she is ready to help them make their final push to stop the Empire

from completing the construction of their first Super Star Destroyer.

Sadly, during their trip to Prakith in the ninth adventure, Sword of

the Empire, the heroes suffered the loss of one of their staunchest allies,

Master Denia. They are now truly their own masters, and others are

looking to them as leaders of the fledgling rebellion. Lady Aldrete has

summoned the heroes to rendezvous with her, and she will help fill them

in on the plan to finally put an end to the Empire's Sarlacc Project.

Adventure Summary

The heroes are summoned to a rendezvous in the Deep Core, where they

meet with Lady Aldrete and discover that she has summoned her entire

fleet of smugglers and criminals. Combined with the remnants of the

battle group belonging to the Resurgence, these ships form a relatively

impressive fleet, which Lady Aldrete and Bail Organa hope to use to stage

a daring mission against the Sarlacc Project. After being briefed on the

plan, the heroes set course for the planet Byss, the Emperor's secret

throne world.

Once they arrive at Byss, the heroes must infiltrate a Golan Defense

Platform and shut down its defense mechanisms. There, they confront

Inquisitor Draco for the last time, only to discover that the traitorous

Admiral Varth has taken command of the Super Star Destroyer. In a

stunning move, he fires up the ship's engines and makes a short

hyperspace jump to join the battle.

The heroes, along with the pilots of Blue Squadron, must brave the

battle between the defenders of Byss and Lady Aldrete's fleet, fly into the

superstructure of Super Star Destroyer, and blow up its main reactor. That

is the only way to destroy the vessel and save what's left of Lady Alya's

fleet.

Opening Crawl

If you wish to have an opening crawl before the adventure, consider using

the boxed text below.

STAR WARS: DAWN OF DEFIANCE

Episode X

JAWS OF THE SARLACC

The galaxy rests on a tipping point as the forces of evil have struck

a devastating blow against the Alderaan Resistance.

Yet all is not lost, and even now the Alderaanian noble Lady Alya Aldrete

has summoned allies and great heroes to take part

in a daring attack on the Empire.

As the fate of the Resistance hangs in the balance, a small band of heroes

has a chance to strike a blow that will echo through the ages,

and show others that even the mighty Empire can be defeated . . .

Part 1: A Bold Plan

After speaking with Bail Organa at the conclusion of the previous

adventure, the heroes are directed to meet up with Lady Alya Aldrete.

They find her at a rendezvous point in space, outside a massive gas cloud

where she has amassed a small armada of ships. The rendezvous point is

only two hours away via hyperspace, still well within the Deep Core

Security Zone, and Lady Aldrete's communications officer transmits a

hyperspace route for the heroes to follow that will get them there safely.

As the heroes approach the rendezvous point, describe the other vessels

here as a rag-tag collection of tramp freighters, modified bulk haulers, a

few Clone Wars-era capital ships, and an overall motley assortment of

vessels that look vastly different from the pristine ships of the Empire.

Lady Alya invites the heroes to dock on her flagship, a heavily

modified Corellian gunship. As the deck crew sets to refueling and

restocking their ship (or ships), the heroes are shown to temporary

quarters and allowed to refresh themselves. Once suitably rested and

cleaned up, they are invited to join Lady Aldrete in the ship's command

bridge to discuss the next step.

Lady Aldrete's

Briefing

Lady Aldrete welcomes the heroes into her ship's command bridge, where

she and some other rough-looking ship captains are quietly talking next

to a holographic display that looks positively chaotic from a distance. The

heroes also spot two familiar faces—Captain Adrian Verana and Captain

Sirona Okeefe, who seem to be deep in their own conversation. As the

heroes approach, they realize that the display shows a single, massive

planet around which hundreds, if not thousands, of ships and space

stations can be seen in continuous orbit.

When the heroes step up to the projector, Lady Aldrete ends her

conversation and turns to them. Read the following aloud:

seize control of its weapon complement, and turn the weapons on the

Sarlacc Project. Undefended, it shouldn't take long for the Super Star

Destroyer to become so much debris drifting into the atmosphere of Byss.

The heroes and the smuggler fleet will then retreat and jump to

lightspeed, leaving Byss far behind.

The Calm Before

the Storm

Of course, heroes being what they are, they might have some alternative

plans they would like to enact. Lady Aldrete's plan is left somewhat vague

intentionally, and if the players show some initiative, you should let them

fill in the gaps or even rebuild the plan from the ground up. Of course,

allowing them to do so will alter the way this adventure plays out, but

given the fact that this is the climax of the Dawn of Defiance campaign,

feel free to let the players concoct a better plan if they see fit.

The two most important parts of the plan, and the two events around

which this adventure is engineered, are taking control of the Golan

Defense Platform and flying into the superstructure of the Super Star

Destroyer to take out its main reactor. When the heroes are cooking up

their plan, keep in mind that, in general, those two events need to

happen, and they must take place in that order.

Naturally, this adventure cannot cover every eventuality or plan that

the heroes might come up with, but the following information should

help you determine whether they succeed.

The Sarlacc Project is a Super Star Destroyer that has not yet

reached completion. Many of its systems are still offline, but

(unknown to Lady Aldrete and the heroes) its engines, life

support, and weapons are online.

The Super Star Destroyer is defended by a Golan Defense

Platform. However, something the heroes do not know is that

the platform also acts as a stabilizer by using its incredibly

powerful tractor beams. The upshot is that the platform

anchors the Super Star Destroyer in place; as long as the

tractor beams are active, it cannot move.

The smuggler fleet is ragged, but well defended and captained

by some of the best in the galaxy. Given the fact that the

defense forces around Byss are not quite up to what they will

be by the time of the Rebel Alliance, the smuggler fleet can

survive about 20 minutes of direct fire, plus another 20

minutes during the faux retreat. If starfighters take part in the

conflict, the fleet can survive for another 10 minutes during

both the initial assault and the retreat.

Even when the main defense forces pursue the smuggler fleet,

a small number (mostly starfighters and Skipray blastboats)

will stay behind. However, good piloting might allow a ship to

avoid notice by more than one patrol.

Lady Aldrete's smuggler fleet has a number of slicers that can

alter a starship's IFF transponders and other transmitters to

disguise a small number of ships as Imperial vessels. This won't

stand up to closer visual inspection, but it should fool sensors.

Admiral Varth is commanding the skeleton crew currently

operating the Super Star Destroyer. When the smuggler fleet

appears, he immediately suspects a trap and begins ordering

the crew on the defense platform to begin emergency

shutdown procedures of their tractor beams. However, due to

the high power being pumped through the beams, shutting

"My dear friends," says Lady Aldrete, a look of pity in her eyes. "It is

good to see you alive. Bail told me about Master Denia—she will be

sorely missed.

"I'm afraid that we have little time for mourning. Too many lives

have already been sacrificed to stop now. While you were traveling

to Prakith, I sent out the call for all of my contacts in the Deep Core

to come to me, and one of them brought some very timely data. We

have not only discovered the location of the Sarlacc Project above

the planet Byss, but we have also obtained a full readout of the

vessel's defenders, and we know that the Sarlacc Project, while not

yet complete, is within weeks of being so.

"What I have proposed to my captains is a mission to destroy

the prototype. We've got enough ships to distract its defenders, but

we can't hope to beat them and destroy the ship—just survive. What

we need is someone to take control of their defenses and turn them

against the prototype. You're our best, and probably only, hope for

that."

With that, Lady Aldrete begins outlining what little they have of their

plan. First, the smuggler fleet will jump into the Beshqek system and

engage the Sarlacc Project's defenses. Then, while feigning a retreat, they

will draw the defenders away from the Super Star Destroyer and its Golan

Defense Platform. The heroes' strike team will then infiltrate the platform,

them down is a lengthy process—upward of 30 minutes if all

protocols are observed.

Inquisitor Draco has retreated to Byss, where his time spent in

dark meditation has revealed that he will face his final conflict

with the heroes. With Admiral Varth's blessing, Draco has

placed himself in charge of the defense platform, and he

believes that once he defeats the heroes and crushes

Alderaan's resistance, he will be given command of the Sarlacc

Project and its associated fleet. He has not warned Varth of his

visions. Instead, Draco plans to step in and save the day when

Varth would have failed, thus removing the Admiral as a rival

for control of the Emperor's greatest fleet.

The Golan platform is manned mostly by droids. Admiral Varth

did not trust Humans to operate his prize ship's defenses,

although he has allowed a complement of the Emperor's hand-

picked agents to occupy the station for defense.

Varth will order the defense fleet to pursue the smugglers,

hoping that they will be crushed by his ships. However,

Admiral Varth is no fool, and he would not leave the Super

Star Destroyer unprotected if it weren't defensible on its own.

Varth believes (and rightly so) that the Super Star Destroyer,

although incomplete, is still powerful enough to obliterate the

smuggler's ships on its own.

Luckily for the heroes, the plan is working, and only a few small

patrols remain near the Super Star Destroyer. Unfortunately, being

spotted by one is nearly unavoidable. A small patrol, consisting of a

Skipray blastboat and a few elite TIE fighters, is on a course that will

intersect with the heroes. If the heroes have taken precautions against

being detected, play them out. Otherwise, the patrol spots the heroes'

ship and attacks. This close to the Sarlacc Project, the patrols are ordered

to fire on non-Imperial vessels without warning.

If the heroes can sneak by, deceive, or otherwise deflect the attention

of the patrol, they should be able to avoid a violent conflict before

docking with the Golan. Otherwise, the heroes must defeat the patrol

before they can go on with their mission.

For more information on this encounter, see the "Run on the Golan"

tactical encounter on page 10.

One way or another, a large chunk of the ship's hull will be ripped

away, exposing the interior superstructure and providing access to the

main reactor. Although this can happen in several ways (see Part 3 of the

adventure), the heroes might come up with their own plan to gain access

to the core.

Getting to the

Golan

Once the heroes have a plan, the mission can begin. Captains Okeefe and

Verana are both taking part in the mission. Captain Verana will command

Blue Squadron, a collection of starfighters cobbled together from the

various smuggler crews, while Captain Okeefe will serve as Verana's

wingman and executive officer. Lady Aldrete will lead her ship and the

rest of the smuggler fleet into battle. The heroes have a chance to say

their goodbyes, then it is time for leaving.

When the heroes depart, they make the short jump to hyperspace to

the planet Byss. Upon arrival, they find everything going according to

plan. The smuggler fleet is occupying the ships defending the Sarlacc

Project, giving the heroes a clear shot at the Golan Defense Platform.

Read or paraphrase the following aloud:

Before your eyes hovers the oddly colored planet of Byss, its orange

land masses and purple oceans casting the cockpit in an eerie glow.

However, drawing your eyes away from the planet is the largest

capital ship you have ever seen. The dagger-shaped hull of the Super

Star Destroyer, known to you as the Sarlacc Project, looms large

against the backdrop of the planet.

The Golan Defense Platform anchoring the massive ship looks

tiny in comparison. All around, you see flashes of light as starships

burst into flames and then flicker out, or watch the glowing light of

turbolasers streaking between the vessels. The smuggler fleet has

distracted the Sarlacc Project's defenders; now is the time to strike.

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