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Triplet Threat

A Free Star Wars

Miniadventure For Any Era

By Jason Fry

DESIGN

JASON FRY

“Triplet Threat” is a Star Wars Roleplaying Game mini-

adventure for four heroes of 9th level. The adventure is set

during the Rebellion Era, but can be modiﬁed to work in

any time period.

The scenario can be modiﬁed for heroes of higher level by

increasing the number of underlings in the combats and by

giving the named characters extra vitality points. In addi-

tion, raise the DCs of any skill checks by 1 point for each

level the average character level in the party exceeds 10th.

The scenario can be modiﬁed for heroes of lower level by

reducing the number of underlings in the combats, lowering

the Osajis’ vitality points and reducing all skill check DCs.

EDITING

RAY AND VALERIE VALLESE

TYPESETTING

NANCY WALKER

WEB PRODUCTION

JULIA MARTIN

WEB DEVELOPMENT

THOM BECKMAN

Background

The Osaji Syndicate has done business on the Perlemian

Trade Route for generations and is little different from

hundreds of other such family-run operations, making cred-

its from legal cut-rate shipping operations and illegal

activities such as smuggling and gun-running. While the

family isn’t well known, Osajis have made the HoloNet of

late: Clan patriarch Osaji Shimka was assassinated on a

buying trip to Axum three years ago.

With Shimka’s death, control of the syndicate passed to

his three eldest children, who are fraternal triplets. The most

visible is Osaji Varane, who has set himself up as a major

importer-exporter on Tirahnn, where he oversees most legit-

imate Osaji affairs. Illegal Osaji endeavors are supposedly

directed by Osaji Uhares, said to be an engineer by training.

It’s said the new family boss is Osaji Hux, a recluse who

prefers to communicate through Uhares.

A shadowy ﬁgure hires the characters to perform a

straightforward task: Kill the triplets. Uhares is in hiding

after a shady deal went bad, but Varane should know his

whereabouts—and Uhares, in turn, should be able to lead

the characters to Hux. Two things will complicate the char-

acters’ mission, however. A unit of stormtroopers is seeking

to bring the triplets in for questioning. And just who hired

the characters, anyway?

ART DIRECTION

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Getting the Heroes Involved

Serving as contract killers isn’t a job for the squeaky clean

of galactic society. If the characters are rogues used to life

in the shadows, such employment may be natural for them.

Or perhaps some misadventure on the Perlemian has left

them with a need for quick credits outweighing any anxi-

eties about where those credits come from.

More upright citizens could be on assignment from an

intelligence agency, or on a clandestine military mission.

While the Osajis aren’t Hutt-level crime lords, they’re

certainly guilty of any number of illegalities up and down

the Perlemian—reason enough for some government entity

to target them. The Alliance also might be gunning for the

Osajis: Fear of detection was always a concern for Rebel

cells, and some were aggressive in moving against any who

threatened to sell out their secrets. Or perhaps the charac-

ters have some personal score to settle with the Osajis.

In any event, the characters ﬁnd themselves conducting a

clandestine rendezvous in a shadowport cantina in the

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Colonies, with the thrum of departing starships loud

enough to drown out any number of dirty deals and

double-crosses going down over the mugs of Lomin ale.

TIRAHNN

Prologue: Meeting on Shulstine V

Don’t read the italicized text below out loud to the players

word for word. Instead, use it as a reference. During the

cantina meeting, the heroes need to learn the information

given by their mysterious employer, but they should be

allowed to interact with the scene as well.

Planet Type: Terrestrial

Climate: Warm

Terrain: Plains, forests, mountains

Atmosphere: Breathable

Gravity: Standard

Diameter: 22,100 km

Length of Day: 28 standard hours

Length of Year: 272 standard days

Sentient Species: Human, many alien species

Languages: Basic

Population: 9 billion

Species Mix: 60% Human, 40% other

Government: Mercantile oligarchy

Major Exports: Luxury items, agricultural goods

Major Imports: Many

System/Star: Tirahnn

Planets

Across the table, in the dim light of what may be

Shulstine V’s sleaziest cantina, a hand hidden by a long,

cracked leather glove emerges from the voluminous cloak

shrouding the man who’s hired you. The hand holds a

holoprojector: a twist to the base and three small columns

of blue-tinged light ﬂicker into existence, the ﬁgures

within them rotating slowly.

“The Osaji triplets,” the man says. Actually, the speaker

might not be a man—a vocoder distorts the voice into an

electronic buzz. But even through that buzz, you’re certain

you recognize hatred.

The ﬁngers dance over the holoprojector’s controls and

one column of light expands as the others dissipate into

nothingness. The man rendered by the hologram is tall and

thin, his head bald and pale above a black military jump-

suit.

“Osaji Varane,” the voice buzzes. “Your ﬁrst target. An

Imperial sniper in his youth, or so they say. Today he

fancies himself a merchant prince on Tirahnn. Usually

never leaves The Heights, but my agents say he’ll be at

street level. Apparently, he doesn’t trust his employees to

keep the credit chips honest at the Great Tirahnn Fair. I

expect you to make that a fatal mistake.”

Another ﬂick of the leather-clad ﬁngers, and Varane is

replaced by a hulk of a man in a simple white shift, his

dark hair tied back in a ponytail. One of his hands is a

cylinder of metal ringed with a halo of spinning tools.

“Osaji Uhares,” the voice says. “Droid researcher. He’s

dropped out of sight, but Varane will know where he is.

Make sure he tells you before he dies.”

A third twist of the ﬁngers and Uhares disappears, only

to be replaced by a blank outline of a man.

“Osaji Hux,” the voice mutters. “No one knows what he

looks like, or where he is, but they say he’s the boss since

the old man wound up looking down a DL-44. Hux and

Varane don’t get along, they say, and communicate only

through Uhares. Find Uhares and you’ll ﬁnd Hux. When

you ﬁnd Hux, kill him.”

A last snap of the wrist and the holoprojector goes

dark. The hand slaps it and a credit chip down on the

table between you before vanishing back into the cloak.

“Each of the brothers wears a pendant with a green

stone around his neck—a hideous family affectation. Bring

the three pendants here in a month’s time and you’ll be

paid. Sixty thousand credits—10,000 up front on that

chip, and the rest on delivery.

“Cross me, and there’s no rock in the galaxy I won’t

turn over to ﬁnd you.”

Type

Moons

Marjune

Barren

Tirahnn

Terrestrial

Kirian

Terrestrial

Ijol

Gas giant

Kes

Frozen rock

Tirahnn is the sector capital of the Zeemacht Cluster, a knot of stars

that is home to a number of ancient spacefaring species. Tirahnn’s

bazaars have been famous for millennia, and the summer-long

Great Tirahnn Fair draws crowds from throughout the galaxy. (Both

“summer” and “fair” are relative terms on Tirahnn, where the

weather is mild year-round and even the smallest village is built

around a bazaar.)

The precincts of the planet’s largest city, also known as Tirahnn,

stretch for hundreds of miles in all directions and are divided into a

multitude of levels. Street level is a lively place of endless bazaars

separated by warrens given over to craftsbeings’ shops and neigh-

borhoods. The higher you go in Tirahnn’s emerald skies, the richer

the residents get: The merchant princes who rule the planet work

in skyscrapers rising kilometers above the ground and, after work,

descend only slightly to their palatial home towers in the Heights.

Some of Tirahnn’s elite boast that their feet haven’t touched the

ground in decades.

Despite having been inhabited for eons, large swaths of Tirahnn

remain countryside, with forests and farmers’ ﬁelds alternating

with small settlements.

Scene 1: Osaji Varane

Tirahnn is a trade world on the Perlemian where dealmaking

is an ancient art. Osaji Varane is one of the planet’s elite,

and he normally conducts his business from Tirahnn’s

vertiginous spires. But the Great Tirahnn Fair—and his

reﬂexive distrust of his own employees—leads Varane down

to the rough-and-tumble precincts of street level.

The characters really have two missions on Tirahnn: kill

Varane and ﬁnd out the location of Uhares. If the characters

act precipitously, they may succeed at the ﬁrst only to fail

at the second.

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Varane can be found from early morning until late evening

within a crowded casbah of stalls run by Osaji-backed

merchants. Seemingly everything—greelwood, pirisi sepul-

cher stones, mardinu hides, succulent gufta roots, and

more—is for sale in the casbah, and Varane likes to wander

the stalls quizzing merchants about their wares and

performing spot checks on their books. He is attended by

ﬁve bodyguards (treat each as Thug 2), but they’re more

used to fending off supplicants than assailants and aren’t

particularly wary.

The characters can spend hours tailing Varane and

observing him at relative close quarters. The Osaji merchants

will certainly notice them if they’re around for more than a

day or so, but the natives are busy and will accept any half-

decent cover story. Even cursory observations (DC 10 Spot

check) will reveal that Varane is never more than a few

meters from a thin Duro taking notes on a datapad. This is

Harn, his personal secretary and keeper of his secrets—

including where Uhares is hiding.

27/17; Atk +6 melee (2d10+3, vibro-ax or 1d8+3, claw/bite)

or +2 ranged (3d8, heavy blaster); SQ Fearless, scent; SV

Fort +6, Ref +0, Will +0, +4 against fear; SZ L; Face/Reach

2 m by 2 m/4 m; FP 0; DSP 0; Rep +1; Str 16, Dex 9, Con

17, Int 11, Wis 8, Cha 8. Challenge Code C.

Equipment: Heavy blaster, vibro-ax.

Skills: Intimidate +9, Knowledge (Ragna III) +6, Repair

+6, Read/Write Yuzz, Speak Basic, Speak Yuzz, Treat

Injury +5.

Feats: Armor Proﬁciency (Light), Cleave, Improved

Initiative, Point Blank Shot, Power Attack, Weapon Group

Proﬁciency (blaster pistols, blaster riﬂes, heavy weapons,

simple weapons, vibro weapons).

Stormtroopers? Here?

One sight at street level will startle everyone: A sextet of

white-armored stormtroopers and a black-clad Imperial

lieutenant moving briskly and conﬁdently through the

crowd, pulling shoppers and merchants aside for hurried

interrogations. The Empire’s hand usually rests lightly on

Tirahnn, with Imperials making occasional visits to what-

ever merchant prince bears the honorary title of governor.

At this point in the adventure, the stormtroopers should be

used for dramatic effect, perhaps showing up just as the

characters make their getaway. The heroes will run into

them again.

Eyes in the Sky

Law enforcement on Tirahnn is somewhat casual: It’s

impossible to prevent petty crimes in a bazaar the size of

some countries, and no rich Tirahnnite goes far without

armed retainers. The credit-strapped district prefects rely on

airborne spy eyes to track suspects, but the drones are old

and frequently malfunction—something any Tirahnnite

knows. A DC 25 Computer Use check from any public termi-

nal will allow the characters to tap into the spy-eye net, and

a DC 30 Computer Use check will let them take control of

an individual unit.

Bagging Varane

Most anything except serious military hardware is for sale

in Tirahnn’s precincts: Allow the characters access to most

anything they want in crafting a plan to hit Varane. While

even a frontal assault may work on Varane’s ill-prepared

guards, the key is to capture Harn alive and spirit him

away. Ten rounds after an assault begins on Varane and his

party, 12 more Osaji toughs (treat each as Thug 2) rush to

the scene.

Harn is a competent employee, but not particularly brave:

If he fears bodily harm, he quickly surrenders the codes to

his encrypted datapad. (Otherwise, a DC 30 Computer Use

check is needed.) It may not take much: Harn knows that

Uhares is holed up on Centares, having paid the ﬁxer Merl

to ﬁnd him a hidey-hole. If the characters kill his boss, Harn

sees little reason to risk his life keeping secrets.

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“Stand Thou Aside, Grubbers!”

Tirahnn is a popular stop for rich offworlders seeking

bargains and the thrill of rubbing elbows at street level. Tan

Dicium is one of them, except that this jaded princeling

from Sifuchi can think of few things more horrifying than

rubbing elbows with anybody. Dicium is attended by four

Yuzzem who bark a single warning at anyone in their

master’s path before shouldering the unwary aside.

Objections bring forth axes, which Dicium loves to see

employed. The characters may run into Dicium and his

muscle at the worst possible time.

Tan Dicium: Male Human Noble 4; Init 0; Defense 13 (+3

class); Spd 10 m; VP/WP 17/10; Atk +3 melee (1d4, knife)

or +3 ranged (3d4, hold-out blaster); SQ Coordinate +1,

favor +2, inspire conﬁdence, resource access; SV Fort +1,

Ref +2, Will +3; SZ M; FP 0; DSP 3; Rep +5; Str 10, Dex 10,

Con 10, Int 13, Wis 9, Cha 13. Challenge Code C.

Equipment: Hold-out blaster, knife, comlink, encrypted

datapad (DC 30), credit chip (17,250 credits), space yacht

( Ryntail ).

Skills: Appraise +8, Diplomacy +8, Entertain (ode) +8,

Gamble +8, Knowledge (Core Worlds) +8, Ride +7, Sense

Motive +6.

Feats: Fame, Trick, Weapon Group Proﬁciency (blaster

pistols, simple weapons).

Osaji Varane: Male Human Noble 3/Scoundrel 4; Init +1;

Defense 15 (+6 class, +1 Dex, -2 multiclass); Spd 10 m;

VP/WP 24/11; Atk +5 melee (1d4, knife) or +6/+1 ranged

(3d6, blaster pistol); SQ Favor +4, illicit barter, inspire conﬁ-

dence, lucky 1/day, precise attack, resource access; SV Fort

+2, Ref +7, Will +5; SZ M; FP 0; DSP 0; Rep +6; Str 11, Dex

12, Con 11, Int 15, Wis 12, Cha 15. Challenge Code D.

Equipment: Blaster pistol, knife, comlink, credit chip

(7,110 credits).

Skills: Appraise +11, Bluff +15, Computer Use +8,

Diplomacy +14, Gather Information +15, Knowledge

(Tirahnn) +11, Profession (Trader) +12, Sense Motive +8,

Speak Duro, Speak Herglic, Speak Huttese, Speak Twi’lek,

Spot +11.

Feats: Inﬂuence, Skill Emphasis (Bluff), Skill Emphasis

(Sense Motive), Trustworthy, Weapon Group Proﬁciency

(blaster pistols, simple weapons).

4 Yuzzem Guards: Male Yuzzem Soldier 3; Init +4;

Defense 12 (+4 class, -1 Dex, -1 size); Spd 10 m; VP/WP

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Scene 2: Osaji Uhares

The characters’ next stop is Centares, in the Maldrood sector on

the outer edge of the Mid Rim. Centares’ largest city and

biggest spaceport is Muracie; Merl’s cantina is a dive in Old

Town, an ancient, largely lawless welter of narrow streets and

stone buildings that hunkers in the shadow of the docking bays.

CENTARES

Planet Type: Terrestrial

Climate: Temperate

Terrain: Plains, mountains, urban

Atmosphere: Breathable

Gravity: Standard

Diameter: 17,900 km

Length of Day: 22 standard hours

Length of Year: 402 standard days

Sentient Species: Human

Languages: Basic

Population: 1 billion

Species Mix: 85% Human, 15% other

Government: Imperial Governor

Major Exports: Industrial goods

Major Imports: Luxury items, foodstuffs

System/Star: Centares

Planets

Meeting at Merl’s

Merl is a bearded Human who favors garish robes and

matching skullcaps; he can generally be found behind the

bar, serving drinks and making shadowy deals. (If desired,

use the cantina ﬂoor plan in the Galactic Campaign Guide .)

Merl’s enforcers, Uri and Glocken, are quick to draw blasters

if anyone threatens their boss.

Despite such protection, Merl hasn’t lived as long as he has

by taking unnecessary risks. The cantina owner makes a good

business arranging hiding places for the desperate, delivering

rations to them, and keeping his mouth shut. But if anyone

shows up making pointed inquiries, it’s not his fault—and the

Osajis’ instructions about who may or may not come calling

for Uhares were decidedly vague. A good enough perform-

ance (DC 20 Bluff check) will convince him that one of the

characters is an Osaji emissary. Lower the DC to 15 if the

character has Harn’s datapad, with its entries about Merl and

expenditures approved for “the Centares unit.”

Should subtlety fail the characters, there’s always the

physical route. If the characters have the presence of mind to

ask and Merl fears for his life, he reveals that messages from

Uhares are sent to Tirahnn and to a planetoid in the

Colundra sector. Note that if Merl believes the characters are

Osaji emissaries, such questions alert him that he’s been had.

He knows nothing of the feud between Varane and Hux.

Type

Moons

Filo

Gas giant

Ussuis

Toxic ocean

Liotch

Asteroid belt

—

Centares

Terrestrial

Qasqi

Gas giant

Nizon

Barren

Ithoon

Barren

Far Qasqi

Gas giant

In the last days of the Old Republic, Centares billed itself as “the

jewel of the Mid Rim” and was a common destination for traders

and tourists alike. But that was before the Empire remade it into a

factory world, tapping its plentiful lava beds and strip-mining its

verdant prairies. A decade of exploitation left Centares polluted and

disheveled; with its resources ﬁnally exhausted, the Empire moved

on and left behind a dingy trade world, distinguished from dozens

of others on the Perlemian only by a once-proud history.

Centares has struggled to rebound, and now calls itself the last

civilized stop before the wild and woolly Outer Rim. The planet still

has teeming cities and busy spaceports, none more so than

Muracie, but it’s been a generation since tourists came to the

world. Perhaps no spot is sadder than Rubyﬂame Lake, once

famous for shallow, crystalline waters warmed by subterranean

lava beds and tinged red by suspended silica. Those waters retain

their color, but are now clouded by foul-smelling pollutants strong

enough to dissolve ﬂesh in minutes, and the lake’s elegant guest

towers are abandoned.

Merl: Male Human Diplomat 6; Init 0; Defense 12 (+2

class); Spd 10 m; VP/WP 0/11; Atk +3 melee (1d4, knife) or

+3 ranged (3d6, blaster pistol); SV Fort +2, Ref +2, Will +6;

SZ M; FP 0; DSP 0; Rep +2; Str 10, Dex 10, Con 11, Int 14,

Wis 13, Cha 11. Challenge Code B.

Equipment: Blaster pistol, knife, comlink, credit chip (550

credits). Mobquet Overracer speeder bike.

Skills: Bluff +9, Computer Use +5, Diplomacy +14,

Gather Information +13, Knowledge (Centares) +9, Sense

Motive +10, Speak Duro, Speak Gotal, Speak Twi’lek.

Feats: Skill Emphasis (Diplomacy), Skill Emphasis (Gather

Information), Trustworthy, Weapon Group Proﬁciency

(blaster pistols).

Uri: Male Gotal Thug 5; Init +5; Defense 13 (+2 class, +1

Dex); Spd 10 m; VP/WP 0/13; Atk +4 melee (2d6+1, vibrob-

lade) or +4 ranged (3d8, heavy blaster pistol); SQ Energy

reading, low-light vision, uncanny dodge; SV Fort +5, Ref

+2, Will +1; SZ M; FP 0; DSP 0; Rep +1; Str 12, Dex 13,

Con 13, Int 11, Wis 10, Cha 12. Challenge Code B.

Equipment: Heavy blaster pistol, vibroblade, comlink,

credit chip (350 credits).

Skills: Climb +2, Intimidate +10, Knowledge (Centares)

+2, Profession (Bodyguard) +5, Read/Write Gotal, Speak

Gotal, Speak Sakiyan.

Feats: Improved Initiative, Weapon Group Proﬁciency

(blaster pistols, simple weapons, vibro weapons).

Glocken: Male Sakiyan Scoundrel 7; Init +3; Defense 18

(+5 class, +3 Dex); Spd 10 m; VP/WP 29/10; Atk +6 melee

(1d6+1, baton) or +8 ranged (3d8, heavy blaster pistol), +9

ranged within 10 m (3d8+1, heavy blaster pistol); SQ

Darkvision, illicit barter, lightning reﬂexes, lucky 2/day,

precise attack +1; SV Fort +2, Ref +10, Will +2; SZ M; FP 0;

DSP 2; Rep +2; Str 12, Dex 16, Con 10, Int 11, Wis 10, Cha

11. Challenge Code D.

Equipment: Heavy blaster pistol, baton, comlink, data-

pad, credit chip (2,310 credits), all-temperature clock,

electrobinoculars.

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