Star Wars game night P. IIIFinale

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After months of a slowly developing cooperation between characters, they finally got it right; not the kind of cooperation that helps me progress a story, but the kind where you see teamwork for ruing between players and player characters.https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1LTtSjdzWLGsVLuUkSD-7cLnG3i5LNx_NWhen it comes to whether or not players will intentionally engage with the pursuit of sabotaging your game by derailing it - deliberately or otherwise - gaming is fun - with our troupe.https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1zKRTQbb9SoWB6kL_4_0SYARPa8elBOcwWhat started with only four players has become seven - no easy task - with myself as the eighth in our troup as the GM.
Latecomers enjoyed high adventure, and endured the politics of a Galaxy set against them, dealing with danger in the Galactic Empire, criminal syndicates, Rebel forces and the struggling survival of Jedi and domineering tyranny of the power of the Dark Side of the force.
Of all this, the story developed beginning with a luxury cruise ship - a galactic cruise ship - whose likeness was made from that of the titanic. His Imperial Royal Majesty’s Ship, Titan.
From there, only the inevitable could occur. The ship would hit an asteroid field and collide with an asteroid made from ice. They would escape not in a pod but in a spacious escape raft - an over large escapePod the size of a Lambda Class shuttle in the midst of a hyperspace jump. They would come out of it in the unknown regions only to discover a capital class ship, a functioning frigate, that sat in unknown space for over a hundred thousand years. The archaic ship was still a testament of technology from a people who fled their home system in a galaxy far, far away from the Star Wars galaxy.https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1gLz6L3t5YTKF2uTz4gma8n5YerFJdyEHFrom the capital class ship, to being stuck in hyperspace - unbeknownst to the troupe at first - for nineteen years, to witnessing the destruction of the first Death Star, the players fought paper-tooth-and-nail to fight of agents of every kind in a galaxy who seemed only out to destroy them.
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1ygbTebBMlO3GuWaLcHKiidPGTcEklYmJThe campaign ended where it began, aboard that selfsame ancient vessel. They faced off with an insidious darkness that fled ultimately that it may again fight another day.https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1pxA82XjEmTfvrciY4R-2S1m-hAkwo2P1The endgame brought the story to its completion. The good guys win - for now - and though they are not the Luke Skywalkers or Han Solos of game and notoriety, they are heroes in their own right.
What lies ahead? What comes next?A new campaign, a story still unspoken, and those who will meet the challenges of their next tale head on.

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