* Sirsee: A bounty hunter Shanna Toarinar stows aboard Imperial
Lamba-class shuttle Tydirium from Calamari to the Tech Analysis Station.
She sneaks through the air vents and access corridors, and
single-handedly defeats stromtroopers in gunfights. She discovers the
prototype A-wing in a small launch bay and manages to steal it,
commandeering it into Tierfon, bringing with her the schematics of the
T-65C-ER Extended Range X-wing, hardwired into the fighter's
navicomputer.
* Shanna meets with Drew and becomes his first recruit for the
Strikeforce.
* Tiree, a rebel recruitment agent, heads fot Bothan's Planet, a Bothan
lidium mining colony world, to rendezvous with the new recruits.
2. Rebel Breakout
* Bothan's Planet : the pirate Phoenix Avalon, bounty hunter Ace Browning
Crossfire, self-proclaimed Jedi Ben One-Howel, an alien Force Student
Phix, the Revwien, and mercenary Yoat Den, meet in Mesa 291, an
abandoned lidium mine to meet Tiree. But Imperial Security Bureau Major
Mar Barezz breaks Tiree's cover leaving Tiree's astromech driod R2-DO@
Deo to contact the recruits. Deo gives them weapons and supplies for
their journey through the mines towards their escape crafts. The company
are attacked by mynocks, fired upon by blaster cannons, get caught in
cave-in as they are dogged by Barezz's stormtroopers. During an attempt
to descent to the next level through the mine's dropshaft over a blazing
plasma firestorm, Barezz personally attacks. The ISB agent gets injured
seriously in the firefight. They reach the mesaside cave where Tiree is
lying wounded by the three Koensayr BTL-S3 Y-wing fighters. They climb
aboard with Tiree and Deo, and fly out of the mine evading fire from
oncoming Imperial All-Terrain Armoured Transports. Deo links their
navicomps together and jumps to lightspeed for Tierfon.
* Tierfon : Tiree is given medical aid. Another self-proclaimed Jedi Jon
Dean arrives. Phoenix, Ace, Ben and Jon enlists in the strikeforce.
3. Snow Job
* Enroute to a scouting mission on Engira, transport Parabolic Arc
piloted by Phoenix, Ace, and Jon crashes on the ice planet Kendell.
* Kendell : Salvaging their supplies, they trek towars a rebel outpost
nearby. To speed up their movements, they capture several tautauns.
First they encounter the remains of a surveillance outpost recently
destroyed by blaster fire. Their fears are realised when an Imperial
All-Terrain Scout Transport approaches from the direction of the
outpost. Jon plays dead. The AT-ST comes to investigate. Phoenix and
Ace ambush the walker's drivers, climbing up the walker and overpowering
them. They free the tauntauns and drive the scout walker towards the
outpost. Indeed, it has been invaded by Imperial forces. Using guile,
they sneak across the snow and find a back door into the stronghold.
They steal spaceworthy X-wings and return to Tierfon to report the fall
of the Kendell outpost.
* Enteague Minor : The new Enteague outpost is completed with the help of
the local Drangs and Hortis, replacing Kendell outpost as the main rebel
fortress of the sector. The Alliance allocates three freighters for the
stirkeforce's use : Nexus Point, a SoroSuub AV-99, Fallen Angel a
Corellian Turbocarrier, and Lost Exile a Mon Cal MC4E Jump freighter.
Drew, Shanna, Ace, Ben and Jon relocates to the new mountain base. And
the STRIKEFORCE ENTEAGUE is officially brought to operational status.
4 The Test of Truth
* The entire team tranports an unknown passenger aboard the Nexus Point
to the Anoat system. En route, their hyperdrive cuts out and they are
mysteriously drawn towards an uncharted planet.
* Zarligrenor : Upon landing they discover their powered equipment
including their ship and blasters and comlinks do not function. And
their passanger has disappeared . Ben and Jon sense a strong disturbance
in the Force on the planet. They befriend a local alien species, the
tree-like Shovansha, who claim to have witnessed an old human leaving
the Point after landing, heading for the Forbidden Notch which leads
outside of the Tornluc Crater. A young Shovansha named Jorann volunteers
to guide them to seek out their missing passenger. He tells them the
world is called Zarligrenor. At the first leg of their journey, they
outrun pain phantasms. Tentacles from the ground attack them at Gorge
Pass outside the Notch. A towering lave creature, a Magmaran, tries
to smash them at the lava river crossing. And Gorgorans, winged, gaunt,
and demonic looking creatures swarm them at a cliff leading up to
Rig'hroghk the Pain of Boulders. A rock-like species, the H'roghk, agree
to help them. They have seen a human heading towards the Steel Tower,
home of the tyrannical Dark Keeper. Vulakhnar the H'roghk accompanies
the search party. They sneak to the tower, evading fire from a working
autocannon, and storm the Dark Side-tainted structure. Finally, they
discover the Dark Keeper is actually the Dark Lord of Sith himself :
Darth Vader. Vader strikes down Jorann and Vulakhnor with his red bladed
lightsaber. Ben finds a hidden lightsaber and battles Vader, succeeding
in defeating him. But the minor Jedi refuses to kill. Vader dissolves
into Trace Traverse... their missing passenger. He tells them that he is
a fallen Jedi and Drew has requested he test the strikeforcers for a
future danger, and they have passes with flying colours. After telling
them Zarligrenor is just an elaborate illusion, the team finds
themselves back on Nexus Point in hyperspace, minus their passenger, as
Force sensitives with partial skills.
* Enteague Minor : Drew refuses to tell them what the future danger will
be, and gives them a week's R&R. Ben names his lightsaber 'Matilda'.
They decide to rest at the corporate-urban planet Ginuvar in the same
sector.
5. The Rogue Lieutenant
* Ginuvar : Porzohal, the capital city, is located in a small forested
area known as Green Zone. The team finds a poster outside a local
security centre. Imperial Governor Jannor has placed a bounty of 3000
credits on an Imperial Army Lieutenant Shade Anghor for murder and
theft of 10 million credits. Then, Ginuvar's crime lord Harv Ironfist
offers double, in a clandestine meet in a cantina "Jaillor's Place", if
Anghor is delivered alive to him. He says Lt. Anghor can be found in a
manor on Tark's Plains on the planet Kreane in the neighbouring system.
The Nexus Point moves out.
* Kreane : They land in a clearing in Portgont Forest near a town
Flogrash where the Teel River runs through from northeast to southwest.
They head north to Tark's Plains. They discover a ring of mountains,
surrounding a small freshwater lake. On the island on the lake is
Anghor's manor. There are five stormtroopers on his payroll. They kill
one scout trooper guarding the bridgeand discover an underground hideout
in the manor's yard across the parked T-47 airspeeders. They descend
into the tunnels, make short work of the two stormtroopers, and corner
Anghor in his office, who makes a stand with a SoroSuub Q-2 hold-out
blaster. His stand ends after being stunned promptly by Shanna the
bounty hunter. They usethe airspeeder to get back to the Point, but two
remaining scout troopers commandeer one each to get the strikeforcers
but they are destroyed by Ace, who then demolishes the manor with a
thermal detonator. Back at the Point, they meet Harv Ironfist who has
come to check up on them. Shade Anghor is actually Shade Ironfist,
Harv's marauding brother. The crime boss rewards the team the 6000
credits.
* Enteague Minor : Drew finds a new recruit, a pilot by the name of
Viveede Briylee Colore. Commander Dominic recieves a distress call from
the rebel operative Derin Heightson on Beldrone. Phoenix identifies
Heightson as his childhood friend and volunteers for the rescue
mission, aided by Shanna and Viveede.
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