Star Wars

This is a free Star Wars Role-Playing based on the Over the Edge rules by Robin D. Laws et al.

It originated on the RPGnet Discussion Forum and gained so much interest that a condensation of this Discussion Thread was made.

And Brandon Blackmoor (Thundarr the Barbarian), J. Tweet, R.D. Laws (Over the Edge), Lucasfilm Ltd.

Over the Edge is a trademark of John Nephew, used without permission. Thundarr the Barbarian is Copyright © 1981 Ruby-Spears Enterprises, Inc., and is used here without permission. Star Wars is a trademark of Lucasfilm ltd and is used without permission. Any mentioning of these trademarks should not be viewed as challenge to its owners
Basic Game Concepts

Every unknown outcome is resolved with dice in a role-playing game. Most role-playing games feature Attributes (i.e. Strength), Skills (i.e. Boxing), Advantages (sixth sense) and Disadvantages (alcoholism) that influence the outcome of certain actions and give an approximation of what the player character (PC) is able to. To define the areas of expertises, lists of attributes, Skills, Advantages (and Disadvantages) are noted down on a sheet.

Swote uses a different approach. Instead a painstakingly keeping track of all the character’s abilities, this game introduces the concepts of Traits.

One Trait represents and summarizes a complete range of abilities based on what is associated with the Trait.

Example: Wedge is an excellent star fighter pilot. So, his Trait is Ace Pilot. Abilities like Piloting, Navigation, Aerial Tactics, Gunnery and more are covered with the aforementioned Trait.

Traits are indicated with a Rating that represent how many six-sided dice are rolled in a Test. Add up the results. If the sum is higher than the Target Number the action succeeds.

Example: Wedge’s Ace Pilot Trait Rating is 6d6. Flying his X-Wing he wants to follow a bounty hunter’s spaceship without being detected. The Target Number is 16. Rolling 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5 which equals 20, Wedge resolves this task successfully.

Every character has at least one Trait. More complex characters have more Traits: one Primary Trait, several Side Traits and at least one Flawed Trait. The Player Characters start with one Primary Trait, two Side Traits and one Flawed Trait (See Character Creation).

The Primary Trait comprises the character archetype, such as Ace Pilot or Jedi Knight.

The Side Traits grant further abilities to make the character more well-rounded and unique, such as Tech Whiz, but also Ace Pilot. (See Character Creation for more details.)

The Flawed Trait adds depth to the personality of the character and makes him/her more believable. Nobody is perfect.

Each Trait is further attributed with a Sign. This adds more detail and flavour and will make the character different than the masses.

Flawed Trait: Death Sticks Addiction 2d6 (Sign: Can’t do anything without them)

Additionally important characters such as PCs and major villains have a Drama Dice Pool. These can be added as bonus dice for resolving rolls. Used dice are available again in the next session (or GM’s discretion).

With a basic understanding of the Traits concept, your imagination and your Star Wars knowledge you are now able to use the following guidelines to create a character.

First you need a Character Concept. Look at the Star Wars universe for inspirations. Do you want to play a Jedi? A Bounty Hunter that strikes fear? A Wookian Warrior?

You might also come up with something new that would make a great addition to Star Wars, like a Private Investigator Dug (Sebulba).

A Player Characters starts with one Primary Trait, two Side Traits, a Flawed Trait, Hit Points, Money to buy Equipment and Plot Hooks. Additionally you have to choose a Race.

The Primary Trait is the main focus of the Character. It can be an archetype, a profession, hereditary, a way of life or something similar. What they have in common is that it is the biggest and personality- defining part in one’s life. Being a Jedi Knight is different than being a Bounty Hunter. But keep in mind that no two Jedi Knights are alike, nor are two Bounty Hunters. This uniqueness is accomplished with the inclusion of a Sign.

Example: After thinking John came up with this: The Primary Trait is Former Jedi Knight (Sign: Uses his own flexible Codex for the greater good).

Now, you have to decide what Primary Trait suits your Character. Even though the possibilities are endless, some Character types are common in Star Wars. See the Archetype Table for the most common examples.

This list is not exhaustive. If you want to play a Private Investigator in Star Wars or something else entirely, go ahead.

To refine the Primary Trait you can add attributes to make the Character more special. A noble Pirat or an amoral Aristocrat is different than just Pirat or Aristocrat. This emphasizes also the description in the Sign.

Check the Number Crunching section to determine the Rating of your Primary Trait.

Adding Side Traits customizes the Character and makes him/her more well-rounded and unique.

Some Examples: Ace Pilot (accomplishes maneuvers the engineers deemed impossible), Blaster Gunnery (if he can see it, he can hit it), Charming (ladies will get soft knees), Dealer (gets everything), Eloquence (can talk beautifully for hours without saying anything), Faster than anybody else (will win every race), Gloomy (everybody retreats and is afraid of him/her), Hear anything (no sound goes unnoticed), Force Adept (can influence the weak-minded), …

Example: John Doe’s Former Jedi Knight has to Side Traits: Eloquence (What he says sounds more important than the Word of God) and Contacts (knows everybody).

Nobody is perfect or flawless. Choose or think of a flaw that fits into the Character Concept. It should be meaningful and common.

A Character starts with one Flawed Trait. A Flawed Trait is always described with a Sign.

Some Examples: Low Self-Confidence (can’t formulate any objections), Death Stick addiction (spend all money to give into it), Greed (takes the easiest way to obtain as much money as possible), Laughs at Dangers (takes more risks than necessary).

Example: John Doe takes Computer Illiterate (erases computer memory by just looking at it).

Character are often in life threatening situations. Any resulting injuries are reflected on the Hit Points totals.

The base Hit Points for starting Characters is Primary Trait Rating x 2d6. See Number Crunching below for modifications.

The Star Wars Universe contains a myriad of different species. Aliens look not only different than humans, they might have special abilities and disadvantages. See the Alien Races chapter for details on the different Species or for guidelines creating a new one.

Credits make the galaxy go round. Roll 1d6 and multiply it with 1000 Credits or choose a special item. See the Number Crunching section below for modifying the amount of starting Money to buy Equipment. The Equipment chapter has a list of gear and prices.

Now, you jotted down your Traits and Signs, rolled up your base Hit Points, chose your Race and decided how much Money you want to spend.

The next step is to determine the different Trait Ratings, the total Hit Points and how much Credits the Character is going to receive in the end.

A beginning Character is assigned 12 Building Point. Distribute the Building Points following this outline:

4 for his Primary Trait, 2x3 for his Side Traits and 2 for two additional Hit Points dice.

Now, the Character needs a background. This helps the GM to better fit your Character in his/her campaign.

The Plot Hooks are divided into three parts: Motivation, Secret and Important Person in your Past.

The Motivation gives a reason for general behaviour of the Character and will influence his or her decisions. So, what are the goals of the Character?

A Secret is basically something you don’t want others to know. There might be a good reason for it.

An Important Person in your Past had affected the life of the Character. Who is this person and what did he/she do?

Experience

All characters start with one die in their experience pool, but this will change as time goes on.

Gaining Experience

Generally, the GM awards one experience die per worthwhile game session. On rare occasions the GM may award an extra die for outstanding role-playing, completion of a long-term goal, an ingenious player idea, and so on.

Using the Experience Pool

You can use each die in your experience pool to improve one roll per game session. The dice from your experience pool act as bonus dice. Once you use an experience die as a bonus die, you cannot use it again in that session. As you play, you can acquire more dice for your pool.

Adding and Improving Traits

If you spend experience dice to add or improve a trait, you lose those experience dice permanently (unlike using them as bonus dice).

Advancing to...	Requires...
1 die (new trait)	5 experience dice (possibly with training)
2 dice	5 experience dice
3 dice	5 experience dice
4 dice	10 experience dice + 6 to 12 months training
5 dice	15 experience dice + extensive training
6 dice	20 experience dice + a hell of a long time

Here is a mook rule:

Dramatic Characters- any character who's life or death impacts the story. Player characters, most named NPC characters, villians most certainly. Some monsters are treated as dramatic characters when appropriate. Only Dramatic characters may use the Dueling rules. Most dramatic characters are represented with a full spread of traits.

Cardstock Characters- these guys are dime a dozen, facelss, nameless mooks. They are represented only by a single trait. If they ever suffer more damage than hey have trait dice, they are taken down, killed or incapacitated. As always, victor describes how.

Whenever the Character wants to accomplish something beyond igniting the Light Sabre, ordering a drink or calling a Storm Trooper, you use the Traits.

Roll the number of dice according to your Score and total them. If the sum exceeds the Target Number, the task is successful.

When you use a trait, you roll a number of dice equal to its score (usually three dice, or four dice for your superior trait).

The typical unnamed character gets two dice each for their central and side traits. The sum of all these dice is the "roll result."

You compare your roll with a Target Number, or a roll made by the GM, usually representing a NPC's traits. You succeed if your roll result is higher than the Target Number or the GM's roll.

If the skill attempt is not terribly important, or is well within the character's abilities, then you probably don't need to roll at all.

Difficulty Factor

Task	Difficulty Factor	or	Dice to Roll
Easy	4		1
Moderate	7		2
Hard	11		3
Really difficult	14		4
Pack it in and go home	18+		5-6

Bonus Dice- rolled along with other dice, then the lowest rolled die is ditched. With multiple bonus dice, multiple lowest rolls are ditched. This means skews the bell curve in your favour.

Extra Dice- flat out dice added to your roll and to the final total.

Penalty Dice- the evil stepchild to Bonus Dice. Roll it along with your other dice, then ditch the highest.

Lost Dice- you drop dice from your pool completely before rolling.

The example is someone with a 3-die Fashion Model trait using her knowledge of make-up to construct a crude disguise. The book reccomends letting her try at 2-die(which is the standard dice OtE gives you to attempt a not-impossible or technical task that you are not skilled in, essential the human norm) plus a bonus die(as described by Bailywolf above) so if you had a 4 dice in Smuggler Cpatain and you wanted to fly a smaller ship through a treachorous and constantly shifting asteroid belt you might get 2dice with 2 bonus dice)

A relevent side trait- such as a Smuggler who is also a Ace Pilot grants bonus dice. If Han had Smuggler Captian and Ace Pilot both, he would roll his full Smuggler dice with a bonus die or two for his Ace Pilot side trait. A Wookie with "Area Fighter" as his primary and "Brutaly Strong" as his secondary would get bonus dice in combat where his physical power was relevent, but still roll the larger "Arena Fighter" dice pool.

When things get tough and the traits aren’t sufficient anymore to get the character through to the next adventure, he/she needs an extra edge. That’s where Drama Dice come in.

Drama Dice can be the gift of Lady Luck or the Force. Only named characters have access to these extra dice.

Only Force using characters can call upon the darkside actively. Only someone with the awareness of the true real and not metaphorical nature of the Dark Side can draw real power from it. Regardless of how evil and screwed up a normal character is, his Hero dice work the same. If you kill a planet work of people, you are an evil miserable bastard...but you might be a cool, intelligent, and thinking bastard who's Hero dice represent training and skill and have nothing to do with calling upon the Force.
What if every Force-sensitive begins the game with 1 Dark Die. This would represent the voice of evil that every Jedi must battle against, the slight chance of temptation that all people risk.

An advanced Jedi (4d or more) who was attuned to the will of the Force could later use a Triple Victory over temptation at a dramatic moment to 'atone' and remove even the speck of darkness from his soul.

This allows truly 'whiter-than-white' characters like Yoda to have no Dark Dice at all, but it means your average Padawan learner risks ignoring the counsel of the Force and lending his ears to the Dark Side.

I'm not sure I like this idea yet, but it could be cool. It would also make me more comfortable with getting rid of totally arbitrary GM decisions about the Dark Side.

The GM rolls her 3 Dark Dice and her player rolls her 4 Force Adept dice... she wins by a narrow margin. She succedes and they dance and gaze into each other's eyes. (A much more bellievable and classy love than that crap in Clones, mind you!).

After a wild delirious night, they end up on a balcony talking, and when the Jedi learns of her homeworld he tells her he has been there before and had ridded the planet of a despicable evil... her Dark Dice surge up again- Slay this bastard!

Dark Dice: 12
Force Adpet: 11

She surges to her feet, lashing out with the life-draining lightning her father had demonstrated so often, burning a Hero die, and sliding further to the Dark Side. Her Hero Dice now look like this: 6(2/4)

The Star Wars Universe is full of dangers and inevitably characters will be drawn into combat situations.

Whether the characters are shooting at Storm Troopers, deflecting Laser Bolts with Light Sabres, duelling the Sith Lords or having a good bar-brawl, the following guidelines are used for these situations.

Keep in mind that saying: “I hit him!” is quite boring. Tell something that provide flavour and enhance the atmosphere: “My fist rushes in the blink of an eye to his warty nose in a vain attempt to improve his looks!”

Initiative determines the order in which characters act during a combat round (circa 3 seconds).

Roll a Trait that is related to combat, agility or speed at the beginning of a combat round. If this is not applicable, roll 2d6 to determine Initiative.

To speed up (and making life easier) the GM can treat a group of mooks as one character for this purpose.

A Jedi Padawan (3d6), a smuggler (4d6) and a Bounty Hunter (5d6) are stumbling onto a Storm Troopers patrol consisting of six men (3d6). Combat is inevitable and everybody has to roll Initiative.

6 Storm Troopers (3d6): 9 (Alternatively, you can roll for each Trooper independently.)

Characters sometimes appear unexpectedly. This may be deliberate as a planned ambush or by accident. The following rules handle these and similar circumstances.

Because not every character is surprised equally, each one is treated individually.

To resolve surprise situations everybody rolls his/her combat, speed or agility Trait. Characters lying in ambush receive 2 extra dice.

Each character roll is compared to the rolls of the opposed characters. If the result is higher than that of one of the opponents, the character can take actions against this particular opponent. If it is lower, the character cannot act against this particular opponent.

The walking movement rate for human adults is 3 meters per round. Aliens may have different movement rates.

Ranged combat comprises laser weapons, primitive projectile weapons or thrown weapons.

Closed combat handles the exchange of blows with fists, feet, tails (or other body parts), swords, bottles or similar weapons.

The Light Sabre though technically a weapon for closed combat is also quite effective in ranged combat. See extra paragraph for its ranged combat treatment.

For a fight the character uses his/her combat related Trait. Not all combat related Traits are equally suited for both ranged and closed combat. For instance being strong is great when in closed combat, but mostly unnecessary when firing a laser pistol.

If there is no combat related Trait, use two dice which can only be used for attack or defence each round.

Roll the fitting Trait dice and add them together. The Attack Roll is successful if it exceeds the opponents defence roll result.

Roll a combat, agility or similar Trait. Sum them up and add any of the following Modifiers, if applicable:

Ranged Attack Defense Modifiers:

Situation	Extra Defense
Cover	1 or 2 dice
Target moving	1 die
Attacker moving	1 die
Darkness, fog, etc.	1 or 2 dice
Target dodging (not attacking at all)	2 dice

On a successful hit, subtract the defence roll result from the attack roll result to obtain the damage difference.

Each weapon features a damage factor. Multiply the damage factor with the damage difference to calculate the damage result.

Roll the armour dice (see table) subtract the result from the damage result. Any damage points left go straight to the Hit Points.

If the target of an attack is a named character, subtract the damage taken from the target's hit points. If the target is at half hit points or below, they take a penalty die on further actions. If at 0 hit points or below, the target is out of the fight. If at a level of hit points equal to the negative of their normal hit points (e.g., -21 for a character with 21 hit points), they are out of the game until the GM decides they can come back (if ever).

After a chance to rest and recuperate (maybe half an hour), a character recovers two-thirds the hit points they’ve lost from punches, kicks, and general brawling damage, and one-half the damage they've taken from weapons, magic, or other more serious attacks.

A Jedi can deflect a maximum number of laser bolts equal to result of his/her Jedi Trait dice roll.

Deflecting the laser bolt back to the attacker is limited by the Jedi Trait Rating. The attacker is allowed to make a defence roll.

Duels in Star Wars operate by nearly a different set of rules...and not just the saber crossing acrobatic battles of the Jedi, but the dog fights of rival pilots, the steely eyed gunfighting bounty hunters squaring off for a dustdown, and for the schoundrals' battles of wits and words.

If an unnamed character takes more than 7 points of damage from an attack, that character is out of the fight. If an unnamed character takes less than 7 points of damage from an attack, they ignore the damage.

Mobs- sometimes cardstock characters can be treated as a sigle unit during complex scenes. A Mob is a group of CC's acting as one. The typical dice pool of a mob member is granted an extra die based on the size of the mob.
1-10: +1
11-20: +2
21-30: +3

So a Mob of 10 3d Stormtroopers acts as a 4d Stormtrooper Mob. As individuals get killed, this reduces the Mob's bonus. Some attacks (like area of effect explosions) can take out whole mobs.

Each mob member can take damage equal to its base dice. In the above example, every 3 points of damage takes down 1 trooper.

Fly: How easy to fly and manuever. Abstracts speed, manueverability, and handling as well as control. (in combat, modifies Initiative)

Fight: How good in a fight. Abstracts combat responsiveness, electronics, toughness ect. (in combat modifies Attack and Defense)

Size: How big (determines Hull Points, modifies Fly, and determines number of targets which can be attacked in a single round).

Systems: Specific things the ship either has or does not have. Cloak, tractor beams, weapons, shields, engine enhancements etc.

Weapons

Blasters (x2 damage)
Blaster Cannons (x4 damage)
Heavy Blaster Cannons (x6 damage)

Ion Cannons (x5 stun damage)
Heavy Ion Cannons (x7 stun damage)
Fortified Ion Cannon (x10 stun damage)

Torpedoes (x10 dmaage)

Seeker Torpedoes (x5 damage; Fly 3d, Fight 3d, Size 1 [4 Hull points])
Utilities

Tractor Beams (strength relevent to ship Size)
Cloak (+3d to avoid sensors)
Sensors
HoloNet Communications
Droid Socket
Hyperdrive (normal/medium/fast)

Mods

Souped Up Engine (+1 die for Speed related rolls)
Pumped Hyperdrive (calculate twice as fast)
Enhanced Handling (+1 die for Manueverability)
Combat Upgrade (+1 die for Attack rolls)
Combat Computer (+1 die for Defense rolls)
Upgraded Sensors (+1 to sensor sweeps)
Hull Plating (+4 Hull Points)

In combat, Fly and Fight modify a pilot's rolls (they are rated from -3 to +3). Size ranks out as follows:

1 Human sized (hull points 4) [attack 1 oponent]
2 Speeder (hull points 8) [attack 1 oponents]
3 Fighter (hull points 12) [attack 2]
4 Transport (hull points 16) [attack 4]
5 Cruiser (hull points 20) [attack 10]
6 Destroyer (hull points 24) [attack 30]
7 Super Destroyer (hull points 28) [attack 100]
8 Not a Moon (hull points 32) [attack all]

The attack number above is the number of targets within range of the ship's weapons that it can attack in a single round. To keep things simple, for NPC ships roll a single Attack roll and compare it to all the targets defensive rolls. For Mook ships roll a single defensive roll and assume a number equal to the margine of success have automatricaly been destroyed.

When ships of differing Size square off, subtract the lower Size from the greater Size to determine the modifications as follows. The larger ship benifits and suffers the penalties.

Damage Reduction
1 suffers 1/2 damage -0 fly; -0 Fight
2 suffers 1/5 damage -1 fly; -0 Fight
3 suffers 1/10 damage -1 fly; -1 flght
4 suffers no damage* -2 fly; -1 fight
5 suffers no damage* -2 fly; -2 flght
6 suffers no damage* -3 fly; -2 fight
7 suffers no damage* -3 fly; -3 fight

* Unless a critical attack success is rolled. On a critical, reduce the larger ship's Size by one step for each 6 rolled when determining the result of the critical attack.
OK, Let me look at the Numbus Hawk again:

Fly: +3
Fight: -1
Size: Transport (12 hull points)
Systems:
*Fast Hyperdrive
*Blasters (x2)
*Ion Cannon (x5 stun)
*Luxury Fittings
*Souped Up Engine (+1 Speed rolls)
*Enhanced Handling (+1 Manuever rolls)

This section provides a selection of items available in the Star Wars galaxy from the Trade Federation, various black market shops or greedy trade merchants. All prices listed are average prices and may vary depending on the planet or even the playing era. Some rules regarding the use of certain items are also included.

A species may be a human-equivalent with no special advantages or disadvantages. Near humans or aliens with only cosmetic differences are just treated like humans. No special rules need be applied.

If a species has a certain advantage against a human (an UPSIDE)- stronger, faster, tougher, better senses, smarter, natural weapons, acidic spit ect- then it must be compensated with a disadvantage (DOWNSIDE). Upsides and downsides counter one to one.

The following is an example of some up- and downsides

Upsides

**Superhuman- one aspect of the species physical or mental process is superior to the typical human. Strength, speed, intelligence, sense acuity, charm, toughness. One level of Superhuman grants a bouns die, two grants an Extra die. This may be selected more than once for more than one aspect.

**Attack- the species possesses a natural attack. The damage multiple for this attack is 1+X where X is the number of levels of Attack upside the species possesses.

**Armor- the species has natural defenses which reduce damage. Each level of this upside grants a die of armor.

**Movement- the species can move in a way alien to normal humans. Wall crawling, flying, burrowing, hopping etc. The movement rate for this new mode is based on the relevent trait.

**Capacity- the species has an entirely new capacity unknown to humanity. Perhaps the ability to truly multitask, to see ultraviolet, to track by scent, to change color, to bend light so as to seem invisible. Especialy powerful capacities require two or more levels of his upside.

Downsides

**Subhuman: some mental or physical aspect of the species is inferior to humanity. Poor self control, weakness, stupidity, clumsiness. One level inflicts a penalty die, two causes the loss of a die.

**Vulnerability- one kind of attack inflicts more damage to you than other species. Add 2 to the damage multiple of such attacks.

**Dependency- you require some special substance or process to survive which humans need not concern themselves with. You may be unable to breathe a common oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere, you may need special drugs to reinforce your poor immune system, you may require basking in broad-spectrum solar radiation to digest your meals. If your dependency must be met occasionaly (weekly) this is worth 1 level, if it must be met daily 2 levels, and if you require it constantly 3 levels.

**Disability- you lack a capacity most humans enjoy by default. You may be too huge to move easily, or lack fine digits for manipulation, or be unable to smell or see.

**Constraint- you are bound by some behaviorial factor. Perhaps you must keep your word, or you obey authority figures by default, or you give your life to one who saves it. This is absolute, if you fail to play your Constraint you will loose 1 hero die per session permenatly.

OK, so let me build that Wookie

UPSIDES
Superhuman (strength) 2 (+1 extra die)
Armor 1 (1d armor)
Attack 1 (x2 crush attack)
Capacity (track by smell) 1

DOWNSIDES
Subhuman (social skills) 1 (penalty die)
Disability (can't speak other languages) 2
Constraint (Bad Loser) 1
Constraint (Wookie rage) 1

Wookie Bartender 4d (always carries flask of potent drink)
-useful for mixing drinks, bar-side psychology, relationship counseling, cracking heads, fereting out rumors, and asking questions that lead to unexpected answers.

Hold Out Blaster (3d) (wears bracers with palm-drop balsters)

Black Market Ties (3d) (always seems to "know this guy")

Flaw: Hates the Hutts- when resisting his wookie rage against the Hutts or their minions, he does so with 1 fewier dice.

Secret: Runaway slave wanted by the Hutts

Importiant Person: Anibara, who freed him from slavery and set him up with an alternate identity.

Notes- when cracking heads, he adds a die to his 4d Bartender trait for 5 dice. If he grabs an enemy wookie style, his can inflict x2 crushing damage with his bare paws. Wookies can track by scent, but he doesn't possess any traits which involve tracking or scounting, so he would use the default 2dice when trying this. Still, for a human tracking by scent is 0 dice action.

Ewoks, Trade federation droids: 2d
Gungans, storm troopers, geonosian super droids:3d
Clone troopers: 4d
Destroyer Droids (Droidikas):5d
Jedis:6d

Here is Luke in Jedi:
Jedi [4d] (wears jedi garb and epxression of calm)
Pilot Small Craft [4d] (Says things about "Begger's Canyon Back Home")
Genuine Soul [4d] (people respect and trust him) --this is a lark, I couldn't think of anything else--

Flaw: The Skywalker passion

Hit Points (30) (Jedi resilience)

Secret: Vader is his Father, Leia is his Sister

Important Person: Ben Kenobi- the man who showed him the way.

Fallen Jedi Master (6) (Looming figure of pure menace)
Aura of Dread (4) (even MORE looming)
Star Pilot (5) (Could have flown a fighter when he was just a kid...)

Hit Points: 40 (biomechanical)

Secret: He does it all for love

Important Person: Kenobi...the old man.

Gear: Sith Armor (immune to projectiles, +2d vs energy); Red Blade Light Saber (x5 damage); Super Star Destroyer.

Anibara Geb
Blind Jedi Saber Master (4d) [eyes always closed]
Investigation (3d) [turns ear to catch conversations]
Web of Contacts (3d) [people call him by name everywhere]
Force Pool: 12 (Strong in the Force)
Darkside Pool: 0 (Untouched by Passions)
Hit Points: 24 (Strength flows from the Force)
Plot Hooks: Anibara was blinded in a duel with a fellow student, a student who fell to The Dark Side. Animara lost his sight, but gained immesurably in his understanding of the force, becoming an even better swordsman. His old rival still hunders for revenge.
Motivation: To investigate any signs of darkside cults or sith activity.
Secret: He acquired a Sith holocron on one of his recent missions but chose to keep it out of curiousity- he wishes to study it to better understand his enemy...but feels dangerously curious about it as well.
Importiant Person: Argo Gunn, the student who blinded him- without the loss of his vision, his understaning of the Force would never have grown to its current hights.
Notes: Anibara is blind, but "sees" through the force. Not quite sight, but he has become a nearly peerless weidler of the light saber and his other senses have expanded to remarkable acuity.

Concept: Brin Kela, Bothan Spy

Traits:

Espionage (4d) [always seems disinterested, but hears everything]
No disintegrations (2d) [talks his way out of anything]
Sleight of hand (4d) [unconsciously twirls & flips anything he is holding]

Hit Points: 2d6 x 4, right? in that case, say 24.

Flaw: Avarice [always tries to bargain the price up]

Secret: He's showing favoritism toward the Rebel Alliance

And how about Han Solo, smuggler. (This one's easy I guess.)
4d Ace Pilot; if it can fly, he can fly it better.
3d Scoudrel's Charm.
3d Master o/t Blaster.
HP: 21
Flaw: Depends on when--conflicted loyalties?
Secret:?
Prop: M. Falcon, 6d tricked-out freighter.
Background: Smuggler/underworld contacts.

Star Wars: Dark Tide Rising

For generations, the Commonwealth has been a peaceful, prosperous realm on the far-flung edge of the galaxy. However, dark shadows threaten. The Republic has succumbed to the machinations of power-hungry men and those of the Dark Side. Now the Empire looms large, seeking to expand its reach. The Imperial ambassador to the Commonwealth demands ever more concessions.

The Commonwealth are a freedom-loving people, and have offered a safe haven to many dissidents and refugees from the Empire, most pointedly to the Galaxy's few remaining Jedi Knights, the last survivors of Darth Vader's campaign of extermination.

Tensions have reached a high-point. An Imperial Navy battle group carrying a number of Sith adepts has just crossed into Commonwealth space, heading to the capital with an ultimatum: surrender the Jedi under Commonwealth protection and accept the rule of an Imperial Governor, or suffer the worst consequences.

* * * * *

PCs will be three Jedis and their handler from Commonwealth Intelligence Service

The Azeri Protectorate

Before the rise of the Empire, the Azeri League was a loose confederation of autonomous systems astride the trade routes through the region between the Commonwealth and the Republic. Several years ago the League capitulated to the Empire's power and now the Azeri Protectorate is governed by an Imperial Moff

Until recent decades this relatively sparsely populated region was a bit wild. The combination of regular trade and the lack of a strong central authority made the place very attractive to pirates and the like. Cooperation between various local Azeri governments, mercantile concerns, and the Commonwealth eventually all but eliminated those problems, and the league was born.

Azeri reaction to the Imperial occupation has been varied. Some had no real choice but to concede; others saw it in their interestes to collaborate; many fled to the Commonwealth. However, a significant resistance movement has developed, and persists. A good portion of the League's Combined Patrol and a number of starship captains from the League's trading houses (as well as a few smugglers and even less legitimate types) managed to get their ships safely out of harm's way. They have taken up the role of privateers, harrassing the occupying forces at every opportunity. They are surruptitiously supported by the Commonwealth—a dangerous game.

Some of these raiders are exceedingly daring in their exploits, and are gaining celebrity status. One such band among them is "Kahndi's Talon," lead by Captain Rilla Kahndi, a former Azeri naval attache to the Commonwealth. A gifted tactician, quatermaster, and leader, and all-around over-achiever, she has gathered about her a small detachment of Patrol cruisers and retrofitted freighers crewed by a group of really interesting NPCs I'll come up with later. Please contribute.

Somewhere in the Protectorate will be "The Lighthouse" a gigantic non-military space station/city that was one the hub of the league and is now the Moff's capital. It will have to be infiltrated by a party of insanely brave heroes at some point, for what I'm sure will turn out to be very good reason, damn foolishness aside. I know—this will be the Big Boom later in the campaign. Destory the Empire's way important dry dock there without killing everyone else around.