Episode 3.08: Kanter's War, Chapter 17
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Episode 3.08: Kanter’s War, Chapter 17
It is a time of turmoil in the Freedworlds Republic. Their struggle for freedom has taken a dark turn. Combined pirate forces of the Black Sun's DREAD LEAGUE and their leader, FLEETMASTER GIL TILLES, strike the outer settlements across Chalcedon. The survivors struggle to survive. Slowly, the fragile Freedworlds Republic supply lines dwindle.
In hopes to strike back against the new threat of the Black Sun's combined pirate force, Chancellor Kanter secretly dispatches the Heroes of Chalcedon to locate the hidden Dread League base. Once there, cripple the pirate’s new super-weapons before they are turned against the last settlements of Chalcedon.
Little do the heroes know that the Dread League has secretly been working on a project for the nefarious Almon D’Joy and his dark master, Sargon the Merciless. A project, once complete, could spread ruin across the face of Chalcedon.
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The attacks against the Freedworlds have subsided into a full system war. Black Sun and their allies launch surgical strikes against the rag-tag forces of the Freedworlds Republic. In return, the ingenuity of the Republic has kept the conflict at a dangerous stalemate.
On Chalcedon, the heroes regroup to get their bearing. Looming over them are the ghosts of problem’s past:
They have recently returned from a successful mission to broker an alliance between the Vorbaize Pirate clan and the Freedworlds Republic. A mission that sent them hurtling head-first against the secret operations of the Tilles pirate clan to sabotage the Republic’s weapons donated by the Freedworlds’ ally, the Bareesh Kajidic from Hutt Space.
Once derailing Clan Tilles operation to sabotage weapons using enslaved moisture farmers, the heroes returned to Port Etmar wher they hoped to get some rest. Meanwhile, Sir Davish Tam and one of former member so Clan Tilles fly the freed moisture farmers back home.
But another problem surfaced…
Information reached Port Etmar that the far flung settlement of Chausid Station on the coast of the Piterra Wastes dust ocean has been overrun. The Killian Pirate Clan, long time allies to Clan Tilles, captured the town and the Freedworlds forces there. All due to the defender’s weapons having been sabotaged by Clan Tilles.
To prevent the Freedworlds from having to stretch their thin resources to the breaking point, the heroes join forces with their long time allies, Razak’s Roughnecks, to free Chausid Station. Together, they flew to Chausid Station to sneak into the town and capture the pirate raid leader.
Things weren’t as described once they arrived…
The Killian pirate clan had not overrun Chausid Station but only part of it. An armed force of locals, with an allied pirate gang, held the other half of town. It was a deadly stalemate with the heroes in the middle.
With some work, and quick alliances, the heroes smoked out the Killian Pirate Clan from the Station’s Council Chamber and the primary maintenance shop. In the process, they uncovered that the Killian Pirate Clan possibly had dealings with a mysterious person who gave them plans to altered Sith battle armor and Sith war machines.
Despite that and more, the heroes managed to subdue the pirate raid leaders and free Chausid Station. They returned to Port Etmar for two weeks of rest and recuperation.
But then, something unusual happened…
A call from Commander Erenn Baize, sends the heroes into hidden chambers beneath the Stiydear Estate. There the heroes find previously lost and damaged Jedi holocrons and other artifacts in a hidden room with help from the Sisters of the Steel Rose, also known as the Sisters of Battle.
They also ran directly into a corrupt sect of the B’omarr Order. A collection of monks trapped in a hive mind set up by Almon D’Joy!
Fighting their way through the ancient underground ruins and warrens, the heroes manage to dismantle the evil Concord Mentats controlling the hive. This frees the trapped B’omarr monks.
That left the corrupt page of the Tenocron Codex.
The page wasn’t without it’s own defenses. It sealed two of the heroes in Sith Devastator Armor with the intent to turn them against their companions. But the skill and cunning of the heroes, along with the sudden appearance of a portal to the mysterious dimension of the World Between Worlds, allowed them to survive.
With the Concord in custody, and the surviving B’omarr monks working with the Freedworlds and the Sisters of the Steel Rose to make amends, the heroes returned to Port Etmar to recuperate.
But there are questions that still remain…
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