Star Wars_ Edge of the Empire Rule Book

ADVENTURE SUMMARY

The main plot of the adventure deals with the Player
Characters coming to learn about the existence of
Bandin Dobah and the trouble he is causing for the
ragtag community of smugglers and fringers who
make a living on Formos. They also discover that he
has a sizable bounty on his head.
The first part of the adventure deals with describing
the Formos Spaceport and discussing some of the rea-
sons the PCs might visit it. Important areas and locations
are described. There are some optional encounters that
the CM can employ to give a little extra life to the sur-
roundings or develop into side plots should he wish to.
The adventure really begins when the PCs decide
to visit the local cantina. On their way, they discover a
battered droid, wrecked beyond repair with only a few
dwindling signs of function left. He is able to tell the PCs
that a friend of his has been abducted, apparently on
the orders of a local smuggling boss. At the cantina, the
PCs learn more about the smuggler, a violent Aqualish
named Bandin Dobah. They find out about the bounty
on his head, and they may become entangled in a brawl.
Whether the PCs intend it to or not, the brawl es-
calates into a violent confrontation with Daro Blunt, a
smuggler who works as part of a network connected
to Dobah. The PCs may find their way to Blunt's safe
house, where they are able to recover the missing droid.
Several clues lead the PCs into discovering Dobah's
whereabouts, and help from NPCs and the promise of
reward should encourage the PCs to hunt him down.
This leads to a confrontation on a large asteroid within
the Kessel Run itself, and the PCs could further enrich
themselves by recovering contraband.
If the PCs refuse to bring the smuggler to justice,
Dobah nevertheless decides that they present a
threat and comes looking for them.
Should the PCs prevail, all that remains to them is to
collect their reward, which could lead to a tense encoun-
ter with agents of the Empire or an ambitious Hutt.

GET THE PCS INVOLVED

In order to set the events of this scenario into motion,

the PCs travel to the Formos Spaceport and make their

way to a local cantina. As the adventuring party is likely

to include characters who are at home within the gal-

axy's underworld, this should be no great challenge.

The best way to come up with a reason as to why the

PCs are heading to the cantina is to consider the various

Obligations they are under, then to utilize these in explain-

ing why the PCs are headed to Formos in the first place.

As an example, a Smuggler PC might owe an Obliga-

tion to one of his contacts who has asked him to meet

with someone in the cantina to facilitate the transfer of

contraband. A Bounty Hunter PC might need to go to

the cantina to meet someone who owes him credits, or

may already be on the trail of smugglers in the area.

Other thieves or criminals could be on the run and flee

to Formos to escape Imperial or planetary justice (as

law enforcement on the planet is exceedingly lax).

If the party is newly created, perhaps their backstory

could take into account the fact that they have assembled

in the Formos Spaceport (which is exactly the sort of law-

less frontier territory in which such characters might meet).

At the end of the day, the cantina is one of the few

places on the planet where you can buy food and drink,

so the PCs are sure to gravitate there given enough time.

THE FORMOS SPACEPORT

Formos is a forbidding world with few inhabitants. The

climate is arid and much of the world is forbidding

rocky desert shrouded by dusty, dark clouds. Were it

not for its position at the junction of busy hyperspace

routes, it is unlikely that anyone would choose to live

there. While it is a terrestrial planet with a breathable

atmosphere and standard gravity, life does not flour-

ish upon the world's dry surface. The only settlement

of note is a hardscrabble spaceport with a reputation

for shady deals and rough customers. The inhabitants

of the Formos Spaceport are mostly human, though

the place is quite cosmopolitan and many of the major

spacefaring species can be found making a home here.

Despite its grim reputation, the Formos Spaceport is

famed among the smuggling community. It lies at the

far end of the Kessel Run, a narrow corridor of navi-

gable space that snakes between the asteroid fields

and black hole clusters that separate Formos from the

prison planet Kessel. After the Kessel Run terminates

in an asteroid-filled nebula known as the Pit, most pi-

lots proceed to Formos to link up with more defined

hyperspace lanes to reach the wider galaxy. The mines

of Kessel produce one of the most lucrative spices in

the galaxy. This is glitterstim, a narcotic reported to in-

duce a telepathic high in those who use it.

The Kessel Run is a risky route that must be made

partially in hyperspace and partially in real space, and

those who undertake it must evade constant Imperial

patrols and dangerous black hole clusters. The smug-

glers who make the run, while they may be ruthless

criminals in actual fact, have gained a reputation for

defiant heroism in those quarters of the galaxy op-

posed to the rule of the Empire.

Ultimately, there are two sides to life in the Formos

Spaceport. On the one hand, it is a violent and lawless

place, and on the other it is an icon to freedom fight-

ers. In such a place idealistic rebels, alien refugees, and

manumitted droids rub shoulders with fugitive psycho-

paths and gangsters. The Empire has little presence on

TROUBLE BREWING

EDCE OF THE EMPIRE