ADVERSARIES
"Bounty hunters. We don't need their scum."
-Admiral PiettT
he galaxy is an almost incomprehensibly vast place,
with more variety than any one being can hope to
experience and appreciate during a lifetime. There
are thousands'upon thousands of inhabitable worlds,
filled with hundreds of thousands of intelligent spe-
cies of every imaginable shape and size. If there is any
portion of the galaxy that is free from conflict, how-
ever, no one has yet discovered it.
No matter what manner of being takes to the
stars in search of adventure, profit, or escape, there
are always obstacles to be overcome and, in a great
many cases, those obstacles take the form of ene-
mies who seek to bar the adventurer's path for one
reason or another.
There are three different levels of opponents that
characters will readily encounter in the galaxy, with
different levels of threat'posed to the average group
of scoundrels .and rogues. Although some variation is
to be expected, the broad categories include minions,
rivals, and nemeses.MINIONS
Minions are the most common NPCs encountered
in the Star Wars universe. These are nameless in-
dividuals who provide muscle to flesh out encoun-
ters. Their only real threat is in numbers, and" a
minion is not expected to stand toe-to-toe with a
Player Character.
.Minions are typically not real threats when encoun-
tered alone. Unfortunately, they are almost never en-
countered alone, but instead tend to operate in small
groups to increase their effectiveness. Minions will
rarely be more than a minor obstacle to most par-
ties of characters, a delaying tactic that can stand
in the way of achieving a goal that a more powerful'
enemy wishes to see prevented. .Minions also have
lower wound thresholds.than other NPCs, making it
very likely they'll drop in one or two hits.
GMs can use minions as adversaries either as individu-
als or in groups. However, unless the minion has relevant
characteristics of three or higher, individual minions areADVERSARIES
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