After Outbound Flight, and before the fall of the Republic

Survivors of Outbound Flight: Thus far. Outbound Flight launched on its 10 year mission without argument and its hand picked crew on schedule to cruise part of the known galaxy before entering the unknown region. On its way out Jorus started to act more and more abusive of his powers aboard the vessel. He began choosing children to be instructed in the Jedi arts long after they should have been taken in the past. Instead of taking the child before its 2^nd birth day away from the family before they could know them, they were taken at ages such as 12 years. Families aboard the ships began to argue and revolt verbally against the Jedi contingent hoping to regain their children from the now legal protectors. Jorus believed that to survive into the next era against the trade federation and have the man power to continue on he would need to train Jedi during the 10 year mission and come back with a large enough force to rebuild the Jedi order if needed.

Unfortunately for Jorus C’boath and the rest of the Jedi the mission was destined to be sabotaged well before it was even a dream. Under command of Darth Sidious several Trade Federation ships made an agreement with a captain from the Chiss Expansion Fleet to stop the mission and destroy the ships completely. The Chiss captain known as Thrawn planned to let the expedition fleet leave the region as long as they did not enter the Chiss space. This offer, as generous as it was since he did plan to destroy the Trade Federation ships if they disagreed, was still not accepted by Jorus. At that moment very few saw his fall to the dark side of the force, but it was unmistakable to be a fall. Jorus attempted to kill Thrawn by choking him thru the force and over the distance of the ships. The Chiss attack was swift.

Also present at this same battle was a large group of ships belonging to a pirate race who the Chiss captain also decided to destroy in the same move. All tactics planned by the Chiss mastermind succeeded without error. All contingency plans succeeded even with the Chiss captain Thawn not planning for the powers of a desperate Jedi turned dark. The Vagari (pirate race) fleet was destroyed along with the Trade Federation ships and outbound Flight. Or at least it was believed to be. After a final move of detonating a radio active bomb inside of the massive Dreadnaughts the cruisers lay dormant for several hours. Little is known how some did survive but they did and managed to quickly fly the group of 6 Dreadnaught ships and the supply pod out of the area and enter hyperspace not knowing where they were going or if they would even survive the journey.

During the initial battle some of the more intelligent passengers of the expedition did manage to escape the attack on smaller transports and jump to hyperspace before being destroyed by the massive fleet. Out of 50,000 only a handful were able to escape back to the republic and now 236 republic citizens are lost in the unknown regions, alive but scared. You are one of these people, may the force be with you.

Notes to know

1. During the expedition Jorus C’boath was experimenting with an old Jedi power known as the Battle Meld. This power did fail them during the attack since too many students were involved. This has caused the surviving Jedi to be able to know the difference between any other person and an Outbound Flighter when using the Force to sense them.
2. All 50,000 occupants of Outbound Flight were chosen by Jorus himself and every person chosen had some potential with the force. Meaning all were force sensitive.
3. Chiss, so far as you all have found, are very territorial and xenophobic. This, along with the superior tactics that was witnessed by the crew, makes most just want to stay away.
4. Vagari are a nomadic race that do not have a world of there own, but instead leech off of planets, ships and fleets that they attack. They also use a form of organic shields with there ships. It is more psychological than energy based. The captive races of planets and ships are placed into blisters on the surface of their ships to try and deter opposing ships from firing and killing the captives.
5. The main party, during the searching for survivors found an extremely old manufacturing platform that held several capitol scale warships, fighters, battle droids, and ancient knowledge not seen in thousands of years. All of it radiating dark side energies and seems to even feed on the same energy for power. This same platform was at the bottom of the ocean when found and had suffered no damage. Until the hero’s decided to take a cruiser and destroy the platform to prevent the Chiss, Vagari, Ssi-Ruuk, and even the republic from obtaining such power.
6. When using the ancient cruiser the party found the technology to be not only unreal but also improbable and dangerous. While in hyperspace all people would experience extreme nightmares and night terrors that felt as if the dark side would be influencing them completely. What was found is that the only way to block them out is if the occupants would place themselves in a hibernation trance to blank out the mind so that the dark side wouldn’t be able to influence the thoughts.
7. After wondering the unknown regions the party using the cruiser to travel with the now larger group of survivors they had stumbled upon a system like no other. They managed to find a solar system that included 19 completely separate planets orbiting a single white dwarf sun. Surrounding each of these planets are numerous moons of all shapes and sizes. On each moon and planet all of the gravity is perfect standard levels. Each of these planets has been terriformed for habitation repeatedly as each one will slowly revert back to its original conditions if left unchecked.
8. This super system is governed by a federation of planets that controls everything including the freedom of its inhabitants. What has been found is that all races in the unknown region are completely xenophobic and these humans are no exception. The unfortunate thing is that this super system is also the home of hundreds of alien races that are even found within the known republic. None within the federation or the alien races know anything regarding the republic or the true home worlds. All races seem to believe that this is where they all originated.
9. The federation has controlled the alien races and made them into the slaves of the humans of the system. All aliens have been slaves to this government and its people for so long that even the wookies have accepted their places as subservient slaves of the people. The closer the planet is to the center, or core, of the system the more presence the federation will have over the moon or planet, and even in some areas the space around them.
10. The current technology level within the federation has allowed them to travel from planet to planet but has kept them from being able to explore more distant systems, or even contact the republic. Having access to a hyperdrive is a major edge against any of the powers that be here.
11. Ssi Ruuk. Militaristic saurian race that powers their technology with the life force of sentient beings. Have a powerbase and powerful ships. Also have a comatose and possibly crazy outbound flighter
12. Feds recently starting a push to geneticly breed/engineer the alien races to be more subservient and specialized for given tasks.
13. The gathered survivors are currently based outside the super system where they are reworking the Sith ship into a sort of mobile town.
14. Also recovered from the ancient construction platform was the lost shard of Revan’s conciousness.
15. On the super system of planets and moons our heroes discover that they are not the only republic