Star Wars RPG - beginnings - engagement beyond Mygeeto

Having had some very good RPG experience of late, I had decided to try and create one in the Star Wars universe, with the players taking the roles of Jedi. I tried to combine a normal questing party style RPG with a more tactical game, the players fighting on the ground, but also commanding fleets and armies. We have a big game planned, but as we could not assemble the whole party today, we decided to test out the game.

 

The Clone Wars have been raging for nearly two years, and the Republic's clone forces are again on the offensive. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine has declared the triad of evil, three planets key to Separatist operations which the Republican forces are to focus on capturing. One of these, the outer rim world of Mygeeto, a place of crystals and storms, has been put to siege and blockade by the Republic.
Since the fall of Muunilist, their homeworld, in the early stages of the Galactic civil war, the Intergalactic Banking Clan, key members of the Separatist league, has taken up residence on one of their colony world, Mygeeto.
On the ground General Ki-Adi-Mundi, a Cerean Jedi Master, is leading the Galactic marines in an assault on Mygeeto's fortress cities, while beyond the atmosphere, Admiral Dubreton, a human Jedi Master of the Naboo, commands the tight blockade of the world.

Seeing the approach of a fleet of separatist blockade runners, he has dispatched two of the Jedi knights under his command, General B, a Wookiee knight, and General A, a Nautolan knight, with three venator class star destroyers to investigate and engage.
Their mission: to destroy the Lucrehulk class battle ship, which is doubtless carrying a large droid army, by shutting down its droid brain, and gathering information.

Both fleets approached, B taking the left flank, A the right. Towards them came each a Banking clan frigate with two light craft. As they came near the frigates launched their compliments of droid fighters, vulture droids and trifighters. In response A and B exited their star destroyers in their Starfighters with half of their ships' Arc170 fighter squadrons.

Both fleets engaged. The fighters engaged in a grand dogfight, with the rest of all the star destroyers' Arc170 squadrons exiting to join the fight. Having suffered broadsides from two sides one of the Banking clan light craft exploded when A strafed it's engines, blowing the entire thing up and sending his fighter spinning through space.
On the otherside of the action B, diving through two swarms of trifighters managed to land his Starfighter in the hanger of the nearest Banking Clan frigate.

He exited his fighter and, supported by his faithful astromech droid I-AN, fought his way deep inside the frigate. But after fighting his way through a host of battle droids he was surrounded by Super Battle droids and Security battle droids, shot in the foot, then shot in the hand and forced to drop his lightsabre. A droid picked it up and he was covered by their blasters before he could get it back. The droids marched him, captured, to the bridgehead.

Meanwhile A had crashed his smoking fighter into the hanger of the other Banking Clan frigate, right as the central star destroyer had moved to board it, and the ship's clones were fighting their way on board. A blasted all the security droids surrounding him into the barrels of fuel nearby, while his astromech droid, N1-M8, used his jets to ignite the oil and destroy all the droids in a ball of fire. Fighting off the newly arrived super battle droids, A ran through to the hanger where the clones were boarding. Once they had despatched all the battle droids, only 4 clones remained, as the frigate had managed to stop any more boarders by putting up its hanger shields.

On the otherside of the battle B was now in the bridgehead surrounded by droids. He was brought before a tall robed Muun, clearly commanding operations from the bridgehead.
"Ah Jedi!" sneered the Muun, "Watch your fleet fall!" there seemed no way out for B
However just then the nearby star destroyer opened fire with its gun turrets, hitting the frigate just below the bridgehead. The frigate shook, and in the bridgehead the droids were thrown across the room, giving B the perfect opportunity to recover his lightsabre. With his weapon back in his uninjured hand B leaped across the bundled droids and grabbed the startled Muun up. Dashing back to the door with him before the droids could stop him, the wookiee hurled his lightsabre at the glass window of the bridgehead, while I-AN started to close the door. B tried to pull his lightsabre back with the force, but the vacuum, pulling all the droids from the room, dragged his lightsabre out as well. Lightsabreless, but still with his astromech droid and now his prisoner, B dashed back towards the hanger.

Meanwhile the Arc170 fighters had cleared up all of the droids, while three of the separatists four light craft had also been blown up. However the stardestroyers had taken their own hits, various cannons knocked out, but most critically a swarm of trifighters, with their cannons and buzzdroids, had severely damaged the engines of the central star destroyer and it was at risk of conflagration.

A had found his way up to the bridgehead of the frigate which the clones had boarded, but all but one of the clones had been killed on their way up there. Arriving at the bridgehead, they found super battle droids and security droids exiting it. They destroyed them all and entered the bridgehead, but it was deserted. Looking to take control of the ship and perhaps pilot it into the separatist battleship. However in their search the clone trooper suddenly saw that the windows of the bridgehead were covered in mynocks which would break the glass at any moment. They left the bridgehead just in time as the next moment the glass broke and the room was filled with mynocks and vacuum.
They decided to head for the observation tower, containing the secondary control room. Discovering that two of the frigates escape pods had already been launched, A imagined that the sentient crew must have already left, taking control of the ship would not be too hard then.

Meanwhile the central star destroyer, its clones unable to break through the frigate's hanger shield, broke from the engagement and headed for the battleship.
The other frigate was very badly damaged, having come under fire from both the left flank star destroyer and the separatist light craft (no doubt warned of the commander's fall). With the damage to its steering, armour and bridgehead  making it vulnerable, and a final shot to its engines making it dangerous, B decided to head for the escape pods, rather than back to his fighter in the hanger.

A had now reached the observation tower, and found it surrounded by the usual compliment of battle droids. Hacking his way through them he was greeted by another Muun, perhaps the frigate's commander, but as he hacked and slashed his way through the super battle droids, lobbing a couple of clones' detonators, the Muun, quickly descended via a lift shaft, and soon A saw another escape pod launching. The controls had been damaged by his detonators, but with the help of N1 he was able to turn the frigate in the Battleship's direction.

The central star destroyer, overheating its engines, suddenly found its engines and bridgehead consumed, and then the rest of the ship. It exploded damaging all the surrounding vessels and ripping apart several droid fighters. With one of the frigates in enemy hands, and the other spiralling out of control, and with two star destroyers approaching it, the battleship launched its compliment of droid fighters, swarms of vulture droids and trifighters.
Heading again for the star destroyers two swarms of trifighters succeeded in taking out the left flank one's engines and bridgehead, and then its secondary control room, putting the ship out of action and making it dangerously unstable. B also succeeded in launching an escape pod, himself, his prisoner and astromech droid on board. Just after ejecting the frigate blew up.
Two of the three escape pods from the other frigate had also arrived safely at the battleship. However the third had been blown up by a broadside from the nearby stardestroyer.

The frigate's explosion had a knock on effect, hitting the nearby star destroyer in its engine and sending a conflagration through the ship. Luckily the Clones within had taken the precaution of evacuating the ship just before that, and their cloud of escape pods jetted away from the explosion, which had taken a good deal of droid fighters down, but not before some of them had had the chance to gun down some of the escape pods. The explosion had also damaged the frigate A was in, so rather than continuing piloting it, he sprinted to the escape pods with the surviving clone trooper, ejecting just before the frigate also exploded. These explosions also combined to blow up the last light craft, and so the space through which the last star destroyer approached was filled with debris, wreckage and escape pods.

B landed on the last star destroyer just as it made contact with the battleship, and joined its clone company as they boarded the great droid control ship. Meanwhile the clone escape pods had also landed on the battleship, and the majority of the surviving clones were now making their way through the battleship. With A landing on the other side of the battleship with his clone trooper and astromech, the two Jedi made their way towards the droid brain and bridgehead.
B and his clones found themselves cut off when the door behind them closed and their were fired on by turrets mounted in the ceiling. All but one of the clones were gunned down before B managed to take the turrets out. They journeyed on into the battleship's belly.

Fighting his way through the security droids and super battle droids, A at last met up with B, but in the corridor that they met they were assailed by more super battle droids and security droids and all but A's one long surviving trooper were gunned down before they had cleared the path. The two with their two astromech droids and clone troopers headed up to the bridge

Arriving at the brigde, they looked over the railings to see the droid brain. They dispatched their astromechs to disable to brain.
Suddenly they were greeted with ranks of super battle droids, security battle droids, and a horde of battle droids, who gunned down both the surviving clones. Working together to throw the super battle droids against the security droids and then over each other, they took out the super battle droids, and then B pulled the security droids onto A's lightsabre, while they worked to deflect the many shots, however they were too much, and B was again wounded by a shot.
They systematically destroyed the remaining battle droids, but in the confusion the Muun at their centre dashed for the escape pods. A dashed after him, but B caught him before he could close his pod, knocking him out with one great blow.

With the bridgehead cleared, they tried contacting their astromech droids, but there was no answer, they tried several more times, but then a patrol of super battle droids appeared, confirming that the astromechs had not yet succeeded to deactivating the droid brain.
Spotting a comlink in the Muun's hand, A quickly spoke down it - claiming that the jedi had been taken care of. the super battle droids ahead of them stopped in their tracks. With the super battle droids taken care of, they rushed back to find their astromech droids. Looking over the balustrade, they saw them, surrounded by super battle droids.
They jumped down and fought them, but the super battle droids proved harder than expected, and two managed to wind the jedi before finally being cut down. With the astromech droids released they at last managed to deactivate the droid brain, and thus the droid army, but it took them awhile and by the time they had, the clones later reported, an escape pod had already left the battleship, heading back into space...

to be continued!