A Totally Legitimate Timeline

Star Wars: Edge of the Empire
Game Status
Campaign Concluded
Player XP
1000
Ships
The Flaming Cantina Layout · Cargo · Modifications Bad Part of Town Cosmopolitan · Martini · The Shot
Owners
Bacta Max · Jarash · Jax Bauer Merick Tel · "Red" · Zael
NPC Crew
Gwynnel and Jessiel
Droids
BS7-SAMI · S1-R1 R2-R9 · 41-VEX · AC Security Cookie · W-11e · Bric & Brac
The Kids
Yote Reynard · Kerrimapia and Jowdrrl
Allies
Nell Davengatt · Wookie Engineers Walker, Sector Ranger · Tooga the Hutt
Contacts
Jabba the Hutt · Kaltho the Hutt Aris Shen · Jedi Master Elaiza Chief Ereen · Honest Cal
Enemies
Agent Los · Bounty Hunter Haj
Former Enemies
Teemo & Co · Inquisitor An'ya Fell
References
Crew Obligations · Crew Duty House Rules · Adventure Log

The crew of Flaming Cantina began in mid-2012 with characters intended to get a feel for the new Fantasy Flight system. We eventually decided to keep our characters and rotate GMs to a longer campaign.

Kickstarter

Planets and Systems Visited

• Tatooine
• Ryloth
• Geonosis

The future founders of the Totally Legitimate Company and crew of The Flaming Cantina are brought together by fate and mutual need.

Escape from Mos Shutta

Desperate to get off Tatooine and in trouble with Teemo the Hutt, Red, Jax, Zael and Kashel hatch a plan with the aid of the droid S1-R1 to steal the light freighter Krayt Fang from the Hutt's number one goon, Trax. During the course of the attempt, they inadvertently steal BS7-SAMI, as well as recuing Merick and Bacta Max from the bounty hunter's holding cells. Fleeing the planet in their stolen, underfueled transport, the group head to the only planet in the navicomputer that's also in range -- Ryloth.

Long Arm of the Hutt

Having escaped from Mos Shutta, a newly formed crew bound by being wanted by Teemo the Hutt try to map out their next steps.

Part 1: Rugged Road to The Ryll Mines

Arriving on Ryloth, the group connects with a local resistance group while they try and lay low and figure out how to pull the tracker off of their stolen freighter. The resistance group agrees to aide them in exchange for assistance in conducting a destructive raid on a slave-operated mining facility controlled by none other than Teemo the Hutt.

Part 2: Geonosian Negotiation

After fixing their freighter they discover Teemo has been negotiating with Geonosian weapons dealers, and head to Geonosis to convince the weapons dealers to aid them. Foiling Teemo's negotiations for Battle Droids, they learn of Teemo's familial connection to Jabba, and manage to get themselves shipped to Teemo's palace as battle droid parts.

Part 3: Return to Mos Shutta

Within the palace they find proof that Teemo means to betray Jabba. After rescuing 41-VEX they relay this information to Jabba who imprisons his cousin. But in the final chase Jax reveals his Jedi powers to the Hutt, forcing him to find his own way back to the crew (with the help of Red) on the Krayt Fang 2, and driving Kashel to join Trex's crew in the hunt for our heroes...

Totally Legitimate

Planets and Systems Visited

• Cholganna
• Raxus Prime
• Farmos (Kessel Run)
• Unnamed Planet
• Kuat

The first year of the T.L.C. proved to be particularly dynamic, seeing the further expansion of both the ship's crew and the company assets. As the company officers settle into their new positions, secrets are revealed.

Beyond the Rim

When new rumors add credence to old smugglers’ tales of a long-lost Separatist treasure ship, it’s time for a handful of intrepid explorers, scrappy smugglers, and cunning academics to fire up their hyperdrive and embark upon a fantastic journey to the farthest regions of the galaxy.

Awaiting the Ship

The team have sold both the Krayt Fang and the Krayt Fang II, as well as spent nearly all of their savings to create a clean company with clean bill of ownership on a clean, legally acquired starship. But not all is quiet as they await the slow grind of the legal process.

Trouble Brewing

Starved for cargo, the team have been taking what they can find, which eventually leads them to Farmos, the "finish line" of the Kessel Run. There a damaged droid and a worried Rodian lead cause them to get tangled with a local crime lord. They track him to his asteroid base before infiltrating it, killing him and making off with his cargo and load-lifter droids, Bric and Brac.

Anything for a Price

A visit to a world where justice is bought and paid for, Zael is mistaken for Han Solo, and an inquisitor is embarrased by confusing Red for Chewie.

Death, Dirt, and the Nerf Rancher's Daughter

Promised some credits and a new ship in exchange for hauling a load of fresh frozen nerf steaks, the crew of the Cantina are sent to a small agri-world to pick up said cargo. However a nebula causes their hyperdrive to short out, a crashed ship unleashes a horde of silvered Skekfish (more commonly known as "knife fish"), a cantina is burned down, and the crew escape with the daughter of the head Nerf Rancher, Nell Davengatt. Oh, and they got the cargo.

Legitimate Troubles

Planets and Systems Visited

• Kuat
• Dac
• Unnamed Jungle Planet
• Unnamed Ocean Planet
• Tatooine
• Unnamed Planet (Home of ISB Agent)

Framed

A job offer from an old friend turns out to be from an old enemy, who is one step ahead of the inevitable double cross. Tracking him to Kuat, the crew of the Cantina finds itself framed for the theft of a Lancer Frigate intended for Inquisitor An'ya Fell.

The Search for Captain Zael

The crew of the Flaming Cantina turn to finding their missing crew member and shipmate, Zael after he was taken from them at Kuat.

Part 1: The Rock

It is a dark time in the galaxy. The founders of TOTALLY LEGITIMATE BUSINESS INCORPORATED have narrowly escaped the wrath of an IMPERIAL INQUISITOR, with a group of wookiee slaves and notably RED'S children. However, they left a companion behind in CAPTAIN TRAX'S claws.

CAPTAIN ZAEL is now lost to TOTALLY LEGITIMATE BUSINESS INC. and they now must track down their comrade before it is too late...

Part 2: The Ocean Tide

The stalwart crew of the FLAMING CANTINA in their search for their lost captain, have stumbled upon another of TRAX'S dastardly schemes. And it will take place upon a Mon Calamari luxury cruise liner, the OCEAN TIDE, owned by the nefarious JABBA THE HUTT.

What TRAX intends with the OCEAN TIDE is unknown, but the crew know that it cannot be good. They are now on the way to the Mon Calamari homeworld of DAC for the OCEAN TIDE'S maiden voyage to confront TRAX and retrieve the location of ZAEL.

But will they stop TRAX in time? Wll they rescue CAPTAIN ZAEL? Will the GM stop robbing movies for plot ideas?

Part 3: Red in Tooth and Claw

The Team has finally arrived at the last known location for CAPTAIN ZAEL, an unknown jungle planet in Wild Space. But they are not the only ones searching for him.

AGENT LOS, of Imperial Intelligence is also after the Captain for reasons unknown. But the only thing known is that ZAEL is on the planet below, and THE Z-TEAM... I mean, the operators of TOTALLY LEGITIMATE BUSINESS INCORPORATED have their task set before them!

However, an alternate interest in the crew is not far behind...

Return to Kuat

Back on Kuat to retrieve the Cantina, the Inquisitor is aquiring new ships for her personal use. Her sister the Kuati manager is less happy with the matter. Her 10-year-old nephew could care less as long as he gets to shoot things.

None are Safe from a Hutt's Revenge

In need of a new hyperdrive the crew finds Jabba has one, with an offer they cannot refuse. His offer is simple, he has tracked down the home planet and family of the ISB agent and they simply have to find or forge evidence that they are traitors to the empire. With a cargo of exotic fish as cover the evidence is planted, but in the process they inadvertently impersonate a rebel spy, and shatter his cover by being arrested. After a daring escape from authorities (without being properly identified) the crew returns to their ship to find a rebel cell trying to take over, believing the crew's actions to be sinister actions of imperial agents. The confrontation ends in a standoff with a familiar face at the head of the cell, Mu Nanb, a Sullustan Merick dropped a drink on at a meeting with arms dealers back in the Long Arm of the Hutt.

Compound Interest

Planets and Systems Visited

• Naboo
• Deadspace, Katana Fleet member
• Unnamed Planet, home of Force Sensitive surivalists
• Unnamed Planet, high-gravity, Force Nexus planet
• Cloud City, Bespin
• Nar Shadda
• Gavos

The Package

A routine visit to TLB's Naboo HQ turns into a three way battle to save a Carbonite-frozen Nell Davingaat while hunted by both the Bounty Hunter's guild, and IG-88 himself.

The Majestic

Due to a well-plotted hyperspace calculation by S1-R1, the Cantina emerges from lightspeed directly in the path of a Dreadnought-class Heavy Cruiser. The cruiser is found to be part of the Katana fleet, and the group attempts to discover what happened. Turns out that the onboard AI went rogue, slaughtered everyone inside using security droids and hyped out. Trouble came when they awoke the AI from it's stasis...

Shattered Minds

Short on work the crews takes on a job to transport a dangerous droid to IG-88 for a tidy sum, and to convince the droid to cease hunting of the TLB crew. To reach their destination they are forced to skirt the edge of a black hole, and recognize a coded signal from a nearby planets that matches an entry from the Jedi crystal database. The crew decides to leave a team on the planet to seek out the signal, while the rest of the crew continues on to their destination. On the planet they find the crashed remains of a Paraxeum ship that natives have considered sacred. Earning a semblance of trust from the natives, the team undergoes an initiation ritual that earns them some lightsaber cryatals. Finally they are shown to the most sacred site, the bridge on which the skeletal remains of a Jedi master, moments away from completing a Holocron that would preserve his life's work, lie frozen by the force in his final position. Jax tries to help finish the Holocron, but the arrival of the Inquisitor on the edge of the black hole shatters his concentration, leaving the Holocron flawed but complete. Meanwhile the rest of the crew find that the droid they were transporting was the insane body shifting AI that once controlled the Majestic of the Katana fleet. Thanks to the dangers of the black hole the Inquisitor is only able to intercept with a brief barrage of torpedoes, and a wing of the cutting edge Tie Interceptor, but this proves disastrous for the Imperials due to clever maneuvers and the inescapable maw of the black hole.

Showdown

With the Imperials in hot pursuit, our heroes lead them to an ancient sanctuary world, where geodes deaden the Dark Side of the Force. The Inquisitor defeated, Teemo appeased, and a new lure to the Dark Side offered.

The Jewel of Yavin

An old flame contacts Merick with a tantalizing offer: help steal the Jewel of Yavin and bilk its bidders at the same time for the score of a lifetime.

Part 1: Odds and Opportunity

Meeting up Aris Shen, the crew are introduced to her father, the mastermind of the caper. They learn of the Jewel of Yavin's auction and all the key players as well as a Cloud Car race that guarantees the winner's access to the auction as guests. There is plenty of snooping, meddling, and preparing. However, things go awry as Jax is spotted meeting a woman and disappears, followed shortly by Zael just before the Cloud Car race.

Part 2: The Greatest Caper

With Merick promoted as the new pilot and Red taking over as engineer and co-pilot, the Cantina crew manage to finish first in a spectacular finish that guarantees their place in Cloud City gambling history. (Many bettors lost money as a result.) The auction for the Jewel of Yavin is held and the crew meddles to try and bump up the price with Kaltho the Hutt eventually winning. With a short window to steal the gem, the crew then heads to the museum where it is kept. The evening guard arrangements require a noisy distraction, but in the end, the Jewel of Yavin is theirs.

Part 3: Escape to the Clouds

With the Jewel of Yavin in tow, the crew dodge the museum guards and head to a secluded landing pad to escape. However, they are betrayed by the caper's mastermind. Instead of an escape craft, they are met with a hit squad. After dealing with the assassins, they escape into Cloud City only to find that their names and images have been floated as the thieves and are being hunted by the Cloud Guard. They order the Cantina to flee while they make alternative arrangements off Cloud City. Merick contacts Aris Shen about her father's betrayal, something she was told about. She gives them a lift to Nar Shaddaa where they contact Kaltho the Hutt and sell the Jewel of Yavin to him. They find out that Greyson, the Jewel's original owner, was forced to pay the Hutt back and suffer the Jewel's loss and is burning to find the crew.

Debts to Pay

While cooling their heels on Nar Shaddaa waiting for the Cantina to arrive from Ryloth, the crew is summoned by Kaltho the Hutt. Kaltho informs the crew that he running interference with Grayson for their role in stealing the Jewel of Yavin and uses this 'favor' as leverage for the crew to perform a survey of his newly acquired mining facility. The company discovers that not only is the mine in much worse condition then the Hutt was told, they've arrived in the midst of a murderous droid revolt. Quick thinking and careful management allow the company to save the mine and most of the miners. In the end, while not pleased with the mine, Kaltho is again impressed by the thoroughness and unparalleled success of the Cantina crew.

A Legitimate Cause

Planets and Systems Visited

• Unnamed Systems used for handoffs
• Froz
• Hoth
• Unnamed Settled Planet with Imperial Holonet Listening Post
• Nar Shaddaa
• Nyriaan

The Hoth Missions

Hoth: Special Delivery

Totally Legitimate Company is approached by United Shipping about performing the middle portion of a smuggling run, picking up a "dropped" Wayfarer cargo pod and conveying it to a small commercial port near the end of the Corellian Trade Spine. Unfortunately for our heroes, the Imperials caught wind of the shipment and are waiting to spring a trap, forcing the Flaming Cantina to recover the cargo pod under the fire of an Imperial Star Destroyer. Leaking hyper fuel, the Flaming Cantina limps to the burning, bombarded world of Froz to lay low and attempt repairs. The repair proves easy, but the group must scour the city and brave feral service droids to locate a store of fuel with which to refill the tank, finally locating the reserves at a small, high class spaceport that had escaped the worst of the damage. Totally Legitimate Company finishes the delivery in the nick of time, only to find themselves evading another trap. Willing to risk secrecy for the high value cargo they carry, the Rebellion instead leads the Flaming Cantina directly to the Echo Base on the ice world of Hoth.

Hoth: Echo Base

With the Flaming Cantina in horrific condition after two running combats, the crew settle in to spend the next two weeks pulling the ship apart in the Rebellion's Echo Base repair bay. There they meet up again with Jax, who had met up with another Hoth convoy after fleeing Mustifar and are introduced to Ereen, Chief of Supply Services. While the mechanics oversee the repairs of the ship, Max and Jax make themselves useful in the base hospital, S1R1 lends his massive intellect to alliance command, and Jarash hunts wampas with rebel sweeping teams. The peaceful, if cold, downtime is interrupted first by the disappearance of Commander Skywalker, than by the arrival of an Imperial Probe Droid that leads to the evacuation of Echo Base. Thanks to Jax's premonitions, the team convinces Ereen to step up the evacuation speed and the rebels are in a much better position when the Empire arrives. The Battle of Hoth insues, our heroes fighting to buy the rebels time and, at the last minute, rescue the trapped Ereen and escape the blockaded planet.

The Flaming Cantina and her crew successfully arrived the ice world of Hoth, the latest secret base of the Rebel Alliance. They land with a barely-functional ship to deliver a key component to the planetary ion laser cannon intended for defense against an Imperial Fleet. The next two weeks are spent bringing the ship back up to space worthiness, consuming a great deal of their reward money to replace armor plating and burned out systems from dodging multiple Imperial blockades.

The crew finds Jax already at Hoth base, having dodged two Inquisitors who discovered him at Mustafar. Zael hangs out with Rogue Squadron and develops a rapport. Red and Merick help out the Alliance engineers in retrofitting snowspeeders to adapt to the freezing cold temperatures.

Meanwhile, Max and Jax volunteer at the hospital; as only the second M.D. in the base, Max is quickly tapped for his medical expertise, which includes defrosting a badly injured Commander Skywalker, who was rescued overnight by Commander Solo. (The crew remark that Solo looks remarkably like Zael.) When Solo discovers an Imperial Probe Droid that self-destructed rather than be captured, General Veers orders a base evacuation. The plan is to do it in five days, but Max Foresees danger within a day. Sure enough, Death Squadron, Darth Vader's personal fleet, arrives in system and begins assault of Echo Base.

While Max organizes a massive triage organization while trying to ensure everyone in the hospital, the ground soldiers rush to man incomplete ground defenses against AT-ATs, AT-STs, and Snowtroopers. The Flaming Cantina picks up a cargo pod and drops it off at an undersized landing bay and waits for it to be filled with equipment and/or personnel. In the meanwhile, everyone but Jax joins the fight to hold off the advancing Imperial army from Echo base. Merick, Jarash, Red, and Jax join the trenches, cutting a noticable figure among the otherwise uniformed soldiers. Jax and Merick engage Snowtroopers at extreme range thanks to their enhanced blaster rifles, while Jax demonstrates his Jedi training once the enemies move in closer. Despite dealing with a platoon of Snowtroopers (and an AT-ST) on their own, the Imperial assault is simply too powerful so the crew retreats back to the Flaming Cantina and heads to Echo base to pick up Max and the cargo pod.

Back at Echo Base, Max receives a distress call from Chief Ereen, the operations head of the Alliance who is trapped at the base cantina. The crew lands and hurries to relieve the Alliance members of the Cantina only to run into Darth Vader and his 501st Stormtroopers on the way out. They quickly find a detour and fight through a final squad before rendezvousing with the last of Rogue Squadron. As one of the last transports out, the Flaming Cantina receives a fighter escort of two X-Wings. In space, they spot a YT-1300 performing deft maneuvers and nearly getting three Imperial Star Destroyers to collide just before they hyperspace out to meet the rest of the retreating Alliance forces.

Hoth: Snowball's Chance

The heroes of TLB, having made their escape from Hoth carrying a valuable members of the alliance staff including the Chief of Support Services, attempt to continue on to the rendezvous point only to discover that a faulty hyperdrive motivator is preventing them from making a second jump. After concluding repairs hidden in a nearby asteroid, the team make it to the rendezvous point late only to discover a debris field and a pair of waiting Imperial Gozantis waiting for them. They rescue the survivors and make good on their own escape, only to return to the seemingly safe harbor of Bespin. Cautiously avoiding cloud city (mostly), they gathered parts and supplies and learned from Ereen that the destroyed GR-75 had been carrying a critical deionizer for the back-up base, one that needed a year's worth of data to calibrate correctly. Thankfully, a copy of the data should still exist in the original laboratory on Hoth. Counting on Vader not to leave to many of his elite troops behind and sharing Ereen's concern over the current condition of the Rebel communications system, the team snuck back into Echo base through a back tunnel and recovered the data. Using intelligence recovered along with the calibrations, the team then makes a daring plan to infiltrate an Imperial listening post by posing as droning safety-supplies deliverers. The ruse is successful, and a falsified Black Project request is put through for a new deionizer.

The Perfect Storm

As the Rebellion pieces together its shattered organization after Hoth, the TLB crew are approached by Rebel Intelligence to investigate a Mid-Rim mining world named Nyriaan. This planet's unique atmosphere conditions make landings extremely hazardous and its similarity to 5251977, the Rebel Alliance's new HQ world. In addition to this weather phenomenon, Nyriaan was one of the few non-Imperial-controlled planets where madilon was mined; the Corporate Sector Authority (CSA) had control of the world. A small amount of this mineral allowed hyperspace drives to be nearly ten times smaller than non-madilon drives.

Rebel Intelligence was represent to arrange smuggling routes of madilon out to the Rebellion for use in its ships. However, when word came back of a CSA project to "fix" the turbulent atmosphere through a sudden and catastrophic precipitation that would wipe out most indigenous life, the Alliance sent a second agent to follow up. However, just before the Battle of Hoth, both agents accused the other of selling out to the CSA, then went silent.

The TLB crew was sent in posing as miners to investigate the disappearance of the agents and to find out anything about this CSA project.

Unnamed Episode

Future episode by Ben.

It's Only A Little Favor

Adventure Pending - Karen