Star Wars - Dark Aftermath

While planning the finale of the Dark Trooper campaign I already knew that during this extensive, ambitious and complex adventure I would never have enough time to close down all of the still loose threads of sideplots in a meaningful and coherent form that was satisfying for my players and me. That’s why I already included an “aftermath-plan” into my post campaign planning. I tried to imagine what the galaxy after the finale could look like and what kind of adventures would be possible there.

Well, it all came down differently. The finale saw some surprising player actions and brought along some insight so that the first aftermath-episode was a direct consequence to some actions from the finale. This immediately inspired episode 2 since I always wanted to do a one-shot and explore how player characters could act as part of the empire, instead of against it.

Unfortunately, at that point I was hit by the devastating criticism of one player who very much disliked my finale and was very vocal about it. I needed some time and distance to cope with everything that was said and so the whole schedule of adventures got pushed back a bit. When I finally got back to do episode 2 and the players seemed to love it I decided to put my old adventure journals to good use and borrowed the idea for an interesting scenario from it, making this episode 3.

For episode 4 I took another loose thread from the finale and the first part of the adventure revolved around one of my regular player’s character. For part 2 it was combined with the leftovers of episode 1 and in turn had enough material that spawned a new campaign: “Shadow Invasion”.