The Call to Battle

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Privyet Comrades, so this thread is a bit two fold in terms of purpose, one obviously being to discuss a plot for the Exiles preparing for the attack on Ossus, and the other to drum up volunteers for the plot itself. Anyway, onto my idea,

The Plot can be separated into several Phases, though I doubt this'll complete the set up at least it'll be a good way forward.

Phase One: The Call to Battle has been sounded and it's up to those Exiles with the proper skill, initiative, and know-how to secure the necessary resources for the planned assault on the Great Library on Ossus. Phase One will see the Exiles into Hutt Space to the moon of Nar Shaddaa (aka The Smuggler's Moon). Their mission will be centered around recruiting Mercenaries, Pirates, and anyone else willing to be the footsoldiers for the assault on the Library. Various promises will need to be made to secure support, most revolving around payment, and it will be up to the Exiles assigned to Phase One to persuade these potential assets into aiding the mission. While the main target will be a Mercenary company named "The Black Nerfs" (note this will require the creation of an NPC on my part or another's, let me know if this is alright with you all) those with enough initiative may feel free to recruit any individuals who can both supply themselves and have the proper skills to be of use during the assault (these would be Indie and Hutt Cartel PCs looking for a fight).

It is imperative that this Phase succeeds, without the extra manpower any attack on the Great Library will be made many times harder if the Exiles must go it alone.


Phase Two: If Phase One is completed then a part of the deal reached with the Black Nerfs will be to finish their current job for them. This particular job is to collect a shipment of valuable ores that is set to come into the spaceport soon. While at first this may seem an easy task the Black Nerfs have warned that this job is born out of a feud between two rival Hutts and as such the ores will be guarded by a sizable force of Hutt Cartel thugs. All we need to do is kill them and the Black Nerfs will take care of the ores themselves, simple in theory, but we'll see what practice will bring.


Phase Three: Once business is completed then Phase Three can be enacted; the infiltration of the planet Desevro. Millennia ago it used to be one of the jewels of the Honorable Union of Desevro and Tion, but the Republic, in a rare showing of strength waged war against it and defeated the Union, absorbing it and all other planets of the Union over time. Today that defeat still shows today as the once heavily urbanized planet rusts and decays, a political backwater even for an Outer Rim world. However it does have something of value to the Exiles. One Deliverer Troop Lander, fully register and tagged as a Republic vessel, an essential item that can deliver a small spearhead force right on the Great Library without being shot down.

Such a spearhead force could remove enough defenses to create an opening for the remaining Exile and Mercenary forces waiting above the planet. However, before this can be completed we must first infiltrate the planet without being detected, you will be landing in Jigani Port, the main spaceport on the planet via a commercial passenger vessel. Use whatever means are necessary to avoid being accosted by local security forces and meet together in the Cantina named "The Last Stop". Once the team is assembled the real task begins, scouting out the section of Jigani Port where the Deliverer lander is being held in the Planetary Defense section of the Port. How the team infiltrates is up to their assessment, however it is advised to attempt not to kill any individuals or be spotted during the scouting of the military docks.


Phase Four: (Note- This phase is available only to those who participated in Phase Three) Once reconnaissance is completed the infiltration team is advised to split up, find separate lodgings in the Port, and reassemble at a pre-determined location the next day. It is imperative that this location is secure for the immediate tactical planning of how to seize the troop lander for the Exiles. The infiltration team will share all relevant information gathered during the scouting expedition the night before and make a plan from there. Final preparations will be made, and the seizing of the lander will occur that night in order to maintain up to date information without requiring more scouting missions.


Phase Five: The final Phase of operations, the team will execute their plan and attempt to seize the lander. Whether this is done via an assault, infiltration, or any other means will be up to whatever plan the team agreed upon in Phase Four. Regardless the ship must be seized at all costs, and preferably with as little evidence of who took it left behind as possible. Considering the backwater status of Desevro it is unlikely that when the attack on the Great Library is initiated that the Jedi there will know about a single stolen lander from a backwater Outer Rim world of little import. (Note- This phase is available only to those who participated in Phase Three)


Anyway, feel free to add in other phase possibilities, volunteer yourself to the cause, or critique what I have so far since that's what this is for. And hopefully by the end of this discussion we'll have at least three or more threads for the plot. Thanks, hope this will be a fun and useful thread.

Volunteers:
Hesh Prospero Phases 1-5
Jabhar Darnor (Dependant)
Elias Canaan Phases 1-5
Azizullah al-Jedhi Phases 1-2 (Can perform 3-5 as well)
Reth Zerros Phases 3 & 5
Kynigos Kafalion (Indie) Phases 1-5
Zurit Kalkanone Phases 1-5
Kolas Lindo Phases 3-5 (Can perform 1-2)
Kano Taes Phases 3 & 5
Mikhail Volkov (Awaiting Approval) Phases 1-2
 
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I'd love for Hesh to take part. I'm in big agreement on thread 3, and frankly that's what my character and another have been trying to do recently on Nar Shadda.
 

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Just a suggestion

That first thread possibility could probably be stretched into a plot over multiple threads is you wanted to. It's a pretty complicated situation, so you could have one thread of sneaking onto the planet, one where you plan the heist, and one where you actually steal the ship. If it works with my timeline, I'll try to get involved too. But right now I'm neck deep in the Dark Roots path.
 

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I'm a fan of all these ideas. I personally favor thread three, considering yes, it is something that Elias and Hesh have been working on - they're trying to weave their way into Hutt Space gangs and whatnot to get into contact with the Cartels. And also, yeah - lemme be a part, yo! :D
 

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Alright, so I definitely like @Handyman ’s suggestions of stretching the first thread idea into multiple parts (I kinda like the idea of making those threads the climatic finale in a sort of GTA heist type of way), that’s pretty awesome actually. And I’m glad to see the like for idea 3 by you guys, I suppose we can’t just have everything be shooty-stabby. :P

Anyway, I’ll update the first post to show we have @Incubus and @blstrgmr as volunteers and handyman as a maybe.

If you all don’t mind I’ll also update the thread ideas, put them in an order, and give them a bit of pisazz and background detail to flesh them out a bit more.
 

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I'm very interested in thread 1 or plot 1 as it may end up. I feel my character Reth (in signature) would be great fit. I'm newer to play by post RP but no stranger to table top RP. Let me know if I can help out in any way.

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I'd love to get my Indy Merc involved with any of these.

Don't have much to add, aside from my character :P
 

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On top of hiring mercenaries for the fight, there could also be some subversion of any locals nearby. Controlling some of the populace around the Library would help both our escape and entry, since we'd be certain the only resistance would come from the Jedi. Additionally, rather than endangering ourselves with the initial breaching and such, convincing the locals to do it for us seems like a legitimate strategy.

Have the locals be meatshields/grunts and do the heavy lifting while the Exiles go after the defenders inside. Then we control both the Great Library and have the support of some of the people around to help hold it.

That being said, I'm down to participate in any threads where needed.
 

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Ok, edit made to first post, also @Painus it is unfortunate but from what I can see only the Jedi are on Ossus so there's no local population to either worry about or turn to our side. Still, was a good suggestion, but from what I see on canon information it's not something we could do.
 
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@SovietFrog Just saw the update to the original post and love the proposed threads. I think Reth would be a good fit for phases 3-5 (due to his flight experience) as well as the eventual assault itself.Just need to get him approved first.
 

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Ok, edit made to first post, also @Painus it is unfortunate but from what I can see only the Jedi are on Ossus so there's no local population to either worry about or turn to our side. Still, was a good suggestion, but from what I see on canon information it's not something we could do.
I can't seem to find anything on the site to either prove or disprove that claim. The Legends wiki says that Ossus "had a population in the hundreds of millions, inhabiting cities across the globe" (Citation), while the Canon wiki lacks anything beyond "the Jedi were here I guess."

Either one works, honestly. Adds different flair to the story.

Regardless, I'd like to suggest that instead of just outright destroying the Library, we capture it (which actually is our goal) and attempt to steal most of the (important) holocrons/texts within for use of the Exiles whenever we establish a home on Anzat. If we can strike quickly enough and, using that Republic ship to further the deception, we can get most of what we need before reinforcements arrive; doubly so if we can get the population on our side if we go that route. Might as well not let all that knowledge go to waste.

I don't know how long we can hold the Library once word gets out that we've assaulted it, but we should have enough time to sabotage the Jedi's entire repository of knowledge while also taking some/most of it for ourselves. Hell, maybe the Jedi will never know somehow and we just stay camped out inside for funsies.

Just something to chew on.
 

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@Painus Well obviously we’ll steal everything not bolted down first. But I have a strong feeling that we’re going to be the Canon reason why the Library doesn’t exist anymore. But that’s for the main thread which I have no control over. If the mods had different ideas I’ll edit accordingly.

Also I believe this site goes by Canon lore, so I’m limited on who and what’s on the planet. And since only Jedi Libraries and temples are mentioned, I’m going with that to be safe.
 

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Yo I'd like to sign up Kolas if there are any spots left @SovietFrog. His link is in my Sig if you want to take a look.
 

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Yo I'd like to sign up Kolas if there are any spots left @SovietFrog. His link is in my Sig if you want to take a look.

Sure, will edit you in the opening post tomorrow (later today since it’s past midnight?), I’ll just put in a disclaimer that as of now we’re probably going to limit any further involvement to one more exile and two more Indies. Also I should probably ask that those who have volunteered please either do a new post telling me which phases (threads) you’re interested in or edit that information into an existing post just so I can better organize.

Anyway, with that out of the way who here would be open to seeing the phase one thread start up on the 26th? Or do you all think it should be pushed out a few days? Let me know either via pm or a post here. Thanks for all your excitement and support, and I hope we can all enjoy this experience together soon.
 
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Sure, will edit you in the opening post tomorrow (later today since it’s past midnight?), I’ll just put in a disclaimer that as of now we’re probably going to limit any further involvement to one more exile and two more Indies. Also I should probably ask that those who have volunteered please either do a new post telling me which phases (threads) you’re interested in or edit that information into an existing post just so I can better organize.

Anyway, with that out of the way who here would be open to seeing the phase one thread start up on the 26th? Or do you all think it should be pushed out a few days? Let me know either via pm or a post here. Thanks for all your excitement and support, and I hope we can all enjoy this experience together soon.
Make sure to submit this for plot review first in the faction plot board before you get started.
 

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I think Kolas' skills are best suited to phase 3 and beyond. Though he can probably mange 1 and 2 if needed.
 

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@Archlight, thanks for the reminder, will do so now.
 

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So am I to be recruited in phase 1, or where am I to jump in?
 

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Once he is accepted, I'd love to have Mikhail help with any thread that has room or fits him.
 
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