Greetings to all SW-RPG fans out there. I’m Armage Bedar, also known as the STATS Man. Yeah, Armage Bedar is a pseudonym – but I feel it reflects my online/RPG persona much better than my real name does. At the writing of this column, I have no idea whether Tenandys Qural (aka Reuben Israel Beattie) is ever coming back to write, but if he does, you’ll have twice the RPG goodness :-)

To start out this column, I was struggling to come up with something any player or GM could use – and then it hit me. In this edition of RPG Ramblings, I have fleshed out a planet – Loskanon – which can be integrated into an adventure or campaign with little effort. It comes complete with gamemaster characters, NPCs, native life, technology, and some adventure threads. Gentlebeings, I welcome you to the planet Loskanon…

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An isolated planet at the edge of the Corporate Sector Authority/Outer Rim Territories border, Loskanon is a temperate planet with rolling hills, wide plains, and small but numerous seas – much like Dantooine. It has a yearly cycle of meteor showers, which affect communications and sensor detection for a week during that period.

However, the Empire seized control of the planet early on in its history due to its many high-grade quadanite deposits. Quadanite is the ore form of the metal quadanium, a key component in the hulls of TIE starfighters, interceptors, and bombers. A Navy-defended Sienar Fleet Systems Mining Division facility mines from several locations in Loskanon’s crust.

No major or minor trade routes run past the system, and no native sentient species call Loskanon home. The planet does contain several mining complexes, a garrison, and a Standard-plus class spaceport able to support ships up to 600 meters in length. In orbit, a transfer station to process ore sent up from the surface and to send slave labor to the mining complexes below. An old Golan I defense platform and two Corellian corvettes patrol the space surrounding Loskanon.

In addition to the orbital force, 36 (half a wing) TIE/ln fighters defend the planet from assault, and 1,000 stormtroopers based in the garrison maintain order in the mine complexes.

The SFS mining complexes are a combination of slave quarters and ore processing. Slave labor is used in the mines instead of skilled laborers because quadanite mining is backbreaking work – but is not mind-intensive. 100 stormtroopers oversee 2,000 slaves in eight mining facilities. Though the chance for success in a revolt is high, few are willing to risk it – most of the miners are Eklaad, and they are timid beings. Each facility has a landing field for direct ore pickup from each complex.

Above the surface of Loskanon, two CEC Corvettes (CRV-189A and B) and a Golan I platform (Redeemer) monitor traffic and defend against incoming assault – of which there have been none, incidentally. Crews are starting to get bored from all of the "hurry up and wait" that has been going on for months and months of their tour, and drills have been slowing down lately. (GM note: As a result of this, take 1 pip to 1D off of their MEC, TEC, and DEX skills at your discretion). Even stormtrooper squads are less alert than usual.

The orbital transfer station has been processing a steady stream of ore and slaves to and from the surface, and is always at a constant state of readiness. Only SFS-registered craft are allowed in and out of the system, and no out-of-system craft are allowed onto the surface unless they are Imperial military craft.

Type: Imperial officer
DEX 3D
Blaster 5D+1, brawling parry 5D, dodge 4D+2, vehicle blasters 5D
KNO 3D
Alien species 4D, command 5D, command: Thunder Herd 6D+1, tactics 5D, tactics: walkers 7D
MEC 4D
Missile weapons 4D+2, repulsorlift ops 5D+2, sensors 3D+2, walker ops 7D+2
PER 2D+2
Hide 4D, search 5D+1, sneak 4D+1
STR 3D+1
Brawling 5D+1, stamina 4D+2
TEC 2D
Walker repair 3D+2
FP: 1
CP: 14
Equipment: Blaster pistol (4D), rank cylinder, datapad, comlink

Capsule: Colonel Aryf Mosad is the commander of forces on Loskanon. He was once the prominent commander of Thunder Herd walker squadron – one of the most decorated walker units in Imperial history. However, details were uncovered (shortly before his scheduled promotion to the rank of major) that his parents were (wrongfully) implicated in an assault on a factory on Corulag. As a result, he was not promoted and shipped off to a boring assignment as commander of a mining facility. He is greatly dissatisfied with the Empire, but he believes that there is no alternative – the Rebels are a terrorist rabble in his opinion.

Type: Corporate bureaucrat
DEX 2D+2
Dodge 4D
KNO 4D
Bureaucracy 5D, business 5D+1, languages 6D, planetary systems 5D, value 5D, value: mining 6D
MEC 2D+2
Repulsorlift ops 3D
PER 3D+2
Con 4D+2, gambling 5D
STR 3D
Brawling 3D+2
TEC 2D
CP: 9
Equipment: Datapad, comlink, hold-out blaster (3D)

Capsule: Dantar Reynloss is an operations officer from SFS’ Mining Division sent to oversee the mining process on Loskanon. He is bored, but kept occupied with the many day-to-day things that need overseeing. Reynloss is a typical corporate – locked into a boring, dead-end job and willing to sacrifice anything to escape.

Type: Slavemaster
DEX 3D+1
Blaster 4D+1, brawling parry 4D+1, melee weapons 3D+2
KNO 2D+2
Alien species 5D, languages 5D+1, value: slaves 6D
MEC 2D
Space transports 3D+2
PER 3D
Search 4D+2
STR 4D
Brawling 5D+2, martial arts (A) 6D+1
TEC 3D
Slave collar ops/repair 4D
CP: 11
DSP: 2
Equipment: Slave collar controls, blaster carbine (4D), comlink, shockprod (3D+2 stun; STR+1D), cybernetic eye (+1D search)

Capsule: "One-Eye" Crokar was hired when he responded to a ludicrous offer by SFS Mining to work for them on their Loskanon facility. One-Eye is a professional slaver, capturing aliens and humans alike, and selling them at a high profit. Until SFS’ offer, he roamed the galaxy, selling to the highest bidders. Now he is stationed among the slave quarters on Loskanon, keeping his both his natural and cybernetic eyes on the slaves.

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