Star Wars Campaign Concept: A Galaxy Divided

If you’ve followed Dice Monkey for any length of time, you know that I end up flitting from one thing to another until I settle into a plan. While I spoke about my Star Wars: Dark Age campaign idea back in December, after watching Rise of Skywalker, I had a new idea.

Rise of Skywalker spoilers follow.

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After the final destruction of the Sith, Rey returns to Ajan Kloss to establish a new Jedi order. Rey has always loved the greenery of the planet, so it’s the ideal place for a school. Studying the ancient Jedi texts, she knows that the way to establish a successful order and avoid the previous fall of the Jedi is to go back to the earlier days of the Jedi.

This game takes place five years after Rise of Skywalker as Rey has firmly established her order. She has taken on a few students so far, including Finn who was her first student. Her school is loose and unstructured, she takes students of all ages (she is deeply opposed to separating children from their parents, go figure), and she doesn’t have any interest in making the Jedi the galaxy’s police force. She rejects the opposition to emotional connections to others, and is disgusted by the excess of the Old Republic’s Jedi in their final days. She’s deeply abolitionist, and helps free slaves where she sees them, even assigning some groups of her students to go bring freedom to those enslaved.

She sends her students out regularly across the galaxy to help those who request it or seeking out lost Jedi artifacts she can use to help the new order, but she is not beholden to any government.

In the rest of the galaxy, there is great division. The galaxy has seen that perhaps a centralized government isn’t the best. They’ve now seen two Republics fall in less than a century. As a result, the star systems divide into petty fiefdoms and smaller nation-states. The Corporate Sector Alliance has expanded its borders, the Corellian Sector has united under a singular government. Each prominent system has brought their smaller neighboring systems under their wings, creating a fractured stained glass window of a galaxy.

Some governments like the Jedi, others distrust them. This religion’s two major sects have plunged the galaxy into darkness over their squabbles more times than can be counted over the millennia. Some of these governments may actually try to eliminate Jedi on their worlds.

Poe has taken command of a group called the Vanguard, who hunt down and destroy the Final Order Remnant wherever they can, but some systems still remain under their fascistic rule. Rose Tico is Poe’s second in command.

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That’s what I have. I’ll definitely be adding more details as I think of them. I’d love to hear more of your ideas in the comments.