November 20, 2009

TI MELI NE

CURRENT DATE : 130 ABY ( After the Battle of Yavin )

THE GALACTIC ALLIANCE ( 28 126 ABY )

FOLLOWING THE YUUZHAN VONG INVASION OF THE GALAXY, THE NEW REPUBLIC CRUMBLES. IT IS ONLY THROUGH THE UNIFIED EFFORTS OF THE JEDI AND THE REMNANTS OF VARIOUS FACTIONS THAT THE YUUZHAN VONG ARE DEFEATED. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS STRUGGLE, THE GALACTIC ALLIANCE COMES INTO BEING, UNITING THE REMNANTS OF THE NEW REPUBLIC AND THE EMPIRE ALIKE.

THE OSSUS PROJECT ( 126 - )

NEARLY A CENTURY AFTER THE DEFEAT OF THE YUUZHAN VONG AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GALACTIC ALLIANCE A POWERFUL AND INFLUENTIAL JEDI CHAMPIONS A CAUSE THAT MANY SEE AS RISKY, EVEN DANGEROUS. WHAT HE PROPOSES COMES TO BE CALLED THE OSSUS PROJECT.

THE SITH IMPERIAL WAR ( 127 130 ABY )

SHORTLY AFTER THE APPARENT YUUZHAN VONG SABOTAGE BECOMES PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, WORLDS AND SECTORS BEGIN SECEDING FROM THE GALACTIC ALLIANCE. THE GALACTIC EMPIRE, STILL PROMINENT AND POWERFUL, WITHDRAWS FROM THE ALLIANCE. ANGER TOWARDS THE ALLIANCE, AND HATRED FOR THE YUUZHAN VONG, CAUSES MANY WORLDS TO FLOCK TO THE EMPIRE FOR PROTECTION. WITH NEWFOUND RESOURCES AND A TIDE OF SUPPORT, THE EMPIRE GROWS IN POWER AND SIZE, ALLOWING IT TO CHALLENGE THE GALACTIC ALLIANCE MILITARILY.

“ AS I HAVE BENT THE FORCE

TO MY WILL, SO I WILL BEND

THE GALAXY AND IT WILL

KNOW ORDER.“

WELCOME TO STAR WARS : LEGACY

LEGACY

OBI-WAN KENOBI ONCE CALLED THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC AND THE RISE OF THE GALACTIC EMPIRE THE “ DARK TIMES.“ HAD HE FORSEEN THE ERA TO COME, HE MIGHT HAVE CALLED THE PERIOD DEFINED BY PALPATINE’S RISE TO POWER SOMETHING DIFFERENT. UNFORTUNATELY FOR YOU, OBI-WAN HAS LONG SINCE GONE, AS HAVE HIS PUPILS, AND THEIR PUPILS, AND THOSE WHOM CAME TO FOLLOW. THEIR TIME HAS PAST AND A NEW ERA OF THE GALAXY HAS DAWNED, ONE THAT DOES NOT REMEMBER THE NAME SKYWALKER. INDEED, THIS ERA IS RIFE WITH THE SAME TYRANNY, OPPRESSION, VIOLENCE, AND DANGER THAT FLOURISHED UNDER PALPATINE’S RULE. HOWEVER, IN THIS TIME’S EXISTENCE THE EMPIRE HAS AN OPEN RULE, THE JEDI HAVE ONCE AGAIN FALLEN AND BEEN HUNTED NEARLY TO EXTINCTION. TIMES HAVE NEVER BEEN GRIMMER THAN THEY ARE UNDER THE DARK EMPIRE, AND YET THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR HEROES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE PREVALENT.

THIS ERA BEGINS OVER 130 YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF YAVIN. THE GALAXY IS RULED OVER BY A TOUGH BUT FAIR DICTATOR, ROAN FEL. HE IS BOTH HATED AND REVERED IN THE CURRENT GALACTIC EMPIRE. THE JEDI ARE SCATTERED TO THE DISTANT CORNERS OF THE GALAXY, AND THE ONLY HOPE FOR DEMOCRACY LIES WITH THE FLEEING EXILES OF THE ONCE STRONG GALACTIC ALLIANCE. MEANWHILE, INDIVIDUALS LURKING ON THE FRINGES OF SOCIETY PROFIT BY TURNING JEDI OVER TO THE EMPIRE FOR HANDSOME REWARDS. YET THE EMPIRE IS DIVIDED