Ab o ard the g rin n in g g un dark!
- A Savage Worlds Star Wars Adventure
Aboard the
grinning gundark!
A Savage Worlds Star Wars Adventure
Scene 1 – In Media Res
On the planet Rifrinis – an industrial world - the
players are chasing Bura Melan, a Bith and the
Wanted leader of the Krayt Dragons swoop
gang. They intend to bring him in for a Bounty.
If the characters bring him in or if he gets away
will have no real effect on the rest of the
adventure – but at least one of his gang should
escape to set things up for Scene 2.
Swoop Gangers
Attributes: Ag: d6, Sm: d6, Sp: d6, St: d6, V: d6
Pace: 6, Parry: 5, Toughness: 5
Skills: Fighting d6, Shooting d6, Drive d6
Edges: -
Hindrances: -
Gear: Swoop Bike, Blaster Pistol, vibroblade
# 1
$ Bura Melan
Leader of Krayt Dragons Swoop Gang - Bith
Appearance + Personality: male, scar on left
cheek; clucks tongue, combative.
Motivation: Expand gang across planet.
Background: Tuned swoops for gangsters who
wanted money. Realized he could do better.
Attributes: Ag: d8, Sm: d6, Sp: d6, St: d6, V: d6
Pace: 6, Parry: 5, Toughness: 6(1)
Skills: Fighting d6, Shooting d6, Drive d8,
Notice d8, Repair d6
Edges: Ace, Alertness
Hindrances: Quirk (punches fist), Arrogant,
Mean
Gear: Swoop Bike, Heavy Blaster Pistol,
vibroblade
Scene 2 – A New Job
After their run in with Bura Melan the PC’s
Devaronian fixer checks in and lets them know
about a potential job.
The characters are introduced to a Ship
Captain and his First Mate who need a crew for
a delivery mission. As the ship is about to jump
out-system to pickup its cargo, the hyperdrive
fails. The ship turns around and lands back at
the starport. It needs a replacement Hyperdrive
Containment Coil. Captain Vellar “is too well
known” at the local Junkyard so he sends the
players along with First Mate Doda. He gives
them $1000. Players must negotiate with Ama
Corent the Scrap Dealer who wants
$1500. While at the Scrap Dealer’s shop many
customers come and go - to include a couple of
Krayt Dragons! Recognition is made and
combat ensues. Hopefully the players will leave
with the Coil ...
$ Dace Vellar
Ship Captain - Human
Appearance + Personality: mid 50’s, male,
dark skin, grey hair; smirks, pessimist.
Motivation: Make enough credits to payoff ship.
Background: Former Republic Navy pilot. Has
worked too long for gangsters. Wants to retire.
Attributes: Ag: d8, Sm: d6, Sp: d6, St: d6, V: d6
Pace: 6, Parry: 5, Toughness: 6(1)
Skills: Fighting d6, Shooting d6, Pilot d8, Notice
d8, Repair d6
Edges: Ace, Alertness
Hindrances: Quirk (chews on pipe), Bad Luck
(1 less benny), Debt
Gear: Blast Vest + Helmet (+1 armor),
Blaster Pistol
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$ Doda Galeen
First Mate - Arconan
Appearance + Personality: male,
temperamental; wrings hands, reckless.
Motivation: Make enough money to find a good
mate.
Background: Left Acona to earn enough credits
to “make it big” back home. Bad habit has
interfered.
Attributes: Ag: d6, Sm: d8, Sp: d6, St: d6, V: d6
Pace: 6, Parry: 5, Toughness: 6(1)
Skills: Fighting d6, Shooting d8, Pilot d6, Notice
d8, Repair d8, Drive d6
Edges: Engineer (+2 on Repair)
Hindrances: Addiction (Salt), Greedy, Big
Mouth
Gear: Blast Vest (+1 armor)
Blaster Carbine, Vibroblade
Ama Corent
Junkyard Operator - Human
Appearance + Personality, female, grease
stained coveralls; distracted, “Reutilization
Station – not Junkyard!”.
Motivation: Keep Reutilization Station running
successfully.
Background: Talented young mechanic.
Running family business while dad is
hospitalized. Wants to go to merchant academy.
Attributes: Ag: d8, Sm: d6, Sp: d6, St: d6, V: d6
Pace: 6, Parry: 5, Toughness: 5
Skills: Fighting d6, Shooting d6, Notice d6,
Repair d8
Edges: -
Hindrances: Curious
Gear: Blaster Pistol, vibroknife, tool bib
Scene 3 – Gather Our Cargo
With the replacement Hyperdrive Containment
Coil installed the ship lifts off to Keshinbak to
gather their cargo.
Keshinbak
Keshinbak is a humid forested world. The
trees and other foliage are rust red. The planet
is sparsely settled. Its main export is Atrillium –
a mineral critical to blaster production.
Keshinbak has just been put under an Imperial
blockade as the planet has an increasing Rebel
presence.
# 2
Cut Scene – Star Destroyer Arrives!
The screen wipes left to right and reveals a red
tinged planet with a starfield behind it. Suddenly
– a Star Destroyer streaks into existence as it
comes out of hyperspace.
Three System Defense Gunboats rise from the
surface to meet the Star Destroyer.
“Unidentified vessel – this is the Keshinbak
Planetary Defense Force. Your arrival in
unregistered. What are your intentions?”
A dozen Turbolasers blast from the Star
Destroyer obliterating the lead gunboat.
“Keshinbak craft, this is the Imperial Star
Destroyer Relentless and your planet is under
Imperial Blockade by order of the System
Governor. Return to the surface at once or face
the same fate!”
Captain Vellar lands the ship in the forest in an
“out of the way” spot outside of the main town on
Keshinbak. He sends the players and First Mate
Doda in a cargo skiff to meet their contact and
gather the cargo while he stays with the ship to
“keep an eye on things.”
The group goes to a cantina, The Cave, to
meet their contact - a Human Dock Worker
named Aloren.
The Cave
The Cave is a cantina built inside of an
exhausted Atrillium mine. The walls are rough
cut by mining lasers. The Cave has many
separate rooms – each has mirrored walls and
atmospheric smoke near the floor as music
thumps in time with colored lights. Each room
has a separate bar. Every room has security
droids with Stun Batons to discourage fights.
The bouncer threatens each new guest as they
enter, “Keep it civil. Any blaster fire will be met
by fire from our staff – regardless of who started
it!”
The characters move from room to room in The
Cave looking for their contact. Unfortunately
they have no other details on their contact
besides a name – they don’t even know their
contact’s sex! Fortunately most of the patrons of
The Cave are aliens.
Run the players through a couple of
encounters with other patrons before finding
their contact.
- A Twilek female in a hooded cloak watches
the players while talking into a comlink. She
steps out of the room as they notice her. Elav
Ree is a writer for MegaDodo Publications and
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their well-known interstellar travel guide and is
doing research on Keshinbak. She’s taking
notes into her recorder. She gladly buys the
characters drinks if they’ll sit down with her and
share stories of their travels.
- A huge, shirtless, Ogre sized (use stats for
Ogre) alien bumps into one of the characters
spilling a drink all over the alien’s chest. He gets
pissed off and starts thumping one of the PCs in
the chest with his meaty fingers while yelling in a
language none of them know.
When the characters find Aloren she agrees to
meet them at a nearby warehouse to pick up the
cargo.
Scene 4 – Run For It!
The heroes meet up with Aloren and her
compatriots at the warehouse. They’re all
heavily armed and quite jumpy due to
Stormtrooper patrols in the town.
The cargo is a collection of 8 large sized
shipping containers (each the size of a sofa) all
with a prominent Imperial symbol stenciled on
the sides. This is a shipment of stolen Imperial
weapons!
As characters begin loading the cargo skiff a
lookout comes running in shouting that
Stormtroopers are searching house to house the
next block over. A Stormtrooper patrol rounds
the corner as the players load the last container
onto their skiff and order the group to halt.
After the characters dodge or defeat the patrol
they encounter at least 1 other foot patrol (give
them an opportunity to avoid contact if you want)
as they leave town. A block over they hear the
whine of speeder bikes moving at full speed.
As they go thru the forest getting closer to the
ship the characters encounter an AT-ST!
Fortunately, several of the containers contain
heavy weapons (E-Web Heavy Repeat Blaster,
PLX-2 Missile Launcher).
The characters run the skiff on to their ship just
as Imperial Troop Transports are closing in on
the landing spot.
As soon as the characters are aboard the ship
lifts off. The Grinning Gundark must fight its way
past 2 TIE fighters, with a Star Destroyer
closing, before they can safely jump to
Hyperspace.
Scene 5 – Delivery
The Grinning Gundark comes out of
Hyperspace near an asteroid belt on the edge of
# 3
the Gulsen Nebula. Their rendezvous location is
within the asteroid belt.
As they maneuver thru the asteroids to the link-
up location, their sensors pick up 2 unidentified
signals closing fast. As the ships enter visual
range the characters make them out as X-
Wings. They’re hailed by the X-Wings which
ask them their purpose and escort them to The
Liberator - a Rebel Blockade Runner. It’s
obvious at this point the client is the Rebellion.
After the cargo is transferred to The Liberator
the players receive their payment – a datapad
with an encrypted account code. As soon as the
datapad is handed off the Rebel ship goes to
Red Alert and the ship’s intercom announces a
Star Destroyer has jumped into the system.
The Rebel ships flee as the Star Destroyer
launches 4 TIE fighters. The players can either
fight their way past the TIE fighters and the Star
Destroyer or escape by going thru the Gulsen
Nebula.
The Gulsen Nebula
Visibility within the Nebula is only 6”. The
Nebula causes interference to ship’s sensors so
all shots within the Nebula are -2 to hit. Several
large asteroids have drifted into the Nebula and
are navigation and collision hazards.
Scene 6 – Epilogue
The characters jump to Hyperspace and arrive
in orbit on Tatooine. Their patron is Tesso the
Hutt and is waiting on them to bring the account
code before he will make payment to them.
Tesso is happy with the performance of the
group and offers them future employment.
Disclaimers
- This game references the Savage Worlds
game system, available from Pinnacle
Entertainment Group at www.peginc.com.
Savage Worlds and all associated logos and
trademarks are copyrights of Pinnacle
Entertainment Group. Used with permission.
Pinnacle makes no representation or warranty
as to the quality, viability, or suitability for
purpose of this product.
- Parts of this adventure were inspired by the
“New Recruits and Rebel Guns” adventure in
West End Games’ Instant Adventures for the d6
Star Wars RPG. Instant Adventures has lots of
quick adventures that can be dropped into any
Star Wars or sci-fi RPG.
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