• Real World Date: 2/13/09
• In-Game Date: 14-18 Kelona, 3,971 BBY

The crew of the Aeon Harrier is hired to salvage a remote processor from a derelict Sith droidship left over from the Great Sith War. They jump to the coordinates of the wreck, chase off some other would-be salvagers in hacked-together junk starfighters and then hunt through the debris field of an ancient battle to find their prey.

They board the hulk and destroy the handful of active droids they find there and recover the processor. Before they can leave though, the junk starfighters return along with their mothership: the DeadStar, a deep space salvage vessel (and rumored shipjacker) operating out of Taris.

The captain of the DeadStar demands that the Harrier surrender and turn over their find to a boarding party. The Jedi contingent, in the form of Rann and JPD-14, urge the crew of the Harrier to stand their ground and fend off the DeadStar’s thugs, but the captain and his crew have none of it.

Instead, the captain orders Highlife to plot an emergency hyperspace jump allowing the ship to escape the DeadStar and (thanks to the skill of her pilot) to make it back to Zebulon Beta in one piece.

• Real World Date: 1/21/2009
• In-Game Date: 29 Enola-29 Kelona, 3,971 BBY

Echoes from the Battle of the Emerald Cliffs are resonating through the Vargis Tau system. With the destruction of his second base on the jungle world of Zebulon Prime led the pirate lord Ral Duris to flee the system, taking his flagship Obsidan Phoenix and his few surviving starfighters with him.

Some claim he’s withdrawn to a shadowport somewhere in the Outer Rim to plot his revenge; others say he’s taken up hunting prey near the Taris system, still others say he’s on Nar Shaddaa recruiting bounty hunters to strike back at those who destroyed his bases and captured two starships. (more…)

• Real World Date: 1/16/2009
• In-Game Date: 29 Enola, 3,971 BBY

Synopsis: The heroes attack the pirate base at the Emerald Cliffs, ultimately capturing a pirate freighter, destroying facility and finding some sort of ancient alien holocron.

Ral Duris is the leader of the Pirates of the Burning Claw, a band of pirates operating from secret bases on Zebulon Prime, part of the Zebulon binary planet in the Vargis Tau system of the Outer Rim.

Not much is known about the pirate lord; he’s never been seen on Zebulon Beta, and law enforcement only learned about him by interrogating a handful of his captured followers. It’s known that his pirate fleet is comprised of three starships (one of which was recently captured by the authorities) as well as a handful of starfighters.

Some say that one of his trusted advisors is a force-wielding witch known as the Dark Lady Aldera. They whisper that she is a Sith, but these rumors have not been confirmed.

• Real World Date: 11/7/2008
• In-Game Date: 23 Enola, 3,971 BBY

Pirates threaten the Vargis Tau system! A band of pirates has taken up residence on the Prime, one of the twin worlds of the Zebulon system. Transports and freighters from its sister world of Zebulon Beta have been easy prey for the piratical scum thanks to the traitor, Torg Shepherdson, the former assistant portmaster at Beta’s capital city of Jolus.

After being found and taken into custody by padawans from the local Jedi Academy, the traitor was nearly killed in an ambush by members of the Scarbrother swoop bike gang. With help from the crew of the Aeon Harrier, the Jedi apprentices defeated the Scarbrothers, as well as the truth threat to Shepherdson: a Zabrakian bounty hunter named Koth.

Believed to have been hired by the pirates to kill or capture Shepherdson, Koth fired a single, laser bolt at the traitor only to have it blocked by the Jedi Rade Gasa. When the Jedi and their new allies turned to pursue him, the bounty hunter jetted away.

Meanwhile, on Zebulon Prime, Jedi Knight Lornn Varri and the padawan Rann, along with a contingent of planetary militia,  the pirate base.

They arrive to find it stripped clean of all useful materials and the freighter Grey Lurker abandoned in its hanger. Unfortunately for the investigation, the ship’s data stores had been removed or wiped, leaving no further leads. (more…)