Planning: Congress of Rogues

[Vocari Alexander]

Thread Name: Congress of Rogues

Setting: Tenupe, or another sufficiently isolated planet

Participants: Vocari Alexander, Ixtren Wallonis (and anybody else)

Time: After the lapse (2 months following RC, Duro, and the other concurrent threads)

What Happens:

-Pirates and smugglers from all over the galaxy convene to discuss their role now that the Vong pose a significant threat to the galaxy.

(Every lowlife will probably have reason to be there. It's like the piratical ComiCon, except much more serious. The point being that this is an open thread, so feel free to jump in as long as you have at least a half-assed reason to.)

-Vocari and Ixtren, being the badass smuggler dons that they are, will be in attendance. Vocari, and I believe Ixtren, will argue for a third-party, vigilante defense against the Vong, probably mounted independently.

-If Ixtren agrees, we can join whatever is gleaned from this effort to Tristan's alliance, since that will have been underway for the duration of the lapse and have gained some momentum

**Both benefit from a larger fleet than they've been used to in recent times. At this point, Ixtren has reconvened his scattered pirate fleet and a good portion of the ships Vocari mustered against the Vong at Duro chose to stick with him after the retreat.

**I'm unclear right now as to how many of the pirates actually decide to join Vocari/Ixtren. Maybe half, probably less. Pirates strike me as a primarily self-interested group.

**I was thinking about this earlier. Does anybody like the idea of making this a Peace Brigade trap? They call the council, let discussions fly back and forth, and then start killing pirates? Vocari, Ixtren, and howmanyever else escape and start their resistance?

[Lord Iurus]

Sounds like the Smugglers' Alliance. I would look up more on that if you're uncertain as to how it would work out.

[Vocari Alexander]

Yeah, I know. To my knowledge, they weren't an active force until the Battle of Ebaq 9, but I can try and work that canon into this if staff wants me to.

[Lord Iurus]

Well, they were formed during the Galactic Civil War, so I would say they existed as a reserve force and that's the first action we saw them work alongside Republic forces during the Vong war, but not the first time they were active.

[Dathik]

Hm, okay, so I've got my new guy ready to go in time for this. Here's what I see:

Vocari and Ixtren are running this.

Sarik is involved in some way. His involvement is really only a mask to eliminate enemies (of the Peace Brigade) and rivals (of his crime empire).

Dathik is involved as well, although his intention is to kill Vocari, Ixtren, and anybody else whose continued existence will not lead to entropy and destruction.

Any objectons?

Any way this plotline could interact with Moff Young's? I see great potential between the two of them, especially involving my two guys.

This post has been edited by Dathik on Mar 21 2009, 01:19 PM

[Agathon Grenada]

Yes, that looks good. Do you intend Sarik and Dathik to assassinate some of the attendees, as per the hypothetical plot element in the first post?

And I think I'll have the meeting convened by members of the existing Smuggler's Alliance, just to stay more within canon.

[Dathik]

Assassination could work. A Peace Brigade/Vong ambush could also be worked in, and then maybe the group could get word of the superweapon and try to pirate it for themselves?

Could you fill us in on Tristan's group as of this point?

This post has been edited by Dathik on Mar 21 2009, 08:28 PM

[Agathon Grenada]

I'm assuming you mean the superweapon Ixtren proposed? That could work.

Tristan's group will be underway by this time, having had the duration of the lapse to gain momentum. Originally, I was going to have Vocari get wind of the coalition beforehand and join after the pirate meeting ends, but you gave me another idea. If a group led by Tristan and Vocari/Ixtren pursue the superweapon separately, they could meet during the journey and decide to join forces at the end. How does that sound? And I'm assuming Dathik/Sarik will be participating in the superweapon chase as well?

[Dathik]

They both want it for their own reasons, yes.

[Bombosa Binks]

I think at the meeting I'll have Ixtren be the one to mention the superweapon held by some old Imp Warlord off in Wildspace. He'll wait till after some discussion of the alliance has occurred and will bring it up as an idea for their first mission. His contacts will be some leak in Moff Young's taskforce, so he'll know of the Imps as well. Thus the Congress of Rogues would end up running into the Imps when they go after the superweapon, if we head that route.

As for the meeting being a trap, maybe if it was a small one, some short controlled violence that wouldn't throw the thing completely out of whack.

[Agathon Grenada]

Oh yeah, it wouldn't be much. My reasoning behind including such an attack was 1) to add a little spice to what would otherwise be straight deliberative diplomacy and 2) to drive many of the smugglers in attendance away from the Congress. Since there was no actively fighting coalition of smugglers at this time in canon, I don't want this to be a huge group.

[Ixtren Wallonis]

That works. This is all happening after the lapse, right?

[Agathon Grenada]

Yeah.

[Eron Nightwind]

I think I'd like to get Eron involved in this. I have some plans for him during the lapse that would make him a bit more of a player in the seedy underworld of the galaxy.

Plus since I killed off one of my chars, I can make a new one to help

[Agathon Grenada]

Sounds good. How would Eron fall into the existing plan? Did you have any ideas of your own?