Guest Stars - Star Wars Campaign 2025

Since I set my campaign just after the Battle of Endor, I have many main characters from the movies and TV shows to guest star in the campaign. However, some of them are poor choices. 

Luke and Leia are right out. They would break continuity. 

Han, Chewie, and Lando are available from the original movies while Ashoka, Zeb, Sabine, Hera, and Agent Kallus from Rebels could appear. I can tack on a few more such as a very old Kelleran Beq and slightly younger versions of the characters from the Mandolorian. 

That is not a bad group for the heroes to meet. 

But who do they fight? 

The Empire is collapsing. I will hypothesize that the remaining Imperial ships need planetary systems to resupply, which is why they are interested in the Meneth System. There will also be the usual scum and villains passing through and maybe sticking around. 

Meneth is strong enough to not align with either the Republic or the Imperial remnants. I've decided that the Menethian leadership thinks of itself as the core of a new Empire. Not having Sith lurking around makes them more self-centered than evil. They also had enough trouble in the system to prevent them from participating in a war-like colonization program. They are the ship in the bottle in Star Wars form. 

As far as bad guys go, I can have Imperial remnants, the old droid army kicking around, plus a handful of Night Sisters, and maybe an escaped Inquisitor or two. The Inquisitors were a pit of vipers and it stands to reason if one of them survived to the Ashoka TV show, there is more than one. That also adds in people like Baylan Skoll, Shin Hati, and their ilk who are good fodder for guest stars.  

The Home Town Heroes are going to be the characters. Of the original 6 Jedi, 4 force adepts, and 6 children Jedi candidates, 3 force adepts and 3 Jedi survived. That leaves the 6 force-sensitive children who are adults by now. Star Wars has no demographic info, we can guess that Meneth may have its own emerging force adepts to supplement these numbers. The players should have no trouble creating Jedi-like characters. This was my player's main complaint in my last Star Wars adventure. The Rebel base is there to provide other types of heroes like pilots and fringers while nobles and such can be from Meneth. 

I will keep my Neimoidian bounty hunter, La'ow Houd from my last series as a contact. He is a data dealer, not a killer. I like the idea of someone who has more than adequate defenses to punch way over their weight class.