Friday, April 04, 2008

Dangling plot threads

  • Dathomir is mostly cleaned up, but Maul and Dalt collected a lot of bad stuff there that hasn't been accounted for.
  • Thule: the planet and fleet are dealt with, but spies remain. And Keldragga the Hutt was funneling money to Thule from various sponsors in Republic space.
  • The True Sith
  • The Sith space station: synchronous position with Yavin and Dathomir. Given that Z’s idea about ‘four pillars’ played out, are there any others?
  • They wanted to talk to Leia about Luke's cavalier attitude re: his father's clone. The clone's gone, but Luke's reaction remains to be seen.
  • Yoda: True Sith? Architect? Or are they the same thing?
  • The aliens that chased the Sin/Sent ship that crashed on Ree's planet.
  • House Mecetti from the Tapani Sector is corrupt, but they can't prove it. Yet.
  • They aren't sure whether they destroyed Severan's spirit or not.
  • They also aren't sure whether they destroyed Komok-Da's spirit or not.
  • Darth Whatsisface, aka Sith-in-a-box. Who is he, and where'd he come from?
  • In that maze they got dropped into on Chandrila, Dalt had a bunch of other lightsaber-wielding mysterious types helping him. Presumably those were the corrupt officials...but would those guys have had lightsabers? And how does it fit in with their latest go-round on Chandrila?
  • And by the way? There's still no explanation as to how there came to be a whole underground maze complex designed especially for them! ...Wait, how old was that place?
  • In the Emperor's private temple on that Dark Side moon, there was a brain--apparently the remnant of an ancient Sith Lord--hooked up to the system to keep it running. And considering the two ancient Sith spirits they found there, how old was that temple? Does it tie in with this whole True Sith thing?
  • Even though they know now why Dalt was originally on Miraluka, it doesn't explain how he hooked up with the Miraluka ambassador or where she got her crew of Dark Siders.
  • Dalt created some kind of shapechanging goo that he used to try to kidnap Jaina Solo. How much of that did he have?
  • Drath is selling alarming things to raise money. For what? An army? Information?

  • The Dalt Subsection:
    • Dalt's Corporate Sector base, where he stowed marketable inventions.
    • Clone!Dalt continues to live happily on Mrialuka with his lovely and slightly psychotic wife, Senal.
    • Dalt's old notes from his Rodia base say that he believes he once detected traces of a Force star.
    • Mutated Dark Side girl from Dalt's base.
    • Dalt's still got more of the technological touch left than they'd realized. And he seems to be regaining many of his memories.
    • He's nicer now, but Dalt has not forgotten about his Force Star.
    • Oh, and the Imperials apparently want him back.
    • Someone who looked like Dalt--another member of the Sent family?--was part of the crew of the Ossus ship, before he left to supposedly join the phantom ship that'd been bothering the slave traders. Could he be the missing older Sent brother?
    • Raasik Sent is trouble.

  • The Imperial Remnant Subsection:
    • Imperials and the slave ring: the Imperials were after Force users they could train up as their own Force sensitive forces against the Jedi (which, Dalt says, was part of the Shadow Academy's purpose). Thrawn's put an end to Imperial involvement, but that only means he's satisfied with what they've got. The Hutts were also involved, and were giving the Imperials the kind of money that could build fleets. They stopped that by blowing up the Bloody Spiral, but why were the Imperials involved? They still have the codes from Ja'len's stolen ship to slip into the Imperial Remnant.
    • SARR copied the Chimera's computer data.
    • A Chiss Dark Sider working for Thrawn.
    • Who was Eidolon Base associating with, or what information did they have, that Thrawn felt moved to wipe out all 2000 inhabitants of a base loyal to his cause? And how did Eidolon Base know they were coming?
    • Raasik Sent agitated the Alderaanians into public outrage, and now they're being manipulated by somebody. So far, there are connections between them and the Shadow Academy. And the Shadow Academy's seems to be working for the Imperials.
    • Speaking of which, it's looking like various levels of Senate staff--especially the Alderaanian groups--seem to be riddled with Imperial spies.

  • The Abindosan Subsection:
    • Abindosan's coral: it contains the DNA imprint of every biological entity in the galaxy. Part of the Blueprint? And it seems to form a sort of world-mind, interfacing with everything else on the planet. The Abindosani themselves appear to be part of the reef. What's the purpose of this, and how do their enemies want to use it?
    • According to Dalt's detector, Tazarin'Ken had a large amount of coral at his base, but they didn't recover it when they dealt with him.
    • On that same trip, before they stopped Tazarin'Ken's transmission, Dalt commented that something else was going on, too: "Something...unappealing." Did they take care of that?
    • And on that same trip, they discovered the assassin droid that Maul has assigned to help Tazarin'Ken. Which means that Maul's plan is still in action. What was he doing, and does Drath have control of it now?
    • Amalgated, in CorpSec, still possesses some Abindosani coral, where it's being used to "heal" people.
  • Where did those evil Force crystals come from that Severan kept feeding people?
  • There's a Dark Side cult on Coruscant with spooky relics. Probably worth looking into.
  • Three psychopathic Force-sensitive cyborgs serving as Darth Maul's "bodyguards" are unaccounted for.
  • They never learned from Luke and Kyp what they dug out of Vader’s Coruscant base. Some of it applied to Dalt.
  • Drath has a Dark Harvester device full of Iridonian energy, and another one that's still empty. Oh, and also a Sith ship full of all the goodies he picked up from Set Harth.
  • Speaking of goodies, Maul had bases, and they still don't know where most of them are. But Drath probably does.
  • They kinda just left Koyi's body lying dead on Ree's planet when they rushed off. Ree's family surely buried her, but y'know.
  • Speaking of clones: when Tazarin'Ken died, he left DNA strewn across the landscape (including on Z and Kedrihm'Val). In fact, let's list all the DNA Drath might have access to: Obi Wan, Mace Windu, Han Solo, Kedrihm'Val, Darth Vader, Dalt, Ree, Z, Oola, Onna, Zan, Luke, Kyp (if he was plotting ahead, he could've gotten samples from just about anyone on the crew or at the temple), any of the Imperial DNA that Dalt felt moved to share with Maul, Thrawn (not that he's stupid enough to use that)...
  • Apparently Grand High Inquisitor Tremaine is looking for them.
  • There's an army of battle droids lurking beneath Oola's home city on Ryloth.
  • A poison that can be set to trigger due to certain stimuli or emotional states. Exported from Kessel, used on Tatooine, apparently by the Imperial-associated Eidolon Base.

Let's list the unfortunate things the crew has collected in their exploits. Current location noted where I know of it:

  1. A very old book permeated with the Dark Side from their very first adventure
  2. The Emperor's shattered-then-rebuilt holocron and three-book collection of everything he knew about the Dark Side
  3. The yay-big box with the evil orb—library ship
  4. A holocron from Darth Vader, found in Ree's lightsaber—in Kyp’s possession
  5. The records of Sith Lord Komok-Da, from the swamp planet—Jedi temple library
  6. The spirits of two ancient Sith, in bottles, from the Emperor's Dark Side moon retreat
  7. The "fragment of the Pulse" on Ree's planet—still on Ree’s planet
  8. Evil lightsaber crystal-growing Dark Side tree
  9. Powerful Dark Side lightsaber crystal, retrieved by the Sins
  10. Another Sith holocron, found among Severan's things
  11. The Sith hibernation coffin—Jedi temple
  12. A chair that hooks up to the Oracle at Pelgrin
  13. Darth Maul's body
  14. Records and anything else Maul or Drath left on the underwater base from Abindosan
  15. The Blueprint--Jedi temple
  16. Map to an ancient Sith training facility on Ryloth--Jedi temple
  17. The ARC trooper...droid...coral thing/guy--New Republic labs
  18. The deed to Abindosan
  19. Book of True Sith prophecies, last several pages missing
Current captives and additional notables, current location noted where I’m sure of it:

  • Sith-in-a-Box—prison ship
  • Additional Thule Force-user—prison ship
  • Jek Zillar, the Thule Force-user from Ree's stint as a spoiled brat
  • Officers from the Shadow Academy (many of the students were taken away for de-brainwashing)—prison ship
  • Nameless techno-Force-user boy—in residence at Jedi temple
  • Ezrek Dalt--if he still counts as a prisoner, out with the crew or working at Jedi temple
  • E'Val—downstairs in Jedi temple, being studied by scientists
  • The Miraluka ambassador and her Dark Side aide
  • Two Imperial Inquisitors from their Alderaan adventure
  • Darth Maul--in a rock
  • Cyndal--prison ship
  • Iako Orn, Imperial Guard--prison ship
  • Cho Balu and Cas Roke, Imperial spies among Alderaanian faction--New Republic custody
  • Dren Wert, Imperial operative from Chandrila--New Republic custody
  • Firith Olan, Tatooine crime lord who's really somebody else
  • Jek Schild, Force-sensitive Imperial operative from Tapani Sector--prison ship
  • Chiss Dark Sider working for Thrawn--prison ship
  • Rade the evil Zeltron--prison ship
  • Dr. Wy--New Republic custody
  • Col. Gent--New Republic custody
  • Lt. Seinar--New Republic custody

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