Campaign name: Star Wars
Campaign starting year: Shortly after the events in the first Star
War movie
Campaign type: Space Opera
Known races: Human, Wookie, Mon Calamari, Sullustian, Rodians, Hutts
as well as hundreds of other known races
Campaign's base world: Tatooine and the surrounding sector
Frequency of good worlds: Common
Is exploration still going on: Some
Name and type of stellar state:
Galactic Empire
Control rating: CR 4-6 on core Imperial worlds, average CR 2 on
frontier worlds
Brief political/economic description: The Galactic Empire is using
a campaign of terror to put down a rebellion based on the previous Republic.
Organized crime is growing in the wake of a distracted central government.
Smaller independent alien powers are becoming concerned at the growing
might of a human dominated Empire.
Campaign TL: 9, blasters are most common weapon
Exceptions to standard TL: Armor and sensors are one TL behind standard,
TL 12 contragravity and TL 11 ship-borne energy fields available, severe
restrictions on cloning due to public distrust after the Clone Wars
FTL speed: Hyperspace drive, 10 pc/day on well defined routes
FTL communications: Instant (expensive) or slow (cheap)
Medical: Standard TL 9 medicine
FTL drive: hyperdrive
Speed: ~10 pc/day on common routes
Fuel cost and consumption: Standard
Ease of FTL navigation/engineering: Standard
Obstacles to FTL travel: Massive computation time needed before
a successful jump to hyperspace
FTL side effects: Jumping into hyperspace without the proper calculations
can result in collision with realspace astronomical objects when leaving
hyperspace
STL drive: Ion reaction drive
Power plant type: Fusion reactors
Space combat type: Space Opera Combat System
Usual weapons/shields: Lasers, turbolasers, ion beams, proton torpedoes,
and concussion missiles for offense and energy shields and superstrong
metals for defense
PC races: Humans, Wookies
and droids (see GM for other options)
Base wealth: $15,000
Starting social levels: 3 or less
Useful languages: Galactic Basic, droid binary, Wookie
Useful character types (most from GURPS Space p. 31-32): Starship
crew, merchant, Alliance navy/army, smuggler, scout, assassin, bounty-hunter,
dilettante, diplomat, escort, fighter jock, Alliance intelligence, journalist,
primitive, prospector/belter, rogue, scientist, local rebel, trooper/mercenary,
Jedi Knight, slicer/hacker, droid
Useless or disallowed character types: Colonist, Imperial navy/army,
Dark Jedi, local Patrolman
Useful advantages/skills: Combat reflexes, beam weapon (blaster),
electronics operation: all but teleporter, engineering: Hyperdrive, mechanic:
hyperdrive, fast draw, gunner, hard to kill, mechanic: ship drives, pilot:
starship, rank, streetwise
Useless advantages/skills:
Forbidden PC advantages, disadvantages, and skills (from the Basic Set):
judo, karate, magical aptitude, magical resistance, amnesia, blindness,
terminally ill, eunuch, pyromania, megalomania, sadism, berserk, bloodlust
Magic: unknown
Psionics: Manifests as The Force that is the source of many psi-like
powers, requires Unusual Background advantage
Rules variants: New skills: precog parry
Rule variants: Advanced flesh wound (players may reduce the damage
from any attack to 1 point by spending 1 character point), ISMA, Hollywood
Automatic Weapons
