The DarkStryder Campaign (series)

The DarkStryder Campaign was a multi-book series released by West End Games for use with Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. Created by Bill Smith, Timothy Zahn, Eric S. Trautmann, Peter M. Schweighofer and Doug Shuler, the series spanned one boxed set and three additional supplements. The first installment, The DarkStryder Campaign, was released in July 1995, with the following three books—The Kathol Outback, The Kathol Rift, and Endgame—being released in February, May, and November 1996 respectively. A deluxe boxed set which included all four products in the series was released in April 1998. In addition, three blister packs for the Star Wars Miniatures Battles game were released containing miniatures based on several of the main characters.

Set during the early years of the New Republic era, the Campaign follows the adventures of the New Republic CR90 corvette FarStar on its mission to track down the rogue Imperial Moff, Kentor Sarne. Crewed by an assortment of New Republic personnel, civilians, and fringers, the FarStar travels through the largely unexplored sections of the Kathol sector, Kathol Outback, and Kathol Rift in search of the Moff. Sarne, in possession of exotic alien technology, had allied himself with a mysterious entity known as the DarkStryder, a living, insectoid bio-computer charged with safeguarding the last remnants of the Kathol, an ancient civilization virtually wiped out by a disaster. Along the way, the FarStar has to recruit allies, fight off pirate and Imperial threats, and survive the passage through the Kathol Rift, an unstable and highly dangerous area of space before finally facing Sarne and his forces on Kathol.

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