Stardream

The Stardream was a passenger liner that was active during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the reconstituted Sith Empire. In 3639 BBY, a routine journey from Ord Mantell went horribly wrong when one of the passengers' pet risp escaped and began infecting those aboard with the rakghoul plague. In a matter of 15 days, most of the passengers and crew were infected, and the ship's infected captain Magnus had locked himself inside the bridge, believing the crew was mutinying against him.

Diverted from its normal course, the Stardream crashed on the Outer Rim world of Tatooine. The ship broke up entering the atmosphere, scattering dozens of pieces of wreckage and escape pods across the planet, before crashing in the northern Dune Sea. The surviving passengers and crew transformed completely into rakghouls, and the infected who had launched the pods spread the plague across the planet, forcing both the Empire and the Republic to declare the planet a quarantine zone.

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