Well now. Here we are, closing down those last days before Episode III starts here. In fact, I hope to start it not far into next month- definitely by the end of next week.
Time, then, for the previews!
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It is four years since the battle of Naboo, and the Republic is thriving under the leadership of its highly popular Supreme Chancellor, Palpatine.
With the mission on Droben behind them, the Jedi have closed an old chapter of their lives, as others were closed two years before.
No evidence of the activities of the Sith are to be found anywhere. It is time to move onto other things.
Only one group still clings on to finding some sort of resolution to the issues of the past. From the third moon of Uridian, Xeth and his fellow Renegades run an operation designed to investigate and expose the vast Conspiracy that seems to hang around the Galaxy. Finding a new lead, Xeth goes in 'undercover' helping out his old Jedi friends in a mission to purge an evil Cult at the fringes of Republican space.
But Xeth and his friends might be in over their head. Something extraordinary is out there- and is being used of part of a shocking new programme. It's not clear who now is hunting whom in this game. And this time, it is the Jedi who become entangled in the doings of the Renegades, rather than the other way around- and this one can't go on the record!
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Meanwhile, the Jedi are involved in less openly violent missions, as is their role. These are hard times for the Galaxy, as various political pressures grow. There is much social upheaval and organised crime to be fought. Two other important Jedi missions need veteran agents on them, and the players are sent to lead, with the more recently joining players as their team.
The missions are complex and difficult, but straightforward in their goals. But something is very very wrong- and participants in both missions have had very odd premonitions about what they will find.
It is four years since the Battle of Naboo. Under the changes in administration that are affecting the Galaxy, the Dark Siders have fled the Republic, hunted by the Bureau of Immigration and Undesirables and its Osokan hunting teams.
The Bureau grows in power continuously. Now with a network of offices and listening stations all over the Galaxy, any part of civilisation is now a deathtrap for these criminals.
Running a quiet operation of their own, hidden outside the fringes of Republican space, the Dark Siders... survive. And nothing more. They are scavengers, denied the comforts of any civilised links, only just being able to scrape together what they need to survive. A group of desperadoes, with no central organisation, forgotten by the Galaxy, officially dead, or not classed as a problem. Their glory days are behind them, and nothing can be risked, for they stay alive by one creed only- that they will never enter the Republic again.
Fate, of course, has other plans- or perhaps it is destiny. Regardless, when circumstance drives the Dark Siders back into the Republic for one brief time, the hideous danger of the move is counter-balanced by the excitement of the opportunity to return to those now long-missed days of excitement two years before, and a new opportunity to put together a plan that will go horribly wrong.
Unfortunately, the Dark Siders soon find that things are far, far worse than they had imagined, and the name 'Rogan' becomes a new one for them to fear- perhaps more than any other.
Or perhaps not- because the Dark Siders have become entwined in a chain of events that is going to see everything change- and set them on a new course that no-one can see the end of- but puts them on a collision course with some old friends...