Introduction

Assault on Starvault is a Star Wars 5th Edition conversion of the Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition adventure Dead in Thay, which originated from the Adventurer's League series of modules.

The adapted version of this adventure was released in the 5e sourcebook Tales from the Yawning Portal, which included a collection of adventures from previous D&D editions adapted into 5e's format. Other conversions of adventures from this sourcebook into SW5e can be found in the Tales from the Yawning Maw document.

Much like the original module, this adventure takes players through a secret stronghold belonging to a powerful collective - this time, with a distinctly-Star Wars flavour. Much of the content has been adjusted to match the official SW5e rules, but much of the adventure remains a flavourful conversion with minimal changes to the overall progression and difficulty.

This adventure is the fifth of the series outlined in Tales from the Yawning Maw. It is followed by Against the Titans, as research notes in Tarvau's quarters describe other locations where hypergate technology has been discovered.

Opening Crawl

For Game Masters who wish to have an opening crawl before their adventure, consider using the read-aloud text below. You may edit it as necessary to fit the context of your party:

Setup

To the people of the Unknown Regions, the mysterious Starvault was thought only a legend. When the Grysk Hegemony discovered the hidden facility and the wonders contained within, they took measures to secure and conceal it for their own ends.

However, an on-site defector was able to send encrypted coordinates to their contact - a lieutenant named Irizi'ran'alani (core name Zirana) in the Chiss Ascendancy's Expansionary Fleet. Eschewing their government's aversion to pre-emptive strikes, Zirana gathered her staunchest allies and conducted a surprise attack against Starvault.

Despite their efforts, the Chiss soldiers only managed to secure the facility's top-most levels, cutting off the Grysk's escape while forcing the Chiss to bunker down. Unable to push forward and unwilling to retreat, Zirana devised a plan to bolster their forces while minimizing the further loss of Chiss lives.

On a lone monitoring station in the Outer Rim, an information broker with connections to Zirana receives her urgent message. Acting on her instructions to fulfill an old favor, he makes contact with a group of renowned adventurers to lend her their specialized aid.

This adventure takes place in the Starvault. It is designed for 9th-level characters. By the end of the story, they are likely to advance to 11th level or perhaps higher... if they survive the attack on Starvault.

Adventure Synopsis

Kasit Gulen, a brilliant scientist and engineer, built the Starvault to test concepts and experiments considered too dangerous for the wider galaxy. One such experiment was the creation of the 'starchain' - a self-replicating malleable alloy controlled by a large magnetic field.

Many years later, the Grysk Hegemony discovered and transformed the Starvault into a cultivation and warfare facility, under the control of a Grysk warmonger named Zastam. Though the starchain persists, it now serves the ambitions of the Grysk Hegemony and their leaders as a core component of their long-term plans.

Zirana knows that if the characters can make their way through the Starvault and find the entrance to the Core Vault where the starchain's magnetic field is centered, they could strike a deathblow to Zastam's plans. She can provide them access and a little bit of guidance, but the bulk of the work is in their hands. They must assault the Starvault quickly — the more word gets out about their activities, the more the site's guards will be on alert.

Eventually, the characters will discover that the Grysk are siphoning the essence of select prisoners with a strong connection to the Force, the energy field that permeates all life in the galaxy. Zastam means to bind the starchain material to this energy field, allowing it to be used anywhere in the galaxy as they will it.

Characters' Goals

Over the course of the adventure, the characters try to accomplish the following tasks:

• Explore the Starvault and deal as much damage to the Grysks as possible.
• Learn how to access the Core Vault, and destroy the magnetic field generator core within it.

The Grysks' goals are straightforward: defend the Starvault and kill the intruders. Not all of the characters' potential foes share these goals, so the opportunity exists to turn enemies into allies, or at least useful tools.

Progression

The level progression of the characters in this adventure assumes you will be using XP progression. If you would prefer to use milestone progression to level the characters up after key events or major victories, consider the following areas as points to level up the characters (to a maximum of 11th level):

• Defeating Tarvau in area 10.
• Clearing at least half of the Starvault's main sectors.
• Gaining access to any of the Chambers of Extraction in areas 98-107.
• Disrupting all of the transport gates and gaining access to the Core Vault.
• Defeating Kasit Gulen in the Core Vault.

Adventure Hooks

Though the Grysks are a veritable threat to all parts of the galaxy, many adventurers from beyond the Unknown Regions may want to avoid what they see as a conflict they have no part in. Consider presenting some of the following options to your players as alternative motivations for their characters.

Dungeon Characteristics

Locations in the Starvault are identified on map 5.1. The following characteristics are common to all the areas, unless otherwise noted in a specific description.

Because of the Grysk's calculating nature, and the existential threat that discovery of the Core Vault would pose, movement within the Starvault is regulated with what one might call excessive precautions.

Atmosphere

Atmospheric regulators keep the facility dry and at a comfortable temperature.

Construction

Regular rooms and their features are of high-grade construction material, designed to be durable and long-lasting. Caverns are rough-hewn stone.

Ceilings rise from 20 feet to vaults of 30 feet. Caverns have natural ceilings roughly 30 feet high. Corridor ceilings are 20 feet high.

Comm Terminals

Each zone contains a comm terminal attached to a wall or an object. These locations serve as data transmission points, allowing someone who has a frequency key to contact the surface facility. The characters can use any comm terminal to contact Zirana and have her attune frequency keys to the zone where the contact stone is located.

When the characters see a comm terminal on a wall for the first time, use the following description.

Thereafter, you can shorten the description of the contact stones they encounter to avoid repetition.

Normal Doors

The Starvault's doors are pneumatic doors made of plasteel, and they open automatically when a creature comes within 5 feet of them. Most doors lack control or security panels. Those that are locked by such a panel require a successful DC 15 Dexterity check using a security kit or a successful DC 20 Strength check to force open.

Secret Doors

A successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check is required to find a typical secret door.

False Doors

A character must succeed on a DC 20 Intelligence (Investigation) check to determine that a door is real or false without opening it.

Light

Wall- and ceiling-mounted electric lights provide bright light in areas that indicate no other illumination conditions. Boxed text meant to be communicated to the players assumes that someone can see the described area.

Containment Traps

A typical containment trap is under a 5-foot-square section of floor, which forms a lid hinged on the inner side and lined with a signal-blocking alloy. A character within 5 feet of the lid might notice it with a successful DC 20 passive Perception check. A character who searches the area notices the lid with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check. A lid can be jammed so that it remains closed by a character who makes a successful DC 15 Dexterity check. Otherwise, the lid falls open when a Small or larger creature places weight on it, although any creature of Large or larger size will not fall in completely.

A creature that triggers the lid must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or receive an electric shock and fall 20 feet into a pit, taking 7 (2d6) kinetic damage and 13 (2d12) lightning damage. The pit walls are smooth plasteel. The lid closes itself 5 minutes after being triggered. The alloy on the lid prevents the enhanced nature of a closed trap from being detected.

If any character becomes stuck in a pit with no way of alerting their allies, a Grysk patrol (choose any configuration from 3-8 in the table) will arrive at the pit to investigate after 1d4 hours have passed. You as the GM can choose how the confrontation plays out - for example, if they successfully take the character prisoner, the Grysks may decide to make use of them as a hostage when next confronting the intruders.

Grysk as Foes

Grysk humanoids in the dungeon, especially experts, prefer to survive encounters with the characters. (All Grysk in the dungeon are non-light in alignment, and most of them are lawful.) When hard pressed, a few might be convinced to surrender, by the use of Charisma (Intimidation or Persuasion) checks. Under interrogation, however, most of these villains lie or otherwise mislead the characters, aiming to kill them with misinformation. Grysk who escape the characters' assault and have no other purpose either attempt to leave the Starvault through the terminus (and become captives or casualties of the Chiss) or join patrols that attempt to hunt down the characters.

Prisoners

Most humanoid prisoners are terrified and have only enough strength to avoid battle. Prisoners do hard labor or end up as food for the facility's specimens. They have no frequency keys and can't leave their zone without help. If able, freed prisoners beg for aid in escaping. If given frequency keys, they head to the terminus.

Alert Level

The Starvault is an active complex. As effects of the characters' assault grow more widespread or easily detected, the alert level of the dungeon's inhabitants rises. This level starts at 0 and can go no lower than 0. It increases by 1 every 4 hours the characters spend inside the dungeon, including resting. The alert level affects the frequency and difficulty of random encounters.

For each 24 hours the characters spend outside the dungeon, the alert level decreases by 1. During this time, the Starvault returns to a state more stable than when the characters left. Specimens might be recaptured or replaced, and new challenges could be set up to foil incursions. Alter the dungeon's contents as you see fit to account for the returning party's previous actions and the reactions of their foes.

A few other events specified in the adventure can raise or lower the alert level.

Star Thralls

Zastam devised the procedure that enables the creation of star thralls - humanoids whose bodies have been methodically reconstituted into starchain, creating puppet warriors. The scientist has since altered the process to make it possible for a Grysk expert to take control of a dread warrior. The effect creates a psychic link between the dread warrior and a Grysk expert, who can, for a time, experience the world through the star thrall's senses, speak with its mouth, and cast powers through it. A powerful expert can control more than one star thrall at a time.

When a party in the Starvault encounters a star thrall that isn't in the company of a Grysk expert or Tarvau, a special interaction may occur. If the star thrall survives until end of the third round (or for more than 20 seconds), Tarvau (see area 10) becomes aware of the group's presence. Tarvau's attention raises the overall alert level by 1. In addition, Tarvau takes control of the star thrall by the start of its next turn. Instead of allowing the thrall to attack, Tarvau uses the thrall's actions to cast his tech powers through it.

When Tarvau becomes aware of the group through a star thrall, the thrall's eyes glow with pale light. If someone casts tech override or diminish tech on the star thrall during this time, and successfully dispels a 5th-level power, Tarvau's connection is suppressed for 1 minute. Preemptively casting diminish tech on a star thrall can have the same effect.

Encounter Type

If a random encounter is indicated, roll on the Encounter Type table, adding the current alert level to the roll. Then roll on the indicated table to determine the encounter specifics.

Minor Encounter

Lesser Guard Patrol

Grysk Patrol

Sector Encounters

If a sector encounter is indicated, roll on the table below that corresponds to the characters' current location. There are no random encounters in the Chambers of Extraction.

Unless the dungeon is on high alert (level 6 or higher), a Grysk technician and 2d4 Grysk soldiers accompany a monster in any sector or individual encounter entry marked with an asterisk.

Changing Treasure

Feel free to change the treasure in the Starvault or add more. It's especially appropriate to change treasure to something characters in the party can use, and it's satisfying to let them claim it from a defeated specimen or Grysk. For instance, if you'd like to give a character an enhanced weapon, you can change a weapon-using creature to account for the treasure.

Grysk Consumable

Each group of Grysks has among them 1d4−2 consumables (minimum 0), each one determined by rolling on the following table.

Experts

Each Grysk expert encountered in the adventure carries currency equivalent to 4d10x100 credits; this currency can be exchanged for equivalent credits via Zirana's contact in the Outer Rim after the adventure concludes.

A Grysk expert also carries 1d4–2 (minimum 0) tech ciphers, each containing a random tech power of 1st or 2nd level, most often darkvision, detect enhancement, identify, infiltrate, or overload. Twenty-five percent of Grysk experts (determine randomly using a d4) instead have one 3rd-level tech cipher, either of diminish tech or remove virus.

Star Thralls

A star thrall carries no currency, but some of them have weapons or armor, determined by rolling on the following table.

Starchain Revival

The technicians of the Chiss strike force can use the starchain's self-replicating properties to heal fallen adventurers by replacing damaged parts. This will only be effective if the character in question meets the following criteria:

• They have been dead for less than 1 minute.
• They have not suffered excessive injuries (e.g. decapitation, disintegration).
• Their body is not in the midst of active combat (i.e. during initiative).

If a player chooses this option, the dead character returns to play as though they were resurrected with the revitalize force power while suffering none of the power's usual penalties. However, if they are resurrected in this way, the missing body parts cannot be restored by any other means until the starchain is safely removed.

Zirana warns such characters that a creature resuscitated in this way will die permanently upon leaving the Starvault, as the replacements will cease to function upon leaving the magnetic field. Furthermore, over the course of 1d4 weeks, a character who remains in this state loses any identity and becomes a star thrall under the control of the Grysk. This also occurs if the character is resurrected three times in this way without removing the starchain, transforming them on their fourth death. To have any hope of exiting the dungeon, the character must safely remove the starchain and restore their missing parts properly.

Zirana conveys that the reconstitution lab (area 31) allows creatures with starchain augmentation to transform back to normal, but she lacks the knowledge of how this feat is accomplished.

Sectors

Some pieces of lore are threats and rumors known to those without firsthand experience of a sector. Creatures inside a sector are likely to know more specific details, especially about their neighboring zones; the DM is encouraged to provide appropriate details wherever creatures are noted to have lore to offer.

• In the Extragalactic Prisons, the gravity labyrinth (area 15) has no easy exit, but mutants that can climb are said to have somehow escaped the magic there.
• In Deep Space Containment, the creatures of deep space keep intruders away from a powerful shrine.
• In the Artificial Habitat, the most cunning hunters seek to steal frequency keys.
• In the Artificial Habitat, treated pools can heal creatures that drink from them.
• In the Puppet Factorium, no Grysk will enter the green archways.
• In the Executive Centre, the Chambers of Existence are used for the torture and execution of those who oppose the Grysk Hegemony.
• In the Executive Centre, specialised treatment can undo starchain integration.
• In Amoeba Production, the power of the white pillar can heal or harm.
• In Amoeba Production, vats hold power over life.
• In Aquatic Development, the Old Hag seeks allies in her plot against the sector's overseer.

Chambers of Extraction

Pieces of lore about the Temples of Extraction are presented in the order in which they should be revealed:

• The Chambers of Extraction are research facilities where Grysk experts conduct questionable experiments. Few know the specifics of what happens there.
• Only transport gates allow access to the Chambers of Extraction. Only Zastam's most trusted servants have the frequency keys attuned to that sector.
• Zastam's latest plan to further the Hegemony's agenda is his most ambitious. He intends to extract the Force essence of gifted humanoids through the Chambers of Extraction.
• Through channeling Force essence into the Core Vault, Zastam hopes to alter the starchain to use the Force itself as a medium, allowing it to be wielded anywhere in the galaxy.
• Disrupting the flow of Force essence into the generators should destroy them, dealing an incalculable blow to the Grysk's power.

Core Vault

Pieces of lore about the Core Vault are presented in the order in which they should be revealed:

• Beneath the Starvault, the prodigy Kasit Gulen slumbers in his Core Vault.
• Zastam sealed off the Core Vault from anyone other than himself.
• The generators for the starchain's magnetic field rest in the Core Vault, protected by powerful shielding.
• If enough transport gates across the Starvault are disrupted, the transport gates in the Chambers of Extraction can be forced to connect to the Core Vault.

Adventure Prologue

To start the adventure, read the following once the party have reached the rendezvous point:

Zirana is contacting via two-way hologram, allowing the party and her to converse. After any initial introductions, she goes on as follows.

The characters may choose how to proceed from here, but Zirana will only transmit further coordinates and instructions for reaching the Starvault once they have agreed to help. If the party requires further information or incentive before making a decision, use the information below to determine how Zirana will answer them. Even if they agree immediately, you can have Zirana relay what information she knows as they navigate toward the Starvault's coordinates.

Zirana

Zirana is a born warrior who knows that her life could end at any time. She means to make every moment count. She doesn't rest while the characters assault the Starvault.

Personality. Zirana is lawful neutral. She has a sense of righteousness colored by fatalism. Her belief is that death is better than allowing the Chiss Ascendancy to fall to the Grysk. With the characters, she is honest and forthright, as well as cynical.

Knowledge. Unfortunately for the characters, Zirana isn't familiar with the inside of the Starvault. Her team's control over the facility's surface level has given her only general knowledge of the rest of the dungeon. She explains that the surface level's lack of data is an intentional part of the dungeon's security structure. If given time, however, she can confirm Starvault lore that the characters learn.

Starting Information

Zirana can relate the following information to the characters:

• For years, the Starvault was a legend. Kasit Gulen, a prodigious architect who spent his life studying construction techniques on many worlds, planned it. As a expert in many fields of engineering, Gulen fashioned the vast complex based on his research. The purpose of the dungeon was to lure intrepid scholars and support their research to create a scientific haven.
• As the Great Barrier became more dangerous to navigate, fewer people sought the Starvault. Eventually, obsessed with his personal research, Gulen disappeared into his Core Vault and never returned. Later, the Grysk discovered the Starvault and saw the opportunity to rebuild and repurpose it.
• The Starvault is a vast, active complex of laboratories and menageries dedicated to empowering the armies with which the Grysk plan to conquer first the Chaos, then all of the galaxy. The dungeon is divided into sectors dedicated to the creation and control of specific types of armaments.

Light

Dim light radiates from the walls, floors, and ceilings in this sector, a sign of reinforced barriers that prevent mutants from exploiting their unknown biot capabilities.

Zone 1A: Culling Operations

In this zone, an anzat named Issem culls the weakest mutants using arena combat. When the mutants fight, the battle can be heard in every chamber in this zone (see "Arena Battle" in area 2 to aid in narrating the noise).

1. Chandelier Chamber

2. Arena

This chamber has walls constructed from a smooth black alloy. Gleaming drones float in midair, spinning slowly. At the center of the area, an isolation chamber with its main door ajar stands atop a metallic dais. Around the edge of the isolation chamber, a terminal strobes with red and white lights.

Security Drones

Unless Issem is in the room, each character who is in the room and can see the drones must make a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw at the start each of his or her turns. The first time each character fails the save, a starchain wraith that looks like a shadowy duplicate of that character erupts from a prism and attacks.

Containment Trap

As shown on the map, the floor has many containment traps.

Comm Terminal

The terminal near the isolation chamber serves as a comm terminal.

Treasure

Inside the isolation chamber are six ciphers - a pair of handheld sensors (2x detect enhancement), a data stick with a free trial use of 'Omnilingo' (translation program), a cracked crystal globe that glows near a strong Force presence (sense force), a medallion marked with the symbol of a geejaw (comprehend speech) and an exotic berry that radiates a strong presence in the Force (improved restoration)

This chamber serves as a means for Issem to gather research material and conduct private experimentation.

Frequency Key

In addition to its treasure, the isolation chamber holds a frequency key attuned to this zone.

The paneled walls of this long hall are scorched. Cracks in the panels reveal the room's structural chassis. Three circular arrays have been installed in the floor, each containing a complex technological arrangment.

Locked Doors

These plasteel double doors are locked by a security panel. Tarvau (area 10) has a security key in his possession.

Metallic Orb

A metallic orb is hidden in a recess in the ceiling 20 feet up. Spotting it requires a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check. The orb is part of the corridor trap.

Corridor Trap

The circles are technological but misleadingly so. A successful DC 15 Intelligence (Technology) check reveals that hidden among pointless wiring are readouts of the room's current electrical concentration. If the check fails, the character discerns the false wiring but doesn't notice the readouts.

The trap activates 3 rounds after a creature enters the room. (Tarvau's security key disables the trap for 1 minute when it is used to open the door to area 5.) At the start of the fourth round, and every 2 rounds thereafter, one circle (chosen randomly) activates and begins whirring. At the end of the same round, lightning discharges through the room from the metallic orb in the ceiling. When the lightning discharges, any creature in the room must make a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 7 (2d6) lightning damage.

A character who touches the metallic orb and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Technology) check can suppress the orb's mechanism, disabling the trap for 1d4 rounds. A diminish tech power cast on the orb suppresses the mechanism for 1 hour. In both cases, the character doesn't know how long the suppression might last. The circles continue to activate at random.

Access Gate

The corridor that separates this area from Culling Operations contains an access gate.

The sweet scent of exotic incense hangs in the hot air of this opulent chamber. The walls are covered with silk tapestries in green and yellow, and the floors are spread with cushions. To the south, two sets of sliding double doors are set in the walls.

Creatures

Penc Eska, a female agbui manipulator, resides here with four Grysk soldiers, who are in her thrall. Eska is an unwilling servant of Tarvau.

If she is alerted to the characters' approach, the agbui takes care to obscure her weaponry. She attempts to convince the characters that she is being held prisoner as a forced lover for Tarvua.

Penc Eska isn't pleased with her situation and won't directly oppose the characters unless they attack her. She is willing to provide a piece of lore about the Core Vault in the hope that the characters might destroy Tarvau for good, freeing her to escape the Starvault.

Closets

The sliding doors open to reveal closets that contain fine female clothing in numerous styles and sizes. The easternmost closet contains a wall-mounted terminal in the middle of its back wall. The terminal serves as a comm terminal in this zone.

A blast of heat escapes as the door opens. A crackling ball of flame roils at the center of a soot-streaked ferrocrete chamber whose walls are lined with shield generators.

Creature

The firestar here flares out toward any creature it can see, but the generators buzz loudly when it does, and it stops short of making contact with any intruder. The firestar can't attack or leave the room. Instead, it attempts to communicate by morphing into a humanoid form and mimicking body language indicating defeat. Even though the firestar doesn't attack, any creature that ends its turn in the room takes 3 (1d6) fire damage as long as the firestar is present.

The shield generator on the wall are a security array that keeps the firestar confined here. A character who makes a successful DC 15 Intelligence (Technology) check discerns the connection. If a character who can cast tech powers then succeeds on three consecutive DC 15 Intelligence (Technology) checks while continually touching the wall, the generators are suppressed long enough for the firestar to leave the room. A diminish tech power cast on the generators suppresses the bonds for 1 minute.

The firestar follows its rescuer, fighting alongside that person. If the firestar sees the elemental converter in area 7, it enters one of the converter's inlet tubes and disseminates.

Access Gate

An access gate is located east of this area at the junction of the corridors that lead to Mutant Containment and to Anthropod Cultivation.

This enormous hall is set with rows of pillars lined with containers holding loose starchain fragments. A large machine drones in the center of the floor space. Along its sides, a series of electrical nodes spark with energy, reaching from the floor to the ceiling forty feet above. Tendrils arc out from the pulsing nodes, lashing out to strike the nearest starchain containers.

In the southwest corner is a transport gate.

This area might once have been a meeting hall, but its furnishings now lie in rotting piles along the walls. Between rows of pillars, six shielded containment cells glow brightly, illuminating the whole chamber.

Creatures

One star thrall, two starchain challengers and six star shells patrol the area.

Containment Cells

Two containment cells are empty and inactive. The other four contain mutants:

A set of double doors is inlaid with ancient patterns, marking out the shapes of mythical figures.

Advance Notice

A character who searches the floor in the eastern corridor and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Survival) check ascertains that no other creatures have entered this side passage in a long time. If examined with a detect enhancement power, the area displays traces of an enhanced power.

Stunning Gas Trap

If the doors are opened, roll initiative. A dense gas immediately fills the corridor out to 20 feet from the doors. Any creature that is not a droid or construct that starts its turn in the area is blinded and must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 7 (2d6) necrotic damage and become paralyzed until the start of its next turn. The gas remains as long as the doors are open.

Holo-photos line the walls of these well-appointed living quarters. Standing screens divide the space into smaller sections containing couches, tables, and desks.

Creatures

Here resides the acting overseer Tarvau with his guards, four star thralls. Having lost the surface facility, Tarvau has withdrawn to this area to devise a means of retaking the upper level, lest he face the Hegemony's wrath.

The Grysk attacks immediately. His guards emerge from various positions to screen him from direct attack. Tarvau can cast any of his powers from one of the star thralls.

The star thralls attempt to drag any helpless characters to the containment trap in the intersection near this room or to area 9, where they throw open the doors.

Devious and arrogant, Tarvau thinks all other creatures are beneath him. He berates the characters at every opportunity, and he drives his underlings to cruelty.

If reduced to 30 hit points or fewer, Tarvau offers the party access to his frequency key's attunements and his security key (see "Treasure" below), as well as two pieces of lore, in exchange for access to the surface and amnesty with the Chiss. If the characters let Tarvau go, he flees the Starvault and becomes a willing captive of the Chiss, reasoning that he can escape later and pretend he was captured against his will.

Comm Terminal

A viewscreen and interface on Tarvau's desk in the western section of the room serves as a comm terminal.

Treasure

A search of Tarvau's terminal reveals several attempts to contact Zastam for assistance, each message becoming more and more desperate. Inside the desk's several drawers are a mutagen of mind scan and a duplicate of the security key that Tarvau carries.

The largest drawer of the desk is held closed with a lock power (requiring a successful DC 25 Strength check to break). Inside is a black datapad (see the next subsection) and a gold coffer wrought to look like a sleeping beast with violet garnet eyes (worth 10,000 credits). The coffer holds Grysk currency worth 20,000 credits, and a dark, smooth river rock (a loadstone).

Research Pad

If detect enhancement is used on the black datapad, the tablet give off an aura of enhancement. The datapad is marked as Tarva's property. The device's main power button has an enhancement on it that, when pressed by anyone other than Tarvau, causes the datapad to explode.

The enhancement can be neutralized by using diminish tech on the datapad. Alternatively, a character who makes a successful DC 10 Intelligence check can turn on the datapad without touching the main power button. If the check fails, the character activates the enhancement anyway, triggering the explosion.

If the datapad explodes, everyone within 10 feet of the box must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, which the holder makes with disadvantage. A creature takes 21 (6d6) fire damage on a failed saving throw and half as much damage on a successful one. The datapad is destroyed if the enhancement goes off.

The walls of this torture chamber are hung with restraining cuffs and electrovoulges humming in standby mode. In a few places, energy chain emitters are fastened to the floor. In the northeast corner is a black gate.

Creatures

A starchain challenger and seven star frames are tormenting a prone pincer mutant that is shackled and chained by energy to the floor in four places. The torturers attack interlopers, using electrovoulges as weapons. These guards have enhanced weapons (see "Treasure" below).

Shackled Mutant

The bound pincer mutant can't free itself, nor can it cast biot powers. It can attack only if a creature comes within 5 feet of it, which is why the guards are using pikes. When a battle starts, the mutant demands to be freed, promising to "lay waste to these demons and their masters." If the characters refuse to aid it, the mutant attacks them if it can.

To free the mutant, a character must pick the security locks of all four energy shackles (requiring a successful DC 15 Dexterity check for each). If it is freed, the pincer mutant rampages, randomly attacking anyone in reach. Once free, it can cast biot powers as normal.

Energy Shackles

The ten sets of shackles attach themselves via an energy tendril to nodes in the floor when activated. A creature held in them can't escape them while the shackles are closed. The energy tendrils are unbreakable, but they do not function anywhere outside of this room.

Dungeon State

If the pincer mutant is left free in this area, it eventually frees the mutants in area 8 from their cells. That fact should be noted as part of the dungeon state.

Treasure

The star frames' electrovoulges are temporarily enhanced with a +1 to attack and damage rolls for 1 more hour. The challenger wields an electrovoulge (fine).

The walls here consist of standard, but the thirty-foot-high ceiling of this broad chamber is marred by cracks. Seams in the floor tiles divide the space into squares five feet on a side. An open pit extends halfway across each of the four entryways, just inside the room.

Aura

A detect enhancement power cast on this area reveals that enhancement permeates the entire room, focused most strongly on the pressure plates.

False Pit

The pits appear normal, but an invisible shield extends across the apparently open space atop each pit. The horizontal field can hold the weight of any number of characters.

Tractor Beam Trap

Any creature that enters the room and walks across the invisible field covering one of the open pits deactivates the tractor beam trap for 1 minute. Once deactivated, characters can move freely across the room for 1 minute before the trap reactivates. If the trap is active, any creature that enters the room without stepping onto the invisible field over one of the false pits is seized and hurled toward the ceiling by a concealed tractor beam, taking 10 (3d6) kinetic damage and remaining restrained on the ceiling for 1 minute. Then the creature is released and drops to the floor, taking 10 (3d6) kinetic damage from falling and landing prone in a random square near the center of the chamber. Moving onto or over the floor triggers the tractor beam trap again, but the creature can remain safe if it stays in the space where it fell until another character deactivates the trap.

Several cages line this chamber from floor to ceiling. Three of them hold various mutants, which are raging futilely and silently against their confinement. The wall in the southwest corner contains a comm terminal.

Creatures

One Grysk fabricator expert oversees one starchain operator and one Grysk technician. The expert knows the pass phrase for the maze of undoing (area 15) and might provide it to the characters in exchange for mercy, knowing that freed mutants will attack their "rescuers." The pass phrase is "My will is not mine to hold."

Cells

Cells that confine mutants hold the following creatures:

The bars of each cell are enhanced to be unbreakable by normal means, and are electrified to dissuade attempts at squeezing through the bars. Additionally, a one-way sound-dampening field covers each cell, preventing sound from leaving the cells but allowing creatures on the outside to speak normally. To free a mutant, a character must pick the security lock on the cell door (requiring a successful DC 20 Dexterity check). A freed mutant attacks everyone in the room.

Keys

The Grysk fabricator has a frequency key attuned to this zone, as well as a set of security keys to the cells.

Dungeon State

If any mutant remains free in this area, all the mutants are eventually freed from their cells. That fact should be noted as part of the dungeon state.

A short hall of gray ferrocrete runs perpendicular to this area's entrance, with six openings across from the entrance that lead deeper into the darkness. The cold, flat ceiling looms thirty feet overhead.

Teleportation Maze

Enhancement infuses the area, emanating most strongly at the trigger points numbered 1 through 20, and at the two entry/exit trigger points labeled E on the map. In addition to the teleportation trigger points, the enhancement aligns gravity to the nearest surface. Therefore, creatures standing on the floor consider "down" to be beneath their feet, while creatures on the ceiling consider that surface to be "down" and are situated accordingly. The entire area was created to capture and hold mutants attempting to escape.

Any creature that enters a trigger point on the floor teleports immediately to the ceiling above another trigger point (determined by a d20 roll). The creature must then succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or take 5 (2d4) psychic damage and fall to the floor, taking 10 (3d6) kinetic damage and triggering another teleportation point. On a successful save, the creature takes no damage and can utilize the weird gravity until the end of its next turn, walking along the ceiling and walls as though they were the floor, and bypassing the teleportation triggers. If the creature is still above the floor at the end of its next turn, it falls the appropriate distance to the floor and triggers another teleportation point.

In addition to this enhancement, the entry/exit points have an additional feature. Until someone utters the proper pass phrase (see area 14), a mutant caught in the maze can't pass through either of the entry/exit points. For non-mutants, leaving the maze can be accomplished by moving along the walls or ceiling and out of the area through either entry/exit point.

Creature

When the characters arrive, a pincer mutant is trapped in the maze. The mutant has learned how to navigate the maze, even though it can't escape the area. Place the mutant on the ceiling above a random teleportation trigger point in the maze (roll a d20). Once the mutant notices the characters, it moves toward characters it can see and in its rage and madness attacks any creatures it manages to reach.

Transport Gate

A transport gate is set into the southern alcove, not immediately visible from the entrance.

Zone 2A: Anthropod Cultivation

The entomological research of these halls now serves the Grysk.

16. Swarm Chamber

The Red Wizards no longer use this chamber.

17. Predator Chamber

18. Barracks

Sounds

The unmistakable squealing and grunting of pigs can be heard from outside any of the entrances.

Blocked Stairs

Slabs of stone, each 5 feet high, block the stairs that descend into this hall along the north and east sides. Climbing over a slab costs 10 feet of movement. Once over a slab, a character can step onto a plank bridge (see below).

Knocking a slab down requires a successful DC 20 Strength check. If a slab is knocked down, the bridge collapses and packs of pigs rush into the open area (see "Pigpens" below).

Creatures

Three star operators oversee six star frames. They attack intruders.

Aura

A detect enhancement power reveals an enhancement on the whole area, which is a ventilating effect to control the pigs' odor.

Bridges

A series of unsteady bridges made from plasteel planks runs 10 feet above the floor, lashed to the pillars and to the slabs of rock that block the eastern stairs. Any creature that falls unconscious while on a bridge has a 50 percent chance to fall into the pigpen.

Enhanced Pillars

A detect enhancement power reveals that each pillar radiates an aura of enhancement. Any humanoid that touches a pillar must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or fall unconscious for 1 minute. (The Grysk marked the pillars as a reminder for themselves.) A diminish tech power suppresses the enhancement of the pillars for 1 minute.

Repulsorlift Platform

A circular repulsorlift platform, 5 feet in diameter, floats on the northern side of the northern bridge to area 20. The disk can hold up to 1,000 pounds. It is stationary and level with the bridge, but it can be directed via voice command by anyone who can see it (DC 10 Intelligence) to float to the blocked stairway that leads up to Anthropod Cultivation (areas 16–18).

Pigpens

The pigs are maltreated, hungry, and irritated. They swarm any creature that enters the pen. Such a creature must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw at the start of each of its turns or take 7 (2d6) kinetic damage. Characters who take 12 damage also are knocked prone. Single-target attacks against the pigs have little effect, but an area effect clears its area of pigs until the end of the caster's next turn.

The enclosed area beneath the bridge is filled with sows and piglets. The DC for the Dexterity saving throw here is only 8.

Drefin

One pig appears smaller than the others, and looks especially malnourished. A DC 13 Wisdom (Perception) check reveals that the creature is a humanoid. The "pig" is in fact a ugnaught named Drefin. He was an author and explorer who ran afoul of a sadistic Grysk expert and was brainwashed into believing himself a beast. If freed of the brainwashing curse he is under (such as with remove curse or improved restoration), Drefin accompanies the characters until he is permitted to escape the Starvault, at which point he departs amid promises to write great stories about the characters' exploits.

Frequency Keys

Each star operator has a frequency key attuned to this zone.

Empty wall niches might once have held works of art, but this broad gallery has now been converted to a slaughterhouse, its floor slick with filth and gore.

In the southeast corner is a transport gate. North of the gate is a comm terminal

Aura

A detect enhancement power reveals an enhancement on the whole area, which is a ventilating effect to control the odor of the butchery.

Creatures

Twelve star frames are here, with a star challenger and a star operator overseeing them. Eight work to the east, stacking butchered pigs along the wall. To the west, four more work at a sluice that carries offal to the black gate, where it disappears (transported to area 41). Occasionally they toss some of the foul slop toward a waste feeder chained to the floor.

Heat wafts from this chamber, and steam obscures parts of the room. Heating vents built into the walls glare with electricity, as do heating lamps in various places across the room. The floor is covered with a sandy substance, on which rest dozens of large eggs of various colors and textures.

Creatures

A coercion expert, one star thrall, and six star frames oversee the eggs. If combat breaks out, the expert sends their servants forward as a screen and uses targeted powers that won't harm the eggs.

Heating Lamps

The lamps are built into the room and can't be moved. A creature that touches a lamp for the first time on a turn takes 3 (1d6) fire damage.

Eggs

Clusters of eggs make this area difficult terrain. None of the eggs is close to hatching. One person with a weapon could destroy all the eggs in about 5 minutes. Leaving the eggs untended also renders them lifeless. The eggs are those of an assortment of exotic beasts from various parts of the galaxy. The eggs are those of an assortment of creatures, including hooklimbs, smelterworms, stinger dragons, and petribeasts, with 1d6 + 1 of each kind. Identifying a particular kind of egg requires a successful DC 20 Intelligence (Nature) check by a creature native to the Unknown Regions.

Steam

Steam renders this chamber lightly obscured.

Frequency Keys

The expert has a frequency key attuned to this zone.

Access Gate

In the corridor beyond the western exit is an access gate that separates area 21 from Meat Processing.

Relief carvings of celestial figures along the walls of this huge hall contrast with the crowded iron cages here. Half of these cells are packed with miniature, shrieking versions of deadly creatures.

In the southeast corner is an access gate. North of the gate is a comm terminal.

Aura

A detect enhancement power reveals an enhancement on the whole area, which is a ventilating effect to control the odor of the hatchlings and their food.

Creatures

A Grysk fabricator expert oversees two Grysk technicians in caring for the imprisoned hatchlings, while four Grysk soldiers stand guard. They attack intruders. In a desperate battle, the expert might take the time to release hatchlings to add to the characters' opposition.

If the battle goes badly for the Grysk, the expert surrenders. Her name is Mirjax, and her allegiance to Zastam is less than resolute. If the characters spare her, she offers the pass phrase to get by the trap and creatures in area 23 ("That which is dead, stay so") and one piece of lore.

Cages

Half the cages here are empty. The others hold the following creatures:

Dead and blackened thorny vines cover the walls and floor, which are peppered with small, circular holes the size of a human fist.

In the northeast corner is a transport gate.

Creatures

Seven star shells and two star challengers are focused on the doors to areas 22 and 24. Those who appear by way of the transport gate can gain surprise if they attack immediately.

Unless the creatures are attacked, they grant free passage to anyone who appears to be a Grysk and knows the room's pass phrase (see area 22). The challengers challenge those who know the phrase but look like intruders. It takes a successful DC 15 Charisma (Deception, Intimidation, or Persuasion) check to convince the challengers to stand down.

Aura

A detect enhancement power cast on this area reveals an aura of tech enhancement around each hole, hinting at the presence of an enhanced effect.

Star Vines Trap

If an unauthorized creature moves 10 feet or farther into the room without uttering the pass phrase, animated vines infused with starchain shoot out of the holes and into every part of the room. Each creature must say the phrase; it's not good enough for one character to say it for the whole group.

The vines ignore the Grysk and their minions. Any unauthorized creature in the room when the vines emerge must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or become restrained by a vine. A creature takes 11 (2d10) kinetic damage each time it starts its turn restrained in this way. As an action, a restrained creature can free itself or another creature with a successful DC 13 Strength (Athletics) check, or free only itself with a successful DC 13 Dexterity (Acrobatics) check. A vine that's restraining a creature can also be cut and killed; each vine has AC 15 and 8 hit points.

While the vines are present, the area is lightly obscured and difficult terrain. A creature takes 2 (1d4) kinetic damage for every 5 feet it moves through the room. A creature that moves more than 15 feet on its turn must immediately make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature becomes restrained as described above.

If no creature is restrained at the end of a round after the trap has been triggered, all the vines immediately die. The trap then goes dormant for 1 hour.

Frequency Keys

Each of the star challengers has a frequency key attuned to this zone.

Access Gate

A access gate is located in the corridor to the west between this area and Beast Cultivation.

Light

The room is filled with dim light.

Creatures

Twelve unarmed star frames wander the area, harvesting plant material in large baskets. As they tear off growths, a crackling sound accompanies an increase in the glow of a nearby pillar, and the harvested plant starts to rapidly regrow.

The star frames ignore intruders unless they are attacked or damaged, in which case they all attack trespassers in the room.

Two star foilages hide in the groves, ignoring the star frames. These creatures are trained to disregard anyone who remains within 15 feet of any doorway, where the baskets are stored on the shelves. They wait to ambush any unauthorized creature that ventures any farther into the room.

A garden courtyard fit for a palace features walls of dark marble veined with gray. The ceiling of brass is supported on black marble pillars. Between the pillars, raised stone garden beds are filled with flowers and creeping vines in every color of the rainbow, their sweet scent hanging in the air.

Creatures

Turian, a Grysk coercion expert, lives here and oversees the Livestock Pens. Two star thralls and eight robed star shells guard him, and a juvenile nightdragon is his personal pet. When the characters first arrive, the dragon has just killed a prisoner.

Turian spends much of his time in seclusion, and relishes the opportunity to fight intruders. If reduced to 20 hit points or fewer, he surrenders and offers two pieces of lore in exchange for his life. He is also willing to give up his treasure and share the attunements of his frequency key, turning over the actual key only under severe threat.

Dungeon State

If Turian survives an initial encounter with the player characters, he and any surviving allies go on patrol, attacking any intruders in the Starvault.

Garden Beds

Enhancement imbues the garden beds. Any living humanoid that spends more than 1 minute here must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or fall unconscious. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a successful save. On any successful save, the creature is immune to the effect for 24 hours. The creatures here are already immune to this effect.

Turian's Repose

The middle garden bed among the three southernmost beds is full of plants shaped like pieces of furniture. A circular shrub is a resting couch, an angular one is solid enough to use as a desk, and others nearby serve as small chairs.

Comm Terminal

On the southern wall near Turian's place of repose is a free-standing terminal that serves as a comm terminal.

Treasure

Turian wears a gold circlet set with rubies (worth 100,000 credits) and a gold cuff (10,000 credits). He carries a tech cipher of vertical maneuvering (a propulsion harness that operates via wires) and a medpac (fine).

One star thrall has a vibroblade (fine), and each has a gold cuff that matches Turian's.

In Turian's "desk" are mundane records of important functions in the Livestock Pens. Also within are oil of etherealness and an expired medpac. A bundle of entwined branches opens like a coffer to reveal currency worth 100,000 credits and a diamond (worth 100,000 credits).

Frequency Key

Turian has a frequency key attuned to this zone, Anthropod Cultivation, Meat Processing, Beast Cultivation, and the Chambers of Destiny (in the Chambers of Extraction sector).

Access Gate

Beyond the exit to the south, an access gate lies in the corridor that leads to the Technical Center.

Zone 3A: Domination Halls

Although the chambers in this zone are treated as places of reverence, they are essentially security rooms designed to destroy the unwary.

26. Hall of the Soul

27. Hall of the Mind

A creature near the doors into this area hears a faint moaning that rises in intensity as the creature moves closer to the doors.

The coppery scent of blood hangs heavy in the air in this chamber of dark red marble. Pools of blood are spread across the floor around several dimly glowing red pillars that give off wispy vapors. Statues of Grysk, each with mouths and claws dripping blood, stand in alcoves around the chamber.

Light

Dim, blood-red light radiates from the pillars and fills the area.

Blood

Due to the slick blood on the floor, a creature that moves across the ground at greater than half its normal speed must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or fall prone.

Creatures

The vapor swirling around two of the pillars coalesces into a pair of star wisps after a door other than a secret door is opened in this area. Another star wisp appears whenever another such door is opened. This process continues until eight of the creatures have manifested.

Pillars of the Body

If a living humanoid creature touches a pillar, the part of its body that touched the pillar becomes stuck, and the creature is restrained. At the start of each of its turns, the restrained creature is drained of blood and must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 5 (1d10) necrotic damage and have its hit point maximum reduced by the amount of the damage until the creature finishes a long rest. With a successful DC 15 Strength check, a creature can use an action to escape the pillar's hold, or another creature can use an action to pull a victim free.

Access Gates

Two access gates adjoin area 28. One is in the south passage that leads to the Infantry Center, and the other is in the eastern corridor that connects with the Technical Center.

Doors surround a central courtyard here, creating the sense of a monastic sanctuary. Each of the glowing silver pillars that support the ceiling feature a built-in restraining apparatus. Grysk soldiers are restrained by four of the pillars, their seemingly dead eyes open wide as if in a state of intense focus.

Silver Pillars

Exuding enhancements that dull will and perception, the silver pillars cause any creature in the courtyard to have disadvantage on Wisdom checks and saving throws. Being restrained by the pillars' apparatuses induces hypnotic dreams that, after a period of weeks or months, improve combat skill and imbue most creatures with strong devotion to the Grysk Hegemony.

Four Grysk soldiers chained to the pillars are in an advanced state of entrancement. They can be treated as unconscious. If they are slain, an alarm sounds in the chamber, alerting the inhabitants of the cells.

Cells

Several of the cells are quarters for Grysk who train and work here. Unless otherwise noted, each cell contains rough bedding and footlockers that hold worthless personal possessions.

Any commotion in the area, or the sounding of the alarm, alerts those in the cells. The Grysk expert emerges 1 round later, and the Grysk technician comes out during the following round. The residents of the other cells take 1d4 + 1 rounds to respond (roll separately for each).

The occupants of the cells are as follows:

Transport Gate

The space beyond the secret door in the southeast corner contains a transport gate.

Access Gates

The corridors that exit this area to the north and the east have access gates that connect with the Domination Halls and the Technical Center.

An arsenal of weapons and armor hangs from the walls in this broad chamber, the floor of which is stained with blood and scorch marks. On the wall between two weapon racks to the east is a comm terminal.

Creatures

Llanix, a Grysk ordnance expert, directs the brutal combat training here. Six Grysk soldiers engage a star thrall and seven star frames. Llanix orders the whole lot to attack intruders. Because they have been engaged in combat, each creature aside from Llanix starts with current hit points equal to half its hit point maximum.

Llanix initially stays back in combat, using lower-level powers and trying to assess the characters' motivations. His allegiance to Zastam and the Hegemony has been flagging. He leans toward supporting the Hegemony's enemies, but he has not formally defected. He worries that some of his peers who are loyal to the Hegemony might suspect him.

The walls of this sterile laboratory are lined with hundreds of niches, each holding a metal canister covered in readouts and indicator lights. A dozen surgery tables arrayed across the floor are stained with dark markings and sterilizing agents.

In the north side of the room is a transport gate.

Creatures

Pharya, a Grysk reconstruction expert, is experimenting on Kelson'ark'treda, a male Chiss (core name Onark) lying on a surgery table farthest from the door the characters use to enter. Onark is unconscious and stable at 0 hit points. Pharya's experiment involves monitoring the spread of starchain across his body, causing his face to contort and appear to regain consciousness before becoming unresponsive once more. The spread of starchain is monitored by several instruments spread around the table.

A star operator on a nearby table is a Grysk technician in the process of receiving their star armor. Also nearby, two star challengers are recovering from their starchain implementation. Due to being medically drugged, they respond only to Pharya when she orders an attack. One of them tries to throw a canister at a character each round (+4 to hit, range 10/20 feet, one creature). A hit deals 3 (1d6) kinetic damage, and the target must make saving throws as noted in the 'Canisters' section. Pharya stays for a round or two to assess the party's capabilities and then moves to area 32 or uses the transport gate in the room.

As a faithful adherent of Zastam, Pharya follows the overseer's philosophy that no weapon is too dangerous and no experiment too unethical if it promises power. Lawful dark, Pharya is as opportunistic as she is wicked.

She does anything she can to save herself from death, including using Zastam's secrets. She can reveal two pieces of lore and is willing to share her frequency key's attunements. Further, she can teach the characters the process for using this area's equipment to return characters infected with starchain back to normal.

If she is allowed to do so, Pharya attempts to flee the Starvault. However, Zirana does not trust her and will secure her as a prisoner upon entering the terminus, regardless of what arrangements or deals the characters make with Pharya.

Aura

A detect enhancement power reveals a tech enhancement on the whole area, signifying the process that helps in the manipulation of starchain. A sense force power reveals that this area is corrupted by the dark side of the Force.

Surgery Tables

These 3-foot-high specialized surgery tables use high-tech automated operating tools. They aid in the process of replacing starchain with living tissue.

With the proper knowledge, a creature can use the surgery tables to transform a starchain-infected character back into a normal creature. Doing so requires the aid of a Grysk expert or explicit written instruction, such as the datapad in Llanix's room in area 32. The operation takes 20 minutes and requires a techcaster to make a DC 15 Intelligence (Technology) check. The techcaster must also expend four tech points. On a successful check, the infected creature returns to normal with all of its Hit Dice expended. On a failed check, the tech points are expended but the creature remains infected with starchain.

A multi-tiered monument of gray metal shot through with red lights dominates an open courtyard surrounded by closed doors. Blue light shines from the top of the monument. The air around it hums with electricity, its vibration overwhelming other sensations. Grysk technicians are seated in meditative positions on the lower two tiers, eyes fixed on viewscreens built into the monument.

Technical Monument

The monument amplifies tech powers in the courtyard, but those in the area have trouble with physical sensations and tasks, and they have disadvantage on Strength and Dexterity checks and saving throws. Interfacing with the monument's viewscreens regularly involves a training regimen that, after a period of weeks or months, improves techcasting capabilities and imbues most creatures with strong devotion to the Grysk Hegemony.

Each tier of the monument is 5 feet high, and clambering onto it requires 5 extra feet of movement.

Creatures

Three Grysk technicians kneel on the lower tier of the monument. The Grysk attack intruders.

Cells

The cells around the perimeter of the court (rooms labeled A through D on the map) are quarters for Grysk who train and work here. Unless otherwise noted, each cell contains rough cots and footlockers holding worthless personal possessions. Cells marked with an asterisk on the map are empty.

Combat in the courtyard alerts the inhabitants of the cells. They take 1d4 + 1 rounds to respond (roll for each one):

Comm Terminal

Atop the monument is a data terminal that can be used as a comm terminal. Any other functions are locked down by overseer's direction.

Frequency Key

The Grysk expert in cell B has a frequency key attuned to this zone.

Access Gate

Two access gates separate area 32 from other zones. The gate in the corridor to the west leads to the Infantry Center. Beyond the doors to the south is a gate that connects with the Lesser Guard Outpost.

Luminescent lighting set into the walls and floors light a rough stone cavern. To the south is a transport gate.

Light

The luminescent lights brightly light the area.

Creatures

One Grysk soldier, five lugubraa, and five nikurdans attack intruders on sight.

Frequency Key

The Grysk soldier has a frequency key attuned to this zone.

The walls and ceiling of this rough cavern are a mass of rock spines, the floor covered with rock dust and shards. A path has been worn through the rubble, winding between double doors to the west and a rough flight of stairs rising to the larger and lit open space to the east.

Path

Except on the path, the ground in the room is difficult terrain.

Flechette Storm Trap

Tech enhancement infuses the room. Any creature that spends more than 1 round in this area triggers the trap. When the trap triggers, each creature in the room who isn't wearing a Grysk uniform must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 14 (4d6) kinetic damage from projectiles on a failed save, or only half as much damage on a successful one. This effect repeats every round until the room is empty, when the trap resets.

The path becomes difficult terrain, and if the creatures in areas 33 and 35 can hear the trap go off, the guards have warning that intruders are in the area.

Rock Wall

A rough stone wall separates the lower cavern of area 34 from the higher finished chamber of area 35. The wall is 15 feet high.

Three jury-rigged heating lamps light this vast chamber, powered by cables running through through cracks in the walls. Scattered bedding and the stench of unwashed humanoids suggest that many creatures might dwell here.

In the east, on the wall between two oversized bedrolls, is a comm terminal.

Heating Lamps

Heating lamps brightly light this area. A creature that touches a lamp for the first time on a turn, or starts its turn on top of a lamp, takes 3 (1d6) fire damage.

Creatures

Resting in this chamber are a Grysk soldier and a Lesser Guard squad made up of five nikurdans and five lugubraa. A tamed shikitari is on post here to keep the other guards in line.

Stone Wall

See area 34.

Dungeon State

The Lesser Guard patrols throughout the Starvault. If a squad resting in the barracks is slain, an identical squad arrives here within 1 hour.

Frequency Keys

The Grysk soldier has a frequency key attuned to every zone in this sector. The shikitari has a frequency key attuned to this zone.

Access Gates

An access gate is located in the corridor to the south, leading to Thaxalia's Domain. Another access gate is in the passage to the north that connects with the Technical Center.

Zone 4A: Enthrallment Specimens

The creatures in this zone share a capacity for humanoid enthrallment.

36. Mind Angler

Water can be heard rippling in this dark area before the characters arrive.

37. Ethereal Feeder

Light

This zone is bathed in a weird green glow that provides dim illumination.

This rough cavern has an uneven floor with open holes in it. In the east, on a spar of rock, is a comm terminal.

Southwest of the doors is an alcove that contains a transport gate.

Creatures

Eight star shells and two greater star shells attack any intruders. Any combat warns Thaxalia (area 39) of the approach of intruders.

Sinkholes

These open sinkholes are 5 feet across and 10 feet deep. A creature that falls into a sinkhole is restrained in the narrow bottom. It takes a successful DC 13 Strength check or Dexterity check to work free, and a Small creature has advantage on this check. It's then an easy matter to climb out of the sinkhole.

Access Gate

The passage that leads west has an access gate that connects with Enthrallment Specimens.

Hundreds of unnatural glowing slits stare into this room from long walls of glistening green stone. The floor of this chamber is covered with viscous slime that drips from four stalagmites.

Thaxalia

Thaxalia, a powerful and long-lived reality warper crippled by Grysk experimentation, floats near the ceiling, trying to remain unnoticed while intruders enter. Thaxalia's central eye and two of its vestigial eyes have been maimed by the Red Wizards, reducing its reality warping capabilities. If it has warning or is reduced to 50 hit points or fewer, it withdraws to area 40, leaving its tears to deal with the threat.

After only 2 rounds, Thaxalia's hatred for the Grysk inspires the creature to question the characters' purpose in the dungeon. If they reveal their goals, the creature suggests an alliance, extolling its plans for revenge.

Fearing Thaxalia's ability to wreak havoc if it escapes this zone, the Grysk cursed the beholder with the inability to use glyph keys. Thaxalia doesn't know the solution, but a remove curse power can eliminate the prohibition. The creature then takes a frequency key from the wight in area 40 and asks the characters to provide it with more attunements. If refused, it becomes hostile and uses its powers to compel the characters to give it more attunements.

Thaxalia's Tears

Ripped open across the cavern walls by the hundreds, bridging this dimension and another of chaotic energy, are tears in the fabric of reality. These tears aren't independent creatures, but they can project weak influences on reality that function as an area hazard. At the start of each of its turns, any creature other than Thaxalia in the cavern must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or suffer one of the following effects, rolled randomly.

Slime

Covering the rough floor is 1 foot of thick slime, which is difficult terrain and covers several hidden sinkholes. Any creature that starts its turn prone in or submerged in the slime takes 4 (1d8) poison damage.

Sinkholes

These open sinkholes are 5 feet across and 10 feet deep, and they are filled with slime. While moving near a sinkhole, a character who succeeds on a DC 20 Perception check notices the hazard due to the flow of slime in and around it. A creature that falls into a sinkhole is restrained in the narrow bottom and submerged in slime, unable to breathe. It takes a successful DC 15 Strength check or Dexterity check to work free, and a Small creature has advantage on this check. It then takes a successful DC 10 Strength check to climb out of the sinkhole.

Stalagmites

These 10-foot-diameter spires of rock rise 20 feet above the floor and exude the otherworldly slime. Their sides are slick and smooth, difficult to climb.

Viscous slime covers this chamber. Rough stone steps lead up and out.

Slime

Covering the rough floor is 1 foot of thick slime. Any creature that starts its turn prone in the slime takes 4 (1d8) poison damage.

Frequency Key

One star challenger corpse has a frequency key attuned to this zone.

Access Gate

An access gate lies in the corridor to the west, leading into the Disposal Center.

Anti-Recovery Essence

Viewed with detect enhancement, the area has an aura of tech enhancement. When non-construct and non-droid creatures regain hit points in this zone, they regain only half as many.

This rough-walled cavern contains nothing that should make it stink of filth and rot as it does.

Dark particles curl like smoke from the walls. To the northeast, similar particles whirl around a transport gate. East of it is a comm terminal.

Creatures

Twenty unarmed star frames stand here, waiting to cart refuse that arrives from other areas through the transport gate. They attack only if attacked.

If a character drops any moderate-sized object in front of the star frames, as many of them as needed quickly seize the object and carry it into area 42. The waste feeders are distracted while the star frames move through area 42.

Doors

Enhancements on these locked doors causes them to open if an animate star frame touches them.

Dungeon State

Unless destroyed with ion damage, the star frames here reassemble within 1 minute of being destroyed. Restored star frames have no memory of their previous fate, so they attack only if attacked or if they witness other star frames under attack.

Pools and piles of rotting garbage, offal, and filth cover the rough stone floor of this cavern. The air is heavy with an unbearable stench. Four stalagmites thrust up from the floor.

Creatures

Two waste feeders and two juvenile waste feeders hide in the trash here. The waste feeders attack right away unless the waste feeder from area 20 is here, in which case it may convince them to delay or even negotiate with the characters (depending on how the previous encounter went).

The waste feeders use their telepathy to demand food like peevish children. If the characters offer to feed them, the waste feeders stop fighting to see if the party is telling the truth (unless the party has slain one of the juveniles). If the characters have killed one of the juveniles, it takes a successful DC 20 Charisma (Intimidation or Persuasion) check to get the waste feeders to stand down.

Stench

At the start of each of its turns in this area, any non-construct/droid creature that isn't a waste feeder must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or be overpowered by the stench. On a failed save, a creature is poisoned until the start of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature is immune to this stench for 1 hour.

Trash

The waste in the area is difficult terrain.

Stalagmites

These 10-foot-diameter spires of rock rise 20 feet above the floor.

Dungeon State

If the waste feeders are freed and given a frequency key, they go rampaging through the dungeon, devouring anything in their path, including Grysk.

Access Gates

The open passages that lead away from area 42 both contain access gates. The northern route leads to the Warren of Unreality, and the southern path goes to Void's Edge.

A testing apparatus is set up in this cavern, linking a terminal with a large transparisteel containment sphere surrounded by electrical nodes. Inside the sphere is a glowing 'tear' suspended in midair, emitting various particles of unknown origin.

Access Gate

An access gate stands in the passage that leads to the Weakening Woods.

Twisting ledges divide this chamber into multiple sections, creating a series of increasingly deep tiers. Stalagmites dot the floor.

Bad Feeling

Those entering this area can hear the babble of the misshapen. A successful DC 10 Intelligence check confirms that the speech is gibberish in various languages.

Ceiling

Although the cavern floor steps down to the east as shown on the map, the ceiling stays level.

Creatures

Four exoserpents climb and wander on the top two steps, while two misshapen lurk on the third. One exomedusa starts out flying above area 45. Six prisoners hide among the ledges, trying to avoid the aberrant monsters.

Stabilizing Field

An enhanced stabilization field radiates from the entire cavern. Whenever a character gets a failure on an attack roll, a saving throw, or a check in this area, all the character's ongoing powers and enhanced items are suppressed until the end of the character's next turn. During this time, powers provide no effect and items don't impart their properties or powers.

Ledges

Each rough ledge is 10 feet high and easy to scale.

Stalagmites

These 10-foot-diameter spires of rock rise 20 feet above the floor.

Transport Gate

A transport gate is set into the western alcove, not immediately visible from the entrance.

Access Gate

The exit from this area contains an access gate that connects with the Disposal Center.

A slab of jet-black stone sits at the center of this cavern alcove. Its sides show relief carvings of familiar humanoid faces — your own.

On the wall east of the altar is a comm terminal.

Altar

This ancient altar of the Sith is imbued with Force enhancement that reshapes its sides to show the faces of the most recent sentient humanoids to enter area 44.

The top of the altar slab shows the shadowy outlines of a dozen weapons, pendants, and other objects. An analyze or telemetry power reveals that the altar imparts additional power into enhanced items placed on its surface. The caster must succeed on a DC 20 Intelligence (Lore) check to further discern that when an item is empowered, the altar also draws in the life force of creatures near it.

When any magic item is placed on the altar for 1 minute, it takes on the following features:

• The item glows with dim purple light out to a radius of 5 feet.
• The item periodically and randomly alters its appearance in slight ways. The bearer has no control over these minor transformations, which don't affect the item's use or magical properties.
• The owner can communicate telepathically with the creature whose soul was consumed (see below).

When an enhanced item is transformed, randomly select one character within 50 feet of the altar. That person's force essence is drawn into the item, and he or she drops into a deathlike coma, requiring a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check to realize that the victim is still alive. An analyze or telemetry power can be used to discern the whereabouts of the essence and how to cure the condition, temporarily or permanently.

Light

The cavern ceilings glow with enhanced light that varies in 12-hour cycles to simulate day and night. When the characters arrive, it is the start of the night cycle, and all areas of this sector are in dim light.

Enhanced Trees

Isolated stands of gnarled and vine-choked trees rise 15 to 20 feet high in the caverns. The trees are enhanced, having different powers in each zone, and targeting any intruders — creatures that aren't normally housed in the area. An area of trees is difficult terrain.

Enhanced Turf

The rocky cavern floors in this sector are covered in a layer of magic turf that uses tech enhancement to slowly absorb the waste of the creatures that dwell here.

Pools

Each of the rocky pools in these caverns is 1 foot deep and filled with cool, clean water. A pool is difficult terrain.

Zone 5A: Concealing Woods

Powerful obscuring enhancements suffuse the trees in this zone. When an intruder ends its turn in an area of trees, the creature must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature becomes unable for 1 minute to see creatures hostile to itself. The creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a successful save.

46. Hooklimb Nest

This treeless section of the cavern is set with natural ledges and indentations ten feet from the floor.

Creatures

Eight petrifowls roost on the ledges. They make no attempt to hide, and they attack as soon as they realize the characters have no food for them.

Ledges

Rough handholds make it easy to climb the walls in this area. A search of the ledges reveals sixteen petrifowl eggs.

At the pool's edge is a lifelike statue of a hooklimb.

Creatures

Two petribulls attack intruders on sight, pursuing those who flee into area 46. Any hooklimbs there attack only if the intruders slay or drive off the petribulls.

Access Gate

An access gate is situated in the opening in the rock wall that leads to the Rejuvinating Woods.

Trees crowd the walls of this turfed cavern. To the southwest the turf gives way to a stone floor, where particles flow like starlines from a transport gate. West of the gate is a comm terminal.

Creatures

A dominator droid and a star challenger guard this area. The wight has orders to confront anyone who comes through the gate without pig carcasses or other items to feed to the zone's creatures. If such interlopers can't provide credible reasons for their presence, the star challenger orders the dominator droid to attack.

Frequency Key

The star challenger has a frequency key attuned to this zone.

The grassy turf grows high in this large cavern.

Creatures

Two beast-bound dathomirians lurk in the tall grass. A character who succeeds on a DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check spots one or more of them. These creatures hesitate to attack only if the characters seem to be Grysk.

The dathomirians want to take revenge on the Grysk and then escape the Starvault. If the characters offer to free them and succeed on a DC 20 Charisma check (any appropriate Charisma skill can apply), the dathomirians stand down. They want any frequency keys the characters have. If they are defied, the dathomirians are likely to renew their attacks.

Development

If the dathomirians are freed and given a frequency key, they stalk the dungeon for any prey they can find.

Access Gate

An access gate is located in the opening in the rock wall that leads to the Concealing Woods.

A reservoir in this cavern glows with pale blue light.

Bones are piled against the western walls of this cavern, forming low mounds.

Creatures

Two adult mirage cats dwell here with three juvenile mirage cats. Each creature sits atop a different bone mound, and they all attack when it becomes clear that the characters have not brought food.

Bone Piles

These 1-foot-high piles of bones are difficult terrain.

Access Gate

The northern exit from this area has an access gate that connects with the Containment Halls. The opening to the east has an access gate that leads to the Decaying Woods.

Broad ledges run along the walls of this long cavern, twenty feet above the floor.

Creatures

The four adult antlerhawks and four juvenile antlerhawks that roost here have grown tired of their pork diet. If the characters don't appear to be Grysk, or if they fail to offer food within a few moments, the antlerhawks attack.

Ledges

Rough handholds make it easy to climb the walls in this area. A search of the ledges reveals five antlerhawk eggs.

Access Gates

The southern passage has an access gate that leads to the Rejuvenating Woods. To the northwest, an access gate connects with the Containment Halls.

Broken and gnawed bones are strewn across the turf in this forested cavern. Against the eastern ledge is a transport gate. On the wall southwest of the gate is a comm terminal.

Creatures

Three shikitari live in this area, two smaller ones that fight constantly and an immense, dominant one that lazes near the transport gate. They wait to be fed or given prisoners to play with, which allows the characters a few moments to decide on a course of action. If the party lingers, it's likely to dawn on the shikitari that the characters are fair game.

Frequency Key

The largest shikitari has a frequency key attuned to this zone, with which it and its allies can pursue fleeing characters.

Access Gate

A access gate is situated in the opening in the wall that leads to the Weakening Woods.

A reservoir in this cavern glows with pale gray light.

The trees in this forested cavern are scorched and gouged. The turf is burned and overturned, revealing the permacrete floor in places.

Access Gate

An access gate is located in the passage to the north that connects with the Metallic Foundries.

This area resembles a tranquil meadow dotted with a few trees.

Tracks

The ground seems to be covered with the tracks of an unknown beast, but a successful DC 25 Intelligence (Nature) check reveals that these tracks resemble those of lugubraa.

A reservoir in this cavern glows with pale yellow light. Northeast of the reservoir, the turf gives way to a permacrete floor with a transport gate set into it. East of the gate is a comm terminal.

Reservoir

The reservoir's enhancement grants creatures that wade in it the benefits of an improved restoration or a restoration power (creature's choice). A creature can wade in the reservoir safely only for only one minute per standard week. After the second minute that the creature spends wading in a week, its hit point maximum is halved for one week (remove curse and remove virus negate this effect). After the third minute that the creature spends wading in a week and every minute after, it suffers the effects of a wrack power (save DC 15).

This big side chamber has a few small copses of trees and a few piles of bones.

Bones

The gnawed bones of six humanoids are here. Each has crushed neck vertebrae, which someone can discern with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine) check.

Creatures

Six chokers live here, two lurking in each of the two treed areas near the pool and two on the walls near the pool. They wait and watch, attacking when the characters move within reach, which their handlers rarely do. The chokers in the trees try to pull victims into the treed areas.

The trees grow closer together in this cavern, giving it the look of a silent forest. A monstrous beast crouches low at a pool of still water, its razor-sharp beak and bright eyes on display as its gaze tracks you.

Access Gate

The passage that leads east has an access gate that connects with the Disposal Center.

Ameboid Prod

An ameboid prod is a techstaff that deals 1d4 sonic damage instead of the normal damage of that weapon. The prod suffers no damage from contact with ameboids. In addition, an ameboid hit by a prod has its speed reduced to 0 until the end of its next turn, and it can't benefit from bonuses to speed during that time. If an ameboid prod is used as a weapon, it breaks the first time a natural 1 is rolled on an attack roll with it.

Interactions

Most Grysk assigned to this sector hate being here. Grysk who surrender here hate the sector so much that they are more inclined to give truthful information about it.

Ameboid Nature

An ameboid is a gelatinous mass that is infused with a starchain 'nucleus', effectively acting like a large-scale single-cell organism. These creatures are derived from a dangerous source - the hive-minded and infectious ooze entity known as 'Mnggal-Mnggal', a dreaded figure within the Unknown Regions. While the Grysk have their Mnggal-Mnggal samples contained for the moment, the Chiss are unlikely to look past this danger once it is recognised.

Zone 6A: Production Center

The technology of these chambers allows the Grysk to create sentient gelatinous masses.

61. Reject Storage

62. Tribute Chapel

63. Spawn Vats

The sound of flowing and bubbling liquid is audible from the northern hallway leading to this chamber.

As the greenhouse workers begin the process of destroying the saplings, the mayor turns to you with a frank expression. "You realize that our actions have set loose several of these abominations upon the galaxy. Who knows what these twisted plants are doing now?"

Next Tale From the Yawning Maw

If you would like to continue from this adventure to Forge of the Nightscales, the party will also discover a map on a datapad alongside the Mandalorian message in area 37. This map directs to a mountainous crag on the surface of the forest moon Blasyndel, above which is written 'Choruk'Ed' in Mando'a script.

Further research can reveal that that the caverns beneath this mountain were used as an old Mandalorian stronghold, which is said to hold powerful weaponry forged from beskar. This should prove as sufficient incentive and an obvious adventure hook for most players.

Saving Berath and Sharwyn

Although the circumstances for saving Berath and Sharwyn before they die seems impossible given their state, at least one clear option presents itself in this adventure. If Berath or Sharwyn are fed a quarter of a red domir fruit from the Tree of Domir (before or after it is destroyed), they may receive the benefits of the fruit's healing power and be restored to normal - in this way, players can receive a greater reward from the Hurcule matriarch for returning their daughter safely, though Berath is not actually a Jedi and cannot give them much reward save for his lightsaber.

For greater stakes, however, you may rule that a tree thrall needs to consume a whole fruit in order to be saved. In doing so, you may present your party with a choice to save either Berath Vord (who they may believe is a Jedi) or Sharwyn Hurcule from certain death. Whether the final decision comes easily or not, doing so can present one final moral challenge for the party before the adventure ends.

A collection of enhanced items found across the adventure.

An alternative version of Shatterpoint and its wielder are provided in appendix C under "Alternative Berath Vord and Shatterpoint", intended to simplify the usage of both this weapon and Berath himself.

Plant Growth (1st-level light side power)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 90 feet

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Grasping weeds and vines sprout from the ground in a 20-foot square starting from a point within range. For the duration, these plants turn the ground in the area into difficult terrain.

A creature in the area when you cast the power must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be restrained by the entangling plants until the power ends. A creature restrained by the plants can use its action to make a Strength check against your force save DC. On a success, it frees itself.

When the power ends, the plants wilt away.

Commoner

The standard template for most Galactic citizens.

Noble

A higher-class citizen with minor combat training.

Security Guard

Small or medium humanoid (any race), any alignment

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• Armor Class 15 (mesh armor, medium physical shield)
• Hit Points 11 (2d8+2)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
13 (+1)	12 (+1)	12 (+1)	10 (+0)	11 (+0)	10 (+0)

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• Skills Perception +2
• Senses passive Perception 12
• Languages any one language (usually Basic)
• Challenge 1/8 (25 XP), PB +2

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Actions

Blaster Pistol. Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, range 50/200 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6+1) energy damage.

Shield Bash. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4+1) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Okurr Station

Pilot

Small or medium humanoid (any race), any alignment

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• Armor Class 13 (combat suit)
• Hit Points 9 (2d8)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
8 (-1)	14 (+2)	10 (+0)	14 (+2)	12 (+1)	11 (+0)

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• Skills Perception +3, Piloting +4
• Senses passive Perception 13
• Languages any one language (usually Basic)
• Challenge 1/8 (700 XP), PB +2

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Bad Feeling. When the pilot rolls for initiative, it can move up to its speed. This movement happens before the initiative order is determined.

Actions

Light Pistol. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 40/160 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4+2) energy damage.

Appears in: Okurr Station

Veteran

Small or medium humanoid (any race), any alignment

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• Armor Class 17 (assault armor)
• Hit Points 58 (9d8+18)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
15 (+2)	14 (+2)	14 (+2)	10 (+0)	11 (+0)	10 (+0)

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• Skills Athletics +4, Perception +2
• Senses passive Perception 12
• Languages any one language (usually Basic)
• Challenge 3 (700 XP), PB +2

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Actions

Multiattack. The veteran makes two heavy blaster rifle attacks or two vibroblade attacks.

Heavy Blaster Rifle. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 100/400 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d4+2) energy damage.

Vibroblade. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8+2) kinetic damage, or 7 (1d10+2) kinetic damage if used with two hands.

Appears in: Okurr Station

Physician

Small or medium humanoid (any race), any alignment

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• Armor Class 13 (mesh armor)
• Hit Points 27 (5d8+5)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	10 (+0)	12 (+1)	16 (+3)	14 (+2)	12 (+1)

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• Skills Medicine +6, Persuasion +3, Lore +5
• Senses passive Perception 12
• Languages any four languages
• Challenge 2 (450 XP), PB +2

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Weaponized Defibrillator. As a bonus action, the physician can expend 2 tech points to cause its melee weapon attacks to deal an extra 10 (3d6) enhanced electrical damage to a target on a hit. This benefit lasts until the end of the turn. If the physician expends additional tech points, the extra damage increases by 1d6 for each point above 2.

Techcasting. The physician is a 5th-level techcaster (tech save DC 13, +5 to hit with power attacks, 20 tech points). The doctor knows the following powers:
At-will: minor defribrillation, mobile lights, production values
1st-level: kolto pack, toxin scan, tracer bolt
2nd-level: kolto dispenser, toxin purge
3rd-level: diminish tech, slow-release medpac

Actions

Blaster Pistol. Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, range 50/200 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6+1) energy damage.

Vibroscalpel. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4+1) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Okurr Station

Eryc Tim'Bars

Medium humanoid (bothan), neutral light

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• Armor Class 10
• Hit Points 17 (5d6)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)	14 (+2)	10 (+0)	11 (+0)

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• Skills Medicine +2, Lore +4
• Senses passive Perception 12
• Languages Basic, Bothanese, Dathomirian, Huttese
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Ichor Infusion. Eryc's body is infused with and empowered by dathomirian ichor. If Eryc takes 5 damage or less that would reduce him to 0 hit points, he is reduced to 1 hit point instead.

Techcasting. Eryc Tim'Bars is a 1st-level techcaster (tech save DC 12, +4 to hit with power attacks, 4 tech points). The doctor knows the following powers:
At-will: minor defribrillation, mobile lights, production values
1st-level: kolto pack, stack the deck, toxin scan

Actions

Improvised Weapon. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 2 (1d4) kinetic damage.

Ichor Lightning. Ranged Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, range 30/90 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d6) necrotic damage.

Appears in: Area 34

J-07 ("Jot")

Tiny droid (tracker), chaotic evil

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• Armor Class 13
• Hit Points 7 (3d4)
• Speed 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
5 (-3)	17 (+3)	10 (+0)	12 (+0)	10 (+0)	7 (-2)

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• Skills Stealth +5
• Damage Vulnerabilities ion
• Damage Resistances necrotic, poison, psychic; kinetic, ion or energy damage from unenhanced attacks
• Condition Immunities poisoned, diseased
• Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages Galactic Basic, Dathomiri, Binary
• Challenge 1 (200 XP), PB +2

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Adaptive Form. The droid can use its action to enter one of four modes: flight mode (speed 10 ft., fly 40 ft.), scaling mode (speed 40 ft., climb 40 ft.), aquatic mode (speed 40 ft., swim 40 ft.), or back to its default mode. Its statistics are the same in each form, except for the speed changes noted.

Unusual Circuitry. The droid has advantage on saving throws against tech powers and other enhanced effects, but disadvantage on saving throws against effects that would deal ion or lightning damage.

Actions

Poisoned Needle. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3) kinetic damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or take 5 (2d4) poison damage and become poisoned for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Scare (1/Day). One creature of the droid's choice within 20 feet of it must succeed on a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, with disadvantage if the droid is within line of sight, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Cloaking Tech. The droid becomes invisible, until it attacks or uses Scare, or until its concentration ends (as if concentrating on a power). Any equipment the droid carries is invisible with it.

Appears in: Area 10

Pig Rodent

Native vermin of Dathomir, pig rodents are scavengers and plague-spreaders that are a common source of nourishment for native rancors.

Swarm of Rodents

Though less dangerous than their larger counterparts, tiny rodents of Dathomir can still pose a danger in swarms.

Nydak

Large beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 89 (9d10+36)
• Speed 40 ft., climb 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
18 (+4)	16 (+3)	18 (+4)	5 (-3)	12 (+1)	10 (+0)

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• Skills Athletics +6, Perception +3
• Condition Immunities frightened
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13
• Languages -
• Challenge 4 (1,100 XP), PB +2

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Leap Attack. If the nydak jumps at least 10 feet as part of its movement next creature and then hits it with a claw attack on the same turn, that target must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone and be stunned until the end of its next turn. If the target is prone and stunned, the nydak can make one bite attack against it as a bonus action.

Actions

Multiattack. The nydak makes one claw and one bite attack.

Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. Hit: 13 (2d8+4) kinetic damage.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5ft., one target. Hit: 15 (2d10+4) kinetic damage.

Weakened Nydak

While weakened, the nydak starts combat with only 44 hit points, has both its speeds reduced by 10 feet each, and can't use Multiattack. If defeated in this state, the nydak is worth 450 XP.

Appears in: Area 12

Rancor, Juvenile

Medium beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 95 (10d8+50)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
19 (+4)	11 (+0)	20 (+5)	3 (-4)	9 (-1)	6 (-2)

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• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 9
• Languages -
• Challenge 2 (450 XP), PB +2

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Siege Monster. The rancor deals double damage to objects and structures.

Actions

Multiattack. The rancor makes two attacks: one with its claws and one with its bite.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8+4) kinetic damage.

Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one creature. Hit: 6 (1d4+4) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Area 37

Jawa Guard

Small humanoid (jawa), chaotic balanced

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• Armor Class 12
• Hit Points 5 (2d6-2)
• Speed 25 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
7 (-2)	15 (+2)	9 (-1)	12 (+1)	7 (-2)	8 (-1)

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• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 8
• Languages Jawaese, understands Basic but cannot speak it
• Challenge 1/8 (25 XP), PB +2

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Nimble Escape. The jawa can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of its turns.

Actions

Ion Carbine. Ranged Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d4+2) ion damage.

Appears in: Random Encounters, Area 15, Area 16, Area 18, Area 19, Area 20, Area 21, Area 23, Area 24, Area 32

Yyusdral

Small humanoid (jawa), chaotic balanced

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• Armor Class 13 (combat suit, 15 with tactical barrier)
• Hit Points 16 (3d6+6)
• Speed 25 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
8 (-1)	15 (+2)	14 (+2)	16 (+3)	10 (+0)	12 (+2)

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• Skills Technology +5, Insight +2, Stealth +4
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages Jawaese, understands Basic but cannot speak it
• Challenge 1 (100 XP), PB +2

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Nimble Escape. Yyusdral can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of its turns.

Techcasting. Yyusdral is a 2nd-level techcaster (tech save DC 13, +5 to hit with power attacks, 8 tech points). Yyusdral knows the following powers:
At-will: electroshock, minor hologram, on/off, spectrum ray
1st-level: flame sweep, spectrum bolt, tactical barrier

Actions

Ion Carbine. Ranged Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d4+2) ion damage.

Appears in: Area 21

Scrap Droid

Medium droid (class IV), unaligned

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• Armor Class 12 (scrap armor)
• Hit Points 7 (2d8-2)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
9 (-1)	13 (+1)	9 (-1)	12 (+1)	10 (+0)	7 (-2)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities ion
• Damage Resistances necrotic, poison, psychic
• Condition Immunities poisoned, diseased
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages Binary, Galactic Basic, Jawaese
• Challenge 1/8 (25 XP), PB +2

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Scrap Droid Swarm. When an ally of the scrap droid hits a hostile creature that it can see with a weapon attack, the scrap droid can use its reaction to make one weapon attack, with disadvantage, against that creature.

Circuitry. The droid has disadvantage on saving throws against effects that would deal ion or lightning damage.

Actions

Blaster Rifle. Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, range 100/400 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d8+1) energy damage.

Stock Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +1 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 (1d4-1) kinetic damage.

Elite Scrap Droids

Elite scrap droids (found guarding Yyusdral and the Hall of Rancors) are more robustly constructed, causing the following changes:

Hit Points. 9 (2d8)

Ability Scores. CON 10 (+0)

Appears in: Random Encounters, Area 15, Area 16, Area 19, Area 21, Area 23

Dathomirian Zombie

Medium undead (dathomirian), unaligned

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• Armor Class 8
• Hit Points 22 (3d8+9)
• Speed 20 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
13 (+1)	6 (-2)	16 (+3)	3 (-4)	6 (-2)	5 (-3)

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• Saving Throws Wis +0
• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities poisoned
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 8
• Languages understands Dathomiri but cannot speak it
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Undead Fortitude. If damage reduces the zombie to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the zombie drops to 1 hit point instead.

Actions

Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6+1) kinetic damage.

Dathomirian Skeleton

Medium undead (dathomirian), unaligned

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• Armor Class 13 (armor scraps)
• Hit Points 13 (2d8 + 4)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	14 (+2)	15 (+2)	6 (-2)	8 (-1)	5 (-3)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities kinetic
• Damage Immunities poison
• Condition Immunities exhaustion, poisoned
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 9
• Languages understands Dathomiri but cannot speak it
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Actions

Tribal Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) kinetic damage.

Energy Bow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 80/320 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) energy damage.

Servants of Belaak

Dathomirian skeletons that serve Belaak have their armor class reduced to 12 and have their listed actions replaced with the following action:

Gardening Tool. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d6) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Area 5, Random Encounters, Area 27, Area 42, Area 49

Dathomirian Hunter

Medium humanoid (dathomirian), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 15 (tribal furs, medium physical shield)
• Hit Points 9 (2d8)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	14 (+2)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)	8 (-1)	8 (-1)

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• Senses passive Perception 8
• Languages Dathomiri, Basic
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Second Heart (1/Short Rest). If the hunter takes 3 damage or less that would reduce it to 0 hit points, it is reduced to 1 hit point instead.

Actions

Tribal Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) kinetic damage.

Energy Bow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 80/320 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6+2) energy damage.

Appears in: Area 4, Random Encounters, Area 18, Area 30, Area 31, Area 32, Area 33, Area 35, Area 36, Area 47, Area 49*

Variant: Dathomirian Witch

Female dathomirians often train in the use of magick. These dathomirians have the following changes:

Armor Class 13 (tribal furs)

Ability Scores STR 8 (-1), DEX 12 (+1), WIS 11 (+0), CHA 13 (+1)

They also gain the following trait:

Forcecasting. The witch is a 1st-level forcecaster (force save DC 11, +3 to hit with power attacks, 4 force points). The witch knows the following powers:
At-will: enfeeble, sound trick
1st-level: curse, wound

Tribal Weaponry

Though the dathomirians frequently use low-tech gear, imbued witch magick allows it be as effective as standard-issue equipment from the wider galaxy. If collected by PCs, the dathomirian armor and weaponry translate as follows:

Nightbrother Exile

Medium humanoid (dathomirian), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 17 (tribal leather, light physical shield)
• Hit Points 11 (2d8+2)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
14 (+2)	12 (+1)	12 (+1)	10 (+0)	10 (+0)	9 (-1)

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• Senses passive Perception 8
• Languages Dathomiri, Basic
• Challenge 1/2 (100 XP), PB +2

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Martial Advantage. Once per turn, the exile can deal an extra 7 (2d6) damage to a creature it hits with a weapon attack if that creature is within 5 feet of an ally of the exile that isn't incapacitated.

Second Heart (1/Short Rest). If the exile takes 5 damage or less that would reduce it to 0 hit points, it is reduced to 1 hit point instead.

Actions

Tribal Sword. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8+2) kinetic damage, or 7 (1d10+2) kinetic damage if used with two hands.

Plasma Bow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 105/420 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d8+2) energy damage.

Appears in: Area 41

Durnn

Leader of the Nightbrother exiles, Durnn is a Nightbrother exile with the following changes:

Armor Class 18 (assault armor, light shield)

Hit Points: 19 (3d8+6)

Ability Scores: STR 16 (+3), CON 14 (+2)

Challenge Rating: 1 (200 XP)

Plasma Bows

The high-power energy bows wielded by the Nightbrother exiles do not have an official SW5e equivalent, being more direct conversions of the 5e longbow. If you permit your players to wield these weapons, a player version of the weapon is provided below:

Name	Type	Cost	Weight	Damage	Properties
Plasma Bow	Martial Blaster	525 credits	6.5	1d8 energy	Power Cell (105/420), Mighty, Reload 2, Two-Handed

Dathomirian Champion

Medium humanoid (dathomirian), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 16 (tribal hide, light physical shield)
• Hit Points 27 (5d8+5)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
15 (+2)	14 (+2)	13 (+1)	8 (-1)	11 (+0)	9 (-1)

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• Skills Stealth +6, Survival +2
• Senses passive Perception 8
• Languages Dathomiri, Basic
• Challenge 1 (200 XP), PB +2

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Brute. A melee weapon deals one extra die of its damage when the champion hits with it (included in the attack).

Second Heart (1/Short Rest). If the champion takes 7 damage or less that would reduce it to 0 hit points, it is reduced to 1 hit point instead.

Surprise Attack. If the champion surprises a creature and hits it with an attack during the first round of combat, the target takes an extra 7 (2d6) damage from the attack.

Actions

Tribal Mace. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d10+2) kinetic damage.

Tribal Axe. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 25/75 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (2d6+2) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Area 43, Area 48

Champion Gardener

Turned into a mindless thrall of the Tree of Domir, the champion gardener gains the following trait:

Barkskin. The champion's AC can't be lower than 16.

In addition, all the champion's actions are removed and replaced with the following attack:

Tribal Scythe. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d10+2) kinetic damage. If the attack roll is a critical hit, the champion deals an additional 5 (1d10) damage in addition to the normal critical hit damage.

Witch Shadow

Medium undead (dathomirian), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 12
• Hit Points 16 (3d8+3)
• Speed 40 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
6 (-2)	14 (+2)	13 (+1)	6 (-2)	10 (+0)	8 (-1)

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• Skills Stealth +4
• Damage Vulnerabilities force
• Damage Resistances acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder; kinetic, ion or energy damage from unenhanced attacks
• Damage Immunities necrotic, poison
• Condition Immunities exhaustion, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, prone, restrained
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages -
• Challenge 1/2 (100 XP), PB +2

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Amorphous. The shadow can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.

Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the shadow can take the Hide action as a bonus action. Its stealth bonus is also improved to +6.

Sunlight Weakness. While in sunlight, the shadow has disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws.

Actions

Strength Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2) necrotic damage, and the target's Strength score is reduced by 1d4. The target dies if this reduces its Strength to 0. Otherwise, the reduction lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest.

If a non-dark humanoid dies from this attack, a new shadow rises from the corpse 1d4 hours later.

Appears in: Area 50

Belaak the Outcast

Medium humanoid (dathomirian), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 11 (16 with barkskin)
• Hit Points 27 (5d8)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
10 (+0)	12 (+1)	13 (+1)	12 (+1)	11 (+0)	15 (+2)

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• Senses passive Perception 10
• Languages Dathomiri, Basic
• Challenge 2 (450 XP), PB +2

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False Barkskin (1/Long Rest). Belaak's skin gains a bark-like appearance, increasing her AC to 16 for 1 hour. While False Barkskin is active, she is considered to be concentrating as though using a power (though she can use other concentration force powers), and the effect ends if this concentration is broken.

Forcecasting. Belaak is a 4th-level forcecaster (force save DC 12, +4 to hit with power attacks, 16 force points). Belaak knows the following powers:
At-will: enfeeble, force imbuement, nature trick
1st-level: force propel, heal, plant growth
2nd-level: kinetite (fire damage)

Second Heart (1/Short Rest). If Belaak takes 8 damage or less that would reduce her to 0 hit points, she is reduced to 1 hit point instead.

Special Equipment. Belaak holds a talisman of plant growth with 7 charges. As an action, she can expend 1 charge to cast plant growth (DC 13).

Actions

Tribal Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d6) kinetic damage, or 5 (2d4) if wielded with two hands.

Tribal Staff (Force Imbuement). Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8+2) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Area 56

Magick Powers

Through the power of ichor, witches like Belaak can wield manipulate and wield powers similar to, yet unlike those of the Jedi and Sith. When casting the kinetite force power, the sphere deals fire damage instead of lightning.

She also knows the following Expanded Force Powers (courtesy of HugeHuman) and they are treated as universal powers for her:

Nature Trick (at-will light side power)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 30 feet

Duration: Instantaneous

Drawing on a connection to nature through the Force, you create one of the following effects within range:

• You immediately gain knowledge of what the weather will be at your location for the next 24 hours.
• You instantly make a flower blossom, a seed pod open, or a leaf bud bloom.
• You create an instantaneous, harmless sensory effect, such as falling leaves, a puff of wind, the sound of a small animal, or the faint odor of eopie droppings. The effect must fit in a 5-foot cube.
• You instantly light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire.

Plant Growth (1st-level light side power)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 90 feet

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Grasping weeds and vines sprout from the ground in a 20-foot square starting from a point within range. For the duration, these plants turn the ground in the area into difficult terrain.

A creature in the area when you cast the power must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be restrained by the entangling plants until the power ends. A creature restrained by the plants can use its action to make a Strength check against your force save DC. On a success, it frees itself.

When the power ends, the plants wilt away.

You may choose whether to allow your players to be able to learn these powers if they have forcecasting capability. If so, consider including a journal with Belaak's possessions that goes into detail about these powers.

Ichor Blight

Small plant, neutral dark

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• Armor Class 13 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 4 (1d6+1)
• Speed 20 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
6 (-2)	13 (+1)	12 (+1)	4 (-3)	8 (-1)	3 (-4)

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• Skills Stealth +3
• Damage Vulnerabilities fire
• Condition Immunities blinded, deafened
• Senses blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 9
• Languages understands Basic but cannot speak it
• Challenge 1/8 (25 XP), PB +2

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False Appearance. While the blight remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a dead shrub.

Actions

Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4+1) kinetic damage.

Appears in: Ravine, Random Encounters, Area 41, Area 42, Area 49, Area 55, Area 56

Viper of Flame

Medium elemental, neutral dark

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• Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
• Hit Points 22 (5d8)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
12 (+1)	14 (+2)	11 (+0)	7 (-2)	10 (+0)	8 (-1)

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• Damage Vulnerabilities cold
• Damage Resistances kinetic, ion or energy damage from unenhanced attacks
• Damage Immunities fire
• Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
• Languages understands Dathomiri but can't speak
• Challenge 1 (200 XP), PB +2

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Heated Body. A creature that touches the viper or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 3 (1d6) fire damage.

Actions

Multiattack. The viper makes two bite attacks.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4+1) kinetic damage plus 3 (1d6) fire damage.

Appears in: Area 45, Area 49

Oggdo, Juvenile

Medium beast, unaligned

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• Armor Class 11
• Hit Points 18 (4d8)
• Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
12 (+1)	13 (+1)	11 (+0)	2 (-4)	10 (+0)	3 (-4)

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• Skills Perception +2, Stealth +3
• Senses darkvision 30 ft., passive Perception 12
• Languages -
• Challenge 1/4 (50 XP), PB +2

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Amphibious. The oggdo can breathe air and water.

Standing Leap. The oggdo's long jump is up to 20 feet and its high jump is up to 10 feet, with or without a running start.

Actions

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) kinetic damage, and the target is grappled (escape DC 11). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and the oggdo can't bite another target.

Swallow. The oggdo makes one bite attack against a Small or smaller target it is grappling. If the attack hits, the target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. The swallowed target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the oggdo, and it takes 5 (2d4) acid damage at the start of each of the oggdo's turns. The oggdo can have only one target swallowed at a time. If the oggdo dies, a swallowed creature is no longer restrained by it and can escape from the corpse using 5 feet of movement, exiting prone.

Appears in: Area 56

Sharwyn Hucrele

Medium humanoid (human), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 16 (barkskin)
• Hit Points 13 (2d8+4)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
11 (+0)	13 (+1)	14 (+2)	16 (+3)	14 (+2)	9 (-1)

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• Skills Technology +5, Insight +4, Persuasion +1
• Senses passive Perception 12
• Languages Basic, Dathomirian, Huttese
• Challenge 1/2 (100 XP), PB +2

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Special Equipment. Sharwyn uses a wristpad (fine) to cast her tech powers (included in her techcasting trait).

Barkskin. Sharwyn's AC can't be lower than 16.

Techcasting. Sharwyn is a 1st-level techcaster (tech save DC 13, +6 to hit with power attacks, 4 tech points). Sharwyn knows the following powers:
At-will: light, minor hologram, spectrum ray
1st-level: energy shield, flash, homing rockets, tranquilizer

Tree Thrall. If the Tree of Domir dies, Sharwyn dies 24 hours later.

Actions

Blaster Pistol. Ranged Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, range 50/200 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6+1) energy damage.

Appears in: Area 56

Berath Vord

Medium humanoid (human), neutral dark

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• Armor Class 18 (assault armor, light physical shield)
• Hit Points 19 (3d8 + 6)
• Speed 30 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON	INT	WIS	CHA
16 (+3)	9 (-1)	14 (+2)	10 (+0)	14 (+2)	13 (+1)

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• Skills Athletics +5, Perception +3
• Senses passive Perception 13
• Languages Basic
• Challenge 1/2 (100 XP), PB +2

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Special Equipment. Berath wields Shatterpoint, an enhanced martial lightsaber that grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it (included in his attack). Damage from unenhanced sources cannot harm the weapon.

Barkskin. Berath's AC can't be lower than 16.

Formation Style. Berath can take the Guard action as a bonus action.

Tree Thrall. If the Tree of Domir dies, Berath dies 24 hours later.

Actions

Shatterpoint. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8+3) energy damage, or 8 (1d10+3) energy damage if wielded with two hands. If this attack targets and hits an object, it is an automatic critical hit and can deal either kinetic or energy damage.

Appears in: Area 56

An alternative version of Berath Vord and his weapon are provided in appendix C under "Alternative Berath Vord and Shatterpoint", intended to simplify the usage of both this creature and Shatterpoint itself.

Object Hit Points and Armor Classes

While the D&D 5e Dungeon Master's Guide provides expected armor classes for most materials, many locations in the Star Wars universe, even ancient strongholds, are liable to make use of more advanced compound materials than simple iron or wood. This is particularly important to consider with the addition of the Shatterpoint weapon in this adventure, which actively encourages object destruction.

As such, here is an updated version of the DMG's Object Armor Class table for use with this adventure, alongside an accompanying hit point table:

Refer to the "Objects" section in part 4 of the D&D Basic Rules for further guidance on running attacks against objects and dealing with Huge and Gargantuan objects.

Why Not Both?

The main reason for these alternative versions is to remove the weapon's reliance on targeting and tracking object hit points and AC to be effective, as well as gearing it toward combat use similar to the original version from 3.5e.

If you would like to keep the 'automatic critical hits against objects' aspect of the original weapon as well as its new effects, you may freely combine these versions - just keep in mind how these combined benefits may affect the item's rarity and consider increasing it as appropriate.

Starchain -

The material known as 'starchain' is not

Content

The Sunless Citadel (5e) - Tales from the Yawning Portal, Wizards of the Coast, 2017.

Official SW5e Content - Steev and all other contributors

Nydak Statistics - Nusaka, 'Assorted Statblocks'

Juvenile Rancor Statistics - Steev, 'Scum & Villany'

Scrap Droid Statistics - Steev, 'Scum & Villany' (adaptation of the B1 Battle droid)

Power Ciphers Enhanced Item - Aziz, 'Power Ciphers'

Images

Unofficial Grysk Art (Cover/pg 1) - https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/gnqr7y/the_grysk/

Sunless Citadel Maps (pg 17 & 32) - Tales from the Yawning Portal, Wizards of the Coast, 2017.