The Outer Rim Blues: Agents of the Black Sun

Prepping and playing Star Wars: Edge of the Empire.

I ran our first session of Edge of the Empire. I'm calling this series The Outer Rim Blues. The crew out of leads return to Gelgelar Free Port, their base of operations. But not before having to fix their YT-3000s sublight drives by scrapping their dorsal gun for parts! They meet and cut a deal with a Mandalorian named Thane Rook. He'll tell them where their refugees are going and give them a contact in exchange for Drace, our pilot doing the Corellian Run for him. They are headed to Eriadu to meet an agent of the Black Sun cartel. while waiting for cargo loaders to load tanks of Gelgelar swamp gas and crates of mold for export. An old co-worker of Darro Vane (PC, Outlaw Technician) arrives with two speeders worth of aliens and blasters hot on his trail. This forces the crew to depart quickly, leaving half the cargo behind.

The Iktotchi refugees

Assembled by Gorm on Gelgelar, our crew's first job (off-screen) together goes sideways. They failed to rescue a group of Iktochi refugees, lost them, and Huuroch (Wookie Explorer) is badly injured, the injury is backstory(color) so the player can have a Wookie with a bionic arm and leg! This rescue, the Iktochi, is a player-created and driven thing. So I'm running with it.

The Outer Rim Blues

I love, love running the first session of a game series as "A Day in the Life..." I pick a small trouble from each of the players’ starting Obligations to create a situation from. Obligations are Edge of the Empire's fiction/situation mechanic. Going into the first session, I have prepped a ship malfunction, finding leads on the missing refugees, and the return of an old...acquaintance from a bad job thing. I’m ready to drop these situations in favor of where the players go, but in the event they are stuck, I have these.

The NOW sheet

I have been using the Now Sheet concept from Champions Now to organize my game session stuff for a couple of years now. A sheet per session or major session change works great for me. It's like BuJo for GM prep!
Here's what the Outer Rim Blues Now sheet looks like after session one.

Drace Laga, Pilot

• Rescue Refugees

• Favor Owed: Bounty Hunter

• Debt: Ship Repairs

Darro Vane, Tech

• Rescue Refugees

• Liberate Sister

• Past: Black Science Project

Huurach, Explorer

• Rescue Refugees

• Owes Gorm

• Betrayal

Blue Harvest (YT-3000)

• scrapped one gun.

• 1/2 cargo load of swamp gas and mold.

• Tracked to Eriadu

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Gelgelar Free Port

Gorm (Duros) contact
Gav, Landing pad owner
Thane Rook - Mandalorian.

• traded info for future Corellian run job.
  Korrin (Mon Calamari) tech worked on the Bad Thing, pursued by XXXX assassins.

Eriadu

Lyra Dax, Twi'lek Black Sun agent.

• Othello, Sail barge.

• L3-Na, protocol droid on Othello.

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Prep for session 2

In Edge of the Empire, once per session, the GM can roll on the combined obligations table to see what trouble pops up. For session two, I got Huurach: