Imperial Narrator
START DATE: 2/16/26
“Perhaps it is time for a change… now more than ever.” — Darth Sidious
//: RAVELIN, “THE HEART OF THE EMPIRE”
//: BASTION
//: 0300 HOURS
The mission to Bastion was exciting for the Initiative’s greener forces, the ones absent from or born after the collapse of the New Imperial Order and the Empire it built. To these young recruits, Bastion was just another post-Imperial planet that had fallen behind the curtain of a weak state. Perhaps some could recite its importance, but they did not feel it the way the veterans did.
To them, Bastion was a symbol of everything the Empire had fought to preserve. A new era of freedom and separation from the Sith. To see Ravelin, the Heart of the Empire, serve as the seat for the Diarchy would evoke more than a few bitter memories. It is precisely why the Tarkin Initiative has chosen the old Imperial capital as the target of a black ops campaign.
Under the cover of night, Initiative teams descend upon Ravelin in advanced CX-902 Dagger-class infiltrators. Their mission has two main objectives: establish a local base of operations and gather intelligence on the city’s defenses.
The Bastion Imperialis Naval College, once a prestigious institution in the New Imperial Era, lost a majority of credibility—as well as its faculty, staff, and cadets—after the fall of the Empire in the mid 870s ABY. Its use saw steady decline, which only worsened as time passed. Under Diarch control, the College is shuttered and abandoned. Its halls have been pilfered of statues and relics, reminders that without the Empire, barbarism and pillaging runs rampant.
The air is heavy with history and the very walls command respect. It will make the perfect place for the Initiative to establish a foothold on Bastion.
Infiltrate the Bastion Imperialis Naval College, eliminate any security concerns, and ensure the site is suitable for an Initiative listening post.
ISB agents posing as visiting officers from the Imperial Confederation—allies of the Diarchy—have been dispatched to key locations around Ravelin. Each have been briefed on false identities, issued matching identification credentials, and dressed in Confederation uniforms. Their task is to use their guises to infiltrate government buildings, identify weaknesses, and collect intelligence on the Diarchy’s planetary defense capabilities.
If the Initiative is to succeed in an operation on Bastion, it must know how the Diarchs have desecrated the Heart of the Empire.
But they are not going to Bastion blind. Several points of interest have been distributed to the agents: the Diastec Orbital Shipyard, the Diarchy Armory, and the Great Forum of the Chancellorate. Secured comms channels have been established for separate smaller teams to investigate all three targets simultaneously.
