After weeks of meditation and study, Master Denia once more calls the heroes together with news. The meditation techniques she learned from the holocron have proven to be helpful, and she believes that she has located the home planet of the slaves the heroes rescued in The Queen of Air and Darkness. After consulting the Force, she believes that the alien slaves were in fact Nazren, a species from Nizon, an obscure planet
in the Maldrood Sector.

     A special request by Senator Organa to the University of Aldera revealed only that the planet Nizon is a barren world in the Centares ystem. It lies near Centares, an industrial world occupied by the Empire from which Imperial forces have been withdrawing for some months ow. Captain Verana has managed to locate Nizon in his navcomputer nd is willing to share the coordinates with the heroes if they agree to investigate the world.

     When the heroes arrive in the Centares System, they discover an Imperial presence not so lessened as they would like to believe. A Victory II-class Star Destroyer floats in orbit, and a number of smaller capital ships and orvettes dot the space above Nizon. As the heroes arrive, they witness a transport ship (similar to the slave ship from The Queen of Air and Darkness) leave Nizon’s orbit and jump to hyperspace for parts unknown.

Slipping past the Imperial Navy will not be easy; the heroes are fired upon for violating Imperial space. To make matters worse, the space round Nizon is filled with fragmentary asteroids, known as rogue fragments, that pose a constant danger to anyone without access to the racking information being broadcast from the planet’s surface.

     After the heroes land on Nizon, it soon becomes clear that their help is sorely needed. Nizon is a barren world covered in dirty red lay with powerful gusts of wind. The gales kick up dust storms that make the planet barely habitable, and the heroes are required to wear breath masks to filter out the dust. The Nazren’s only major city lies not far from the heroes’ vessel and should be a natural place for them to begin their search for information.

     Inside the city, the heroes discover that Imperial oppression is alive and well on Nizon; stormtroopers march down the streets, an AT-ST walks round the wider avenues, and V-wing starfighters scream overhead very now and again. The Nazren themselves, hulking beings comparable in size to Wookiees, lumber through the streets with their shoulders hunched and their eyes downcast, but a smoldering look of hatred boils ust below their stoic surfaces. In addition to the Nazren and the Imperials, Trandoshan slavers prod groups of Nazren along or gather at he entrances to buildings, eyeing the Nazren like farmers eyeing cattle. Other species are present in the city, too, allowing the heroes to move through the streets without being accosted at every turn.

     The heroes eventually make contact with Sartok, the leader of an underground resistance movement. The Nazren have been planning to overthrow their Imperial masters for a while, but thus far, Sartok has
been unable to convince enough of his people that it is possible to defeat the Empire and reclaim their world. After learning of the heroes’ previous successes against the Empire, Sartok pleads with them to help
him reclaim the capital city, which should inspire his people to continue their rebellion.

     When Sartok gives the word, his allies throughout the city begin to riot. The heroes tackle a number of encounters during the riots that aid the Nazren in their struggles to reclaim their capital. They help capture
numerous Imperial checkpoints, rescue Nazren children trapped in a collapsing building,and also help with the installation of desperately needed anti-air defenses. The critical battle of the revolt takes place in
Martyr’s Plaza, which contains the entrance to the planetary control center. The center runs all global communications as well as the rogue ragment tracking station, an essentially part in maintaining control of the planet.

     Moreover, the heroes face one other unforeseen challenge: a bounty hunter. Having taken up base at the Imperial construction site on Mount Antas, he has been hunting the heroes for some time. Finally confronting him