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The SWAG 77 Haruun Kal Korun Cheat Sheet

2012 v1.0

The SWAG 77 Haruun Kal Korun Cheat Sheet for RP from the Star Wars Novel Shatterpoint The setting of Shatterpoint written by Matthew Stover is 6 months after the start of the Clone Wars. Jedi Master Mace Windu is sent to his home planet, Haruun Kal to understand an increase in Separatist activity and the loss of his former padawan now Jedi Knight, Depa Billaba. It may have something to do with the Dark Side of the Force. But he is unclear. This story is a “fish out of water story” where Mace Windu realizes some of the erroneous thoughts he had when he returns home to his people, the Korunnai. Initially, he feels out of place, and then he proves his worth to them. The Korunnai finally come to trust him. In Shatterpoint, the planet Haruun Kal is part of the Confederacy of Independent Systems This cheat sheet is an overview of the Star Wars novels to assist roleplayers in the SWAG 77. It cannot and should not supplant the reading of the novels and initial research from websites, i.e. StarWars.com and Wookieepedia. There are spoilers in the Cheat Sheet. The Korun culture is based on 4 simple pillars: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Honor Duty Family Herd

Honor: Your obligation to yourself. Act with integrity. Speak the truth. Fight without fear. Love without reservation. Duty: Your obligations to others. Do your job. Work hard. Obey your elders. Stand by your ghosh – clan/family Family: Care for your parents. Love your spouse. Teach your children. Defend your blood. Herd: For it is on the grasser herds that life of the ghosh depends.. Grassers were large burden animals, the size of a brontosaurus with fur. Follow the 4 pillars with in mind: Your family is more important that duty. Your duty outweighs your honor. But nothing is more important than your herd. Key quotes and concepts from the book to keep in mind: Better off without the Force, leaders perhaps are; able to see well enough young Palpatine seems - Yoda speaking to Mace Windu as they leave Palpatine’s office It is not good for a Jedi to indulge in hate - Private Journals of Mace Windu

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[If we] fail to trust the Force. Jedi do not “figure things out” or “come up with a plan”. The Force flows through us, and ride its currents to peace and justice…Learning to trust our instincts, our feelings, as opposed to our intellects…Learn to “unthank” a situation, to “unact”: to become an empty vessel for the Force to fill with wisdom and action. We feel the truth when we stop analyzing it. A Jedi does not decide. A Jedi trusts. - Private Journals of Mace Windu Concept: One of the characters, Lesh is infected with fever wasps. Lesh is dying anyway. So as to not infect others, Lesh has to be mercifully killed. Nick Rostu asks Mace Windu to kill him. Mace Windu initially says no, and then through the Force, realizes the Lesh’s consciousness is already gone. Mace Windu kills Lesh with his lightsaber. Jedi kill innocents who are suffering. Concept: The Lor Pelek: “Jungle Master”. Shaman. Witch Doctor. Wizard. In Korun Legend, the lor pelek was a person of great power and great peril. As unpredictable as the jungle. He brought life or death: a gift or a wound. In some stories a lor pelek was not a being at all, but was rather pelekotan incarnate, the avatar of the jungle-mind. In the book, that character is Kar Vastor. Do you solemnly swear to serve the Republic in though, in word, and in deed; to defend its citizens, resist its enemies and champion its justice with the whole of your heart, your strength, and your mind; to forswear all other allegiances; to obey all lawful orders of your superior officers; to uphold the highest ideals of the Republic, and at all times to conduct yourself to the credit of the Republic as its commissioned officer, by witness of, aid from and faith in the Force? - Mace Windu commissions Nick Rostu Concept: The Darkness of the jungle on Haruun Kal is not the darkness of the Sith. It is just a nexus of the Dark Side of the Force. Master Depa Billaba: by my authority as a Senior Member of the Jedi Council, and general of the Grand Army of the Republic, you are hereby relieved of command of Republic forces on Haruun Kal., uninformed and irregular. You are relieved of all duties and responsibilities in the action of this planet. You are suspended from the Jedi Council, pending investigation of your actions on Haruun Kal, and you are ordered to proceed with all due speed to Coruscant, where you will present yourself to the Council for judgment…You are under arrest. - Mace Windu places Depa Billaba under arrest Concept: The reason for training Force s. Kar Vastor was a powerful Force . The issue lies with “instincts” themselves. Untrained his instincts are only those granted by nature. The paradoxes of the Jedi are these instincts that used are not instinctive at all. They are a product of intense training that replaces our natural ones. That is why Jedi must begin at an early age. Our natural instincts are: territoriality, selfishness, anger, fear, and etc. Jedi instincts are service, serenity, selflessness and comion. Discipline imposes on nature, because peace is an unnatural state. Peace is a product of civilization. Jedi fight for civilization because it creates peace. Jedi fight for justice since it is the bedrock 2|Page

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of civilization. A single Jedi that succumbs to his natural drives for power, for respect, for success or revenge, could do damage that is literally unimaginable. Our only hope, against beings whos instincts control them is to absolutely and utterly control our own. - Private Journal entry of Mace Windu speaking to Depa Billaba I have seen the destruction of the Jedi. The death of the Republic. I have seen the Temple in ruins, the Senate smashed, and Coruscant itself shattered by orbital bombardment from immense ships of impossible design…becoming a jungle far more hostile and alien that any on Haruun Kal - Private Journal entry of Mace Windu Concept: Nick Rostu said to Mace Windu: The Balawai ed the Separatists because the CIS will respect their sovereignty. Planetary rights. The only right they want is to kill all Korunnai. A troublemaker is any Korun who says Word One about the way we’re treated. Everyone dies, doshalo. But Haruun Kal is her problem. This is her place. She knows it now. She belongs here. The jungle isn’t killing her. You are…She never stops thinking of you…What is killing her is imagining what you must think of her. What she knows you think of what she has done, and will do. She measures herself by your standards; that your standards are fatally wrong doesn’t make her failure to live up to them any less painful. You are her sire, Mace Windu. Do you not understand how much she loves you? - Kar Vastor telepaths Mace Windu That is what Korunnai do…What their whole culture is based on. Fighting the jungle…Grassers attack it, akks to defend themselves from counterattacks. The Korunnai want to beat it into submission to make it into something that is no longer trying to eat them alive…Because they are descended from Jedi…We do. Every day. That’s what Jedi are…We only have to fight…As a member of the Jedi Council…I can’t [forgive you]…As your Master, I won’t…As your friend – I can forgive everything. I already have… - Mace Windu to Depa Billaba Concept: Jedi do use people to get them to safety and justice because to leave them to suffer genocide or to commit itself is not innocent savagery. It would be active evil: the way of the Sith. The Jedi just cannot walk away. Concept: Mace always knew his people were Jedi. The question was which people? Clearly he believes that his ghosh is Windu in name only. He is people are Jedi of his time. Concept: Shatterpoint is seeing the Force in such a way that one point of it can collapse with a touch. Mace Windu found his through practicing Vapaad lightsaber form and technique that he taught his padawan, Depa Billaba. The issue of Vapaad is to use it draws the very close into the Dark Side of the Force. It gives them great power, but it also can turn them. Concept: Korrunai followed the herds. The herds destroyed the hostile jungle. The destruction of the jungle made Korun survival possible: Kept all the ways that the jungle could kill the being. 3|Page

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Definitions that Korunnai would use: Pelekotan – “world power” also known as the Force. Transliterated meaning is “Jungle Mind”. Korunnai say: You don’t use pelekotan. Pelekotan uses you… Tan’petrokal – “jungle justice”. More like survival of the fittest. Whatever doesn’t eat you, makes you stronger Upcountry – uplands on the mountains tops of Haruun Kal. Only Korunnai clans live there. There are volcanic areas with sulfur dioxide gases. Between the two, is the darkest of jungles. Grandfather’s Shoulder – Upcountry location were some Korunnai clans live. Great Downrush – Mighty river of Haruun Kal Thakiz baw’kal – the downstorm. Monsoonal rains that flow to the main city. Pelek Baw – lowlands where the Balawai live. Generally prospectors, aliens species, slums. Korunnai orphans are shuttled there to starve as slave labor. Any Korun that speaks against the Balawai is killed. Thyssel bar – mild stimulating intoxicant that causes permanent changes the brain chemistry. Raw thyssel bark stains teeth red. Grassers are partial to grazing. It is the main export of Haruun Kal for pharmaceutical purposes. Blood spoors – a fungus that eats machinery, guns, ships, and anything that runs on sensitive electronics. It is the one thing that stops the Balawai from razing the entire jungle. Akk dogs – lizard like beasts that can be bonded to with a Force s. Sort of like a familiar and protector. They also protect the grassers from other beasts. Grassers – large beasts of burden that move through the jungle with relative ease. Had 1 set of hind legs and 4 sets of anterior legs. Has 3 sets of eyes. They were bovine-like. Lor pelek – “Jungle master” or witch doctor. Doshalo – plural Doshallai is brother Fever Wasps – bores through the skull and lays eggs into the brain. As the larvae hatch, they eat the brain and ooze out to infect others. Thyssel bark eases the pain from the larvae eating the brain. Howdah – encampment 4|Page

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Portaak amber and leaf – healing agent. Grassers are partial tor grazing. Ankkox – another beast of burden Rek tea – a calmative tea Jinsol Tyruun Lammas Trees Act like a Korno – an epithet to a Korun Korunnai speak in broken English and often end with affirmatives, i.e.: “He that one, no good, no?” All Korunnai are Force s. All have some telepathic ability. Korunnai Technology: Slugthowers Glop Nytinite Stun nets Whatever they can scrounge up, fly and pilfer

Balawai speak normal Galactic Basic Standard. They are very disrespectful to Korunnai. Balawai Technology HE – high explosives missiles HEAP – High explosive armor piercing missiles APF – anti personnel fragmentation missiles Detonite – proton core warheads Jadthu Class Landers Arakyd Caltrop 5 Chaffgun RP Troopers – Repulsorpack men DOKAW – De-Orbiting Kinetic Anti-emplacement Weapon

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