Background and Plot to the Crax's Fire Tapani Campaign
Crax's Fire was the name of a Mission Group operating in the Boltrue sector. Matthew Tamboc contacted the alliance high command trying to get a cell, mission
group, or regiment in the Tapani sector. The solution that Crix Madine came up with
was to organize a special Ops group he took the Quantum Phoenix and its pilot Tobin
S'sdab, who need reassignment, and sent them to Tapani. He also took to Specforce
troops, who were the last survivors of their units: Bane (infiltrator) and Sejick Ducurrn
and assigned them to the newly formed team. He also added Sai, a proven Saboteur,
from Clak'dor VII. General Madine choose Stephon Otag as the leader. Stephon is a
seasoned diplomat and decent warrior. Matthew Tamboc then added his daughter
Cidem to the team. Cidem is naive and inexperienced but very competent. Crax's Fire
is based on the top of Matthew Tamboc's courier office building. It is believed by the
greater public that the top floor serves as a private pent house for Matthew. The base
is equipped with a state of the art communications relay. It is very hard to trace messages to or from it. Crax's Fire was not very organized and a few semi-successful missions. Cidem was then abucted. Matthew, convinced it was the Empire, left in a hurry to find his daughter. Crax's Fire was now on their own. It was eventually revealed that Stephon Otag was a double agent working for the Empire. He caused the group to walk into a trap. Stephon was double crossed by his Imperial contact Rovas, and they killed each other. Two other operatives were killed: Tobin and Sai. Crax's Fire then went to Shella and layed low with their allies the Freebeing Milita for about two monthes. During this time, a young Baron named Lance Carleon contacted the rebel alliance saying he wanted to help. The alliance decided to rellocate Crax's Fire to a base provided by Lance Carleon on his thousands of acres estate on Obellia. Meanwhile, an Imperial agent (who was know as the French man the entire campaign) devised a plan to bring the Tapani sector fully under the Empire. His plan first involved the destruction of the Torpedo sphere that was docked around the planet Tallan. He also staged the death of a prominent Imperial Advisor. He did this to prove that the free world region of the Tapani sector was to Rebellious, and it worked. The Free worlds became the Shapani sector. The next stage was to make Lord Vaskel Savil of House Melentha the High Lord. He was successful at that also. This brought him to the next stage: The Shapani plan. In a nut shell, the Shapani plan involved weaking the other houses through politcal ploys and then conquor them militarly (or politcaly in the case of House Rena) under the banner of House Melentha (and Vaskel Savil the puppet of the French man). Once the Tapani sector was unified it would then ask for full admitance into the Empire. The plan would have worked, had it not been for the intervention of Crax's Fire. Their were two other major storylines and sub-plots. The first involved Tobin S'sdab. After her death at the ambush. Her sister ( Aimee) took her place, as dictated by her religion. It turned out that Tobin did not die, but instead was captured, genetically altered, and brainwashed by the Empire. Their were several epic confrontations between Tobin, Aimee, and Sluth Contran. The other story line involved Lord Vaskel Savil and Baron Lance Carleon. They were bitter rivals in childhood. However, they both loved the same woman Angel Marriot. Angel chose Lance of of Vaskel. This infuriated him. Vaskel Savil eventually had Angel arrested as a Rebel. Lance ran straight into the trap, and Lord Vaskel killed Angel right before Lance. The two then engaged in a long and huge Lighfoil fight, where Vaskel lost both hands (lance had lost his left hand to Vaskel earlier in the campaign). The two has several more confrontations, and Lance finally won killing Vaskel Savil.
