Objective

Mount Tantiss has stood silent since the fall of the Empire, its sealed corridors echoing with the ghosts of science long abandoned. Yet the base is not as empty as it seems. Remnants of Imperial warlords, mercenaries, and opportunistic scavengers have carved their way into its forgotten laboratories, searching for the secrets and power hidden deep within. Your Clan has dispatched you to infiltrate the base and retrieve stolen research data, believed to be hidden within a secure archive vault. Unfortunately, your mission has gone awry—you’ve been captured and locked away in a forgotten cell beneath the mountain. The stormtroopers are gone now, replaced by scavengers and worse, but the danger is no less real. Using only the odd assortment of items you can scrounge together from the cell and the remains of former prisoners, you must decide your next move. Do you break free and flee through the decaying corridors, risking patrols and the base’s unstable structure? Or do you delve deeper, attempting to uncover the hidden data before escaping?

Craft your story using only the following items:

• Glowrod with a flickering charge
  
• Emperor Palpatine Hologram Projector, stuck on loop
  
• Imperial Datapad with a locked interface
  
• BlasTech DH-17 Blaster Pistol with a cracked power pack
  
• Stormtrooper Utility Belt, missing most pouches
  
• Destro-6 demolition charge trigger, but no charge
  
• F-187 fusioncutter
  
• Rusted Cybernetic Hand
  
• Clone Commando Helmet missing visor
  

Rules

• Entries must be a minimum of 500 words. Any entries that are under 500 words will be disqualified and ineligible for participation or placement.
• There is no maximum word cap.
• Entries must be submitted in .pdf or .txt format or using the submission box on the Brotherhood website.
  • No GoogleDoc links or .DOC files, please download as a .pdf using "File" -> "Download as" "PDF Document (.pdf)" and submit through the website
  • If your entry is not PG-13, please make sure to hide your entry by unchecking the “Allow people to view your submission after the competition has been judged” box
• Your story should be centered on your Main or Alternative/NPC characters. DJB Wiki NPCs, or other characters that you create or invent to tell your story are not only allowed but encouraged. However, your narrative should focus around one of your own characters with an active CS.
• A snapshot of your character must be selected and submitted with your entry through the checkbox submission field to be eligible for placement. Items included in your loadout, however, cannot be used.

Grading

Grading will be done utilizing the Fiction Rubric, and judged on how well and how many of the provided items your character makes use of in the story.

This event has a 3x placement modifier.