Shadow of Iridium

Shadow of Iridium is the first roleplay in the Shrike War series. It was a one on one roleplay between Hakaisha and Thrawn. It takes place during the Shrike War, sometime just before the Mission to Vulpter, with Hakaisha as the main character.

Plot summary
The roleplay follows the story of two different groups of characters. The first group to appear are three space pirates named Barve, Jazz, and Dragger. The second group of people are Hakaisha, Chrysalide, and their squad of stormtroopers.

In the middle of a tedious mission on Zefflifi, Hakaisha receives a transmission from Admiral Thrawn, which jeapordizes the mission. Hakaisha clears the way for the escape of his group while Chrysalide's astromech rescues them with the Sublight Mynock. In a transmission, Thrawn assigns Hakaisha with a mission to investigate the rumors of a Dark Jedi on Iridium who understands the Shrike.

Meanwhile, the Space Pirates have been outfitting their ship with some Iridium power gems which they purchased from the same Dark Jedi, so that they may easily prey upon cargo freighters.

When Hakaisha's team travel to Iridium, they are immediately ambushed and boarded by the Pirates, who are actually outnumbered by Hakaisha's team. Hakaisha recognizes the power gems and deduces where the Pirates obtained them. Under Imperium custody, Hakaisha orders the Pirates to lead him to the Dark Jedi.

The company lands on Iridium and finds the Dark Jedi inside a power gem mine, who turns out to be a Shrike sympathizer named Master Gagneur, who tells them about a holocron on Vulpter. Gagneur turns on Hakaisha and Chrysalide by revealing that he wishes to control all of the Shrike with the Force. Calling upon hidden Shrike, he attacks them. Hakaisha, however, defeats most of the Shrike by blowing up the power gem mine. A stormtrooper named Eggwhite defeats Gagneur.

When the company arrives back at the Sublight Mynock, they find that the rest of the stormtroopers had been killed by the Shrike who ambushed them inside the mine. The Pirates also discover that their ship has been stolen.

At the close of the roleplay, Thrawn assigns Sunny to a Mission to Vulpter to find the holocron mentioned by Gagneur. In an Epilogue, the Assistant Director of the Imperial Intelligence is informed of what Hakaisha has done, and also on the failure of something called Operation Fear.

Behind the scenes

 * Chrysalide's gender is not mentioned in her introduction post on purpose, written very purposefully to omit the pronoun 'she'. The intention behind this was to create a miniscule plot twist in the narrative revealing that she's a woman in a latter post. Sure enough, Chrysalide is called 'he' the following post by Hakaisha.
 * Shadow of Iridium is a roleplay that happens concurrently with another roleplay called Ignoble Ceasefire, which will also ideally end with Thrawn assigning Sunny the Mission to Vulpter.