Tatooine Manhunt is a Star Wars Legends adventure book for use with Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game. The adventure scenario pits Rebel Alliance agents against bounty hunters in a desperate search for the elusive hero Adar Tallon on the desert planet Tatooine.
The Tatooine Manhunt set includes a double-sided color map of the Mos Eisley Cantina and Spaceport, as well as a Star Warriors combat scenario with full-color counters. Tatooine Manhunt was written by Bill Slavicsek and Daniel Greenberg, and published by West End Games in 1988.
Publisher's summary[]
Talon, Victor of Balamak. Talon, Father of the Old Republic Navy. Talon, who shaped modern Imperial naval tactics. Statues honoring Talon stand all over the Empire — except where the Emperor pulled them down.
They say Talon died years ago. But they're wrong. He's still alive.
- The bounty on his head exceeds 50 million credits — but who offers it?
- The Empire wants him — but dead or alive?
- Bounty hunters are converging from all over the galaxy — but to protect him or hunt him?
- Even Jabba the Hutt is "interested" — but why?
Now the Rebel Alliance wants him, and the word is he's on Tatooine. Guess where you're going?
Plot summary[]
In this adventure, a group of Rebel agents on Kwenn Space Station in the Kwenn system—the player characters—learn that Adar Tallon, a hero of the Clone Wars long presumed dead, is still alive on Tatooine. They also learn that the Galactic Empire has sent several bounty hunters, including Jodo Kast, IG-72, and Zardra, to capture or kill Tallon. The Rebels head to the desert planet, trying to reach Tallon ahead of the bounty hunters and the forces of the Imperial Star Destroyer Relentless.
The adventure comes with maps of Mos Eisley and the Mos Eisley Cantina.
Contents[]
- Introduction
- Episode One: The Mission Begins
- Episode Two: Welcome to Tatooine
- Episode Three: Blood on the Sand
- Pullout section
- Tatooine Manhunt Adventure Script
- Vytor Shrike
- Quist
- Jungen
- IG-72
- Jodo Kast
- Akkik
- Puggles Trodd
- Zardra
- Episode Four: Cantina Ambush
- Episode Five: Exploring the Wastes
- Episode Six: Battle in the Desert
- Episode Seven: Slaughter at Tusken Fort
- Episode Eight: Escape from Tatooine
Cover art[]
Cover art
The cover illustration of this book was originally a piece of conceptual art created by Ralph McQuarrie for Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. The piece is titled "Scourge of the Galaxy," and depicted the bounty hunters Boba Fett, IG-88, 4-LOM, Zuckuss and Bossk on Cloud City, Bespin.[3]
The book features five bounty hunter characters which are visually similar to the ones depicted in The Empire Strikes Back, based on the cover image. From right to left:
- The small Gand who looks like Zuckuss is Vytor Shrike.
- The IG-series droid is IG-72, rather than one of the IG-88 assassin droids. (In fact, at this point, only one IG-88 was known.)
- The man in Mandalorian armor was Jodo Kast, who has impersonated Boba Fett in the past.
- The Trandoshan standing in for Bossk is Jungen.
- The protocol droid 4-LOM does not have any clear analogue in the story. However, other Human characters such as Zardra and Quist cover what could have been its role.
Although the cover suggests that all of these bounty hunters are allied (they are posing together, as if threatening a common target), most of them are foes to each other: Jodo Kast is not allied with any of the others, nor is IG-72; and Jungen and Shrike oppose both IG-72 and Kast.
Development[]
In 2007, Pablo Hidalgo said that an adaptation of this module was a planned future storyline for the Rookies webstrips.[4] However, no new Rookies webstrips have been published since Rookies: No Turning Back concluded in 2006.
Continuity[]
Tatooine Manhunt was reprinted in the supplement Classic Adventures: Volume Three in 1996 alongside Riders of the Maelstrom and Death in the Undercity. The statistics for the non-player characters featured in the adventure were updated to align with the Second Edition rules for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.
The publisher's summary on the back of Tatooine Manhunt refers to Adar Tallon as "Talon." A Talon was previously mentioned as a contemporary of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker in the Old Senatorial template first published in first edition rulebook for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game.
Reference to Balamak and an indirect reference to the Battle of Balamak were only mentioned in the publisher's summary of Tatooine Manhunt. The entire summary was not reprinted in Classic Adventures: Volume Three.
In the original printing of Tatooine Manhunt, players were given the option to run space battles according to the Star Warriors: Starfighter Combat in the Star Wars Universe rules. These were removed in the reprint published in Classic Adventures: Volume Three.
Several changes to the text were made for the reprint. The unnamed Dim-U street preacher encountered in Mos Eisley was given the name Hen. Part of his dialogue was rewritten, removing reference to the Age of Bounty. Agent Dana's data entry was also rewritten, giving Captain Parlan the first name "Ranif." Specific mention of two "dog-like" aliens resembling a "beagle" and a "great dane" was replaced with refering to them as "canine-like."
The Alabak's Gold was identified as a "modified Calamari jump freighter." The reprint in Classic Adventures: Volume Three established the class to be Wander-class jump freighter.
Media[]
Editions[]
- ISBN 0874310695; 1988; West End Games; US paperback[1]
Appearances[]
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Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 Tatooine Manhunt
- ↑ Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition
- ↑ "Oscar-winning designer and illustrator Ralph McQuarrie's Art of Stars And Superheoes at Melbourne's Silver K Gallery" in thetelegraph.com.au, November 30, 2011. Accessed September 24, 2013.
- ↑
Celebration IV and the EU on the Jedi Council Forums (Literature board; posted by Lord_Hydronium on 5/29/07 1:30am; accessed March 23, 2013) (backup link)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Pictured only in the original printing of Tatooine Manhunt.
- ↑ Appears as an unnamed street preacher in the original printing of Tatooine Manhunt and is named in the reprint contained in Classic Adventures: Volume Three.
- ↑ The character was named "Captain Parlan" in the original printing of Tatooine Manhunt. The reprint in Classic Adventures: Volume Three gave him the first name "Ranif."
- ↑ Two aliens were referred to as "dog-like"—specifically a "beagle" and a "great dane"—in Tatooine Manhunt and as "canine-like" in the reprint included in Classic Adventures: Volume Three.
- ↑ The "Age of Bounty" is only mentioned in the original printing of Tatooine Manhunt, and was removed in the subsequent reprint in Classic Adventures: Volume Three.
- ↑ Adar Tallon is referred to as the "Victor of Balamak" on the back cover of Tatooine Manhunt. When the adventure was reprinted in Classic Adventures: Volume Three, the indirect reference to a battle at Balamak was not included.
- ↑ Balamak is only mentioned on the back cover of Tatooine Manhunt. When the adventure was reprinted in Classic Adventures: Volume Three, the reference to Balamak was not included.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 12.9 Mentioned in the Classic Adventures: Volume Three reprint only.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 Appears in the Classic Adventures: Volume Three reprint only.
- ↑ The freighter was only referred to as "Modified Calamari jump freighter" in the original printing of Tatooine Manhunt. The reprint in Classic Adventures: Volume Three gave it the name "Wander-class jump freighter.
- ↑ Only mentioned in the original printing of Tatooine Manhunt
- ↑ Originally named as "SoroSuub Chew" in original printing of Tatooine Manhunt, name was changed to "SoroSuub Stimchew" when the adventure was reprinted in Classic Adventures: Volume Three.
External links[]
Tatooine Manhunt in the StarWars.com Cargo Bay (content now obsolete; backup link)
