Feb 24, 2024 4:08 am
In 316 ag, the Starfinder Society elected the renowned kasatha explorer Jadnura as First Seeker. Promoted due to his reputation for maintaining balance between the various divisions of the Society, Jadnura proposed a tantalizing personal objective: a coordinated expedition to a mysterious region of space known as the Scoured Stars.
The Scoured Stars are a trinary star system known for housing worlds filled with vicious fauna, not to mention an abundance of malicious outsiders and other strange entities. Well over a century ago, the Starfinder Society prohibited expeditions to the Scoured Stars, in part because of the deadly inhabitants, but also because findings from the few successfully explored worlds showed little of research value. Jadnura’s quest would have seemed suicidal, had he not provided a magical link to the mysterious worlds.
During his time as a Starfinder field agent, Jadnura discovered a mysterious artifact known only as the Tear (as in "to cry"). The item was a two-foot-tall golden obelisk etched with indecipherable markings. It took the most powerful divination magic available, but veteran Starfinders eventually uncovered a link between the Tear and the Scoured Stars. When Jadnura ascended to the rank of First Seeker, he rallied the Society to travel to the Scoured Stars to at last uncover the Tear’s secrets.
While the threats of the Scoured Stars were powerful, they were disorganized and possessed no obvious spacefaring assets. What followed was one of the greatest single undertakings by the Starfinder Society. A task force consisting of about 80% of the Society’s agents and assets joined the First Seeker on his mission into the Scoured Stars. Everything went well at first; exciting reports reached the Society of Jadnura and most of the other Starfinder teams landing on the surface of the world to which the Tear directed them.
Shortly thereafter, however, when the Starfinders who remained behind in the Lorespire Complex attempted to make contact, they discovered a terrifying reality: the Scoured Stars were now cut off from the rest of the galaxy. A vast shield of aurum energy now surrounded that region of space, preventing communication and travel into the systems. Drift travel was rendered ineffective, and even visual scans failed to pierce the shifting veil, which was soon after dubbed "the Godshield" for its incomprehensible power. This single event left the Starfinder Society devastated, as most agents, ships, and other resources are trapped within the now-untouchable region of the Scoured Stars.
The Scoured Stars are a trinary star system known for housing worlds filled with vicious fauna, not to mention an abundance of malicious outsiders and other strange entities. Well over a century ago, the Starfinder Society prohibited expeditions to the Scoured Stars, in part because of the deadly inhabitants, but also because findings from the few successfully explored worlds showed little of research value. Jadnura’s quest would have seemed suicidal, had he not provided a magical link to the mysterious worlds.
During his time as a Starfinder field agent, Jadnura discovered a mysterious artifact known only as the Tear (as in "to cry"). The item was a two-foot-tall golden obelisk etched with indecipherable markings. It took the most powerful divination magic available, but veteran Starfinders eventually uncovered a link between the Tear and the Scoured Stars. When Jadnura ascended to the rank of First Seeker, he rallied the Society to travel to the Scoured Stars to at last uncover the Tear’s secrets.
While the threats of the Scoured Stars were powerful, they were disorganized and possessed no obvious spacefaring assets. What followed was one of the greatest single undertakings by the Starfinder Society. A task force consisting of about 80% of the Society’s agents and assets joined the First Seeker on his mission into the Scoured Stars. Everything went well at first; exciting reports reached the Society of Jadnura and most of the other Starfinder teams landing on the surface of the world to which the Tear directed them.
Shortly thereafter, however, when the Starfinders who remained behind in the Lorespire Complex attempted to make contact, they discovered a terrifying reality: the Scoured Stars were now cut off from the rest of the galaxy. A vast shield of aurum energy now surrounded that region of space, preventing communication and travel into the systems. Drift travel was rendered ineffective, and even visual scans failed to pierce the shifting veil, which was soon after dubbed "the Godshield" for its incomprehensible power. This single event left the Starfinder Society devastated, as most agents, ships, and other resources are trapped within the now-untouchable region of the Scoured Stars.