The Dawn of Defiance campaign opens some months after the rise of the Empire, with the Clone Wars a very recent and vivid memory for most beings in the galaxy. The Empire has begun tightening its grip on star systems throughout the galaxy, and Darth Vader stands at the newly declared Emperor’s right hand, crushing any opposition and hunting down the last remnants of the Jedi Order. In these short months since the fall of the Republic, many have joined the Empire willingly, including the Core Worlds whose Human nobles stand to benefit a great deal from its tyranny. Similarly, many others have begun rebelling against Imperial oppression, finding themselves driven out of their homes (or worse) and forced to live in a galaxy that tolerates no opposition to the Empire.

Blackwing

It is a dark time in the galaxy. Ten years after a new age of Empire birthed a resurgence of hope across worlds exhausted by war, the reality of totalitarian rule has taken shape. On a thousand, thousand worlds, the iron grip of the Galactic Empire has settled, embodied by the white dagger of orbiting Star Destroyers and the inhuman death masks of the Emperor's fanatical stormtrooper legions. The first flickering embers of rebellion born in the early years of Imperial rule have been crushed, violently and near utterly. What resistance remains has grown cold and hard, by necessity as implacable as their durasteel enemy. In a scant decade, the truth of the Jedi has all but vanished into propaganda and myth.

It is into this age of corruption and arbitrary justice that a dark ship sails. Birthed in a new era of lawlessness on the edges of settled space, the misfit crew of the independent vessel Defiance walks the line of survival with danger and destruction on every side, toward an uncertain future...