Dr. Noah is a role playing game on TheForce.Net Role Playing Forum. It is the fourth in a series of games based on a peace-keeping organization called the Secret Galactic Intelligence Service, also known as MI5.
The Plot[]
The previous mission had been a success. All of CarbonEye's forces were either killed or taken into custody...with the exception of one: the mad scientist Dr. Noah. Noah was the doctor that made CarbonEye into the cyborg he was, and he fled before the attack on CarbonEye's underwater fortress. Now, the hunt is on to locate and eliminate Dr. Noah. There is no telling what the insane doctor is up to at this point...but it cannot be good. Little is known of this scientist, other than the fact that he is an agent of SMERSH, a criminal organization bent of galactic domination. MI5 has to find Dr. Noah, even if they don't exactly know what they may be up against...
Dr. Noah had three known facilities where he conducted his work. There was a facility on Cato Neimoidia, Alderaan, and a small laboratory on Corellia.
The Story[]
Coruscant[]
After M gave his briefing at MI5 Headquarters, the agents prepared to head out to their respective destinations. But, before anyone left the building, there were multiple attacks on HQ, and each of them were separate attacks unrelated to the others.
General Lex Garn and Hiskar Dorset had disguised themselves as MI5 workers and planted devices within the building. At the same time, the entity called XANA had broken through firewalls in the MI5 mainframe and cut power to many of the building's systems. With the power out, Z-6 (the Zachos Dakkan clone from MI5's previous mission) was able to escape from his holding cell. And to top it off, the double-agent Utton Vog had released swarms of insects on the agents in Headquarters.
When they found themselves trapped, Garn and Dorset killed themselves because they would rather die than be captured by MI5. Meanwhile, XANA had stolen top secret files and escaped the network before the MI5 AI security program could stop it. And agents Salmakk Neot and Zan Lenor had killed Z-6 before he escaped the detention area. After all that, all agents and MI5 personnel had evacuated the building before the swarms of mysterious insects had done any harm to them. The agents rendezvoused outside the building to regroup and settle things down a bit. None of those attacks had had any connection whatsoever with Dr. Noah. At the moment, they all remained a mystery.
After the rendezvous outside the building, Angeo Lim assigned the agent known only as Lex to a new team to hunt down XANA. Meanwhile, the other agents finally headed out to their respective planets to start the "Dr. Noah" mission.
Corellia[]
After what seemed like a long trip, the team finally arrived in Coronet City on Corellia. Having taken different ships, the team met up just outside the spaceport.
The news over the holonet reported that shots were fired within the CorSec Academy, specifically the labs where Dr. Noah was allowed to conduct his research. Apparently, Noah's henchman Wivern had killed a few suspicious CorSec officers. So the CorSec workers cut their way through the sealed door to let the MI5 agents through. After much blaster fire and numerous dispatched guards, Wivern was captured.
After searching through Noah's files, a holo-vid was discovered showing possible plans to blow up a prison facility on Kiffex. So, with Angeo Lim's orders, the Corellia team of agents was sent off to Kiffex to investigate.
Alderaan[]
First order of business when the team arrived on Alderaan was to capture Arven Pavail, who acted as the Director of Experimental Studies at Dr. Noah's lab in Crevasse City. He frequented the Celestial Lady, which was a casino resort, because he had a weakness for gambling and high-priced Alderaanian artwork. So team leader Joss Vendu had a plan to capture Pavail at the gallery in the casino and use his keycards to gain access to Noah's lab.
The plan was going along smoothly until Pavail's bodyguards discovered Vendu hiding under a food cart. And to make matters worse, double-agent Vog attacked the agents once again. When the plan quickly fell apart, the agents grabbed Pavail and escaped the casino resort before the local authorities arrived. Plus, Vog disappeared again.
After arriving at Noah's lab, which was a tower amongst the cliffs in Crevasse City, the team used a zip-line to get from the cliff to the top of the tower. After storming the tower and hacking into the mainframe, information was discovered about a small spacestation named Noah's Ark.
After sending this new information to Angeo Lim, Lim ordered the Alderaan team to meet up with the Corellia team on Kiffu, for fear that Noah might have his spacestation in that system because of the information uncovered by the Corellia team.
Cato Neimoidia[]
When the team arrived on Cato Neimoidia, Gruu Funkistann headed out toward Noah's lab alone only to scout it out so that he could get a better idea of what his team would be up against. When he arrived at the building, he was unexpectedly attacked by vornskrs. Gruu managed to escape the beasts, but one of them bit his arm. So he made his way back to the ship and got medical attention from the others.
After a long discussion about each agents plans of attack, the team finally stormed Noah's facility. Most of the team dropped down from their ship and entered through the roof of the building while Mitch Nifesta entered through the front doors. The team from the roof soon met up with Darth Janus. Janus refused to fight the agents, but rather told them of a sealed door in the building's basement that not even he could get through. So, the agents headed down there hoping to uncover some useful information.
After successfully bypassing, but narrowly escaping, a booby trapped room, the agents came upon a laboratory full of vats and incubators that contained mutated living creatures. As luck would have it, one of the psuedopod-looking creatures happened to escape from it's vat and attack the agents. Hipparra used Jedi tricks to stop it.
After a quick search in the computers databases, it was discovered that Noah was planning on creating more mutant creatures, enough to form an army. Feeling they had gathered enough intel, the agents took the captive Darth Janus and the unconscious creature that had attacked them and headed back out to the ship. The team set off toward Coruscant, all except Nifesta. Nifesta was headed in a different direction to join the XANA team.
Kuat, Eriadu and Nar Shaddaa[]
Europa Kapanen, a new recruit for the XANA mission
The tech team at MI5 had traced XANA's escape to Kuat. Having added Markus Carfax and a new MI5 agent Europa Kapanen to the XANA team, they headed out for Kuat in search of XANA. Following the location to which XANA was tracked, led the team to XANA's upstepper. Entering the facility, they quickly found themselves trapped inside with some kind of droids. Using the agents' ship's turbolaser, the doors to the upstepper were blown open. Able to hack some systems from outside the structure, a new XANA location was discovered to be on Eriadu. So, the team headed there hoping to have better luck than they did on Kuat.
Inevitably, the agents found attack droids in the Eriadu upstepper as well. After razing the structure, the team followed yet another signal that lead to Nar Shaddaa. But before heading there, they stopped by MI5 HQ on Coruscant to pick up a few new agents.
After arriving on Nar Shaddaa and meeting up with Mitch Nifesta, the team headed toward XANA's fortress. Blowing up turrets and droids, they made their way into the structure. They cut their way through numerous floors to get to the basement levels. First, they disabled the building's power generator, then rewired the droids. After that, they bombarded the entity known as XANA with EMP bombs, ultimately ending the beings life.
Noah's Ark[]
The Alderaan and Corellia teams of MI5 agents eventually met up with each other at the spaceport in Vokoun on Kiffu. While later discussing the situation to Sheyf Tinte Vos, all power was cut off. Following an energy signal, it appeared the power generated by the electrical storms was being sucked toward a spot between the sister planets. Figuring it was Noah's Ark, the agents headed up in that direction.
Shalin Kitovaz, having been the first agent to arrive at the Ark, posed as a representative of XANA and offered Dr. Noah some of the technologies that XANA possessed. Noah was a bit skeptical, but let this guy on-board to negotiate. While they discussed the proposed XANA deal, the rest of the MI5 agents' ships were reeled in with the Ark's tractor beam.
Noah wanted to bring the agents aboard so that he could demonstrate his power. But, Shalin (still posing as the XANA representative) offered to go in his place and pose as him. Since no one knew what Noah actually looked like, he figured it would be safer for him to send in a decoy.
While the fake Dr. Noah taunted the agents, he unexpectedly revealed himself to be the MI5 agent Kitovaz and instead surrounded the surprised Dr. Noah. While the situation seemed bad for Noah, Generals Laurel and Hardy released a number of grotesque creatures that Noah had mutated. Then, the battle ensued.
Having stunned Dr. Noah and knocking him unconscious, the agents continued the fight against the mutated monsters. With the creatures now running loose around the Ark, someone set off the alarm, warning everyone to evacuate. So the agents grabbed what captives they had and headed back to their ships.
Apparently, Dr. Noah had used all his resources from the three facilities, as well as SMERSH, to build his spacestation and mutant army. He left the criminal organization behind and set off on his own mission to defeat both SMERSH and MI5. Parking his spacestation within the electrical storm allowed Noah to collect all the energy to power the Ark's weapons. But in the end, Noah was taken into custody and his Ark was taken over by Republic forces.
Appearances[]
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MI5 Agents
MI5 Administration
Q'u Branch SMERSH
Meerian Vice
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Game Statistics[]
- Total number of posts: 1568
- First post: June 23, 2006
- Last post: November 4, 2007
- "Best Star Wars RPG" award winner (Winter 2007 Role Playing Forum Awards)
Timeframe[]
The events of Dr. Noah take place in 42 BBY, a few weeks after CarbonEye, and 3 years before Casino Royale. (Also see: Star Wars... 007 Style timeline)
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| On Her Majesty's Security Service | CarbonEye | Dr. Noah | Starport | A Few Kinks | ||
| 42 BBY (RPG) |
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42 BBY (short story) |
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Behind the scenes[]
This game (Dr. Noah) was named after the James Bond film Dr. No, and the title character in the game, Dr. Noah, was named after the title character Dr. No from that same film. Similarly, the characters Boothroyd, Puss-Feller, Strangways, and Dent were all named after Major Boothroyd, Puss-Feller, Strangways, and Professor Dent from that film.
External Links[]
Dr. Noah the game at TheForce.Net's Role Playing Forum