Shintel Downtime is an adventure module featured within The DarkStryder Campaign. The events of this adventure transpire in the year 8 ABY.
After the acquisition of information regarding Gandle Ott, which indicated that Moff Kentor Sarne was en route to Shintel, the FarStar proceeded to that location. Upon their arrival, the crew discovered that the sole Imperial facility present on the planet, known as Imperial Depot 4290-1, had been deserted by Sarne, leaving its staff stranded. The commanding officer of the base, Colonel Heget, enters into an agreement with Captain Kaiya Adrimetrum to secure passage to the shadowport of Tanquilla Beach in return for valuable navigational data.
However, an operative working for Sarne, identified as Lieutenant Palme, successfully manages to upload a specialized datacard into the FarStar's computer systems. As the corvette initiates its jump towards Tanquilla Beach, the programming contained within the datacard triggers a hyperdrive malfunction. Shortly thereafter, the vessel comes under attack by a group of bounty hunters known as Qulok's Fist. A brief engagement occurs, but Qulok's Fist, who are under Sarne's employ with the purpose of only harassing the FarStar, disengage from the conflict. With the hyperdrive rendered inoperable, Lofryyhn improvises a repair of the engines using components salvaged from the X-wings carried aboard the FarStar, allowing the ship to reach the Beach with limited functionality.
Once at the Beach, the crew of the FarStar seeks the assistance of Fia to repair their engines, and they also become aware of the numerous hidden traps that Sarne had installed throughout the ship. Following their involvement in defending the Beach from an assault launched against the shadowport by one of Sarne's Carrack-class light cruisers, the FarStar sets course for Pembric II in order to locate a slicer capable of neutralizing Sarne's insidious modifications.