#Alt Jedi Knight

[cellarspider]

Rambles in Star Wars History: The extreme shenanigans that changed an Empire

Bioware games can absolutely fascinate me, in part because of their worldbuilding, and in part because of where the worldbuilding ends. I mean, I did a whole long series of posts on the grammar of Qunlat and I have at least a dozen essays worth of material of exegetical analysis of religion in Dragon Age kicking around in my brain, which I keep threatening to actually manifest.

But since I'm here with my worldbuilding hat on, I'm going to ramble about Star Wars: The Old Republic, focusing on some of the sometimes-hilarious drama that's implied by the plot, and the implications for how these shenanigans remade a major galactic society in the process. Involved will be a man who faked his death to get out of going to meetings, a wine uncle who might become emperor, a living scowl with dangerous shoulders, and other assorted animals.

Expect a lot of bonus rambles in the image alt-texts, which is where I store commentary and jokes that I can't fit into the flow of the main post.

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Before I dig into the topic at hand, I have to set the scene for those who don't know the game, or have forgotten in the fourteen years since the game launched.

Spoilers in the post below for Act 1-3 of the Imperial Agent, Sith Warrior, and Inquisitor storylines, Act 1 of the Jedi Knight storyline, the post-Act 3 Battle of Ilum flashpoint, and for various expansions including Rise of the Emperor, Knights of the Fallen Empire, Onslaught, and Legacy of the Sith. Assume that all reference links to Wookieepedia contain major spoilers.

SWTOR is an MMO set 3600 years before the Skywalkers crashed through the ceiling tiles of the galaxy, though it's not to say anything was less chaotic back then, just different chaos.

(Pictured: Anakin Skywalker, circa 32 BBY-4 ABY)

In this time, the titular Old Republic is opposed by a Sith Empire, which is precisely as functional as one might expect. After a decades-long conflict that ended with a Sith victory but left both sides exhausted, a state of cold war began. The Jedi, their Grand Temple destroyed, left Republic space to settle on an ancestral world. The Republic, battered and reeling, tried to recover its stride through use of its superior size and resources, and producing a truly unhinged number of superweapons.

The Sith Empire, in some ways, tried to pretend everything was fine for quite a while. They had successfully forced the Republic into a favorable treaty to end the war. They'd gained territory, they had a lot of work to do there.

…But as things started to look more and more like war again, they were left with the uncomfortable realization that they had sorta kinda killed most of the Sith in the last war, and Imperial citizens in good standing weren't producing enough Force-sensitive kids fast enough to rebuild the losses. Might've had something to do with most of them being dead.

The Empire, of course, is an absolute clusterfuck of a society. Slaves toil to maintain its power. Children of a slave and a citizen will be citizens themselves—unless they're "aliens", a category that includes everyone that isn't a human or a Sith pureblood, the original Sith species.

Being a citizen isn't great either: The Force-blind face mandatory conscription into the military, and can never rise to the highest echelons of society. Above them, the Sith act as a semi-hereditary aristocracy of evil space-wizards that serve an immortal, eldritch Emperor, their living god who has also kiiiind of gone AWOL for reasons only a few of them understand. He's torn between doing his job or staring at a living paperweight, and the paperweight has been winning. He also recently got trapped by an evil hole in the ground, it's complicated.

With the Emperor incommunicado, the duties of the state fall to the Dark Council, a ruling body of up to twelve Dark Lords of the Sith. Each have their own sphere of governmental influence, which are, one can only assume, very dark as well.

Presumably, the Dark Council had something to do with the inevitable yet still surprising solution to their space wizard deficit: over a thousand years of laws were suddenly overturned. Slaves, aliens, and prisoners were not only permitted to become Sith, it was now mandatory that they report for induction into training programs if they possessed any hint of Force-sensitivity.

This is how one of the eight protagonists of the MMO gets their start: if you play the Sith Inquisitor plotline, you begin as a former slave who has survived basic training and made it to the Sith Academy, where your teacher dearly wants to kill you. Your first mission: survive school.

I'm sure this is very relatable to quite a lot of you.

Now that I've got my PhD with only a few gray hairs, I'm looking back at this premise and thinking: This would completely upend the social framework of the Empire. You'd have every established Sith Lord in the Empire scrambling to kill these threats to their power, or harness them against their enemies, or both.

This is actually canon, but canon never touches on the broader, systemic implications of what the new Sith would do, and who they were before—Sure, the overseers of the training programs seem to be doing their damnedest to kill and undermine the newbies while maintaining plausible deniability, but enough of them survive to reshape the Empire. We know that. You play as one of them.

How in the fuck did the Dark Council ever manage to get this policy implemented in the first place? Obviously they did somehow, but the specifics are never mentioned.

But the specifics have the possibility to be hilarious.

The Dark Council itself is composed of Sith who either killed their way to the top, or inherited their seat from their Sith master—who they probably murdered. Turnover on most Council seats is incredibly high. The Spheres of Ancient Knowledge, Technology, and Military Offense each have three different Councilors within a single year, for example.

This also means that whoever ends up in charge of a Sphere might be entirely unsuited for it. Who heads up the Sphere of Expansion and Diplomacy? The least diplomatic guy on the Council, naturally. He goes by Darth Ravage, which fits in well enough with the three different Darths whose names mean 'death' (Thanaton, Mortis, and Rictus). The player can even end up as Darth Nox--'Darth Night'. You get the title by killing one of the Darth Deaths.

So, which of these barely-domesticated evil goths probably voted to allow 'inferior' beings to become Sith, overturning a fundamental tenet of imperial sith philosophy? Probably not the guy in charge of Sith Philosophy! We never see him, but he seems to have been a traditionalist. On the other hand, Darth "Murder has no rules" Ravage might not be huge on tradition, so we can mark him down as a "maybe". But he doesn't seem to be an instigator for something like this.

But on the subject of instigators: Darth Jadus.

Darth Jadus is an experience. While many of the other Council members make it quite clear they're angry enough to chew on the furniture, Jadus unnerves all of them by being utterly calm and composed, as long as you don't count how intensely fervent and irrational he sounds when he starts talking about the Dark Side. He's unhinged in a distressingly hinged-seeming way.

Heading up the Sphere of Intelligence, Jadus is a noted iconoclast on the Dark Council, using his authority to open Imperial Intelligence positions to aliens. He chooses slaves and Force-blind citizens to be his advisors and agents, ignoring the traditional power structures of the Sith. He prefers his literal cult following of fanatical adherents instead, who see him as a visionary savior, a terrifying inevitability, or both.

This means he seems to have basically no interest in elevating other Sith. In fact, he hates the way the rest of them run the Empire. Making more of them might potentially be against his interests.

Or at least it would be, if he didn't have some long-running secret plans that he wants to keep the other Dark Council members from catching wind of. Advocating for slaves, aliens and convicts to become Sith would superficially fall in line with his philosophy, and just raising the idea in public could cause such social chaos that his true plans would benefit from it. Jadus is also the most genre-savvy sith in the entire game: he seems to almost be aware at points that he's neither the protagonist nor main antagonist, and thus his evil plans involve not messing with either of them. When he jostles up against the main plot and realizes he has no plausible means to derail it, he responds by leaving the plot entirely.

Given the tactical chaos and uncomfortably fourth wall-touching strategies Jadus makes use of, let's mark him down as a "yes".

But Jadus is an unpopular one on the Council. He's creepy. Sith HATE feeling creeped out. That's supposed to happen to other people, dammit, not them! And with his disinterest in politics and his deep interest in foisting his manifesto on everyone, he's not the most effective Dark Councilor.

He might be able to pull in a few—Darth Decimus, head of Military Strategy, seems to have been quite willing to exploit any advantage he might be able to squeeze out of a situation. Fun side note, his voice actor also played the First Order officer who was just so done with Hux at the beginning of The Last Jedi.

[Video Description: A compilation of Mark Lewis Jones as Captain Moden Canady from The Last Jedi, with the video quality partially encrunchified by YouTube. This includes all of his shots from the film, from arrival of the Seige Dreadnought Fulminatrix, to the extremely annoyed look he gives the fireball that kills him. Sound supervisor Matt Wood was apparently pretty sure "FIRE ON THE BASE!" was going to be used as an EDM drop, and I can confirm, I've heard it out in the wild.]

Who else have we got rattling around in this Council, who might have extremely ridiculous reasons to vote yes? Well, we have Darth Vengean, head of Military Offense, was all about the Offense. Who needs defense? That nerd Darth Marr? HA! No, Vengean wanted to restart the war with the Republic. More bodies for the war machine would probably be fine with him.

Speaking of that nerd Darth Marr, Darth Marr.

Apparently he designed this armor himself. Solid effort, my man.

Marr is in his sixties by the time the game happens. He's one of the longest-surviving Dark Councilors, and he sounds so tired of his coworkers in every scene he's in. Heading up the Defense of the Empire, Marr also is the de facto leader of the Dark Council, by dint of being the only adult in the room.

Much like Jadus, he distances himself from the backstabbery and rivalries among the Council members. Unlike Jadus, he 100% means it, and has been focused on not making the Empire explode. He eventually ends up as the unofficial leader of the Empire until he gets one-shotted so hard it makes his ghost chill out a bit. He keeps the spikes, though.

So, if there's anyone on the Council who might vote for this on purely practical grounds, and has the power to push others into agreeing with him, because so help him if they don't stop holding duels in the conference room he's going to turn this Empire around—

Nobody listens to him on that, by the way. Both the Sith main plots involve duels in the conference room.

In fact, one of those duels is egged on by our last suspect. Marr might be a contender for longest-running Dark Councilor, but there is another candidate: Darth Vowrawn, who seems to be having a much better time being on the Council than Marr. I suspect the only reason why he doesn't have a bucket of popcorn with him in the Council chambers is because somebody made a rule that he had to stop doing that.

Vowrawn is a surprisingly cheerful old bastard who seems to have turned his hobby into his job. He shows up 'fashionably late' to someone else's attempted coup, after lamenting he can't sell tickets to the clusterfuck that's about to commence. In the expansions to the game, he can outmaneuver and outlive all of the competition and end up becoming the Emperor, at the age of 87.

Vowrawn is also indifferent to against the Empire's policies--he supports the ascension of a Zabrak to the Dark Council, and takes one as an apprentice as well. Beyond that, Vowrawn would have to support this move, because he's instrumental in any large project like this, both politically and practically. While the others I've mentioned all have roles explicitly to do with the aggressive expansion or protection of the Empire, Vowrawn heads the Sphere of Production and Logistics. In essence, he's the one who can decide whether all these other bozos get to eat or not.

If Vowrawn didn't accept this change, then it would have failed. So, he's a definite "yes" by default.

Speaking of bastards who are still active well into their eighties, we have one last major figure who isn't on the Council that likely advocated for this: Darth Malgus.

[Video Description: The "Deceived" trailer, set ten years before the game. God, I love this thing. This was the first trailer I saw for the game, and it got me, it really did. The Sith are just as ridiculous as they should be, combined with choreography that feels a lot more crunchy than lightsaber combat had been before, with distinct combat styles for the two main fighters. It's quick, it's impactful, and it's got a memorable conclusion. Love it.]

Malgus is as anti-racist and anti-classist as Jadus is, but without the insane transcendental Dark Side philosophy. Instead, he has an insane philosophy of bettering the Empire through eternal war, which he believes everyone should have an equal ability to participate in. He is what would happen if a Warhammer 40k character had an inside voice.

[Video Description: The "Disorder" cinematic trailer, set before the Legacy of the Sith expansion. Malgus is 75 here. Man's held together by spite and screws and whatever nutrients you can absorb by being thrown through walls. He's fully given up on the Sith Order at this point and is trying to do his own thing, and he makes it look rad. The choreography has only gotten better, goddamn. Why did it take me three goddamn years to watch this. IT'S REALLY GOOD.]

Malgus is a big deal in the military, with a lot of support from both the Force-blind soldiers and earning the loyalty of a surprising cross-section of Sith. We know this, because he nearly hijacks the Empire at one point in the early expansions. He'd be into this idea, and he probably advocated for it. While he'd have the most direct interaction with the military-related Councilors we already have in the "yes" column, he also has a history of annoying the bejeezus out of other Sith on "his" turf, so who knows! He may have been more persuasive to the others we haven't dug into.

And we can't really dig into all of them at the depth we have with some. Despite how bogglingly huge SWTOR is and the two thousand four hundred and ninety-five named characters and "Additional Voices" credits in IMDb, we never meet some of the Dark Councilors. If you don't play all the eight main storylines, you won't see all of them in the game. I'll admit, I've never seen Darth Hadra, because I've never gotten that far in a Republic-aligned storyline! The Sith you encounter in their stories can often be more one-note, because they're purely there as antagonists rather than people you are legally required to hang out with, and thus have more opportunity to pester mercilessly.

[Video Description: A clip from my own Warrior run-through, featuring my big lad Rejalgar, his coolest friend Vette, and his boss, Darth Baras, who is presently having a screaming tantrum, which Rejalgar makes worse with the most delightfully straight-faced "Is there a problem here?". The Warrior plotline lets you play things sincerely evil, sincerely noble, or sincerely hilarious. Do you want to see Jedi bluescreen when a Sith just straight-up refuses to be violent? Do you want to sidestep a boss fight by offering a family a government pension, something your boss commends as being very devious and evil? Do you want to break up a fight between gangs by threatening to eat them? Come play the Sith Warrior storyline, and be the chaos you want to see in the galaxy!]

[Video Description, from a clip I uploaded to YT specifically for this post after I found out you can only upload one video per tumblr post wtf: A clip from my Inquisitor run-through, featuring my extremely shirtless lad, Sericus, playing coy and a little airheaded when called up by his Sith master, Darth Zash. Back in the day, Purebloods weren't supposed to be played as canon for this storyline, but there were tweaks later made to dialog that provided a canon explanation for how someone with visible Sith ancestry could end up in this situation. The storyline, however, unfortunately does not fully account for a character whose ideal job description is 'villain's beautiful and deceptively intelligent consort, the true power behind the throne'. It assumes you're playing a character who wants to go conquer and/or do mad wizard-science. Bonus points for eventually letting you marry your eight foot tall razor-faced cannibal thrall though, that's very fun.]

Why don't we see all of the Dark Council? Well, because they're ultimately not important to the story as a group. Events keep you locked tightly under the purview of just one or two of them on the Sith side of things, before the post-game and expansion plots launch you into the experience of being a major player in Imperial affairs, and Imperial affairs launch themselves at you in return.

Everyone realizes the Emperor wants to eat them. Then he dies, except he doesn't. Malgus takes over the Empire for a few weeks. Marr takes over, but half the Council is dead and the rest are still in orientation and are probably also dead, because their would-be successors assassinated them. The Emperor, only mildly inconvenienced by also being dead, eats a planet. Then things go completely off the deep end, and the Dark Council is no longer your concern at all.

It's economical storytelling to not belabor the rest of the Councilors, and playing through as an ex-slave Inquisitor, you continue to face enough challenges directly linked to your background that the resistance feels systemic, even if you don't actually see all that many others who are facing the same issues.

But I think there's a lot of potential for some really wild storytelling in there. Your character receives some level of basic training before they reach the Sith Academy, along with a whole batch of ex-slaves. What did that entail? How was it organized? What happens when folks from abolitionist movements start being trained as sith, gaining all the attendant legal authority over the life and death of others?

And what about the prisoners who were released for training? While one canon option is to play a character who was facing immediate execution for participation in violent anti-Imperial resistance, at least a fair chunk of Force-sensitive prisoners were probably serving longer sentences. What happens when prison gangs start gaining a foothold in the Sith Academy, where they're too dysfunctional to even form Mean Girl cliques? What happens when some of their members become full Sith? How many of them might have Hutt backing, or even funding from the Republic Secret Intelligence Service?

These are the sorts of things the Sith themselves are terrified of. This earns a very sarcastic thoughts and prayers to them, of course. Yet it truly is wild to think about the decision-making process that went into this massive societal shift that the game treats as simply a piece of inciting incident for two plotlines out of eight: Twelve unhinged people sat down in some extremely high-backed chairs one day and voted to give everyone equal access to lightning.

I love Star Wars, it's just the funniest shit imaginable sometimes.

[phantomcomet]

Been thinking about breeding kink/mpreg Obikin.

Like, clone wars/alt RoTS where Obi-Wan and Anakin are together and Obi-Wan cannot get the thought out of his head. He wants that man to have his baby (whether this is possible is a toss up. Trans anakin, Force fuckery, synthetic wombs, a/b/o, the possibilities are endless).

Obi-Wan would feel So guilty about it. Like it's one thing to be breaking the code and sleeping with his former padawan, it's a whole other thing to be thinking about knocking him up. That man is trying to turn the thought into a diamond with how hard he's repressing it.

Meanwhile Anakin is always begging for creampies. Dude loves the mess, loves the physical evidence of Obi-Wan's want and desire. He's not even meaning to hit all Obi-Wan's button, but he's body slamming them.

I just want Obi-Wan to blurt out, "have my babies," at the dumbest fucking time. Like they're not even having sex, Anakin is sweaty and covered in grease and Obi-Wan just goes, "I need to get him pregnant."

Anakin squints at him and goes, "what you say?"

"Have a nice day. I'm going to eject myself out of the air lock."

The other idea is reverse age, padawan Obi-Wan. He's twenty-four, fast approaching the Knight Trials, and on the cusp of losing his master. He's got all these issues about losing Qui-Gon, shit he's buried and never touched again, but the idea that soon Anakin won't be his master anymore, that they'll be expected to break the bond and put distance between them, is driving him up the wall. (Anakin has no intention of breaking the bond. That's his padawan and the council can stuff it.)

He finds out that Anakin wants to have a baby. His master is 39 and doesn't want to miss his chance to start a family, even if it means leaving the order. Obi-Wan immediately goes, "the baby Has to be mine. I need to tie us together in ways that can never be severed."

Obi-Wan being ohh so causal as he enters the negotiation of his life. "Master, I know you want a child. I'd be happy to give you one."

"What are you going to do, steal one for me?"

"I was thinking a more old fashioned method."

Anakin eyes bugging out because??? "I'm not having a baby with my padawan."

"What if I was a knight?"

"Sure, if you manage to become a knight in the three days, I'll consider it." His Trials are 3 months away, that'll never happen.

"Bet." Obi-Wan then immediately goes out and either convinces the council to let him speed run this shit or he tracks down and kills a sith. Dude is Determined.

The final idea is just Anakin getting Immaculate Conceptioned. Post Hardeen/Ashoka leaving the order, Anakin is lonely, desperate for connection, and on the verge of falling. The Force goes, "time for the sequel to my greatest hit." And bam, it's twins.

The council goes, "we thought the first Force baby was a fluke but now that it's happened a second time in a row, it's probably some sort of sign." Anakin was fully expecting to be expelled or forced to give the children up to the creche but instead the Jedi go, "well, guess we'll need to add a nursery to your rooms."

Like, the Jedi are so full of love and compassion and they're so ready to welcome and celebrate these new lives, a gift from the Force itself. Anakin is so confused because he was expecting the worst. He hasn't often seen the council in the best light, so to have them be supportive is wild and sends him reeling. Has Palpatine been wrong this whole time??

"The Force has spoken. We'd be foolish not to listen. We will all reflect on this matter and the possible meanings. In the meantime, we want you and your children to be comfortable and safe. No more war for you."

(The Code probably doesn't change much, if at all. It's there to keep them off dangerous paths and maintain balance, while reminding them that their main purpose is to value All life equally and to maintain peace. They do have a "we've been maintaining the peace for some at the expense of others" realization and get back on their justice kick. Going soverign, freeing the slaves/clones, just generally beating the galaxy into shape.)

Mostly I just imagine they go, "well fuck. The Force has deemed Skywalker the exception, might as well accept it and roll with it."

Anyway Obi-Wan is just besieged by longing. How can he not be, when Anakin is over the moon about everything? He's doing his damnest to support Anakin as best he can, to be there every step of the way, but he also can't help but yearn. He wants those babies to be His, for Anakin to he His. The Force goes, "fuck it, three parents it is." And just drops his DNA in at the last minute like a fucking dlc.

(They become a warning to the padawans lol. "Don't wish for a baby, the Force might give you one.")

[crowleychild]

DAY 12: DIE A HERO (ALT 5 used)

Fandom: Star Wars

Rating: G

Warnings: Character's death

Vader guesses he should have died on Mustafar.

Even better yet, he should have died on that ship, so many years ago, when he and his Master had rescued Palpatine. That way, he would have been remembered as Anaking Skywalker, Jedi Knight, a hero.

But instead, he had lived, and he will always be remembered as Darth Vader, a monster, a murderer, a Sith.

He had been all of that, of course. He had committed atrocities, killed thousands of people, he had enjoyed destroying a planet. He had done everything the Emperor had told him, and he didn’t let himself anything but hate.

And pain. Indecible pain.

And now, at his end, he keeps feeling pain.

Pain because he remembers everything he has done (How could he forget). Pain because he had his daughter just in front of him and he tortured her and blew up his planet, his family, his future. Pain because he almost killed his son.

He guesses that everything has always been about the people he had loved.

He turned to the dark side for Padme and he returned because of Luke. How poetic.

Luke looked at him, and Anakin was looking at him back.

It was not an easy thing to understand now, right after his life, full of horrors, had passed through his eyes, but he knew he had always been Anakin.

He had tried all his life to convince himself that he had killed him, but the reality was that Anakin did all of those things. He had done it. At first, it was all for Padme, then, because of his anger, and then, because he didn’t remember anything other than seeing red and causing pain to others to alleviate his own. During all that time, he had kept the thought of being anything but Darth Vader in the bottom of his mind, locked there.

Now he understood that Anakin hadn’t died a hero because he was a monster, he was Darth Vader,

But maybe, that could change now.

And he couldn’t imagine a better place to die than in his son’s arms.

link to my ao3 work

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62684071/chapters/161313202

tags: @febuwhump

[sonic-fairyspell]

Meet the OC: Lord Styx and Lord Noirin

Lord Styx, OG name: Tav Rerr (Human) and Lord Noirin (Sith Pureblood). Lord Styx and Noirin are husbands. Fathers of Jedi Knight Tein Barah. They have been Sith Lords for a long while. They first started breaking out of the Sith mind set when Tein is born, which cause them and their wife, Lady Dahru, to do all that they did to save him, all three starting to see the Light. They loved him so much that they and their wife, Dahru, smuggled him out to get him to safety. She gave him up to a Jedi to give him a chance, cause Tein's existence has them feel so much Love for him, like not the Sith's version of love, but real, true love that has them and their wife look at their ancient enemy in the form the Jedi that saves Tein and recognize that he was the best option for their son to escape, have a better life and be loved. And they do love him, so much that they choose to let him go, as much as they want to be there for him. They fought the Sith that were after them to give the Jedi time to escape with Tein. Dahru dies in the battle and they are captured by the Sith and dragged back. They get re-conditioned (tortured/minor mind control from the Emperor) to be more Sithly again. Styx and Noirin do get to see their son again. It's years later, Tein is all grown up and A Jedi Knight now, but they look at him and immediately know that that's their son. That's their boy and he's all grown up and a Jedi now, and they still love him so damn much. There's the whole "Holy shit, babe get over here its our boy" from Noirin to Styx, but more refined lol, and they talk, not to like be manipulative and shit, they just want to hear about their son's life, what's he's been up too, who his friends/family are, if he was treated well (he was), and all that. The torture and mind control conditioning ends up being broken yet again when they see Tein again. And maybe it could be a start of a new Path for them. After they're reunited with their son, he convinced them to go with him and his friends to Tython. It doesn't take much to convince them, and they abandon the Sith totally and go to live on Tython with their son and his friends/family. May or may not, probably not, become Jedi. Unsure for now. Styx and Noirin are both still very terrifying and intimidating men, even after they leave the Sith behind. They both really love their son, and they like his friends. They understand why Tein loves the Jedi and Tython, and endeavor to play nice while they're rehabilitated. Noirin is very smart, more of the strategist, while Styx is more the muscle he's still rather smart in his own regard, ensuring both work very well together. Both Styx and Noirin are Sith Warriors. (Note for a bonus note of Noirin's look in the alt of his first picture)

(I don't currently have character space for all of my ocs, and I don't have the species necessary yet, or the right outfit bits I have in mind for some of them, but I wanted to share them anyway. and I can always make updates about them later lol!)

[chaoticstrata]

I keep going back and forth on what I want to do with my smuggler. I wish they would tell us if we'll get Rass as a fully romanceable character. =/ My current Zaberial is fully locked into the Theron romance, so I'd have to make another Zabe in order to do the romance Rass without me having a moral dilemma over breaking up with Theron. =/

And don't get me started on Jedi Knights...I swear I'm going to end up with three in the end. One for Theron, one for Arcann, and one for Doc. @_@

Possibly both a male and female trooper for Theron and Aric. Some female force user for Lana (possibly Female Jedi Consular).

-SIGH- I like alt way too much.

[thrautistic]

Uhhh new oc lol

Ikrion Faer, Jedi knight and emotionally unstable little guy

Follows the Jedi code to a T and hates themself for being evereni. Still hated by other Jedi, though.

No set era! Just a silly guy. Though probably set after the evereni left Everon

They use they/he pronouns (they/them preferred) and is 25-30 in age!

Very much religious with the force

Alt outfit colors (what I did first, actually, but I liked the previous one better)

[ciphernull]

CHARACTER DIRECTORY

A master list of my current cast of SWTOR characters, organized for… organizational purposes. Liable to change and expand over time, as I am a fiend for alts and AUs.

(Detailed individual character pages will be set up and linked to in the future, brain permitting.)

IMPERIAL

DRAL'ES'KOVOS / ALESKO // Chiss - Imperial Agent - Sniper // [tag] The former Cipher Nine, now a ghost agent under the alias ‘Null’. Aloof, enigmatic, professional. Working through the trauma of his militant upbringing, one sarcastic quip at a time.

RUL SERA'ATH // Twi'lek - Sith Inquisitor - Sorcerer // [tag] Darth Nox. Least qualified Dark Council member, and determined to make that everyone’s problem. Vengeful, arrogant, and obnoxiously resistant to learning from his own mistakes.

VEX KORVA // Human (Cyborg) - Bounty Hunter - Scoundrel // [tag] Product of cybernetic experimentation. Ex-military--unclear as to which side. Mostly looks out for himself and his crew. Surprisingly easygoing, unless he decides you’re a threat.

DRUSIR // Sith Pureblood - Sith Warrior - Marauder // [tag] (WIP) Backstory eludes me yet. Stoic, steadfast, and impressively rational for a Sith, but loses all composure in the heat of battle.

RHOEN VARR // Cathar - Bounty Hunter - Gunslinger // [tag] Cartel enforcer turned freelance mercenary, carving a path of blazing gunfire through the galaxy’s underworld. Cocky, crass, and lays looking for a thrill. Fond of dangerous beasts.

REPUBLIC

ANSU'NHA'SETE / SUNHASE // Chiss - Trooper - Powertech // [tag] War orphan, rescued and informally adopted by Havoc Squad. Raised to be a first class soldier, and proud of it. Confident, loyal, fearless, and heartbreakingly optimistic.

HESKAN VOH // Mirialan - Jedi Knight - Guardian // [tag] Golden boy of the Jedi Order, struggling to live up to his newfound expectations. Soft-spoken, kind-hearted, and dutiful to a fault. Secretly yearns for freedom.

RK-6 // Droid - Smuggler - Mercenary // [tag] Woke up in a derelict ship with no crew and no memory. Searching the galaxy for answers. Friendly, but blunt. Any obstacles in his way tend to explode spectacularly.

K'JET // Cathar - Jedi Consular - Shadow // [tag] (WIP) Currently following his sister around, trying desperately to keep her out of trouble. Sharp-tongued and cynical, but thoughtful and sentimental beneath his prickly exterior.

[dystopicjumpsuit]

Submitting for the database (1/2) Name: Auora Ylandra Image: (should be 142kb if it pastes right)

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Hello there, @eternal-transcience!!! Thank you celebrating with me! Aurora is gorgeous, and from her Jedi Archive Record, she sounds like quite the badass.

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Transcript in alt text and below the cut.

JEDI ORDER ARCHIVE

Member Record

Name: Aurora Ylandra

Rank: Jedi Knight / General

Jedi Master: Master Rha'ckji

Classification: Guardian

Status: Active

Service Record

Other Service: Grand Army of the Republic

Qualifications: Master of Form V

Mentor

Medical Record: Grade 1 ankle sprain

Blaster bolt to the lower shoulder.

Pharyngitis (Two Occasions. 1 due to past vocal injury)

Broken femurs (Crushed in Venator crash. Surgery required)

Remarks: Aurora Ylandra is keen on investigating problems which concern only her clone battalion. Her investigation into Krell proved correct. Investigation into Inhibitor Chips classified and unauthorised. No evidence of any code neglect but is increasingly disregarding the rule of attachment. No sign of severe darkness with attachment. 

Additional Documentation: youngling_entrance_eval_ylandra_aurora_42bby

ylandra_light_crusader_heritage_classified

clone_war_psych_eval_ylandra_aurora_20bby

[moonsprung]

#𝙼𝙾𝙾𝙽𝚂𝙿𝚁𝚄𝙽𝙶 --      mutuals only, selective,  LOW ACTIVITY, 20+ multimuse roleplay blog  for canon + original characters from marvel, dragon age, bg3, teen wolf, star wars and many more. most have verses in marvel, bg3, dragon age, fantasy, scifi, star wars and a fandomless/modern au. mcu friendly but critical. fantasy muses + all ocs have highest priority. on hiatus until june 20th.

full roster under the cut. wip guidelines here. blogroll : @untaimed, @moonsprung.

FOCUS MUSES : jacinta, lanaya lavellan, elora, rey.

ORIGINALS.

PRIYANKA DESHRA. 30+. UNLABELED. STAR WARS OC. MANDALORIAN. PSYCHIC. THE CASSANDRA. THE WARRIOR ARTIST. VARADA SETHU. AFFILIATED WITH CAS' CAPTAIN REX. PREV @ K4RTA.

TATYANA "TANYA" WOLFF. 30+. UNLABELED. MUTANT/WIDOW - SUPER SOLDIER OC , WOLF WIDOW. EXPERIMENT. CAGED BIRD WITH CLIPPED WINGS. REPRESSED ARTIST.

JACINTA "CIN" KYLE. 30s+. UNLABELED. MUTANT OC , AN OMEN OF DEATH, ROT & DECAY, LIFE & REBIRTH, A WOMAN OUT OF TIME, ROMANTIC DEATH, CRAWLING OUT OF YOUR GRAVE, DIRT UNDER NAILS, DEAD FLOWERS. [ verses: marvel, dc / gotham, baldurs gate 3, supernatural, x-men, dragon age, general fantasy, star wars, general scifi. ]

ELVAN'SHALEE "ELORA" T'SARRAN. BG3. DROW DARK URGE. SORCERER. RESISTING BHAALSPAWN. 25+. UNLABELED. NO FC BUT USES THE IN-GAME MODEL. NEVER BEING IN CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE, BEING A PAWN, WINNING BUT AT WHAT COST, BECOMING A HERO THE HARD WAY, MAGIC AS A LOVE LANGUAGE, DYING AND COMING BACK WRONG, YOU CAN NEVER ESCAPE THE GUILT NO MATTER WHAT. [ verses : bg3, general fantasy, dragon age + lavellan inq alt. ]

LANAYA LAVELLAN. DAI + DATV. DALISH ELF. TEMPEST ARCHER. 30+. UNLABELED. BORN WITH MAGIC BUT NEVER TAUGHT HOW TO HARNESS IT, AS SHE FELT SHE WAS NEEDED MORE AS A HUNTER / PROTECTOR. ELDEST CHILD SYNDROME, PARENTIFIED AS A CHILD, DUTY OVER HAPPINESS. HER ENTIRE WORLD CHANGES AFTER A SIMPLE MISSION TO SPY ON THE CONCLAVE. REJECTS BEING SENT BY ANDRASTE. SIDES WITH THE MAGES, MOST OF CLAN LAVELLAN DIES, VOWS TO SAVE SOLAS FROM HIMSELF. A STUDY IN BEING LARGER THAN YOURSELF, A TITLE THAT SWALLOWS YOU WHOLE, EYES ALWAYS ON YOU, NEVER FEELING YOU DO ENOUGH. [ NAME HAS A VERY SYMBOLIC MEANING PRE-CONCLAVE AND POST. SHE GIVES EVERYTHING TO THE INQUISITION AND IT'S NEVER ENOUGH AND IT EVENTUALLY LEAVES HER BURNED. LANAYA MEANS " SHE WHO HAS GIVEN EVERYTHING ". ]. AFFILIATED WITH ARCANIMAS' SOLAS.

MISC MEDIA.

GWEN STACY. 23+. TRANSFEM. COMICS + SPIDERVERSE. FC TBA. [ verses : marvel / rivals, spiderverse, the boys, college, pjo, scifi, more. ]

MERRILL. MID 20s+. UNLABELED. DRAGON AGE 2. DAISY EDGAR JONES. [ verses: da2 + all da games incl veilguard, bg3, gen fantasy, star wars, scifi. ]

PENI PARKER. 18. UNLABELED. COMICS + RIVALS. KOTONE FURUKAWA. [ verses : marvel rivals, earth-616, multiverse / spider-verse, earth-2099, star wars, college. ]

REY OF JAKKU. 21+ / 24+ (POST-CANON), SHE/THEY, NON-BINARY. STAR WARS. HC BASED, DIVERGENT. JESSIE MEI LI. PREV @ RAEHS. [ verses : sequels -- pre-tfa, tfa, tlj, between tlj + last movie, post-canon, years after canon, prequels -- jedi padawan, handmaiden, jedi knight, post - order 66, ot / empire era -- rebel pilot, rebel spy, jedi turned survivor, any era -- smuggler, scavenger. & space travel [ general scifi / comics ], marvel, dc, the boys, pjo, bg3, dragon age, fantasy, royalty, thg. ] AFFILIATED WITH ARCANIMAS' JABBER.

SAI. 30s+. UNLABELED. RIVALS + COMICS. ANNA SAWAI. [ verses : rivals, 616, scifi, star wars, dc comics, the boys, supernatural, modern, bg3. ]

ALFIRA. MID-LATE 20s. BG3, HCs + DIV. LESBIAN. GOES WITH ALT OPTION FOR DURGE TO KNOCK HER OUT INSTEAD OF KILLING HER, SO SHE SURVIVES AND FORGIVES THEM.

CORA HALE. 25+. UNLABELED. REMOVED FROM TEEN WOLF CANON + INSPIRED BY HEADCANONS. LATINE. [ verses : general supernatural, pre teen wolf, teen wolf, post teen wolf canon, marvel, dc, modern / fandomless, thg, star wars, scifi, baldurs gate 3, twilight. ]

JYN ERSO. 22+. UNLABELED. LIT + ROGUE ONE. CAILEE SPAENY, FELICITY JONES. PREV @ REBELRAISED. [ verses : childhood w/ the partisians, rogue one timeline, post rogue one (everyone lives au!), sequels, new republic, pre rogue one + post saw, thg. ]

LORNA SALLY DANE. 30s+. UNLABELED. COMICS. MEDALION RAHIMI. PREV. POLAERES. [ verses : post-krakoa, general 616, marvel rivals, dc comics, star wars, scifi, the boys, fandomless. ]

SHARA BEY. 30+. UNLABELED. STAR WARS. ADRIA ARJONA. PREV @ SHARBEY. [ verses : original trilogy, sequels, kes dies instead au, modern / fandomless (airforce), marvel, dc, scifi. ]

AHSOKA TANO. VARIES, 14-35+. LESBIAN. CLONE WARS, LEGENDS BASED. FC TBD. PREV WHITESABCRS. [ verses : clone wars, leaving the jedi order, general post - order 66, rebels, original trilogy, sequels, general scifi, modern, comics/superhero, fantasy, dnd/bg3. ]

BY REQUEST / TEST MUSES.

BELLONA KINNEY. 20+. ENBY, LESBIAN. COMICS + HEADCANON.

LUNA MAXIMOFF. 18+. TRANSFEM, LESBIAN. COMICS + HEADCANONS. MARIA JOSE LLERGO. PREV @ GIR1MOON. [ verses : scifi, star wars, pjo, fantasy, dragon age, baldurs gate 3, thg. ]

WANDA MAXIMOFF. 35+. PANSEXUAL. COMICS + HEADCANONS. SCARLET WITCH (2015) + SOLOS. ANTI MCU. ANTI RETCON. WRITTEN WITH SCHIZIOAFFECTIVE DISORDER. VERY PRIVATE, TESTING. ALBA FLORES.

[sonic-fairyspell]

Oh, I have quite a hand full lol. I currently only play as two of them cause I don't currently have character space for all of them, and I don't have the species necessary yet, or the right outfit bits I have in mind for some of them, but I really wanted to share my SWTOR Beans, whether I currently play them or not (they still count to me!). And if you'd like to read more about them, you can find them in my swtor oc tag; here Jasteral Mereel

Jasteral Mereel is my main Jedi Knight boy. The Hero of Tython. My slightly stubborn little Mando Jedi

Bira Pharani

Bira Pharani is my lovely Jedi Consular, The Barsen'thor. My sweet, kind and compassionate girlie.

Tein Barah

Tein Barah is a Sith Pureblood Jedi Knight. He is the son of the Sith Lords Styx and Noirin, and Lady Dahru. He and Noirin are pretty much identical. Very much takes after his Father. Tein is a sweetheart. He's very gentle, compassionate, a little sunshine boy.

Lord Styx and Lord Noirin

Lord Styx, OG name: Tav Rerr (Human) and Lord Noirin (Sith Pureblood). Lord Styx and Noirin are husbands. Fathers of Jedi Knight Tein Barah. Noirin is very smart, more of the strategist, while Styx is more the muscle he's still rather smart in his own regard, ensuring both work very well together. Both Styx and Noirin are Sith Warriors. (Note for a bonus note of Noirin's look in the alt of his first picture)

Lady Dahru

Lady Dahru is a Sith Pureblood Sith Inquisitor. Lords' Styx and Noirin's wife. Tein's Mother. She is unfortunately story wise deceased. A very cool, calm, and collected woman. Very level headed.

Koltar

Koltar is another Sith Pureblood Sith Warrior. He may or may not be dating Jedi Knight Naler Tem (He is). He's a funky kinda wild dude, but with a heart of gold, just waiting to be unearthed. He might end up leaving the Sith all together at the end of his story.

Naler Tem

Naler Tem is my other human Jedi Knight. He may or may not be dating Sith Warrior, Koltar (He is). Naler is a bit of a quieter person. He is kind and compassionate, but firm in his beliefs.

SWTOR OC

I'm temporarily obsessed with swtor, so... do you have OCs in this game? Maybe drawings or headcanons for them?

If you were looking for a place to share them, it's here)) Share your characters in the comments (and if you don't mind, I'll probably try to draw those you publish))

Pic for attention)

[cellarspider]

Star Wars: The Old Republic, and the Return of the Weirdest Guy

I've done a couple of tounge-in-cheek analyses of SWTOR backstory recently, and frankly, it was mostly an exercise in nostalgia: finding old drawers in my brain full of dusty old factoids, and dumping them out into essay-shaped monstrosities. Bioware released SWTOR on the 20th of December, 2011. There are kids who were born that day who'll be entering 8th grade this year. There was only one version of Skyrim when it came out, and it was only just over a month old!

SWTOR's development team has since been rehomed at Broadsword Online Games, which has meant a reduced budget while allowing the lights to stay on, and story updates to slowly continue. I've been content to keep splashing around in the base game, vaguely planning on getting a character or two through to the current storylines, but never actually getting there.

And then Star Wars: Celebration happened last week, and I am now forced to consider the unthinkable: getting my ass in gear and playing the new stuff, because I saw this.

This appears to be Darth Jadus. It's been thirteen real, actual years since he was last seen. Follow me below the fold, and find out why I'm obsessed with this man who once faked his death to get out of attending work meetings, and because his coworkers weren't reading his manifesto.

Content warnings before we begin: much as I love Jadus as a villain, he is a villain. He's a cult leader and he's in the running for Worst Dad of SWTOR, which is saying something when his competition includes a guy who had 1,300 years of practice to perfect being a really terrible dad.

Note that there will be additional jokes and analyses in the image alt text, which is where wild tangents build their nests.

Spoilers for the entirely of the Agent plotline, Act 3 of the Jedi Knight plotline, and various moments throughout the expansions. Assume Wookieepedia links contain unmarked spoilers for literally everything. I'll be covering the context of Jadus among the Sith, his plotline, some of my own speculations as to his motivation, and how things may go, now that this SWTOR cryptid is crawling out of the ductwork to be spooky in person once again.

Just to give you the flavor of this guy, I'll sum up his plot as succinctly as I can, right at the top: Jadus anonymously funds and arms a terrorist group and sends them to attack himself, seemingly dying in an extremely extra fashion. He's also outfitted them with undetectable biomechanical death satellites, and while those are finishing up their unholy maturation, he's taking a vacation to drive two hundred of his followers face-meltingly insane. His daughter will keep anyone from noticing this by being such a galaxy-class disaster that Jadus can just hang out for a few months.

He plans to return from the dead on the day the superweapon satellites are unleashed, taking control of then to wipe out the terrorists and simultaneously destroy his rivals' power bases, forcing them to acknowledge him and his horrible invisible space-laser children. He will then lead the Empire in whatever weird direction he feels like, while making sure not to piss off the immortal, eldritch Sith Emperor too much.

If he's allowed to win, he'll give the Sith Empire a light dusting of eldritch cult vibes before he realizes the game has entered Act 3: as an ambitious secondary villain, he's a prime target for the role of "gets killed by the end boss to show how serious the situation is". He evades this fate by simply leaving the game entirely. He then proceeds to lurk for thirteen real life years, and twenty-three Star Wars ones, before showing up to jumpscare the galaxy again. If that's actually him, we don't have it totally 100% confirmed yet. It could just be someone with a similar taste for being gigantic and wearing that one mask.

I intend to describe the hows, whys, and WHY?!?s of Jadus in a tasteful yet unhinged essay below.

So.

Let's take a moment and step back, to look at what made the Sith into compelling villains in the first place: Darth Vader. Growing up with the original movies, there was barely any detail about him, just electrifying little glimpses of a deeply scarred body and mind beneath the mask.

Really, when you set aside everything else that's come after, what do the originals tell you? I mean, in the original movie, "Darth" was clearly intended to be Vader's first name, and by the end of the trilogy nobody actually knew what a Sith was, or why Vader was Dark Lord of them. There was almost a timeline where the Sith ended up as little lizard assassin commando guys that thought Vader was a really cool dude.

What made Vader special was the experience of witnessing him on screen, brought to life by the physical performance of David Prowse, and the vocals of James Earl Jones.

The two of them combined created a performance with a gravitas that has yet to be matched by anyone else who's put on the suit or done the voice. There's a subtlety to the body language of Prowse and the restraint Jones employs in creating the image of Vader.

And let's be clear, Vader is still the untouchable standard, and attempts to recreate him are doomed to fail. But what about making something new and transfixing in other ways? Well, SWTOR has been quite good at that.

The core of SWTOR, anyway.

The voices and designwork do, anyway.

SWTOR is a Bioware game, and back in this era, that meant one thing: characters moving and gesturing in ways no human would ever attempt, unless they were imitating a malfunctioning animatronic.

These are stock animations that they'd used for years, and they're a cost-saving measure. Each game, storyline, and scene has an animation budget. That's because building a moving piece of art is hard, and doing so inside a computer means you either have to build literally everything from scratch, or you reuse assets that are already available. SWTOR is a game with literal thousands of voiced characters, in a new setting they couldn't reuse art assets for. Writing for the game began in 2006, while the first Mass Effect and Dragon Age games were also in development. There was no way you were getting custom animations outside of key scenes.

And so that leaves you with a good old Bioware tradition: what's your favorite stock animation? The ones I'm most fond of are "person exits a conversation by calmly taking two steps backwards before turning around, like they're a car pulling out of a parking spot", or "person kind of spins both their hands around in front of them, like they're at a loss for words on how to describe watching their buddy walk like an automobile".

So, those are the ground rules for experiencing a Bioware game of this era: everybody looks like a dork in the in-game cutscenes, but the voices and writing carry the day, so eventually you tune out the wiggles. If a character's really lucky, they'd get actual cinematics. If they're Darth Malgus, this is so he can get repeatedly kicked in the face and still look cool doing it.

[Video Description: The Disorder cinematic trailer, in which Malgus forces a Jedi padawan to confront how her master made the choice to abandon her brother, leaving him to an unknown fate. I've shown this before in other essays, and damn it, I'll show it again. This shit is fantastic. Malgus is in fine form, in terms of combat, manipulative villain behavior, and getting smacked into walls. You have no idea how often that happens to him. It appears to be one of his hobbies at this point.]

Malgus is the closest SWTOR strays to Vader, and the main point of comparison for all other Sith in the game. Voiced by Jamie Glover, he's a seething menace who's maintained a strong presence throughout much of the game's thirteen year run. He rebels against the Sith orthodoxy, making a play to rule them, and eventually rejects them entirely. He's even taken on more of the Vader cybernetics over time, as his life of conflict has broken more and more of his body, while leaving his mind intact. His vocal performance is very distinct, but in tone is probably closest to Vader's early portrayal in A New Hope: more open malice and contempt.

And if you're lured into the supplementary material like tie-in novels and such, you get his whole backstory, and it really doesn't improve things. You don't need to know who he was, or hear his inner monologue. His outer monologue gives you what you want without ruining the mystique.

Then there's the Sith Emperor himself, whose transcendent evil is brought to life by the voice of Doug Bradley, an actor best known for his lead antagonist role in the Hellraiser series. I'll admit I've only ever personally heard the Emperor in full form once, due to my meandering path through the game. But when I did? Every ridiculous thing about the game fell away, because his restrained performance carried the moment so well.

And when expansions and books start explaining more of what his deal is, it's often subtractive to his menace. Thanks in no small part to how much of that is tied up in Revan, a figure beloved by fans in Ye Olden Times, whose SWTOR-era canon is more of a "we don't talk about him" kind of affair. If you want the blow-by-blow, just check out the fifty-thousand word Wookieepedia page for Revan and feel your soul slowly shrivel up over the course of an hour or so.

But when you meet the Emperor again after Revan's dead, now manifesting in another body and with a different voice, you might hear him refer to Darth Jadus as "the finest Sith my empire ever produced."

And when you encounter Jadus, should you make the very good decision to try the Imperial Agent plotline, you might see why the Emperor thought that.

Darth Jadus is voiced by Stephen Rashbrook, who's mostly done narration and voiceover for documentaries. I'd guess that the most popular things he's been in have been this game, and the Black Mirror episode Bandersnatch, where he also does narration for something. The only credit that made me sit up and say "Oh shit! He was in that?" was the PBS/Channel 4 documentary series Secrets of the Dead, which careens between sensational goofiness and actually some of the best damn portrayals of archaeology on TV.

[Video Description: Season 2, Episode 2 of Secrets of the Dead, featuring Stephen Rashbrook's narration about a skeleton found near Stonehenge. For those who haven't heard his voice before, this is your baseline that will make things even weirder in a minute. If you do know Jadus already, this itself feels weird as hell. I keep waiting for him to wander off into a sermon on the spiritual benefits of existential terror. It's quite good at digging into the details and techniques used in archaeology, circa 2000. There's a few bits eyebrow-raising bits in the narration, But this particular skeleton has not been reexamined since this same analysis, fitting with theories still accepted today. Also, fun bonus fact in these papers: the previous carbon dating they mention in the documentary was paid for by a dentist who thought the skeleton was King Arthur's. /Description]

I've no idea if Rashbrook will be returning to the role for this surprise return, but he contributes a lot to making Jadus a transfixingly strange figure among the Sith. As with Doug Bradley, restraint is the key element, which wanders between menace and ardent, trance-like conviction.

And sometimes he says just the strangest, most unhinged things you've ever heard.

[Video Description: From YT user Armored Productions. The second time you encounter Jadus, wherein he basically opens with a Dark Side tone poem, reveals the outline of his entire secret plan in such a cheeky way that it just sounds like the worst salvia trip in the universe, mentions his flagship is named the Dominator, and then cranks up the BDSM vibes to maximum by ordering you to kneel for some sort of ritual purposes. And no, that last bit is never explained. We don't know why he wants you to kneel, or if it was supposed to change something in you. What I do know is that if you refuse to kneel, he gives you a chance to change your mind. If you remain defiant, he hits you with so much Force lightning that the game kicks you out to the menu that asks "you got your ass kicked, do you want to revive here or slink back to the nearest med center?". As far as I can recall, this is the only cutscene that can do this. Jadus hits you so hard you stop being cinematics and start being game mechanics. /Description]

And here's where I let up on the (slightly) serious tone. Because I love this performance dearly, but wow. Wow. He really just says all those things, doesn't he.

"I believe in the democratization of fear," the giant space-gimp tells you, and you believe he believes that, whatever the ass that means.

Because at that point, you really don't know. He's not slowing down to explain this to you, because you are, as far as he's concerned, unimportant. He's not yet aware that you're the main character of the plot line. No, really, I'm only barely joking. He figures it out eventually, but at the moment he's got something else on his mind: screwing over his coworkers.

As I previously described, the Sith Empire largely runs under the control of twelve unhinged cybergoths known as the Dark Council: turnover is often quick and violent, as rival lords vie for Council seats. Those that survive longer than a few years are uniformly the most powerful and canny among the Sith. They are the most competent at foiling their rivals, maintaining their influence, and administering their respective spheres of influence that underpin an interstellar Empire.

And most of them hate at least one part of that job description, and are constantly scheming on how to undermine the others so they can be left alone to do the parts they actually want to do. How dare everyone else make this difficult for them. How dare Darth Vowrawn be having a good time doing all of this.

Darth Jadus, when the story begins, is one of these Dark Councilors, and he doesn't hate it as much as the rest. He hates it more. He hates it weirder. And despite never engaging in the weekly backstabbery of the Council, the rest all know he's got something long-term cooking. It's just that nobody's been able to figure out what it is. They are correct, but nobody seemed to realize how seriously he was committed to sparkle motion.

I already previewed his invisible biomechanical laser satellites at the top, but withheld any of his reasons for doing that. So... why is he doing that?

Jadus has gotten fed up with the Dark Council, and with Sith in general. For years, he's been something of an outcast among them for radical ideas like "aliens and slaves are also people" and "Sith aren't the specialest little critters in the universe" and "we should stop fighting each other all the time", and the actual radical ideas like "everyone regardless of circumstance or ability should experience the benefits of the Dark Side, such as its limitless abyss of hatred and terror".

Yes, this man is a socialist, but specifically for the redistribution of bad vibes.

So far, his attempts to convince other Sith have been a failure, but he's done surprisingly well among certain parts of the general public. He runs Imperial Intelligence, which is the only part of the government where aliens can find employment, and Force-blind people can rise to the top ranks.

In fact, all of Jadus' personal advisors are Force-blind. He's completely purged both Intelligence and his retinue of Sith. He's known to select slaves and aliens for special roles, specifically because everyone else has overlooked their potential for their entire lives—their loyalty will be uncompromised. He's deeply involved in the affairs of Imperial Intelligence, on a level that other Sith don't usually engage.

And so nobody really notices when he has the Imperial Science Bureau try and implement a funky new technoorganic design, especially when it was quietly shut down because they wouldn't be efficient for the war effort. Did Jadus make any copies of their data? Don't worry about it! Worry about what else Jadus might be doing.

Because over the years, his philosophy and absolutely awful personal vibes have created a literal cult following for him. While that's not unheard of for Sith, Jadus takes it to a higher level. He probably has several manifestos published by this point.

And so nobody really thinks twice when Jadus declares he's going to take a thousand of his followers away on his flagship, spreading his philosophy across the Empire. That's normal Jadus stuff.

If you're me, you'll be sitting there hung up on the fact that his flagship is named the Dominator, because the BDSM vibes are hilariously unsubtle.

What none of them know at this point is that Jadus has packed the Dominator full of explosives, which the player character's starter missions actually were responsible for securing. But we're talking about destroying a massive ship here, surely someone suspected help from the inside?

Well, with how utterly awful Jadus was to be around, nobody who knew him really found it odd that a well-connected, traditionalist, isolationist terrorist group would try to blow him up. Jadus himself says they have aid from within the government. Hilariously, I'm not sure if anyone asked him who, because the answer is him.

But in their defense, everyone in Intelligence was kept distracted because Jadus made the utterly unhinged demand that placed the defense of the capital city's power grid in the hands of the player character, a newbie who hasn't even gotten a cool codename yet.

So when the Dominator blows up with Jadus on board, that's surprising, it means the terrorists are an imminent threat to the Empire, but really, what's so bad about getting rid of Jadus?

Enter Darth Zhorrid, his daughter, sole apprentice and heir, and oh boy she's already electrocuting people

We don't know who's to blame for Zhorrid's zhorrible name—it could be Jadus, it could be one she chose for herself. But we know Jadus is the one responsible for why she's Like This. Or rather, we learn, during what's frankly one of the most distressing scenes in the Agent plotline, which is saying something.

[Video Description: A video I took of Zhorrid's last scene before you enter Act 1's endgame, and content warning. Content warning. She's not in a good way, mostly because of a lifetime of mental health problems brought on by Jadus. Skip it if you need to, it's summarized below. /Description]

Jadus used some literally operatic cruelty to break Zhorrid's mind, but the results evidently weren't what he wanted—when she became irrationally destructive and impulsive as a result, he essentially abandoned her. She mentions that he was always ruthless with himself, identifying and attempting to eliminate his own faults whenever he failed at something. That included Zhorrid herself.

When she takes over her father's Dark Council seat, she's an unprepared mess, and she knows it. She can't keep a hold of Jadus' resources, which the rest of the Council are quick to start stealing from her. To Imperial Intelligence, her top priority is to find out who killed her father, because she wanted to do it first.

Jadus, meanwhile, used his own monstrous strength in the Force to not be incinerated in the destruction of the Dominator. In fact, he held together a large enough portion of the ship that two hundred people were saved with him, covertly transported to another capital ship running silent in deep space.

And because breaking people isn't just something you do with family, Jadus spends the next couple of months driving them all insane.

It's no wonder that years later, when an ancient, eldritch Sith collective encounters the Agent player character, they attempt to recruit the agent on the sole basis of "you were once in the vicinity of Darth Jadus, and we like his vibes."

With Zhorrid's flameout keeping the Council and Intelligence distracted, Jadus's terrorist underlings—who are still pretty sure they actually did kill him—can continue production of these cool technoorganic death satellites he gave them the plans for ages ago. Pay no attention to the fact that this sort of merging of machine and unnatural flesh is usually an ancient Dark Side thing! Everything seems to be going great, and hey what's that player character-shaped person doing over there

The agent, now sporting the very cool codename Cipher Nine, manages to take out a big chunk of the terrorist group's organizational structure, and steal half of the control codes for the death satellites. Jadus didn't see this coming, but he has a solution: bring them to his horrorfest vacation spot and offer them a promotion.

And here's where he starts to start getting uncomfortably close to the fourth wall: Jadus basically states that he didn't realize Cipher Nine was important before, but he won't make that mistake again. Come be his herald. The Hand of Jadus, which is a very cool title for Star Wars folks of a particular age, because it makes you feel like Mara Jade. Give him the command codes, and he'll functionally take over the Empire, and overturn the old Blood Purity laws that kept aliens and slaves from becoming citizens, and also he'll improve their spiritual lives by beginning an 'Epoch of Terror'—

[Video Description: A Cthulhu Mythos parody Christmas carol, "Joy To The World" replaced with "Death To The World, Cthulhu's come. Let Earth! Abhor! This thiiiing!". I don't get to pull these out very often, so here's my excuse. Let me tell you, there are carols that I cannot get through without accidentally falling into singing these instead. "God rest ye merry gentlemen, let everything dismay, remember Great Cthulhu shall rise up from R'lyeh—" /Description]

One of the most delightfully maddening things about Jadus as a character is that he mixes perfectly reasonable and even laudable ideas with pure eldritch nonsense. If Cthulhu were about to rise from the depths of R'lyeh, to awaken the Great Old Ones and drive the world mad under the crushing weight of their very existence, Jadus would be messing with labor laws so everyone could take time off work for the holiday.

At this point, the player has a choice. One of the most impactful in the entire game, actually: Do you let him win? Because you can actually take this deal. Maybe your character believes the Empire is so moribund that it needs to be pushed into collapse. May they've been pushed to madness themself by what they've experienced to get there. Maybe they earnestly believe Jadus's mix of structural reform and transcendental religion is good and necessary. You can give him the control codes, and allow him to ascend to even greater power, upon a tide of destruction that shall henceforth be known as Eradication Day.

Or you could not do that. I'll get back around to the above option in a second, but, y'know, most people who aren't me probably don't say "I like your vibe, let's see where this goes." This is a madman. Even if your character believes the Empire needs change, does it need him? Probably not! You've seen what he did to his daughter, and to the survivors of the two hundred he brought with him for his Deluxe Event Horizon Experience. They're not doing so great.

But how to deal with him? Jadus is generally acknowledged as the second most powerful Sith in the Empire, after the Emperor himself. The Emperor is, essentially, a god. Your character is a covert operative with a cool spaceship and some James Bond gadgets.

And because the game's power balance has been altered so completely over its long life, allowing players to just focus on the story if they so choose, you can pretty easily win his boss fight. Welp.

[Video Description: From YT user FemaleKay IsBest, beginning at the decision point and skips over the boss fight because really it's perfunctory anyway. I always find it somewhere between funny and unnerving, how quickly Jadus goes from audibly pissed off to calmly biding his time while he waits for his chance to escape. He's still angry enough to bite someone if he had the mask off, but he's devastatingly practical for a mandman. /Description]

In story though, you don't kill him. A fleet's on the way to back you up, you just distract him long enough to trap him in a place where he can't escape their bombardment. If it actually happened. Because at that point, Jadus surrenders.

Huh. So he's still alive. Headed for execution at the hands of the other Sith, but that's the last you hear. They never actually confirm if they killed him or not.

Or, alternatively, you can give him the command codes to distract him, then sabotage the ship, rigging it to explode. Jadus escapes, but without the command codes—he can't maintain control of his superweapon deterrent against his foes. Again, that's the last you hear of him.

Or or, extra-alternatively, you can simply convince Jadus that he's lost. No really! You can give him a full tactical assessment of his situation, how you've got all the angles covered, and shoot down his counter-arguments. He'll push you hard. He'll actually start to sound angry, the first and last strong emotion he'll ever show you.

And then he just calms down and declares that you've won, and he's leaving now. He hates you, but respects you.

[Video description: From YT user Invisible Shadow, talking Jadus into giving up. You can skip a few bossfights in the game by talking your way around them, but this ends an entire third of the game. I've never done this route, but I won't deny, it is extremely satisfying to watch. /Description]

Everyone is left wondering what in the fine flying fuck just happened.

No matter what you do, Jadus survives, something that many players actually missed—if they chose the most bog-standard, videogame-y path, they assumed he died off-screen. I've seen some of them actually misremember killing him personally. Nope! His survival was implied from day one, it was teased a bit in the expansions, but now it's been (pretty much) confirmed: Jadus is alive, like the biggest, most unkillable cockroach in the galaxy. Good for him! And gooder for him, if you let him win.

[Video Description: From YT user xLetalis, featuring their Agent joining Darth Jadus. Content warning again, because you do get a boss fight in this version: it's Zhorrid. Other decisions end with her dead offscreen, but in this one, Jadus orders you to go kill her. Again, worst dad of the game. /Description]

Because this isn't an empty choice. SWTOR is limited in how much it can show differences visually, because unlike later titles such as Elder Scrolls Online, it can't do visual alterations to game maps shared with other characters. What it can do is alter dialog, and quite a lot of characters have something to say about the new regime, and your place in it.

And off in special little instanced corners of the game, you can actually get special scenes that nobody else does. This is where Jadus lurks. What's he doing? Stuff.

No really, we don't actually hear much about his overarching plans. There's cult rituals going on in the streets, he's successfully traumatized an entire Empire, but he's not derailing the overarching plot of the game, because he's made a strategic decision: he can't fight the Emperor. That would be suicide. And the Emperor wants a war with the Republic and the Jedi for some reason, so Jadus won't stop that. If it was up to him? Doesn't seem like it would happen! Jadus never actually mentions the Jedi. He only makes passing mention of the Republic.

Let's note that at this point in Star Wars as a piece of fiction, the one thing the Sith had always been so down for was destroying the Jedi and toppling the Republic. The fact that Jadus manifestly did not give a shit about either is part of what made him so strange.

What he does care about is why the Emperor is doing this. While most of the Agent plot proceeds as normal through its second act, you do receive an order partway through: steal encrypted data from the Emperor's guards. Help Jadus determine the Emperor's plans.

And at the start of Act Three, Jadus declares that he's discovered what the Emperor's doing. He also declares that he's leaving the game.

[Video Description: from YT user The Youtube Acolyte, playing as an Agent named Thrauw'n because everyone who plays Chiss, including myself, has a crush on Thrawn. Anyway--Man just fuckin! Leaves! Absolute skeleton meme behavior. Also, Jadus can mention here "I see the shape of the galaxy as only five others can", which is a line that is NEVER explained. His closest philosophical match is found in the Dread Masters, but there's six of them. Candidates I've seen include the Emperor, Lord Scourge, Revan, Kreia, the Exile, the Jedi Knight and Consular player characters, Darth Malgus, Darth Acina, the Shroud, the First Son, and the list goes on because nobody is even sure what Jadus MEANS here about 'the shape of the galaxy'. Do I think this line will be followed up on? Absolutely not! I firmly believe it will continue to stand as a goddamn mystery. Tune back in after his storyline updates to find out if Jadus decided to mess with me specifically. /Description]

No, really. Jadus just abandons the Empire and leaves. Sure, he leaves you with enhanced authority, though he cautions you that it does paint a massive target on your back, and gives you his blessing to continue trying to unravel a massive conspiracy—possibly because he's realized the conspirators could accidentally help trigger the end of all life in the galaxy. Whoops.

Because what Jadus doesn't actually tell you is what the Emperor is up to. The Emperor is working on a ritual that makes use of death on a massive scale to trigger a chain reaction that will kill everything and feed its life force into himself, becoming a truly transcendent and eternal being. In fact, if you're playing the Agent plot, you never get explicitly told about this. You just show up to work one day and the rest of the Sith have collectively declared Fuck That and no longer acknowledge the Emperor's authority.

Why didn't Jadus reveal this? Well, he's not exactly popular among the Sith, given how he's a weird nerd who has orbital death lasers pointed at their house. They probably wouldn't believe him. His dialog also gives off the hilarious vibe that he knows this is the start of Act Three and that he's a second-tier villain, this is the point at which the plot would traditionally kill him off to show how serious the situation is. He's not a fan of that, so he elects to go find somewhere sufficiently off-screen that the plot can't touch him. This maniac is somehow the most genre-savvy villain in the game.

Also, he does make the very concerning comment that "whether [the Emperor] succeeds or fails, I grow stronger." I have no idea if he's lying or not, but most of his dialog is at least his truth to some extent or another. Does he believe he could hijack the ritual as a last resort? Maybe! Who knows! No matter what you as the player have done up until this point, Jadus has reacted in whatever way he thinks will ensure maximum success and his own survival. He obviously wasn't planning on just dying in the Emperor's ritual, so he had something he was working on to avoid that.

We never find out what that might be. Frankly, I'm not sure the writers truly knew what that was, because they didn't need to. His arc was done, and he could leave just as strangely as he'd done everything in the first place.

And that was the end of Jadus for a very long time. In the first few expansions, you could continue to invoke your title as the Hand of Jadus, if that was the path you chose. After that, the plot folded together in a way that smoothed out the differences between player characters in many ways. Oh, sure, people with history with you will react differently. If you're playing an Agent, you alone can continue to hang out with one of your former companions: a nice young man who's packed full of ants, who's possibly your lover and is good friends with a secret agent doctor were-zombie.

I really will have to ramble about the Agent companions at some point.

But one thing that was consistent for everybody: when an extremely weird crisis strikes the galaxy, one of the people considered as a culprit is Darth Jadus.

For those who haven't played the Agent plot, this is a "Who?" moment. He never appears in any other plotline. He is only the sleep paralysis demon of folks at Imperial Intelligence, in part because his potential plot ramifications are too large to account for. Canon probably defaults to him failing in his takeover, but most Dark Side-aligned player plots make all the Dark Side choices canon, and it's hard to get Dark Side-ier than allowing tens of thousands to die so that "all people will revel in fear and degradation. These prizes will no longer be hoarded by Sith."

I cannot stress enough how unhinged this man's goals are.

[Video Description: The new trailer, which gives us the one glimpse we have of New and Improved Jadus so far. Fun fact, Malgus is 77 and Jadus is 65 here, because the Sith are just inherently incapable of retiring from their shenanigans, ever. Vowrawn is 93 at this point and entirely powered by shenanigans alone. I was mixed on Jadus's new look, until a friend pointed out he looks like some sort of emerging plant, and I realized the collar reminded me a bit of a Rafflesia. Parasitic, grows to titanic proportions, and smells like rotting meat. So I've come around on it, obviously. Malgus' voiceover is cut to be vaguing about "corrupt doctrines" in regards to Jadus, which I find hilarious. He did technically embezzle Imperial funds to research his superweapons, but the rest of that was all outsourced. Unless we're talking about "corruption" in terms of "messing with people's brains", in which case, yes. He do be out there, corrupting the minds of the youth. And everybody who isn't youth. Possibly even some rocks, if they're smart enough. /Description]

So, that's where we are at this point. I have no idea how things will go from here. My hope is that Jadus will return as the highly strategic, transcendental weirdo he always was before. It's actually been fun having him just out there somewhere, because it's meant the mystique couldn't be messed with. I'd actually accept it if they brought him back to kill him, but ideally if it happened in such a baffling fashion that you're left uncertain if he intended for that to happen.

But before the game potentially expands on him and his motivations, I want to get out a couple of my own interpretation of what we've seen: Jadus is unique among the Sith. Among the Empire. And he is not yet perfect. And he wants both to change.

Something happened in his past that pushed him deep into the Dark Side, something that broke his world apart and reformed it into something new. Since then, he's tried and failed to explain it to others. He doesn't have a perfect understanding of what happened to him, how to lead others to the same state, or how to push himself further. As a result, he tried to raise his daughter in such a way to induce the same revelations he experienced, and failed. That failure took years, and he couldn't afford such a costly loss again.

So instead of the personal, controlled approach, he would mass-produce the shattering of minds. The whole point of the drama and wanton destruction of his plan was to traumatize billions, trading precision for sheer quantity. The vast majority would fail, becoming fuel for his continued growth in power. But surely, someone would react as he had.

This obviously isn't a selfless enterprise on his part. He is a ruthlessly practical lunatic, and when he reaches the limits of his capability, he abandons the project. We don't know if he succeeded in what he wanted from his takeover. We don't actually know if he took anyone with him when he left. He made it clear that his Hand would not follow him where he was going, though we know some in Intelligence kept sending him reports that received no reply, and we have some potential indication that he was still actively monitoring his Hand's activities. Which at that point mostly involved getting the stuffing knocked out of them by the entire galaxy all at once, which Jadus probably considered character-building.

Do I have any idea whether these are intended reads on the character? No. I'm not privy to the authorial decisions made during the writing of Mr. Darth "Under my rule, all people will revel in fear and degradation" Jadus. I don't know if the original intent will be preserved either, thirteen years down the road.

But man. Man. What a transfixingly weird guy they've created here. Jadus is memorable because he twists so much of what we've come to expect from Sith into something different, with enough left unexplained to keep you wondering. Or at least, keep me wondering. Let's be real, Jadus as a villain probably appeals most to a very specific subset of people with goth tendencies and spicy brains, who look at HP Lovecraft and think "what if these cosmic horrors were more inclusive in the worst way possible?"

I'm glad to see him back. I'm afraid of what might happen with him. He's poised to drive me insane, no matter what happens. And that's precisely how he'd prefer it.

[valstrax]

How to get the Steam version of Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II to run properly on Windows 10: A Novel

Hi, i just spent HOURS fixing this game (again), and I am soooooooo frustrated so I wanted to save someone else's life (and probably mine again when I next change computers).

This will fix these issues: -Black screen when enabling 3D acceleration -Mouse sensitivity being too high or too low. -1st person animations being too fast. -Game overall just not working the way it did on Windows XP and Windows 98

Download Jedi Knight "Steam Patch" from here: https://www.moddb.com/games/star-wars-jedi-knight-dark-forces-ii/downloads/steam-patch Alt Download location: (future-proofing): https://drive.google.com/file/d/113Nj_IBlcFLr77Gdi_PSmX6kixB3MYPv/view?usp=sharing

Extract the .zip you just got to the folder where JediKnight.exe is located. To find the folder: Open Steam Library, right click game, Manage>Browse Local Files

Open the file jkgm.json which was just added to the folder. (Open with Notepad). Change "resolution" to whatever resolution you want (I recommend [800,600] because anything above that causes more issues with mouse sensitivity and 1st person animation. There are also fixes for this below). If you want fullscreen back, change "fullscreen" to true

Test the game by running it through Steam. If it's working the way you want it, good. If there are more issues, try these:

• If the mouse and control inputs are now lagging, open jkgm.json again and change these settings: Change "enable_bloom" to false Change "enable_ssao" to false Change "enable_parallax" to false Change "enable_texture_filtering" to false

• If the mouse cursor is slightly off when selecting menu options: use a 4:3 resolution (such as 800x600). Using a 16:9 resolution is what causes the mouse to be off. See step 3.

• If the 1st-person animations are way too fast (noticable when running with a gun in-hand or when swinging the lightsaber): The game's animations are tied to the framerate, but they are also affected by resolution. If you're running at the recommended resolution of 800x600, you should also change the framerate to 30. To change the game's FPS to 30: Right click your desktop, click NVIDIA Control Panel. In the left menu, under 3D Settings, select Manage 3D Settings. Click the Program Settings tab. Click Add. Browse for the game's .exe. Since we used the Steam Patch, the .exe will be called JK-fov95-mipmap.exe If there is an option for "2. Select the preferred graphics processor for this program:" change it to High Performance NVIDIA Processor. Where it says "3. Specify the settings for this program:" Scroll down to find "Max Frame Rate." Set it to 30FPS. Apply. Test the game by running it through Steam.

• If the mouse sensitvity during gameplay is way too high, there are 3 options: -Option 1: In the game's own Setup menu, go to Controls, then Mouse. For the settings of both Mouse X Axis and Mouse Y Axis, turn sensitivity all the way down. Test. -Option 2: In the game's own Setup menu, go to Controls, then Mouse. For the settings of both Mouse X Axis and Mouse Y Axis, uncheck "Map directly to axis value." You may need to turn mouse sensitivity slider all the way up once this has been unchecked. Test. -Option 3: Probably the option you're looking for if the first 2 don't work. Go to the folder where your game .exe is located again. Open player>playername>playername.plr (open with Notepad) Find "bind 1 12 0xd" and change it to 0.1 Find "bind 8 13 0xd" and change it to 0.1 Save. This puts the mouse sensitivity lower than the lowest setting possible through the in-game Setup menu. You can also try 0.15 if 0.1 is too low.

I've had to struggle through making this game work on 3 different operating systems now. This game is very important to me. If you're having trouble feel free to reach out.

[crowleychild]

DAY 16: ON THE RUN (ALT 8 uded) Fandom: Star Wars Rating: G Warnings: Mention of death, guilt

Obi-Wan needs to get out of here. He feels as if his mind is killing him, Tatooine reminded him too much of everything he wanted to forget.

Everything had started there, after all.

But he knows running away is not an option, not any more. He has a last mission to accomplish.

It hurts so much, though.

Each time he smells the deserts and feels the sand, he remembers when he first saw Anakin. A small kid, who brought that smell to him for the first time, who taught him that life wasn’t as easy on every planet as it was on Coruscant. 

Each time he looks at the two suns, he can’t help but to think about himself and his master. 

He thinks about Qui-Gon a lot these days. Yoda had told him he could see him again, that he had reached immortality through the Force, but the truth is that he doesn’t know if he is ready.

For so many years, he would have done anything to have just one more minute with his Master. To ask him what he was thinking, why did he leave him, why did he ask him to train a Chosen One he had never believed in, “I was still too young” he wanted to tell him.

But now, he realizes he doesn’t know if he really wants to see him. He hadn’t had time to mourn him properly, he had had to get used to life without him in a glimpse. He had thought about him, of course, every time he didn’t know what to do, how to act, but he didn't have time to think about forgiveness. Because the truth is, he thinks he blames Qui-Gon for at least a part of all his pain.

He had abandoned him, he had died and made him promise to take an apprentice while knowing he wouldn’t even see him become a proper Jedi Knight in his ceremony. He had put so much weight on his shoulders, and for what?

Anakin is not the Chosen One, he never was. 

Qui-Gon made him train a boy when he still had his padawan braid, of course he wasn’t ready. He saw that boy grow, he formed a strong bond with him, he raised him, taught him everything he knew, but in the end he couldn’t help that cold, afraid little boy that he met on a spaceship so many years ago. 

He loved that little boy, of course he did. They kind of grew and learnt at the same time, they were brothers. He had a magnetic energy, it was impossible not to love him, to feel amazed by his powers and the way he seemed so unbothered about the whole prophecy thing. He was becoming such a great person, a great Jedi…

But he failed miserably, not only his Master, but Anakin too.

Qui-Gon found him on that kriffing planet, then died and passed the burden to a too young Obi-Wan. How could his Master think it could possibly work?

Now, his heart is broken to a million pieces, everything he loved is forever lost.

He wishes he could run away, as he did on Mustafar, as he did on Coruscant. Run away from his mistakes. 

But he has already run from who he was, all he stood for, and his mistakes still haunt him.

He guess he has already run away too much. He ran away from the Empire, and now he has to finally settle down and take care of another small boy. 

Luke.

A boy that will always remind him of his father. That will always remind him of Anakin’s agonizing face on Mustafar, of his last words to him, of the smell of hate, betrayal and burned flesh, of the day he watched the person he loved the most being consumed by flames, knowing he was the one who had killed him.

Because he could run away from everyone,even himself, but never his past. He could blame Qui-Gon, think of his death instead of Anakin’s, but he could never forget.

Because, in his mind, he will always be on the run but his sins will always catch him.

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[thecat-inthehat]

I originally started XIV after coming from the star wars MMO The Old Republic. At the time, SWTOR jobs were limited to what class you were playing - Jedi consulars could only be sages or shadows, Knights could only be guardians or sentinels etc. I had somewhat internalized the idea that one character could only be one job and it had to mean something to the character when I finally gave XIV a try. I was also very nervous about playing the game without a companion following me around (as swtor had npcs who could tank, heal, or dps for you) so I ended up choosing arcanist because of the carbuncle.

Because of that, I ended up working it into my character's lore and did a lot of research into what arcanima and then summoning was like. I also just like the class a lot, even if EW overhauled it completely.

That being said, my other mains are also typically connected to characters as well -- My pld is for my roe girl, and my ala mhigan hyur is a whm and a monk. I still lean pretty damn hard into "one character per job" type of things, to the point where it's only ~6 years after I started playing that I started to double up jobs across alts.

hello im sick so tell me about your xiv main. genuinely curious how other people decide in a game where you can play literally everything. my answer is aesthetic reasons (i like rogues)

[gameforestdach]

Disney hat kürzlich bedeutende Updates auf seiner Star Wars-Website vorgenommen und dabei Zeitalter von der Dämmerung der Jedi bis zur Neuen Jedi-Ordnung hervorgehoben. Ein interessantes Zeitalter, das besonders ausgebaut wurde, ist die Alte Republik, was bei Star Wars-Fans Spekulationen auslöst. Könnte dies ein Vorbote für ein neues Projekt sein, das in Arbeit ist? Wichtige Punkte:Die Alte Republik wurde auf der Star Wars-Website aufgenommen.Derzeit sind keine Star Wars-Projekte in der Zeit der Alten Republik angesiedelt, was Spekulationen über zukünftige Projekte hervorruft.Die Zeitalter der Dämmerung der Jedi und der Neuen Jedi-Ordnung werden als Schauplätze für kommende Filme bestätigt.Eintauchen in die Alte RepublikDie Alte Republik, ein Zeitalter, das die Gründung der Republik, das Entstehen des Jedi-Ordens und die Verwandlung ehemaliger Jedi in Sith aufgrund einer Schisma zum Leben erweckt, wurde mit Informationen auf der offiziellen Star Wars-Website ergänzt. Dieses Zeitalter hat in der Star Wars-Lore einen besonderen Platz, der bis zum Spiel Knights of the Old Republic von BioWare zurückreicht und das Universum 4000 Jahre vor dem Aufstieg des Galaktischen Imperiums skizziert. Die Ära der Alten Republik, obwohl nicht mehr als kanonisch betrachtet, hat immer eine Mystik besessen, die Fans faszinierend finden, hauptsächlich wegen der bahnbrechenden Arbeit von BioWare. Mit dem neuen Update von Disney haben die Neugier und Spekulationen um eine mögliche Erweiterung dieses Zeitalters in Film- oder Fernsehform nur noch einen Höhepunkt erreicht.Die Dämmerung der Jedi und die Neue Jedi-OrdnungAbseits der Ära der Alten Republik wirft die aktualisierte Star Wars-Website auch Licht auf zwei weitere Zeitalter - die Dämmerung der Jedi, 25.000 Jahre vor einer neuen Hoffnung angesiedelt, und die Neue Jedi-Ordnung, 15 Jahre nach dem Aufstieg Skywalkers. Zukünftige Star Wars-Projekte werden diese Zeitalter erkunden, wobei bereits bestätigte Filme in Planung sind. Regisseur James Mangold übernimmt die Ära der Dämmerung der Jedi, während Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy einen Film über die Neue Jedi-Ordnung macht, in dem Daisy Ridleys Charakter Rey zurückkehrt.Reaktionen und Spekulationen der CommunitySeit dem Update gab es auf Social-Media-Plattformen wie Twitter eine Fülle von Reaktionen, Theorien und Erwartungen aus der Star Wars-Community, insbesondere zur Ära der Alten Republik. Viele Fans sind begeistert von der Möglichkeit eines erweiterten Universums jenseits des Galaktischen Imperiums, während andere darüber nachdenken, ob ihre Lieblings-Video-Game-Lore den Sprung auf die große Leinwand schaffen wird.Was liegt in der Zukunft?Mit diesem neuen Update und den Hinweisen auf mögliche zukünftige Projekte haben Star Wars-Fans viel zu erwarten. Werden diese Updates den Weg für eine Star Wars-Zukunft ebnen, in der alte Favoriten und neue Abenteuer auf der großen Leinwand verschmelzen? Die Zeit wird es zeigen! Wir laden Star Wars-Fans ein, ihre Gedanken und Spekulationen in den Kommentaren unten zu teilen.

[jb-nonsense]