#republic trooper

[dingoat]

The lovely Mirialan Teirin, for @grandninjamasterren !!

[coryphefishh]

How to relax after stress

(Brought to you by each SWTOR class' default recharge animation)

Trooper: Examine and optimize your relevant toolkit

Smuggler: Fidget with an interesting trinket

Consular: Calm your surroundings by meditating now

Knight: Make yourself comfortable and then meditate

Bounty Hunter: Declutter your relevant toolkit

Agent: Busy yourself in your work

Inquisitor: Review what happened

Warrior: Scream about what happened

[justiceforc3po]

Vada - maybe you should've thought about this before you decided to flirt with a Sith, you know? Inspired by the many, many times you get to ask Lana to defect. Unfortunately, active Imperials are banned from the polycule...for now Bonus since I started Ziost yesterday under the cut:

Their situation is not getting better guys.

[voidendron]

aaaaaand the whole set!

aaaaa I'm SO happy to have this project done, it's been a lot of work and I'm loving how they turned out

[parseolegacy]

Huevember Day 9 + 10 - Havoc cat

My little menace trooper. She looks super nefarious here but I swear she's only got a couple o' dark-side points to her name

[amarearts]

Trying to participate in OC kiss week this year, cause it's fun to draw smoochin!

Darliev belongs to @juczerro <3

[mmigrainee]

....Yeah, these weirdos definitely look like those who even got married in a military uniform

[larena]

Wanted to try ranking SWTOR class stories in order of "importance" - how relevant they are to the games overarching ongoing storyline, based on factors like how often aspects of them come up in other class stories, or elsewhere in the story, how easily they flow into the expansions, how important their companions end up being later, etc.

Jedi Knight: This one's undeniable, I think. It's basically the main plot class. Knight kills Vitiate first, deals with a lot of the more important problems on most of the planets they go to. And Kira, Scourge, and T7 all get main character status in the expansions regardless of your class.

Imperial Agent: This one is a tossup with Sith Warrior for me. I can see arguments for either, but Agent wins out imo just because of how far-reaching the Star Cabal is, and, maybe somewhat paradoxically, how relevant *other* class stories are to its story. Kaliyo and especially SCORPIO also end up being pretty important in the expansions, as well as a few other Agent companions and NPCs.

Sith Warrior: You are literally the Emperor's Wrath. The class with the closest direct connection to the Emperor, besides maybe Knight. Again its a tossup for me whether Warrior or Agent are the "A" plot for the Empire storyline, but the Wrath almost single handedly reignites the war for Darth Baras. As well as being a fairly close acquaintance of one of Vitiate's potential successors, Vowrawn. Vette also ends up being fairly important in the expansions, though not as much since Eternal Throne.

Jedi Consular: The Children of the Emperor have only recently become very, very relevant again, and we don't fully know where that plot is going, but I think thats still a compelling argument to put Consular relatively high. None of their companions have been super relevant post-class story besides Nadia on Ossus, but the Rift Alliance does end up feeling like a precursor to the Eternal Alliance, to me.

Sith Inquisitor: This may feel low for Inquisitor, given they become a Dark Council Member but honestly they don't do that much. They're somewhat responsible for the Dark Temple being Like That in the other class stories, and the Silencer Fleet is somewhat important, as well as Moff Pyron. But none of their companions are relevant anywhere else and I don't think the events of their class story are referenced anywhere except some passing name drops of Darth Thanaton. I could realistically rank them lower, but again, they ARE on the Dark Council.

Bounty Hunter: Honestly the remaining three tech classes are hard to rank. But I think BH gets a lot of credit for technically allowing Saresh to rise to power. And not for nothing, a lot of their companions have been relevant in expansions, especially Torian recently. You only get a *lot* of the earlier Mando stuff through BH, which I think also counts for something.

Trooper: I think Trooper mainly gets points for Jorgan being a main character in Fallen Empire. They do a lot of stuff that *feels* important, and General Garza, Rakton, and the Bastion come up elsewhere, but it never feels like there's much impact from the Trooper story overall.

Smuggler: I mean what can I say. I love the Smuggler storyline, and Nok Drayen *is* a member of the Star Cabal, but none of this shit mattered lol. Which is totally thematically appropriate imo, it's at least meant to be a pretty personal story with personal stakes. At least everyone can meet Akaavi and Guss in the expansions.

[commander-krios]

SWTOR + Text Posts

[consularmain]

[dingoat]

Yuma Qih, Art Fight (friendly fire) attack on @yamikuruku!

[arvadthecursed]

PETRA • The Lost Mandalorian

Petra Kelborn Octavius knows she is a Mandalorian, but her history is hazy. During the Great Galactic War, she was a young girl; her parents were members of the Crusader's Schism, wishing to fight on the side of the Republic, against Mandalore the Vindicated and the Empire. Petra's parents were killed during the Manda'lor's siege on the Schism; a small Republic squad showed up to support the Crusaders, but they were too late. Little Petra was taken in by Captain Nikolas Octavius and raised as his adoptive daughter.

Separated from her heritage but loyal to the Republic for saving her life, Petra struggles greatly with her sense of identity. She wishes to be and understand what it is to be Mandalorian, but her people's alignment with the Empire troubles her.

She joined the Republic Army as a way to both serve the nation that saved her and to try and understand her people's passion for war and glory. Petra only found herself struggling to uphold the good of the Republic against a war-hungry Chancellor, a galaxy she could not comprehend, and a sense of self at conflict with the heritage she wanted to connect with.

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anyway here's my Trooper in the Ruhnuk Wanderer outfit, which I finally got after months of grinding the Ruhnuk dailies. I feel like it fits the character I've created for Petra. I also really love this outfit because it's distinctly Mandalorian but with its own flair. It isn't extremely armored, which, if you know me, I'm really not a fan of SWTOR's heavy armor sets.

[voidendron]

and after him being one of my main OCs for..... 3+ years

Varrich finally has a proper ref!

I had too much fun designing his cybernetics but shhhh don't tell him that

[swtorpadawan]

Okay, so this is that super-angsty scene on Coruscant during the Trooper story, and that's a big deal; I get that...

But can I just say that angry, freckled red-heads are very cute??? 😍

[kemendin]

Can you tell me about your other Swtor Ocs?

By 'other' I'm gonna assume 'ones who are not my main lads Cas and Khel' haha. So let's see....

Damaskh, aka Cipher Twelve: My Imperial Agent, who actually doesn't follow the game's IA storyline. Genderfluid half Zeltron, half Sith pureblood. His specialties are disguise and infiltration, primarily for longterm undercover missions. He's a background character - I really don't have a lot of actual story or plot for him, except when he pops up occasionally in Khel's world, but I do find his 'casual but deadly' manner to be immensely entertaining.

Darius Serapis: My canon Republic Trooper, and Caspian's older brother. He's a die-hard Republic loyalist with a no-nonsense attitude, sometimes harsh and unyielding, but he's got an excellent reputation among the lower ranks as a commander who never leads from the back or leaves a soldier behind. He and Cas do share a fierce family loyalty to one another, even if they disagree on a lot of things.

Emryn Solari: A Republic medic who's highly Force sensitive but actually declined to join the Jedi, preferring to serve as a field medic in the military. He often comes off as naive and mild-mannered, but he's surprisingly level-headed when working under fire. He was Caspian's best friend when they were growing up on Corellia, and he joins Cas' crew as their medic during Chapter 3 of the JK story (basically replacing Doc, who doesn't join up in my canon).

Maahes: A Sith battle prodigy who defected to the Jedi at the tail end of the Great War, and who is now a respected if somewhat maverick Jedi Master. Stern but kind, he has an understated sense of humour which I adore, and is often tasked with chaperoning groups of Jedi-in-training on field trips. He's also Caspian's former mentor, and something of an unspoken father figure for Cas.

Shod'al Kur, aka Darth Syphon: Similar vibes to the Sith Inquisitor story, only a few generations earlier, aka former slave who clawed his way to power and now sits on the Dark Council. He's far more about cunning than brute force, and always has a feel out for the pulse of how things are going in the Sith Order. He's a newer OC, so I don't know a lot more about him yet - but I do know that he went through Sith training with Maahes, and the two became friends, then lovers, and while Maahes defected, Shod'al refused to give up his place of power and remained in the Empire.

Vanirr Kel-Su - My canon-ish Jedi Consular. He embodies everything the Jedi are supposed to be, in the layman's eye - good and bad. He's calm and scholarly, an exceptional diplomat and excellent at sneaking around to find the path of least violence, both literally and figuratively. Unfortunately, he knows he's all of this, and so he's also quite preachy and thinks he can handle anything, especially all those dangerous artefacts out there. He and Caspian went through Jedi training together - they didn't get along then, and they don't get along now.

Ibis: A non-canon-story smuggler who's really out there just to cause some chaos and then sit back with popcorn. They live for danger and entertainment - credits are just a bonus. Like Damaskh, more of a background character till they deign to tell be more about themself.