Okay so, ignore ones class for a moment but I'm sure a few of you are familiar with the character that lives in your skull. BW seems engagingly in love with this concept much to my mild annoyance. I played IA then SI before KOTFE came out so maybe I got it worse then most. Worse being the repeating nature of the concept. Anyway spoiler alert: When Valkerian takes up rental space in my head I had a mild feeling of exasperation. This is the third time now for me as a player addressing some voice inside my head. Now don't get me wrong I think it fits especially for my SI but a few thoughts stick out. First we have an immortal 1000 year old being who (granted views both Rep and Imp poorly) has little regard for you till coming to his doorstep. I get the concept we proven ourselves to him but he seems oddly chummy. Up till this point (especially if you are a JK) he viewed you with mild annoyance then curiosity. Regardless Valk now seems almost at peace with current events. Yes I'm aware he has his own agenda but I expected him to be wrestling for control, taunting me when I fall, warning me if I grow weak he'll take control. Instead it seems like though he's in a compromised possision he wants to see it play out. I'm not saying I don't see him as a threat and I know his power comes at a price but compared to the man whose consumed entire worlds Valk is toothless.

Not exactly, it's difficult to leave the Galaxy, it's not so simple you just fly out there is some kind of assumed barrier. If you take actual account of travel time in Star Wars hell even the movies this become a lot more realistic. In the movies the flight from tatooine to Alderaan took about a day. That is less to do with distance more to do with hyperspace routes. Along known trade routes you can just plot pre calculated courses and away you go, one end of the Galaxy to the other. Where it becomes complicated is when you go between lesser known routes or unknown places all together. Such places do not have frequent updates of space debris, solar flares or what have you. You may see a star doesn't mean it's safe for you to go there on an unplanned whim. More importantly still is hyperspace is a plotted course, it has to steer rounds gravity wells (planets, suns, large asteroids). You want to go to a distant star without a updated map the navigator is going to advise jumping from each solar systems edge to the next taking periodic scans to ensure the next jump isn't made blindly. Why do I say all this? Look at the Sith for a moment, they were shouting distance from Korriban for centuries. The Jedi were patrolling Korriban off and on to make sure no one went digging up a Sith Holocron or tablets and starting up a new Sith order. One would argue if it wasn't for the emperor's insight that Drummond Kass wasn't that well known even in the Sith Golden era nothing would have stopped the Jedi from accidentally finding them years before they were ready. We have billions of solor systems in our own Galaxy and ours is one of the smaller ones. It's really not that far fetched that someone else is steeping up to the plate. Hell if it wasn't for the events of pre Swtor I'm shocked the mandalorians haven't done this sooner. Speaking of war like cultures we haven't heard much from the Echani or many of the other marital races lately.

Expectations are an important thing, it's good for money but too many questions are not very good for PR. As such I'd like to get a few things cleared up about the format about the up coming changes. 1) Companions, I'd like to know if it's a simple re recruit drive or do we lose some or most or all of our old friends. I have a theory that we are going to get a refurbished ship to fit everyone old and new into it. Remember Normandy 2? I'd be down for an updated larger ship. 2) Chapters, so far Bioware has gone with the formula of two planets a chapter. I doubt we are getting some 18 new planets though honestly Starwars has more then enough sights to go round. So far I'm assuming yes new worlds but a lot of overlap with past class instances. Example how you could return to your commanders/masters/liaison office on the Capitol world and new scene was waiting for you. This is fine but I'd like context. Travel with all the planets sorely needs to be updated and I really don't want to stomp round the Galaxy 8 loading screens an hour. I got **** to do! 3) Touching on the chapters again is the assumption that the chapters keep giving story long after max level? I'm down for that but it is a divorce from the prior model. As it stands there is a expectation you are done your class mission/story by 50. 4) Crafting I assume it would be the same but who knows. 5) More a personal question but why HK 55? Is he joining us or is he a more upgraded shell HK 47 took on and we will see him in action. I'm quite happy with 51 myself though I'd like to see him comment on dialog more not just approve disapprove.

Frankly I think forums topics ending with question marks are the death of the forums but no one listens to me.

This topic should be the textbook example of things that sounded much more structured and thought out in ones head before posting.

My best friend and I are looking for a guild to best experience the fullness of the game. We'd like to run operations but most importantly RP. We come from eve online so expect brutal efficiently and no we haven't stopped playing. It's kinda like the old days of fast food, you hit up mc Donald's for the fries, Harvies for the buggers and Dairy Queen for the shakes. Only in the case is EvE for the space combat/crafting market system, swtor for the ground combat and GTA 5 for shenanigans simulator. I played Swtor when it just came out and maxed out an imp agent. I never really got into pvp or operations before I had to go away to work out west where nay a Internet connection was available. Now that I'm wrapping up college I got more time again. For reference I have played kotor 1-2 and so has buddy. What do I do for a living? I'm a video game designer, no I can't say where and how. Sorry. My characters: Kithrus 52 Op, Avrose 40 SA.

let me put it to you this way, the forum topics haven't changed since day one including this topic. now let that sink in.

I liked the pacing. Also any story about lightsaber form training gets a automatic plus one in my books. Yes it's easy writing but immersion wise few things say ' training force user' more then lines of students following stance instructions and duelling each other.

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It slips and drips along the surface of the mind. Like polluted water the dark side clings to the surface of you thoughts like liquids do on a ceiling. Defiant of gravity it softens the structure of the mind till the collapse till the place that was once been your mind no longer looks the same. Drip Drip Drip Drops of filthy water fell from the ceiling of the large circular prison cell. Dark stone walls of large chiseled blocks and dirt covered brick floors. A single circular orb light like a setting sun hung from the high ceiling above hidden where the light could not reach. A single chain held it aloft disappearing into the dark above giving the illusion of hanging from nothing. A heavily scarred bald man in red leather armour of a Sith overseer held a eclectic stun sword circling a young human male in dirty slaves clothes. The boys black hair was oily and tattered but not long. A leather blindfold was bound round his eyes. The leathered man swung again. "Move mirlukan!" He laughed as the blow landed across the boys back. The audible zap as the sword connected echoed in the wide stone room followed by the crude laughter of the tormentor. "Avrose, are you going to crawl round in the dirt to avoid me?" He taunted the boy. Avrose gasped but retained the urge of frustration to cry out. The mirilukan was on his hands and knees straining his hearing to its limit as the world spun round unknown to him. He dragged himself toward the stone walls on the cell he was in but not before the harsh zap of a practice sword caught him in the ribs again. Drip Drip Drip "Hard to gaged this humming blade with your ears blind one? Not so easy when I sap your connection to the force is it?" The overseer said in rye amusement. Avrose flinched when the humming stopped but relaxed in relief, the beating was over. "I'll leave you to your thoughts. Let this lesson sink in: you have to adapt to everything and some force disciplines require everything you have. Your people maybe strong in the force but in a moment of extreme effort or if someone drains your connection you can't be found useless." The door to the large round cell hissed shut and Avrose was sure he was now alone. Drip Drip Drip It was fuzzy at first but his 'vision' slowly returned. He reached out testing his awareness making sure even though this is a ritual his overseer inflicted often he had to check to see if there was lasting damage. Sometimes it came back slower depending if the overseer lingered or if the beating was especially savage. His perception returning though a cause of relief made him wonder if the one of these days it may not. He heard tales of people being cut off from the force forever at the hands of the single powerful force masters. Granted the overseer was far from a paragon of ability he clearly researched ways to disable students if needed. Avrose didn't stretch out his perception to far, if the overseer or another Sith felt his vision they were apt to return. No one in the academy trusted him. His vision saw so much and many of the students refused to work with an alien much less one who could see into their soul and easily see duplicity. As a result Avrose focused his skills into making his presence very small in the force, even managing to vanish from sight all together. Drip Drip Drip While the overseer was caught saying he had high hopes for Avrose he was hellbent on breaking the mirilukan. The beatings and force deprivation were meant to harden an d make Avrose adapt but more importantly make him fight back, get angry. Avrose never did. Lest not that way. Most would describe anger as fire, burning, consuming both its target and the user. The dark sides manifested in this beaten boys mind much differently. There was no fury, no fear, just a cold calculated desire to extract vengeance. Drip Drip Drip. Filthy water fell from above. Avrose held out his hand, cupping it till he had enough for a foul drink. Drip Drip Drip. The filth washing away his nobility one drop at a time, filling his head with vengeance, cold, soulless, vengeance. Drip Drip Drip. Avrose Sith Assassin Ebon Hawk

Feels like reposting there is selfish.

No body is going to post stories if no one comments, no wonder this forum has so little traffic.

It slips and drips along the surface of the mind. Like polluted water the dark side clings to the surface of you thoughts like liquids do on a ceiling. Defiant of gravity it softens the structure of the mind till the collapse till the place that was once been your mind no longer looks the same. Avrose gasped but retained the urge of frustration to cry out. The mirilukan was on his hands and knees straining his hearing to its limit as the world spun round unknown to him. He dragged himself toward the stone walls on the cell he was in but not before the harsh zap of a practice sword caught him in the ribs again. "Hard to gaged this humming blade with your ears blind one? Not so easy when I sap your connection to the force is it?" A crass male voice said in rye amusement. Avrose flinched when the humming stopped but relaxed in relief, the beating was over. "I'll leave you to your thoughts. Let this lesson sink in: you have to adapt to everything and some force disciplines require everything you have. Your people maybe strong in the force but in a moment of extreme effort or if someone drains your connection you can't be found useless." The door to the large round cell hissed shut and Avrose was sure he was now alone. It was fuzzy at first but his 'vision' slowly returned. He reached out testing his awareness making sure even though this is a ritual his overseer inflicted often he had to check to see if there was lasting damage. Sometimes it came back slower depending if the overseer lingered or if the beating was especially savage. His perception returning though a cause of relief made him wonder if the one of these days it may not. He heard tales of people being cut off from the force forever at the hands of the single powerful force masters. Granted the overseer was far from a paragon of ability he clearly researched ways to disable students if needed. Avrose didn't stretch out his perception to far, if the overseer or another Sith felt his vision they were apt to return. No one in the academy trusted him. His vision saw so much and many of the students refused to work with an alien much less one who could see into their soul and easily see duplicity. As a result Avrose focused his skills into making his presence very small in the force, even managing to vanish from sight all together. While the overseer was caught saying he had high hopes for Avrose he was hellbent on breaking the mirilukan. The beatings and force deprivation were meant to harden an d make Avrose adapt but more importantly make him fight back, get angry. Avrose never did. Lest not that way. Most would describe anger as fire, burning, consuming both its target and the user. The dark sides manifested in this beaten boys mind much differently. There was no fury, no fear, just a cold calculated desire to extract vengeance. Drip Drip Drip. Filthy water fell from above. Avrose held out his hand, cupping it till he had enough for a foul drink. Drip Drip Drip. The filth washing away his nobility one drop at a time, filling his head with vengeance, cold, soulless, vengeance. Drip Drip Drip. Avrose Sith Assassin Ebon Hawk

While I'm not new to rp itself most of my experience has been on eve online. Being in person I found it somehow tricker for me because people running around like they do, immersion shattering. Right now I'm playing a mirilukan Sith assassin. His prerogative is to be watchful and alone, sneaking around trying to catch snatches of conversation hoping to find Intel on artifacts he could use. Since he is a non imperial race I took the assumption the Sith inquisitor story line of a slave applied more to me literally then most. As a result since he can 'cloak' himself he tries to stay out of way of bigger Sith then him but fight curiosity at every turn they know something he could pick up. This is how he survived his training, keeping his mouth shut, listened more and learned more. He is light sided but that is more out of the desire to preserve useful things then destroy them and have nothing to show for it but ashes. He has taken several dark side options as required either as loyalty to the empire, killing someone who will stab him in the back later or because the rush of emotion took him. Any advise to avoid these negitive stereotypes but still remain true to the watchful not exactly introvert but trying to avoid racism and mistreatment from being noticed?

This is going to be long so buckle up. There are few things that irk me more in the Star Wars universe then the misunderstanding of the force. The force doesn't have two sides in the strict sense, it is the life 'force' of all things. The dark side only exists because someone corrupted the force. You can't take the force and attacking a living thing with it without having something break. It's a bit light your immune system attacking your body, it doesn't for long happy life make. The dark side of the force isn't part of the force anymore then an necrotic limb that badly needs aputation is part of you. Sure at first is seems stronger, you don't feel pain and the corrupting power spreads and kills others but it's slowly killing you too. Sith just pretend it's not true. Bioware hasn't really implied the above isn't true but overnight hearing people push for 'grey jedi', or 'balance is both' or the dreaded 'the dark side isnt real it's just the force. It's how you use the power.' That said a light sided with inquisitor CANT use force lightning without falling to the dark side. You can't hurt people with the force directly without proliferation of the dark side. There really should be a greater selection of force skills neutral in nature and unlock the dark or light stuff accordingly. On the topic of abilities why are the force forms restricted to just the martial Jedi/Sith? All Jedi Sith the basic forms then other forms fitting their role or personal preference. Some forms boost the force and are less melee based. Give that to the sage and sorc. This also leaves the Jedi sentinel and Sith assassins in the cold. They def need force forms.