I haven't written fanfiction in a million years, but I'm back to playing swtor after months away, and I have an agent who's tickling my fancy and I spotted this thread so.... Anyway, so many fun stories here! I've decided to join in Also, this story might have gotten away from me *just* a tad. It's a long one, 2300 words. So...hello all! Prompt - What's In A Name/Advice (both of them!) Title - Seventy-Four Class - Imperial Agent (Zenian) Words - About 2300 Spoilers - None to speak of, really, as long as you know what code name the agent gets. Set somewhere in Act 1-ish. Not related to the main plot or its characters.

Dantooine is also mentioned in A New Hope--Leia says that the rebels are on Dantooine. It is a very different place from Tatooine, where Krayt Dragons live.

Didn't look at the spoiler, but the tag has me thinking that maybe it's time to go back and finish out the IA storyline.

I will say that I object to many of the main objectives of just random quests on the imp side--when the dark side option is to kill an innocent and the light side is to take them back to the empire so they can be tortured and their people exterminated...yeah. That kind of thing gets to me. I was playing an agent who is "something of a patriot", trying to make someone honorable in war--but there was no motivation for her to stay. What she *really* would have done after seeing the realities of what the empire was doing was defect, but as you cannot change factions she's pretty much been rotting on Tattooine while I run around as a Jedi. Though, I will say that there are some things on the Republic side that leave me scratching my head too--it feels a little silly for a Jedi so get all holier than thou about killing prisoners--directly after slaughtering dozens of his lackeys without batting an eyelash.

Which I always thought was ridiculous. Who wants hair on your face when you wear a helmet all the time?

Thanks for the info, Venarive! I may just end up on Nar Shaddaa tomorrow night. The tip about not taking control is a good one--without a GM I could see where policing that sort of thing could turn into an issue. Again, thanks for the response, I appreciate all the good information!

Well, at least it's not just me And yeah, SW is much, much creepier. I'm playing both Jedi classes as female toons, so at least there's no hot-for-teacher thing happening there. Still feels weird to be someone's "Master" when they already have a Master and you very recently her peer rather than her superior.

I'm new to MMO's in general, so I've really just started to get the hang of things like general codes of conduct and how to actually be useful in a group. I have not, to this point, done any RPing, but I chose this server because I knew that it was something I wanted to try in the future. I'm not totally new to RP (just RP in an MMO setting). I played some D&D with friends in high school, which was a great time, and we still do every once in awhile when we have enough of the old crew together. By the end, we had a pretty established set of adventurers who had been together for a long time--we fell in love with dwarven lumberjacks in backwater towns, we fought with each other, we dealt with the deaths of beloved NPCs (as well as two long term partners in crime), we burned down no fewer than seven breweries, and, of course, we crawled through dungeons and slayed dragons. We only played a couple times a month, but I miss having that RP experience. I'd like to find a little bit of that somewhere again, and my hope is that I could find it here. What I'm really asking, is how does RP work in the MMO world (or at least on this server in this MMO)? Do people tend to establish a regular group with characters that get to know each other? Is Cantina RP pretty much what's out there? If you approach a group of RPers you don't know, is that bad internet etiquette? Do people tend to RP a new character every night, or are these fairly established back stories? To get involved in a long term RP do I have to join a guild? Is that a big time commitment? Is there opportunity out there to RP through some Heroics and Flashpoints? (because nothing brings people together like killing something really, really big.) From players who have done both, how different is the RP experience online from RP in a D&D setting? Are there any specific tips for making the transition? Sorry about all the questions, but I am way outside my RP comfort zone--which pretty much involves a group of dudes I've known since middle school, a table, some Mountain Dew (and/or beer), some Doritos, and a whole bunch of dice. I'm trying to figure out how all this works, so any tips/info I can get would be much appreciated!

I apologize if this has been explained before, but I'm a little confused by the way Padawans work in SWTOR lore. Kira is Master Kiwiiks' Padawan, and has been since she joined the Order. This makes sense to me from the standpoint of my general knowledge of how the Master/Padawan relationship works. She then goes on a mission without Master Kiwiiks (on Coruscant with Jedi Knight). This also makes sense to me. But then Master Kiwiiks just kind of leaves to do some different stuff without so much as a "hey, look after Kira for awhile, will ya?", and all of the sudden the game is seems to think that the Jedi Knight is Kira's Master. Or is Master Kiwiiks still Kira's Master, and the JK is just borrowing her? Has the JK just kind of hijacked her by suddenly referring to her as "my Padawan"? Did I accidentally space bar through some important dialogue? I am confused. This passing around of Padawans seems to be common in TOR. Both the JK and JC are just kind of sent to Tython for the end of their training, never to be contacted by their former Masters again, presumably because the PCs were poor company and/or their old Masters were amnesiacs and forgot all about them. I haven't finished either story, so maybe this odd aspect of old republic era Jedi culture is explained in some way, but it seems to me that the bond between Master and Padawan is still supposed to be there--we see it in the way Kira interacts with Master Kiwiiks, in the way the game seems to *want* you to interact with Orgus/Yuon. I'm just really confused by this strange dynamic. Am I the only one? Do you imagine that these situations are exceptions rather than the rule, or are all Padawans supposed to be passed around like frisbees, without so much as a periodic holocall of "hey, I hear you're risking your neck every day for the Republic. How's that going for you?"