Not every hutt is a giant fat ball of slimy goop. The biggest hutts are big because they can afford to be big, when you can afford a giant palace, with hundreds of bounty hunters and mercenaries who'll gladly defend the palace for the wealth promised them. They also control their own section of space, Nar Shadaa and Nal Hutta are their worlds, if you look on the Galaxy map in game you'll see it's in an area of space called, fittingly, Hutt Space, in the 25,000 years the hutts have controls that territory, they've never been successfully invaded and conquered until the vong showed up in 44 ABY. They are deceptively fast and can easily move without the aid of sleds, Remember, Jabba visited Han Solo in his hanger on Tatooine personally without a sled. There are millions of Hutts in hutt space, they have workers, medics, scientists, engineers and soldiers just like any space faring race, but they prefer to hire out those roles rather then do them themselves. There has even been a Hutt Jedi. You should respect hutts because they are long lived, and pretty much control the economy, they have a massive hired army and are incredibly manipulative and will play sides against each other.

This ^ When Tython, the ancestral homeworld of the Jedi was first colonized, it was colonized by thousands of beings from nearly as many different world. Red Sith, or sith Purebloods included. what happened to them in the time between the Force Wars and now no one really knows, maybe they interbred with other republic races and faded away, maybe some kept a pure red sith bloodline going to current day. but lore wise jedi red sith are plausible.

I'm way to lazy to read through 6 pages of people complaining about sith purebloods in the republic. There is a lot of reasons for purebloods and chiss to be republic. 1. War orphans - The war that preceded SWTOR lasted what, 30 years? who's to say that during this time a conquered sith world didn't adopt sith children into republic care. 2. Defection - Who's to say the chiss or purebloods simply didn't sell out the empire and defected. the Trooper storyline deals with HAVOC squad defecting to the imperial side, who's to say some sith lords or chiss members didn't do the same. 3. There is Sith Purebloods in Jedi Lore. - The jedi home world of Tython was NOT a human world where the force or even the jedi started. Countless thousands of years ago, massive automated ships, some believe to have been created by beings incredibly advanced, scoured the galaxy and abducted force sensitive beings from many, many worlds. Korriban being one of them. These force sensitives were all taken back to tython where they built a force based society. Master Miarta Sek, a SITH PUREBLOOD oversaw one of the nine jedi academies on tyhon before the force wars. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Miarta_Sek Who's to say that a small group of sith from the First Migration are not still around? as for the chiss, while rare, there ARE Chiss jedi - Kung'urama'nuruodo for instance http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kung'urama'nuruodo Since Chiss are isolationist, it makes sense that there'd be few jedi Chiss, but it's by no means unheard of for one to cross the line and train. They'd very likely be faced with never having the chance to return back to Chiss space, but the life of a jedi isn't exactly an easy one.

ah, fantastic, that seems really complicated to get to, I'd never have thought to look there. thanks for that link. terribly sorry to offend you, but I didn't see a thread about it, so I made one.

So, now that you've had a chance to play with the UI features, what do you guys think? Show off and even share your UI's with others. in action: http://outlaw-inc.com/images/ui.jpg what everything is http://outlaw-inc.com/images/whatisui.jpg My sage is a healer, so I tried to focus on putting as much info into the middle of the screen as I could, my ops frames are set for 8 mans and pvp and is surrounded by the focus frames and target of target frames. I liked how WoW had the two action bars across the bottom, so I scaled the UI down a few notches and put main actionbar and the second action bar beside each other, my main spells and heals and utility spells are on these two bars and my travel/buff spells are along the right hand side. This gives me lots of room to actually see the world, but gives me lots of relavent data for healing all in one spot. I like it anyway. I was sure that we were able to share out UI's, but I can't for the life of my figure out how.

My personal theory on why lightsabers deactivate upon being dropped, either via being disarmed, killed or knocked unconscious is due to the forging of the weapon. Each Jedi creates their weapon personally, it's a final test to determine if they can wield the force properly. When a jedi creates their weapon, they have to meditate and focus on the weapon, often building it by using the force to lift and connect the pieces. This is illustrated by the creation of lightsabers at the forge on tython in the JK/consular prologue, where they use the force to assemble their first lightsaber. When this happens, the force "binds" the weapon to the jedi and it becomes more then a weapon or a tool, but a piece of the jedi themselves, and they it. When in combat, the natural flow of the force being used by the combatant allows their weapon to be more accurate and powerful and the weapon becomes attuned to that jedi. When the weapon is dropped, or the flow of the force from jedi to weapon ceases, so to does the weapons power supply. Not necessarily that the weapon is powered by the force, cause it isn't, but the sabre has a built in fail safe with their connection to the jedi and will de-activate when the flow is stopped. While jedi can use lightsabers belonging to other jedi, the jedi will always attempt to make a new lightsaber as soon as they are able to if their original one was lost - Luke created his own sabre when he became a jedi. Vader made a new saber when his was taken by obi-wan, Jacen Solo made a new saber when his was taken by luke and Anakin Solo even rebuilt his saber when his was destroyed on yavin during the Vong War. It even described in the book how while the components were there, a jedi was not truely ready to wield a saber until they had meditated in the force on it. Anakin Solo's unique choice of a lament crystal and the meditation afterwards even allowed him to sense the Vong in the force by channeling his senses through the crystal int he heart of his weapon.

I've been taking mods/gear that has +willpower. I'm then taking power as my secondary stat and then I'm going for aclarity after that. Willpower is our base stat, seems to me it should be our highest stat. Power increases the power of a heal by a flat amount, the more power you have, the harder it hits. Comparted to crit, that increases your chance to hit harder, and surge just makes those crits bigger. aclarity is pretty rocking, decreases the amount of time to cast, means we can cast more powerful spells more often. IMO - Willpower ->Power->Aclarity->crit/surge.

This was corrected in the EU with the Rusann reformation. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ruusan_Reformation Around 1000 years before ANH, the Galactic Republic was embroiled in the New Sith Wars and the Jedi took direct leadership roles, at the outcome of the war the republic was re-organized into a new government that took much of the power from the chancellor and invested it into the senate. So Obi-wan and Palpatines statements are both technically true. For over 1000 generation the jedi were the guardians of peace and justice. Also, the republic has stood for over 1000 years since the Ruusan Reformation. This also explains the line "there had not been a full-scale war since the formation of the Republic." in Attack of the Clones.

This pretty much sums up what the OP is asking. Putting it into perspective, there was TRILLIONS of beings living on Coruscant. The jedi had ONE major temple near the senate district. Keep in mind the ENTIRE planet is covered in one giant connected city. even if the jedi numbered in the millions and all resided on Coruscant and there was 3 Trillion people on the world, the population of Coruscant would out number the jedi 3,000,000/1. And since the Jedi are very closely connected with the Senate, they'd spend most of their time within the senate district. So the closer you live to that part of the world, the more likely you'd be to see a jedi. the vast majority of people on Coruscant, especially those who lived on the other side of the world from the senate would likely never see a jedi except for maybe as peacekeepers or mediators in legal disputes. Now, consider the fact that there is likely far fewer then a million jedi, perhaps maybe 30-50 thousand at the orders peak. There are THOUSANDS of worlds with populations of over a billion people. A very large portion of the galaxy could very well just think jedi are hokey religious people, monks or other similar people who are elevated to legendary status out of the fact that they have been around so damn long. Given at force sensitivity is so rare, its easy to think an imperial officer could scoff away those "silly jedi/sith ideals".

I'd say that Hyperdrive would be the ultimate cumulation of all those ideas. to build a hyperdrive, you'd need shielding to survive even near lightspeed or high impulse travel, even a spec of dust becomes a dangerous projectile without deflector shields to repel them. Repulsors would be needed to get a ship into orbit, at least if space travel were ever to become accessible to the point of a family saving up for a space van to plan their trip to Disney "world". Power couplers and more efficient power transfer devices would have to be developed to power the drives/shields, and advanced computers and A.I's would be needed to plot courses and make calculations etc. individually all these technologies would surely push humans forward, but they'd all be needed for the Hyperdrive to become a reality. but hyperdrive or faster then light travel, thats what will REALLY push humans to the next level, colonies on other worlds, theories that could be proved or dis-proved, potential contact with other species, it would open up a whole new chapter in human existence. Forget what country you were born in, in a few thousand years, we'll be asking which planet you were born on, even if it's just Mars.

The death star wasn't ever meant to be JUST a weapon of destruction. It was meant to instill fear. It's one of those weapons that once it's been fired once, the mere though of it being fired again would be enough to quell rebellious worlds. I know that if MY planet was being rebellious and one morning I looked up in the sky and saw the death star hanging there after Alderaan, I'd be on the first shuttle off that world. Right after I changed my pants. if I was a LEADER of a world that the death star is now orbiting, I'd immediately surrender and submit to imperial rule. Yeah, stand up for what you believe in and all that, but not only are you putting yourself in danger, you're putting billions of innocent people in mortal jeopardy. If the rebels had failed to destroy the first Death Star, imperial rule would have been absolute. Who'd risk rebelling when entire worlds can be wiped out in a day, not only your friends, and family, but trillions of beings across the galaxy would be hurt in some way by it.

Most definitely, Star Wars is, was and always will be primarily for children. You think the giant merchandising empire built by Lucas afterwards was geared for the adults? No. At it's core, Star Wars has always really been made for the children and the only reason people claim George Lucas is ****** their childhood or ruining the franchise is because it's different from THEIR childhood. Anyone who grew up in the Power Ranger generation when it first came out might think it's awesome and it's the BEST series ever. Kids today, 15-17 years later see the new Power Rangers Samurai, or Dino warrior or kitty adventures or what ever and think that's the greatest Power Rangers Ever. the ONLY reason you prefer the OT over the prequels is because YOU remember how awesome that Kids movie was when you, shockingly, were a kid, you look at the new movies and you see a kids crappy movie because it IS a kids crappy movie. Think of all the cheesy acting in OT, there was a lot of cheesy lines and terrible acting, just like there was in the prequels. But your refined adult minds ignore that because you remember it being SUCH a huge part of your childhood that nostalgia prevents you from seeing what it truly is. I enjoy Star Wars - I had never seen it before I was in grade 2 or 3 and a friend introduced it to me, he was a big star wars fan and I was more into comics and super heroes and the like (Power Ranges, Batman, Spider-Man, etc.) He told me about these funny droids and cool space ships and lightsabers, I'm 25. That was only 19 years ago. I'm talking 1993 here. I didn't get really into star wars until a few years later when I had watched it for the first time on VHS, maybe 1994-5. A few years before TPM was released. Almost done here. My point is, I was a kid when I was introduced to Star Wars, I loved them and I was still young enough to enjoy TMP when it came out in theaters and not ruin my idea of what star wars is. YOU on the other hand to grew up watching the OT released in theaters, or in the 80's when RoTJ was released see the OT as a completely different beast. While I think I, and many like me grew up in that in-between period where we could still fall in love with Star Wars and not see it as two separate entities, but an ongoing story. For me, Star Wars Started in 1994-5 and ended in 2005, and I'm OK with that. Sure, as I grew with the franchise I recognized the increasingly kiddy parts of the movie, but only because I was growing up and star wars stayed the same - but it still makes an entertaining series of movies as a whole.

I was going through some early screen shots of the game when I noticed a few of the Consular ship with Qyzen walking on the main deck of the vessel, and I swear I saw other shots of companions wandering about. Right now, when I zone into my ship, I just see my companions standing there, doing nothing. They are my companions, effectively they are my crew and I their captain. I should't have to do all the work. I'd suggest having companions wander the ship, talk to each other in different rooms, randomly wander from room to room to talk to each other. Maybe go into the engine room and see Theran tinkering with the engines while he teaches Nadia how to read the power monitors. Have zenith and the LT chatting about weapons or doing target practice in the cargo hold. Maybe have some of the companions sitting at the lounge in the communications room playing games. Have crew complete repairs, or upgrades, stock medical supplies into my sickbay or load cargo, or sleep in the beds around the ship, argue with C2N2 about the new air fresheners and how much they irritate qyzen. In short, I feel it would be pretty awesome to have my crew do things on my ship rather then stand around and wait for me to choose one to go on a mission with me.

honestly, the star wars universe has peaked technologlly, hell, in the 4000 years since KOTOR to RoTJ, the galaxy hasn't made huge strides forward in technology, they still use shields, starships, turbolasers, lightsabers, blasters, repulsors. There isn't much really to do in star wars other then have wars. in the stars. 4,000 years after RoTJ, I'd expect a few more jedi purges, a few more empires and a few more rebellions. hell, if history has taught us anything about our own world, it's that peace tends to cause decline. For the majority of the roman empires existence, it was at war, and it continually improved itself and it's weapons and in turn it's citizens lives due to the advances war brought on. Although, after 3 separate galactic purges and thousands of wars, I'm pretty sure the Jedi are getting more and more pro-active about protecting themselves. I could see a jedi nation unto itself spring up in 4,000 years time - I could see the jedi getting fed up with being constantly harassed and piled on by blame for thousands of years. At the core of star wars, jedi and sith have ultimately been the cause of war. I like how the Jedi stand to defend the republic and it's ideals, but I could see a future where the jedi say "screw it, we'll do it our way" and create a new nation ruled by the jedi. it's the only way to ensure the galaxy is ruled their way, of course power leads to corruption, so you just KNOW eventually a sith would take over and we'd have a new sith empire once again. Cue the dramatic three part trilogy of the heroic Lubekenboi Skywalker, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandson of Luke Skywalker: As he rebuilds the jedi order and struggles to free the Galactic Commonwealth of the Force from the control of the insidious Lord Palpascourge who has taken over and turned it into the Grand Empire of the sith brotherhood of darkness. and evil.

oh my god yes! I'd love to see what my lightsaber hilt looks like before I spend commendation's on a new saber that has a crappy hilt.

Sure there is a lot of info NOW about what color the pre-order crystal was going to be, but when I pre-ordered a couple days after pre-orders went live, NO WHERE on the site did it tell me what color it'd be. I got a picture of a yellow stone, that is all. The point is, the description was mis-leading and no matter how you try to spin it, it was a crappy wording issue. if they said "A crystal that will allow you to change your blaster/saber blades to a unique color" that narrows it down. I know from that description that it's not going to allow me to choose a color and that I'm forced into taking what ever their unique color is. However, the open wording was a bit mis-leading and that wasn't cleared up until some time later when a dev let slip the color combo at some gamer convention. yeah, it's well known what the color crystal is NOW, but when it was announced, no one knew how the hell it was going to work. I personally think the crystal is butt ugly for lightsabers, but looks pretty awesome in blaster bolts, so I got my monies worth out of my smuggler/troopers, but I vendored it on my jedi/sith. And you know what, i don't even really care about the color crystal itself anymore, I just want a damn purple lightsaber.

They must be doing poor, the poor buggers need my money so much, they even suggest things I should by based on previous purchases. Must be desperate to push those products on my and force my to buy them. Amazon's a good site, hate to see them in SUCH terrible trouble.

you realize this is probably an automated email that is sent out to anyone who lets their subscription lapse. every single subscription based service in the history of subscription services has had some kind of reminder to renew and continue. so if you're implying that the emails going out is an indication that the game is somehow doing so poorly that they have to guilt trip members into coming back, you don't really understand how business works. I personally, find these emails funny, it's more clever then just "hey, wanna come back?"

I should also add, a fantastic starting place for any newbie reader who hasn't read much star wars should start with the Thrawn Trilogy, by Timothy Zhan. it takes place about 10 years after Return of the Jedi with a fledgling New Republic and introduces the ever awesome Mara Jade to the franchise. the only down side to Zhan's books, he's an intelligent man, and it comes across in his writing and his logic is normally pretty sounds, but because he's so intelligent, that intelligence rubs off on the characters he writes, so you may find Luke, or Han doing something that seems a little bit out of character. but otherwise it's a solid starting point and for many the expanded universe starts with the Thrawn Trilogy.

Open the front cover of any star wars book and flip the the timeline, it'll place the books in chronological order from Old republic to 137 years after A New Hope. Or, you can click wookieepedia's handy timeline page. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_books many of the books are geared toward young adult readers, but any star wars fan should be able to appreciate the stories. I just finished the New Jedi Order series, overall there was really only a handful of outstanding books and a few crappy filler novels. But the arc that covers the saga is interesting enough. the ones that followed, the dark nest trilogy and the Legacy of the Force series are interesting, They focus on the fall of Jacen solo from paragon of light to specter of darkness and how the Solo/Skywalker clan react and sets the tone for the next series Fate of the Jedi. For the lore alone, and some epic moments, I'd recommend picking up the entire new jedi order series. Like I said, lots of fluff before you get to the awesome jedi meaty core, but it's such a huge story that completely turns the galaxy on it's head and gives a whole new dastardly enemy to fight. I have not read any of the fate of the jedi series, but I'm interested in Luke Son, Ben, and his adventures because he reminds me a little of Anakin Solo, who IMO has an epic story in New Jedi Order series. I recently read the Old republic book Revan as well. I found the overall writing to be kinda blah, but the story and how it ties into the game is worth the read IMO. The only books I can't really recommend are most by Karen Traviss. She has a mega hard on for Mandalorians, she's also very anti-jedi and writes them as seeing themselves superior and and goody twoshoe do-gooders who are placed on an artificial platform due to their genetic lottery to wield the force. Maybe her view on jedi are right, god knows Luke has been elevated to legendary status by now and the MOST powerful jedi to ever live and one, if not THE most influencal figure in the entire history of the galaxy. But her continued love affair with Boba Fett and the mando's as a culture gets a little boring after a while and her writing of Boba and still whining about his daddies death decades, nearly 3/4 of a century later just... I donno, made Boba less of an epic death dealer and mercenary and made him a whiny old fart. While I applaud her inclusion of the first openly gay couple in star wars, who are Mando's no less, she seems to hate the star wars franchise and her books just come off bad imo.

I do like the look of yellow sabers, As others have mentioned, it's the color of the Jedi Sentinel in jedi tradition and lore. However, the first time I ever saw a yellow saber was wielded by the Dark Jedi Yun in the computer game Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. If the player plays the lightside of the game, Yun is redeemed by the player and switches sides, but it cut down by Sarris, another dark jedi before she attacks you. Prior to the fight, your own lightsaber is destroyed and for the remainder of the game you wield Yun's yellow bladed saber. the expansion pack that followed, Mysteries of the Sith, in which Kyle is a master now and training an apprentice Mara Jade, he still uses Yun's Yellow Lightsaber.

this is awesome, like an old woman, I hate change and i'm so used to the chat colors from wow. every time I load up ToR I think my party members are whispering me because it's purple. so I changed all the chat channels to match WoW's. lol So this will be helpful to change everyones settings at once.

affection increase means that companions will trust you more and will open up to you more. that means that they will tell you about their past and offer additional side quests, for example - Since I've been using qyzen for most of my leveling, around 30, he told me a story about his father hunting on tatooine and told me he wanted to preform a ritual on his bones, so he asked to take him there to find his fathers bones. other companions will offer quests as wel, some will also offer the chance to flirt (male player characters can flirt with female companions and vis versa) I haven't gotten to do it yet, but you can also get the chance to marry a companion. Affection also lowers the amount of time it takes for a companion to complete a crew skill task, be it crafting, missions or gathering skills.

indeed, it is made by the same ppl. Well, I'll be a bantha's uncle, there IS cyan crystals. http://www.torhead.com/items/catg/3/subcatg/3/name/cyan Looks like 1 green quality cystral with no stats, and three lvl 50 crystals.

looking at Torhead.com, there is quite a few purple crystals you can get at low levels, but I don't know where. random drops? rare drops? Boss drops? in chests? who knows! http://www.torhead.com/items/catg/3/subcatg/3/name/purple/sort/level,-basequality There is as far as I can see, Blue, Green, Red, Yellow, Purple and Orange and some odd ones, prob from bosses, like Black-red, Black-Blue and Black-Yellow. Those ones are likely similar to the pre-order crystal, with a black glow and colored core or vis versa. there is also white crystals as well.