TIP: Use the combination of Shift+Click on the screenshot links, to open a new window to view the screenshots; They are hosted at Google Photos, and this will prevent you from navigating away from SWTOR.com in your main window - despite what the prompt will say. WEEK ONE Yours truly has recently returned in-force to the game, and am wanting to keep an activity log of the adventures of <THE JEDl ORDER>, since we constantly do some really great stuff! Some of this will be unique events of my own creation; some of it is just content that most guilds do, and some includes the unique content of others, within the JEDl community. There are a couple of guilds with *very* similar names, so if anyone wants to look us up, we are level 85 as of 13OCT2019 (At least one of the other similar-named guilds was a former alts-dump, before the member-maximum was raised). Just wanting to chronicle some of what we do on Server Satele Shan, just as was chronicled for other forums, previously. Herein, we'll begin with the recap of the first week-and-a-half, 01OCT to 11OCT2019. Highlights include a re-launch of my hosting Ops (was out of game for nearly three years, after 1st Eternal Empire release, returning with Ossus), a unique RP event, and a Knighting ceremony - as *part* of our regular activity. Anything pictured herein is also only the events that yours truly was able to attend, personally; There's plenty other adventures to be had! Let the chronicle begin.... As part of the guild's Rank Trials, a Padawan aspiring to Knighthood must find a Councilmember, and duel them - to test their mettle. They need to screenshot it, and save it for a thread documenting their journey from Jedi Aspirant (pre-Jedi Initiate) to Jedi Master. This young Padawan asked yours truly to help fulfill this part of his journey, on Wednesday, 02OCT2019: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/F19zocp6I0GWdLp5BU1yrbaWFY3wcCfmZywccQCbUNDswxoDIl-stM9MSL91jaPOc8tyvWxI6xJONzr7yAI00KASjidOwXMv7VUztdqpPpFspBYBsP-TyypGzZBB_k0ywoY34ITQqGLzfYfVJ6gE0031CBzpgyipHHCnb6oqTgO3f5D-sJHLDo8kvyMgQOPcEyPr-b_3PjUW937IU1tjF64HC034YWcT7nMs3DfZsGVhMDPK6iKi5VVxwym1F0x6SgAoyFszttZv-87VQ5ljrBLHzMGmkK6LS79RQzxG55eCVaOrrLf3J8BVvFO4bnn_XOZCl2mHFPnXUI7zqVcN-n4vx6qQKAgzmQXNYrsYIQ-TvYB5WsR5nDKL1g1ghxFQ-lm-tkqDE0sJn4QH92YHW97om4pUXor1dht-uQCvL-SH9WsAZIrHeOTWgQjJ7R8QeVWtbb9MHFsdReEyl_YhDIu6kspphjPvPUsfDf6bWnjdBSFSsxYU97iIwGLQhBjxWEao273FKoKKAOGE-Y9c7xGKq8H7CAGj6csUIY1j3zjPDgO_t0NIeL0DxYz8MZTIX8J5GdCRTsWZHNN_RpUnEQDfgOgP0vbdFmAYQWysrVcyb6Q2C38cRlF2llnyKJQkIlqw0a64CoeSmAweqijXh2k8oWskOGL_L8sNvsxLmAAXTpA=w1112-h625-no With the level-evening, the fight was quite close - even 258 gear didn't give me much of an advantage, over this would-be Jedi Knight. Next, on Saturday 05OCT2019, yours truly attended <THE SlTH ORDER>'s weekly induction ceremony. Most of us have ties to all 6 of the guilds in our community, and many of the officers have main toons that are exclusive, to those guilds. The Sith-side events are notably darker-themed: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/JwdPTXA4mxSxZCk2tdimdgf0ZrnABss3ODa2XIYVLXnU_FB7tbTRRkpS6CNl1TsvVjv7O_wppUkro5KOq46zmww2PsOAoQxlS2ioxJEunQlCzVtFG7WmUAyvGrjQrlY_YjFR8Ay1pSFVIwTOSLQxUw5lOWOvpMo9BDd0Y1VYf6G42PaflkAq5TDOO7_J_l_5-mpk2WT23ywuaFpBACI2BeqZb8WJNOPGFyIXNMYO7rJFDT2T47Cu0JviIXn6LvbGAtDU_B6DXbWOXAI2a3DUuUOJp7n_0ZWgLlH6td9xV-2pv0L3HgBwncnfzRjD6NIdAjX4cs-eKdNIDixiyVtWAHhhE4kjdWn2X-sg4L8v6ThqJzCJK2ZmijLH7QQiCn5m3c32T8BUJtSd64h8cjFYcUtSeSppvHX45heK8GJP5UD6iOSYSxGg-j99RJZW1qMdCZfjyD70trQl7kIcAuzZvcoEfb9IaW6fsmpc5nrzy5eC2OnUDWAw9ASA8ODGEvdOCW3vMgH3EMVd4k1XmfuwY-6z77urX2xFBYS1tAkAQwdHPqCd9hIct7BhbCV6CvBQTbyibmKVzcZ60FH0PRc5kW2FL43NJiTs8NeDY8IdNtSGbZmbP3RxHB54XoCxKJp-0HccoDQQ8JyQSHSYj0Elb6rj9CBSxJ-JRPtoheqlyUQ0m58=w1112-h625-no The Malgus gear makes for an imposing figure. Often, body type 2's look like body type 3's, in it! In following with the RP that was left off with the end of the Blue Jedi Crusade (a 32-part 2015 events-series the community was host to), yours truly was brought before the Council, at the end of his sentence to hard labor on a remote Agri-Corps world. The outfit was specific for this event, before finally donning the ol' Council robes, after so many years: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/nsQ74uRNDUOKgyPBNcwBiV8gu_4cBqcU5WsfKUZZlGBAfSN2qwgF4wUHSH8BAScLoee2LsB44KHQmLKZ7sLAHDOCTK-n9uNIulkbDRmGRrfylAA-5FE_Oi29HyPAAUkzRnIJJ8C4iEkFKn71D8QbfO146s0iu0a_2PSRosMyVKyH302kTXhk1kJbESoT2eCjw9RyYepPpLEb5jSSRh6PFfvT6n2cY_zPbSVHCjSV0hDiCXwyM0Ea-ux1faxBVZHOtOod9hTkL5_utLlfY83l94t2Du5Mw8RXsJPL5-O3AYut5s8LXuzjGblF1Qg0E34CSGtCQTRGQiy4ZOx96390XZS_79xYgIZPc0h7QvQ3lwK12kYELhADluUSc0Xv_98E8lK7rucYrtRfgQ9EWKJWJbNGZr6TO9ddPhf1btBBCJq8de5KBP8w1alc_GaP-FTsutRHdbMJWLJR1NONwX5GrIQZZw2xUg3o3DhWInVdWDX98OX50ohz6IuD-D6x-PfZZuTyfmbyzJ2wSlXsx7POmZz3XV-bZFI5c6SPsWjXCBw7Gz5IKh6SEpXTB0c1u844O3ld1mTjqXoIYo_ABjnZOIDR7JVeNfEwNls2XXxHgor_CgLRWDn--Dp6dm-zzlXJCMln7IDkA6i5C_PzWE217qMw7En6UTm4QEb4C_bhobmt4os=w1112-h625-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ukhi950vD6XEGijCxdvT1rgielwT1Uq_ceBRULE9jeB1iLC1RUO8-ptPJO-bVE4GmsiukQu3-8Kls0dDxgjhcIzhAgmI_GHaUAqq0LOU5cxJbVf3XeF7poTtAF9Gys8Ro6skI5-vKnDVgH7YvliNg2stg80owwH4eY-NEMi9s2KEhizJBiL3kXC1Ke9MeIlU61WivHEygbkLZFfOSCMv0v-GGjJSBlJgHpr9nTlkngm28bLDX7bgTqUXpM7YHrUFNzYX46bjlve-jhXwY3kGb6ztB-cV6W1s9e-SIz_V68CFwGzI_NaKkAQ6-It6z5VZI2GvX08_Fl_OpmNOUCzCvoGtwhfqirpE3PpCZtniSBUW-Iav23aXNbZCFRfB8kRSjSjRsfc4sD6AJDMYRRIqFKIWIOnS_-aSX7vB1lFphoK00zz_iOuJt3eUBOPgeqeV4E-SBFbT2QFq6nG4KHQgJZKq9bmkUV_VZnH-wfv4lu5Y0V4xdiv12cx9SFUXlVu_4CeexAZOZ8eWQznYNMSPnwQklx0OIeVPu971ZjimGmHmv6zFIu3pV6CzU_Hc8jqNv0kYhIFW7gQ2hqjA45AxOFEe9YRNPk7RWxsx5pgAe1pRvlf_aDf9a8lcWQ0joD3rBO8y7W3kFYnsOZTLhJoDPXCh1ZdKKRO2N9V10g2DJWhGX3o=w1112-h625-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/N6ZqFWm-CqVvscCs3yjw30ruXOlNqkY6Moh_-kovx3BE_HI-5Cf38rbIu5PEDStvmoFuHnJMdao6ABSkXCZRJQMFfMRzIf460VJoyVGKVInjhyXEUPWNifKt9Fovg8K__SNtl53Orvkq9OjT0_SyDqjUMtPHuFFme-n1SAtS9AG5fQxdTSBPDjzvQw9b6G8F-0bWnUDCPd4iOk7TQnGmpC8MygP9r8tRN1r-Z57Dgi7itwi-y6rOLYc-2chjc-yN5qQZgZQxZhXbn76VFLdmMUfphp-lbhytHCynYuXs2CCrFBHp7Je8iJ06E8yfnYV7UHcIY22ar8a7oGMyVYnADRgOxSq0ElL2TY6_DahuU7eFmKCXWNKS3fx44el14Bl4gJUvUAb1zSxIDOV9S9kQnPo4-LBVnAgNi7oLDMWsGTNpoxp7MZh82UKG0YGQKiFSZwUtLMjELe5ykhWWQDHT_mCiid58K9y5fJHslq2blkiebICk01EkUlHsl0ibtTcD9Q0x0nOKOs8lph36VyN7G-wBUpt73VWXwU3YUn4m_iwdo8aC2owtxqr92obDUnLMDZCMeNYQZ6_vreq3cDwYt8SS2iTrB76oKBb84ezYBRgsYctm1pnj1KwPc5cgMjv1l0Ue8w3pfpTkpIr_Xdt5BCD0Lhi7nGjPZiow4F8Np7nZYfc=w1112-h625-no This type of scene is typical, of most of our weekly Jedi Induction Ceremonies - a long-lived tradition that has been mostly-constant, since the days of Star Wars: Galaxies. New members are treated to an in-character event, which ends with general information about the mannerisms and workings of the guild. Following these ceremonies are any promotion-ceremonies. Unless the player who is advancing in guild rank has a specific locale in-mind for their promotion, then this is usually done in front of the Jedi Temple of Planet Tython: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/OrxLJITrJpTHU4jSRPQQu0Dr30yAfLJ5x24M_BAHOq96_Ddb2_UWFRGd0B0Z_uUPYEfdZgYQmBTZB9RHgYeGBz_0KrmMCX6PowWClvVkQdGZX9SkNhLXb8gpqgzWl1TyZw_5lp1UcUyFguN3LgfyYvwdT1lD33riLarj-rCEEkJFh45UYxLllvYNJEmOn_vpMguSBs1rO_nJGiW-PSkc0FQW2MHlHkf8tSvLQHeIeOd9FafNZoPtnUGs8oqe_1m4tDNnmi-D9YLXgUVq_CigqKUneI4126KdIIphuzENHMF6htsXUAjTT-Ll7AA_Chi5DPV0hHsL0D8iHcSd6w2hNOndiqfzi2tuI7b2dK34EovKWfivH9Te63AAXzpAvrZ2yVsB31MbFfSFrZ7GeYAbJrWNiKa3g57kpNnQZ0vaVyunj-ZMHwTPz8AF_gUfRG7YfIwob8dAf8LmIAeLNWgTbaxoHA6OEUfAWR_Uh003ZdWwnpVH9HJMK5FnC9cfEpddueHx0j5qxy5cTjGnhHNfmhZ8hFHCVg9iyJpfuPFsSpbUpgHgIbY2FEWaqN7Arug0t6D5QkCp7Wa4buxme76-6DTTJPvaC0CUftX9GAyQASRFuGuJzb1NZqd6S3oMcmVBGevdRVIri30W3darlO8m2313oCqVP3Nbv080_SJavSomOjc=w1112-h625-no Einlil had quite the number of witnesses, for his promotion to Jedi Knight. Yours truly had the honor of officiating. I always try to sprinkle some magic, into these, so people walk away with something memorable, no matter how long they will be with the community - since 2008, in my case! Being back to the game in full-force also meant that I was able to once again train Padawans. Some players have a *much* more-casual dynamic, with Master-and-Padawan relationships. Yours truly prefers to have some rather in-depth roleplay available as an extra caveat, to being my Padawan learner. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Zc-rjoohxHV-Q0h2vz82yfzllZvF6OShMdpHTIYps_XitECz2n8pBbOgnFe67c4rnH4ikF_sn2OSGO6sz2ALXmlUfW8s5HLK5_GNeyF6SUd1HXq0Ra0UAC2OtwwRlAVE8AORP-DYO2_SvKK6xkVnf4MU8ZA4albkoq-VLvSUiuBidVCd4Jfj5oszVgbupq3rUdHLdFesXVpATo8wapRlJP5NDYy0G06Gh1R85e4bdCwGCEwctEC3GBdfOzLOU5JbbVr4U0o2eMPfIoZg5DBbT24aegirpDfe7B1UJnM3ZhOWoxeeJqRSPfNIbFzj-0uW93qEf4Dg6pNlNciNHrts8YPPdGe8u27Ij6tjCKGk76Gj87S-0cmY8EDTkRFQaOmtw_4Stbi8aZ3g3HbazCM8WTcKswJAWtfYpbRIbxkD8gNzTPMCCnqKPJ9huxR-aSK_LkOJKkYy3ubrdGMMDLQs2PVG3WB3B7ifjIbTilpaZR6eL3EwZM44VvGtYcxHAefYTVYhbupXvrcWBATsqQasuha05biTH4MQ7Yl20Y1PTH92rqlKm3zWMmThNy9g8HXfSDsnxMG31yb2l7bXOrfntHGHU54rOU6zMofpZTvsyWmWHmH-sK1fml0YVAWI3LXk000X_dzCUJudBCC3bEK-0gR9HnsoWHswfGKMkbmVrdVixhY=w1112-h625-no Luminaeus would become one of a few recently-accepted members that yours truly would become the RP-charge, of. While more-casual options are available to players in such a role, I do greatly prefer to have extra activities and the like, to make their experience more-memorable. Then, on Sunday 06OCT2019, yours truly was able to catch two of my newly-accepted Padawans online at the same time - a golden opportunity to knock out an in-character RP lesson, for more than one player, at a time! Our journeys span worlds.... https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pt45_DKUTOnkJ9sQAnnrrRusHSZi96olPVqzF8PvMaTVDjMhNRzXUWNY__qNsUpbjrq6tb0KzfKSTfa9qUDUpPNNZZi6Jt-ENAcroDFHQJN2ZI9xbOkgvPVef6vtKYAPpwCUfm5eU-2jBU1pljk6oIhsMIsDwSKzSa_C_Y56DLwf7iYv1YWdfZhkruAFadrbQniXf4CCMMzRRqLf11WjYSETGaslTOcGeHrjoom-b4oKnMD754KtTStBoYS1fh4RhwdUJFjdpskaA_D-Iigyxq3fNpdlTmVxTPVZ5qTQ92PQZaHcdBryw5bor-f6RFksPnAUJf5CtsFXkstIKY8OzE0bjeWzzMzvO_ezGrOtoxsXS2TlLNiGR9oB53hrQV21GzIgn_HOkD9Qj7O6GGngBeuKCCW11FEYMDBiJ9JNwzdt-c2rOIIqFcRyfnkz8231AdUniJc2wlQYhulw2gDaipJu14ynAy_xYumQ6YJD8iQWBUdpUClprHzz8Ygrxvmm4Sg0r19yq07ByNrmer-Y0OjlzUn-rY4grF5J8b0wjpmh_BMUBQ0-SbOMeokRdVa47_wVWPt05AaECOG7oYdrMLRIOgQm5AFlfX29uY47c0Ytjyqt8GzpCuqB0TMvee7E8zVO5b9EShnF0O4CPR0HCIe6WGepP4KmDL1CPzPoNsrQbqQ=w1112-h625-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QRV_SLr6s5vpIPFbYdcGJ_5tnerttDm15gy86PBUrEs3WmP8RNlZ9qqxVF_9AoB6maHxp6Z64IEt3DMHLaPL9_Ou4r6prmxNfhgAfdmXeJC8HZ5Qj1bLgaCAbLzzondSS2V6v3D4EqIxzQnKNPT5EfY8GyDPdBYCcYrKUNNFP3SyePaY3hZpO4Txq3lGUxf2mTiqtDs_Joayy4EY3vApn68oWUxIrBrzjDXb5UnSMxcD9_LolYmOPP4Y5LQLtUvULv7UeOAyF84UXjfUIoGsJ436LpDdAG-o5MuTXJdsldEmUZlXZupBgTwMhauWTL4w1VyK5UaRM3JOfzT5HfamwUjCPnlYavweLiyarh-ZJ_IdHiGl-QNsVyiqm3AZzTgLzNhhXkHdgZ-UeSpQ0dwvfdxNUv0oYpyBjii3djByZfj-kHFRHkMXU8RMwVi_D-99-o7EjpeYqX5ahF75jR0H2dqkat4IcUziYcXiiExXxRQWph-nAkM_hfBhcYSeRtT4nAZNLqVQ1bYKFtePsEyBxYxsZYlOdqlpmaGHrIQ8SmgP2ROpDga_2G8weQknLn3TtRyY1GsR6SdKiV1SZ-tmJiFDFQUSrUP--nluhvPD75sqPZvN73s2TmYHffRDXmrVOWsJlbH4O9dc_MreUwoprnIZ2cKlQZk94YNe_i8IJGArcPQ=w1112-h625-no Each lesson furthers understanding of one of two philosophies that yours truly developed over the years, and has spread to dozens of Padawans, in previous years. They are still as-relevant to a good Padawan experience today, as ever! Then, later in the same day, yours truly had scheduled an RP event. This is of a unique creation, though the format had been developed by myself and others in the community, in years prior. We met on Planet Coruscant, in the Senate Tower for an event I dubbed "State of the Galaxy Interviews". Two at a time, participants were instructed to stand across from me, for a brief 'interview'. The roleplay was that we were recording these interviews for posterity; Future generations could look back at these interviews, to gauge what life in the Galactic Republic was like, for us: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Fph-cLnCjog2Q3x-TvNdOu4X48gCuD24B7hIuxNqMCN5fJagGVw1VT8lQql8lXxbKAa4Xu62Nxm98sQivymYwnnJUnN-pveTs4fh-tbrF0ix-TsC0eGXociYe4eLH25A0WpRC_xrPOfposY7US4jGk-kVpFsScnSFdyLFqqieFPM4U3UXZCoToecDx6JW2HnfQk8EUiPNO219NpXcF3UDj7ChDlzCwKuSAdC1Q4zjRvV9XzHDXI9CMZx__XHgHQfoJfGLgkBanPM8B5OZ-5-Le30vILpRnv1TyDW2nhkOF2PTforehv7XXRmvL7fDryT3MKSD4ZmLbdrhs5IeFEtfeOLJX2u8gHw-uK5MTmAxxkMIYHkOBTgHySyB8lqmpzRV8ejt7KNzs7g5c6OJZnvTBmPHKBc96MplC_wU9CoFMcInYoqTfVO33ciETF6TQki7yD_9Bjh4kIXWMqBrUQoA2hSY5LiZeVbVsxUFqcKIuLzI33EtCeLzWIGQDe2kEllFN_tXmxE2NiOakQGkf1LpQXoESke6jnj1FognSGcZvXOUIxNejLxptux7p82q4nPffkemN-AfcxLtb334wV9WIGmw-gdlLRoRZhN-bqpzrJ6VToUQyJuxVMymDBUMV_VIpCedNWCXqh3Kdsy4PNSRw1b8JcLDcVosovYtHWtQbAwO9g=w1199-h625-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/e1O8zh2cNM-gpq5VMRm2lhJW_eMyG5_gzjPF88Ge0aaPkCBYTEQvhlx2xN-rv5HYyKM5BkkgIVKEaXd3LCRzFVNbM3LzUeTrvDaKjMtGiimDtk6vyNs8ksNwSqxpL9V9suyd-D-6vF-Z5aD4-6cIPkxsSxR_Tzi9hN9Ra7r7p8L5RqhC6pgYzUWRVYUsg9X3gptc82Ccm-jXBp7hpguXtIZFDiw8QcdpzpIfhXpTe4FBvIt89QK89T5uyZQCHx8UQCmJrlIRrRL6eZ8ePOIXDwriGjvpL1hOQR45XBYoAi2gYfxWafC06ORnr6FTI07C1OryW_bt02QjCoiAccBdCJkVPbrQ7panbmIgklyewxJhA1IErD8JfXXjtHKJRNlwl_sCv7kdwpHLvgkRuaVke_qxeU7e-Bahk9QMMsI4n4MQ5KSOgEK4L2T6bAucJalL0n0I1FnmalE3usEuLunOsYgig7L9xDANx3Hu6TqC_hSsC6cHxTsL6sAKkOtfpQoWI_47GNYp-m4mtz8Ux4Te_54voWcEk2Hd5DmAnr1QxXGDRubb0yuNSzrBfKe9wdmGKyAqAP6HVQg5wZL4RQpURJdXBmDDc4AISyx2a7fV5ToV6JWHt9NY7R7yTwmYDuk27Qhde13mKm7OodbGyljnOssHozdmrlEVWFetaQCUSUc388k=w1112-h625-no I eventually found a good alternative for taking in-game screenshots; the holocam suffices when SWTOR's screenshots button breaks - which it had, by the time that this event had started. My thanks to Colonel F'iv'es Meridius, who had also taken screenies and whom was happy to share these, via our Discord's dedicated channel for screenshots and pictures. Then, on Monday 07OCT2019, yours truly was host to a "class". These are required for guild rank-trials, in our community, with each Councilmember ideally hosting 2 classes, every month: a 101 teaching basics, and a 201 teaching advanced theory and practices. For this class, I chose the subject of Gearing 101: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_fW1VDZFOPb50LCIFDPUxEPKaQqQJ9bKtgXZaGcL0xutTo1qua5WznXIxvlJAoBIvHuKxKd7lljLrjutrc91R-VeBboXnWKy6uHcxfkEp7lteq_Mj6ryjVxsoIk7uKo-DRkhkgpbAeoD7j_H-QhZupVfVy2VjZF59LiYz2JKLYEH6QFpnKFmvsa1HR0nooiPvVXXQXbFBcGfKUJSxIKT-UCtRCw3yhLlfSZ7b7wPrk4J_3msgvtKvJ9Oa6t9k7Xy3L1bbiKfVLeE1Ju4awKjROaPdQwFbGKXkSydLaMOe5AUb2pJacMwXWy4vxnBebqPKfpfKM60Op54p8RtSKx-60y1FVlueybpCn78lPN4aDE3i7WgCl5jUBrZlldhfDYQaKSlPmGnxNZbI3RcLrl62SoQ62rchK7IkgqJ-SpCH3USFaWbrDHQbrqU2Ssi8XSnB7Xac3Phpe7cMq3CfO9r6Q36PDBvj45AwzXdq2-witwiRNug1NAv7UUI4YFn8OxRfLeoZWsmsR4grakw7g3kSf9ehoKqJyEfeIGuLHJivQ_TnfeLb5ucfCSqIF7Nvx6wfE0x5tHZ_z1dKWzcer6EYZ-jzfxFWo3JuoAYCeSUVco6ZCjkBHfbs8gzWgXuQVfwgifMeTQykrzpd1sFrvKr3_GNuV6vobB_YzLD23iGpNIfaso=w1112-h625-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uPHPW9p6PCWV6Nh7QxfOhpY23oa2l-I-wiau1uge36Mnz_PwqgDMEq3cte03DqZ0C0obgiEmAQNnBBlhqhr_319QJo6WwEt7R6YW7sfm8ugFyIyz_FmeUVBHYF627d1-v6ZRsjRFhqpsRWmCV6rdS_Ess6Cxx8-l_La2I4Eiz1mhy1aE5tDNXbTTc_-a5kWp3w1agaBS5KZ9oImHVZ1UqioggJq4xxY1SPbND9HuOmwZE3W7P1riZvgONDwr8EOdJEfaTEYR9KrcASJ-of0fichwmm3SRQ97T7B7zRV19ZB8RHjxvL9BALyeEbUb-CQ-ZzEgD-zEClj0PtfEjAPkIezLSXDFzbz6ZcSBmJLct_-Iq4upp37DFICeC1KD7r7YSkA9NsQX_922JXbp9QlF2lIKCYkKte_hymvHU_oXo5dzEfYX9-jIOkURJ4TJ0O-qVSy05y4AvBDbc6iEOC4Up0euWQ0kbmsxprDuEUxm3aRkTje0zxB0dGjFbv0wLwl5HhRtKOsbNYPH9HwXvujY05510OUK4Ny5V1uQv54iTsh5Pf4NHymU6Ha85-q6QM_iWrz_VSm_WYRrMYOWvDzVHMG1IOfTesTaT3epfTK3asnuDgpMrx8InVfGmxHWPLiNWSVlSgetz8pkUFiv9sgTbmAeSAum1wFBtMEEavZ2wjFoLZQ=w1112-h625-no Two subjects were covered: efficient gearing while levelling, then also Legacy gear and the different sources, of it. These are shots of the latter two, chosen because they're amongst the best-looking screenies, of the brief event. Even some veteran players admitted to learning a few things, especially regarding the level 70 gear and how purchasing it works. Our community hosts a great deal of PvE content. Some of the latter-week events are more-spontaneous; some of it is planned well in-advance. The personal preference of yours truly is to schedule Operations well in-advance, to allow players with more-restrictive schedules to be able to reliably plan out their participation in such activities ahead of time. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rO-yTGL8Wl_qloRaGxPeMFvMYBUxe0FZRlJ7V6-Y5kdd78RP8GaUnU2H2nDxBPWYLC8ENQg1wLBQRwoIUx2PtcQEgqbcH6v61QA4QF8QRadIBCUqA7mCrOb4HRLrvG3m9F1fQpRJ0DpjQbFO_EUvMqXOvGF2h5yIM5cFI6kfl6_qNt5t_X44LztcvniXR30mpYDOvYstp8MEAIc9QhJEIIP4ajjINQ7TEFp-6BBKwA1udsFCoifHx0OvicW_Ow5Kk13bm2bD6nc0_BEVOVsLw-GPupfxR1ZObgH9C56HAQeIQIOoqes8_6GYsKP4cJZBxP1zDuX7cEHsqdxaSdRqW_C3cuy5CWNUH2FlyLEx6zPI9bJJlRKNr2USMQjcRu8L5yIU0-YUWrhsGQxLwE4LfsDjbCg6DvzMcWaZ2ge75H2OEzh7L2FVzWfCMsN3NNybn98J7jP2oMnOTal26bxKzySRx7Jl1CLQFCYvtvD2rqktKnFT8esA9S9pS6jkb5vUsEyr_kM4cent_j8hUD9osjg55cmmt6zROfVkI35poi8DH93dxg6FO7Tv5BL-jXjPvFyLmArrKUq-VzALbfet2jnRsOKy0LF9nhatqBF2VHGw-p9wcpJhZDGnB33GyS3LDfnoemW3YxOZmb-XhGfrXT6dMfXeNRIQ7hQ-JgDYDEsoH_A=w1112-h625-no https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/0p705XI9_lEaPyxVjAMTeTB5k0wHtxL2kx1KYGz51P0vb1tALJdS2XC4f3cC074He3_q6gu6Gpf9DdmUX752fJvBiffskUkYhB2Urd1Njgo8PRHcynnqrV9Nl8yVWzrDvsbu9DjEWrgAryEVcfwuZAxowJk78XO_xhyiqnN9VYVU9VMfv4vdtgUugV0Gq37gGBIectBEs_khvzvZk-7VvA7HI-E1UXuYLmC07rMUVR3wUCFRfW4NpPQhDzUAg30bteoJEoMzovXQIGha77qjb5ofhJ1h9eVLGWMbt7cA5cc9tXO8Ib8ZWSYLv0NeS81pB8ijswx9-9W_gOQtLe1e8zvobobNc2mLyfJiEBaNhxljZgluB57I0TRQ2k3yRH8shMPx9jgjw3G_6rXBM7RlpwDAm9LVHsURVU3QuZcBp1Jx93zvxe_yY-KNzA9syFTCwobkJ-OEej8Kzu0edXr74T6CtVoGPANPAl-JdYKT6WRC_9xjtF3QXp2sM0Trn0CVOygUAmAPsf5grTtC-uqcv1Ueb33n5KVDowZweUqumXXLVRqhPSp1Jq5sJfCdg_ud44yNoKqgfuwA3EPfbUAPJtiEC64kjfH3cqA39iVtf0nYMBIRKBNceAb1AJv54f17P6Rx3lCAb9MxrUTbKrAitX3AuMOaJmx5l0Wct6jg8UiElLA=w1112-h625-no The Ops-group I run has two nights: Thursday nights for queue-up content, and Sunday nights, for "progression" runs. We began with 6 of 8 members being from our community, with 2 players as pick-ups. However, 1 of the pick-ups had to drop before the final fight, and we garnered a 7th community-member, to fill the empty role. Thursday's rando-Op was TFB - and although a few of the fights took a few attempts, we did - in fact - manage to kill the Terror! While yours truly had admittedly played for a while on-and-off before taking up the mantle of guild officer once again, you've got to admit: I had one helluva great first week back, on Council! Will definately be looking to host - and attend - more great content, within the community. If you'd like to track our adventures, stay tuned to this thread for more to come! Next week preview: Attended a type of fashion-show hosted by the community, and - as always - will post the best pics of our weekly cermeony and any knightings!

Noticed a few options in-game for Legacy-Trade Lightsabers, was wondering if anyone could advise me on the easiest / cheapest to obtain, these days?

Geez, this would be great! Something basic at first would suffice, but something like this would be amazing!

There still are! The Brawler set from the CM has a "cut-out" Republic symbol, and there are a couple of different belts that use the Republic emblem - my Qyzen wears one, as does one of my troopers. If you're looking, these are definately still an option, in-game.

Awesome! Will check this out, momentarily. Will update this thread, if I happen to spot one.

Been a week-and-a-half, but hadn't received any response. Have been checking in-game, and people swear up and down they've seen one, but don't have it to chat-link, nor the name of. Just thought to bump, in the case anyone can think of any.

Spent a lot of time looking through a variety of filters. Can find a couple of belts with Republic logo / symbol on it, but not for the Empire. Does the Empire have any belts with the 6-pointed Imperial logo / symbol on it?

If the programming for NPC's is already in-game, yours truly would think you could get a near-freebie addition to the quality-of-life for SWTOR-heads by making /Pose a thing; RP'ers would love to all strike different poses while hanging out, around the galaxy. Could be an anytime thing, could be the next big Cartel Market thing! Either way, I feel like people would love you, for it!

NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN THIS LITTLE EXTRA PART OF THE GAME! It's apparently been broken since Launch. In the Agent questline - if you play it right - you receive "Power Play", a bonus mission. You are to sabotage 4 elements of Darth Jadus's dreadnaught. HOWEVER: One of the 4 elements you are to sabotage doesn't appear: Sabotage the Midship Power Relay. There are plenty of threads about this - and all it takes is to have a single Dev go through and make a terminal in Engineering glow blue, so that we can click on it, and complete this little bonus mission. 6 years on, I'm only playing because I get the same urge I used to have, back in the day, for some KOTOR-like action; the game draws you back. However, in poking at the small details, it's supremely dissatisfying to STILL not be able to complete this little part - it may only result in the smallest extra line or two of dialogue, in the long run of things - but it'd really, REALLY be nice to see this fixed, this many years on. Can we get a single dev to go through and fix this, once and for all? Thanks.

Seems like it'd be a simple thing to put into the game. Tons of NPC's all over the place stand in different poses, and it adds an element of life to the game. Would think it could serve the same purpose for RP-gatherings. All of the NPC's do it - why can't we?

I've seen plenty of people running around - unless you mean PvP-flagged, and am not on Harbinger. Would love to see more in-game community tools. Seems like most of the ones we have are tailored for un-related players, rather than associated players.

Have settled in for the big download, have been away since late 2015. It may or may not finish before I have to go to work, so I figured I'd ask here, in case it doesn't; At least then, I'll have something to check in on, while at work. 1) Big player battles? Anything to encourage 20v20 open-world battles, or are the servers just not built for this kind of action? 2) Joysticks in GSF? I know, I know - keyboard + mouse = better accuracy. But it's a flight-combat sim, and I just can't stand to play keyboard + mouse. It's why I never played any more than 10 rounds of GSF, back when I used to play regularly. 3) Guild-mails? I know there was some kind of memory-deficiency that used to prevent this, but a buddy of mine was saying awhile back that they fixed a lot of things related to that, including the bug where some players wouldn't see all of the un-named NPC's. Thanks, all! Ima watch some Defenders, while the download is going.

The Gigantic Battle of the Black Hole http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-30-01-98_zpsvq1p19t4.png On what became a less-than-average Wednesday, on 12AUG2015, The Blue Jedi Crusade resulted in its very first major open-world PvP battle. Remember that any RP-notes from the Grand Marshall are in "parentheses"-paragraphs; Out-of-character notes are not. "Sometimes the largest of life's battles begin with but a spark; Even snowballs can become ice-boulders, if they roll down the right mountainside. Such became the case for us, in choosing the target for this day's raid. For those who do not know, the substance known as 'hypermatter' is amongst both the most-potent and the most-commonly used fuel-worthy matter to drive starships' hyperdrives. So, when we chose to raid an imperial-held extraction site for the stuff on Planet Corellia, we really were asking for a bigger fight than we had imagined. "After arriving in this already war-torn Corellian sector, our raid-party gathered up for what we expected to be moderate defenses. 'Moderate' turned out to be.... a *slight* mis-calculation." http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-03-50-28_zpssjszokob.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-04-38-99_zpswkmukjea.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-06-09-70_zpsjipswqs7.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-07-41-66_zpsjkk5br5m.png At the time, the Conquest-goals were for the guard-sentries. However, we ran into the un-expected obstacle of turrets that were nearly invincible, that could ALSO just 1-shot players to death. As such, it became neccessary to draw the NPCs out of the immediate range of the turrets. "The posted guards proved to be little match for us. Rather, the greater threat lay in the over-powered cannon-turrets that were posted at the Imperial base of operations, in the Black Hole region. As such, luring the Empire's fighting force away from their base's defenses quickly became a priority, in running down the defenders." http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-13-46-57_zps1wgpplk4.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-15-41-41_zpsbumgm2px.png "While we managed to lay waste to the permanently-assigned troops, we had greatly underestimated the number of reserves that the Empire could call upon, in order to assist their base's defenders...." By this time in the series, our community's dark-side guilds had now expressed full interest in taking up the fight, against us. Once enough players from <Mando'ade Aliit>, <THE SlTH ORDER>, and <Imperial BlackOps> had shown up, both sides began to spam the server's community-channels, to inform the server of the large battle in the Black Hole. Being an instant-transport destination, players from other guilds immediately began answering the call - to great effect! http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-28-33-53_zpsb1sp6ykb.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-29-51-61_zpsvlmjlzc2.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-30-01-98_zpsvq1p19t4.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-30-43-04_zps7834hwq7.png "While our initial assault took a good few minutes to be beaten back from the Empire's doorstep, we soon found them upon ours!" http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-33-51-97_zpspnkvkv0a.png "Soon, the battle had normalized - and a front was established near the center of the Black Hole sector. This front would face several back-and-forth momentums, however." In all reality, without a singular, shared Teamspeak line, the battle was mostly chaos. Most of the major owPvP battles that would come to follow ended up sharing a similar format - with only the final, series-ending battle being any different. In reality, I had only wanted to provide something unique and fun, that few of us had seen since the days that the Ilum PvP-dailies had still been in-service. This event certainly surpassed my expectations and hopes - and gave me just the encouragement I needed, to feel confident that we could continue to spark such massive battles. http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-38-28-46_zpsrn1nt3g1.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-42-36-05_zpswatoln8k.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2020-48-29-75_zpsz0mnrq5y.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2021-00-39-80_zpskzxalb5r.png The back-and-forth would continue throughout the fight, as only eachothers' bases could provide bounty and point-ticks for the Conquest weeklies. http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2021-07-13-63_zpsbghekjyy.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2021-12-24-78_zpsbz6ri1jo.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-12%2021-12-28-63_zps5dqhlxmu.png "In the end, Republic High Command got involved - and additional Republic units were added to the division-sized battle. After heavy losses, our own units were forced to withdraw, and leave the others to continue the fight. A bloody day - but few crusades are without such bloodshed! Once we regained our strength, the Blue Jedi would fight another day!" This footage stops about 1 hour into the event. The fight began to wind up about 20 minutes into our event, and the streets were flooded with in-fighting for nearly an hour and 50 minutes. Ultimately, I hadn't imagined that owPvP could be kept going for so long, and our community had other events pre-scheduled that we ourselves largely withdrew from the fight, to attend. Those that remained reported to me through /whisper's when the fighting finally died down - nearly an hour after I myself had to leave! In order to embolden the Empire-side of our internal community, yours truly decided to call this battle an Imperial victory. After all, our stated goal had been to complete the Conquest weekly, and our efforts had both validly and solidly been stopped. Battles of this magnitude were *exactly* what I'd hoped to achieve, and you can certainly bet that we'd gained a LOT of know-how and experience, from this rather-successful format. With this endeavor having been such a success, yours truly would come to follow suit with future owPvP battles: favoring PvE-based goal-oriented formats, in easy-to-reach dual-faction locations. Other lessons would come to be learned by varying the location of battles, such as odd player-respawns in places such as Planets Quesh and Voss. In total, this was counted as the 2nd of what would become 11 owPvP battles that the Crusade would come to spark - the 1st being the smallest, and the 2nd *possibly* being the largest; some of the other battles were roughly the same size, but it's very difficult to accurately measure the attendance of owPvP battles. Keep reading, and I'll come to share all of the struggles - RP and otherwise - with you, from The Blue Jedi Crusade!

It took me an unreasonable amount of tries to finally get Fraps to recognize the mic I was using, and as such, you cannot hear my voice in this video - nor most - that I have, from this series. While this video is going, you were intended to be able to hear my directions to the other people that you can hear in TS; We weren't as practiced as to recall all the steps to the ritual, without guidance and at the same time! You can hear anyone else who speaks during the video just fine, however. Jedi Ritual of Cleansing: Belsavis http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-11%2020-41-48-46_zpsxabp5fw5.png On Tuesday 11AUG2015, a powerful group of Jedi met upon the surface of Planet Belsavis. Here are the Grand Marshall's notes, of the occasion: "For millenia, the original world-prison of the Rakatan Empire remained un-touched, on Planet Belsavis. However, upon the Republic's discovery of this world, we decided that it worked so well as a prison, that we simply hijacked it and constructed modern facilities over the decrepit, ancient ones. However, as easy as this sounds, it was not without it's pitfalls; There are - to this day - great and powerful evils contained beneath the surface of Belsavis. "This day, our mission was simple: Reduce the dark-side taint, present upon Planet Belsavis. Since many prisoners of the ancient Rakata were dark-side Force-users, they left a taint that has remained on Belsavis, for countless millenia. This day, however, we Jedi decided to remove at least a part of it!" http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-11%2021-51-22-03_zps3svmmhob.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-11%2020-41-48-46_zpsxabp5fw5.png "It took us some time to feel out the choreography of the ritual. However, we eventually became confident of our success. After many hours of meditation and practice-choreography, we were finally ready to begin!" Check Auto-Settings; Video offers 1080p, if any lower than this by default! Links to a YouTube video. "Upon completion, our Ritual of Cleansing was a success! While ultimately it would likely take hundreds - if not thousands - of like-rituals to fully eradicate the dark-side presence of the Force upon Planet Belsavis, we could all immediately sense the good that we'd done, in the progress that we'd made. "Just more proof that no matter how ancient or embedded evil is, it *CAN* be rooted out, by those who would seek to do so. Our work as Jedi is never complete without responding to the evils of the galaxy - be they alive and marauding, or sleeping and haunting!" In reality, we spent about 45 minutes working on 8-step choreography, and about another 10 or 15 minutes in filming. I usually give it 2 goes at filming, and then display the better of the two - or both, if I feel that the ritual-participants did well; This was not the first such event that our community had taken part in. These make for some unique events, and offer a rare opportunity to use the visual effects of our characters' abilities in a group-display setting.

Since one of the Crusade's events was cancelled per mechanics, the next three events were all battles. I thought to combine them all into one post, since only the last one features any owPvP - and only on a small scale. This thread, in-particular, has a LOT of pictures, so I would again reccomend viewing the off-site RP recap thread, found here, for a better reading experience. Battles of Voss and Ilum, Alderaan and Quesh, and Corellia width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-09%2019-53-55-16_zpsjft5kjcu.png[/img] The following battles were our first tastes of both defeat, as well as owPvP. There was another event to occur between two of these battles, but it was discovered that a game-mechanic was incomplete or needed much more preparation than I was okay with having a group do, in the span of a single event. The first of these three battles was the Battle of Voss and Ilum, which went off without a hitch. Since the Voss commander had gone down so quickly and easily, Ilum had been added spontaneously. This battle took place on the evening of Wednesday 05AUG2015. By now, the process of hitting a commander was mostly stream-lined: survey the field, position the commander, take him down! width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2020-52-04-05_zpsze1sixgn.png[/img] width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2020-52-17-01_zpsgl6poefr.png[/img] Next, we positioned the Commander, and struck at him hard! width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2021-11-04-83_zpszjlnzq3p.png[/img] width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2021-12-30-58_zpsnq3fwoxf.png[/img] And finally, our reward and a little bit of poking into the enemy's base. width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2021-15-26-92_zpsgd9tt0ge.png[/img] width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2021-17-18-09_zpsduvnv2mi.png[/img] Then, it was time for a *slight* change in climate: from warm Autumn weather, to dead-of-winter on an embattled world. width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2021-34-18-20_zpsqvmfvlru.png[/img] width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2021-50-57-56_zps25dg9rzd.png[/img] width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2021-53-31-87_zpsbomvrqh8.png[/img] With two Commanders down, we called it a day. Our victory-streak was about to be rudely broken, however.... Next, on Saturday 08AUG2015, the Blue Jedi Crusade struck at it's next targets: Planets Alderaan and Quesh. Just as in the last battle, the environment between the two worlds was somewhat.... noticeable. width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-08%2020-39-29-99_zpswv4ineap.png[/img] I would have taken more screenshots, but this assault had NOT gone well, for us; This is about the only shot I got, of our two attempts at the named Commander. However, I was inclined to take many more screenshots, while we assaulted our second target, on Quesh. width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-08%2021-08-45-81_zpszolr9ckr.png[/img] width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-08%2021-10-48-60_zps1hygackz.png[/img] We were much-more careful, having faced being repelled at Alderaan. Here, the Quesh Commander received the brunt of our resentment! width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-08%2021-11-39-18_zps3slertcq.png[/img] width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-08%2021-12-29-46_zpsmzc8gmyj.png[/img] Satisfied with at least a partial victory on the day, the Crusaders took our plunder, and departed. We would eventually return to Alderaan - and with much better results! The next day, Sunday 09AUG2015, we would encounter our first taste of owPvP. While the fight wasn't big, nor grand, I *do* credit the screenshots garnered from this battle to have inspired the heavy involvement of the Sith-half of our community, in many of the battles to come. The battle started rather slowly, and we were looking forward to an easy take-down, of the Commander. However, we'd been spotted, on our way to him - and were caught, in the midst of our battle, with him! width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-09%2019-26-59-49_zpst3z8duqb.png[/img] width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-09%2019-27-46-73_zpshvf0q3ud.png[/img] Soon, imperial reinforcements of another kind arrived, to assist their NPC bretheren.... width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-09%2019-30-21-35_zpsdpasmuig.png[/img] width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-09%2019-31-42-76_zpsyr5lv2zv.png[/img] We faced fierce and well-prepared enemies, against this group of Imperial players. Their gear outmatched our own - but we weren't about to give up! We tried several different approaches, including flanking, surrounding them, and even attempts at separating one or two of them, from the others. width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-09%2019-39-43-70_zpsjvjhk3hh.png[/img] width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-09%2019-42-30-49_zpsjdcqhplz.png[/img] After several attempts, though, we'd decided to call it an Imperial victory. While a loss, it didn't much feel that way, to those in-attendance; They were happy to have fought some Sith and gained some owPvP kills, on the day - the first such opportunity the series had afforded them. The fighting wasn't bad, though the Imperials certainly had our number! width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-09%2019-50-03-77_zpsvig9xhb5.png[/img] width=700 height=393http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-09%2019-53-55-16_zpsjft5kjcu.png[/img] At this point in the series, I'd started to worry that we might not inspire any owPvP. Even herein, the scale had not been very large. However, it proved okay in versus-numbers, for our group's composition, this night. As such, I was very quick to recap this event, and spread screenshots of it, all over JEDl's community forums. Immediately, the Sith officers were very interested - especially the PvP clan of our Mandalorian guild, which received quite the boost, in this era. I yearned for more battles like this, and was about to be blown away, by the numbers that the very next battle would come to draw - and not just from our own community's guilds! Keep reading as I keep posting - you're about to be treated to the part of the Crusade where the owPvP really began to prosper and grow. Thanks to the imperial players that we encountered, this day; Without you, our event would have been quite bland, by comparison. The next event was a recorded video of a Jedi Ritual - but the very next battle was quite probably the largest of the entire war-series!

Datacrons of Belsavis: PvE 101 http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2020-12-39-23_zpsxy3fek6d.png On Wednesday 05AUG2015, the Crusaders set about an RP-themed datacron-hunt, upon Planet Belsavis. Heres are the relevant holo-captures, as well as the Grand Marshall's notes, of this day: "With as beautiful as Belsavis is, I suppose any spectators might have thought we were on-vacation, without the proper details being given, of this day. It's not rare, for war efforts and armies to spare energy in attempts to either develop new paths to power, or to locate pre-existing means and use them for their own ends. We were basically doing just this; While there is a dark-side taint that perhaps may always reside upon Planet Belsavis, there were a few Force-imbued objects that had been felt by our diviners that were not specifically imbued with dark-side energies. "Here, we gather at the base camp, in preparation for facing the dangers of Belsavis's wilds." http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2019-41-30-48_zpshkxnj6s8.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2019-42-18-36_zpsjrx5ltct.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2019-46-48-06_zps1nhkixbf.png "While Belsavis's roads are old, many of them are surprisingly still intact. Others, the Republic has repaired, ourselves. Most of these objects were well-off any beaten paths, however." http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2019-50-25-90_zpsjwakvhmn.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2019-54-27-98_zpsxi8s6ypy.png "The vast majority of Belsavis's secrets lay underground. If you want something hidden for a short time, place it out of the way; If you want the possibility that something will remain hidden forever, BURY it." http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2020-12-10-97_zpszh6pmcje.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2020-12-39-23_zpsxy3fek6d.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2020-12-51-56_zps9pi9fbgt.png "This last one requires what the religious types call a 'leap of faith'. I'm glad no one's faith was off by just a little to the left or a little to the right...." http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2020-16-14-13_zpsk7a5donv.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2020-16-18-30_zpsc0kpxjoo.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/swtor%202015-08-05%2020-16-39-51_zpseqqzyrf9.png "With this, our final artifact had been found, and removed for later study. While yours truly had been hoping for something like a Rakatan super-weapon, most of these artifacts contained information about the old prison and its inner-workings. If nothing else, we'd added to the Republic's database of information on the Rakata of old. "This was a nice break from the front lines, but we had a job to do; It was about time to do more damage to the Sith, again! We'd return to specialty missions, but not until a great deal of further fighting was done."

Just wondering if there was any possibility of this, since they were quite needlessly removed with 4.0; It's now a tube-less respirator mask. It was the mainstay of my main toon's wardrobe for nearly 4 years, and the two like it from the Cartel Market are disagreeable to yours truly because of the "sunglasses" that go with them. A great half-mask, overall, since it also auto-removes hoods. If it needed to be changed for new 4.0 NPC's, a more-welcomed change really would have been a duplication as *another* item, re-named something else.

No, like don't get me wrong - if you have all-elite gear and an all-elite team, I hear that it *IS* win-able. How about for the rest of us? Like, I'm sorry - I have yet to get all-elite gear and sometimes my guild can't sport an all-elite team; Asides from this, can we make this HM FP win-able? Sorry to ask after 2+ years with the same problem, but I actually *play* the game. Can we make it win-able? NOT sorry for the test-players who can auto-gear themselves for this HM FP to win - but can the rest of us on the live-servers actually be given a shot, at this? NOT sorry for anyone who has been able to perfectly win this HM FP since Day 1 with uber-gear; How about the rest of us?

A couple years back, I started a collection of the dye kits. Now that I'm back to playing after a good 6-month break, I notice the dye kits have been removed from the Cartel Market. Have the mechanics changed on these, or something? Should I have a crafter RE'ing these, for the rare combos? And PLEASE - I already know that *some* dye kits are - and have been for a LONG time - craft-able. Have I missed an update where they are ALL now craft-able, or something? Why no longer in the Cartel Market?

Thanks, guys - but ultimately, I was just looking for where to find them, now. As it turns out, they are ALL directly from the Crew Skills trainers, I just had to play musical-alts until I found the right one. It was a less-than-visible change to anyone who wasn't sub'd and reading about updates, when the update came.

The only things that yours truly has been able to find are out-dated. Just spent a fair amount of time checking out Researched Compound and Companion Gifts missions via Investigation at levels 1, then 2, to take in return hauls free of any schematics. Specifically, am wanting to know which Crew Skills mission to obtain Overkill schematics from.

To preface, yours truly feels that it should be mentioned that a LOT of our specialty-events in THE JEDl ORDER are done as "classes"; They teach at least something, but classes are covers for RP or PvE events, since class-attendances are required to advance in guild-rank. Crusaders on the Pilgrim Trail: RP 101 On Tuesday, 04AUG2015, members of the Blue Jedi made an important pilgrimage, upon Planet Belsavis. Here are some holo-captures and Master Ahlvis No'vaik's notes, of the pilgrimage: "I should probably mention that of all the different worlds that yours truly has set foot upon, that Planet Belsavis is my personal favorite. No, it's not the culture - and it's *definately* not the people; Yours truly is a being who enjoys basking in gorgeous settings and who saves his vacation-holos. I'm telling you this, in case any of my opinionation un-intentionally emerges, in my descriptions of our travels and adventures, upon this world. "Our first stop was to a dear friend's place of residence, on Planet Coruscant. We Jedi are not much for lavish personal dwellings, so it's fun to know some privateers. In Needleman's case, I think his decoration possesses just a little too much effort to please.... http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Briefing_1_zpsy4fzvnpg.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Briefing_2_zps72jq7wbl.png "Once briefed on the dangers of Planet Belsavis - those both above and below - the Crusaders made our way to our base camp, for the pilgrimage. "For anyone who may not know, Planet Belsavis is a prison-world. However, this world possessed such a designation *LONG* before the Galactic Republic was formed. Since it fit the bill so nicely, we decided to simply re-occupy the world when it was found, and use it for it's originally-intended purpose. It's better than buying a whole moon, just to stick prisoners upon, right? http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Camp_Base_1_zpsqrn2zyx4.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Camp_Base_2_zpswcmpcqca.png "You know, I've never understood the appeal of having a driver or even a driver-droid, while travelling. I mean, a spaceship, sure - what, are going to miss out on seeing a couple of stars? But planetside.... No, your time would have to be in great demand, in order to be willing to miss out on some scenery, as Planet Belsavis possesses! http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Pilgrim_Trail_1_zpshcdqle1b.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Pilgrim_Trail_2_zpsizgwmmmc.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Pilgrim_Trail_3_zps8tnqzqxm.png "Ah.... And here, we enter a most-interesting part of Belsavis: its underground highways. I'm not just show-boating, when I mention to Padawans that few living beings possess a greater knowledge of Planet Belsavis's ancient, underground highways, as do I. We came here with a group, this day, but I've actually been here countless times, with just a many Padawans. It felt odd, bringing a group through the underground sections. http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Pilgrim_Trail_4_zpsib4fvo7x.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Pilgrim_Trail_6_zpsw1vtz9rv.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Pilgrim_Trail_5_zpsri2keqe9.png "....And out, back into daylight, we emerged. The highway goes underground at several parts, emerging on the surface at points relevant to either prisoner management or geographical neccessitation. Ah - and if you look, we're about to pass through 'The Tomb' region. It's my overall favorite bit of.... well, *nearly* un-spoiled nature, in all of the galaxy. One has to look close, in order to spot the artificial elements. "There are other adventures that we Blue Jedi shared in this part of Belsavis, but I've only included relevant holo-captures. After all, we were not stopping here; our desintation lay just beyond this little piece of paradise. http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Pilgrim_Trail_7_zpsk7iinlxx.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Pilgrim_Trail_8_zpssemfp5qp.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Pilgrim_Trail_9_zpsv0sfdwn9.png "And here we are! All of the Crusaders who embarked upon the pilgrimage made it through, with only a few scratches to show, for it. The Oasis Republic Outpost is NOT well-visited, but nonetheless requires upkeep and some occasional monitoring. http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Pilgrim_Trail_10_zpskujtvi8s.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Pilgrim_Trail_11_zpsxnryswhl.png "It was a long road, that bore the breadth of Planet Belsavis's largest 'temperate zone'. Along the way, we garnered our Blue Jedi some sights that will be with them, for the rest of their lives. Aye - we didn't vanquish any Sith this day, but yours truly has commanded lesser operations before; I know that a war can't just be all-battles. After all: if you lose a war, don't you want more to show for it, than lost lives and a bad battle-record? "There's a lot more we got into, on Planet Belsavis. Rituals, artifacts-hunting, etcetera. I'm on-record and in-custody; I have no reason to withhold any details.... *Almost* any details. I'll tell you everything we found upon both worlds of our different campaigns - but not all at once. Being a prisoner of the Jedi, I feel like a weight has been temporarily lifted, from my shoulders. All of this free time has also made me quite reminiscent and introspective. I want to tell you the whole story of our Crusade, but that will take time. Bear with me, and I'll keep the stories coming...." This event was main-hosted by Needleman, of <Republic Privateers> , one of our sister-guilds. I co-hosted, though did have to lead the group at several parts, per my familiarity with the area. In a few different Crusade events, a guest-host was allowed to orchestrate, while I provided support and structure, from the sidelines. Needleman did much of the briefing and narrative, with myself filling in any holes that I'd wanted to be included, in the event. The "class" element was minor: controls and familiarity with the chat-boxes and channels were covered, a travel-bug in southern Belsavis was covered *and* experienced, players gained new quick-travel points, and I taught the group about how the underground highways link south to north, in the west of Belsavis.

NOTE: Am documenting the first two events in one post, as they were duplicate Commander-Run style of battles, that did not spark owPvP. Also, while some posts will include RP-commentary, some will not. For the majority of the battles, I will leave the commentary out-of-character, to help set the tone for what was learned, in fighting each of these battles. Zero Hour Invasion of Belsavis, Battle of Belsavis II http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Fight_Commander_1_zpswvqyjzqt.png To begin the Crusade, the Blue Jedi hit Belsavis, twice. In the early part of the Crusade, our group was not yet 100% on how the Conquest Commander bases operated: 'How long until a Commander respawns? How many people does it take to fight a named vs. an unnamed Commander? What is the best way to assault the enemy bases?' And so on. These questions and more would be answered, but all in good time. It was 6:30pm Pacific time Saturday 01AUG2015, when Zero Hour arrived, for our invasion of Planet Belsavis, and a follow-up attack occurred the next day, Sunday 02AUG2015. The Zero Hour battle was also the only events-battle that featured an in-character briefing, aboard the Belsavis Orbital Station: http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Briefing_Zero_Hour_1_zpsbef1eff2.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Briefing_Zero_Hour_2_zpsnzhqqngm.png An introduction was given, and then the group went planetside. From there, we coordinated to move as a group, just in the case of any enemy players. At this point in the war, I'd not yet begun to talk with the opposite faction of our community about the Crusade. We'd get a big fight only a couple of battles into the series - but for now, this was all new, to almost all of us. Zero Hour Pics http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Crusaders_Charge_2_zps3xfctdbx.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Fight_Commander_2_zpst1fkexge.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Fight_Commander_3_zps8qeztafg.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Fight_Commander_4_zpsd8ojhi61.jpg Belsavis II Assault Pics http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Almost_Done_Commander_zpsdyyw5e0l.jpg http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Base_Entry_1_zpsbybkovot.jpg http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Base_Entry_2_zpsmtx31o90.jpg http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Combat_in_Imp_Base_1_zpslzvzhkbk.jpg The first round of attacks on the base resulted in three wipes, for our group. Thanks much to Murugan for lending us his expertise, for the fight. We'd initially thought to battle him next to the wall in-sight of the turrets and droids, but it took too long to down the turrets and droids before laying into the Commander - whose enrage timer is generous, but not in-exhaustible. Following a successful downing of the Commander, we poked around the enemy base, for a short time. Occupied Imperial Base Zero Hour http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Occupy_Imp_Base_1_zpsjortyvlw.jpg http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Occupy_Imp_Base_2_zpsiyaeedbo.jpg http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Occupy_Imp_Base_3_zpsxxr3e3bj.jpg Belsavis II http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Combat_in_Imp_Base_3_zpscwgjsoq5.jpg http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Combat_in_Imp_Base_4_zpssggivaog.jpg The initial plan was to down the Commander fast, then hang out in the base for a good 40ish minutes, trying to attact owPvP. We were still aways from this goal, though it certainly would come, in time. Much was learned about the Commander mechanics, in-particular when the timing would be right to alert the other faction about when to attempt to interdict/intervene. These first two event-battles provided a hint at what was to come, once the series got into full swing! This format would become standard; Later, when players would ask why we were fighting large groups of imperial players, I found it most-useful to inform them that we'd intially come out to a target in order to achieve that week's / part of that week's Conquest weekly goals.

It used to be that we could see pictures in JUST this forum - it made it easier for moderators to ensure no one was posting obsenity, vs. having pictures be visable in all of the forums. As I mention in another thread, there is an element to visual art that just doesn't translate, when you can't see the art - and if you're like me, you don't want to click-and-wait-a-few-minutes-for-things-to-load for every single picture, in a visual thread.

NOTE: This thread and all others would look a LOT better if they hadn't removed the ability to see pictures in this section of the forums. There's an element to visual art that just doesn't translate, when the ability to see pictures is absent. You can find an off-site RP thread with pictures here, and the non-RP, per-event recap, here. Also, since multiple people have asked: The Blue Jedi are not a pre-existing reference (that I know of) to anything prior; in this series, a Blue Jedi is a Jedi dedicated to the Crusade to fight the Sith Empire. August through September of 2015, <THE JEDl ORDER> community of guilds was host to a special, 32-event "adventure-series". Dubbed "The Blue Jedi Crusade", those who took part in the series experienced a grand host of adventures that spanned many worlds, and pioneered the limitations and possibilities of owPvP (open-world PvP). There were PvE and RP events, as well, constituting what yours truly considers to be his 3rd masterpiece-work. This thread details the individual adventures of the Blue Jedi, as we advanced through the Crusade - beginning with an RP-delve, in this first thread. That said, it my *greatest* of pleasures to present to you all my Magnum Opus as an MMO events-host: http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Title_Shot__zpsfyq8fs1b.png "Greetings, Archive-Puruser!" http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Ahlvis_Waving_zpsbtmetbtr.png "While I am(or was, depending upon what year you are reviewing this holocron!) an active proponent of the renewed Great Galactic War following the broken Treaty of Coruscant, yours truly is not without manners; introductions are in-order! I am Jedi Master Ahlvis No'vaik, now an 11-term member of <THE JEDl ORDER> 's Jedi Council - and Grand Marshall of The Blue Jedi Crusade. As part of my punishment, it is my honor to present to you a personal account of the events that have led up to my sentencing. "It might not have happened at all, were it not for the initial blurred-ness of the darned vision that started this whole doomed effort! A couple of months ago, Jedi across the galaxy began to have visions of the ruins of the Sith Temple, and of lightsaber-wielding men marching over it...." http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Destroyed_Sith_Temple_zpsfv5inbce.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Blurred_Troops_zpscs37mldb.jpg Parts of the vision were crystal-clear, even from the initial onset. Other parts were quite blurred.... "Despite the haziness of parts of the Force-vision being experienced, there was distinctly a figure who commanded these troops - a half-masked man, garbed in white. Given that yours truly was the best-known half-masked Jedi in the Order at the time, many of the Order's seers agreed that the vision referred to yours truly!" http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Ahlvis_Pre_Crusade%201_zpscnxeo5rr.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Half_Masked_Blurred_zps09v7utfo.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Ahlvis_Face_zpsnll5unbl.png This was NOT the first time that we Jedi have mis-interpreted a Force-prophecy - and something tells me that it probably won't be the last time, either! "I was not one to hide my resentment, of the Sith: Yours truly wasn't strong enough in the Force to feel my master's passing during the Sacking, though the nutrient gas that is my life's work did allow me to sense the passing of most of my former-Padawans. In retrospect, perhaps I am to blame for not seeking counselling for my bottled-up rage for the actions of the Sith. "Soon, enough members of the Order had received this Force-vision to warrant action. Not one to pass up an opporunity to take out my aggressions and hatred upon the Sith that have ruined our galaxy and Republic, yours truly decided to exploit this vision - whether it truly referred to me, or not. My sincerest apolagies to Knight Meew and others, whom were unknowing pawns, in my grand design." A recipient of the Force-visions is called before the Council, preceeding an Initiation Ceremony http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Meew_1_zpsej002ykz.png http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn118/Ahl-Vinn/Meew_2_zpsxn1ssxx3.png Unable to receive Force-visions myself, I must admit that yours truly was curious if this half-masked figure was actually me, or not. Either way, I *definately* wanted to march over the Sith Temple! "Knight Meew was called before us, and related the vision. Many present had shared it - but also its haziness. While some would later dissent, the seers present at the time unanimously agreed that it was most-likely I who was the half-masked Jedi in these visions. While there were voices of opposition amongst the gathering, their cries fell upon deaf ears; the Council in this time had mostly also faced great loss at the hands of the Sith Empire. As such, my request to marshall a grand effort against the Sith was granted! "Thus begins our story - and also my march towards a prison cell, here upon an Agri-Corps world whose name I am not allowed to include, in this holocron. Many Jedi would be cut down, in the battles to come - even Councilmembers. However, even if the bloodloss was for naught, I know that we had also completed cultural contributions and even fulfilled Senate requests, along the way. "All of these tales, in good time. For now though, grab a drink, get comfortable in your chair, and prepare to hear all about the adventures (and the *mis-adventures*) of The Blue Jedi Crusade!"