My theory on a simple way to do it would be an NPC going before her introduction "So I found a couple potential allies, your call who to talk to. One's a lunatic Sith, the other seems to be a Jedi." Then it's Jaesa either way but you just picked which version of her you got.

Or call her back for voicing the character in the full-on expansion, not just a DLC. And here's hoping LS Jaesa can be romanced by lady warriors in the expansion.

Should have known you'd put wheels on the goalposts. As for my original point, the Imperial Agent is not Force sensitive and has no need to be. They kill more than their fair share of Jedi and Sith regardless, to the point that in act 3 a Jedi Master can comment that the Order drastically underestimated Imperial Intelligence, which evidently trains its operatives to be just as deadly as Sith Lords and then some.

Fun fact: Warhammer 40k, home of the catholic space nazis, has more canon LGBT characters than Star Wars and Star Trek combined. Still, the deafening silence from Bioware on this even now is worrying. I fear they're going to fall back into old TOR habits.

The part of the movies where the Republic's clone army guns down the entire Jedi Order bar a few special snowflakes comes to mind, complete with explicit scenes of soldiers simply ganging up on Jedi and shooting them from multiple directions at once, and throwing grenades at them. As does all the Jedi who died fighting on Geonosis. Hell, even Luke gets shot on the sail barge in Return of the Jedi, making him drop his saber. In addition, go play KOTOR2 and ask Atton and HK about killing Jedi. They happily recite lots of ways for normal people to kill Jedi and Sith, and they both have the body count in story to prove it.

And does not, as demonstrated by almost every single Star Wars work to date that's included Force users with lightsabers. Lots and lots of Jedi and Sith die from guns, knives, explosives, and other mundane weapons in games, books, and movies alike.

Please stop insisting every character who doesn't have a glowstick and bathrobe must be Force sensitive in order to be as story significant as the mutants and be able to equal and kill them. Being Force sensitive and having a magic sword doesn't keep you from getting shot in the face.

It used to be a common idea back before there was any SGR in the game at all that there would be a thing you could set, either in preferences or at character creation, that your character is straight/gay/bi and if you pick gay or straight you simply won't see flirt prompts for the requisite gender at all. Bioware said that no such feature will ever be implemented, especially since almost everyone proposing it was pretty explicit about not wanting to see the slightest hint of homosexuality or that they didn't want their character to think even for a moment about flirting with someone of the same gender.

Bioware's long said no toggle switch, which is what that would amount to in TOR.

No weirder than any of the LS Sith PCs. I think she's just being set up as a sane, level-headed Sith companion who doesn't constantly talk about secretly being a Jedi like LS Jaesa and Ashara do.

Yeah. I've felt for years now that Bioware's name no longer makes games an auto-buy for me with how wildly inconsistent they've gotten. TOR took a while to get good, and even now its still horribly disappointing when it comes to gay/bi protagonists, something they'd previously been very good about.

It's also possible for people to only realize they're gay later in life, or be reluctant to come out. There are a lot of gay people in the US with kids from heterosexual marriages that failed. Going from Risha's max affection conversation with a lady smuggler, I almost expect her to be like that, a closeted bi woman (since with good reason Bioware wouldn't have her break up with a male character in the expansion on the basis that she's realized she's gay) who needs time to come to grips with her feelings for the lady smuggler.

We don't yet know anything about what's happened to companions during the time skip, or who can be recruited and by whom. Anything more is pure fanwank at this point.

It's also implied that the Imperial Academy includes a boarding school equivalent. The Sith Warrior can remark that they went to the Imperial Academy to complete their non-Force education before they were summoned to Korriban. I'd imagine it's something on the order of the Academy's teachers watch each student and guide them into the education/career path they seem best suited for.

Nope, that's it. Ziost is an hour-long side trip of "You should totally be scared of the Emperor fyi."

I maxed Kira's affection on my lady Knight, and there's nothing comparable to Risha going "I want to spend the rest of my life with you in a totally not gay way but I can't imagine life without you." Same for Akavi, Nadia, Temple, Kaliyo, and Mako - haven't maxed affection with Elara, Vette, or Jaesa yet, but Risha stands out.

Same experience for me. Bugged quest but repeatedly relogging worked.

Yeah. I suspect it's going to be "Here's one bi female companion for both factions and one bi male companion for both factions, have fun." I maxed affection with Risha on my lady smuggler this morning and Risha came within a whisker of proposing to her, talking about how she can't imagine life without her and whenever she tries to think of the future the lady smuggler is always there with her. If it weren't for the fact that this is TOR, I would have been expecting Risha at that point to confess she's always thought of herself as straight but has been having strange feelings about the lady smuggler.

If you're Imperial, siding with Lana over Theron is usually the LS choice. If you're Republic, siding with Theron over Lana is usually the LS choice. The only exception is at the end of Ziost where Lana is desperate to seize any hope of learning how to defeat the Emperor.

Do bear in mind that even if Mako and Torian get together, they eventually break up. Mako ultimately isn't what Torian's looking for and they part with no hard feelings.

There's precedent for it from Bioware, mind. Kaidan in the Mass Effect series was only romanceable by women in the first game but both genders in the third.

Don't worry, if they get together they eventually break up even without the expansion. Torian thinks Mako is nice and all, but she isn't the Mandalorian warrior woman Torian's looking for.

Most Sith are psychotic, or their spouses are murdered by rivals trying to get at the Sith. Don't think those factors have anything to do with being straight, gay, or bi.

As a woman. Here's hoping everyone's gaydar gets fixed in the expansion.

Afraid not. IIRC Aric does get new lines in SoR, so it's not like they couldn't get the VA in to record a new line for cathar.