The Sith seem pretty equal-opportunity. Except for the Sith Warrior. Seriously. Planetary lines, Inquisitor, other classes, there are roughly equal numbers of Sith and a roughly equal spread between idiots and powerful people of both genders. In the Sith Warrior line's Act 2, non-party male NPCs with speaking roles outnumber non-party female NPCs with speaking roles twenty-five to one. Twenty-five to one. Eight female Sith appear on screen, foreground and background, in the entire Warrior line. Nine if you , ten if you yourself are female. The universe seems pretty even, but for some reason the Sith Warrior line is an overdone boys' club.

Sigh...Quinn. After his spaceport scene on Balmorra I thought "Smart, check, useful, check, capable of figuring out the job, check, done." When I realized he was recruitable I dropped my warrior then and there and rerolled female. That whole, horrible, half-invisible, painful, up-and-down, uncertain, every-time-I-give-up-he-does-some-ambiguous-thing, every-time-I-get-my-hopes-up-he-steps-back, awkward ride was fantastic. Edit: Plus, he has Simon Tam's general coloring, education, job, and interpersonal nervousness. Firefly fans will know what I'm referring to. I didn't consciously pick up on it for a long time, but I think that contributed to the devastating weakness I had for Quinn.

I want there to be a back room in the cantinas in Mos Ila and Anchorhead where you can maroon companions you hate with nothing but the clothes on their back. Corso. Quinn. The people I cannot stand to see on my bridge, the people who make me want to not go on my own ship because I know they'll be there. I want to go to the fleet and pick up a personality-free Joe the Rent-a-Healer or Sue the Rent-a-Vanguard. I can always go back and re-recruit the jerkface character, or I can get the relief of kicking them out and leaving 'em there. ...please?

Adding to the long list of "things I didn't realize about Quinn while leveling...." I always joked that so far as we can tell, Quinn sprung fully armed and armored from the head of the Imperial Officers' Academy ten years ago. Seriously, where did he come from? Agents from about level 10 know that Imperial Intelligence has a selective breeding program designed to develop highly intelligent analysts with whatever physical endurance is necessary to maximize useful time. You meet They're marked by focus, obedience, a certain coldness, and a confidence in their own abilities that I would call arrogance if they couldn't reliably live up to it. Sound familiar? Frankly, Quinn's not as smart as the Watcher, and he's got some anger management issues that suggest to me he might've been rejected from Intelligence training. Where better to send almost-but-not-good-enough custom-engineered brainiacs than the military? The Citadel gets its money's worth, and these people are still better logistical managers than the general population could produce. Make sense? What I really mean to say is that I married a genetic experiment and didn't realize it until now. FML.

You know what just occurred to me? - Mind you, I finished this questline two and a half months ago and I'm still picking up on new ways to be angry about what I didn't see or say.

Ha! I'm not the only one who delighted in applying that! See, Quinn harmonized with my style perfectly, so it never occurred to me that he thought of anything beyond this perfect shared purpose. Whoops. He's a better Sith than my LS toon was.

The Knight is a wonderful counterpart to the Warrior story - only instead of becoming the hardcore enforcer of the Sith, you're the destined hero of the Jedi. Both are quite solid, and both give you insights into some top-level Sith leadership.

There is a very good reason for that hiccup in communication: spoilers for a Jedi Knight storyline element.

Hard to miss Honestly, there are so many lines for these actors to do, it's very rare and thus very conspicuous when they screw it up. I think the actress was reading it as "Desert, monster," where "desert" is the verb to run away and she's making the statement a command. Instead of what the subtitles suggest, "Desert monster, blah blah" where "desert monster" is the term she's addressing it by.

I recall about four [Flirt] options in the entire game - a guy in the Nar Shaddaa bonus quest, a chubby guy on Hoth who I would've been happy to hit on more because he was kind of adorable about it, and of course Quinn and Pierce. The one questline where I'm outnumbered by members of the opposite sex thirty to one, and I can't so much as wink at 'em. The male Warrior seems to have more options. If you want to go off the deep end of the [Flirt] pool, check out the male Agent.

And I don't mean romantically. Was it kind of conspicuous to anyone else that the Sith Warrior line is a sausagefest? I went back at the end to look over the class scenes, and there are eight female Sith in the line. Nine if you turn you-know-who, ten if you yourself are female. You can count the Sith women of the Warrior line on your fingers (quiet, you thumb quibblers). Better'n that, in Act 2, one female non-party member appears on screen. Even in the background, unless some shock troopers are secretly female. The woman gets a line before she dies - "Men, we've got trouble. Rally around the general!" - but still. There are literally no women on Taris, Quesh, and Hoth, except the ones you take with you. I am so alone. Did the writers just not notice this?

Funny you should mention those last couple of points.

Sigh. Okay, so I'm the player who didn't see it coming (um, until I accidentally moused over spoiler tags in another forum.) I liked the man. I married him, if only because he did the most miserable sadface when I said I didn't think marriage was really necessary. Freaked me out that I could hurt him, so I redid the conversation to accept. I needed to kill him. The sheer magnitude of feeling, suddenly turning bad, I had to kill him. Any other outcome utterly neuters my character. If that means I tow around some generic Joe the Rent-a-Healer for the rest of the game, that's a price I'm willing to pay.

Another vote for Nautolan. Those guys/girls are total babes.