Generally if the Sith is Alien, they still have more power then the general populace. It goes like this in terms of actual tolerance. Sith- Humans/Purebloods Aliens (Non sensitive) Common Imperial Humans Chiss Human Slaves Aliens You'll notice that Alien Sith are far above where they are as Non-Sensitives. This is because Sith have ultimate authority. Though Sith aliens are more liked to be passed over when it comes the more exciting assignments and rarely get promoted. You'll see very few Alien Darths compared to Lords. Still they're treated better then non-sensitive aliens.

As I've previously stated in the first thread you listed. If you have ANY sort of talent with the Force in the Empire, there are no exceptions. To Korriban and the Sith Academy with you! As it's considered Imperial Law further of which is a edict of the Dark Council, the ultimate authority short of the Emperor himself, any Sith found harboring potentials who have not yet trained in the Acadamy will be considered in violation of Imperial Law and executed. And we all know how much the Empire loves it's executions. The problem is that Miraluka are the polar opposite of Chiss. Miraluka have a naturally affinity for the Force to the point that they see with it. While people love the irony of Miraluka snipers, lorewise. It dosen't work. The entire race is considered strong enough that even the weakest of Miraluka untrained are considered on par with trained Sith Acolytes in terms of potential. I'm fairly certain with the desire to increase and mantain Sith numbers, they'd have a well maintained databank similar to the Jedi on who has been through the academy. In short, there is simply no way to slip a Miraluka through the ranks of the Empire as an actual Imperial Agent. Now if they were say, a Mercenary Sniper of an independent outfit on some Sith's Payroll however....

Due to the fact that Naboo is barely a colony at this point in the game, Gungan's wouldn't even be recorded as existing during this timeline. Therefore, Gungan based RP guilds would be less then acceptable from a lore based standpoint.

HK-47 invalidates number 4. Otherwise, decent list.

First off, regarding the Treaty. The events of Chapter One for both factions are more or less considered the breaking point. Aspects of the Treaty go along the lines of "If they break the treaty and we disavow their actions, feel free to kill them." Chapter One is more or less a series of secret skirmishes in which the Republic and the Empire deny involvement openly in. By Chapter Two, lots of these skirmishes have come to light and tensions are boilng. Both sides are shoring up their defenses in light of events of Chapter One to include purging of internal security breaches and effectively taking back lost territory. This is the logic behind the Balmorra/Taris swap of the Empire and the Republic of Chapter Two and One. One would say that all bets are off at this point but no one has the balls to declare open warfare. They're simply trading shots of "You are on my turf and I want it back" given Balmorra is a core system and Taris is in the far reaches of Imperial Space. You are correct in that Open War actually kicks off end of Chapter Two to beginning of Chapter Three. However note that the declaration is simply a formality. One could say the War actually started at the beginning of Chapter Two. Chapter Two can be considered a psedo-War state in which conflicts and battles are fought but are considered part of the Cold War rather then the Second Great Galactic War. As for the second. Thanaton is a Dark Council member meaning he's one of the twelve most powerful Sith alive next to the Emperor. I think he knows if you're alive or dead.

How many times do I need to keep pointing out the Fourth Great Schism that takes place roughly 1500 years after this game resulting in a Dark Age for the Republic resulting in a similar loss of knowledge as the European Medieval Dark Ages before the Ruusian Reformation which is the Italian Renaissance and the reclamation of that lost knowledge? Seriously. The tech level does not stay at the same level. It has suffered gains a losses with the rise and fall of Empires. First the Architects who crafted things like the Maw and Centerpoint station. They were shattered by the fall of their civilization by the rise of the Rakata allegedly. The rise and fall of the Infinite Empire saw the rise of things like the Star Forge before they were lost to time and history. The constant clashing of the Republic and Jedi Orders against Sith Empires causing a rise and fall of tech to ultimately the above Reformations. For the love of the Force, stop assuming the Tech goes no where. It's not a straight line. It dips and rises with history. For your poor example of a Pharaoh being killed by a grenade. That probably happened but instead of calling it a grenade, it was a fireball from an ambitious magician. The knowledge of how was lost as a magician's secret before being rediscovered during the Italian Renaissance as a Scientific Achievement known as a weaponized timed explosive.

*cracks knuckles and warms up the Loremaster 9001* The Imperial Stormtrooper armor appearance design is the adaption and continuation of the Republic Trooper armor from this time frame. Both appearances were designed to adapt an intimidating visage to inspire fear and panic among their enemies. It would make sense that the Empire of the Galactic Civil War would adapt a design from it's Republic Roots. In the case of the Star Destroyers, the design is Sith in origin. That is why the Empire of TOR has the familiar triangle shape. As Palpatine was a Sith, he was starting to ramp up the Republic into a War Machine to counter the armies of the CIS and had no standing Navy. So he would approve a design of Sith Origin with no one the wiser. Hence the beginnings of the dagger shaped Acclamator Class Cruisers steadily working their way toward the familiar imperial Star Destroyer we know of Episode IV. TOR's "blatant copying" as you call it, is paying homage to the orginal and proving a very realistic Lore base for appearance design and development from the very distance past we play now to the more modern look. After all, there was a Dark Age in which much was lost between now and the GCW. Be offended all you want. I for one approve of this paying homage to the original.

Zayne Carrick was one of those who was lucky. Not incompetent. That's a poor comparison as his resulting story was how he changed for the better and brought down a rogue sect of Jedi Seers. Growth through Adversity. This companion needs to be worse and never achieve what he did. Ever. Besides. That type of companion already exists. His name is Gus and he's with the Smuggler.

No. In the case of the Smuggler, it's not exactly the most law abiding profession and Jedi are required to uphold Republic Law. Those that don't aren't Jedi at all. In the case of the Trooper, only specialized Jedi may join the Republic Armed Forces and Garza doesn't seem the type to allow "The Will of the Force" to override tactically sound decisions that drive SpecForce. The Bounty Hunter is considered a lower form of Imperial who is hired to get their hands dirty. No Sith would ever lower themselves to serving even alongside such a being. The Imperial Agent is subservant to the Sith and already their life is forfeit for keeping Ensign Temple who should be at the Sith Acadamy. Having a Sith around full time would only hasten that. The point of the non-Force user classes is to tell the story of those without the Gift of the Force facing adversity and triumphing. Even when their opponents outmatch them such as the case of Darth Jadus (and the resulting consequences of such actions, hence the Chapter 2 fun.) Even the most low key of Jedi/Sith would invalidate it unless they were so inept as to only serve as Jar Jar level comic relief.

About time. We need a Triple A crash the way companies have been treating the industry. Thank God for Jim!

In this case they would adhere to the age old teaching "Give a man a Fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime." Now they would try to be as hands off as possible when teaching a man how to fend for himself but as it is their duty to help people, they would probably seek ways to help him. Perhaps trade meals in exchange for information. The homeless are often forgotten and see many things.

Ironically this is very much a test that every Jedi goes through. Everyone is correct in saying that this very thing would break someone of their nativity. It is my opinion that there is no wrong answer because whatever she choose will be the lesser of two evils. There is no greater good here to serve. A true Jedi will understand that they have to make these choices. They must do so without letting their emotion guide them and let the Force do the guiding of their actions. (This essentially means pulling a Captain Jack Sparrow.) They must live with the consequences, reflect and meditate on how the situation came about so that they can prevent such a situation from arising again, and most importantly never, ever, EVER lose the Faith in the Jedi Way. This is why it's so hard to play a Jedi. You must separate yourself from your emotions and allow a "higher power" to guide you. Even when the actions it takes goes against everything you personally value and stand for. Most people can't attain that level of committed sacrifice so they all try to be grey siders because Greys don't have to in their eyes. It's easy to be human. It's hard to be anything but.

My only question is, if this was implemented, who would be affected and why? There's a character limit on names and it's just two characters short of the name I wanted to use for my Chiss. So I just ended up calling her "Snowflake". This actually works as Csllia'nahe'artic lorewise is impossible to say if you aren't a Chiss. So she just goes by "Snowflake" which is the rough basic translation of her core name. So there is an actual legitimate RP reason why there is a Chiss running around named Snowflake. My Black Ops soldier often uses the line "Wow, your parents must have hated you to name you that" if a badly named character makes the attempt to actually RP. While the state of my server is less then ideal when it comes to who is there to roleplay and who isn't, and I certainly have questioned these people again and again. I would prefer not to lose the names I have gotten to work in this manner.

The end fight to False Emperor was originally you had to beat Malgus until he was at 5% of his health and he just started throwing constant Force Lighting around. At that point you were supposed to use the grenades and your class knockback ability to physic's throw him into the abyss ala Episode Six "Vader throws the Emperor into the Reactor" as he loses his Boss Knockback protection for this stage. However it seems this new generation of F2P never figured this out and complained so much that TOR Devs removed his damage immunity at 1 HP requiring you to throw him into the abyss and allowed you to kill him normally. Old Way: You had to knock Malgus into the pit to complete the FP. New Way: Ether the Old Way or just Tank and Spank him to death as you would anyone else. Malgus however is as good as dead. He fell to his death into a bottomless abyss before the station exploded with enough force to destroy an entire fleet as Malgus claims when he sets the self destruct. Debate all you want but I don't think Malgus planned on being knocked into a pit where he just happens to have an emergency shuttlepad waiting. He's as good as dead. He was even prepared to die with the station explosion to take the Players with him. Revan is a little more iffy since he's got a bit of an out. We don't know exactly what he did with that sudden flash of light nor do we know what Force Ability he used. That leaves it open for him to come back but I think at this point BW is best off leaving that one a mystery that will never be solved and never again invoke a "canon" figure to a former Player Created PC from the original game. Revan may not have died but at this point, it would benefit if he vanished never to return. You run into the problem with these beloved character in that people don't want to let go of them. That's when to get the HALO problem where Master Chief's story should have ended but people just couldn't let go and let the story end. There has to be a point where we say goodbye to these characters and remember them fondly to allow new heroes to rise up so that we can cherish them. Let their spirits rest. If you must BE Revan he already has a game you can play as him. It's called Knights of the Old Republic. It's out and about. Go play it.

Very true. Mine is just the simple version for those looking for a simple answer. You are correct in that there are a vast multitude of chain links in the lore but remember we Loremasters tend to lose people when we get too descriptive.

Simple version. At the end of the Third Great Schism, also known as the Hyperspace Wars, the Republic made a decision to commit genocide on the Sith Order as well as the Pureblooded Sith in an effort to prevent them from ever duplicating the Hyperspace Wars. Prior to our conflict, the Hyperspace Wars were considered the bloodiest conflict to the level of the American Civil war which to this date still outstrips the American Death Toll of any war America has fought. Billions died in the Hyperspace War and the Republic didn't want to go though that again. The answer was the complete extermination of the Sith Empire. The Emperor (known as Lord Vitiate at this time) gathered the broken survivors and fled known space. Hiding on the lost world of Droumond Kaas, the Empire spend 1000 years hidden from the eyes of the Galaxy (Intentionally assisted by the Star Cabal) rebuilding. By 28 BTC the Empire had been hidden for a thousand years and the now Emperor decided it was time to put into action his plan to destroy the Republic and the Jedi that had once destroyed his Order.

Counterpoints: Thana Vesh is a killable NPC in that people can kill her. This choice must be removed as everyone must have the chance to obtain her or you get the same complants from Beta in which you're down all your companions because you wanted to be an evil ***** and kill everyone. This also means retconning everyone's Taris so that those that have already passed Taris can obtain her to fulfill the "everyone must obtain her or no one can have it" mentality. Who is the universal NPC from the story that the Republic gets from Balmorra? For every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Anything the Empire has the Republic must also have in order to keep the mirror balance going. They must be obtainable at exactly the same time as Vesh.

"All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again." Yes you are correct in that these mandates go back further then the Jedi Civil war. Your question was why the order prior to TOR more restrictive and similar to the restrictions of Episode 1. My point however stands. Revan was the cause for the restrictions we see in KoTOR though he was not the first. If you go back you will find that there are Three Great Schisms in the history of the Jedi Order when Dark Jedi broke the rules and refused to follow the same path as their Light Jedi brethren. The very first Great Schism you will notice was a direct result of affection between two Jedi who refused to give it up and allowed it to lead them down a darker path. Revan was not the first but he was the latest around the time of KoTOR. Between the 300 years of his Order, it's destruction in KoTOR II the standards have slipped a bit which is why there is marriage allowed in the Order of TOR. The Fourth Great Schism will cause yet the same restrictions to come down following the Reformations resulting in the restrictive Order of Episode 1. Again. "All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again."

Revan happened. I'm not kidding. Every time something drastic such as a prominent figure like the fall of Revan happens, there is a fear based reaction in the Jedi Order that makes them scale back the scope of everything to a more emotionless state and far more restrictive view of things in order to clamp down on the odds of said event never happening again. After the Jedi Civil War and the Exile of Meetra Surik. The Jedi Order regressed into a more restrictive state to prevent another fall on a scale of Darth Revan. This was advocated by the Jedi Council Member Master Atris. The very Atris of KoTOR II who took Meetra Surik's leave from the order to follow Revan as a personal betrayal and pushed for the restrictive measures because she took it so badly. The Jedi Order of Episode One was holding to the same restrictive state as laid out by the Ruusian Reformations as a direct result of the New Sith Wars and the Brotherhood of Darkness. Both results of the Fourth Great Schism where once again, a prominent Jedi Master was allowed to fall and rebuild the Sith Order. This is not an uncommon event. As time progresses people feel they can be trusted to live as they see fit until someone betrays that trust. Should the Old Guard or in this case, the Jedi Order, be victorious in the Revolution, they will see fit to return to a way of life that prevented such things from happening. A return to a safe past. Tradition that has worked. This will hold until standards slowly slip and once again the Sith threaten the Galaxy. It's a never ending cycle of Birth, Decay, Revolt, Destruction, and Renewal. The one cycle that continues as long as the story of Star Wars is told.

I would agree. In fact the Ruusan Reformation was designed to fix a slip up in the original Movies. In Episode Four, Obi-wan says that the Republic had "Stood for Thousands of Years" implying that the Empire, once the Republic, had existed for as long has it had. Palpatine however in Episode Two I think it was states that the Republic had "existed for 1000 years." That's 1000 years EXACTLY. Oops. Conflicting Paradox. The Dark Ages and the Russan Reformation were invoked to fix that conflict of interest. So it's indeed possible for people to remember two sets of conflicting histories.

You're jumping around quite a bit. 1) The current timeline of the game is 3500 years before Episode 4. Here the Republic has a standing Army made up of people from across the galaxy. Between the events of this game and Episode 1, 3500 years have passed. Somewhere in that timeframe, the Republic was demilitarized and had no standing Army to defend itself from the Droid Armies of the Confederacy of Independant Systems (CIS). The Clones were prepared beforehand to serve as a secret until such time where the CIS rebelled during Episode 2. Short Answer: Time passed and the Republic had no army between the end of this war and the start of the Clone Wars. 2) During the same event that saw the demilitarization of the Republic saw the Jedi Order also reorganize and lots of secrets and abilities were lost. Also the Jedi were relegated to mere Peacekeepers. They hadn't seen serious war in over a thousand years by Episode 1. Here in the Old Republic, there's a War practically every 3 centuries or so lasting about a century. The Jedi have had much more practice in flexing their muscles so to speak. Short Answer: Time passed and the Jedi fell out of practice. 3) Easy question. The Empire in this game is completely and utterly crushed. It doesn't exist during the Clone Wars. That would be the CIS. The Republic is reformed into the Empire of Episode Four per the ending of Episode Three. 4) This tailors back to your second question. The Soldiers of the Old Republic are used to fighting Force Users and so their armor is designed with the possibility in mind. Malcom's armor is designed to protect him from environmental hazards like electricity so he won't feel it as much. Darth Vader, while he is wearing armor, is also three quarters cyborg and requires a very sophisticated life support system to keep him alive. All that much conductive and sensitive metal glued to his nerves which is highly conductive? Yeah that's going to hurt. Luke for his part was pretty much just wearing a tux compared to Vader and Malcom. Absolute zero protection. Short Answer: Malcom's Armor was designed to protect him from Lighting. Vader and Luke's outfits weren't. 5) Another easy one. Why would the Republic now turned Empire have use for defunct and clearly inferior battle droids when they, the victors, already have a giant war machine of bloodied, obedient, and clearly superior flesh and blood soldiers? Short Answer: They wouldn't. The Clones proved superior. 6) Understand that the Rebels are using inferior equipment and most of them don't have the same level of training a Stormtrooper gets. The Rebels for the most part of Episode Four are average Joes who maybe went down to the local shooting range for lunch. Their equipment is cheap crap prone to malfuction and they don't have much in the way of armor for protection. Compare this to the Imperial Stormtroooper. These soldiers are highly trained to the peak of efficiency with one goal in mind, crushing the enemy. Their armor and weapons are top of the line, meticulously cared for, and they are ruthless. Short answer: Superior numbers mean nothing when facing Superior Equipment and Training. For every Stormtrooper killed, they'd easily take upwards of nearly ten Rebels with them.

They can't because that would invalidate the Fourth Great Schism, the Ruusan Reformation, and essentially muck up the timeline to result in temporal paradox of Episodes 1-6. And NOBODY is allowed to create paradoxes that invalidate 1-6. It's no longer a case about "Good Always Wins". It's now a case of "Averting Universal Implosion By Temporal Paradox." You want to write an Alternate Universe where the Empire wins go ahead. But unless the history avoids invalidating 1-6, it will never be accepted.

In the end the Empire needs to be crushed ultimately to make way for the Fourth Great Schism or New Sith Wars around 1000-1500 years later. As for now, the Empire is shoreing up defenses taking advantage of the Republic chasing convenient distractions such as the Cartel, Czerka, and the Dread Masters. At this point the Republic is at the advantage but we're nearing straining point again in the same deadlock that resulted in the Sacking of Coruscant. The Republic has pushed the Empire to the brink. The Empire pulls a last ditch yet highly effective maneuver to capture and hold Coruscant hostage and uses the lull to rebuild for a renewed attack. The same thing has happened again with the Republic chasing false leads instead of focusing on the Empire. We're back to the status Quo in which both sides are deadlocked. The Empire is no longer on the brink of defeat as they were at the end of Chapter 3. However they are orchestrating their strike on Tython as the tradeoff for Korriban for Chapter 5 I would say.

The correct answer is that during the Fourth Great Schism or the New Sith Wars, the tail century resulted in a Dark Age of the Republic. Like the Middle or "Medieval" Ages of Europe. The Republic suffered a technological and cultural regression in which forward progress was effectively halted. In fact, they went backwards. The Jedi Order however became a war machine to match that of the Sith Order resulting in the two great powers becoming the Brotherhood of Darkness and the Army of Light. Giant swaths of space previously governed by the Republic were taken over by the two sides which saw oversight in the form of both Sith and Jedi Warlords. Sith and Jedi who ruled said sections while the Republic languished and lay in ruin. There were seven battles over the planet Ruusian during this conflict. The most pivitol was the Seventh in which the Army of Light utterly destroyed the final reminats of the Brotherhood of Darkness leaving only Darth Bane as the sole survivor. The very Darth Bane who would institute the Rule of Two. The Brotherhood had rampaged unchecked throughout the galaxy during the New Sith Wars destroying much of the Old Republic to the point where Jedi had taken over entirely. Jedi served as Senators and there was a long chain of elected Jedi Chancellors. Now understand that the Russian Reformation was essentially to demilitarize the Jedi Order and restore it to the separate entity we know in the Prequels. Much of the history before the Dark Ages was lost and certain planets like Tatooine were abandoned only to be recolonized around or after the Reformation. It is also during the Reformation that the Republic itself was demilitarized which is why the Republic had to use Clone Soldiers in the Clone Wars because there was no standing Republic Armed Forces as there is here in the Old Republic. Is there a Dark Age which explains why certain planets are no longer inhabited the way they were? Yes. Is the war we're currently playing in TOR responsible for it? No.

Understand that the Hammershot is a good filler. If you feel it doesn't heal for as much, you're probably not running with enough Power. Hammershot heals for your bonus Tech Attack/Heal amount. The Power Stat is what grants increased Tech Bonus damage. If you don't have enough power, your Hammershot won't heal for as much. If you feel it's lackluster, I would advise stacking more Power stat. The point of Hammershot heal besides building your charge is more to prevent people from loosing health too quickly. Think of it as a healers way of buffing someone taking sustaining damage. Save your probes for burst healing to heal up larger chunks of damage the squad takes and use Hammershot to counter sustained damage. Hammershot will never outheal damage but it's designed to take the pressure off you by generating a constant stream of healing so you don't have to worry about fighting with your resources.