best way to think about it is this. SWTOR was canon when it did not conflict with the story of the first three movies. putting what amounted to a death star above planets pretty much killed any chance of it being primary canon. The other stuff was minor like speeders on hoth, and such because better tech might have equaled speeders working the rebels on hoth were outlaws with low tech from an empire crashing. Could be someone did something to one of the Disney board of directors characters and they gave George Lucas back control of the primary canon. It could have been one of the investors for the films did not want something from the old republic in the movie. Only Disney and Lucas know what caused the shift to Expanded Universe. I'd guess that information falls under trade secrets too.

so I known there is a running joke about people getting sewed by the fat taken one for the team friend later in life suing their friends from high school but the last art pass is really sad. I mean seriously I know there was not a lot of those people playing before 3.0 but House Organa is got to be the funniest example of some one throwing a tantrum. Sorry I'm going to snicker at them and so is everyone who sees the old screen shots. They went through and beat every npc with an ugly stick. snicker... my guess someone got upset they were were not liked in school... and clearly this is why. Not because of look or creed but because childish people will act like little kids before they are re-taught how to behave by kids who are raised by decent people. I know from personal experience I raised my self when I did not have a baby sitter getting me to do naughty stuff. I'm temped to post all the old screen shots post this last art pass including the stuff from 1.0... some of the new art is really cool looking but while I do not belive in fat people hate, most of them are stuck that way because of bad choice along the way, but this is really entertaining that I really should share a before and after. The best part they had to re-do the whole castle organa because the way point got replaced. snicker. Someone should hand who ever made the change another cheese burger and grin out them. Make it as tasty as possible for irony. grin.

So you have to give props to the dev's working on the four point oh to fix the weird stuff that broke, so I was saving this for a funnier moment but since we do not have neutral Jedi yet just the eyes, I figure I'll post this for people to laugh at since there are a bunch on wookipeidia but no neutral ones yet. The neutral code as one of the keepers of truth saw it. There is passion and serenity, but you have to challenge anger and lust to keep them. Passion is love, not lust or anger. Victory come through the channeling of focus not blind rage or cold logic. Death comes to all but through the force we are renewed and reborn. Through our actions we change the force for light or darkness. Master Dualist Åmortįs Byórðæįr Benjamin Mathias "Matthhew" Medræs Vlör Vas´Drakken/Vǻs´Ðrakkæn Ordis Sancti Draconis, Amorti of House DrǻMorįa, a paladin of the Ordis in service to House Organa

snicker so many people who have never played through the story. people just play the game the world events are how to get the interesting scenes... ilum was un triggered for six months where no one bothered to play though the story. six months anyone could have triggered that event. If you play the story ie your class story for the most pary you find out that half the time you are working for all three sides, the imps. the pubs, and the various other factions. every time you space bar a convo you lose a chance to see something interesting... snicker like the op, who does not even know that there is two chances to get lana beck and both are pub because a pub triggered the scene. There is a convo that was on the world that got detroied that would have been with someone no idea who the event was trigger by the time I got around to getting to that world. You'd have to ask the writters or the dev team. But every npc is played by a vo actor or actress who gets to chose the trigger that starts their naughty scene... grin though those may be going aways since I leaked too much info.

to heck with the affection titles I want to know about how you got the imp companion on your kinght's ship. I've got her in my stronghold but only knight companions in the exact same place on every character.

trunced for emphasis... I'm not going to defend or argue agaisnt descions made in the beta or alpha that was a long time ago and appently with different leads... but I do want to point out that unless you were an internal tester most of the test was on the first planet. We got to see aldraran and few other planets in some tests but most of the beta testers only got to run the inital planets. Unless there was a pool of testers prior to feb of 2011 that had access to everything. But I got to play on one of the dev's accounts after signing an NDA when I was living in Los Angeles. Then later I got my own account in may I think. Interesting that the lead dev is the Star Wars Galazy team that tried to tank SWTOR... or did backus move over to SWTOR before that mess? Not sure I can argue with the results of post 2.0 though...

the blue eyes can be gained by 100 percent light side need to check dark side effect in apperence tab to see them and buying the neutral eyes over rides the light side dark side choices so if you go slighty dark side having those as a choice might let you hide the dark side choices from most players... grin

to pass the torch on for five more people... http://www.swtor.com/user/ce/3jsj0 http://www.swtor.com/user/ce/3jsj1 not sure I'm going to wear story npc's that you do not earn in a flash point or op but just in case since so many people wanted codes I figure this will be five that work and if they post five more...

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not sure how this got missed in five pages of comments but it should be interesting to see how it works out since you are not required to take the skill that matches your class grin. I had a leather work warrior so I could wear scale mail that was bind on acquire. Due to the Primary Stats being converted to the Mastery Stat, the following changes have been made to Augments: Armormechs can now craft Shield, Absorb, and Mastery Augments. Synthweavers can now craft Alacrity, Defense, and Critical Augments. Armstechs can now craft Accuracy, Endurance, and Power Augments. Armormech - mostly trooper and smuglers tech based armor shield generators, standing in place shield makes sense, absorb makes sense, mastery makes sense defense makes sense standing in place, crit makes sense auto tracking aim accuracy makes sense needed to hit bosses power makes sense modifies mastery ability endurance is now seperate at higher levels do we need two augs at end game? Synthweave - speed tanking and resistance tanking alacrity makes sense defense modifes armor waiting to see in action crit means when the boss moves on a melee char that crit misses accuracy makes sense needed to hit bosses power makes sense modifies mastery ability shield is tech ability assorb is standing tank ability maybe on guardians endurance is now seperate at higher levels do we need two augs at end game? Armstechs - makes weapons grin accuracy on the weapons everyone needs endurance - waiting to see how this setup in 4.0 power on weapons everyone needs so these are the only weapon makers this should be interesting change. New Resistive Armorings (Endurance) are now exclusive to Armormech. New Versatile Armorings (Mastery) are now exclusive to Synthweaving. ummm are there typos?

so I noticed when quoting a post the numbers might get messed up if your looking for your post and you try to be lazy start from someone else's post... broke it up, and psudo'd it, in case it calls the function strung together d o = newreply & p = NNNNNN

The thing is the names are reserved by players right now. What they could do is allow alias to McGuffen the account so that your player is locked to first name that is you. then you can earn a legacy. this is your surname unless they changed something since I had to create a new char. grin that was over three hundred days ago I looked at the saved in game mail. But anyway what Bioware could do is let people have say player name Happy and the surname or family name of McGuffen be addressed by an alias of McGuffen. Then using the rfc2277 or the more current unicode to say Å = A. Yes that is the A used in stargate. It's off the original rosetta stone grin a nod to the history and some of the more stupid things the source material had in it. But anyway this lets players have say fifty chars and let them be stored in the data base under the first character's name plus a second field. It likely would requiring moving the characters to a new server or something else equally task intensive, but then when ever you log on every char would be able to hear messages meant for them at their legacy or surname or what ever. I say use legacy since it has a level gate that the first char has to meet. Clearly they would have to make sure someone was not using unicode to make letters look like other letters and people would have to make chars with numbers in their names or weird punctuation as that would be what the script resolves to. or the letter it visbile looks like but the Scandinavian ŋ is an e. That tends to really mess with non-liguists so people would want to use it as an n and people of Scandinavian descent would crack up laughing at the spelling. Then you have the clueless wonders who think indo germanic means germans... when it just means Scandinavian. People have been fighting over names for milliena untold. The best thing is use english for the names and use a system to create a nickname for the account that could use unicode or not, but would let the first name be a given name or common use name. Your given name would have to be unique and not violate any naming rules and your nickname could be names in common use. So my character Amortis would be the main's unique name could even be written in a different color so you know it is the main and reserved to the char based on old ingame mail or achievements or gear or whatever the devs can figure out works for everyone heck even a points system. But then all the chars could be addressed by the alias which has to be unique and can use unicode or not depending on the work load verse rewards that way you get names back that are common use but to get a gold star or unique name it has to have meaning to you. Playing that character through four expansions with no one else using the name is the kinda of thing I'm talking about... ie 1.2, 2.0, 3.0. 3.5, etc... that lets people use the names we have hung on to and also lets players arguing over a name use the common use version. Say Amortis is the unqie version the common use versions would be Amorti, Amortor, Amortus, Amorter, Amorta, Amortae, Amortai. basically use the declensions of Latin as a start then look through the languages you speak. That way your friends will know which one you are. Plus your surname or legacy would be different. kinda wall of text but really only of use to players who care about their names and they will read it. grin. Amortis aka that crazy linguist who speak a wayyy too many languages... to quote an old friend... Åmortįs Byórðæįr Meðærąs Vlör Vas´Drakken the list goes on but the english askii would be what would be used as the given name then each char could be saved as that name dot a number. That way the oldest char is what you are stuck with as a main unless you delete and recreate all the chars before your main or what ever system they use if they can figure out who to make this work in game. The funny thing is likely it would be Amortis that ends up the given name even though Byórðæįr is characters hidden given name since given names are supposed to be secret to everyone but family. grin. Byo's names: Åmortįs -A' mort(al) Tis Byórðæįr - Beä ador heir can be spelled Byorde/Bjorde/Byjorde/Byorð/Bjorð/etc... Vlör - VL oar (one sylable) Vas´Drakken - Vas Vee (h)os (Ownership) Dra kracken

hummm what if you take all the ideas above and mesh them into one idea... take the swoop runs through a track using the things like the mine field on the trooper starter world where you have to get a check mark and then take and use ghost runs based on what happened server side and replay ghost images or anyone that day that does not overlap grin... so you would have no idea who was going to be shown since if anyone over laps you your track does not get picked for that race... maybe even have it running 24/7 of ghost images of the week before randomly picked tracks that do not over lap. Unless you sat and timed everyone no one would know who was going to win but you would get an ingame email of when your race was slotted to display at the track... it would be wall of crazy type of thing because of all that would have to be implemented but it would be swoop racing and the best part is they could be halos or real instances of the char.

The first week of a new expansion I find tons of new gear half the time green gear so the sets I have setup are the ones I have been working on for months or years if I really like a piece of gear, I still use my Columni robe on my main that the dev's painted on everyone's since people stopped wearing them. It was funny to log in and see spirals all over my robes. I guess I will buy more customization slots before it starts. But usually the biggest thing is to run any content that might go away or change like when Karag the Hut fight changed. Usually the other thing is buy dyes that you like since just before they get expensive until about a few months after the expansion goes live. Then again I try and hand on to dyes that I like so when I get that really cool piece of gear that base color was not my style I have the dyes I like and do have to track them down or budget for more dyes. The big thing to stock up on is augments and MX-X holders but since they said those are changing I'm going to wait and make them after the changes since the changes usually favor those who wait to see what is actually needed.

What about knowing how many pieces of set you have unlocked? I bought stuff with the first pack and unlocked some of the pieces and I have no idea what pieces I am missing if any of them, you usually only find out by buying the pieces and waiting until you see the set unlocked message?

So I was watching the community managers twitch stream today and heard that the PVP is not getting anything with the expansion at first, pretty much like every other expansion. Content takes time. The thing is Bioware, love the DA throne, has a bunch of areas that traditional FPS players would love to play in the open areas really do not help tactics only the player that spawns to an area faster... grin which is usually neither side. Take the releasing the rakghoul heroic there is area underneath the bridge that distant players could hide under players could get yanked off the bridge or knocked off... all kinds of fun. Since MLG was playing I'm guessing some of them will look at the game and many will write the game off when the challenge wears off since the cap is usually a gear grind and pvp which is usually totally equal except for skill is more about corpse runs back to the fight. Best part if you really want to go crazy is make the areas have to be beaten in PVE before you can play through them giving the team time to tweak the areas as instanced maps plus you could string a couple together wear the doors are. Grin. Ben

so prism or the crystal pendants you can buy at ren faires and occult shops will shatter light into the componet pieces so shoot various pocket lasers at a piece of clothing covered in prisms or the facets pendants and it would look like it was deflecting or shattering the laser beam. if their is no smoke or particles in the air the prism might show the shatter beams but you might not see the laser beam.

The battlemaster story some spoliers... aka Åmortįs journey to being raised to Battlemaster by Sateel so this is to give an early look at stuff I was working on while beta testing for bioware into the game's releases. So this is the detailed version of Åmortįs Byórðæįr Vlör Vas´Drakken back story bioware has had the simple version since two thousand and eleven. prelude Åmortįs Byórðæįr Vlör Vas´Drakken Byo's names: Åmortįs -A' mort(al) Tis Byórðæįr - Beä ador heir Vlör - VL oar (one sylable) Vas´Drakken - Vas Vee (h)os (Ownership) Dra kracken Eyia's names: Eyia / Eyisia - Eye Ja' / E' yis Cee/zee a {grin basically Elizyeia} Sakushi 敦子アンジェラ (grin you can ask Atsuko Angela for details it's her name lol) Åmortįs is a beta character that was recreated for early access and has been part of the story since his pawanda days on Axum. His parents were at a lost of what do when he kept sleeping with his tutors when female and ditching lecture when they were male. So a Sith posing as a Jedi offered to train him. She was a beatiful woman and on Axum that counted for more than anything else. Sakushi taught him in the arts of combat being Sith and Argont she thought that a mere boy could never defeat her in combat so she started teasing him by sparing in her komno and nothing else. Byórðæįr his actual name before being a padawan was sixteen and extremenly fast and strong but not focused. So she was able to make a fool of him and when he got angry she mocked him instead of making him stronger it made him think. Eventually a kindly old lady Eyisia at the archvies showed him the old Jedi books because he was becoming vindictive instead of the sweet boy he was. So he starts reading through the holo net and notices that some of the moves are the same as the Sith in the combat. This worries him but if Sakushi is Sith he is in real trouble he knows that his parents are wealthy nobility but the Jedi have a only a small temple in the capital not a real pressence here. So he slowly tries to make his tutor angry and stay calm to see what happens. She shows her sith nature as she bats him across the room with a single back hand. She stalks over and says boyo you are in for a world of hurt. Byórðæįr looks up and grins and says your robes are open. She looks down and Boyo uses the scior kick to knock her down only he really does not think it throw since she was looking down when he sweeps his legs out... only that gives Byórðæįr the view of a lifetime... as she jumps up knees out. At Byórðæįr grin she scowls and crashes down her knees on each side of his cheast and she stokes his face with her leaf shaped nails and says hummm maybe you will do as an apptice after all. Byórðæįr says I don't want to be Sith they get ugly... She leans down at him her path white rataki face grinning and says am I not pretty? Byórðæįr blinks taking in the women staring down at him he gulps and says you are the most beatiful woman I have ever seen. She grins and says she is not Sith they wanted too much and gave nothing to a stinking alien. Byórðæįr blinks and says but you look human. She throws her head back laughing as she sits back and says you are the first person to be able to say that having seen enough to know... She grins and says then we will be something else. Byórðæįr says what about Jedi their books are in the local archive. Her eyes light up as she grins and says that is where you got training I thought you had another master. Then a hungry look comes over her and says how to do I get access to theses... books? Byórðæįr says ummm I kinda got access because old lady Eyisia does not like that you are making me mean. Sakushi loses it laughing as first her hair falls across his face as falls sprawled across Byórðæįr laughing so hard and says Eyisia is nineteen you poor boyo and likely has a crush on you. Byórðæįr says I hate that name my name is Byórðæįr Be heir ador the divine water falling from heaven, boyo means nothing. Sakushi means seaweed because my first master was a witch of a sith who says I washed up on the beach for her to play with. Sakushi grins and says I killed that filthy women with my bare hands to teach her that the force is not any good if you can not breathe. She grins then I simply flew her ship right out of the empire as they simply assumed she did not want to be disturbed. She grins I kept the body until I got arrested coming into the republic. It saved my skin as they assumed that I was a slave and did not have the force and the troopers where more interesting in seize the ship than dealing with some weird tattooed woman. She grins I simply have been teaching women unarmed combat when your parents ofered me a soft place and said if you tricked me into sleeping with you they would simply retire me some where as long as the could figure if the child was ours. Sakushi grins and told them not to worry she liked women but that it will be more fun teasing a young boy. She looks down and says they actually got worry and had a doctor look at me to make sure that their would not be any problems! As if. She blinks and looks down and says well there goes that argument... well at least getting access to the libary will be easy now. Lets go take a bath we need to be cleaned up before we walk around. She well at least you get to use the traditional bath now after sparing she looks down and says from sith to tutor and I can not even take out a young boyo anymore. Damn we still have to give you a sith name. rain no matter how pretty is not strong. Byórðæįr grins you have not been here for monsoon season yet have you? When that mountain he points at the western mountain has enough clouds built up agaisnt it they roll across it driving a wall of rain before it, it last about a week but in that week everything blooms then dies due to the water so you get huge flowers then bare trees for a couple weeks until the normal flowers bloom again. She grins so the plants do not die just the pretty flowers then they are back again until the larger bloom blot them out? Byórðæįr grins and says one of my tutors said they bloom larger to deal with the weight of the rain like me. Boyo grins and says she really did never explain that. Sakushi thinks and says I have to think on a nik name but you can call me seaweed or Naki in the mean time since I will call you Boyo until we can come up with a warriors name. They visit Eyisia at the archives and she says you are not welcome her Sith to Sakushi. Sakushi grins and says nope not Sith close but she was too mean to me. Eyisia blinks and raises her left eyebrow and says really so what happened to Byórðæįr? Sakushi grins and says from what I can tell a bunch weak women who let him do what ever he wanted. Eyisia purses her lips and stamps her foot you know very well that is not what I mean. Then she stops mouth hanging open as she realizes something has changed as both Sakushi and Byórðæįr are both laid back and relaxed for the first time in months. She stops and looks at Byórðæįr again! Byórðæįr grins and starts giggling. I just wanted to win. She looks at him and says your parents are going to kill you. Where are we going to find another person to tutor you. Then she gets a weird look on her face and turns back to Sakushi and says your still tutoring even with the deal of the house in the valley? Sakushi grins and says yep but one condition and it is a dozy one. Eyisia snickers and says you know I can not speak for his parents. Sakushi grins back and says I have what I want from them, it is you and your archive I want. She says Jedi Manual of Arms is something sith only dream about learning and most are too proud to steal the knowledge. You are just the icing on the cake, for some reason this has both women laughing as Byórðæįr looks between the two women who normally explain everything to him who clearly are not going to explain this one. She says fine you get your icing but you have to get the jedi envolved. Sakushi flinches and says I thought they simply executed Sith on the spot when they find them. Eyisia grins and says your still alive right? Sakushi starts cursing in rataki as it dawns on her that only a jedi would have a jedi archive. She says I am only so strong and Axum has never before had the influence of the dark side that we did not have a major pressence here with the renewal of conflict. She grins and says he does not get a sith name but jedi one. His parantage needs to be hidden when he goes to the acadamy we do not need the Sith coming her looking for force sensative children. Eyisia says his parents have the right to be involded if his name is to be changed... but they will be more happy that he has a future with us training him instead of the wicked path he was heading down. Sakushi grins and says I still want to teach him force lighting before anyone finds out... Eyisia if the Concil finds out he can use force lighting he will be branded a Sith and executed on the spot he is way too strong in the force to be Sith. Sakushi raises an eyebrow and says so Sith are not killed on the spot. Eyisia bites her lip and says do it and do not tell me about it, if I see it and it sounds like I will be helping teach him I had better not see it. Byórðæįr grins so just use it when invisible? Eyisia chokes out a laugh and says that is not quite what I meant... then looks at him and says you figured it by your self? Byórðæįr nope but would have proved it is not just a darkside tool right? Eyisia gets a puzzled look and says I'm not really sure and I do not think we can ask anyone without it get us all in a world of trouble. Byórðæįr says I at least need to see what it looks like before playing with it... Eyisia screams at him I just said do not tell me if you are going to play with it. Byórðæįr gets really puzzled and sighs and says so kiling is ok but burning people to death is not? I am so glad I'm not even a padawan yet. Eyisia blinks and starts laughing Byórðæįr you have been an apprentice ever since I started teaching you with the holocrons. Sakushi licks her lips and says so not holos but actual holocrons? Eyisia slaps her forehead how do I get myself into these messes. She looks at Sith Rataaki she just told about Jedi holocrons. She said I am never going to her the end of this from the concil if they ever find out about this. Well your going to have to study them fast the Concil will likely move them to another location. She said you may as see them Byórðæįr has been studing them for a couple months. That is where he learned the old style of Jedi combat. He has never seen a holo so he did not know the difference. Byórðæįr says but I see holo's all the time at home, war holos, anime holos, henti holos... Both women look at him and people wonder what is wrong with him. He grins and says but they seem the same you are in a dark room then the story begins. Both women look at him in horror and Sakushi says Eyia you did not use them before letting him have access to them? Eyisia looks at her and says what is with all the pet names? She bites her lip and says those are teaching holocrons not data holocrons... Eyisia looks puzzled and says I am a researcher not a Jedi warrior what is the difference? Sakushi gulps and says one you view history the other you live it. Eyisia looks at her and says but that is how all of my holocrons work. well now I am not sure normally they happen then you wake back up. Later that night you dream though them. Sakushi says and you called me mean. Those are normal holocrons but what Byó says is a teaching holocron. They shrug and they go lets go see he had to get that info from some where. She leads them to the room with the dolar clock and grins as standing in the center she stops the pendulum with the force and the floor drops away around the center of the room as the perfectly flat floor is a force artifact. Sakushi looks around and says being Jedi is not going to be so bad. (kirá says the same thing in the game) They walk down the stairs as Eyisia leans on both of them sweat pooring off her brow as they get futher down the stairs. About halfway down the floor starts to raise and she starts swearing and then says to Sakushi tell me you learned how to loan strenght? Sakushi grins and raises an eyebrow in mockery of Eyisia, Jedi Huhn? She says just give me some streght if it goes back up before we cross the threshold down there it seals for a thousand years as per the solar clock up there and the force it would take to speed it up is more than any of us have. Sakushi yelps and says no holocrons... she growls and draws upon the force and as she paces back and forth she slowly uses force lighting to spend her life force to grant Eyisia strenght to get them to the bottom of the stairs. Eyisia groans in estay as the power fills her and says don't ever talk about this. They get to the bottom and there is a doorway there that Byórðæįr blinks and says there was an opening there before. Eyisia says damn I knew that trusting a Sith was a mistake none of us are going to be able to pass through that. Byórðæįr says why not try and move it? Those runes say sinister to the left radient to the right... Both women look at Byórðæįr and start laughing and Eyisia this is the only time I will ever say having all of those tutors was a good thing. Eyisia starts to spins the room then says wait is the opening to the right for radiant or do I spin the room to the right. Byórðæįr holds his left hand forward and his right hand back and rotates then side by side then right hand forward, and says the other way does not make sense. Eyisia is standing there jaw hanging open it can't be that easy. Sakushi says just spin it is wrong at least we have a solution. Eyisia shrugs and assumes the intial jedi pose one. and grabs the levers that are hidden under the room with the force and rotates them like Byórðæįr says basic counter punch and the room spins around to show a opening and a force ghost standing there. She says naughty sith you are not welcome her. All three look at Sakushi and says in unison not sith just using what what is freely given. She smiles then let go of her life force. Eyisia looks horrorified as she realized that it was not just a bit of force but a continual drain on Sakushi. Sakushi grins and says her old master was a lot worse becuase she would make her work out while draining her power. She snickers it is only the idiots that use their own life force not that of the life around them. The force ghost screams that is the dark side! Byórðæįr thinking they are all about to die pushes both women in the middle of their back through the doorway and says see we did not die crossing the threshold. As the stair slam upwards behind them, the force ghost grins and says how do you think I got stuck in here? Byórðæįr goes oh. Eyisia says what about the holocrons you pushed something to trigger a chime to make me drop the stair every other time. Byórðæįr blinks and says chime? Eyisia looks at him and then at a force ghost and goes oh... The ghost grins and says yep. Eyisia says I have to learn force lighting in order to return what I took don't I? The ghost's look of shock as she goes it was that bloody simple! She starts pacing back and forth and says damn I can't use force lighting as a force ghost. Well go thing you have a sith to teach you. Your stuck until you figure it out since I think I know how to get out of her now. She dissapers in a flash of light. Byórðæįr blinks and says so force lighting is bad then but maybe knowing how to do might let me figure how to block it... Both women look at him and say just be honest you want to play with the lighting. Byórðæįr grins and says so I get to watch? They shrug and say that may end up being the only way we get out here hopefully it does not come to that. They take time to work through the basics of sith training. Byórðæįr shows them the holocrons as Sakushi blinks and says damn you never saw them because you could not figure out how to get down here could you? Eyisia shrugs I hopefully to train him to hold the stairs in place so I could look around. So the Council might not actually know about these... they were in a holocron on Tython that was just sitting out in a field... they kinda sent us there to deal with the uragjai. Byórðæįr grins rock people, they are real? Do they really eat rock when they can not find anything else with force in it. They both look at him and say Byórðæįr just how many holocrons are down here? He blinks and says one room. Both women look at each other and say mine. The look at each other and crack up laughing. Byórðæįr looks really puzzled at this. They look at him and say do worry about show us the room. Byórðæįr leads them into the maze their are vibro blades hanging off the ways and suits of armor protected behind solid cases of force crystal. The women look around and say yep no one finds out about this... They enter a bedroom and both women raise their eyebrows in unison and says really the room is a bedroom. Byórðæįr blinks and say nope I just laid down in here the first time when the door opened I got bored looking for your cubes. Still never found them. He lays down on the bed and both women look at the coverlet of woven synthweave and say why not. They lay down and the room drops three floors. Byórðæįr is laughing as the women scream the whole way down. Sakushi catches her breathe first and is cursing Byórðæįr in rataaki, while Eyisia is studying the room and the shaft above them it is another bloody force trap. Byórðæįr grins and says if you touch the libary and go through a holocron you can lay on the bed and it goes back up. Eyisia looks around and says Byórðæįr I think the force ghost was making it go back up but this might teach us how to drop the stairs down. They look around the room at all the wall lined with glowing runes and Eyisia says I have seen these before. She grins and says no way she snickers and says well Byórðæįr you name is now Azure Bisector. He goes what that is weirdest thing I have heard. Sakushi says no way. She starts laughing no one will ever belive this. We have got to use something else. How about undying she snickers... no one will ever get the joke. Byórðæįr say I don't get the joke. The both look at each other and grin then say done and done. Now we just have to figure out who to say it right. They all chose a differnt rune to touch. hours days later none of them know they come to having seen different stories of the ancient jedi. Byórðæįr grins got it, Åmortįs - A' mort(al) Tis, a mortal borne and undying with the force to keep me here until I am done. Vlör - VL oar (one sylable), a jounrey and a path to walk neither light nor dark but ever seeing the descion that is now not the one at the end of the journey. So which one. Eyisia says Åmortįs at the same time Sakushi says Vlör. He looks at them and shrugs I guess both it is. They start laughing and say use Åmortįs when you get to the acadmney and if you need to use the dark side pretend to be Vlör. They starting laughing and say your going to be stuck down here for two more years. Byórðæįr gulps ummm my parents will kill me if we dissaper for two years. Eyisia shrugs you have to go through enough of these before we admit what happened and it will take at least that long. What if we just figure out the stairs and just say you to decided to handle my padawan training, maybe? They look at each other and grin and say that works. Byórðæįr looks at them says I just got tricked didn't I? Then grin at him and say you should not bed two women with out asking first next time... he blinks and says I just missed something? They grin and says don't worry your pretty head about it but we are going to spoil you rotten and really mess with people's heads at the temple when you go there to train. They train him at his families home so that they can explain his growing skill in combat and blame his tendency use kill strikes over the soft style of the modern jedi way. He uses a modified leach of the force to borrow some plant life around him to move faster and Sakushi finally catches him at him by going to use a force push trick Eyisia taught her and there not being enough radient energy to push him off guard as her catches her flat footed and grins then she kicks him in the head and says you are not supposed to be using force lighting! He blinks and says I'm not I'm just using the glowing lights like Eyisia does when she throws me in sparing. Sakushi blinks and says she has been teaching you force combat no wonder we are having trouble teaching you. If one of us tells you not to do something you get the other one to teach you something simalar. She sighs and says off to the temple you go. Byórðæįr goes I like sleeping in as he grins. She gives him the look. Yes master. Off to the temple I go. What am I allowed to bring. Sakushi starts laughing and says you are asking me? He bites his lip and says Eyisia going to be upset isn't she. Eyisia walks in behind him and rubs her face in the back of his neck and says nope we all go. Byórðæįr grins and says umm I love those robes. Sakushi chokes and says you know we can not wear them at the temple the masters will have a heart attack. Eyisia says already what did he do that we have to go now. Sakushi says he learned force speed as varitant of force lighting... Eyisia hugs him tight to her and says no you are not Sith. Byórðæįr says it was only the plants... Sakushi walks up and back hands in into the floor with Eyisia hanging on they all end up in the floor and they shrug and sit kneeling facing each other. They work through it as they learned from the chamber. They say not word but talk with hand gestures. There is no way to shout each other down so they learned early on that no matter how mad they get they are all equal in loudness so that they have to quite the body then the mind to discuss it. If it can not be said with gestures it has to wait until they all are in harmony. They work out that giving back balances things as long as nothing dies or is warped by greed or the worse the force itself. They shrug and agree to wait until Byórðæįr is a Jedi Master to tell any one. The look at Byórðæįr robes and armor and say lets be funny and have him show up as a republic trooper and see if anyone realizes he is a padawan. They get to Coruscant aboard a star liner and have to wait in orbit because there is so much traffic. Byórðæįr having never been away from home is at loss for the first time in his life as he sees a city that is towering city raising from the mist. They check into the nicest suite they can find since spending Byórðæįr's money is fun for the two women, they check in under the names recruit Åmortįs Vas´Drakken, and his two wives Eyia Vas´Drakken and Sakushi Vas´Drakken. Åmortįs says he is here for acadmy training. The old man at the desk looks at his scarred battle armor with the synthweave sleeves and says sure what ever you say Jedi, I get paid to look the other way. Åmortįs looks at the two women and says I thought you said they all wear boring robes? They grin and say lets just change in the room if we get caught this way we may as well well just put on the robes... They head to the temple to see the opening of the game this is the first time Åmortįs sees shay for the first time... and they know what ever joke they had planned is over taken by whatever is going on at the temple. Åmortįs says lets go help. Eyia grabs his right arm and Sakushi the left and says that is not someone you want to go any where near the dark side is so strong in him. He blinks and looks around with the force and starts choking and gasping... it's soo cold... that women is the one I was looking at. He says I can not even see the stairs anymore. They hold him while he gets it back together as they look across as the temple is destroyed. They look at each other and say you know we should be back at the hotel and pretend we where never here. Byórðæįr shakes his head and says I can't even joke it's soo cold. They get him back to the hotel and book a liner back to Axum. Two years later when Sateel Shan has the temple being rebuilt on Tython they send him there both hiding on Axum not wanting to leave the little stronghold they have built using his parents money. They were happy he was finally making something of himself as he cut his hair short and set to being more respobile. None of the three admit that the what scared them was the use of the darkside to steal the very life of all the padawans nearly ruined Åmortįs's connection to the force. This helps him later with Kirá and her past. He gets to Tython and mets Sateel and she take him aside as she saw him outside the temple and starts grilling him for what he knew and what he was doing there with a rataaki sith. He gulps and says umm I was supposed to be inside the temple but I wanted to try and sneak in using force stealth. Only ummm the world kinda ended or it felt like it... and ummm Sakushi is not sith at least not anymore... oh damn I was not supposed to admit that. She spends a week finding everything out before she is willing to admit him to training. Finally she says I know who is going to train you but if we think you are Sith he will end up peacefully but permenatly. You will meet Orgis Din next week we want you to show up like any other padawan you are not to admit how much force training you have. Try to stick to force of arms if you you start using the other stuff we might have to worry about you. And Åmortįs stick to the light side in all things you are way too close to the dark even in your thinking. He blinks and grimaces after seeing the warmth sucked out of the temple killing is usually as close as I come to the path of evil. A week later he arrives from the space station in simple apprentice robes and no one links him with the scary Jedi Journeyman that showed up the week before. He grimaces as the older gentle men hands him a training saber. He says you are disable not kill. You would not even be getting this unless we did not have a flesh raider attack going on. Åmortįs grimaces and says I have to disable them without the force and without killing them? Is Sateel nuts? He blinks and says you will not talk about the head of the order like that. Åmortįs bites his lip ands oppps. He looks at Åmortįs and says you know her don't you. We sorta met two years ago and she is still not happy with me. He looks at Åmortįs and says and she let you in the order? Åmortįs says someone named Orgis Din is taking over my training my pervious teachers kinda let me slide when I distracted them. He snorts this is going to be a very different life for you. The path of the Jedi Knight is not fun and games but helping people. Now go out there and help save the innocent force sensative padawans. We will talk later. Oh and make sure your com is on. Åmortįs says roger... bliped to cover bis of story that players may have not played through... Sateel introduces Åmortįs to Orgis Din (this happened in december of 2011 so the face of Sateel was younger before they moved the story forward for later players). He has to talk with her the whole time until she realizes he is perfect to try and help Kirá as her past is scarier than his but he understands where too much power can lead. blip forward Åmortįs while helping the Republic army on Coruscant, one of the Troopers grins and sends Åmortįs with a sealed note to the guard post with as a favor. Åmortįs when gets there finds that pretending to be a recruit has him questions and summany added to the republic army as a commander. The recruiter says it is a good thing you are already a Jedi master otherwise we would send you to Ord Mantell to get seasoning. He laughs and says we need to to check in with Tavis and coordinate Jedi movements with him. Åmortįs and Kirá are there and no one seems to know where they are so they go back to Trooper and he says don't worry about it. We just wanted you to visit Ord Mantell so no one can claim they do not have to train there. He grins and says the general's office while there and drop this off. Åmortįs raises his left eye and says really another trap? The recruiter says na this just is proof you can follow orders. Don't open or you fail the test. He and Kirá swing by and she says a Jedi who can actually follow orders or did you just maz him and get him to do what you wanted. Åmortįs grimaces I'm not supposed to use that unless nessacary. Kirá pipes up and says he just did not think of it. She tells them to get out her office. While there one of the aids is screaming at a staffer saying they talk in galatic how hard can it be to understand. He said if you can find a bisector then I will help them other wise I will quit. Åmortįs turns and grins at them I'm an Azure Bisector and I'd love to know someone else who uses the term. He blinks and says this way. They lead him to a room in the senate tower when what looks like regular langistist droid is standing. He starts talking in Gree... which floors Åmortįs he litterly ends up sitting on the floor as he stares at a working driod speaking gree. He starts talking back in gree and the drios is so happy that someone finally understands him. He ends up with a new desigatnion of silver acute. blip forward Åmortįs on Ilum... world event with the guns blasting every player and people killing turrets to ran up utter insanity blip forward Åmortįs on taris... one long battle but meets several allies that later save his life blip forward Åmortįs meets the gree and is given a gree light saber that he carries from that day forward blip forward Åmortįs has to rescue Sakushi from Belsavis where she was sent after killing a Jedi on Axum hiding the Archive. blip forward Åmortįs returns to Ilum to a npc section and world event. blip forward Åmortįs meets Lana Beck on makeb She tells him that she can see the past in him but that she wants to know how he escaped. on ljåpkosić he runs into Shay again. She is nervous and says he was powerman they were not supposed to be kids there. He says lets deal with the bigger threat and work out what happened years ago later. She leads over and kisses him on the lips and says lets just call it old history and go from there. Åmortįs stands there then says you expect me to focus on battle after that? She grins yep unless you are a weakling. Åmortįs grins shakes his head and says I let my actions speak for themselves. He turns and looks at Lana and she says don't look at me I don't care if you sleep with her. I just want to make sure world does not end. They stop some things but the world nearly ends and Lana loses a good friend on ljåpkosić. She is at odds with Åmortįs as they argue over whether she should become Jedi. She says that she has prior commitments to her master. She refuses to say who that is. Åmortįs knows that it is not Kilron because he was talking to kilron when she had to talk to her master. Åmortįs is made a Battlemaster by Sateel for events on ljåpkosić. She tells him that making allies of the Sith would normally be a step toward peace but she is pretty sure that Åmortįs only wanted to steal Lana and Shay from the sith and she still not sure if it goes that Åmortįs keeps converting Sith to the light side or he is doing good for the wrong reasons... He grins and says you love me still. She says Åmortįs behave damn it. I'll leave the rest empty for now. too many spoilers for now as it is.

I was thinking we get more companions or at least one more with the pre-order does this mean we can send out more than five companions?

Go yo yarvin 4 post the final non daily quest, that is likely what they will do for the entire set of existing planets... well not toast them but have a before and after set you zone into. Most of the older content is lot more blocky because when the game launched they had a higher level of detail but most people's machines died trying to run it in the beta... so they lowered the min spec and lower the resolution and the models on everything in the game. My guess is they finally had an excuse to make a higher resolution version of everything and enough or a percentage of people have fast enough machines that the difference is not that big... or they made enough money to justify the cost who knows, likely we will not even know after they do it. But my guess is that they increased the textures and details since other than the oem cards most people's machines are faster than the fast machines back in 2011 when the game launched... I was running a i7 920 back then and the basic door stop is almost that fast now. my cheap laptop runs an i3 that if it had a videocard would be fast enough... that is five hundred dollar lap top... food for thought.

gun ships still need to have the heavier guns, scouts need to be more maneuverable, bombers need to blow stuff up from a distance. So where do strike fighters fit in... well in the movies they are the ones with the three photon torpedoes and afterburners... we have the abilities to slide between the three defense engines and offense, but what if strike fighters simply had afterburners as an ability on top of the three settings so they go like a bat out of hell on a cool down and give them three photo torpedoes they fly into an enemy ship. that might take so brain storming and testing to get working but it would let players close and then fly the torpedo into a fleeing scout or gunship while their fighter follows along. essentially the npc is following the torpedo while the player is flying the torpedo... which keeps the skill involved. Be fun if the Jedi/Sith could cheat a little with the force and only have to get close while the other classes could a benefit to other strike fighters. ie troopers a bonus to gun ships and smugglers a bonus to bombers since they look like cargo ships...

So Tython is a member world of the the Galactic Republic, the jedi order is the only legal settlement on it. So who is the senator from Tython, Satele Shan as the world's leader (head of the jedi order)? It was just a weird thing that hit me with the politics being such a big deal in the US right now.

Not sure the numbers is very useful since my first post was in February of 2012 and my number is http://www.swtor.com/community/member.php?u=227483

I have noticed that you can buy reskins of mounts that were removed because people were using them grief other people by blocking vendors. Since there is not an issue anymore can we have the Korrealis Baron, Korrealis Prince, Korrealis Commander and Korrealis Sovereign back? Even if we only get to add them to our collection? I do think it sad that cartel market Korrealis mounts have cooler names than the CE version, but more that they get added to the collection and mount that is supposed to be benefit does not. There is other CE stuff in the collection, so it could just hide down in that section like the rest of our toys. Though personally I think it should just be added to any one with a CE account since they were made BOE and tradable despite that it was supposed to be only for the CE's. Note I have a Baron so for me adding it to my collection is the only benefit I would get but if it gets added to the collection all the people with the mount CE and non CE would benefit so that people who had these achievement pre-f2p are getting the same benefits that people who are simply spending money are getting.