It really doesn't. They didn't have to attack every single world for that to be true, and as the player, not the opening crawl, calls them outposts, I'm guessing it was in fact not every single world. The capitals definitely weren't attacked until the player is in carbonite. Not really that complicated.

I'm not sure where you got the idea that these were huge major battles from. The (insert your class here) clearly says it was just a few outposts that were destroyed, Korriban aside.

That backstory is impossible on several levels.

Malcom says he wants to use the weapon to wipe out the Empire.

The entire reason Tremel brought the Warrior to the Academy early is because Vemrin's blood wasn't pure enough.

That's an appeal to popularity, but I'm fine with the codex mentioning Lana and that certainly being her. The point is, it's incredibly vague, and using it to make concrete statements is inane because it's a quick and vague reference. Then why even bother responding before if you aren't going to actually discuss the points? What people do outside of the dev team is incredibly unimportant to the story of TOR. I don't care about what TOR fans have calculated for someone else's work. You guys are cool and all, but you have no more authority than I do to declare something correct or not. I could just as easily bring up things like Lana training with slaves to push the timeline back, and we could have a nice back and forth on the validity of those things, but just saying, "We determined this, and if you don't accept this, then you're wrong and I'm done with you," is silly. Compared to how many other comments? No one cares, for the most part. We never have, the BioWare fandom that is. If it looks good, people will want to pretend to have sex with it. Which is why all those clearly older women you brought up still have fans. If they wanted to make Lana above 40, they could have, and she'd still have just as many fans, not that her age would matter when she has space magic powers to counteract any problems that came with age. The truth is, you like Lana being 4(_), so you accept that conclusion. Which is fine. What isn't, is telling me I should ignore developers and take a fan made calculation as gospel for BWA's fictional product. No thanks.

Boyd controls the story, more or less is what I meant. I'm not going to judge a character off of my opinion of a codex entry that doesn't even mention them by name, let alone is even certain it's them, but you're free to do whatever you want to do. I've been playing BioWare games as long as I remember, and I'm sure you remember a little game series called Dragon Age. Every single female companion in it is older than the player character. Hell, Leliana was 26 compared to a city elf Warden who could be around, I don't know, 16 or so. More recently, MEA basically had the protagonist be my age, and every female in it almost a decade older. They clearly don't care about this kind of thing, and while I don't either, I hear Leliana is quite popular for someone who's just about 40 by the last we saw her. People still wanted her, and still talked about romancing her. All the same, Zash and Senya aren't romanceable characters whatsoever and their ages are very apparent, Lana would still be around 36 even with that said so your complaint doesn't even make sense, Kaliyo is 42 and this was mentioned, and to top it all off, short of Mako no romanceable female character is too shy of 35 at this point, and even the player is certainly closing in on that number nonsensical carbonite mechanics aside. IMO, Lana's age isn't mentioned because not a lot of thought was put into her character when it was slammed together for SoR. Just a Sith who acts sort of like a Jedi sometimes, who impressed her colleagues and gets put into a position where she can meet the player, and that's it. Theron, on the other hand needed an extensive backstory because he's a Shan and has comics and books.

I know, but that's not what I'm arguing. Quinn is a servant. He'll always be subservient and respectful regardless of your age. Theron and Lana don't have that problem. And Andronikos is around 35 at the start of the story, and looks like it. There's no way he's even remotely close to 20 years older than the player. Any of the player characters. But as I said, I'm not saying it isn't up for debate, that would be the people trying to call the actual lead writer wrong.

That does not address what I said. When someone says, "During a treaty," they mean for however long that treat is active. The Cold War takes place during the Treaty of Coruscant. All of TOR up until the end of the Sith Warrior's chapter 2 is because that is when the Galactic War officially starts again. Using that time period to gauge Lana's age range is foolish unless you consider it literally just after the Treaty was signed, which nothing given her looks, personality, or mannerisms suggests about a woman pushing 50. Is it possible? Sure. Is it likely? Not really. It's more than likely that Theron and Lana are around the same age, and the Player/Outlander/Alliance Commander is either a few years younger or also around that age given the way these three interact with each other. People decades apart don't usually behave the same way, and they would certainly bring up the age difference. They do so with everyone else.

"During the Treaty of Coruscant" covers all the time between the end of the war and when it starts up again, not just literally while they were signing it. Which means it could be back then, or three seconds before the end of Chapter 2 for the Sith Warrior, and everything in between. "The fans" always seem to conveniently get that when trying to call out this particular blunder by Boyd.

Which has nothing to do with the interpersonal skills required to actually be a leader. The skills required to be diplomatic are nowhere near the same that are required to lead troops into battle and encourage bravery. The ones need to communicate a sense of camaraderie and openness are. Do you think Octavian built his empire from the ground up, or do you think he had people much more experienced people handle the details? Also not true. The fact that the Sith Empire fosters competition is not proof that they aren't, you know, normal and rational sentient beings who think similarly to the way we do. Lana also isn't friends with Marr, or even truly with Theron at this point. She's such great friends with Koth she supports ignoring and disagreeing with everything he says, including letting a few thousand people die, this of course having no impact on whether I agree this is logical; it's still not "friendly." Nox also has plenty of "friends." Not sure where you got that they don't from. Even in that story Zash seemed to have "friends," who surprising acted human despite the fact that they were Sith.

I don't know how you didn't notice, but Lana doesn't lead because Lana can't lead. She has next to no people skills. Realize that in about a week or two you became literally the best friend she's ever had, regardless of how you talk to her, in SoR. And yes, while that can be argued to be, quite frankly, terrible writing, it's still true. That's sad. That's beyond sad. In contrast, you're a leader. You're the only person who got the the Republic and the Empire to work together; it wasn't the thought of being eaten alive. Also classes are also given many leadership roles, interpersonal with Republic and Imperial soldiers mind you. Lana's a good support character, and she plays that role well, but she isn't a leader. It's nice that she was able to gather the Alliance, but that doesn't mean she could have done that without dropping your name several times, let alone hold it together and convince them all to follow her. Whereas the Outlander is a living legend that has already saved the galaxy on several occasions that both the Empire and the Republic can relate with. Making them the leader is a no brainer. They aren't going to follow anyone else.

The entire point of the Smuggler's storyline was becoming the next Nok Drayen. That's why he's there. He is your role model. The fact that he's no longer alive doesn't change that. For Valkorion it's supposed to symbolize you overcoming your past and surpassing your role models, living or otherwise.

It's because of the romance. Influence within itself doesn't really factor that much, that we know of. KotFE is supposed to mark the end of simple gift spam to friendship, whereas influence mainly changes crafting and crew skills only when concerning companions.

His family thought he was distant because he literally wasn't there. Valkorion/Vitiate can only possess one body at a time, at least before Ziost. that was the main plot behind Sith Warrior Voss. The rest of the time, it's still Vitiate being Valkorion on Zakuul. He just treated them completely different to how he treated the Sith Empire, which he saw as a mistake.