I partially agree with this. I've actually been making repeated pitches on both this forum and the Reddit page for an expansion involving the Slave Trade where Vette and perhaps Bowdaar (the Wookiee) could potentially be involved, We'd get Ryloth and Kashyykkk added as planets since slave-trafficking keeps showing up there in other Star Wars content, and groups like the Evocii (the species who the Hutts enslaved) could be working for the Republic (perhaps they make a deal with the weakened Hutt Cartel to hire or draft some as mercenaries) and I also suggested including that group of revolting slaves from the monument on DK called the "Unchained" (they show up in a side-quest there), and they could be shown as people who climbed to the top due to merit and it could fit well with the new revised policies toward slaves. So there would be dueling narratives on both sides about how to deal with slavery, with most in the Republic and groups like the Evocii wanting abolition while the Empire tries to play up this thing where ppl who are strong enough or make themselves "useful" can "earn" their freedom and the Unchained become the "poster-children" of this. Vette's sister Teva could also make an appearance and reunite with Vette (if she lives) and perhaps that new Imp female twi'lek soldier could have a contingent role as well.

Most players who've gotten far enough and have played through the Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion till the end will be faced with the obvious difficult choice of saving either Vette or Torian when both are surrounded on Odessen during the battle with Vaylin's forces. Whoever we choose to save first lives, the other has their neck broken by Vaylin in front of us, etc. Most people would suggest minimizing the role of BOTH these characters after this point in order to avoid the appearance of potential content which players could miss if they've already made their decision before the new update came out. However, those who've played the 'Spirit of Vengeance' flashpoint and anything else pertaining to the new Mandalorian "side-plot" involving Field Marshal Heta Kol will see that Torian features prominently in some ways and that his clan's banner is taken and destroyed and he's present for multiple battles and conversations involving the new Mandalorian conflict. Anyone already played past the point where they chose to save Vette instead before these new updates? Tough luck, better play all the way through again. However, is it possible that new dialogue and story elements could also be in store for Vette in future quests for those who saved her? In the Sith Warrior quest-line she's shown to have a sister named Teva and also was childhood friends with Risha from the Smuggler questline.

As someone who has played through and enjoyed the Inquisitor story, I really find it a shame that Ashara's story is seemingly cut short. So far I've reunited with her and allowed her to join me on Odessen, but there are no follow-up conversations. It occurred to me that she never goes through with actually marrying you if you romance her. Would it be possible to have a follow-up conversation in the form of an "Alert" that would allow us to do this similar to how you can have a convo with Arcann earlier to start a romance with him if you want? I really wanted to make things more official with Ashara and see her developed more. Especially as someone who's playing as an LS Inquisitor and thus has a better relationship with her.

I don't think fans care what George Lucas thinks anymore. He's irrelevant.

I recall that according to most sources that explain the loss of Force-sensitivity by the Rakata, the explanation generally goes that a "plague" was engineered by a rival faction during a period of infighting and this gradually made them lose their connection. However the main source for this seems to come from the oral history told by the Sand People in Knights of the Old Republic I that the player can opt to hear translated by HK-47 where it's explained that the Rakata were hampered or weakened by a "plague" and this enabled the Sand Peoples' ancestors to sabotage the Rakatas' technology. However this oral history was known to be exaggerated in some ways the the Sand People did not necessarily understand everything that went on so perhaps they simply interpreted this as a "plague." I would pose an alternate theory. In the 'Dawn of the Jedi' comics, it is shown that the decimation of Tatooine took place around the same time as the Rakata invasion of Tython. During the course of the comic, nothing is mentioned of a "plague" or any sudden condition that made the Rakata lose their connection to the Force. However, this starts to happen to some of the Rakata leadership when they invade Tython. Since Tython is a "nexus" in the Force, I would argue that the Rakata *actually* lost their Force-sensitivity due to them attacking Tython and it was the Force's way of "fighting back" against them. They were hit hard by this b/c their technology was all dependent on the Force. Please share your thoughts.

When you encounter the entity known as the 'World Razor' on the Republic planetary storyline for Belsavis, it speaks to you in what appears to be the Esh-Kha language (same voice-over) and the Esh-Kha seem to be revering and trying to wake it up. Belsavis is notable for being the place where the World Razor was imprisoned by the Rakata and it was the first thing to be imprisoned there. It appears to be a "force-entity" and is described as such in a cancelled novel where it is apparently something similar to the entity called 'Abeloth' which was sort of a lower-level servant of the Celestials. What is more intriguing is that if you choose the Dark-Side option and 'help' instead of imprison the World Razor, it directs you to Ilum where it claims its followers once were and there are some treasures they left behind. It is worth noting also that Ilum is an ice-world and that Belsavis became one at some point after the prison was built (I theorize the World Razor's presence was what caused this over time). I know the Esh-Kha seem to have been created by BioWare in the first place but based on these things, is the game trying to indirectly claim that Ilum was the original Esh-Kha homeworld and if so based on what was said above, how likely is this? It is known that Ilum was strong in the Force and was the major source of Jedi crystals but could it have been where the Esh-Kha came from in some bygone age during the Infinite Empire?

When you encounter the entity known as the 'World Razor' on the Republic planetary storyline for Belsavis, it speaks to you in what appears to be the Esh-Kha language (same voice-over) and the Esh-Kha seem to be revering and trying to wake it up. Belsavis is notable for being the place where the World Razor was imprisoned by the Rakata and it was the first thing to be imprisoned there. It appears to be a "force-entity" and is described as such in a cancelled novel where it is apparently something similar to the entity called 'Abeloth' which was sort of a lower-level servant of the Celestials. What is more intriguing is that if you choose the Dark-Side option and 'help' instead of imprison the World Razor, it directs you to Ilum where it claims its followers once were and there are some treasures they left behind. It is worth noting also that Ilum is an ice-world and that Belsavis became one at some point after the prison was built (I theorize the World Razor's presence was what caused this over time). I know the Esh-Kha seem to have been created by BioWare in the first place but based on these things, is the game trying to indirectly claim that Ilum was the original Esh-Kha homeworld and if so based on what was said above, how likely is this? It is known that Ilum was strong in the Force and was the major source of Jedi crystals but could it have been where the Esh-Kha came from in some bygone age during the Infinite Empire?

I've played through the Bounty Hunter story as a male already. But is female any better or would you guys say female is worse? I'd heard a rumor the female bounty hunter has a lot of sarcastic/sassy choices similar to female inquisitor but I wasn't sure if that was true

For some reason a lot of players seem to love playing especially a red twilek and particularly a red female twilek for the Inquisitor class. I get that the class story has you playing as a former slave, Twileks are popular bc a lot of folks find them attractive, and in many cases people use this class to basically cosplay as Darth Talon. However given the character's relation to an ancient Sith Lord, it would make no sense to play as an alien. The ancient Sith enslaved any species who wasn't human or a Sith pureblood and so a Twilek would not have had a high-ranking position at that time. The main counter-argument I often get to this is, "well their ancestors became slaves and probably mixed with Twileks," but mixing would likely result in a hybrid. Human-Twilek hybrids either look human but have their hair becomes the color of the Twilek's skin (no lekku at all), or they have lekku and no hair but their skin color is patchy with some areas looking like the Twilek parent and otherts with a more human shade (this has in fact been established canonically). So the descendant of that kind of hybridization would likely not just look like a straight-up Twilek unless perhaps the family just kept breeding only with Twileks since becoming slaves, which would make ZERO sense given most slaves in the Empire are in fact human. At best I think it would make sense for the inquisitor to be a Zabrak if someone wants to cosplay as Darth Maul or something like that, given the more subtle hybridization and the fact that they look a lot closer to humans Please share your thoughts.

We need a more conclusive fate for Darth Jadus, especially given that no option in the agent story has him dying per se. He was also named as a suspect by Lana Beniko for being the one spying on or causing leaks of info for the Alliance to cause division given his connection to Imperial Intelligence (of course this was disproven and it was Theron all along but this still means Jadus' fate is not confirmed). This lack of a decisive fate for Jadus means he is not only likely alive but is possibly hiding out Thrawn-style in some remote or uncharted area of space with a devoted cult of followers. Again given his connections to Imperial Intelligence and how adept he was at weaponizing info and inside connections in the past, I would not put it past him to either be the mastermind behind or at least involved in or manipulating both the efforts of Malgus and those of the mysterious Mandalorian 'Field Marshal' Heta Kol. Given that Jadus was secretly the Emperor's favorite on the Dark Council (Valkorion admits this to the Agent in that storyline), I'd be curious if Jadus possibly had some connection to Tenebrae's network of fanatics and/or may even be connected with Vaylin's spirit somehow given that we know she's not dead or likely to go quietly. Please share your thoughts.

In the Eternity Vault operation, we come face-to-face with an ancient Rakata warlord named Soa who along with several Sith purebloods deemed "betrayers of Adas" (indicating they were on Adas' council) were imprisoned in stasis on Belsavis. However, the Legends material makes it clear that the Sith successfully pushed the Rakata off Belsavis. This would mean that either 1) Soa took power for himself and there was a split in Rakata leadership where some supported his attempted coup against both King Adas and the Rakatan leadership, but then why would the Rakata both capture him and his council and bring them to Belsavis if the Infinite Empire was being beaten on Korriban where Soa claims he ruled from? Not sure it makes sense that the Rakata were being beaten but still captured the super powerful renegade warlord and took him and his entire council to the other side of the galaxy OR 2) Soa was THE ruler of the Infinite Empire at the time, but this would make no sense given that King Adas and the Sith never let the Rakata conquer them but simply let them come as guests to give them technology (but Soa claims Korriban was his "crown"). But then if Soa and his council of Sith traitors were simply fighting/working for the Infinite Empire, why would the Infinite Empire have imprisoned them? Please share your thoughts.

There genuinely seems to be a running theme at least throughout Legends material that individuals and even groups will lose their connection to the Force if they are a threat on a massive scale. The reason this doesn't happen to all Dark-Side users is bc the Force may still need some to exist on some level to prevent the Light Side from stagnating. This is why atrocities against Jedi happened from time to time and the perpetrators weren't cut off. But generally people who commit atrocities on a WIDE scale will lose their Force connection. It needs to be under very extreme circumstances though. In the case of the Exile, she only lost it temporarily whereas the Rakata and even the Yuuzhan Vong seem to have lost it permanently due to abuse of it on such a large scale. One could argue this is why the Original Sith species went extinct as well since their culture and order was gradually swallowed up by humans and diluted.

If I am to understand correctly, this is the background of the Dark Temple: The Dromund System, including Dromund Kaas, was discovered and charted by Tulak Hord, who was the Dark Lord of the Sith at some time prior to Marka Ragnos and he had a Sith named Lord Pharshol oversee its construction in the middle of the jungle world where it was the only thing built at the time. At some point out of fear of his success, Tulak Hord had his top General Aloysius Kallig (the Inquisitor's ancestor) assassinated and buried in the tomb. A combination of unrest caused by Kallig's spirit and the good old motive of Sith rivalry led to the overseers of the temple turning on each other, with Pharshol facing and defeating another Sith named Lord Vacuus who wanted his position. A group known as the 'Dark Path' also rose up and most likely convinced Pharshol's apprentice Anyarah to betray him. They all eventually killed each other and/or died off and the temple and planet's location were lost to history. Through the Dark Side and possibly as a result of the ritual performed on Medriaas/Nathema, Emperor Vitiate rediscovered the location of Dromund Kaas and eventually led his people there. After appointing a Dark Council, he had several of his allies--including Nil Venerous, Keleth Ur, and Barrel Slathborn--killed and buried in the temple where their spirits were sealed inside tombs, but Kallig's spirit which was already there caused unrest and these spirits possessed the members of an archaeological expedition that had been sent in there to gather readings for structural integrity. Another team was later sent in with a blowtorch to seal the tombs but also failed and was likely possessed. Did I miss anything?

Right but that still creates the problem of why Lord Renning would still be at his post when Korriban is attacked if Malora had intended to undermine him. On the Republic side for the raid on Korriban, you fight him as a boss and he's clearly still there with the same job so that's why I asked if this means Malora canonically failed or was betrayed by whoever she asked for help

When you first meet Malora on Korriban, she's apprenticed to Lord Renning who oversees bio-experimentation on various beasts and you're tasked with finding and extracted the brain of Renning's biggest Tukata that ran off. Malora of course gives you the option to bring it to her first in exchange for a bribe and she will of course frame Lord Renning as a fraud by marking the brain with something. The idea is that she can use it as a way to get him dismissed or worse so she can advance, and if he finds out then he tortures her and eventually releases her from service. However regardless of what choice you make, two things happen: first on the Republic side when Korriban is invaded during the Shadow of Revan Expansion, Lord Renning is killed and this is confirmed; he is shown in his old post with tukata in the beast pens and unleashes them on invaders. But then on both sides in 'Jedi Under Siege,' Malora has indeed advanced and the codex entry for 'Darth Malora' just makes out that she got away from Lord Renning's service. With this in mind, is it more appropriate or according to the main story to sell out Malora or to help her undermine Renning? Please share your thoughts

I think it's fair to say that perhaps with some planets/areas, they were settled after whatever point this particular empire fell. Planets like Lothal, for example (one of the main worlds featured in 'Rebels') could fit this since it's much further out from Dromund Kaas and is far within what would've been Imperial territory at this point. I'm guessing a sizeable portion of what was considered "Wild Space" prior to the events in the game was most likely explored and/or settled in the next few millennia prior to the events in the main Star Wars movie saga. Not so "wild" by this point.

The main issue though is that there were known planets further out from the core than Dromund Kaas such as Mon Cala and Zyggeria, both of whom sported enterprising populations. We should also remember that this is a galaxy filled with sentient space-faring populations in planets all across it (unlike our galaxy, at least as far as we know) so that could considerably make it much more likely that **someone** would've discovered Dromund Kaas sooner or later. By the time of the events in this game, the Mon Calamari have clearly joined the Republic and there are characters of that species present in the game but if you look on the galactic map, their homeworld of Dac was much further out from the core than the coordinates where Dromund Kaas allegedly is.

The lore in this game regarding Dromund Kaas indicates that it was supposedly "forgotten" and "hidden" and that this is allegedly what allowed the Sith Empire to grow under the Sith Emperor for over a thousand years. But this makes little sense if you check a map of the Star Wars galaxy and also see where the planet and its system are described as being located. Planets like Mon Cala and the Tion Cluster were even further out from the core than where Dromund Kaas is described as being located. In fact, it is described as being roughly in the same sector as Korriban, the location of which was known to the Republic since the Great Hyperspace War which took place over a thousand years before the events in this game. How then would explorers have missed the newly Reconstituted Sith Empire for **centuries** while it constructed a massive invasion fleet and built up a military this whole time which in turn occupied planets like Ziost? Given its implied location, there's quite literally no way the Republic could've gone on for over a thousand years not somehow discovering the location of this hidden "Empire" unless there was somehow a dark-sided force-induced "shield" which kept it from being discovered but no such thing has been directly implied.

I play on a Windows 10 computer and generally use the recording widget provided to record my playthroughs for SWTOR as I am trying to make a series. However when I've later gone back and sorted through the clips, the audio keeps stuttering and crackling at various points. I initially thought it was just minor but was far worse than I realized when others pointed it out. I've completely turned off the microphone and made sure I had nothing plugged in (i.e. headphones) when recording, but this has made no difference and these issues persist. Again, I use a 64-bit Windows 10 computer. What can b done to fix this?

Love this! And Lachris is the frickin' hot so romancing her ain't a problem for me. It's pretty much the only thing to look forward to on Imperial Balmorra

So the idea for my light-sided inquisitor playthrough (female) is that I'm planning to have it so she starts out greyish but leaning dark and gradually leans light but never fully. My goal is to have her character change/develop over time and not make the same kinds of decisions uniformly across the game. The idea is that she's a slave who's passionate about justice and wishes to influence/change the system in which she's trying to advance but is also hot-headed and will steam-roll over others if that's what it takes to achieve her goals. Ultimate she'll do vengeful or dark things sometimes for light-sided reasons, which is why I plan to have her kill Overseer Harkun towards the end. However, I am having difficulty deciding what to do in the initial interrogation where I talk to this one student to gain information. Is it ideal to shock him at least initially but just not overdo it so I get him to open up? I want my character to have an "edge" in her decision patterns that could push her further light later on but I don't want her at least initially to be a "goody two-shoes" type. Please share your thoughts.

So the idea for my light-sided inquisitor playthrough (female) is that I'm planning to have it so she starts out greyish but leaning dark and gradually leans light but never fully. My goal is to have her character change/develop over time and not make the same kinds of decisions uniformly across the game. The idea is that she's a slave who's passionate about justice and wishes to influence/change the system in which she's trying to advance but is also hot-headed and will steam-roll over others if that's what it takes to achieve her goals. Ultimate she'll do vengeful or dark things sometimes for light-sided reasons, which is why I plan to have her kill Overseer Harkun towards the end. However, I am having difficulty deciding what to do in the initial interrogation where I talk to this one student to gain information. Is it ideal to shock him at least initially but just not overdo it so I get him to open up? I want my character to have an "edge" in her decision patterns that could push her further light later on but I don't want her at least initially to be a "goody two-shoes" type. Please share your thoughts.

I'd probably just say that BT4 females in-game have more "meat on their bones," probably just "built" that way. I think they're meant to be slightly "chunky" but only slightly. It's hard though bc the style of body modeling/design for this game seems realistic on the surface but in reality the body proportions are slightly cartoonish and not fully realistic. BT1 for both genders strikes me as almost cartoonishly thin, BT2 seems "average" for both genders but still slightly scrawny, BT3 for both is like above-average body-builders and figure-competitors, BT4 for males is "bulky" and BT4 for females is "curvy" but neither are supposed to be "bulky" in an unhealthy way. BT2 kinda strikes me as the "cinematic thin" body-type since that's the publicly-accepted "average" body on-screen but doesn't necessarily resemble the average person's weight. If anything, The male side needs its own equivalent of "realistic average" or "slightly chunky" that female BT4 has and the female side needs its own equivalent of super bulky/wide which realistically also applies to a large number of women.

Yeah that's about accurate. I personally had no issue with Solo but I could see it being an acquired taste due to the re-casting of iconic characters and people feeling like having a back-story movie for Solo partly ruins the surprise in A New Hope that shows him to be more than he first appears (i.e. the "rough person with a heart of gold").

To be fair, most fans aren't necessarily upset that some of the stories from Legends are being "changed" in themselves. Rogue One did pretty well for example and I've heard nobody complain about how it displaced the earlier version in Legends of what happened to enable the Rebels to get the stolen Death Star plans. Most people who've actually watched the shows also have little to no issue with TCW or Rebels. But the Sequel Trilogy in particular is unpopular because it was badly written. If anything, they seemed to be taking queues from the ridiculously overpowered types of Force-wielding characters in Legends and tried to invent a new one. That's essentially what Rey was, with her Mary Sue act. She and Kylo kept having all these powers **at random** with little to no explanation except "da Force." This didn't mean she was cast as perfect the whole time, to be fair (she struggled and was in fact looking for meaning which she didn't already have). But it seemed like the entire time she was basically just "correct" in what she did and everyone else was ultimately wrong and she either did what she had to in order to make people believe her or she had to kill them because they tried to use or oppose her for dangerous ends. The entire trilogy is just her "discovering herself" and realizing how right her path is and how everyone else including her needs to realize that. That is ultimately why people didn't necessarily like the way in which her character was developed. There was also the lack of a proper arc for Finn and the fact that Lando Calrissian was basically sidelined and just brought in as a prop for Episode 9 (if I had written The Last Jedi, I would've at least had Lando appear at the Canto Bight casino since he IS a gambler and could perhaps be connected with the "code-breaker" that they were trying to get in touch with; I also would've retconned it so that Finn turned out to have been a son Lando had that was taken from him since the First Order's stormtroopers were in fact kidnapped at infancy or very young from families--it would've been perfect, but alas it wasn't meant to be, b/c Rian Johnson had to ********** on the whole thing). That being said, most people who still keep up with and have given Disney's projects a "fair hearing" are actually okay with them except for and unless the Sequel Trilogy comes into play, which is what it really comes down to for most of us.