Err.. Why are there no blind eyes???

[Matherine]

I want a character with whited out eyes like Kreia from KOTOR 2. Or also blacked out eyes like Darth Traya.

Surely it can't be difficult to just have solid white or black eyes..

 

Also.. No cyber eyes? I seriously feel this game is heavily lacking in eye variations for a star wars game.

[sayNih]

Human or Cyborg can buy a CM white-eye option, but the pupil is still black. They could sell an eye option for Miraluka.

 

Look at the options for Cyborg species at character creation, and on the appearance modification station.

Edited December 15, 2019 by sayNih

[JediQuaker]

... because, in a galaxy with advanced health care and cybertronics, there are no blind people.

(There are "sightless" species, like the Miralukas.)

 

(And, yes, I think the blind guy in Rogue One was not realistic.)

Edited December 15, 2019 by JediQuaker

[Kiesu]

... because, in a galaxy with advanced health care and cybertronics, there are no blind people.

(There are "sightless" species, like the Miralukas.)

 

(And, yes, I think the blind guy in Rogue One was not realistic.)

 

↑ I'm gonna echo this, it's a realistic assumption that with tech as advanced as SW has, blindness is not an unfixable condition. If with nothing else, cybernetics replace eyesight canonically very frequently. They grow entire functioning humans in tanks, growing transplantable eyes is already part of that tank.

 

BUT. There are plenty of places I'm sure healthcare of this magnitude isn't available, it's too expensive or leaving natural decay as is might even be a personal choice. So, while fixing eyesight is a trivial matter within the universe, there is plenty of reasons why one might remain blind regardless.

 

Narrative wise it would not fit for the player to be blind and have no force-sight, so sorta understandable for the option to not be there. Still, it seems like a small addition to enable some side RP value.

It's fairly easy to RP though just by using headgear that covers eyes, no-one will know what your eyes look under there. Also, if you use Cyborg eye-patch, and a CM eyepatch on the other side, it looks like you had to patch both eyes.

Edited December 16, 2019 by Kiesu

[ceryxp]

↑ I'm gonna echo this, it's a realistic assumption that with tech as advanced as SW has, blindness is not an unfixable condition. If with nothing else, cybernetics replace eyesight canonically very frequently. They grow entire functioning humans in tanks, growing transplantable eyes is already part of that tank.

 

BUT. There are plenty of places I'm sure healthcare of this magnitude isn't available, it's too expensive or leaving natural decay as is might even a personal choice. So, while fixing eyesight is a trivial matter within the universe, there is plenty of reasons why one might remain blind regardless.

 

Narrative wise it would not fit for the player to be blind and have no force-sight, so sorta understandable for the option to not be there. Still, it seems like a small addition to enable some side RP value.

It's fairly easy to RP though just by using headgear that covers eyes, no-one will know what your eyes look under there. Also, if you use Cyborg eye-patch, and a CM eyepatch on the other side, it looks like you had to patch both eyes.

 

As we've seen in various pieces of EU/Legends media, medical care is not free in the SW universe. In KotOR Bastila's mother needs money to pay for a doctor (actually, Helena says she's dying but Bastila insists on giving her 500 credits to see a doctor on Coruscant). In Deceived, by Paul S. Kemp, Zeerid Korr spends 100 thousand credits to purchase a used hover chair for his daughter because prosthetic legs are too expensive. I don't think it's unrealistic to see someone living on a backwater, desert moon (Jedha) living with blindness. Of course, Chirrut Îmwe could have just chosen to live with his blindness and trust in the Force.

Edited December 15, 2019 by ceryxp

[MadDutchman]

They grow entire functioning humans in tanks, growing transplantable eyes is already part of that tank.

 

This is definitely not how it works. Growing a clone in a tank is just a matter of artificially beginning the natural growth process (in fact, we could probably already do this with modern technology, ethics concerns aside). Transplanting an eye, which requires re-attaching the optic nerve, ensuring the immune system doesn't reject it etc. is another matter entirely.

 

 

That being said, if there is one thing we see all over star wars lore is the massive disparity in living conditions around the galaxy, not that this really applies to any of the PCs (except perhaps the SI early on).

 

Still, people can head canon all they want so I'm always for more options

Edited December 15, 2019 by MadDutchman

[Kiesu]

This is definitely not how it works. Growing a clone in a tank is just a matter of artificially beginning the natural growth process (in fact, we could probably already do this with modern technology, ethics concerns aside). Transplanting an eye, which requires re-attaching the optic nerve, ensuring the immune system doesn't reject it etc. is another matter entirely.

(no, we can't grow clones in tanks with current technology, we still need surrogate mothers for the process)

That is a modern time problem which might or might not exist thousands of years into the fantasy future. Not an argument I would use without a definite no from canonical source.

We also have Repi-Limbs which are robotic but made to look hyper-lifelike.

[irrevelant]

As we've seen in various pieces of EU/Legends media, medical care is not free in the SW universe. In KotOR Bastila's mother needs money to pay for a doctor (actually, Helena says she's dying but Bastila insists on giving her 500 credits to see a doctor on Coruscant). In Deceived, by Paul S. Kemp, Zeerid Korr spends 100 thousand credits to purchase a used hover chair for his daughter because prosthetic legs are too expensive. I don't think it's unrealistic to see someone living on a backwater, desert moon (Jedha) living with blindness. Of course, Chirrut Îmwe could have just chosen to live with his blindness and trust in the Force.

 

Well that would make sense for Kreia not getting a replacement arm as well. Not like she's need it though. For force users not having the regular sight from birth is not an issue at all however. They can just see with the force like the Miraluka does.

[xordevoreaux]

I'm sure somewhere there's some lone dude wandering the desert on a remote planet wanting to stay away from society for various reasons, and who, if he developed a cataract or two, wouldn't seek high-tech help and be perfectly at ease letting himself go white-eyed.