New Origin Story Suggestion: Republic Senator

[kyledll]

Synopsis

The Republic Senator is a representative of the people of The Galactic Republic, but they are often in power plays that destabilize the Republic. Now, as a newly made Senator of the Republic. You can either remain loyal to the Republic and its ideals or fall into corruption.

 

Combat

In this class, you won't see much in the way of combat rather your combat lies within the Senate Rotunda. You will mostly be making conversations with other senators. But should combat arise, you will have a blaster at your side and are not afraid to use it... You can also be a part of the other tech-based combat styles in the game. But for this one, there is the Diplomat or the Politician. The Diplomat is all about taking cover much like the Gunslinger or the Sniper and usually is taking the attention away from your allies like the Jedi Guardian or the Juggernaut. The way the Diplomat gives damage to nearby enemies is that the Diplomat stat system gives a 3% Bonus with every blaster shot that they give. The Politician gives a 5% healing bonus when healing an ally in combat and is meant to be on the sideline in combat, not being on the frontlines.

 

Companions and Story

You start on Alderaan when you learn that you have been elected to represent Alderaan in the Senate; there, you meet Oliolida Farr, a Rodian from Rodia on which you were raised and is meant to be an ancestor to Senator Onaconda Farr of Rodia. She was originally from Rodia but had moved to the world your character is from in search of a better life. She was later recruited by your character at a diplomatic conference on Coruscant to be one of the character's companions. You will probably start the list of companions with Representative Farr on your journey.

 

Later on your journey, there is Juliana Organa, who later becomes your bodyguard after an assassination attempt on your life; with Juliana, you learn of the assassin who is trying to kill you from The Sith Empire, and so you are given a starship to go after him. While with Juliana, you learn she is from the Republic-affiliated House Organa. She is also romanceable to male and female Senators. You and your companions eventually make it to Nar Shaddaa to find the assassin and learn that Darth Ravage sent the assassin, Lorvic sent to kill the Senator as they have become a threat to his plans.

 

The assassin is later arrested by Republic forces, and you return to Coruscant for a meeting in the Senate Rotunda, where you have to either support or go against a bill that would bring the Republic more troops to the upcoming war between both Republic and Empire. During the meeting of the Senate, a bombing by members of a movement created by the Empire destroyed a critical part of the Senate Building. You head down to the Senate below, and there you are met with Sith Infiltrators who are later stopped by Jedi Master Syo Bakarn. Finally, you confront a Senator who has major disagreements with sending bounty hunters to kidnap you for ransom, but you fight the Bounty Hunters off with Theron Shan, and he later says goodbye to you and your companions, and that is the end of Act One.

 

Act Two begins in the Chancellor's office with a crisis and a declaration of war made by the Sith Emperor. You have a conversation with the chancellor when two Jedi, Satele Shan, and Bela Kiwiiks, enter, and you learn of the crisis and want to help the Senate through the hardship. Here you meet Saresh on Taris, and you are instrumental in helping her rise to power. Here you meet a droid that you might be familiar with, HK-55. Whom you later meet in the Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion. You later return to Coruscant with HK-55, and he joins you as one of your companions. You can either have him as a bodyguard or have him as an assassin who can take out political rivals to you. Here, you meet with the Senate on voting for a bill to make more ships for the war effort. You do many more things in the Senate until you find out about Sith Infiltrators who are moving inside the ranks of the Republic by Master Kiwiiks, and these Sith are trying to get inside the Senate and become your aides and try to assassinate you. After this, you meet your final companion, Jedi Padawan Kosinga Dooku, the ancestor of Count Dooku from the movies... and together, you defeat the Sith Infiltrators, and he permanently becomes a bodyguard through the rest of the story. He is also romancable but only to female Senators. So ends Act Two.

 

In Act Three, the stakes become higher than before as more assassination attempts are put on your character's life than ever as the Supreme Chancellors approval rating sink, while Saresh's approval ratings skyrocket and you are a contributing factor in it. You have more death threats by the Sith Empire every day, and the war is turning into a nightmare. Finally there is the battle of Corellia and you are led there on a relief effort to help the planet but... it's a trap. And you fall right into the hands of the Sith Empire. You later are freed by your companions and you later put an end to the Battle with a diplomatic gesture and end the Battle of Corellia for the Republic. Your approval ratings go up and more is done than ever before... That is if you choose to go down this path. If you don't then you kill some of the leadership of Corellia and eventually your approval ratings will go down and you will be kicked from office. This story can go either way.

 

Overall the story would be interesting, and their impact on the story of SWTOR would be cool to see take place.

Edited July 16, 2022 by kyledll

[kyledll]

Or at least something like this would be cool to see

[kyledll]

Some voice actors I could include would be Catherine Taber, who plays Vette and many other characters. Bringing out her inner Padme would be a good idea for this character. Another excellent pick for this character would be Tara Strong, who plays Risha. Another pick would be Troy Baker, yet another one would be Nolan North. If I were a professional voice actor, I could bring this character to life, but I am not yet at that level. Edited August 20, 2022 by kyledll

[SteveTheCynic]

Probably they won't use an existing companion's voice actor for a player character, *especially* not Vette's or Theron Shan's, to avoid the obvious similarity if it's a companion the character can acquire later in the game. (Imagine if the player character using Vette's VA meets Vette???)

[kyledll]

Probably they won't use an existing companion's voice actor for a player character, *especially* not Vette's or Theron Shan's, to avoid the obvious similarity if it's a companion the character can acquire later in the game. (Imagine if the player character using Vette's VA meets Vette???)

That's a good point, who do you think has the best chance of playing this character?

[SteveTheCynic]

That's a good point, who do you think has the best chance of playing this character?

Dunno. I don't really "follow" the world of voice acting in any meaningful way. (Yeah, I recognise voices in other VA contexts, like when Koth started voicing Zalambur in GW2's Path of Fire expansion, but nothing more than that.)

[kyledll]

I would say Roger Craig Smith might also be a good pick for the actor of the male Republic Senator.