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"It was a young girl, Hollow, practically a child. . . I managed to find help off of the planet in the form of a currently unnamed Jedi. . . I know I don't trust many people, Hollow," He speaks as if the holocron is speaking back. " but I don't really have a choice right now, do I?. . . Look...

Dueling and space battles are an inevitable part of roleplaying on a Star Wars board. Sooner or later you will be dragged into one, and that's totally okay. Star Wars doesn't revolve around peacefully mediating disputes and holding hands. There are battles, wars, and it gets ugly. Some of the...

The Old Republic is, as everyone knows, an MMO by Bioware. I will be aiming to review, explore and comment on some areas of this game. The Planets: Like all MMOs, TOR has stages which players move between depending on level. As there are two distinct factions there are a lot of planets, some...

* These were spoken to a specially designed holocron given to Konahrik as a child by his mother, this is the tale of his past in the form of a journal* Day 1- *A child-like voice can be heard from the other end.* "Momma gave me this as a present today! She called it a 'Ho-low-cron'. She said I...

Control Center of Being - Novice Force Body - Advanced Sense Force Sense - Novice Alter Battle Meditation - Untrained Force Defend - Novice Force Augmentation - Advanced Force Sever - Novice Telekinesis - Novice

[background=rgb(8,8,8)] NAME: Shaw McKeller FACTION: Deathwatch (former/rehabilitated), Jedi, Republic, Mandalorian. RANK: Deathwatch Captain (Former), Jedi, Initiate SPECIES: Human SEX: Male HEIGHT: 6'6" WEIGHT: 240lbs EYES: greyish-blue HAIR: White SKIN: Caucasian FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes...

Jory, Jory's out, mate. I'm sorry, I'll stop there.... Wait, I'm fairly certain that's the opposite of how this letter's supposed to go. I mean, what good is a letter if you stop after the first line following a painful pun? It's not even a letter at that point. More of a comment, but this...

Image source here. The Gypsymoth has flown the length and breadth of the galaxy, and far, far beyond. It's been there for innumerable rebellions and blockade runs, daring assaults, the creation of entire hyperlanes. A lunchbox under the pilot's seat holds the Great Holocron and Tionne's...

The Romans took their bearings from the templum, a symbolic heaven, a circle split by a cross, with the priest's divination tent at the centre. The templum, or temple, gave the diviner a sense of where he stood in relation to the world, the universe, mortality, the gods, the infinite -- what...

A change in tone today as I review the audio book/novel ‘Deceived’ by Paul S Kemp. Having listened to the previous two Old Republic stories (Revan and Fatal Alliance) there were two clearly different and separate styles going on. In the end Deceived ended up being fairly close between the...

What a difference 30 years makes. Obviously. In this case though, I’m referring to Star Wars and its approach to the Light and Dark Side of the Force. In the original movies there was the Force, and there was the Dark Side. The Light Side was never mentioned, but was implied to be the base...

This entry diverts away a little from the previous pieces, but offers interesting insight into Star Wars and this board too. The Star Wars timeline contains patterns which are repeated over and over. Furthermore the narratives of these times never evolve the technology or understanding of these...

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------There are no people who I address this 'letter' to. Those who call themselves my handlers, the Vong scientists, have recommended I write. Though I am sure that Savan is actually the one behind it. Musing upon various subjects might speed the return of my memories. Or so I've been told...

And again, I find myself at a loss. I expected a One Sith attack. I did not expect one of this... haphazard nature. It was like watching a fleet of ships raided from floating museums to years passed, refitted with haste to serve as a warfleet. Ground fighting? I'm not entirely sold on the...

If you ask ordinary people to name things about Star Wars, one of the top five will likely be lightsabres, after Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Yoda and some other random thing. Lightsabre are one of the things that sets apart Star Wars from any other sci-fi setting. And yet, the notion that a sword...

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This entry follows on a bit from yesterday, both expanding and showing a consequence. In Star Wars, and to be fair in any profession, it’s vanishingly rare to find a genius, a prodigy, who masters a difficult skill quickly. One could point to Karl Benz the engineer, or Alexander the Great as...

It is an interesting feature of most fiction that moving between time periods in a narrative is very hard to do. Usually it falls prey to the dreaded ‘summary of events’ paragraph where all the events that occurred in X time period are briefly skimmed over. This leads to the odd state of...