A/V The Old Republic MMO: The New Official Thread

So, my theory the other day about how the Eternal Empire could have been Vitiate's second attempt, and have taken the galaxy by surprise in a series of hit-and-runs, showing up, BDZ, and gone, I realised: isn't that what Thrawn did?

Even more: that's how the Mass Relays worked in Mass Effect, and if the Republic and Empire have fallen, maybe they could pull from Knight Errant and the idea of the New Sith Wars with the hyperlane network going offline, and only Zakuul knowing how to get around the galaxy-- or to Zakuul-- and thus able to overwhelm the existing governments in such a short time?

 

So what happened to isotope-5?

Maybe the EE stole it and used it to conquer the galaxy?

 

What is this hyperlane network?

The beacons were obsolete in Exar Kun's time. Doubt the navcomputer became a lost technology.

 

On the scale of the whole galaxy with an unfathomable number of starships with navcomputers the idea seems silly on its face to me.

 

I don't think the ships are meant to record the data, its the hyperspace buoys that they have to download it from, due to how stars are constantly hurtling through space, with the explanation being that it was more difficult to plot hyperspace jumps than just taking a map with you and looking for which motorway exit you needed to get off.

So when the Republic turned off all the beacons in the New Sith Wars? The Sith worlds became isolated, as their navcomputers rapidly became useless.

...yay for over reliance on cloud storage rather than physical backups?

 

Didn't one of the writers or developers mention the armor of the Force Wars darksiders gradually becoming more Sith-like? Where was that interview?

 

That's the way it worked in the great hyperspace wars. Navcomputers held all the available data, with the quality of the navcomputer determined by how complete it was. This is discussed in TEA where it is implied if not outright stated that the Falcon's navcomputer was so good because Chewie got some really complete data from this secret wookiee navigation guild that went underground during the Empire.

It isn't like GPS where the Empire can just turn off the satellites and no one has navigation anymore.

For it to work as in Knight Errant, the navcomputers manufactured in Sith territory would need to be deliberately designed to restrict travel in that way. Otherwise what's to stop the Galactic Empire from just quarantining Yavin or Hoth and just forcing a decisive battle that they'll easily win?

 

SOURCE: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/...015-Knights-of-the-Fallen-Empire-Preview.html

Press release:

SOURCE: http://www.swtor.com/info/news/press-release/20150615

 

OMG Threre was a spoiler thread for expansion which soon got deleted (of course it does not mean it is 100% reliable):

SPOILERS ! About Vitiate - Valkorian connection. Take it with a pinch of salt.

Spoiler

Vitiate and Valkorian are brothers. Twins story is an allegory to Vitiate and his brother. Valkorian is coming back to kill Vitiate.

Update:

 

Interesting...

I'd pondered if the twin was Vitiate when he was younger and exiled for killing his brother, but that idea also makes sense as it's basically the same thing, just a repeat of history.

 

Ha ! Kind of funny. It reminds me of two LOST characters: brothers - one was wearing white clothes, the second brother was wearing black ones. Guy in white killed his brother. However, his consciousness survived and he was able to change "bodies" (assume the forms of decreased).

And update:

 

Well, now they've gone and done it. I finally subscribed for the first time. Dangit.

 

Reminds me of the two ninjas in Gi Joe. That movie sucked.

 

Uhm Guys. I think you might have missed something.

BOTHAWUI

http://cdn-www.swtor.com/sites/all/files/en/fallenempire/bothawui/screens/SkyTrooper.jpg

Does this mean we are going there? I guess those Sky cities are Bothawui?
It could just be how the filing system works though.

 

I've been thinking about subbing against just to get what 12x XP for my characters I didn't max out, although this new expansion really has done nothing to excite me because it feels like a narrative non sequitur. I mean I know who I sound like as a downer like that but iunno.

 

Nope, these are from Zakuul.

 

Well, with 13 new chapters, there are bound to be more new planets besides Zakuul (and even Bothawui). Unless, of course, we're going to be revisiting old planets, which is totally plausible and kind of an awesome idea if done right.

 

I would mind if they added some other classic planets we have yet to see in this game.

 

So how did the Fallen Empire manage to take down both Republic and Sith Empire? Has there been any say on that? On the navigation theory, I figure it's possible but not as a galaxy-wide 'off' button but rather a bunch of planets just refuse to share their coordinates with the rest of the Galaxy. It'd protect you from pirates and the like, but you're not going to be able to counter a military fleet determined to find where you are, but not updating coordinates should be enough for a partial 'cut off'. Isn't this exactly what Tython and Dromund Kaas do?

Still, I am interested how this Fallen Empire thing will work, and am considering resubscribing just for it. I mean the Fallen Empire needs to have some kind of Yuuzhan Vong-tier stuff to be able to take on two galactic superpowers. Or maybe they're not really defeated, and their major planets are still under their control, and this Fallen Empire just has a brief advantage for a time. That's the most plausible way I can think of for it to work, and it means they don't have to bother editing Coruscant, Korriban, etc too much to fit the new expansion.

 

Havoc123, the trailer showed the brothers slaughtering Sith on Korriban, so that planet at least will probably be substantially changed.