The Official The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance discussion thread (spoilers allowed)

300 years after.

 

Oh, thanks Likewater.

I am about halfway through the book. I really like Shigar and Jet. Larin too. Ax is so typically Sith, so different from the Lost Tribe of the present timeline. All the Sith are soooo evil. I like that. I want my Jedi to be good and the Sith to be very evil.

 

I'm only a couple of chapters in and I'm already dissapointed in the set up. A different part of the timeline by thousands of years, yet it's the same thing. A Sith Empire, a Jedi Republic, Mandalorian bounty hunter, Coroscaunt is full of sky scrappers and is the capital of the galaxy, there are senators, there's a jedi council, masters and padawons, and there's droids and blasters. So far it seems they could have taken characters from any other part of the timeline and used this story. I was hoping for a different looking galaxy.
Maybe a different capital, or a Coroscant that's not yet completely covered in buildings, or a different system for the jedi, or different governmental system or sith that aren't completely evil or trying to take over the galaxy.

 

I'm fairly sure 20,000 years in the past would be the same.

 

got the book early but only finished it now due to others I had to finish... here my opinion about it:

I loved this book a lot. It is awesome and great because it shows many perspectives and different characters well characterised. The scenery and plot rock and really pulled me into it so that I couldn't stop reading it once I started. I loved the overlapping scenes from different characters povs building up some thrill. nice technique. Nice size for the book and while keeping the traditional star wars elements it also features unique and cool scifi/fantasy themes with the droid storyline. especially the end was very well done and tied up all loose ends.

all in all a prime example of a book, 10 out of 10 from me!

I got the feel of MMO gaming at times but it did not feel like a game mission retelling (like the TFU novel did). not at all. it was a great piece of literature. thx to the author and editors

 

I rented this novel from the library downtown earlier today and started reading the beginning a little bit.

Just wondering if the whole book is good and are the characters easy to remember who's who?

 

So is Dao Stryver supposed to be male or female in the novel?

 

We're meant to assume male, until the big reveal in the epilogue that she's non-human and female.

 

That's kind of dumb if you ask me concerning Dao Stryver

 

I hope these novels lead to a KOTOR novel somewhere down the line.

 

Just finished it. I liked it quite a bit. I think it was the fact that I found most of the characters interesting and the ones we were meant to like just that likable. I thought it flowed pretty well and did what it was supposed to do which is increase my anticipation for the game.

Something that just occurred to me, though. I think Jet refers to the Treaty of Coruscant happening a decade before. So, in ten years Satele went from a youthful Padawan to Grand Master with gray streaks in her hair. Must be a stressful job. Though one does wonder how fast someone like Ben might rise to GA if Luke wasn't around. Or what age Kol might have been when he got the rank.

One other thing I appreciated was the collection of random aliens we got, particularly on the Republic side. Thank goodness for Wookieepedia, giving me some idea of what these guys apparently look like.

At the end there, I was hoping that Clunker might turn out to be an old HK model, a droid from a bygone era that knew more than it should (though not necessarily Mr. 47). I guess the mysteries of Clunker, should they ever be revealed, are to be saved for another day.

Well, that's weird seeing as it even kept the reference to it being gladiatoral world. I guess there can't be a cantina in the galaxy not on Tatooine or something.

I don't know, I couldn't really straight up hate the guy because he was so hapless and pathetic. I was actually somewhat glad that seeing selfless, heroic people fighting on the Republic side at least made him decide to control his own life, rather than be a dead end operative for the Empire.

On the other hand, I also was less than thrilled with how the whole triangle with him, Larin, and Shigar seemed to be resolved, as if he lucked into coming out on top only by surviving and hopelessly falling for her to the point where it was apparently obvious. Meanwhile, Shigar might be dancing with the dark side. Oh joy.