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Knights of the Old Republic ... or should we say Cossacks of the Old Republic?
Although many people have given this role playing game rave reviews in the united $tates for mostly technical reasons, even the rabid fans have admitted that it is easier to be evil in this game and that the Jedi Knights are too much more powerful than other characters. Apparently one way to "win" is to kill one's traveling friends.

The universe of Star Wars is not unlike our own. There are the common people, and there are the "great" people. Unlike in our own world, however, the "great" people in Star Wars have their own caste of warrior slaves with special powers who, under the guise of "maintaining stability" move against any insurrection and crush any move to advance the society.

In this game, the player takes a role of one such warrior that calls him/herself a Jedi KNIGHT. The manufacturer doesn't even try to hide the connection to the exploitative feudal system of the Middle Ages.

Throughout the game, choices have to be made, which affect the outcome of the game. Naturally, to a brainwashed child mind, the most exploitative options have been made the simplest, and quickest.

It is far easier to use your powers to steal, than to do charity. The game is far easier if you "go capitalistic," which clearly points to early indoctrination conspiracy by the fascists.

Throughout the game, the player is pitted in fights against common people, where s/he is shown that to resist the powerful means certain death. The deception is perfect, since the player is the power and this pries his/her mind open to indoctrination even more.

As is well known for the fascist bastards, they take enjoyment in killing others, and the game rewards the player for killing common people. In fact, it is not possible to progress in the game without killing commoners, and the manufacturer plainly tells the player: those who have the courage to kill, are strong. Those who don't are weak.

In one part of the game, the player fights for money--to the death. This serves well to illustrate the society, where money is everything and human life is worth nothing. The worth of a corpse is solely a function of its persynal properties, which have to be looted to advance in the game.

All in all, the Cossacks/Knights of the Old Republic is one of the most manipulative pieces of software ever devised. It leeches morality of young minds and prepares them to kill their peers to prevent a revolution. After all... the strong fascist knight shall always win.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Where the gently caress did you find this?

Perdido posted:

What did end up evolving was the game's crafting and merchant systems. Sometimes horrifyingly so (there were some screenshots in the last Star Wars megathread that were basically some sort of bizarre Star Wars fetishists bargain-o-rama center, for example.)

that awful man posted:

The EU is ripping off Spaceballs now? Shameful.

Homura posted:

Makes sense I guess. I mean, the Rebellion wasn't exactly recruiting on Tatooine and the Empire clearly didn't care about it either, seeing as how Obi Wan hid out there for a while, right?

Hazo posted:

Are these the same radio dramas where "Empire" starts out completely differently, wherein a convoy en route to Hoth base gets slaughtered by Imperials? I rented that one from the library and played it on my cassette deck endlessly when I was a kid. I think they were called Renegade squadron.

edit: Holy poo poo it is. Wookieepedia tells me that the predictable endless EU fuckery retconned them to something called Renegade Flight but drat that's cool.

Darth Freddy posted:

Ill take it at Fredsterdots if you still have it.

Crowetron posted:

If you meant me, here it is.

If Darth Freddy still wants it, I'll concede it, though.

thrawn527 posted:

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

I was thinking less along the lines of "gently caress their religion" and more along the lines of wanting to level the playing field. Not in the sense of "They're dangerous and must all die" but more "They are born with privileges we can never have and that is not right."

WhyteRyce posted:

Sean Stewart wrote the funniest Star Wars novel

Bombadilillo posted:

Hi all, I just finished catching up on this delightful thread and am eager to joing the nerdfest. I pretty much read all of NJO which ranged from painful to delightful. I was especially pissed of at the Voxyn. Where killing the queen magicly meant they couldn't clone any more despite the genetic material being available in a number of Voxyn in later books.

And Wookiepedia basicly said that Anakin Solo died because people might get confused between him and A. Skywalker...I don't see how anybody whos buying a Star Wars novel wouldn't be able to make that distinction.

So the killed him of with some contrived threat to all jedi (Voxyn) in which killing one particular one means that couldnt clone more...and the one they are CLONING from is bigger/meaner/smarter/forcesensitiver then all the other ones. Literal Boss Voxyn.

I was planning on reading Dark Nest and on but you guys have got me to read about...bug orgies.

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Coruscant.

The name evoked the same image in the mind of nearly every civilized being in the galaxy. Coruscant: Bright center of the universe, cynosure of all inhabited worlds, crown jewel of the Core systems. Coruscant, seat of government for the myriad worlds of an entire galaxy.

Coruscant, the epitome of culture and learning, synthesis of a million different civilizations.Coruscant.Seeing the planet from orbit was the only way to fully appreciate the enormity of the construction. Practically all of Coruscant's landmass-which comprised almost all of its surface area, its oceans and seas having been drained or rerouted through huge subterranean caverns more than a thousand generations ago- was covered with a multitiered metropolis composed of towers, monads, ziggurats, palazzi, domes, and minarets. By day the many crosshatched levels of 16 skycar traffic and the thousands of spaceships that entered and left its atmosphere almost blotted out views of the endless cityscape, but at night Coruscant revealed its full splendor outshining at close range even the spectacular nebulae and globular clusters of the nearby Galactic Core.

The planet radiated so much heat energy that, were it not for thousands of strategically placed CO2 reactive dampers in the upper atmo-sphere, it would long ago have been transformed into a lifeless rock by a rampant atmospheric degeneration.An endless ring of titanic skyscrapers girded Coruscant around its equator, some of them tall enough to pierce the upper fringes of atmosphere. Similar, if shorter structures could be found almost anyplace on the globe.

It was those rarefied upper levels, spacious and clean, that constituted most peoples' conception of the galactic capital.But all visions of soaring beauty and wealth, no matter how stately, must be grounded somewhere, somehow. Along the equatorial strip, below the lowest stratum of air traffic, beneath the illuminated skywalks and the glittering facades, lay another view of Coruscant. There, sunlight never penetrated; the endless city night was lit only by flickering neon holo-projections advertising sleazy attractions and shady businesses. Spider-roaches and huge armored rats in-fested the shadows, and hawk-bats with wingspans of up to one and a half meters roosted in the rafters of deserted structures. This was the underbelly of Coruscant, unseen and unacknowledged by the wealthy, belonging solely to the disenfranchised and the damned.

This was the part of Coruscant that Lorn Pavan called home

Markoff Chaney posted:

I haven't read any Star Wars books newer than the one where chewie died but I just bought Medstar I due to your recommendation, I hope this isn't a trick.

homerlaw posted:

Have there any been any representation of Female Trandoshans in the EU?

Powered Descent posted:

According to Wookieepedia, this thing is female.



Which doesn't really help matters.

e: Mixed up my 'pedias there at first.

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A wank was a creature from which a hide could be procured. The hide of a wank would often be dry. It was sold on Endor. The Two-headed Gonster used dried wank's hide in the creation of the magic cap, a magical hat that was used to trap the Raich in the form of a harmless tree.

Markoff Chaney posted:

I tore through the Medstar books on Nckdictator's recommendation and they were good enough. This whetted my appetite for new (to me) star wars books so I picked up Shadows of Mindor...parts of it are good, but Luke is just so loving emo that I can barely stand the parts with him in it, and sigh with relief when the story goes back to other characters.

What new non-FotJ/NJO book should I read after I finish Shadows? And by new I don't mean in the EU timeline, just published after NJO books started coming out and I quit reading star wars books for the most part.

Douche Bag posted:

You ain't kiddin'. I'm suddenly more forgiving of the terrible acting in the prequels.

So I was a huge fan of Tales from Jabbas Palace and I understand I'm not alone here. Is Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina as good?

Kirtan posted:

I keep seeing posts about how "it's just Uncharted: Stat Wars" and my only response is "That's everything I could have wanted!"