There's a couple of things I want out of the Persistent Galaxy, I'd have to say the first of which is variety. When it was announced that the chosen Era was the Old Republic, I had to re-evaluate both my desire to participate and my still existing plans from the previous Galactic Civil War Era iteration, the one that I had been lucky enough to help with some of the planning almost a year ago. The reason the Old Republic Era gave me such pause, is because while I love the KOTOR games, the MMO never really enthused me much whereas it was the original trilogy and the expanded universe, primarily the works of Timothy Zahn which made me fall in love with Star Wars.

Beyond this, going into the Old Republic Era, I feared the majority of players would gravitate towards the Jedi and Sith in order to live out their own power fantasies. However, being a part of the Discord has quelled a lot of these fears as the Smuggler and Bounty Hunter channels are far more active than those belonging to the Jedi and Sith. With these fears somewhat absolved, I am interested in the coming game but I am still hoping for a lot more variety in the game. I'm looking forward to seeing different stories ranging from Rogue One and Solo inspired heists, to long epic sagas where players come together and shape this malleable galaxy. I'm looking forward to people playing strong senators, sinister Sith and smooth-talking Smugglers, not to mention every other role in between. What we're being given here is the next best thing to a blank slate and potentially something that can be shaped into our own Star Wars 'Alternate Universe' so it'd be a shame for people to limit that by only applying as a handful of character types. 

The next thing I'm looking for is freedom. I'm not against a thread telling a tightly woven linear story, but personally, I'm looking for more of a sandbox where I can take a job/mission/otherwise objective and move throughout the galaxy to complete it, winding in and out of other stories on my way. To best describe it, I'm looking to play out 'Firefly' in a Galaxy Far Far Away, I have a ship and a crew and all I want to do is keep flying, I do the job and then I get paid. If I happen to uncover a larger plot while doing so, then so be it, but I'm not looking to be a Skywalker or a Revan, I don't even think I'm necessarily looking to be Han Solo, I just want to play out my crew and when I find another player I jive with, work together and then part ways.

And lastly, like a few others here, I'm looking for a world that reflects the actions of not only others but also my characters. If my crew pulls off a heist on a world, I expect there to be repercussions the next time I arrive. Yes, I could play these out myself, but do you know how reward it is to see those repercussions not only affect myself but also other players? Or even having another similar character profiled and identified as mine, leading to mistaken identity shenanigans. There's a lot of fun to be had with engaged and active players. One of the most concerning trends that I've seen arise recently while GMing larger RPs are players who only read posts that directly concern or interact with their own character. 

Don't do that! 

Read the whole RP, if you're in a thread it's only respectful to read every post, and being part of a persistent world requires that level of work if you want the world to remain 'persistent'. How can it do that if you don't know that Tattooine was put under a blockade due to the actions of another character if you're not following other posts? I want to see player factions make changes, I want to see one Jedi redefine the order, I want to see a Sith rise up and claim the throne for themselves, and I want to see the world around them react and change because of these actions. 

That is what I want out of our Persistent Galaxy.