[OOC] Star Wars: The Bigger Picture

[JustAnna]

This is only set a couple of years before Rogue One. Actually close to four years. So he would be younger, but not quite that young. :)

[TheUnknowable]

Sorry. Saw The Last Jedi last night so I'm getting Rogue One and Ep 7's timelines crossed.

[Burning Kitty]

@Burning Kitty I think both of them have potential. What I would say, is make sure that they don't become caricatures. What I mean by that is, the Jedi with Mandalorian armor. I love the idea, just make sure that it can fit into a story. There is a lot that can be told by a Jedi in Mandalorian armor, trust me, especially if she meets any Mandos, other that Boba Fett (who isn't a Mando).

@AnnaBeth

There are two things she hates in the universe Mandos & Sith. Sith is a very distant second. It's majorly repainted to the point of no one would look at it and think the person wearing was a Mando, think something that a Mando would super insulting. Plus it isn't your modern Mando armor like your character has. Think Knights of the Old Republic not that horrible MMO the one with Revan and the Jedi Exile.



Also last I checked which was before the Disney buy out, Bobba was a Mando even was their leader for a while if I am not mistaken.

I also don't have an issue with the other character, just make sure to remember that kyber crystals are sentient in their own right. Sith crystals aren't red because they found red crystals somewhere. Sith/Dark side crystals are red because kyber is naturally in tune with the light side of the force. So, when a darksider uses a blue/green/etc lightsaber to kill out of anger, or fear, or any other dark emotion, the crystal begins to bleed. When the crystal bleeds, the saber blade takes on a red hue. So, your character would need to have done some nasty stuff, and it would need to be said for sure to flesh her out.

@AnnaBeth

She is not using a Red Kyber she is using her Jedi Master's Kyber crystal. She destroyed the Red one. Only way she would reveal what she did is if she thought someone of importance to her was about to find out. Random rebel red shirts she couldn't give two shits if they found out, they be dead soon enough anyway.

I hate the sentient Kyber thing. That is literally the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my life.

[Alfhedil]

Guess I should have thought this through more. I didn't realize how many people hated the new canon, and the worlds of Star Wars are extremely hard to bring together without having too many rules. We can continue, or we can brainstorm ideas for a plot before we start the RP. Honestly, I'm a little disheartened.

@AnnaBeth

A lot of people are butthurt over didney, don't pay them much mind. A lot of the EU needed a purge, and this way we can more selectively canonize things.

As for the plot, personally I prefer at least something to go on, or at the very least a more defined area of operation if the RP is plot-less. Otherwise it feels like people simply drift and keep to themselves, and I don't think encouraging them to do so is a good idea either. Regardless of whether people like the new canon or not.

I'll see about putting together my character sheets while at work tonight.

[JustAnna]

@Burning Kitty That's where it's going to be tough to separate old canon from new canon. The old Darkhorse comics, and everything to do with them, is no longer canon. Same with the sentient kybers. They are a relatively new canon thing, but they are recognized as part of the canon for Star Wars as far back as episode 1.

Boba nor Jango were actually Mandalorians, in the canon, unfortunately. Jango primarily worked with deathwatch. However, he was never respected by the Mandalorians. He was simply a bounty hunter who stole Mandalorian armor. They directly say that he is scum, and that he is not welcome on Mandalore at all. That wasn't a Disney thing. That was a George Lucas thing, pre-Disney. He has stated that the Fett's were not Mandalorians, and never were.

It gets hairy trying to keep from breaking canon, but I'm not too strict on it.

[JustAnna]

@Alfhedil That sounds fine. :) We can have a basic interest at heart, considering that the Empire is about to start harvesting crystals for the Death Star within the next few months. So I would say a common knowledge of that could drive the characters to a common place, somewhere down the line.

[Burning Kitty]

Every time I see Yomi I read yummy. I find that hilarious.

I don't hate the new canon. As far as I am concerned if it didn't happen in a video game I played or movie or tv show, it didn't happen. All that EU or Legends stuff was absolutely meaningless to me.

[JustAnna]

@Burning Kitty The only reason I'm weary about old republic stuff is that it happened THOUSANDS of years before the battle of Yavin. So, the armor from the old republic wouldn't still exist. It's hard to bring in things from that game, when it's set so far in the past.

I'm trying to reign things in a bit, because the general consensus is that we need a common goal. I have half the RP that wants to play in the Old Republic days and half that wants to do a more modern time frame. I for one would rather stick with something close to the original trilogy and the half as decent prequel material (rebels, clone wars, and rogue one). So, I'm not sure where to go with giving advice on old republic era characters.

[Burning Kitty]

@AnnaBeth You did read Harma's bio? It did say that she found an artifact and time travelled to the future. I was very upfont from the interest check she would fall victim to the Darkstaff or some Jedi artifact I can't remember the name of both of which can send people to the future.

[JustAnna]

I must have missed that part of it. I've been pouring through so much information today, that some things might slip through the cracks, I apologize. I do want this to be a civil RP, though. My RP's are always chill. So, I think we should take things down just a couple of notches, because things seem pretty tense.

The character looks fine. With all things considered I think there is much potential. I never said I didn't see any. I just had some questions.

[Alfhedil]

@AnnaBeth There's some vague mentions on ships and such from the Old Republic Era actually surviving into the Rebellion era, can't really find anything specific at the moment, but I'm fairly certain that there's probably one or two of those old birds sitting around in scrap yards or still laying where they fell on old battlefield worlds. As for other Old Republic stuff, I'm not quite sure what you mean lol. I do prefer that era, but just because some species or whatever featured in that era doesn't mean they didn't exist in the Rebellion era. Miraluka in particular were having a rough time of it from the Empire, likely reason for my pair to have left the homeworld.

[JustAnna]

@Alfhedil I mostly meant that setting a character in that time would be difficult since it was so far in the past. And Mandalorians reforge their armor every generation. Every existing clan and new clan also has their own armor (example: The subtle differences between Clan Wren and Clan Kryze aka the Nite Owls). So the old republic armor wouldn't still be relevant or even depicted in the new generation of Mandos.

However, I made that statement after making a reading mistake. But those are the two things I was trying to say. Setting the character a thousand years before all other characters would make it difficult for any of the characters to interact, and Mando armor would be many, many generations past that era.

As far as the species and families from that era, while they would have evolved quite a bit, I'm sure they would still be around to some degree.

[TheUnknowable]

@Alfhedilweren't the Miraluka near extinction in KOTOR 2?
That said, I'm going to have an Echani hire my guy in my post, so near-human races from the game aren't that weird.

[JustAnna]

@TheUnknowable I don't think they are weird at all :)

[LordVoldemort]

@AnnaBeth Not according to my glorious Imperial standards.

[JustAnna]

@AnnaBeth Not according to my glorious Imperial standards.

@LordVoldemort

Ugh. You intolerable tyrant!

[Alfhedil]

@TheUnknowable No, that was a colony world that had been destroyed, they still had their homeworld of Alpheridies all the way through to Yuuzhan Vong in the old EU. There is actually a Miraluka mentioned in canon during the Clone Wars, Prosset Dibs.

That being said, my characters won't have any connections with the Old Republic Era other than their species and the Sith Holocron one of them possesses. Maybe their ship, but I'm undecided on what they would be using at the moment.

[JustAnna]

@Alfhedil And that is perfectly fine.

[TheUnknowable]

If anyone wants to join me for a quick smuggling run, just assume I called you on the station and post as if I accepted you.
500 credits pay, no more, unless you have special skills I can use.....

[TheUnknowable]

@AlfhedilTechnically Force Sensitive, though, so if they want to teach him to see through the Force and have him teach them telekinesis, just drop on by. He's always willing to help out a beautiful woman (or two) in need.