BenLuke

...If you're bringing the Lightbringers back ...

...The Darkbringers will follow? Interesting idea.

I'm 90 percent sure then Kin were Good Guys.

*Checks Wiki*

I am correct. What groups served as adversaries to the Kin (I don't feel like reading through the entire article).

We need more villains (Aside from staff villains) in general. Perhaps a revival/re-imagining of some Old BZPRPG group?

Of course, the lack of chaos in the current game could have something to do with the hasn't been around as long as the old one . Things will get more chaotic as more groups establish themselves and character develop histories with each other.

@Hubert: We're working on that.

I properly joined the BZPRPG during the first reboot, so there's not much I can discuss there.

The Super-Joske Prime Punching Time reboot button pressing posts at the end of '10 were pretty cool.

Locus Abeo: I actually first joined the RPG in that year. I had no clue what was going on and lost interest after awhile. A pity, seemed fun.

I have another window open with a bunch of archive topics open. Interesting stuff...

Is it actually possible to be spoiled about Darth Vader being Luke's father? I still think watching then in the order they came out in is best.

What on earth is wrong with Jar-Jar Binks?

Besides being annoying as heck?

Side-quest time!

You know what? I don't think I have time to play more then one character at the moment. Somebody else can take my position.

As far as I'm I'm concerned she didn't write a single Star Wars novels and hence the Mandos remain un-ruined.

Of course, the fact the Rep Com books are from the point of view of the Mandos ( and Mando worshiping Clones) makes the characterization of the Jedi as complete EVIL! slightly less bad then it could be. Although that doesn't explain the "Mandos are the Best" stuff that's in everyone one of her books.

I suggest we continued this discussion in the COT Official Star Wars Topic as I dislike having to read the really small blog comments.

But I want replied. I'm having fun doing this.

Portraying the Jedi as something more grey then the perfect, shiny heroes they usually are would be good, the problem is that Traviss does that and then turns the Mandalorians into basically the same thing. In most other Expanded Universe media the Mandos are, at best, antiheroes with an focus on the "anti" part.

This is a blog post, I'm pretty sure we can get as off topic as we want.

Karen Traviss states (the good side, uh huh): Mandalorians go around the galaxy in clans and or seperate Bounty hunting factions. Mandalore is a ruined planet that houses the bounty hunters and clans and keep their beliefs and rules.Georgey: Mandalorians are peaceful people who don't do much of anything except for hate their past and walk around in light blue clothes. The true Mandalorians all somehow died and radicals went to a nearby moon to cry their eyes out before deciding to become terrorists.

So, apparently, having a culture that has (some) depth is worse then a civilization composed entirely of Proud Warrior Raise Guys?

As to Traviss being the good guy: Lolwut?! She called people who criticized her writing and prefer Jedi to her version of the Mandos to be Nazi slave-owner terrorists.

No bad guys can win. Nuh uh. It's not happening.I mean, come on, every episode is: There's these bad guys you see, well you may think they're all bad and are all voiced by the same three people with weird accents, but Obi-Wan comes in and punches one and the Republic wins! It's just that the clones aren't perfect and the droids weren't meant to be nothing by cannon fodder. In Rep Com they're used strategically and follow orders well.

How much of the show have you actually watched? The Clone Troopers aren't perfect and the Battle Droid.. Actually, You're right about the Battle Droids.

Another problem is that she used 30,000 (Less then the amount of soldiers in WW2, a conflict taking place on only a single planet.)as the number of the entire Grand Army of the Republic. That isn't entirely her fault, as that was from an earlier novel, but she continued to use it even when she could have retconed it to something less stupid.

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Please don't take this argument personally, I just like have logical debates over very silly.

"Gritty" and "realistic" are not words I associate with Star Wars, being more or less the softest Sci-Fi you can find that's not incredibly silly.

Wait, the only reason you like Star Wars is Mandos? I like ​Mandos, at least apart from the Traviss Marty Stu Mandos, Canderous from KOTOR, for instance; But their still far from my favorite corner of the massive world that is Star Wars.

I've only read one Traviss book, Imperial Commando. I frankly found it pretty dull, although not mind melting-ly horrible. Traviss isn't the worst Star Wars Expaned Universe writer by far, but neither is she that good and she's extremely egotistical as a person. *Shrug*

The Republic Commando game, on the other hand, was really fun. I need to play some more of that sometime...

I claim this comments section in the name of Timothy Zahn and the Empire of the Hand! *Grumpy grumpity comment*

Yep. I believe we've had enough couples parted by one of them getting killed off.

Actually, Ekage is in Ta-Koro. I must have been have half-asleep when I make that last comment. Only it was in the middle of the after noon...

When is the group going to travel to Le-Koro and recruit Ekage?

What about Liberation Squad Island?

My first post as Kindness was been made.

 

Name: Ekage (Kindness)

Gender: Male

Species: Toa of Air

Alignment: Neutral Good

Description: Toa Mata style body, predominantly dark green with several regions of clear blue.

Mask: Mask of Rebounding.

Weapon: Two identical boomerang blades.

Powers: Elemental Air

Personality:

Ekage is characterized by extreme friendliness toward the people around him, even complete strangers. He will almost always attempt to give aid to those with need of it.

While it is easy for him to make friends with others he will rarely, if ever, forgive those that have attacked him or any of his friends. He will often bombard anyone around him with questions about the surrounding area in an attempt to increase his knowledge of the island.

History:

Ekage is a native of the Mata Nui. Before becoming a Toa he served Le-Koro as part of the Gukko Force, the local militia. He is one of the newer Toa on the island, only becoming a Toa within the last five years. He has only recently begun venturing beyond his home village of Le-Koro.

Weakness:

Ekage is relatively unskilled at hand to hand fighting, preferring to fight at medium range with his boomerangs. While he can use his duel blades to engage in close-corner combat he is still vulnerable to melee weapons with a longer reach.

 

Sorry for the wait...

I'm voting yes. It was my idea in the first place.

^ Yes, nobody seemed to like my idea.