Ivan the Terrible

Perhaps I'm just using the Bioware school of thought; the guy they plaster everywhere, on the cover of the game and on their main page and so forth is always the MAIN villain. And this guy sounds more like a grunt. Just call it a hunch.

Are you ever? The idea sounds good to me, if it's accurate. I doubt it will be the bone-mask guy, though.

Let's not have any Scooby-Doo unmaskings for KOTOR II, shall we? I think if Bastila was the head Dark Lord (Dark Lady?) of the Sith, people would know.

They aren't making a toolset, not because they can't, but because Lucasarts is really tight-assed about people modding their products. Call it the George Lucas Totalitarian streak.

Hola, friends. By the appearance of things, I'm in. Here's the character I devised: Character name: Aden Krelin Type: Ex-Sith Fighter Pilot Gender/Species: Male Human Age: 32 Height: 5'10 Weight: 150 Physical Description: Looks consistently haggard, unkempt beard, eyes red and sunken and dark brown hair grown to his shoulders. Wears casual shirt and pants with a grey unbuttoned officer's coat with all the insignia torn off, stained and ragged from overuse. Personality: Gruff and cynical, with a biting sarcasm and world-weariness. A curmudgeon who often has little patience with anything but the direct approach (learned from the Sith.) Objectives: Avoid capture by the Sith, and somehow make a living. Dexterity: 3D - Blaster: 4D (Specialization: Blaster Pistols 5D) Knowledge: 3D - Streetwise 4D Mechanical: 4D - Starfighter Piloting 6D (Specialization: Sith Snub Fighter 7D) - Starship Gunnery 6D (Specialization: Laser Cannons 7D) - Swoop Operation 5D - Astrogation 5D - Space Transports 5D Perception: 3D Strength: 2D Technical: 3D Move: 10 Force Sensitive: No Force Points: 1 Dark Side Points: 0 Character Points: 0 Background: Born on Nar Shaddaa, Aden grew up knowing only the brutal and lawless rule of the Hutts and their cronies. His experience amongst the poor families living in the squalor of the Smuggler's Moon made him a hard, tough youth who was soon running with one of the local Swoop gangs. Yet, it also made him contemptous of chaos and disorder; the harsh reality of life in Hutt space taught him that the strong must rule, and yet the decadence and criminality of the Hutts themselves convinced him that the strong must use their power to bring order and stability for their rule to be legitimate. Disgusted with his home, he saved up his credits until he could finally purchase passage to Coruscant, where he hoped to fulfill his dream of becoming a fighter pilot for the Republic as they battled against the Mandalorians. When he arrived there, however, he found himself equally disgusted with the weak and fracticious politics of the Senate as he had been with the Hutts. It was only when Revan and Malak began their war to conquer the Galaxy that he found his calling; the iron hand of strong leadership without the filth and decadence of the Hutts. With his bare handful of credits, he took a transport deep into newly acquired Sith space and enlisted. Aden proved a natural in space combat. In his Sith fighter, he proved himself time and again, eventually gaining a commision and the command of his own squadron. His future in the Sith seemed bright....but then it all came apart. He caught a Dark Jedi whom he had never been on good terms with planning with several of his cronies to eliminate their commanding officer during the next battle against the Republic. Discovered, Aden barely got away, but was shrewd enough to realize that the word of a Sith pilot against that of a Dark Jedi wouldn't amount to much, and that he was thus as good as dead if he stayed in the fleet. In a panic, he stole a Sith transport and fled for Republic space. Now, Aden finds himself in an unenviable position. He still believes in many of the Sith ideas, but he knows he can never go back without facing execution....if not due to the Dark Jedi's accusations, then due to his own desertion. Bitter and disillusioned, he has become a heavy drinker, and his future is uncertain even to himself. Comments: Aden will probably have a bit of a grudge against any Jedi in the party, not so much because of loyalty to the Sith as a dislike of Force users due to his predicament. He's still got a lot of Sith ideas, but he is also a pragmatist; he can't go back, so he feels no more loyalty to his old comrades and will work against them as freely as anyone....if the price is right.

What he said. And he doesn't so much take your side as let you know that he and the rest of the Sith will be ready to serve you if you defeat Malak. But that places him in a special category in comparison with the rest of the Sith you meet in-game, who will either not believe you're Revan, believe it and yet side with Malak, or just grunt-rush you and die on your lightsaber.

Hey, we didn't see the WHOLE of Dantooine. I'm sure the Planet has mountains somewhere.

That would make sense. It does look like the Dantooine of KOTOR, only a little more crispy.

"You have nothing to fear 'till you run out of beer." Yep. My apprentice will learn many lessons about life and the Force.

The last words of many an unwitting Q&A person.

A technicality. Uthar accepts your authority as Revan, if you tell him who you are, because if you're all pale and veiny and evil-looking he probably thinks it's safe to assume you aren't going to lead the Republic to victory.

Light side ending from KOTOR, Light side character in KOTOR II. At least for the first game. It's been my experience that most game stories are usually designed for this perspective, so one gets the full experience and full understanding of what's going on rather than missing a bunch of pieces because the Dark Side is an afterthought. I hope this won't be the case for KOTOR II, but I don't wanna take the risk on my first time through.

How about that little chess game they had in A New Hope?

Seconded. Czerka wasn't menacing, they were just kinda boring.

That was one thing that was rather unfortunate in KOTOR. Until the very end, it was just you vs. the Sith, no matter how evil you were. When I finished Korriban, I wanted the Sith apprentices and teachers to bend knee and swear loyalty to me, Darth Revan; after all, I had single-handedly defeated their leaders in combat! But noooo....they had to go all suicidal and practically throw themselves on my lightsaber rather than acknowledging their true master. The best you could get was Uthar telling you the Sith would be ready to serve you once you overthrew Malak. Now, understand, I realize how unworkable having your own private army would be in an RPG. Therefore, really, all I'm asking for is 'lip service'; you defeat the Sith on a planet, and they swear fealty to you, but otherwise don't have much impact on gameplay. Would it have harmed anything if you had brought the Sith on Korriban into your conspiracy, with promises of reward for those who aided you in your coup d'etat against Malak? Wouldn't it have been awesome if you could convince Sith you meet in the temple or the Star Forge to come to your side, and they would run off and fight other Sith on your behalf, even if it had little practical value? As it was, every Sith in the game seemed a die-hard Malak loyalist. They died in droves, even when it was obvious they couldn't win. I couldn't help but think, if I were one of these Sith launching a suicide charge against Revan, Bastila and (for me) Canderous, I'd surrender and HELP them rather than just mindlessly die in Malak's name. I doubt we'll see this. But one can hope.

As a joinable NPC? Nah. That would take an awful lot of work for a character who, likely as not, ended up dead or still in the Sith.

For a transvestite? No. For a regular woman? Yes.

yeah, and a free copy of the game Yeah, and dance for us. DANCE!

I'll go Sidious. The perfect model for a Sith Lord, using cunning and deceit rather than brute force to wrest power and remake the galaxy according to his whim.....

Meanwhile, for those of us who didn't just search to find what we wanted and then come back with a not-so-smoking gun, a search for 'feingold' brings up.... http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost...ex=740&PQACnt=1 A Washington Post article, dated 3/28/2000 (check the date of the source cited above), as well as nearly 70 or 80 other pages on the discussion of campaign finance reform. I would recommend walking away now with at least some of your dignity intact.

A similiarly brief search on Google shows you're full of it. BUSH WANTS OSAMA DEAD OR ALIVE... "I want justice. And there's an old poster out West, I recall, that says, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.'" [President Bush, on Osama Bin Laden, 09/17/01] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/natio...bush091701.html ...BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT OSAMA "I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important." http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20...20020313-8.html

I wish I could tell. IMDB has so many of the KOTOR voice actors listed as 'additional voices' rather than giving individual names that it's tough....

I don't know enough about 'Atris' yet, but Bastila's accent makes me happy.