Jediphile

Actually, I think Wookieepedia is right about the Sith Empire. Not least because that's what Kreia reveals at the end of K2. Kreia: "You must go where Revan did, into the Unknown Regions, where the Sith, the true Sith, wait in the dark for the great war that comes. And he came because Malachor, like Korriban, lies on the fringes of the ancient Sith Empire, where the true Sith wait for us, in the dark.Have we? You thought that the corrupted remnants of the Republic, the machines spawned by technology that Revan led into battle were the Sith? You are wrong. The Sith is a belief. And its empire, the true Sith Empire, rules elsewhere.And Revan knew the true war is not against the Republic. It waits for us, beyond the Outer Rim. And he has gone to fight it, in his own way.He left the Ebon Hawk and its machines behind, for he knew he would not need them.And, like you, he knew he must leave all loves behind as well, no matter how deeply one cares for them. Because such attachments are not the way of the Jedi, and they would only bring doom to them both in the dark places where he now walks. It would have helped had he made her understand. But she was always strong-willed, that one, and did not understand war as Revan did." It all makes a lot better sense if you've read some of the Tales of the Jedi comic books, particularly The Golden Age of the Sith and The Fall of the Sith Empire, where the Sith Empire is introduced and where we meet ancient Sith Lords Ludo Kressh and Naga Sadow.

Er, no. Canonically, the Exile is LS. Only the Exile's gender is still in question. While the games don't have to follow canon (Revan is fixed as LS male in K2, for example), it would be really odd to have the game directly contradict canon. Exile's alignment/gender needs to be set by the players as it was for Revan in K2 (and Revan's should be too in K3).

Actually, it's Wile E. Coyote

Farscape is a lot of fun to sci-fi fans, but that's also it's greatest drawback - you really have to know your sci-fi to get all the jokes, or half the material is lost. They did an entire episode with D'Argo hunting Crichton as a cartoon-remake of Vil. E Coyote hunting the RoadRunner, for example. Damn funny, but is it really sci-fi? They also didn't build the background much. I was sick of hearing about how Rygel was Dominar over a gazillion people when it never mattered at all in the show. Farscape should be taken in no small amount as a spoof on most sci-fi, because the humor will never work if you don't know Star Wars, Trek, Buck Rogers and many other sci-fi shows/stories already. I mean, lines like "Welcome to the Federation Starship buttcreak" is very amusing, but you need to know the Trek-context to get it. On the other hand, lines like "Believe me - this plan is so bad, it has to be our's!" is so good it's worth putting in my sig. For amusing sci-fi shows, I'd recommend Red Dwarf. It's british, but hilarious. Another ancient british sci-fi show I like is Blake's 7, particularly due to Avon. Some of his comments throughout the show are just brilliant. I mean, you just can't beat one-liners like, "That's the trouble with heroics - they seldom run to schedule" or "Trust is only dangerous when you have to rely on it." :D

HK-47 sucks next to any jedi, and even if I chose a non-jedi, I'd prefer Canderous over HK any day of the week, since I can heal Canderous with my own healing powers as well as any other human(oid) in the group. Droids need maintainance, which makes them undesirable in many cases. Besides, they don't even have any special powers that would make them worth considering. HK-47 is just fair with a blaster rifle, while Canderous can hand anyone's rearend to them...

Still your choice, which makes it killing her in my book. She doesn't do it spontaneously, after all.

Alien anybody? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away nobody can hear you scream..."

Sheesh... I can't believe that it isn't Vader or Palpatine who are winning this poll - they defined what a Dark Lord is! The Revan-fanboys are out in force...

Well, Han also used Luke's lightsaber in "Empire Strikes Back" without losing any limbs... EDIT: Oh, and Orman Tagge also used a lightsaber in a duel with Luke in the old Marvel comics, even though he clearly wasn't a force-user. He lost, but he didn't lose any limbs.

Yes, and Chloe hasn't cracked it yet... :D

My only problem with Vandar was that we're consistently told that he's dead. I have no problem with a little green (or whatever color) Yoda-species guy. In fact, I'd welcome one as a companion who has the emerging wisdom of Yoda or Vandar, but is a bit younger and not quite so experienced. That could be fun. Just what is this species that Yoda, Vandar, and Yaddle belong to? Hmmm, is it just me or have we never seen what jawas really look like......

Actually, I thought pointing the finger at Audrey was a little cheesy - that's just too silly to even contemplate, especially since she was the one to give Jack the clues to it at the beginning of the episode. Even if I thought she was guilty, would she have done that, if she knew it could lead back to her? So I think this is just the writers playing towards the Nina Meyers/femme fatale-syndrome, which is just old and disappointing. The only way it "could be Audrey" is if someone stole her identity to cover his or her own tracks (note that Collette actually never describes what "Audrey" looks like - it's just a name to her, and she might never had met her), or else Audrey was somehow tricked or ordered into passing this information along without knowing what it was for. So I find that plot boring and uninteresting. I'm far more interested in seeing what Wayne Palmer has discovered. Given how the episode turned out, I should probably have put his name in the poll too... Question is, who ordered the hit on him? I can't for a minute suspect Pierce, but Gardner seemed to know too, so maybe he's the mastermind. He could certainly have framed Audrey as well...

You can kill Visas, actually.

Well, Wookieepedia is here. As for the cut content, it's a matter of going throught the text used in the game, which can be a bit of trouble. I recommend searching the text with key words. As for getting to the text, all text, dialogue or otherwise and cut or not, is in the dialog.tlk file of the game folder. To access it, open your Notepad, then open a file. Find your way to your KotOR folder and change the filetype to "all files", then doubleclick the dialog.tlk file. It may take a few moments before the machine responds, since it's a huge file, but once it does, you can read through all text in the game.

Okay, but I don't understand what the topic is - what are we supposed to answer yes or no to?

I doubt that, since I always got the same ending the first time around, no matter whether I decided to kill her or listen to her and attempt redemption. Besides, killing the masters gives you Force Crush (a DS power), whereas accepting their judgement (and then having Kreia interrupt) gives you Enlightenment (a LS power). The distinction there could have some effect on the final outcome.

On the radiation of M4-78, this is directly from the dialog.tlk file for K2 and seems to contain stuff that Vash was supposed to tell the Exile when you find her: "It is a normal occurrence between Master and Padawan. Kaah and I are bonded.It is a normal occurrence between Master and Padawan. Kaah and I were bonded.Most of the Jedi have scattered. Anytime the Jedi tried to assemble, they were massacred by the Sith. We had no idea where the attacks were coming from.{smiles}I dislike passivity. Much like another Jedi I know. With the Council's support, I decided to take the fight to the Sith.You should consider what it means to be a Jedi.{slightly sadly}This victory here is all I can claim, and it was Kaah's expertise, not mine, that brought it. The source of the Sith remains unknown to me.I know. I felt it.He is well, but shaken by his experience.Yes, as many Masters and Padawans become with time.The bond can be broken in many ways. If one falls to the Dark Side, the bond may fade and eventually break. This is why, when gripped with fear, Kaah was unable to feel our bond. He assumed I was dead.He is dead. We were mentally bonded.Kaah was pulled to the Dark Side through his fear. He could no longer feel our bond.It is painful to lose one to whom you are bonded. But it is not fatal.{concerned}That is most unnatural. This bond you share with Kreia is not like any I've ever heard of. How did it come to be?{pensive}Look within for the answer. We are each solely accountable for everything in our lives. Nothing ever happens to us unless we allow it.Indirectly, one could say that you brought me here.I learned that a group of Sith came here seeking the one they call the Last Jedi - you. Kaah and I arrived to investigate the situation.We learned that the Sith pretended to be this planet's colonists and began utilizing its resources and industrial power. We could not allow them to create a base here.Kaah is a virtuoso with computers. He managed to slice into the system and flood the Industrial Zone with radiation.The Sith attacked our position before he had finished. I held off the Sith, but they overwhelmed me. When I regained consciousness, I was in this chamber.M4-78 tells me that the guardian droid of the Central Zone placed me here." That seems to explain it all nicely.

Agreed. Wikipedia allows stuff like "Nihilus might have been a prisoner of the Mandalorians", when all it says in the game is that he "escaped imprisonment" on Malachor V by bringing the Ravager to him with his powers. Wookieepedia usually has it right. At least, I haven't found any glaring mistakes so far.

It's basically a question of of building influence with them either through conversation or by having them in the group to watch your actions. Some like DS actions, some LS, and for some it just depends on how you justify your actions. Once you've built enough, the option to turn them into jedi usually comes around automatically. For a complete spoiler on it all, look at this handy Influence Guide - but be warned, it is a COMPLETE Spoiler!!

"You've left me an opening!"

Well, some of the endings do allow for deaths. For example, in DS you can have either Atton vs. Disciple (female Exile) or Handmaiden vs. Visas (male Exile), but there are loads of other stuff in there. A lot of it is just cut plots, like the HK-factory or the stuff with the Genoharadan trying to kill the Exile. That's all neither dark nor light side. And some of the endings will be LS too, IIRC. There is one scene where most the companions try to confront Kreia and are taken captive, for example. Another is with Atton sacrificing himself to save the female Exile during a fight with Sion (which I guess mirrors the possibility of killing Visas during the fight with Nihilus). But rather than me trying to remember it all (and probably failing horribly), you're much better off going to Team Gizka's site and getting an idea for yourself. I'd suggest you look at the progress reports to get a rough estimate, perhaps even looking at the "current build", which leads to a topic on their own boards listing what they intend to do.

I think the short answer is no. I definitely remember some of us wondering whether Nihilus would be less of a wuss after the restoration, and someone (Dashus?) told us that they were only restoring the cut stuff, not rescaling the difficulty levels and so.

Force ghosts are not unheard of in the KotOR era. We even saw Ajunta Pall's force ghost in K1, so that's no problem. It's true that this was a lost power by the movies-era, but note that KotOR is set in the distant past - almost 4000 years before, when the knowledge would still be known. Darth Bane is part of the Jedi vs. Sith plot (brrr...) so this is way before his time. No, I'll still voice support for the ideas I've posted before - I want to play a jedi padawan who begins on Coruscant. Revan and Exile I'd both set to DS. This is in part due to how the Exile met Revan and himself in the tomb on Korriban in K2 (after seeing Malak recruit jedi for the Mandaloran Wars and himself leading an attack on Dxun, i.e., the past, and confronting all his companions, i.e., the present), and the visions both had dark side mastery. But you should go to the unknown regions and find Revan and Exile, yes. I want to see Ziost too, for example.

There is an alternate Dark Side ending, but it isn't all that different. It's unclear when exactly you make your LS/DS choice, but if I were to venture a guess, I'd say it depends on how you respond the meeting with the jedi masters (do you kill them or accept their ruling...) The reason why the companions all seem to just vanish from the plot is that Lucasarts pushed the deadline, which forced Obsidian to cut a lot of stuff from the game, including all the resolutions for the companions and a bunch of other stuff. It all became the infamous cut content, which you can find numerous references to. Fortunately, a group is restoring the cut content, so that we might play it one day. Look at this topic and follow the links to their site. The restoration project seems to be coming along nicely.