I presume the rods he's been equipped with are suitable for all manner of melee combat, although I imagine he'd still prefer to avoid close up combat, much as I'd love to see him beat a Force User to death with sticks.
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May The Invisible Hand Be With You - (Star Wars CK2-Style Quest)
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I presume the rods he's been equipped with are suitable for all manner of melee combat, although I imagine he'd still prefer to avoid close up combat, much as I'd love to see him beat a Force User to death with sticks.
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I feel like I should point out that on a related note you should take a look at the Achievements sometime.
Just an FYI
Subtle hint is subtle. 
Here's the Vault:
And Achievements...
And our Meta Achievements...
Here's the Vault:
And Achievements...
And our Meta Achievements...
Dr. Snark
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I mentioned this a while back, but I can repost it for posterity. In general, the stat scale works like so:
Skill Level:
0-10 Weak/Helpless (Force-users)
11-20 Normal/Weak (Force-users)
21-30 Skilled/Normal (Force-users)
31-40 Very Skilled/Skilled (Force-users)
41-50 Extremely Skilled/Very Skilled (Force-users)
51-60 Inhuman/Extremely Skilled (Force-users)
Force users are held to higher standards due to being able to use the Force to boost their abilities.
Do bear in mind that said scale is very much a generalization, and the statistics might not always perfectly reflect the narrative due to gameplay reasons. I try to keep it as close as I can though.
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It may not be androcentric polygamy. If it was something where people of both genders were expected to take multiple spouses, that would work. Or, since IIRC the Kaleesh are a heavily warlike race, it could be that they find badass warriors to be super hot and the more awesome you are the more lovers you can attract. Lots of possibilities.
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Bingo! This is how you can do non-commando Force Users! Just give a bonus to a category of rolls!
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so the big badass you are the more hot you become. got it.
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Four Horsemen of the apocalypse?
NexysDhyArchen
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Famine/Fear, War/Ruin, Death, And Pestilence/Plague in the order they're listed there.
Grievous deprives his opponents of their faculties through terror, tactics and sheer brutality, functioning without a lot of support.
The Silencer is all about straight up combat and collateral damage.
HK-47 is for when someone or something just needs to die.
Jango brings with him the example of the best damn warrior-soldiers the galaxy has ever seen and can call upon an army of such as needed. A swarm of death.
Grievous deprives his opponents of their faculties through terror, tactics and sheer brutality, functioning without a lot of support.
The Silencer is all about straight up combat and collateral damage.
HK-47 is for when someone or something just needs to die.
Jango brings with him the example of the best damn warrior-soldiers the galaxy has ever seen and can call upon an army of such as needed. A swarm of death.
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I like ck2 style quest because most of the time we either get pigeonholed into a beatstick mage or diplomancer its one of the few times we get to get our mad science on
hmm.. not quite
Grevious fits, but the other 3 should be rotated a bit.
The Scilincer better fits as death. seems to feel like he would focused on a single target at a time, then entire civilization. more for one on one fights then war. thus Death.
HK-47 fits plague/pestilence better. being a droid, the fact that he's a lot more willing to kill indiscriminately, and well, if we plug him into the forge again, he will lead an endless swarm of droids.
Jango/Thrawn: neither fits apart, but together. well, war incarnate. the Charisma and leadership of the Mandalor backed with thrawn's strategic intellect. they could wage a war on the largest of scale, on scope greater then the current Republic-CIS conflict.
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I think the classical 4 horsemen would work better. Basically drop Pestilence and replace it with Conquest.
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I have a hypothesis that we are unconsciously using Shatterpoint to boost the abilities of our underlings. Just about everybody seems to grow by leaps and bounds when working under Ciaran..
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That's because omakes are god.
Honestly, that's mostly just knowing how to pick underlings with potential.
It's not like Thrawn or Grievous or HK-47 are exactly long shot bets in this business.
<exhausted wheeze>
And I'm done with my survey of the Core Worlds. Yeah, Corellia wasn't the only plane to take most of a day to look over -- Coruscant was even worse, and there were plenty of others (Alderaan, Kuat, Demophon, Aargau, plus pretty much every planet in L-9 -- Tepasi, Skako, Chandrila, all of it) that took multiple hours apiece. So yeah. Here's the highlights:
2) Isn't it interesting that one of the greatest Grand Masters in the history of the Jedi Order was married, with a child, and didn't officially start training until she was well into adulthood? Nomi Sunrider's story is actually fascinating, but it might be good fodder for the conversation with Anakin as well...
3) Tanjay is where Shu Mai ordered the death of a Separatist Senator in order to prove to the rest of the Separatist Council that she was serious about seceding from the Republic. I'm not entirely sure of the logic there.
"You don't want to sell me death sticks?"
"I don't want to sell you death sticks."
"You want to go home, and rethink your life."
"I'm going to go home, and rethink my life."
Yeah, that guy! Turns out that his 'canon' name (Sleazebaggano) was ret-conned by Legends to make it a nickname. Thank heavens for small mercies.
Oh, and there's also a Wonder of the Galaxy that might amplify Force powers (include Force visions and teleportation!)... or might just have a naturally-occurring halucinogenic atmosphere. Flip a coin...
Coruscant, Corellia, and a few others to follow...
And I'm done with my survey of the Core Worlds. Yeah, Corellia wasn't the only plane to take most of a day to look over -- Coruscant was even worse, and there were plenty of others (Alderaan, Kuat, Demophon, Aargau, plus pretty much every planet in L-9 -- Tepasi, Skako, Chandrila, all of it) that took multiple hours apiece. So yeah. Here's the highlights:
The Yevetha are bad news. Any combination of 'xenophobic' and 'expansionist' is already asking for trouble, and adding death cults into the mix... yeah. I'm reminded of the Far Side comic "How Nature Says 'Do Not Touch'".
They control the Salliche Ag Circuit (18 of the biggest agriworlds in the galaxy), and their Senator hates Palpatine! Should be an easy sell for the CNS.
A couple interesting Force-rich planets, though there are certainly other items higher on our priority list...
Caprioril and Jervo's World might be relevant for our swoop-bike plans, but House Paramexor makes armorer droids -- that is, a squire/mechanic/guard droid for any bounty hunter on the go. This makes me happy.
1) Hillspinners freak me out.
2) Isn't it interesting that one of the greatest Grand Masters in the history of the Jedi Order was married, with a child, and didn't officially start training until she was well into adulthood? Nomi Sunrider's story is actually fascinating, but it might be good fodder for the conversation with Anakin as well...
3) Tanjay is where Shu Mai ordered the death of a Separatist Senator in order to prove to the rest of the Separatist Council that she was serious about seceding from the Republic. I'm not entirely sure of the logic there.
Heh. Coruscant is big. I'm gonna leave that one for later.
Turns out the in-universe Alamut expy is neutral. Go figure.
If we're going to be targeting the Corporate Alliance, this is one Senator & sector that will probably want to join up...
There were no indicators of their current politics, but the fact that Alsakan spent 14,000 years fighting against an overbearing central goverment means they're probably sympathetic to the Separatists. On the other hand, they're definitely going to be worried about Palpatine's executive overreach, which makes this a major recruitment target for the CNS.
All of it. Brentaal has smugglers and freighters and traders (oh my!), Candrila has the Mothma family, and Corulag has Seinar, plus Danthe, plus a whole bunch of military tech related things. Also Juno Eclipse, of Force Unleashed fame.
Also all of it. (Can you tell that we're in quadrant L-9?) Esseles has an anti-Palpatine Senator running his own spynet, who's so low-profile not even the other anti-Palpatine gang know about him -- recruit him! Ralltiir has the former Black Sun Fortress -- steal it! Rhinnal has the best medical university in the galaxy, plus attached Jedi chapterhouse -- co-opt them!
Hey, look at the nice friendly bank world that's both affiliated with the IGBC and officially neutral. Easy sell.
Hey, look at all the neutral pacifists who don't like Palpatine's militaristic ways. I wonder if they want to join us...
...Yeah I'm going to leave Alderaan for a separate post.
And Kuat.
O hai Force sect #352
This one planet provides 80% of the power/energy used by all of the Core Worlds. I repeat: 80. Percent. It's also right next to Humbarine. I want.
Another neutral world, though this one is about to be fried by a supernova. Still, there's plenty of interesting corporations on site, and given the mass exodus, it'd probably be pretty cheap to build on...
...There are so many weird things involved here. A Force-sensitive telepathic sentient plant, cultivated by a Jedi AgriCorps greenhouse (because they can't survive in most environments), that was once used as an ingredient in the most deadly Sith bioweapon ever. (Yeah -- worse than rakghouls).
Say hello to R2-D2's homeworld!
Did anyone else know that Centerpoint Station is occupied? Because that was news to me.
Heh. Leaving Corellia for a separate post.
Besides Cad Bane and the lightsaber artisan on Cularin, another notable Duros in the galaxy is a Jedi elementalist, able to summon a pillar of fire and then a pillar of water in the middle of a battle. So that's a thing. Also the Valley of Royalty, plus a bunch of archaeological dig sites.
O hai Force sect #353. The 'Legions of Lettow' are now extinct, but the Academy ruins still exist, and the history is fascinating. Basically there once was a Jedi named Xendor, who wanted to study other Force traditions (le gasp!) The Jedi Order promptly declared him dark and tried to eradicate him and his followers. He tried to bring the battle to unpopulated worlds in the distant Mid Rim, but the Jedi Order kept attacking and burning heavily populated Core Worlds in their drive to eliminate the baddies. Xendor was defeated, but yikes when the history of this war was recently rediscovered in-universe, it was a nasty blow to the reputation of the Jedi Order
O hai Force sect #354. I'm not sure if this group is dark or merely dark gray -- they're characterized as 'assassins', but describes more as bounty hunters. Anyway, they were a fairly recent bunch, but the Jedi Order spent a lot of time trying to eradicate them as well. Turns out they almost succeeded, but not perfectly -- there's a hundred or so survivors sitting in carbonite blocks waiting to be thawed out by their Mallif monk followers.
If we're going by Legends timeline, this is where Ferus Olin has been hanging out lately.
They don't really hang around here much, but this is where the Matukai Force sect got their start.
"Wanna buy some death sticks?"
"You don't want to sell me death sticks?"
"I don't want to sell you death sticks."
"You want to go home, and rethink your life."
"I'm going to go home, and rethink my life."
Yeah, that guy! Turns out that his 'canon' name (Sleazebaggano) was ret-conned by Legends to make it a nickname. Thank heavens for small mercies.
Oh, and there's also a Wonder of the Galaxy that might amplify Force powers (include Force visions and teleportation!)... or might just have a naturally-occurring halucinogenic atmosphere. Flip a coin...
Another anti-Palpatine Senator, from a world that basically controls the political education of most of the rest of the Core...
And another anti-Palpatine Senator.
And another... well, not anti-Palpatine, necessarily, but a close friend of Bail Organa, so same difference. Also neutral.
This planet pioneered the dual-wielding Jar-Kai technique. It also published the in-universe equivalent of Machiavelli's The Prince, which is often cited by Palpatine...
Coruscant, Corellia, and a few others to follow...
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Force Unleashed, you mean.
Coruscant
Warning: Coruscant is big.
5000+ planets in one! Also, the original Mandalores, and the earliest human race in the galaxy.
...There are a lot of intelligence agencies working for the Republic, and most of them have weird backgrounds. The in-universe "Library of Congress" has a 'Special Acquisitions Branch' that gets treated on par with the in-universe CIA/NSA/FBI.
500 Republica is the place to be. Seriously -- it's huge, and pretty much everyone who's anyone lives there. Incidentally, that includes Palpatine...
The tech districts, basically. Galen Erso, Raith Sienar... birds of a feather.
Turns out 'The Works' is a subdistrict of 'Dacho' -- but this is the current center of the Baneite Sith. Assuming we convert Maul, this is where he'd point us to. Also assuming we use Fry's codebreaker, this is where Dooku and Palpatine arrange to meet.
We actually own a few businesses here. None of the big ones, mind you -- just a couple ones involved in Outbound Flight. Still, nice to have our foot in the door, especially given just how much money is floating around here.
Basically the university district, plus the in-universe Masonic Lodge, plus the biggest medical center on the planet.
EDIT: also, did anyone notice that the University was founded by a DRAGON?!
The only location on Coruscant where bare rock can be found -- due to a really tall mountain peak. Naturally, it's in the center of a massive plaza surrounded by thousand-story-tall buildings. Including one formerly owned by Hego Damask. Plus the headquarters of the Refugee Relief Movement that predates Silver Cross. Plus a whole bunch of other important sites, like the original center of government. Not to mention the Galactic Museum itself, with an entire complex dedicated to Jedi and Sith Force artifacts (which has been shown in other stories to be really easy to steal from...)
All the palaces. I'm not sure if Xizor is still alive (he is obscenely rich, but we did send Grievous after him...) but the Palace of the Republic is here, plus the majority of Embassies from most of the galaxy.
Err... did anyone know that the same medical facility where Palpatine rebuilt Darth Vader as a cyborg, is also a private fortress that he used for Sith alchemy rituals, even before he executed Order 66? Yeah, the Jedi really dropped the ball on this one...
Not much here -- I just want to point out the 200-story (2,000-ft-deep) artificial lake that was built on top of 5,000 levels of ecumenopolis. That's a thing.
Home of the Senate. Also most of the intelligence agencies that report to the Senate. And a bunch of other buildings, including a massive plaza and gardens surrounding the Senate Rotunda.
The Jedi Temple is... big. It's a ziggurat, built on top of a Force-nexus mountain. (Note the 'Sith Shrine' that lies at the Temple's foundations...). Of course the most awesome part of the Temple is:
Especially that 'Great Holocron'. (My kleptomania knows no bounds...)
And here are the Spaarti cloning facilities that Palpatine recently built. Interestingly, he's staffed them with Arkanians. Who now love us thanks to our recovery of the Arkanian Legacy. What are the odds someone is going to mention something to us...?
Just pointing out the mostly-undefended moon with massive vaults of historical artifacts (Force artifacts, art...) owned by the Galactic Museum.
(I told you my kleptomania knows no bounds!)
Alderaan
That's it for Coruscant, now for everyone's favorite planet-that-went-boom:
Lots of important people were born here. Many lived long, long ago. As for right now, the most important bits are probably the 'Diplomatic Corps' who's been trying to forge a peace treaty since day one of the Clone Wars (i.e., they love us), the 'Royal Engineers' (they've been around for a while) and the Biological Research Institute (who will love us, because Karada
Of course, the above list doesn't even include the capital city:
Best medcenter in the galaxy, natch.
Kuat
That's it for Alderaan, now for Kuat Drive Yards
Despite their reputation for heavy industry, the surface of Kuat is apparently a terraformed paradise-world for the fantastically rich. Note especially the presence of Walex Blissex -- he's basically an engineering genius on par with Raith Sienar, and might actually be better, though he spends his time and energy working on products for mass production rather than custom jobs. Also, Blissex apparently doesn't like to use a computer...? Not sure how that works given the sci-fi setting, but he's a genius, so we'll allow him his quirks.
Here is where the magic happens. The Kuat Orbital Array is basically a series of shipyards in a ring around the planet, like Saturn, only more awesome. One fun item of note: in the space battle in Attack of the Clones, when Obi-Wan and Jango Fett are fighting in that asteroid belt, both of their ships were produced by the same company, from the same factory. "In all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world..."
Corellia!
That's it for Kuat. The last item on the list is Corellia:
Green Jedi. 'Nuff said.
On the other hand, I did enjoy reading about the 'Crystal Swamp' filled with 'razor grass' that can shred the undercarriage of a swoop-bike (the swamp is used as a racing course for particular daring/idiotic Corellian youth).
In case it wasn't obvious, Coronet City is the capital. Note the overabundance of corporations we might want to invest in. (That "anti-blaster field" sure sounds useful...) Also note that there is apparently a dark-side Force sect on the planet, that I didn't know existed.
This used to be a lot bigger, but then it started polluting the planet, so they moved most of it...
...here. This is pretty cool -- where the Kuat Drive Yards are a Saturn-like 'ring', this is a net, a 'mesh' of space stations in geosynchronous orbit, that cover between an eighth and a quarter of Corellia's surface area. This is where all the ships get built. Also where they design new ships, like the Crusader droid frigate that was basically installed with Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. The prototype was so successful, it promptly realized that its own trial runs would result in Corellia disassembling it to make more. That would have broken the 3rd Law, so it fled to hyperspace. That might be a fun prize, if we ever roll a natural
EDIT: should probably save a natural 100 for rediscovering the Katana Fleet...
Also, forgot to include them above, but here are two other planets in the same system as Corellia:
Best librarians. And a 35,000 year old library to prove their point, though sadly its records are almost exclusively about the Corellia sector. Also the in-universe Einstein expy, with theory of relativity and light as universal speed limit.
It's a waterworld, populated with otters. And they've built their planet into an underwater/underground ecumenopolis. Fun times.
<exhausted wheeze, pt. 2> All I have left is the Deep Core. Fortunately, there's only a fraction of the number of star systems, so it should be a lot easier (and then the survey is done!) Still, after finishing this behemoth of a region, I'm not especially eager to get to the next one. I'll probably wait for a while and just enjoy Dr. Snark's updates.
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How is Karada the best thing to happen to galactic medicine in several millennia? All we've done that the public knows about is sell off-brand medical gear, off-brand medicine, and now the base upgrade stuff. Medically speaking, nothing we've done is new or revolutionary, save for the stuff we've kept secret like gene mods and medical nanodroids.