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[background=I’m beginning to wonder if I’ll ever truly acclimate myself to this new age I find myself in. Looking back I realize that all the things from where I had been were in truth far more simple than where I find myself and I have to wonder if perhaps I acted in haste. Yet even as I...
2. The nation does not externally assert itself aggressively, unless directly provoked by external nations or states.
This statement should be obvious in regards to the first doctrine, though it recognizes the probability of outside entities that would threaten the nation. It may even be seen...
Some of you know I'm a big fan of Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen. I had a chance to re-read something he wrote -- after I tracked it down again via a third party; his site's been down for a couple of weeks -- and wanted to save it in a place where I'd remember it. It's about...
For the Republic: The Downfall of Democracy
by Her Excellency Cecily Eleanora Marie de Demici, Senator of Onderon
"The Old Republic was the Republic of legend, greater than distance or time. No need to note where it was or whence it came, only to know that… it was the Republic."
As many of...
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary since the original ‘Star Trek’ TV series hit screens, this current era of rebooted films serves to continue to franchise but offer new ideas and themes being set in a mirror universe to that what we already know. Justin Lin of ‘Fast & Furious’ fame...
The Light is the Light. Only a child or a fool would let another tell them how to serve it. You may be offended, dear reader, but allow me to ask you this: why do you think so many orders recruit solely from the ranks of those too young to question what they're taught?
The stock answer is that...
The Dark
Part I
The dark is generous.
Its first gift is concealment: our true faces lie in the dark beneath our skins, our true hearts remain shadowed deeper still. But the greatest concealment lies not in protecting our secret truths, but in hiding from us the truth of others.
The dark protects...
So. Time is weird, and something I never see any sci fi really address besides showing off that they know about relativity. Not only is time incredibly subjective to each planet (a "year" being defined in how long it takes for 1 planet to circle its star being completely different for every...
Alright, well here we go. New Academic year, new set of journals. Most of this will end up in the Templar Archives as well as my ship's database. It's for posterity, I guess. With the old university gone, I'm what's left of our archival system. That's weird to say. Go figure. The last survivor...
Chris Avellone has been there for Torment, KOTOR2, Pillars of Eternity, and a metric fethton of other games you might know. His Q&A is in the comments section here, but I thought I'd pull out a few things I wanted to keep track of or thought were cool. Some of this is directly relevant to...
For the Republic: The Life & Lies of Palpatine
by Her Excellency Cecily Eleanora Marie de Demici, Senator of Onderon
"This Palpatine was a Rodian in Ewok's clothing!"
Though impossible to accurately attribute this quote, it is believed to have been uttered by Mon Mothma sometime after...
Choose-Your-Own Invasion
I've seen a couple of ideas on the blog space about Invasions, so here's what I got to say.
Invasions have slowly degraded into a dreaded event, with their complete and utter over-saturation on the board. Ordinarily, this would not be a bad thing, this is Star Wars after...
Star Trek: Beyond is the latest in the ‘rebooted’ Star Trek movie series. In place of J.J Abrams who went off to do Star Wars we have Justin Lin, famous for the Fast and the Furious movies.
Obvious confession time; I’m not a Trek fan at all. I’ve seen 2 of the classic movies, 2009 Star...
The following are entries into the database regarding Project Enigma - the examination and exploitation of the Galactic Alliance naval vessels and technology acquired after the Endgame incident. The original files are located within the database of the Ablution, while copies are located in...
Some time ago...
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Droz wondered to himself as he laid buried in the rubble of a destroyed building in Eshan, what it really was that he sought. Was it women? Fame? Power? No... Why did he pursue such extreme actions like the false-flag attack on Umbara, slaughtering civilians and taking...