The six year timeskip -- how did you rp it as?

[Danger Arceneau]

So, after hearing different stories from different folks, i would like to toss this out there to see what others have done.

Let me preface this that timeline is fluid and there isn't a set timeline on chaos beyond what we have on our event timeline. Even then, the board doesn't force any member to stick to the event timeline posted up on the holonet.

But seeing as the Netherworld event did jump us six years, how has everyone else roleplayed this as? ( if you accepted the timeskip that is. You didn't have to acknowledge it at all)

I know for me, when I saw the posted timeline and read the timeline picture, the highlight of the mention of the one Sith war on coruscant down to the timeskip of six years with the netherworld event meant that we had six years of war.

To me that made sense, looking at how many back to back invasions had occurred between the one Sith and the republic. There were a total of nine invasions from June 2014 to February 2015 -- that's a lot. A lot of back and forth in such a short time. Six years makes sense.

Now, that's just my opinion.

What is yours? How did you apply the six year timeskip?

 

[Anija Betna]

[member="Danger Arceneau"]

I admit to still being a bit confused. Was it the Event and THEN the timeskip, or the 6 years span of war and THEN the event?

 

[Lief]

That grammar tho <3

I allowed Jyn to age up, but I RP'd it a little while after the Event itself and just used it as a reason!

 

[Ashin Varanin]

When the date advancement was first proposed, it was as a recognition of all the many things that had gotten done since Masks in August 2014. That's how pretty much everyone has RP'ed it, so far as I've seen. Most people who fought at the Battle of Kashyyyk, which happened days before the new timeline announcement dropped, still RP it and the Netherworld event as having taken place only a few months ago. It's the only interpretation that fits the board's events, like the eight-ish invasions between the One Sith and the Republic. Trying to shoehorn all that conquest into 837 ABY is handwaving six years of inaction out of the most active faction in board history -- it doesn't add up. When you look at timeline announcements, event announcements and major movements that have happened on the board, it's pretty clear that the One Sith and the Republic have been at war for about seven or eight years consistently, and that the invasions fall somewhere within that timeframe. And I've just had to make my character histories fit that, which isn't that bad. Very natural, in fact.

 

[Darth Kentarch]

Kentarch was Awol, still haven't flesh out the details.

 

[Anija Betna]

[member="Ashin Varanin"] [member="Danger Arceneau"]
I was RPing it as six years of war and THEN the event, but I dunno if that's correct

 

[Ashin Varanin]

[member="Anija Ordo"] - That's how just about everyone RPs it. Only thing that really makes sense.

 

[Sarge Potteiger]

Mostly Sarge trying to figure his chit out.

 

[Corey's OOC]

I did six years of whatever my characters were doing (Marek running the Techno Union, and solidiying that) and then the Event. Just kind of kept them going in their state for the next six years.

 

[Quietus]

What Ashin said.

Six years of things, then Netherworld event.

 

[Kira Talith]

My six years were with the war backdrop... But with [member="Soliael Devin Talith"] and I getting together and having four kids during that time.

Since my kidnapping and everything left me out of the loop with the war itself, it meant that I had the flexibility of putting myself and my family down anywhere in that timeline -- even with my involvement with kashyyyk.

So I think it turned out well. Even if now the kids are getting quickly older by the thread -- which ages me too beyond those six years. D:

 

[Mara D'Lessio Merrill]

Mara here had been RPed as around 3-5 a good while back, so [member="Alna Merrill"] and I rolled a d6 and added that many years, then I made Mara a PC.

 

[Tobias Wraith]

It was the perfect time to make Tobias a PC as he would finally be at the ripe age to step out on his own from being the NPC he was for years.

 

[Kei Amadis]

[member="Danger Arceneau"]

All my older characters were stuck in the netherworld for six months they've been that way for about 8 years though for some people since I was away, but I didn't want to come back with all my paddies now middle aged , and I missed the event itself so. Fluid time ftw, perfect excuse to fill the void of their OOC absence.

 

[Gilamar Skirata]

About a year of war, then five sitting unconscious in a concoction of healing juices and Sith Alchemy courtesy of Rave Merrill.

I aged all except Gil up the six years (I think people get that he's getting old that's good enough) and some of my characters matured, some ended up changing completely during the six years. I'm drafting/planning several solo threads for one of my characters that I plan to have taken place during the Six years since the Mando's involvement in the war between the Republic and One Sith spanned two or three invasions with only one of them being Mandalorian v One Sith. Its a nice fluid timeline change and it makes sense.

 

[Vereaux]

Since my first invasion was the one on Korriban before my inactivity, I decided to make it an interesting plot twist and make it such that he was in suspended animation. Since the invasion itself occurred eight years ago, he was under for eight years =P So he doesn't know anything.

OOC wise, I don't know a lot of what's happened since I left anyway, so it works =P

 

[Chiasa Kritivaas]

Just y'know, hanging out in my stupidly big casinos, watching people use segways to get around, doin' them crimes.. makin' them credits.

As y'do.

 

[Captain Larraq]

Honestly, I -hate- timeskip. Saying that the years roll by every couple months is one thing, but a six year jump is a confusing pain in the rump. And regardless of whether the time skip is optional or not, the majority of writers and the majority of characters that I roleplay with, have all chosen to go with the time skip. Which means that regardless of what I want for my character, I -have- to come up with ways for the timeskip to fit into my character's story....

And it doesn't. Nothing I come up with makes sense. 6 years of time-skip and then the event or the event and then 6 years of timeskip? Either way, the current situation doesn't make any sense.

I had an entire Mandalorian Clan that focused on Naval Warfare and trade and operating military bases. I had them centralized over the North West side of the Mandalorian Territories. And now? The clan's capital planet is gone. A -major- shipyard is gone. And two major base-planets are gone. Mandal Hypernautics had some sizable manufacturing operations established up on those planets, and they are gone.

Why would a major military power that supplies 60% of the Mandalorian Navy ships during times of war (keep in mind, the Mandalorians have no standing navy. Each and every ship is owned by one clan or another or one merc or another and gets pulled into service when the Mand'alor calls.) suddenly lose hold of their base of operations? Even with only 10% of their former numbers (plus whatever droids they had), they should have still been clinging to that corner of space and calling for reinforcements to help secure it.

Then there's the territory that we lost that the Sith and Primeval now own. Did that happen 6 years ago or did it happen 3 months ago? Nobody knows. And either way, it doesn't make sense. The Mandalorians should of stepped up and grabbed their planets back. When a hostile enemy faction steppes up to claim the fringe planets, even after the clans are struggling to rebuild, the clans should of gone to war to reclaim those planets.

And yet, they don't. And I have no control over my characters falling through with the stories that make sense, because the faction leaders don't want to participate in those stories. They've dragged their feet to the point that... the entire situation has just gotten worse and the stories for my characters make even less sense than Tefka's timeskip alone would have forced upon them.

I have a character that leads an 'important clan' within the Mandalorian faction that I can no longer feel comfortable roleplaying because the timeskip and the current status of the Mandalorians just doesn't make sense when I try to put her story, or the story of her clan into perspective.

I've got Larraq, the leader of a Tier 5 company, doing jack-all for 6 years during a timeskip. He should have been cranking out dozens of new designs over those six years... but.... nothing. There is no room for progress or development in a timeskip. It's just 6 years of stagnation that don't make sense.

And no matter how dumb I think the idea is, or how much I hate the current situation, I can't do a damned thing about it and none of the stories I try to come up with to explain away the current status and how it relates to my characters.... nothing works. Nothing fits, nothing feels right, and my characters feel awkward because of it.

I'm trying to be active again and I'm trying to just focus on my little corner and not worry about the big picture, but the big picture keeps pissing me off. Every time I try to sit down and figure out what's been happening with my characters, I get pissed off. Every time I try to figure out what to do with Olivia, I get pissed off. Every time I look at the map and see 3 planets that were important to the clans unowned and the two or three that are now owned by someone else... I get even more pissed off. Because it doesn't make any sense for the Mandalorians, of all people, to just sit by and watch their planets get taken away from them without putting up a fight. Every time I ask for a fight, the Faction Leaders either drag their feet or simply decide not to do it. So yeah... Everything I want to do to fix the story of my characters or just follow through with the story as it makes sense to me... becomes an issue that is beyond my control to correct.


So whatever... you wanted to know how I RP the timeskip? And my answer is that I still haven't figured that out. Six months from now, my faction will be struggling just to remain a major faction and I still wont know what to do with my characters.

 

[Ellie Mors]

I considered the time from the second invasion of Teta to kasshyk to be around 5 years, and added 1 for 2015. During that time Silara fell apart and became a real mess that got really attached to [member="Alric Kuhn"], though I think that had borrowed from me as a person while things happened Ic. Just prior to Netherworld stuff she was crippled by an allergic reaction to Asphma Serum, which temporarily blinded her until just recently when she was given cybernetics.

As a force user she never really grew or lost her strength during this period of time, but she became largely inactive in everything she used to excel at. I think it would be easier to describe what happened to her as a person by reading threads involving her.

 

[Kaida Taldir]

To be honest, I'd already been presuming that a lore more time had passed than the official timeline suggested until the event started. By the time the announcement about the time skip was made my own internal timeline (the one I use for my chars to keep track of their development) already presumed more than a decade had passed since I started rping (and ICly since Siobhan left the Jedi and joined OP).



Saying that the entire Sith war took place in 837 and then nothing happened for six stagnant years seemed...off to me. So I've rping the netherworld event as having taken place a couple months after the Battles of Kashyyyk and Prakith.


As for aging-up, it varies. Kaida has been aged up a bit because her still being the Eldorai equivalent of early twenties make no sense for an officer. Of course, it does not make much difference for her since she'll still be looking the same until she's 300 because space elf! Siobhan has been aged over the course of rping so that she's nnow in her late thirties. Moira has been retroactively aged while she was human...but time makes no difference to her because droid, and Sumiko has just been introduced.