USH'S STAR WARS GAME- CAMPAIGN II EPISODE IV (DARK SIDE)- Destiny

Well, that's the problem with already having so many force powers.

At this point, I don't think anyone is helping Rianna look into the SNK?

They can rattle off a few examples, Ran.d Kara was n Garde just before simmering tension over food distribution in the caste system turned into opening riots by the worker caste; she was on Turania just before a scandal brought down the Government, and she killed a few Overseers on the Veershan moons in the week before the entire solar system fell into a five-way conflict.

So then what do you guys think Xavier should be doing right now?

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Well, that's the problem with already having so many force powers.

At this point, I don't think anyone is helping Rianna look into the SNK?

Well, I that that I kind of made a point that Gallador wants to help Rianna.

And I want to spend my XP mainly on force powers and Force Rating, so I hoped the XP system wouldn`t restict me so much, considering results of character conversion.

The system for gaining Force powers is exactly the same as before.

And if you are helping Rianna there then you aren't looking into cultures!

Originally posted by Ushgarak
The system for gaining Force powers is exactly the same as before.

And if you are helping Rianna there then you aren't looking into cultures!

Well, I didn`t have any problem with the system when my character had almost all powers he would want....

I meant that Rand should look into the cultures that Lady could come from! Did he get his major revelation already?

He did find out about Kara...

And character development takes time with xp. I wouldn't be too worried about it.

If you started the game with all the force powers you wanted, I think that points more to a deficiency in the old system...

And yes, Rand was finding out about Kara.

Considering there were Force powers that even Rianna wanted and she hardly used the Force...😛

And you're supposed to be helping Rianna book-hunt, Gallador.

Yes, Gallador is helping Rianna.

I thought so.

With any luck I should get you the details you want on thos over the weekend. By far the most important thing of all though... is that no-one knows what the Syphar N Kalar was.

Than what useful info is there to gain?

That is what you are looking into...

I'm sure there's more to be found, even if nobody knows WHAT it was. I'm sure someone knew what it DID...

Uh-oh...

Well, there is a report about its very very general final effect...

Wooo!

I have your info!

Slight correction- the book as A Political History of the nations of the Sith, and the writer actually seemed to be thinking of the Sith as a race with a variety of cultures in. very rarely are the Sith seen as a race these days (save for the mythology that says there was once an actual Sith race etc, for you EU fans).

The writer's name was Daemora of Ciceronicus, and the work was massive- many volumes long.

Rianna, when you track down a copy of it, you find that the reference you remmeber was in the second volume. Here, Daemora is talking of the endless vivil wars the Sith faced in their early times before they invaded the Republlic for the first time. He actually refers to one of the final pre-invasion Sith civil wars, the Third Metaphian War, the war that finally saw the power of the Metaphians broken

Metaphians?

These are still Rianna`s discoveries?

(Actually wasn`t the EU mythology something like that long ago some Jedi were banished beyond the known space, and they found the race known as Sith that they mixed with?)

Ciceronicus... I believe Brith had us plug that into our map awhile back!

Where is Ciceronicus and who are the Metaphians?

And yes, the Expanded Universe mythology is that Jedi began using the Dark Side and were exiled after a Schism in the Order for their dark and sorcerous ways. They found the Sith, a Force-sensitive race, and became their rulers, eventually interbreeding with them.

To be honest, I don't think it is at all what Lucas had in mind.

Also, do I need to formulate some sort of plan for hunting down rumors of the glorious Kuylen?

Melkor- that's what I was referring to when I was saying that was not what Daemora meant, if you believe that interpretation. GL's own comments about the creation of the Sith involve no race of any sort. The whole point of this is that there is so much contradiction and so many continuity issues in the whole Sith origins thing that the best approach is to call it all myth and for people to take what they want from it.

As for the rest...

Unfortunately a lot of these ancient names have absolutely no link to the modern day- the names either fell into disuse or translation issues mean that their modern day versions remain unknown.

Metephia, however, is known. In fact it was a known Sith world in their original invasion of the Republic. However, the Metaphian faction that dominated Sith politics for many generations was (and is) long gone. The Thrid war ended in their submission and their importance gradually faded to the point where their existence did also. Metephia ia just a far out world with a history that it was once the headquarters world of a Sith faction; nothing more.

The Third War- not to be seen as a single confllict or even a set of conflicts, but really an ongoing time period in which many things occured (more like the Punic or Peloponessian wars in history)- spanned much of Sith space as it existed at the time and most planet,s under the thrall of some Sith bigwig (this all predates the use of the term 'Darth'😉 took one side or another- and in typical Sith fashion, and another and another and another...

And although this is a broad simplifcation of a complex area, the main power blocks in the end were the Metaphians and their allies on one side, and a coalation opposed to them on the other. The strongest of this opposing coalition was a faction called the Kasmanae (another group that Daemora identifies as a cultural subset of an overall 'race' of Sith). The final 'act' of the Third War was a series of campaigns as the Kasmanae sought to destroy the worlds allied to the Metaphians.

Good approach to the issue, I say. I doubt many people in the time setting know much about the times of the Sith as it is.

So this whole thing about the Kasmanae... it being the Sith I'm assuming it was a long and bloody confrontation... but how did it end?

Was there anything interesting with regard to either Metaphians and Kasmanae( by the way, I once read Peloponese Wars by Tukidydes, and which was about the long conflict between Sparta and Athens), or were they just random Sith factions?

I quess that these Sith dominions were ruled in feudal system, with the strongest Sith around either destroying other overlords or making them his vassals? Actually, propably the entire point of such Sith "civilization" was to minimize the Dark Side tendencies towards self-destruction. This interests Gallador a bit.