MER Episode 15 Pre-Poll: Revisiting Planets…With A Twist!

mer 15 pre poll

The poll this week revisits the idea from episode 9 with a slightly different twist. With the recent annoucement of Taris and the newest developer video outlining the team’s approach to this destroyed planet, we want to know which, if any, of the planets from KOTOR you would love to see in the game.

Here’s the catch, we’re going to provide links to the Wookipedia entry for each planet to refresh your minds, and in the comments we want to hear your ideas for how Bioware can take a familiar landscape and craft a new and interesting story in it. Get creative! Have some crazy idea about a Wookie uprising on Kashyyyk? Want to rebuild pieces of the Star Forge floating around Rakata Prime? Sketch it out, and we’ll discuss your storylines on episode 15.

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Brush up on each planet’s history…
-Dantooine
-Kashyyyk
-Manaan
-Rakata Prime
-Yavin System

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Comments

  1. On March 02, 2010 Lazenca says:

    I’d love to see them explore Dantooine where it says “Buried beneath the deserted Enclave was a hidden facility in which the ancient Jedi Knights carried on mysterious cloning experiments.” in the wiki link. I love the idea of the serene planet surface, but beneath the surface are either jedi ghosts or decayed jedi walking around doing immoral experiments for warped and skewed reasons that were at one time good. And hell, if the Empire could somehow be behind this corruption… all the better.

  2. On March 03, 2010 boredkid says:

    I voted Kashyyyk although at the time I cannot come up with an interesting story as to why. Perhaps a companion character of some sort… I’ll think on it and post later.
    Honestly, I just do not want to see Manaan. Nor do I want to see or hear any Selkath – easily the worst part of KotOR. I hate them, I hate their society, I hate their story, I hate their planet, I hate their “speech”. If someone else managed to enjoy them more power to you, but I could not stand them. After completing the entire planet for the first time I skipped as much of it as possible on all following play throughs.

  3. On March 03, 2010 Axe Faktor says:

    I’d like to see them take a different view of Kashyyyk. The wookies and their homeworld are eternally oppressed by some evil organization or another. I’d like it to be a time when the wookiees are “free” from outside influence, and have fallen into a civil war. Prior to the events in TOR, the government of Kashyyyk began to concentrate too much power in Rwookrrorro. When several of Kashyyyk’s governing body bought the leading tech lab in Thikkiiana, and had the lab HQ moved to Rwookrrorro, it was the last straw. Thikkiiana declared secession from Rwookrrorro, and, fearing the technological prowess of Thikkiiana more than Rwookrrorro, Kachiro followed suit. However the two didn’t foresee the rest of the Republic joining Rwookrrorro to quell the dispute. Now, as Troopers are sent to Kashyyyk to help Rwookrrorro, Imperial agents secretly begin to offer their skills to the cities of Kachiro and Thikkiiana in exchange for new technology and hyperspace lanes to use in their war against the republic.

    I think this would be cool for a lot of reasons. First of all neither faction (Republic/Empire) is in the right. The Republic is serving its best interests, while ignoring the plight of the rebellious Wookiees, and the Empire is manipulating as usual. While it’s fairly obvious what the Imp. Agent and Trooper story lines in this would be, you could obviously have Smugglers benefiting in their own way on either side of the dispute. Jedi players would be forced to choose between service to the Republic, or defenders of the freedom of Kachiro and Thikkiiana, obviously ignorant of the fact that they are being helped by the Empire. Bounty Hunters could do what they always do and take out key targets for either side, for their allegiance lies with the highest bidder. Inquisitors will remain largely out of the conflict, but will stay behind the scenes pulling the strings, ensuring the conflict lasts as long as it can, so they can maximize their benefit from the rebel cities, while Warriors stay on the frontlines, disguised as Jedi, so as not to reveal the Empire’s influence.

    Check that out!

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