SWA: Out of Character

[SWSF Hale]

For all OOC discussions relating to the game.

[EmperorSeverus]

So the "After Jakku" timeline = 5 ABY in the EU2 universe (http://swsfonline.com/index.php?topic=1220.msg16277#msg16277). My initial reaction was to say let's go EU1, but on second thought I actually think it's an exciting time in the EU2. The Empire's in disarray, just as in the After Endor timeline in the EU1. Pellaeon hasn't been introduced as a character in the EU2 yet, but one can imagine that he is playing some sort of role in the aftermath. Luke hasn't checked out yet, so the whole Luke\Han\Leia\etc. crew is still around. Should be exciting.

[EmperorSeverus]

"SWA is going to be a wild departure from AE"

I got a bad feeling about this...

[SWSF Hale]

I wish you came to the forum earlier this year! It's not that I disagree with you in principle, but we have strong evidence that in practice, a simming game like AE just does not work for the forum members. Thanks for your candor.

[gallpizi]

I think we get something, ANYTHING running. A real game. Show activity. And then we can draw more old timers back as they see activity and how things are progressing. Once we have a forum that has life again we can look at other, more complex ideas.

[EmperorSeverus]

If you want old timers, you need rules based on IGE\AE rules. And don't quit on it. People who quit on Galactic Flashpoint will quit on something else. Let's get a modified AE warbook and a core group that's not going to quit and then launch.

[gallpizi]

I appreciate the drive for that rule set but we simply don't have the UMPF to make it go. We have tried, ad nausem, for years.

[EmperorSeverus]

I would rather launch with 4 people who won't quit on an AE-based system than 8 or 9 people who won't quit on a system that departs wildly from AE.

[SWSF Eidolon]

  What is factional structure gonna be?  Limits per player re  # of units (large caps) controlled?

  NR and Empire only
  NR and 1+ Empire Factions
  NR, 1-? Empire Factions, Indep/Fringe?

[SWSF Hale]

We're going to mix Legends & New Canon together.

After Jakku, galaxy is in chaos. Anything goes.

Imperial Remnant (Coruscant is still the capitol)
New Republic (Chandrila/Mon Calamari are the power bases)
Hutt Syndicate (Nal Hutta)
Trade Federation (more so a resurgent CIS, but can accommodate anyone leaning towards the fringe)

If unplayed, factions will become NPC.

Players will start out GCW style, playing for their "team" but only "in charge" of a single system + small fleet (e.g. single ISD or MC-80).

Imperial players can go for Thrawn/Pellaeon/Pestage/Isard or play up Snoke or some other Sith Lord.

Republic players can do the Heroes Club or some other character of their own making.

WHATEVER!

[SWSF Eidolon]

  Sweeeeet.

  I'll do Hutts.


  The lack of an unrivaled certifiable central power in the galaxy for the first time in millennia has awakened an eons old principle and yearning biologically imbued in Hutt-kind.  Before the monopolized Core-centric power of the Galactic Republic and subsequent Galactic Empire, the Huttuk Kajidic (Hutt Empire/Great Clan/Hutt Kind) was the largest 'organized' power the galaxy had ever known.  Slowly eroded by the ever-growing Republic and contained by the Empire, the deprivation of their glory and suppression of their might over thousands of years has been but a brief lapse in the assumed order of the long-lived megalomaniacal beings rightful dominion over all the lesser creatures of the galaxy.


  Granee Huttuk Kajidic.  (Grand Hutt Clan/Grand Hutt Empire)

  "Let them marvel at our splendour, let them cringe at our power, let them feel the weight of our chains as they serve their rightful masters"


   Can i suggest 'canon' names to a handful of ship specs as borrowed from the aforementioned likes of FFG games and such?  I will supply a brief verbal synopsis of their make up and abilities and translate them to SWA spec format as you deem fit?

[SWSF Hoppus]

 I will probably go NR..

 Or Hapans maybe? 

[SWSF Eidolon]

Or Hapans? 

  Weeelll in that case..

  Hey baby

     

 
  Goodie that I got Hutts, don't even gotta dig up a new Avatar!



 

[SWSF Eidolon]

  Alright i saw Solo a 2nd time last nite and a 3rd this morning.  It's grown on me more and thats not just the fact that emagines only sell like 24oz beers at smallest even in the AM talking.

[SWSF Hale]

Probably gonna stick with IR as usual. Thinking about taking my character in a new direction though, we'll see. I've been doing the "reform the Imperial Senate" motif for too long.