"Would You Be A Jedi Or A Sith?" or "In The Old Republic, Not The Empire"

[Seil]

Here's the thing about the Star Wars extended universe: I don't know anything about it. I do like the KOTOR games, I enjoy messing around with The Force Unleashed, and the movies - for the most part - are pretty good.

But it looks like, in that MMO thing, that the war between the Republic and the Empire was a little bit bigger than portrayed in the movies. (I never saw that Clone Wars thing.) What with knights and consular and inquisitors and junk.

But barring what you played in The Old Republic, barring the collective "the Republic are the good guys!" mentality; because, let's be honest, the average person/cephalopod/wookie/hutt doesn't give a crap about intergalactic space politics.

For the most part, you would be blind to the Jedi/Sith war. You'd be bombarded with the same propaganda present in every fight, and you'd be influenced by the guy writing your space cheques. I'm not suggesting that stormtroopers watch the Empire's version of FOX news and read the Republic Huffington post, but that wouldn't be too far off here. With all the fighting going on on all the assorted planets and with all the manpower behind both groups - there's like fifty people working on the bridge, and like, three guys manning one spaceship space laser - there'd be a lot of hear say and speculation and talking going on by people on the payroll of one side or the other.

So out with it; if you lived in this world, what would you be? (Answers not necessarily confined to Jedi or Sith) Would you be more interested in getting a steady job where you have, like 1000 to 1 chance of being levitated and choked to death for a minor screw up, or where you're working with sub-par equipment and second hand weaponry with rebels camping out in taun-taun sleeping bags?

[Bells]

i think...i THINK... you might be mixing Empire with Sith and Jedi with Rebels. Surely all the materials give amp room for that line of thought, but its not necessarily true.

...at least i don't think it is. Is it?!

Either way, i would still be Jedi. Aside from some council bullshit now and then you at least have more freedom than if you would be under sith ruling

[Amake]

I'd live on a tropical planet far away from anyone and write fantasy books about a galaxy far, far away a long time from now.

But really I just wanted to say thanks for the sig quote. I don't know anything about it either, to be sure.

[Osterbaum]

It's not much of a choice really. I mean, two groups of conservative religious zealots; the others want to destroy anyone who is weaker and the others just want to preserve and protect a system that already does that in an even more arbitrary way and more slowly. Both have some weird values and rules. I couldn't see myself with either group. I'd be like a Grey Jedi or whatever.

[Flarecobra]

Fuck both sides.

After all... Ke nu'jurkadir sha Mando'ade! ("Don't mess with Mandalorians!")

[shiney]

It would be interesting to learn more of the political side of the conflict and war; how average peoples' lives were, were they oppressed and if so how, etc etc. Removed from the actual battle and the Jedi/Sith nonsense, how the society governed itself.

Everything in Star Wars is all about 'the force' this and 'space laser' that. The universe doesn't seem to be developed much beyond that really? And I don't have the patience to sift through 40 books of minutiae. Minutae. Minu...details

[Loyal]

Think you had it right the first time.

Maybe be a reformist of some sort.

[Bells]

Space Ron Paul?

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Manga wonjee kohkpa, oong jedi. Chool kanya wee shaja mee-choo.

[Flarecobra]

...Shyria the hutt? I honestly don't see it.