Author Topic: Ascendancy? :o (Read 42008 times)

Kalo · « **Reply #60 on:** May 30, 2012, 10:29:48 AM »

Quote from: NeoSigma on May 29, 2012, 02:38:13 AM

But if I had a disruptor held to my head and had to ball all of this up into one guess, I'd say it's something about the Chiss Ascendency,

The Chiss never did anything themselves in the Galaxy back then. They may have been the only official allies with the Sith, but they never did anything with them. Atleast in my Bounty Hunter playthrough they didn't do shit. And I actually interacted with them in said playthrough.

NeoSigma · « **Reply #61 on:** May 31, 2012, 07:26:53 PM »

Quote from: Kalo on May 30, 2012, 10:29:48 AM

The Chiss never did anything themselves in the Galaxy back then. They may have been the only official allies with the Sith, but they never did anything with them. Atleast in my Bounty Hunter playthrough they didn't do shit. And I actually interacted with them in said playthrough.

So a KotOR mod where the Chiss Ascendancy doesn't have any AI files?

Zsinj · « **Reply #62 on:** May 31, 2012, 07:35:18 PM »

Its probably not going to be a Chiss centered mod its probably going to be a kotor mod for FOC, or Sins of a solar Empire or its new Expansion Rebellion.

yutpaeksi · « **Reply #63 on:** May 31, 2012, 07:56:51 PM »

Yeah Corey's June 12 2012 hint, that's the release date for SOAS:Rebellion. I would find it amazing if they did a mod for Rebellion since it has yet to be released, but I can imagine a SOAS mod centered on the KOTOR era. That'd be pretty badass.

Zsinj · « **Reply #64 on:** May 31, 2012, 08:08:56 PM »

Yeah i just remembered that Rebellion isnt released yet.

Charles di Britannia · « **Reply #65 on:** June 04, 2012, 02:40:59 AM »

Anybody know why incredible characters like Thrawn, get little or no attention, but little insects like Wedge, Darlaa and Pellaeon get entire series written about them? I mean seriously, Thrawn could and would have beaten any enemy up one side and down the other hands down.

tlmiller · « **Reply #66 on:** June 04, 2012, 09:49:53 PM »

Quote from: Charles di Britannia on June 04, 2012, 02:40:59 AM

Anybody know why incredible characters like Thrawn, get little or no attention, but little insects like Wedge, Darlaa and Pellaeon get entire series written about them? I mean seriously, Thrawn could and would have beaten any enemy up one side and down the other hands down.

Pallaeon gets a lot because he served the republic, the empire, the imperial remnant. He was one of the very few characters in the entire galaxy to survive all of it.

And he's nothing NEAR an insect. While not a tactician on the level of Thrawn, he was still a great tactician, and managed to hold the Empire together in some way shape or form through the death of the Emperor TWICE, Thrawn, etc. One of the most important characters in the entire Imperial history.

Lord Xizer · « **Reply #67 on:** June 05, 2012, 10:11:19 AM »

Quote from: Charles di Britannia on June 04, 2012, 02:40:59 AM

Anybody know why incredible characters like Thrawn, get little or no attention, but little insects like Wedge, Darlaa and Pellaeon get entire series written about them? I mean seriously, Thrawn could and would have beaten any enemy up one side and down the other hands down.

First off, Thrawn gets LOADS of attention in the EU(Outbound Flight, Choices of One, Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command, Spector of the Past, Vision of the Future, as well as being mentioned with awe and respect in nearly EVERY EU book)

Wedge is hardly an insect(guy survived BOTH death star runs created Wraith and ran Rogue squadron, became a great general of Fleet command and is one of the most essential NR characters ever created.)
Daala(while arguably the most militarily inept character I've ever read of, still managed to reunite the Empire and lead to it's salvation by turning it over to Pellaeon.)

Pellaeon-is the only EU character I know of who has served some 70 yrs of active duty. he was an amazing tactician(he beat Antilles, Iblis, and Ackbar at different engagements throughout his career, the only reason he had to retreat so much was often a lack of material or power to turn the tide, i.e. too little too late.) He's probably the third greatest tactician in the SWEU. He survived so many brushes with death and was the SOLE SAVIOR of the Galactic Empire. He fought the CIS, Nuso Esva, pirates, Rebels, Warlords, NR, Yuuzhan Vong and Confederacy, no one else has a record even CLOSE to that. He was Thrawn's greatest protege as well.

Also you forget something else, Thrawn lost battles too, not often but it did happen. Finally These other insect survived when Thrawn was killed, they outlived him and created their own legacies that shaped the Galaxy.

So that's why.

Revanchist · « **Reply #68 on:** June 05, 2012, 10:50:48 AM »

Well said, Xizer,well said. Anyway, why are we talking about this in a forum about a new mod??

Znieh · « **Reply #69 on:** June 07, 2012, 07:26:58 PM »

I'm about 99.9% sure its a mod for the Sins expansion, as I'm sure everyone else is as well, but what knowledge we know about the Sins expansion may paint us a picture about the mod. First Rebellion has 6 factions, in the original there were 3 but each one has split in half because of infighting and rebellion, next Sins has complex diplomacy so you can not only go to peace and war with different factions but also use "Machiavellian strategy". Now lets look at the word Ascendancy, it means "Occupation of a position of dominant power or influence". Now where in the Star Wars timeline have we seen a time where there were many different factions that were vying for Ascendancy, they had split from each other, and they used a variety of fighting and Machiavellian strategy aka diplomacy to get to their goal?

The Imperial Civil War

Zsinj · « **Reply #70 on:** June 07, 2012, 07:29:32 PM »

Or the Second Imperial Civil war

yutpaeksi · « **Reply #71 on:** June 09, 2012, 12:59:39 AM »

Or ummmm any war in Star Wars history

Kalo · « **Reply #72 on:** June 09, 2012, 08:51:48 AM »

Keep trying.

Corey · « **Reply #73 on:** June 10, 2012, 07:35:56 AM »

Quote from: Znieh on June 07, 2012, 07:26:58 PM

I'm about 99.9% sure its a mod for the Sins expansion, as I'm sure everyone else is as well, but what knowledge we know about the Sins expansion may paint us a picture about the mod. First Rebellion has 6 factions, in the original there were 3 but each one has split in half because of infighting and rebellion, next Sins has complex diplomacy so you can not only go to peace and war with different factions but also use "Machiavellian strategy". Now lets look at the word Ascendancy, it means "Occupation of a position of dominant power or influence". Now where in the Star Wars timeline have we seen a time where there were many different factions that were vying for Ascendancy, they had split from each other, and they used a variety of fighting and Machiavellian strategy aka diplomacy to get to their goal?

The Imperial Civil War

Not that it matters, but faction numbers in Sins of a Solar Empire are easily moddable. You can have as many or as few as you want functioning just as well as the number the base game has.

arrum · « **Reply #74 on:** June 11, 2012, 03:38:37 PM »

I am officially protesting this thread until a full announcement is made or unless somebody says something really really good.

Revanchist · « **Reply #75 on:** June 11, 2012, 08:16:30 PM »

Everyone, boycott TR until something gets announced.

Lord Xizer · « **Reply #76 on:** June 12, 2012, 04:34:23 AM »

Quote from: revanchist on June 11, 2012, 08:16:30 PM

Everyone, boycott TR until something gets announced.

Patience, you must have. Made in a day a great mod is not!

Corey · « **Reply #77 on:** June 12, 2012, 07:18:38 AM »

This has nothing to do with blackmail, and everything to do with release day.

Revanchist · « **Reply #78 on:** June 12, 2012, 06:19:14 PM »

Well what do ya know, it worked! It is a SOSE mod.

Kalo · « **Reply #79 on:** June 12, 2012, 11:23:04 PM »

Quote from: revanchist on June 12, 2012, 06:19:14 PM

Well what do ya know, it worked! It is a SOSE mod.

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?