Hey folks, my name is Drew and I love Star Wars. Now of course I suppose this doesn't seem like much of a shock nor much of a confession. I mean, Star Wars is a phenomenon. It is a staple of our culture, or even our fabric of who we are as people since where is was drawn from dates back to the earliest of our stories regardless of place and time.

That being said I wanted to just write down something that has bother me for years that specifically deals with a topic we all know and love: vidja games! Now for me, the culmination of this is the Knights of the Old Republic or "KOTOR" franchise. I have always loved these games and as a result it pains me to admit that there will never be a KOTOR 3. I'm getting ahead of myself though, before I get to that I also have wanted to make the point that I have argued with friends for years now. Namely that KOTOR 2 is better that KOTOR 1.

Knight of the Old Republic

Now to begin we first have to look at KOTOR 1 as maybe some of you have not played it. Essentially, KOTOR kicked off a new era in the Star Wars timeline. The story takes place thousands of years before the events of the original films and thus is held down by the weight it would endure if it were closely tied to them. You star as (FIll in Blank here), a lady or man who is stationed on the ship the Endar Spire as it is being attack the the bad guys of the series: the Sith. Why are you here? You find out that you were a last minute addition to the crew as a request from the Jedi. Interesting... but I digress. The lowdown is that the Sith want a certain jedi by the name of Bastila Shan who basically has the power to shift the morale of armies on a grand scale and thus turn the tide of the battle: causing the enemies to make mistakes and her side to have the ability to take advantage of it.

With that one can imagine that the Sith don't want her around and thus try and kill her off. So you fight through the ship and meet up with you first real party member: Carth Onasi. Carth is also your potential love interest if you are a lady but that's beside the point. You crash land on the nearby planet of Taris and eventually discover that Bastila also crash landed but has been capture by some gang members. However through your daring actions you save her and get off the planet before it is razed from space by the main antagonist of the game: Darth Malak.

After that you are brought by Bastila to the planet of Dantooine where you are trained the force at the Jedi academy. Although apprehensive at first you agree to the training and quickly learn everything you need to know to become a Padawan or entry level jedi. This is of course surprising to everyone as the game mentions that you have accomplished in weeks what many could not do in years. You just go, "Eh, it's a game; they have to make moves." With that, you start on your quest to find out how Darth Malak was able to create such a large army and fleet so quickly.

You see, what happened (to make a long story short) the Mandalorians (Boba Fett's people) invaded the worlds under the protection of the Republic (Space UN). The Republic started the lose the war and some jedi felt that they should take a more "lightsabers on approach." However, there was this big controversy as the Jedi Masters forbid any from joining the war because of what war can do to jedis (make them turn to the Darkside). However, Malak and his pal Revan joined the war effort and fought back the Mandalorians. The enigmatic Revan (always seen armor) was the clearly the superior of the two and after the war they became Master and apprentice down in Darkside junction. They in turn invaded the Republic a few years later with a monstrous fleet. However the Jedi attempted to assassinate Revan but were thwarted when they boarded his ship because Malak had his ships fire on Revan's! What a jerk! With Revan presumed dead, Malak took over fully and continued the invasion.

As I said, your quest is to retrace their steps to find out how Revan and Malak were able to invade the Republic with all their swag new ships. So you bounce around different planets finding traces of where the two of them were in hopes of finding out their secret and hopefully stopping Malak from taking over the Republic.

With that, the story is set for the adventure. Our next spot will be going more in depth into our colorful cast of characters in Part 2!

P.S.

Whew! this was my first time ever doing something like this. I don't know if anyone will read this, if so, thanks! If not... oh well. This look back this is definitely for me as I get to look back on two of of my favorite games and what express they mean to me. Anyway, thanks and may the force be with you.