Forum:CT Archive/The Old Republic: Commander's storyline affiliation

Heyo. Based on what was discussed in Forum:SH:The Old Republic: Outlander story and affiliations I've decided to put this for vote.

To sum up, SWTOR has reached a point where the player story (aka Outlander) that started at expansion 4.0 Knights of the Fallen Empire and unified all 8 character stories into a single one, has now completely diverged storylines into faction affiliation-based ones (Empire story/Republic story). To us editors this has made it very hard to write any content articles because the outcomes of each story contradict the other. Since we don't know which is canon (nor will we ever know) we're forced to write articles in the Behind the scenes sections and honestly, that's just ugly (Darth Shaar and Darth Savik as examples).

[proposal starts here]

As such, I've decided to work on a policy in which we assume as canon the player choices that support Republic (because it survived?) and Light side (because Republic is good!) as we've done a few times before.

But this isn't to say we will neglect all of the Empire's story. Parts of the Empire story that directly contradict the Republic one are considered alternative gameplay choices and written in the Bts section and elements that don't contradict the Republic story (such as side quests and random location bosses) will still be considered as they happened in the canon version of the story (but it wasn't the Commander doing them). Seeing as it's light side choices, the new saboteur option also falls to the Bts section.

And according to all this: The Eternal Alliance joins the Republic at the end of the expansion 6.0 Onslaught's storyline.

Thanks. Winterz (talk) 21:33, November 1, 2019 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) Winterz (talk) 21:33, November 1, 2019 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Alternate methods to deal with the issue have been mentioned in the Senate Hall discussion but they are confusing and impractical. However you are free to mention any if you oppose this. Winterz (talk) 21:33, November 1, 2019 (UTC)