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"A marksman! I'd like to talk to Loche."
"Very good. He's tracking down some serious problems here."
―A spacer and Inaldra's Lieutenant[2]

Loche Crestingsky was a Human male marksman who lived during the Galactic Civil War.

Biography[]

"Those droids seem to have gone haywire. We need to understand what happened to them."
―Loche Crestingsky, to a spacer[1]

Following the Battle of Yavin, Loche Crestingsky resided on Tansarii Point Station, a space station located above Ord Mantell in the Bright Jewel system. He worked out of the ranged combat training room as the combat instructor for Tansarii Point's guards.[3]

Tansarii Point Station Droid Repair Center

Malfunctioning droids in the Droid Repair Center of Tansarii Point Station

In 1 ABY,[4] Crestingsky was very concerned about malfunctioning droids on the lower level of Tansarii Point Station that were becoming violent and increasingly hostile towards the inhabitants of the station.[1] The marksman therefore hired a spacer to deal with this problem. Crestingsky first tasked the spacer to disable a number of droids to recover their memory modules. The spacer later came back with the modules and Loche sent them to the Tansarii Point's engineers for study.[1] The droid engineer who analyzed the memory modules discovered that the droids had been sliced but he was not able to find more clues. The engineer thus requested Crestingsky and the spacer to find an intact droid central processing core. The spacer therefore returned to the lower level and fought again some malfunctioning droids to recover a droid central chip.[5] The engineer finally found evidences that the droids were sliced by Black Sun pirates. Loche then realized that the sabotage of the droids was just a diversion for a wider Black Sun operation. In the meantime, a group of Black Sun slicers had infiltrated Tansarii Point Station and were attempting to slice into the main databanks of the station. The spacer therefore rushed to the data storage room on the lower level of the station and indeed found a group of Black Sun pirates slicing into the main security system. In the ensuring firefight, the spacer was able to eliminate most the slicers and even killed their leader, the master slicer. The spacer eventually returned to Loche Crestingsky who rewarded him with credits and a weapon from his collection.[3]

Behind the scenes[]

Loche Crestingsky was a non-player character in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[1] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[6] Loche Crestingsky was added to the game as part of the "New Player Tutorial,"[1] introduced with the release of the "Publish 25," a.k.a. the "New Game Enhancements," on November 15, 2005.[7]

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Crazed Droids" on Tansarii Point Station
  2. Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Speak to Inaldra's Lieutenant to Get Work" on Tansarii Point Station
  3. 3.0 3.1 Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Stopping the Slicers" on Tansarii Point Station
  4. The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
  5. Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Recover a Droid Central Chip" on Tansarii Point Station
  6. IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  7. Publish Archive 2005 on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)

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