SWTOR: where Dark meets Light

Hey I'm Eclipse, welcome to my SWTOR rp blog! Check out the pinned post to get started!

[eclipsethenight]

SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION...

Relocating my RP efforts to another blog. This blog remains SWTOR / legacy based and dedicated to interacting with other blogs of the same sort.

EDIT: @eclipsethenight is a STAR WARS FANBLOG

-- mostly specializing in Old Republic Era lore, meta, headcanons and some overarching Star Wars things like Force theories, Jedi and Sith lore, etc. The Prequels are my secondary play place. All blog interaction welcome including personals and rp blogs.

[tearlessrain]

seriously though old republic sith are the absolute epitome of “look if you have to keep saying it…”

like yes, lord killdeathizar, I’m sure you’re a dark beacon of terror and the unworthy masses tremble before you and you could kill us all with a flick of your evil wrist and the republic will be crushed by you personally, anything you’ve felt the need to say five times in the last three hours must be true

[sith-shenanigans]

a thing I love about swtor is: there are a whole bunch of space wizards around who are only average at being space wizards, and some of these space wizards are sith, and the results are hilarious

[mercurypilgrim]

This would have been lost in the tags and that is a CRIME

[eclipsethenight]

My Inquisitor is soft.

Let me explain. Saphina is Sith. She never wanted to be Sith. She didn't want to be Jedi either. She was raised a slave, her earliest concrete memory is someone putting a Force collar on her and bitching that they'd have to change it 'again' once she started growing.

(And each growth spurt meant a grudging tweak of the collar, making her wear it until it was biting in too much into her flesh. Why those scars mattered and not the ingrained spidering scarring of Force Lightning she never knew. She didn't ask.)

Saphina grew up subject to the ugliness of a Sith's backhand. To the burning pains of Force Lightning, the tiny seizures when a little body struggled to bear it, when it was almost too much, when she was old enough to worry it would creep into her brain and destroy everything she was.

And when she was made Sith, her fear was not what Harkun thought. She didn't fear other Sith -- not now that she had power in her hands. She didn't fear slavery because no one would contain her before she escaped in death. She didn't fear death, it was a release.

She feared being unmade, and remade into something other.

In no longer recognizing herself in the mirror.

She feared, to put it bluntly, to become one and the same as her oppressors, of the people that literally tortured her from childhood on.

Lord Saphina Kallig was not one to kill without reason, often killing for merciful release before the torturers can get their hands on them. She has no taste for torture. Lightning is used on those never intended to get back up, or executed with very specific precision against those she intends to teach a lesson -- and leave them to live with it.

She acts based not on the tenants of the Sith Order, but on the marks and lessons given to her as a child. She is not soft because she is weak. She is soft because she is defiant.

And from that defiance, from that nontraditional background, from her refusal to be what she despises... Darth Imperius was born.

[eclipsethenight]

Eclipse Legacy Update (Tiny Things!)

Crafting! Bless my friend Summer, who somehow knows all the things SWTOR. I am so grateful to her because things have changed since I drifted off the SWTOR radar and am just now returning.

TL;DR while Lore Wise, Biochem fits Saphina, Diplomacy would mess with her muddled alignment progression and I don't want that. SO. Aeron my good lad got Biochem / Bioanalysis / Diplomacy because making him even Lighter is not a problem. He's my sunshine boy anyway.

Saphina just picked up Artifice / Archaeology / Treasure Hunting instead, which very much fits her Lore and both her scholarly pursuits both canon and headcanon, as well as her position on the Dark Countil at the end of CH3. So that works.

Raveneth has the set for Cybertech / Scavenging / Underworld Trading, especially fun because he's a cyborg who I headcanon does a lot of that kind of work anyway.

And that's it for the people who've made it to fleet, though I have ideas. We'll see how it plays out; as we all know, I'm slow. XD

[eclipsethenight]

Sincerely considering changing my legacy name...

Like. I don't know. OG Legacy revolved around my Consular and Inquisitor, who were twins who had been forcibly separated as children (not true to Kallig's story but don't we all go left a little?) and it was the last name they were born with. Which was great, but... it's not that I don't love them, I do... but I feel like something more encompassing, something reflecting my whole Core Eight, via this blog, might be nice? It's not even that expensive to do, iirc.

I don't know. Pitching this out into the void. Thoughts?

[eclipsethenight]

GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUYS

Does not have to be unique.

Eclipse Legacy has been achieved!

And for the curious, this is what I've actually done so far in the past, but I'm redoing for a new core 8 to follow here.

[eclipsethenight]

Sincerely considering changing my legacy name...

Like. I don't know. OG Legacy revolved around my Consular and Inquisitor, who were twins who had been forcibly separated as children (not true to Kallig's story but don't we all go left a little?) and it was the last name they were born with. Which was great, but... it's not that I don't love them, I do... but I feel like something more encompassing, something reflecting my whole Core Eight, via this blog, might be nice? It's not even that expensive to do, iirc.

I don't know. Pitching this out into the void. Thoughts?

[eclipsethenight]

RAVENETH ARRIVED: Vaiken Spacedock

Raveneth (more commonly just "Raven") has joined the ranks of Fleetgoers alongside Saphina (SI) and Aeron (JC) for 3/8 characters who have made it past their home world. I think my next closest as far as storyline goes is Lilja (JK) but we'll see.

As usual, considering his path so far and what it means for him, narratively in my own writings. Obviously, if you haven't completed Hutta on Agent, don't read.

The Hutt Cartel being a... neutral party, in so much as they don't give a hand up to either the Republic or Empire and blatantly play them against each other, it was just a matter of time before others tried to sway them. In our case here, Keeper -- who probably makes most of the detail decisions for the otherwise occupied Minister of Intelligence -- sends Raven to Hutta to do whatever is necessary to persuade Nemro, a powerful and influential Hutt, to join the Empire. As a first step, of course.

His alias as a bounty hunter known as The Red Blade holds up for the duration of his time with Nemro and the events of that time are an intriguing character study. Raven is not exactly a paragon of virtue, but neither is he a poster boy for the Dark Side. I think having played this one planet, it's fair to say he can be merciful when he thinks he can "afford" to.

I feel like his friendship with Kerrals that built over their time working together was genuine, actually. He liked him. Respected him.

He still killed him, mind, because he could not risk his operation failing for sentiment, and at this point (iykyk) he is loyal to the Empire above all else.

He finds Kaliyo fascinating but I think honestly Keeper wouldn't have had to convince him to put a blaster bolt through her head in that moment had they both agreed she was a threat to their operation, and it did cross his mind.

When the time comes to get the data records for Nemro, though, there's a shimmer of a conscience: he allows it to be scratched up, risking Toth'lazhen catching on to something going on in the background, and backlash from it that could ruin everything.

It's a hell of a risk and he makes a joke out of it with Kaliyo. Apparently he doesn't want to be involved in a bloodbath. Foreshadoing is a literary device--

Ultimately he succeeds. No bloodbath, no falling out with Nemro, he and Kaliyo jet out. There is, of course, the brief moment of coming face to face with the real Red Blade, but he's handled swiftly.

They step onto that shuttle and never look back.

[eclipsethenight]

SWTOR Legacy Spreadsheet

Hey all, Eclipse here with... not quite a game asset, but definitely an asset in your arsenal to help keep track of your OCs, be they many or few, and some suggestions to help you really think about who they are and how life goes for them.

I take suggestions for editing the base linked here, but it's honestly good to go and only be tweaked as you need. I suppose there might be a particular section that needs to be edited if you have a lot of OCs per page but it's not a difficult thing to do once you understand how it works.

In short, this tracks everything from name, age, appearance to literal game headshots (references) as well as their parents, mentors, alignment and room to add so much more -- really, it's up to your imagination, this is just a base.

And I hope you enjoy. Tag me if you make one and share it. ;)

-- Eclipse

[eclipsethenight]

-wanders in 800 lightyears late-

So I picked up SWTOR again. Hi.

Just got Raveneth (Cipher Nine) to fleet, there'll be a post about it in a bit. That's 3/8 on Fleet. \o/

Subbed for 60 days because surely my attention span will last that long.

Surely.

>_>"

Anyway! Hi, how you been? Pop in my ask to tell me something about your legacy / a member of your legacy! Use submit or this ask link for pics!

[ad-wills]

[eclipsethenight]

Modern AU of your muses...?

tagged by @aurouze, the description is:

If your OC lived in the Modern World, what would they be like? This dollmaker is here, the same creator has multiple to choose from! More masc/nb options and plus-sized.

I didn't really care for the male options (they're generally a bit lackluster in doll makers, but in this case it just didn't suit my guys) but I did do Saphina (SI) and Amalia (RT) -- Lorena being left out because... well, she's a Twilek. XD

Why are almost half of my mains redheads???

Anyway, as you'd guess, Saphina would have been a girly girl~ wearing pinks and soft colors, flowy materials. Without having the chill of the Force Ghost's presence, and not feeling vulnerable when she bares skin, she'd be more free with exposing it. And of course, her hair would stay red.

Amalia is a more rough and tumble sort in any life. Solid running shoes (they would be tied, however), comfortable pants she can work out in, a close fitting top could be swapped for something looser, but in either case a Corellian Green jacket would finish it off. She'd wear a lot of nature colors for someone growing up in a big city; greens (for Corellia), browns, grays and blacks, blues...

So yeah after some deliberation, I think that's where my girls would wind up.

If you see this and it tickles your fancy, feel free to pop in and do some yourself! I tag YOU!

[dicklessthewonderclown]

actually every song is about The Character, and if you think i’m wrong, ur just not trying hard enough

[caraganthepure]

[eclipsethenight]

-> Rises from the depths of being AWAY and commands in an ominous tone befitting Tumbls:

Go forth and create new characters. Tell new stories. Explore new concepts and relationships.

If you were looking for permission, here it is.

[herssian]

the soft, unspoken, constantly swallowed anger of the jedi consular ohhhhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[beas-diaries]

[herssian]

the fact you can play wrath as a deeply loyal imperial who wants to change the empire from within for the better but you have to tiptoe and hide your motives under layers of pretend hatred. how you're the most powerful person of the empire after the absence of the emperor's voice, allowed and capable of culling the dark council if they overstep, and yet you need to constantly play a role. to love your nation but hate its ways, to be the emperor's weapon, to have even maybe be led to believe his actual motives align with yours, only to then be faced with the monster he is. to have to reject, fight, kill the very being you worship. to know you have never mattered