#agent galen

[coruscanti-real-estate]

Chapter 1 (Nar Shaddaa)

Nar Shaddaa is a really interesting planet. I like how colourful and atmospheric it is I also find the lore and politics of it all very interesting. When I arrived at the spaceport, I accidentally walked onto the Imperial speeder pad. I've never been there. I didn't know that the spaceport and promenade were open to both factions, altough it makes sense of course, with Nar Shaddaa being neutral ground.

I got a few nice screenshots. I can imagine Nar Shaddaa would be a little overwhelming for a young Jedi Knight who has spent most of her time in temples and Jedi enclaves. Good thing Kira's here, too.

Tiny little spoiler warning for the Nar Shaddaa class story:

I remember being shocked by Agent Galen's fate the first time I was on Nar Shaddaa with a Jedi Knight. I think the game kind of glosses over how horrifying the concept of the power guard project really is. I talked Agent Galen out of wanting to die and I hope he found some peace after all. One time I picked the wrong light sided option and had a "wait, you can die???" moment. That bothered me a little. Call me sappy, but when I play a light sided character, I try to kill as little people as possible.

[vultures-and-scavengers]

agent galen should have been a knight companion, send tweet

[swtorpadawan]

More NPCs! There’s a lot I wanna ask about but weirdly enough I can’t think of who to ask. Let’s go with Calphayus, Chaney Barrow and Agent Galen?

Finally getting to these, @jjjwhovian !

Calphayus, the former Dread Master, was spared by Ulannium, Corellan and company, and was working on rehabilitating himself on Tython when the Zakuul invasion came. Not wanting to be a burden on the Order as they planned their evacaution, but not able to aid in the defense, the recovering Sith slipped out of the Temple one night, disappearing into the wilderness. Will he return? Will we ever learn what happened to him? … well, I'll get around to it.

Chaney Barrow, after her encounter with Gahraath Vaiken on Belsavis, got off the planet and went back to being a freelance slicer for inscrupulous individuals. I don't have strong thoughts about her future, though I have turned that over in my head a few times. I do have some headcanons on her backstory, though! The Slice Girls

Corellan and Kira persuaded Agent Galen that being turned into a cyborg didn't have to mean the end for him. He ultimately went back to the SIS, volunteering for a dangerous undercover assignment. Galen would ultimately meet his end, but it would be on his own terms doing something that mattered.

Thanks for the asks!

[raven-of-domain-kwaad]

I can make Galen pre power guard but not post. This seems to be the closest I can get because the cc doesn’t have his cybernetics. Maybe I’ll just hand wave it away as the SIS and Republic streamlining and adjusting his implants to make them easier for him to use.

[the-chavoi-legacy]

alright so

i’ve finally gotten qey through most of the nar shaddaa class story missions - was pretty conflicted for a while about the route i was gonna take, especially since i took zhaeta through the missions first

content warning ahead, this post deals with one of the ds!alignment decisions you can make at the beginning of the ‘showdown with lord sadic’ mission regarding agent galen

yeah

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i made this choice the first time i played qey on the satele shan server, and it’s really stuck with me and helped me define qeyret as a character in his own right

the decision to make this choice was heavily influenced by qey’s backstory, as a child who once spent several nights listening to a fellow slave beg their loved ones to put an end to their life after surviving a debilitating injury. hearing agent galen’s anguished pleas to do the same, to end his suffering, acted as a retraumatizing event for qey, one that made it very, very difficult for him to refuse the agent’s request

on some level, he was aware that he could have spared galen’s life, convinced him to keep on living. from his perspective, it’s a failure that reinforces that feeling that he’s always had of being somewhat alienated from the order, a trespasser and a fraud (100% impostor syndrome). it’s an unfortunate holdover from his early days in the order, a lingering fear that someone will one day look at him and be able to see just how much he’s struggling and call him out on it

going forward, it's a weight that he choose to carry with him, something that he refuses to let himself forget. he obviously could forget it, wipe away that memory of testing the waters of the dark side and move on without fear or hatred of himself

but qey knows that wouldn’t fix anything. he knows that the dark is always there, waiting for him to turn towards it, to indulge in it - and that there’s a part of him that will always be tempted by it. an essential part of himself that he can’t suppress or suffocate without changing every aspect of his being entirely

it’s mostly what makes him so intriguing to the emperor - 'strong and touched by darkness,’ as scourge puts it, but never succumbing to it entirely

[greyias]

Oh, Galen... I just... want to hug him so much. I really am way, way too fond of Republic spies in this game.

[nerf-burger]

Presenting one of my favorite NPCs in the Jedi Knight story...

Agent Galen, SIS agent and all-around cool guy. 

(It’s a shame that his story ends so soon. I personally think he would have made a great companion for the Knight.)

[badsithnocookie]

today in swtor characters who deserved Better: Agent Galen