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[greyias]

SWTOR Short Stories (and In-Universe Documents)

I know someone else has already done this work elsewhere, but for the life of me I couldn't find it. So, I've put together a comprehensive list of all of the devblog short stories and in-universe epistolary-type documents (documents, journals, dossiers, missives, personnel files, communications, etc). Short stories are bolded and marked, in case you're only looking for those.

2.0 - 7.2

SIS Intel Report: Key locations overview of the planet Makeb

Imperial Intelligence Report: Persons of Interest on Makeb

Facilities: Take a Virtual Tour

A Letter from Special Executive Rasmus Blys

WORK WITH PRIDE. WORK WITH CZERKA.

CZ-198 and the State of Czerka Corporation

CZ-198 – Meet the Staff

HoloNet News Exclusive Interview: Baron Deathmark

HoloNet News Exclusive Interview: Baron Deathmark, Part 2

A Record of the Dread Masters

The Search for Oricon

HoloNet News Exclusive Interview: Baron Deathmark

IMPERIAL EDICT GR-1NC4

Additional Personnel Files

Four More Picks for You

RE: Kuat Drive Yards

EMERGENCY ALERT: Rakghoul Plague Outbreak on Alderaan – AVOID ALDERAAN!

State of the Galaxy

Since KOTOR: Manaan

Lana Beniko’s Journal: Darth Arkous

"Surface Details" (short story)

"WANTED: DEAD AND DISMANTLED" (short story)

"Remnants" (short story)

The Revanites’ Ascendance

"Bedtime on Concordia" (short story)

Rishi: Places of Interest

Raider’s Cove: Persons of Interest

"The Price of Power" (short story)

"One Night in the Dealer’s Den" (short story)

"The Final Trial" (short story)

Go Big, Go Small, Go Nowhere

"Regrets" (short story)

"The Sixth Line: Part One" (short story)

"The Sixth Line: Part Two" (short story)

"Vacation" (short story)

"Brothers" (short story)

"A Mother's Hope" (short story)

"Trading Scars" – A Short Story on Umbara (short story)

"Copero Short Story Blog" (short story)

Jedi Under Siege: State of the Galaxy

Dantooine Tactical Report

"Quite A Story To Tell" (short story)

"Seeing Red" (short story)

Intelligence Report: Historical Analysis of Manaan

Mission Abstract: Investigate link between Darth Malgus and the planet Elom

"All That’s Left" (short story)

"Bottled Fury" (short story)

"Snare" (short story)

[sixtene]

life would be easier for me if i knew how to have conversations with people without making a flowchart of responses to say and recieve in my head

[sixtene]

my lovers are few and far between but now i know it'll be okay if it takes a while for someone to come along

there is nothing wrong with being without a lover but the thought of living so many years with no single person to go to for everything and anything is unappealing to me

i have always imagined life being something to start sharing with someone when you have your feet planted properly. someone who's willing to keep you steady if you start losing balance.

[sixtene]

there is a sweetness that comes with letting go. its acidic. too much of it can leave a bad taste in your mouth. remember that.

[sixtene]

happy holidays to all who celebrate! twitter is pissing me off. we need to get rid of that guy.

[arkhan1039]

The digital winds shift again. 🌬️ For us, the architects of code and prose, our developer blogs are more than just repositories of knowledge; they are reflections of our learning journeys, our experiments, our very digital footprints. But what happens when the very ground beneath them begins to tremor? Google's 2025 update isn't just a technical tweak; it's a philosophical challenge to the indie developer blogger. Is our reliance on external algorithms a fragile foundation? How do we build content that truly transcends the ebb and flow of ranking factors, content that resonates purely by its merit and passion? Perhaps this is a call to rethink our digital gardens, to cultivate deeper connections, and to innovate beyond the metrics. What does true, unranked value look like for our creations? https://devtechinsights.com/google-ranking-factor-small-dev-blogs-2025/ #DevBlogs #GoogleAlgorithm #DigitalPhilosophy #ContentCreation #IndieDev #TechBlogging #WebDev #CreativeCoding #ThoughtLeadership #FutureOfWeb #Inspiration #Innovation

[mostholygamedev]

On Gaming Literacy | Friday Diary #4

The public still does not quite understand what games are and what we do. As gamedevs, we are in a bubble - a sphere that only overlaps with players during the state of play. Whatever they are exposed to inside of that state that impacts them, they take back into the real world. 

But all the stuff that goes on behind the scenes, with the exception of the most intense fans, the public does not care about it because there’s no way for them to really easily walk across and chew on what we do. 

In the short run this poses an interesting problem because it leads to game development being both a blessing and a curse. 

Its a curse because if you are not the person molding the perception of your industry the public fills in the blanks and anything can slip up in there including lowering the value of what you do, a lack of appreciation, or worse an intense fear of manipulation. 

People outside of gaming view game developers as anything from people who refuse to grow up to evil social engineers who make kids addicted to screens and drop out of school.

And that is just simply not an accurate picture at all. 

I say all this because I took a break this week from working on my game to present a paper on game developer communties. It got a nice reception and made it into the top three at the event. The feedback I got afterwards was extremely eye opening and why I am writing this post. 

Next week I dive into the digital world. I’m kind of dreading it because I feel very foolish. Part of me is overthinking how I should just jump in instead of jumping in. One of the reasons why I guess I am so anxious is because I’ve been running into a lot of bad tutorials/a lack of tutorials on stuff I want to do. 

Which indicates that what I want to do might be too advance and I need to cut back - something that gamedevs come across all the time. 

I have a lot on my mind, especially in regards to mental illness and the tech industry and how easy it is for people to be milked to death of their brilliance and that’s getting in the way of me just focusing on finding fun. 

I’m just going to jump into an engine and see what happens. 

[mostholygamedev]

GameDev as a Natural PTSD Coping Mechanism| Friday Dairy #2

I realized after removing and transforming my physical space that a lot of my distraction was to keep me from thinking about very harmful stuff that happened to me a long time ago. 

My childhood and young adult years sucked. When I look at the symptoms of PTSD and related disorders there’s a shit load there that I can tick off but casually dismiss because I think trauma is really common. So common that it just gets brushed off until circumstances are so extreme that a person can no longer perform basic functions. 

My body has an instant reaction to being in certain environments. I just want to run away so much. Run and... I don’t know what. Just run and find some sense of safety that I know is false because I have ran away in the past and I’ve learned the hard way that running just puts things off or makes me miss shit because something feels awful that’s really for my benefit but my body’s physical reaction has a really hard time of telling the difference. 

Anyway... I’ve noticed in private conversations that I know a lot of gamedevs who make games that try to tap into empathy. They want to make experiences that translate their trauma to the otherside world. They are using games as a way to communicate though... I don’t think they always realize this is what they are doing.

And it made me wonder if I am doing the same thing with this current project. I mean its a very light hearted premise but when I sat and thought about it and how much the shadows relate to my life it got dark very very very very fast. 

Current Progress/Where I am At

Right now I am paper prototyping the games current main feature. Its tricky even though the idea seems simple. Perhaps it is not simple enough. What I am trying to pull off is a short range/melee battle system, where the “armor” (its in quotes for a reason... if I stick with this project long enough and you stick with reading this blog long enough you will find out why) also make up weapons that the player and boss can use to attack each other. I think I have something there. I just have to flush it out. I gave myself a month to find the fun in this or let it go. 

At this moment I have instructions for the first prototype, a game board, and have run through it a few times to take some notes. Based on those notes I will have to update and make a new set of instructions. After three rounds I will test it out with people. Or maybe... I might test it out earlier, only because I know I tend to be an overthinker and the faster I get something into a player’s hands the faster I can get real feedback. I just need to figure out what the smallest unit of a complete experience is at this point. Grrrr... 

I was originally going to get lost in writing the story but I will put that on hold for now partly because a) writing comes easy to me, b) research is a kind of distraction for me, c) part of the reason why I got into the PTSD and Game Dev connection analysis is because of the research I was doing. In other words its easy for me to get lost here and not focus on the mechanics. There is a lot of emotional stuff here to handle so for now... the actual gameplay mechanics will come first.