#swoop racing

[darth-veris]

[sullustangin]

Too much swoop racing this week.  I had to restart my KOTOR game, but my awful completionist tendencies forced me to race all the swoop races again.  Now that the event is on SWTOR, I’m just fat-fingering everything because A+D+ mouseclick does jack all in SWTOR.

[insufficient-focus]

Sorry, Sarlacc

[raven-of-domain-kwaad]

Never done the swoop event in game or given much thought to swoop racing outside of the kotor games but I watch one recommended youtube video of Tokyo Drift and suddenly I’m very into learning more about swoop racing and the culture it has

Got me thinking of Olaum specializing in drift racing as a subsect within generalized swoop racing. More close quarter racing with very tight turns compared to just picking up speed on a straight away track.

[angelicfangirl]

Finally been making myself write again - what inspired this, do you ask? Calli saw the prospect of highly illegal swoop racing in game and her eyes got very wide.

Just picture Arcann sitting at a table, reading the paper or something, and then the sound of a news broadcast at the HIGHLY ILLEGAL SWOOP RACING ON DANTOOINE, MORE NEWS AT 9 - and looking up just in time to see Calli whooping with joy as she crosses the finish line, and he just.... sighs. not even fazed anymore lol

[vorn-legacy]

Hotelier, chef, over-protective big brother and weekend swoop racer - my main man, Yarrel. Ironically doesn't have his own side blog, still. I can't believe how hard it was to dig up some of this gear for his "swoop racing" outfit. Them jackets used to be common as dirt (in fact he wore one very similar almost right through to level 50) but now I struggled to find one on the GTN. Ah well, worth it!

[prometheanist]

She just won a death race on a rusted-out Clone Wars speeder. Thirty-five to one odds. The crowd lost their minds. Two broke bounty hunters bet everything they had—now they're trying to collect.

Episode 2 of The Bounty Clipper is live.

If you’re into: speeder racing with teeth, morally messy Star Wars OCs, Blaster chases, pit droids, and desert planets, Found-family chaos crews, And one Zabrak racer named ‘Octane’ who doesn’t stick around for applause...

Then this might be your speed.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65200744/chapters/167712763

[raven-of-domain-kwaad]

Swoop thoughts/headcanons

The most most common form of swoop racing is a 1.1 km long course. Almost all amateur tracks are this length but the more illegal the race gets the more differences you’ll find on the racetrack.

A “Twenty second bike” is a term that refers to customized racing swoops that can travel a full 1.1 km straightaway course in twenty seconds. This is a standard that professional racing swoops all try to meet.

Drift racing is different from the standard “twenty second race” that we see in KOTOR and it is almost always illegal. Unlike the standard straightaway course, a drift course usually takes part in more urban areas with lots of tight twists and turns that make excessive speed dangerous and even deadly.

Swoops designed/modified for drifting have a different arrangement of repulsorlifts compared to twenty second swoops. A standard swoop usually has a single repulsorlift that keeps the bike at a steady height above the ground. Drift swoops have at least two repulsorlifts at the front and back of the bike. Drifting requires the rear lift to lower gravity’s pull on the bike so that it losses control slightly more than the front of the bike which then directs and allows for controlled drifting during tight turns.

Drift racers will often look down at standard twenty second racers for a perceived lack of finesse in their driving. Twenty second racers often see drifters as needlessly haughty. However most seasoned racers respect each other regardless of their specialty.

I am also treating the swoop engine as a separate thing from the repulsor(s) that keep the bike airborne (they seem to be one and the same when I look it up but my brain doesn’t like that so they become two different things for me)