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Vaspiira — My Twi from SWG
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One of my four SWG characters. This one was a crafter or entertainer depending on what I felt like doing at the momentP.S. I don't actually like SW but my friends were playing!
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Totally lovely.
Me I like SW - because I haven't cared for HARD Sci Fi for a long time. I just don't care for "I got the biggest gun" games - which the SW Saga group I'm playing in is turning into - but at least I can still play a Jedi Knight and flatten them with a Star Ship.
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lol I am more intro Trek really. STO being my current Obsession especially my Orion
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Well I can understand the interest in playing an Orion surely, but Star Trek never really felt like a good RP fit to me. I've got an odd thing about liking being in charge, but excessively nervous about making mistakes, and hating to be subordinate. Which makes playing a member of a crew with military ranks feel odd to me. I'm a team player, but it's hard to feel like a team when you are somebody else's Rank Inferior. Not sure I'm making very much sense.
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xD I my preferences to being in charge are non existent! But there are so many things that could be done there that even being in charge becomes easy. Especially on KDF side.
i did run a fleet Federation side but boy was I happy when that was over and I could concentrate on the KDF
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I've DMd games and been the PC leader a few times over the years. I worry about my fallibility a lot and it can get almost crippling, but it's also fun being on the Dominant role. I have a personality quirk that's somewhat difficult for most people to understand. The quirk is that I like to compete, and I like to cooperate, but if I'm competing I'd generally prefer to break even. I'm not a sore loser as many of my friends are, but I can't stand the idea of being oppressed or held back. Which is why I prefer games where it's a partnership, and whether people take a dominant or passive role is all their own choice. That way when I AM in the mood to take charge I can without feeling like I'm stepping out of RP bounds, and if I have no clue what to do and want to see what everyone else decides, that's fine too.
I'm more into Fantasy than Sci Fi, because I really don't give a darned about the "reality" of "laws of nature" in the game as long as they are consistent enough to be fair. In other words the technical aspects of the "science" inside the game reality don't matter to me. If a Dragon is supposed to be able to fly, than if it CAN, I don't worry about the mechanics of HOW.
In the Star Wars Saga tabletop game I play in I drive the other players crazy a lot of the time because I play a tech-inept Jedi - AND the parties best negotiator - where I fail utterly if the negotiation requires some sort of mechanical/scientific/technical know-how. I the player don't know most of the technical jargon - so my character fails when it comes to having to discuss it as well. On the other hand, what do you do with a crew of a Light Freighter who wander around the city looking for cargo, and finally accept a shipment of "they didn't bother to ask" being sent to the "Capital of the Evil Sith Empire" to be delivered to "they don't know who" for "they don't know how much" ??? And they call my Jedi inept?
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As long everyone is having fun it is all good
I will admit that my more subservient tendencies tend to keep me happy at the side of someone who is good at taking charge.
Fantasy or SciFi I pretty much like it both except SW has too much of an element I have gotten tired of a long time ago xD.
The very evident good vs evil, I like things to be more gray. And I got a weak spot for "technobabble".
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Well in Star Wars Good and Evil are pretty much defined by whether a person is willing to help others, or whether they are pretty much selfish and self-centered. There of course is plenty of room between the two. Look at Princess Leia's early relationship with Han Solo "If money is all he loves, he can have it." Luke was the one who was really influential in her rescue from the Death Star (before they discovered their heritage) and yet the selfish self-centered Han is the one that she becomes infatuated with. Which in the end kick-starts him into becoming more the hero she'd admire.
In Star Trek The Borg were an example of the "evil" that was working it's way out from The Core of the Galaxy that The Federation had been prepared to fight by being pre-programmed to be willing to try to find common ground with all of it's nearer neighbors (Including the Klingons - who represented pretty much everything that humanity claims to hate about ourselves.) in preparation to form a grand alliance to fight.
If you look at them from the grand view, the Federation and the Borg are very similar: They both seek to use every resource to best effect. The Federation just tends to be more organic in letting some of the components find their own best fits in the theory that they may then exceed all expectations and thus contribute more to the whole in the end, where the Borg simply hammer each resource into the square hole it determines it needs them irregardless of what might turn out to be a more useful alternative if they are allowed to express their individuality. That ruthless efficiency makes it hard to understand how the Borg ever managed to evolve to the technological levels they achieved - except that of course being far older than The Federation they had the time and probably the need because of who their other likely early neighbors had been.
In other words, Light and Dark are often just a matter of POV, in fact they pretty much always are.
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That is true but they all also have a lot other nuances to them, the Borg are a number of their own. i am not quite sure what to think about them yet and I have been trying to make up my mind for a while now.
The most touching story in Star Trek ( as far as novels go) at least for me though shows a very different picture of Klingons its a subplot of "the final reflection" which then again puts things into yet another light, I guess there are nuances of it everywhere, and yes very much in the eye of the beholder, however in SW it slaps me in the face much more often.... xD <3
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Hm. I'm not sure what those "nuances" would be, though I suppose I can make some assumptions - but I hate to assume.
I can also understand people's wish to stick with a setting that has a greater actual history than one that's relatively new.
Both settings have their intriguing points. And especially after the first Star Trek Movie I found the Klingon's intriguing. More so than most of the other aliens that got introduced later on - especially in Next Generation and after. I definitely enjoyed the idea that the Klingon's concept of Honor became the common ground that allowed the formation of an alliance with the Federation.
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