Hey. This is a discussion to seek a solution to the massing The Old Republic (Outlander/Alliance Commander story starting at TOR 4.0 Knights of the Fallen Empire) content that can't be integrated porperly due to gameplay choice influences. As a result, there's an increased difficulty in writing new articles, having to describe everything in the Behind the scenes sections instead of in the actual article bodies (which defeats the Bts section's purpose).
The story has reached a point where we can't possibly say which faction the Commander chose to support as doing so would be neglecting a different storyline altogether. And we can't try to just write what both have in common (as we've done in older SWTOR content) because what we can conclude is very limited and outcomes, such as in battles, are considerably distinct.
An example would be Mission to Onderon in which the Republic-siding Commander helps Senator Deja Nebet against the Empire and King Regalun Petryph culminating with the Commander stopping the Empire attempt at destroying the Republic fleet, whereas the Empire-siding Commander works with King Petryph and Darth Savik and ends up destroying the Republic fleet. This element and others of the 6.0 Onslaught story (as well as in previous ones) end with whomever the Commander sided with winning a decisive battle against the other.
What I'm proposing is we continue the Republic-light side and Empire-dark side logic. However, we can't outright state which affiliation would be canon and so I think we should (unorthodoxly) recognize both. I'm proposing a division between the Commander article into The Commander (Republic) and The Commander (Empire) separate articles.
This is how the process would work:
Go ahead and discuss here what you think. Let's see if we can reach a consensus and rework/improve on this.
- How would this work with other articles? E.g., the Battle of Corellia (Third Galactic War). Would we split for those as well? () 01:08, October 29, 2019 (UTC)
- So I have this idea regarding the Outlander/Commander, we could a series of tab boxes similar to the ones used on the Assassin's Creed to reflect all light/dark/neutral options in the biography.--Unic of the borg (talk) 01:32, October 29, 2019 (UTC)
- I haven't played TOR in quite some time, so forgive me if I've misunderstood, but the characters have all now been merged into a single player character: the Commander, correct? If this is the case and everyone is playing the same character within the continuity, then the most obvious answer is that we should revert back to our usual assumption that light side choices have been made, meaning that the Commander is sided with the Republic and all Empire aligned info should be relegated to the BTS. Ayrehead02 (talk) 12:56, October 30, 2019 (UTC)