@Mao Mao so all our ships (bar one) got here by the intervention of an Ascended being known as Daniel who brought everyone together.

GM post is up. Its just GM stuff, those of you waiting for Hammond responses will have to wait till I try and get more time.

Dooku walked down the ramp of the Jedi shuttle on the surface of Coruscant, the bombardment continued unabated and unhindered by the presence of new ships on the surface. In the distance, the usual chaos of local air traffic was almost non-existent as while many people couldn't evacuate they had moved as far away from the threat as possible. Some had ventured deeper underground, whereas others to the opposite side of the planet.

Behind him walked a bald woman in similar robes, a lightsaber hilt on both sides of her waist. Dooku bowed his head ever so slightly at the various beings gathered, they were all... surprisingly colorful barr two. "Greetings. I am Master Dooku of the Jedi Order. I have been sent here by the Jedi Council to get you acquainted with the events that have... transpired"

Oh shit.gif.

What a mike drop of a post in regard to what this implies about the state of this Star Wars universe.

So Maul either isn't a thing or Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon just used Force Sprint to merc his ass the moment those energy barriers opened.

So Maul either isn't a thing or Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon just used Force Sprint to merc his ass the moment those energy barriers opened.

Or Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon switched places.

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Or Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon switched places.

Hmm. An interesting idea. Especially since it might mean that the Empire never comes to be, or at least Vader anyway.

All we know so far about catalysts is that Qui-Gon didn’t die. From that, we can directly extrapolate that this was what led Dooku to not Fall and leave the Order.

Palpatine is still around, and it’s heavily hinted that he’s still Sidious (since he was able to negotiate a stand-still with the Separatists), but there’s no clues about his Apprentice. It’s possible that there’s no Maul, which led to Qui-Gon’s survival, or Maul hasn’t yet been deployed against the Jedi. If there’s no Maul, that begs the question who Sidious’s Apprentice is (if he has one at all). For all we know, the butterflies could go far back enough that Darth Plagueis is still alive and Sidious is the Apprentice.

The clone army is still here, which means Sifo Dyad was probably still involved, got Jango Fett DNA, went mildly insane and made a whole-ass army behind the Republic’s back that they didn’t even know they owned somehow. His fate is uncertain, but since Dooku isn’t involved enough to spare him, Sidious probably killed him.

I am curious in particular what this universe’s inciting incident for the Clone Wars was though… as well as what happened in their Battle of Naboo.

I just want to glass Coruscant

I just want to come up with an adequate introduction post, lol. Although part of me does wonder how the crew of the Fires of Antiquity would react to seeing a Forerunner vessel drop into orbit had I gone that route instead.

I just want to come up with an adequate introduction post, lol. Although part of me does wonder how the crew of the Fires of Antiquity would react to seeing a Forerunner vessel drop into orbit had I gone that route instead.

They'd probably immediately bow and ask the vessel for orders.

Also, yeah a Contender-class AI would be overpowered as hell here, Mendicant was meant to counter a foe that had access to fucking neural physics and Mendicant had control over basically everything and *still* got logic plagued by the Primordial. The Replicants wouldn't stand a chance.

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They'd probably immediately bow and ask the vessel for orders.

Also, yeah a Contender-class AI would be overpowered as hell here, Mendicant was meant to counter a foe that had access to fucking neural physics and Mendicant had control over basically everything and *still* got logic plagued by the Primordial. The Replicants wouldn't stand a chance.

Well in 343 lore sure. I still hold to Bungie's original humans are descendants of Forerunners lore, rather than all the retconning with the Forerunners for Forerunners (e.g. Precursors) and whatnot that occurred as part of the Halo 3 terminals, but yeah it would be since that's all we presently have to go off of in any official capacity.

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Well in 343 lore sure. I still hold to Bungie's original humans are descendants of Forerunners lore, rather than all the retconning with the Forerunners for Forerunners (e.g. Precursors) and whatnot that occurred as part of the Halo 3 terminals, but yeah it would be since that's all we presently have to go off of in any official capacity.

Yeah there's a lot that 343 lore changed, especially since Bungie lived by rule of cool so 343 lore had to come up with justifications for certain things, like High Charity suddenly showing up at the Ark for no reason whatsoever.

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Yeah there's a lot that 343 lore changed, especially since Bungie lived by rule of cool so 343 lore had to come up with justifications for certain things, like High Charity suddenly showing up at the Ark for no reason whatsoever.

True. Granted, if Microsoft hadn't decided to make it another cash cow it would have ended at 3, and ODST would have been the equivalent of DLC.

But as always our corporate necromancer cannot let a corpse lie...

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True. Granted, if Microsoft hadn't decided to make it another cash cow it would have ended at 3, and ODST would have been the equivalent of DLC.

But as always our corporate necromancer cannot let a corpse lie...

True. I mostly ignore the 343 era games (hence why Remas is from around the Great Schism), but I think the Forerunner saga of books are worth a read someday.

I read at least one of them. Ignoring the lore differences they are good. Then again it's Greg Bear so I'd expected them to be.

And there's my post.

It seems the honor of claiming the final post of the first IC page is mine. :)

Well I had claim to the start off the first page

Well I had claim to the start off the first page

The almighty power of GM privilege.

Time to do some proper colors to make my posts clearer wa