The Time Has Come

The time has come, Tuesday December thirteenth, will be the first day of early access into Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG. Those who pre-ordered the game early on will be in the first wave of new residents of the Star Wars Galaxy. Each day a new group of recruits to the Republic and Empire forces will be permitted to launch their ships to the home planets of their chosen class and begin the unique story that will be theirs alone. Although each class has a base story line, decisions made by the individual player along the way will alter the path of their character, so it will be rare indeed for two stories to be exactly the same.

Early access will continue up until the official release date of December twentieth when the game will available to everyone. Those who have pre-ordered will receive an email the morning of the day they are allowed to enter the game informing them they are eligible for access. Having experienced delays in receiving emails myself during beta, costing a little weekend game time, I will be firing up my client every morning starting Tuesday just in case.

If you have not pre-ordered the game yet there is still time to do so and gain a day or two of game time before the actual release, at least that is the impression given on the main SWTOR site.

The time has come, choose your side, Republic or Empire, Jedi or Sith, Smuggler or Imperial Agent, Trooper or Bounty Hunter, the stories are immersive and the game play exciting. If you are an MMO fan, a Star Wars fan, or both, I think you will like what you find in Star Wars: The Old Republic, see you in game.

Qyzen Fess - Consular Companion

They say that politics makes strange bedfellows, well apparently so does a Galactic War. Jedi Consulars are known as ambassadors of peace, seekers of Jedi wisdom, using their considerable combat skills only as a last resort to defend rather than attack. Trandoshans like Qyzen Fess on the other hand live for the hunt, accumulating jagganath points through honorable kills to appease their goddess the Scorkeeper.

That these two should come together as companions is a tribute to the open-mindedness of the Jedi Consular, and the sense of honor of the Trandoshan Fess.

Qyzen Fess is famed as a peerless hunter and tracker, seeking out the deadliest beasts the galaxy has to offer. Valuing only his weapons and jagganath points, he will barter anything else he has, or do what he must, to get to the next hunting ground.

Shunning the gun for hire role many of his kind take up to acquire jagganath points, Qyzen took the more traditional path seeking out only those creatures worthy of his considerable skills. Qyzen is slow to trust any stranger, having crossed paths with many of the less honorable in the galaxy, but once he befriends you it is for life, and he will defend you with his.

The Sith Incursion, The Treaty of Coruscant, and resulting Cold War have made the odds of having peaceful negotiations very slim. Sith operatives are everywhere and will do whatever they can to disrupt and destroy a Jedi Consular's mission. Perhaps having a companion like Qyzen Fess is not so strange after all.

Jedi Consular Class Video

Jedi Consulars channel the power of the Force for strength in combat and wisdom in diplomacy. Years of arduous training and meditation have sharpened Consulars’ minds to cut to the truth as cleanly as a Lightsaber.