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Novel Review: Annihilation
- By Jaspor 11/28/2012 1:09:58 PM
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Players who have completed the existing story content found within Star Wars: The Old Republic have been eagerly awaiting the next chapter. Drew Karpyshyn’s latest novel, Annihilation, is that next chapter. Picking up where things leave off at the end of SWTOR’s current story, Annihilation follows several familiar characters as they plan and execute a key Republic mission. It also looks deep inside the Republic and Imperial leadership as both sides continue to engage in a full-blown war.

Note: The following article contains spoilers, both for the story as found in SWTOR and the Annihilation novel.

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Lore Update - Republic Intelligence
- By raelimar 12/8/2011 12:15:58 PM
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Star Wars: The Old Republic gives players the opportunity to choose from eight heroic classes, but many of the galaxy’s most influential organizations exist in the shadows, away from the front lines of the war. The Republic Strategic Information Service, more commonly known as the SIS, is one such group. Like their Imperial counterparts, the Galactic Republic places a high value on information and intelligence, and the Republic SIS is their most valuable asset in the area of intelligence gathering.

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The Lost Suns Part 4 Dissection
- By Jaspor 9/15/2011 11:53:25 AM
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The fourth issue of The Lost Suns, a five issue comic book mini-series based upon Star Wars: The Old Republic, was released this week. The story picks up where it left off in the last installment, with Theron Shan and Jedi Master Ngani Zho captured by Imperial forces while investigating suspicious activity in the Vesla system.

Editor's Note: The following dissection includes several plot spoilers.

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The Lost Suns Part 3 Dissection
- By Jaspor 8/11/2011 2:00:09 AM
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The third issue of The Lost Suns, a five issue comic book mini-series based upon Star Wars: The Old Republic, was released this week. The story picks up where it left off in the last installment, with Theron Shan and Jedi Master Ngani Zho heading towards the Vesla system to investigate Imperial activity.

Editor's Note: The following dissection includes several plot spoilers.

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The Lost Suns Part 2 Dissection
- By Jaspor 7/19/2011 10:51:58 PM
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The second issue of The Lost Suns, a five issue comic book mini-series based upon Star Wars: The Old Republic, was released last week. The story picks up where it left off in the first installment, with Theron Shan seeking out Jedi Master Ngani Zho, who has recently resurfaced after it was thought that he had been lost in the war.

Editor's Note: The following dissection includes several plot spoilers.

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Tags Dissection Comic Coruscant Alexander Freed Alderaan Dark Horse Jedi Enclave Satele Shan Marr The Lost Suns Theron Shan Mekhis Ngani Zho Sith Knights

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The Lost Suns Part 1 Dissection
- By Jaspor 7/6/2011 2:25:37 AM
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On June 8, Dark Horse Comics released the first issue of The Lost Suns, a five issue mini-series based upon Star Wars: The Old Republic. Like Threat of Peace and Blood of the Empire, this series promises to include hints regarding what players can look forward to in SWTOR. In the following article, we take a closer look at the first issue to discover what possible clues are buried within.

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Tags Dissection Comic Coruscant Alexander Freed Dark Horse Satele Shan Marr Dave Marshall Syo Bakarn The Lost Suns Theron Shan Mekhis Bela Kiwiiks Jaric Kaedan Ngani Zho Ror'Jhan

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Friday Update: E3 Details, Advanced Classes, and The Lost Suns
- By darthuser2095 6/3/2011 2:20:45 PM
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This week's Star Wars: The Old Republic Friday Update is E3 Details, new Advanced Classes Page, and on The Lost Suns with an interview Alexander Freed. As BioWare Austin's Community Manager Stephen Reid hinted at this morning, there are three updates today about SWTOR. This is all in preparation for the Electronic Entertainment Expo that starts June 6 and expectations are massive on the news coming out of the event. Stated in the E3 details post is a tidbit about what fans can expect from E3:
- More to share regarding the stories from the CG trailers
- Belsavis raid content
- Alderaan political intrigue
- Tatooine -- sandpeople and something unknown
As part of this week's Friday Update, MMORPG.com interviewed Principal Lead Combat Designer Georg Zoeller about the Advanced Classes we will see in Star Wars: The Old Republic. He covers abilities from almost every class including the Jedi Knight's Force Leap, the different stances of the Sith Warrior, the Bounty Hunter's helpful Kolto Missile, and the Smuggler's explosive Shrapnel Bomb.

The Old Republic: The Lost Suns previewed earlier this week on StarWars.com, and today an interview with Senior Writer and Managing Editor Alexander Freed. He covers a brief overview of the comic that follows Theron Shan, a Republic spy set out to discover what the Sith Empire's plans are for the planets newly acquired in the Treaty of Coruscant. The comic canonically at the start of the game, about 10 years after Threat of Peace and 40 years after Blood of the Empire.

Included a bit after the rest of the updates went up was a new Advanced Classes page. The page is a newly redesigned page to fit the place of the older updates. It contains new information about the trees and abilities of the Advanced Classes.

Official Dev Tracker posts follow the jump. Images from today's Friday Update are contained in the Media Gallery below. If higher resolution versions of the images become available, we will update them. Aurebesh Working translation follows the jump as well as in the Media Gallery.

Gallery: 6.3.11 Friday Update Images

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The Old Republic: The Lost Suns Preview
- By sado 6/1/2011 11:26:01 PM
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In preparation for The Old Republic: The Lost Suns comic release on June 8th, StarWars.com put up an exclusive preview. The preview shows off five pages and gives some more detail about the comic in general. For more information on the comic and the preview make sure to visit the official Star Wars website.

The Lost Suns stands alone as an accessible Star Wars adventure, introducing a new hero with a new mission! It also intertwines with the narrative of the game, revealing secrets players will find nowhere else! Theron Shan -- descendant of the legendary bloodline that includes Jedi Bastila Shan and Satele Shan -- is no Jedi. He's a Republic spy! His mission: to discover the blackest secret at the heart of the evil Sith Empire!

The Lost Suns is by writer Alexander Freed, with pencils by George Freeman and Dave Ross, inks by Mark McKenna, colors by Michael Atiyeh, and cover art by Benjamin Carr.

Thanks to Vincent for the tip. Synopsis of each of the issues follows the jump. The covers for each of the issues are in the Media Gallery below.

Gallery: The Old Republic: Lost Suns Issue Covers

The Lost Suns - Issue #3

The Lost Suns - Issue #2

The Lost Suns - Issue #1

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SWTOR Comic Previewed in Star Wars Insider
- By darthuser2095 3/3/2011 4:58:55 AM
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The upcoming issue of Star Wars Insider Magazine features a preview panel of a new Star Wars: The Old Republic comic titled The Old Republic: The Lost Suns to release in June:

The Old Republic: The Lost Suns. A five-issue series set during the timeframe of the highly-anticipated MMO The Old Republic, The Lost Suns is set approximately 3,600 years before the movies. It stars Republic spy Theron Shan, son of Jedi Master Satele Shan, and packs explosive revelations relating to the events of the game. For this tale the games senior writer Alexander Freed reunites with the Blood of the Empire creative team of Dave Ross (pencils), Mark McKenna (inks), Michael Atiyeh (colors), and Benjamin Carre (covers).

The magazine's cover also advertises original SWTOR fiction with an image of Darth Malgus, which may be the short story Deceived author Paul S. Kemp alluded to back in December. Star Wars Insider hits the newsstands on March 16.

(Credit to SWTOR forum goer Rouge for the find)

Update: Dark Horse posted a press release on their blog detailing the comic along a few quotes from The Lost Suns writer Alexander Freed. Catch the full Press Release after the jump.

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