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Okay, so I don't have TOR yet, but from what I can gather from the released Jedi Under Seige walkthroughs, the two different storylines for Empire and Republic seem to sort-of complement each other in some areas, and oppose each other in others. Given that there is one player class now since KOTFE rolled them all together story-wise, how are we supposed to figure out how to write the articles based off of this (save putting everything in BtS, since the one Empire/Republic choice means pretty much the whole story line would sadly have to be shoved in there, so I'm really hoping that's not the only solution)? Fan26 (Talk) 04:03, December 13, 2018 (UTC)
- I guess what always has been done like Iokath. Write the article with generalizations and mention specific info on the BTS. Like War on Iokath. For example mention that the Alliance decided once again to align with a faction and then mention all the info that happens on both sides. Don't want to post spoilers since it has been out for just 2 days.--DarthRuiz30 (talk) 11:06, December 13, 2018 (UTC)
- I am also concerned about this. My worries are that the further we get into the story going forward, the more complicated it will get, considering that there are two perspectives (Rep/Imp) and further variation based on Loyalist and Saboteur. I worry that it'll eventually hit the point where generalisations won't cut it while writing future articles. My opinion is that we reach a consensus and decide which faction the Alliance "canonically" sided with (canonically so as to provide consistency across all pertinent articles, not explicitly saying that the Alliance did, for example, ally with the Republic, since that alienates half the player base.) We don't let this effect how the story is told per se, simply say that the player character on one side is the Alliance commander, while the other faction's player character is simply a member of their ranks, if that makes sense. That's my two cents anyway. --Shadowninja7453 (talk) 22:49, December 14, 2018 (UTC+11)
- Wookieepedia only documents official sources. It's outside our mission to make any ruling on what is canon; we only report what the Story Group tells us about what's canon. Sometimes that does result in more complications for us. That's the nature of documenting someone else's work with no input into that work. Asithol (talk) 20:48, December 14, 2018 (UTC)
- TOR is a special case given the variety of different plotlines, and as such there was a decision years ago (in a SH and then a CT thread) to mark all Republic decisions as light side and Imperial decisions as dark side for the sake of article-writing purposes. With the way TOR is going now, a similar CT thread to determine and vote may be required. Fan26 (Talk) 00:56, December 15, 2018 (UTC)
- What Fan26 said Asithol, we already have done something similar with the original class stories. And this definitely will need a CT so we can decide which one is going to be considered for biography section and which one for the BTS, in the meantime we should keep doing the generalizations without mentioning specific information in the briography section.--DarthRuiz30 (talk) 01:41, December 15, 2018 (UTC)
- It gets more complicated-as far as I can tell, if you play as a character from one faction and ally with the other, you still play through the original faction's Ossus storyline (because Imperial Intelligence and SIS want you to sabotage the other government from the inside apparently)-meaning that if (or probably when) we have to write up a CT thread to decide which faction the Eternal Alliance supports, it must further be decided whether to generalize the articles still, just in favor of the republic ("The Battle of something was fought between the Republic and the Empire, the former receiving support from the Alliance..."), given that it seems bioware wants to continue through with this path into the new expansion. It's also complicated by neither choice being light or dark. Fan26 (Talk) 14:31, December 17, 2018 (UTC)
- What Fan26 said Asithol, we already have done something similar with the original class stories. And this definitely will need a CT so we can decide which one is going to be considered for biography section and which one for the BTS, in the meantime we should keep doing the generalizations without mentioning specific information in the briography section.--DarthRuiz30 (talk) 01:41, December 15, 2018 (UTC)
- TOR is a special case given the variety of different plotlines, and as such there was a decision years ago (in a SH and then a CT thread) to mark all Republic decisions as light side and Imperial decisions as dark side for the sake of article-writing purposes. With the way TOR is going now, a similar CT thread to determine and vote may be required. Fan26 (Talk) 00:56, December 15, 2018 (UTC)
- Wookieepedia only documents official sources. It's outside our mission to make any ruling on what is canon; we only report what the Story Group tells us about what's canon. Sometimes that does result in more complications for us. That's the nature of documenting someone else's work with no input into that work. Asithol (talk) 20:48, December 14, 2018 (UTC)