Rename
About one-third of the way through Gnost-Dural's narration [1], he directly refers to the conflict as the "Great Galactic War". I think we should change the page name. --Xepeyon You Speak, I've Spoken 03:12, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Battle of Alderaan
There is a new cinematic trailer, Hope, that shows a battle on Alderaan. But this is not the first time we have heard of this battle. Look at the Alderaan page in the Holonet at SWTOR.com, it FIRST MENTIONS how the Sith attacked the planet, making them more hawkish... So it wasn't revealed in the trailer, just shown for the first time. (- -) 02:57, June 15, 2010 (UTC)
Minor thing
Under "The Conflict" section in the last paragraph, I noticed it says that the Jedi inflicted so much damage on the Sith that they were forced to withdraw. While this is true, it fails to give credit to the Republic soldiers fighting alongside the Jedi. Im thinking it would be good to add an amendment mentioning the soldiers in that sentence as a contributing factor. I realize that the article contains numerous depictions of the troops as contributors, but I think its wise to mention it everywhere if it is mentioned anywhere. Opinions? Thanks. Thedarksidecompelsyou 09:04, August 5, 2010 (UTC)
all red lightsaebers?
look at the picture the sith have a dark red lightsaber aura and a light red center
Sith victory?
I was wondering why the outcome section of the page's infobox was listed as a Sith victory; they might've gained an advantage in the Cold War with the Treaty of Coruscant, but they didn't annihilate the Republic and Jedi. Shouldn't this be changed?
Original version:
- Sith Empire victory
- Signing of the Treaty of Coruscant.
- The Republic gives up many outlying systems to the Sith Empire.
- The Republic suffers from a massive economic depression which lasts into the Cold War.
My version (new):
- Stalemate
- Signing of the Treaty of Coruscant.
- The Republic gives up many outlying systems to the Sith Empire.
- The Republic suffers from a massive economic depression which lasts into the Cold War.
If someone could tell me why the war was, or was not won by the Sith, it would be greatly appreciated.
This is just a suggested change; I don't mind if it is rejected. Smashb96' 22:18, April 4, 2011 (UTC)
- Their goal wasn't to annihilate the Republic and Jedi. The Sith "won" by forcing the terms that played to their favor. -Zekk_Skywalk 23:12, April 4, 2011 (UTC)
- Define victory. Karohalva 23:18, April 4, 2011 (UTC)
- The Sith won out of virtue of the fact that they accomplished their goals, whereas the Republic did not. Their original goals may have been to annihilate the Republic and Jedi, but those were altered before the Sacking of Coruscant, and those altered goals were met. Also, stalemate is a period of non-progress during a war, not the result of an ended war. Darth Trayus(Trayus Academy) 00:10, April 5, 2011 (UTC)
Infobox: Satele Shan?
Is there a reason why Satele Shan isn't listed as one of the Republic commanders in the infobox? From the trailers we've seen her as one of only a couple of survivors of the initial attack on Korriban, as well as leading the Republic troops we watch in the Hope trailer. As "Hope" is on Alderaan, a Core world, we can make a reasonable guess that it's some time into the war and therefore that Shan was a leader for some time during the war. Shouldn't she be in the infobox? DigiFluid 17:05, November 3, 2011 (UTC)
Elevating to Good
Looking for a little help here from Wookieepedians with experience in elevating an article's overall quality. I've put in a lot of work over the last couple weeks on trying to expand and improve this article, but I know full well that that tends to result in tunnel vision so I'm hoping to see others take a peek and either improve themselves or identify problem spots so that they can be fixed for others.
Some spots I've identified and could use guidance on (or else I'd just fix 'em myself without mentioning :p) :
- the intro identifies it as occasionally being referred to as the "Sith–Republic War". Could someone point me to when it was referred to as that? I like to think I'm reasonably well-versed in the material surrounding TOR, as well as being a player of the game, but I've never once come across that and I've been wondering whether it's true.
- the infobox seems (to me, anyway) overlong. Though I'm loathe to remove any of them, I wonder if maybe the list of significant battles can be trimmed down from the current 'every one we're aware of' to 'ones that were actually significant'. Same with the Outcome section of it, I don't really think it needs to be as detailed as it is but I'm not sure how best to rejig it
- the BtS entry re: "Great War" being a reference to WW1 being referred to as such, while almost certainly true, appears to be an entirely subjective writing. Even BtS sections are supposed to have sourced verification, aren't they?
- some of the timeline is wibbly and hard to sort out. The opening parts of the war in the Outer Rim are all fairly easily sorted, but it's around the Blockade/Alderaan area that things get a bit fuzzy. The Blockade is broken and the Battle of Alderaan both happen in 3660 BBY, and Malgus' defeat at the first battle for Ord Radama is stated in Book of Sith to be sometime shortly after the breaking of the Blockade as well. But the subsequent sections in Book of Sith--the battle at Ziost, the capture of Serenno, and Malgus' second move on Ord Radama--are much more difficult to place. Where they're sitting now is admittedly speculative and more for the sake of article flow than anything else. I don't know how to resolve this.
Advice, thoughts, assistance, all is invited! – DigiFluid 14:16, February 22, 2012 (UTC)