imperialscum said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
TOR just followed it by simply saying that there were more humans in the Empire (workers, soldiers) than Sith and that the Sith genes were eventually outweighed, therefore majority of imperial look human at that time. So essentially all the imperial humans still have a percentage of Sith genes.
In other words, they're watering down what was once a unique take on the Sith in order to mesh it with the prequels because the prequels are just oh-so-good and everything has to reflect it.
Yuck.
Why prequels?
Because the concept that almost all Sith wear black, use only red lightsabers, have pale skin, have yellow eyes, have facial tattoos, and go around with "Darth" as a part of their names is a PT invention.
imperialscum said:
Although not said on screen, Vader and Palpatine were Sith in OT... long before the prequels came out.
Vader was a Sith, but Palpatine wasn't never identified as a Sith -- not in the movies, not in novelizations, nowhere. Even in the early EU, he wasn't characterized as a Sith.
All he ever was shown to be was a powerful darksider who managed to place Vader under his control.
imperialscum said:
Then TOTJ made a story where Sith became red skinned aliens. Someone had to connect the dots then. TOR did it pretty well.
The various comics and sourcebooks had already established that following the Great Hyperspace War, the Sith Empire rapidly fell apart and their race eventually died out. Their dark arts survived, though, in numerous tomes and talismans (and with the spirits of long-dead Sith Lords), and those eventually found their ways into the hands of fallen Dark Jedi like Freedon Nadd, who continued the Sith traditions by passing their knowledge down to their descendants and followers.
TOR's "connection of the dots" is pure prequelization, plain and simple.
DuracellEnergizer said:
As for Empire having many species, that is just wrong. TOR portrays the Empire extremely anti-alien (Sith are not counted as aliens of course).
Well, I was going off of this picture.
And she's a Zabrak, not a human or Sith (as an aside, I have to say I love the purple lightsaber).
That is a promotional material. If you played the game you would quickly get the proper feel. Though the game allows to pick non-human and non-sith, it is purely to satisfy the players who demand customisation. It does not serve the story at all (maybe for Inquisitor storyline a little, but it pretty much opposes Warrior and Agent).
So I guess the purple lightsaber isn't a real part of the story, either. Pity.