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BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) -- A high school band director in western Ohio has been charged with sex crimes involving two female students.
A Logan County prosecutor says 34-year-old John Shook, of DeGraff, was indicted Tuesday on single counts of rape and attempted sexual battery, five counts of sexual battery and three counts of gross sexual imposition.
The chief assistant prosecutor says Shook is in jail awaiting a court appearance. Jail records don't list an attorney for Shook.
The Bellefontaine Examiner reports the Riverside High School band director has been on paid leave since Feb. 4. The Riverside Local School District superintendent says the district in DeGraff will consult its attorney on Shook's job status.
The newspaper reports dozens of students and parents showed their support for Shook at a school board meeting last month.

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Forums: Index > The Wizengamot archive > Is dumbledore appearing on the 2-part 7th installment of the book?
I've seen the list of the stars that will appear in the harry potter and the deathly hallows 1 and 2, i was surprised when i haven't seen Micheal Gambon's name(Dumbledore, so i was wondering whether he'll still appear in the movie...
he has a very important part though
- While it's important, it's also quite small, relative to the rest of the story. My thought is he'll appear briefly in Part 1 in photographs, and then "live" in Part 2. --Cubs Fan2007 (Message me) 08:46, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
I agree with CubsFan2007. Dumbledore will be in Deathly Hallows. 96ken 19:45, 10 March 2009 (UTC)


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What Vixens Should Be Excited For in 2012
Ah, yes. We're settling into the new year quite nicely and already excited about a slew of things on the horizon. The gems in beauty, fashion and all things Vixen-approved are spilling over and we're anxious to get our hands on the lot of it. While trends are ever-changing, we're staying in step; while celebrities are creating brands for fashionistas and glam girls to cop, we're running to retailers at every chance; and there's a special delivery that we're still on watch for. So here's what we're paying close attention to this year, what about you?


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Nasty Colonel Miles Quaritch, the head of security for the human mining expedition on Pandora. I based my mog off this picture (though it's not from the movie itself - it must be a pose or sets pic) but I thought the costume could use a cool weapon.
Blue Linen Vest
Hillman's Belt
Stalking Pants
Saltarello Shoes
Rifle of the Stoic Guardian
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Topic: I can't even be a good "W"
I can't stand that "w" word. I feel like a have a black cloud around me. I go to the doctor one of the first thing they ask "S", "M", or "W". my husband of 36 years is still my husband now and always will. I seem like a fairlure in this new world I found myself it. Wayne might have been able to do the lawn work for the last 22 years, but with his help I could manage. Now, I can't get the lawn mower to start, the riding one, and the push mower is leaking gas, so I used a trimmer. People know that I'm alone now that have stolen my central air unit, even the wire that hooks up my outside lights. Only reason they don't come in is because I have a wonderful dog that loves to give them a wake up call. Any suggestions?
I'm not a widow, I am a wife
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Mann 65
— By Capt. Patrick Sciacca
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A Beauty and a Beast
|Anatomy of a Mann
The workmanship is unbelievable," Marilyn O'Donnell says, describing her and her husband Jack's 65. "It really handles [the seas] well," adds Jack. As avid bluewater sportfishermen, the O'Donnells wanted a craft that would be able to slice big head seas, ride in the trough, run comfortably in a following swell, and if the ocean got real nasty, be tough as nails.
When I asked Mann how he met the request. He told me he started with 1 3/4"x4" juniper frames for the hull sides and 1 3/4"x6"(tripled) juniper frames on the hull bottom. The planking is also of juniper and measures a stout 3/4"x3 1/2". Juniper is a sturdy wood that can be easily shaped to the knifepoint bow needed for blasting through those frothy mid-Atlantic inlets. Beefing up the boat's backbone, Mann used a 2"x6" clear-fir keel. In addition, the 2"x6" engine beds had a top layer of one-inch angled aluminum encapsulated in fiberglass to add strength and support to the big Cats. As for fiberglass, Mann says he prefers 1808 biaxial cloth for the hull sides and cabin, with 3408 cloth for the hull bottom. —P.S.
This article originally appeared in the October 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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On September 9th, Royal Palms Resort and Spa re-opened the highly acclaimed T. Cook's restaurant. Highlighting Executive Chef Paul McCabe's creative interpretation of New American cooking, the Mediterranean-inspired design and architecture; the restaurant is introducing a new culinary and overall guest experience while remaining loyal to the treasured, timeless atmosphere guests have come to know and love.
The refreshed T. Cook's design, led by Haley Balzano, founder and architect of Phoenix-based creative design team Bar Napkin Productions, emphasizes a more vibrant color scheme, authentic design elements, an interactive kitchen, the remodeled private dining room "Delos" and a glass-enclosed wine and tequila tasting room. New boldly-colored chairs surround rustic wooden tables adding depth and diversity to the new dining room, while iron chandeliers create a sense of intimacy and stimulate an experience of romance. Al fresco dining can also be discovered at T. Cook's with intimate patios and nooks, including a new private dining element found within the property's historic Orange Grove.
Simple yet polished, the new dining menus, created by Executive Chef Paul McCabe, honor classical techniques while utilizing locally-grown and sustainably raised foods whenever possible. Chef McCabe has established relationships with a wide range of local purveyors, farmers and artisans, including McClendon's Select, Singh Farms, Noble Bread and Hayden Flour Mills.
"The menu is designed to be more social and approachable, while incorporating cooking techniques that reflect the evolving culinary scene in Phoenix and beyond," says McCabe. "Our dishes are inspired by seasonal, locally-sourced ingredients, with some of the freshest growing right in our backyard. T. Cook's new edible gardens have been an ongoing project this summer that will have come to fruition in September. We'll be handpicking everything from vegetables and citrus, to herbs and select seasonings.
Referencing the seasonal spirit of the Mediterranean, Chef McCabe also meticulously sources the richest of ingredients for fresh fish from the bountiful Basque Coast and Spanish ports, to sardines from the heart of Sicily. T. Cook's culinary philosophy of magnifying the purity of fresh, seasonal ingredients is a celebration of its own treasured legacy. This respected tradition lives on at T. Cook's with Chef McCabe at the helm.
Offering breakfast, lunch and dinner and brunch on Saturdays and Sundays, T. Cook's new menus aim to be both approachable and intriguing. Breakfast and brunch offer a range of healthful dishes to more indulgent items.


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Hello Kitty Accessories by M.A.C.
M.A.C.'s limited-edition Hello Kitty has two colour collections and an accessories line that takes the ultra-cute Hello Kitty image and twists it M.A.C.-style. Instead of that cute white kitty face, they've amped up the graphic sense with black and pops of white and bright pink. Yes, Hello Kitty made cool! There's make-up bags, a brush holder, compact mirrors, a tote bag and even a beaded bracelet and a plush doll (pictured).


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To follow up on Monday's blog, in which I suggested it was extremely unlikely that Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini would achieve his ambition of becoming the European Union's next foreign policy chief, the obvious question is – well, who will get the job?
Three names keep cropping up. One is Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, a Dutchman who has served as Nato's secretary-general since 2004 and who is about to be replaced by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister. The second is Carl Bildt, Sweden's foreign minister, who is another ex-premier. The third is Olli Rehn, a Finn who is the EU's enlargement commissioner. Read more


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|La Petite Parisienne
|France, international, Paris, study abroad, travel
The observational journal of a Stanford junior studying abroad in Paris during Autumn 2008.
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Greg Klebus suggested using WebDAV to mount repository directories on the file system. Doing this, he said, the end user has access to file system directories on which CQ can automatically run workflows.
A quick example of this is mounting the DAM directory as WebDAV. When content is added or changed within the DAM directory of CQ, a workflow process will run automatically.
These are the steps I go through for using WebDAV with Windows 7 to do that very thing.
I mount the CRX repository as a mapped drive within Windows 7 by right-clicking on the computer and selecting the Map Network Drive menu item. I pick the drive letter and, for my local installation, use the CRX WebDAV URL for my server [1].
Windows 7, out of the box, may not support WebDAV. To use WebDAV on a computer with Windows 7 you may need to install an update from Microsoft: Software Update for Web Folders [2]. You may want to see if it works without this update. It is an old software update and only lists Windows 2003 and Vista specifically. For instructions on how to get Windows 7 64bit, specifically, to work with WebDAV go to [3].
Within CQ 5.4, you can set the permissions of a directory under /var/dam to allow read/write or write privileges for the end user. When they drop an image into this folder there is a workflow that explodes the image, generates thumbnails, and creates the dam:asset for that image. The result of the process can be seen in the /content/dam directory. For CQ 5.5, images placed into /content/dam and its sub-directories will trigger the workflow.
[1] http://localhost:4502/crx/repository/crx.default
[2] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15123
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Box Score (PDF)
PHILADELPHIA - Well, now.
The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team is young this year. It is also inexperienced. The general consensus is that fans should be patient with this group, that such teams provide more than the usual ups and downs.
Little did anyone suspect that Friday night's opening game at The Palestra, against UMBC, would go as low as it did -- or as high. In the end, the highs outweighed the lows for Quaker fans,and the result was an80-75 Penn victory over the Retrievers.
Penn (1-0) has now won its season opener for the third year in a row, and for the second straight season the victim was UMBC. In the process, the Quakers set a program record by overcoming a 22-point deficit to gain the victory.
The low point? It had to be when the Retrievers' Brett Roseboro hit a layup, his second straight bucket, with 5:08 to play in the first half.They wereUMBC's 14th and 15th straight unanswered points, it put the Retrievers' run at 31-9 run over a span of 10:23, and it made the score 42-20. Patience may have been the order of the night, especially on this opening night, but grumblings and groans were audible throughout The Palestra.
It turns out that Penn's hero had arrived on the court just prior to that play. After playing a grand total of 28 minutes last season as a freshman, sophomore Patrick Lucas-Perry was ready to announce himself.
First he hit a pair of free throws. Two possessions later, he drained a three, then stole the long inbounds and fed Camryn Crocker who immediately found Darien Nelson-Henry for a layup that made the score 44-27. Lucas-Perry then stole UMBC's ensuing inbounds, and led Crocker who was fouled as he laid the ball up. That stirred the crowd back in a positive direction as the teams went to the benches for a media timeout.
Crocker hit the foul shots after the break, and by the time halftime arrived Penn had gotten back to within 48-34, a much more manageable deficit.
That turned out to bemere prelude.
The second half started with the teams trading a pair of points, then Penn gotwithin single digits of UMBC for the first time in almost 11 minutes with a five-point run from Fran Dougherty's layup and Tony Hicks' three-pointer that made it 50-41. The crowd's buzz grew a bit with every point the Quakers made up.
With 14 minutes left, UMBC's lead was still 10, at 55-45. At that point, Penn ripped off nine points in a row, a run that was punctuated by a jumper and then a three-pointer by Cartwright. Ryan Cook got two of those points back for the Retrievers with a jumper to make it 57-54, but Hicks got a layup and then Cameron Gunter tipped in a missed Cartwright trey attempt that pushed Penn in front for the first time since 11-9, at 58-57. There was 10:27 left.
Penn wasn't done. A UMBC turnover led to another Cartwright jumper, then another Retrievers turnover -- they had 16 in the second half -- turned into a Cartwright trey that made the score 63-57. UMBC missed its next shot, and Lucas-Perry found Henry Brooks for a driving layup and the foul. After he hit the free throw, the score was 66-57. Then Hicks stole the ball from Cook, and he fed Brooks for yet another driving layup while being fouled.
At that point, the score was 68-57. If you are scoring at home, the Penn run had been 48-15 over a span of 17:31.
After that, it was about preservation. UMBC got within eight on a few occasions during the final five minutes, and Penn made things a bit nervy with missed free throws down the stretch, but ultimately the closest deficit after 68-57 was the five-point final score when Cook hit a trey just ahead of the final buzzer.
The big question entering this season was who would step up in the absence of graduated Rob Belcore, Tyler Bernardini and Zack Rosen. Early indications are that it may be the sum of the parts. For one thing, all 12 players who dressed on Friday played in the first half. Ten of them scored, and nine of them dished out assists. When the game was over, Cartwright had finished the night with 21 points, while Lucas-Perry had 15 (11 more than he scored all of last season). In his collegiate debut, Hicks had 13 points, three assists and three steals. Dougherty had nine points and a career-high 11 rebounds.
Penn heads to the University of Virginia for its next two games, as part of the NIT Season Tip-Off. The first comes Monday night at 9:30 p.m., when the Quakers face Delaware -- the first of two meetings they will have with the Blue Hens this season -- and depending on how that game goes they will face either Fairfield or the host Cavaliers on Tuesday.
Game Notes: Penn won its season opener for the third straight year; head coach Jerome Allen is 3-0 in season openers (he took over after seven games in 2009-10) ... Penn's win Friday was its 1,698th as a program, and the 804th at The Palestra ... According to NCAA records, Penn set a program record by overcoming a 22-point deficit to win (see NCAA list here) ... All 12 players who dressed for Penn played in the first half (the players who did not dress were sophomore Keelan Cairns and freshmen Julian Harrell and Jamal Lewis) ... Ten different players scored in the game for the Quakers, and nine different players had assists ... Penn scored 80 points, something the Quakers did just three times all of last season (they won all three of those games, and are now 6-2 in such contests under Coach Allen) ... Penn took nearly twice as many free throws as UMBC (27-14); the Quakers went 8-1 in such games last year, and are now 24-8 under Coach Allen when it happens ... Penn had 12 steals in the game, tying a high in the Allen coaching era (most recently set last Feb. 11 against Dartmouth) ... Junior Miles Cartwright led Penn in scoring, with 21 points; it was his 34th career double-figure scoring game, and his seventh game with 20 or more points ... Sophomore Patrick Lucas-Perry scored 15 points in 17 minutes; last year, he scored four points and played 28 minutes for the entire season ... Lucas-Perry had more points after just 2:24 of action (5) than he had all of last season ... Lucas-Perry also had five steals, the most by a Penn player since Zack Rosen had five at Cornell last January 14 ... In his collegiate debut, freshman Tony Hicks scored 13 points, going 4-of-5 from the field and hitting all three of his three-point attempts ... Hicks also had four rebounds, three assists and three steals in 24 minutes ... Sophomore Fran Dougherty nearly had his first collegiate double-double, with nine points and a career-high 11 rebounds (previous high eight) ... Sophomore Camryn Crocker scored four points and set a career best with three assists ... Freshman Darien Nelson-Henry and sophomore Greg Louis made their collegiate debuts; Nelson-Henry had two points and two rebounds in 11 minutes, while Louis had a point, an assist and a blocked shot in four minutes.
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Fire badly damages southeast-area home
Published: Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 5:56 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 5:56 p.m.
A Saturday morning house fire in southeast Gainesville caused by an electrical problem sent flames shooting through the roof and caused substantial damage before it was extinguished in 10 minutes by Gainesville Fire Rescue, reported acting district chief Don Campbell.
The fire was reported about 11:37 a.m. at 1420 SE 41st Place. Firefighters arrived to find flames through the roof and got reports from neighbors that the resident works a night shift and usually is sleeping in the middle of the day, Campbell reported in a press release.
Crews immediately entered the home to search for anyone who may have been inside and to extinguish the fire. No one was found, and firefighters had the fire under control in 10 minutes, but remained on scene for more than an hour.
"The majority of the home is damaged. It is going to take some pretty big renovation to get it back to where somebody can live in it," Campbell told The Sun, adding the house is of block exterior and wood interior.
The Red Cross was contacted by GFR to assist the family.
The cause of the fire was determined to be an electrical problem in the heating and air conditioning unit.
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5 gum is awesome! I am a BzzAgent and I was sent samples of this gum. It's flavor lasts longer than any gum I've ever chewed. I chew it to curb my sugar cravings, freshen my breath, and because I love the flavors! You've got to try this one!


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Azerbaycan Novoye Vremya, 6 October 2008
Presenter: What would you say about the global crisis throughout the world?
Adnan Oktar: NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO TURKEY. Nothing will happen to Turkish Islamic countries. On the contrary, there will be prosperity and abundance in those places. Here comes the age of abundance and prosperity Insha'Allah. By the leave of Allah we enter the Golden Age. Turkish countries will be happy, joyful and live in comfort. These crises are temporary indeed. They do not actually affect us but of course we do not want America to be affected because of the crisis. We do not want the Christians to be in dire straits. We do our utmost regarding that Insha'Allah.
Kutahya Destan TV, 5 August 2008
Adnan Oktar: Turkish nation is faithful. This will be seen more clearly in the future. Turkish nation is returning back to its origin Insha'Allah. SHE WILL BE A SUPERB STATE. TURKISH-ISLAMIC UNION WILL BE ESTABLISHED INSHA'ALLAH, AND TURKEY WILL TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF AN ELDERLY BROTHER IN THE REGION. Whole region will attain tranquility and comfort with the spiritual leadership of Turkey. In terms of economy, finance and morality there will be a very serious improvement. There will be an improvement and a glorious civilization will be established. This pain is a sign of it, anyhow there have always been a great improvement after every pain. If you look at the Turkish history, this will be seen as well. During the establishment of great Turkish states such pain had always been. And now it is happening again.
Star, 18 July 2011
Turkey who has acquired good reputation, now faces many economical advantages. Mr. Rizanur Meral, the President of TUSKON (Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists of Turkey) said; "Foreign suppliers offer three years payment term for their goods supplied to Turkey."


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There's so much going on in Talk and the comments week to week that we almost can't keep up. If you're in the same boat, here's a small selection of topics and responses that have piqued our interest this week.
Bottom Shelf Beer Olympics: Canada
"I JUST got myself in a tad of trouble at a local establishment for saying that the the taste of beer I tried smelled and tasted like cat piss. Twins with Will Gordon. That makes my day." — PoorOldMama
Talk: Yeah, I know it's supposed to be for this, but...
"I use a large star-shaped frosting tip to de-hull strawberries."—ccooper
"@blizcheetah: I use that trick with the dental floss, too! I mean, as long as I remember to use the non-mint kind...wow, that's a mistake you only make once. Mint dental floss and gruyere - not a good combination!"—Traveller
Gadgets: Polar Ice Tray
"First world problem: My ice isn't clear enough.—Acridian13
Taste Test: (Almost) All of the IKEA Food
"'Severely pungent' has been grounds for divorce more than once."— redfish
The Domino's Makeover
"Keep polishing that turd, guys! Eventually, you're bound to find gold. Or corn." —monkeyrotica
Sauced: Bacon Jam
"I just made this. Some of it got on my arm. I gnawed my arm off.
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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
As we know, the two hemispheres of the brain think in different ways. The left brain tends to be logical and analytical, while the right brain tends to be more creative and spontaneous. When you are using one side of your brain more than the other, this is called left or right brained thinking. Both types of thinking are valuable, so one should try to develop their skills in both.
Unfortunately, left brained thinking is the type that is most valued by our society and taught in our schools. Almost all of the major subjects taught in school (math, science, history, etc) depend predominately on left brained thinking. Rarely do teachers encourage their students to think creatively and explore alternate solutions, and rarely are right brained studies (art, design, music, etc) encouraged.
This over emphasis becomes even more problematic as students move into the professional world. In order to get support for a new project or idea, it must be clearly defined and understood (left brained thinking) by the people who are going to be paying for it. It's very difficult to get funding for a project if the goals are not clearly understood. As a result, creative ideas don't happen as frequently as they could if right brained thinking was more valued.
It's no coincidence that the really creative ideas that occur from time to time are usually self-funded by the inventor working out of their garage. These are the people who understand the true value of thinking creatively.
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Tweetwhatyoueat Tracks Your Food Intake
Website of the Day: Tweetwhatyoueat
It's day 16 of 2008, and for those of you who have getting fit on your list of New Year's resolutions, tweetwhatyoueat helps you maintain your goal by tracking your eating habits and calorie intake. After all, if you're going to be sitting in front of a computer like me, you might as well utilize that nonexercise time!
Keep in mind that you do have to log in with Twitter, which if you haven't signed up yet for reminders, get on it! Once you are signed in, type "follow twye" in your status box and click "update," which will take you to your food diary. During the day, you direct message Twitter from your cell phone, IM, or computer, with your meals and snacks, and it updates your food diary to track your calorie intake. The food diary is private, so your Twitter friends won't be privy to what goes down the hatch!
To learn how to post your favorite websites to our Website of the Day group,
I know that this long list looks scary, but trust me, once you get the hang of it, it'll be a snap the second time around.
- First of all, join the Website of the Day group.
- Click the pink "Share" menu on the top left side of the page.
- Choose "Blog" and "Regular Post."
- Give your story a "Title."
- Fill in the "Body" with a link to your favorite website and the reasons why you love it.
- Click "Next."
- Choose the audience for your story to "Website of the Day" in the drop-down menu
- Add keyword(s) (for example mine for this photo was "Website of the Day").
- Change channel to "Technology and Gadgets."
- Fill in tag field with relevant tags.
- Click "I'm done" to submit content.
So join the Website of the Day group and share information about all your favorite sites! Yours just might end up on the geeksugar homepage!


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It was a year since we moved in our little dwelling and the place was at first barren and soil is very clayey. When it rains its slippery and muddy. So me and family decided to start tilling and digging and planting whatever works. And this is somehow how it looks after a year..
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3D Illusion # 1 by Sara Palacios
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This pattern is available for $2.99 USD buy it now
Pattern available in both US and UK English crochet terms.
Also available in Spanish.
Format: PDF (7 pages long).
You will need to know how to
US: chain stitch, slip stitch, single crochet and double crochet.
UK: chain stitch, slip stitch, double crochet and treble.
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Boycott that mall; hit them where it hurts! :-)
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Allan Green (31-1, 21 KOs) continued his war of words with Mikkel Kessler (44-2, 33 KOs) today at the final press conference in Copenhagen. Three days ahead of their WBC Light Heavyweight World Championship (Silver) clash at Denmark's famous PARKEN Stadium, Green claimed that the Viking Warrior was a long way past his prime. "He used to be a joy to watch, a great fighter, but that was before he fought Calzaghe," the 32-year-old American stated. "He has not been the same fighter since. I don´t know if it is mental or physical wear, but he's just not been on the same level any more. Mikkel will not be worth a nickel when he will be in the ring with me. I will break his ass into two halves. I want him to be at his best on Saturday night, the best he can possibly be, and for his sake it better be enough!" Credit: Team Sauerland The Viking Warrior said he will be happy to pr...
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This response is only for people who have accepted Jesus Christ as thier Lord and Savior. It is not up for discussion with non believers. I do not agree with Pacquio statement that people are born gay. People are not born Gay. There is no evidence to support that what so ever. I have never heard a baby come here and said I am Gay. I have seen a where a child was born with two different sex parts. One was surgically removed at the choice of the parents. Being gay is a choice. That is like saying people are born liars, theives, murders etc. All of that is a choice. Some people have disease such as Schizophrenia, Bipolar etc. Thoses disease can be triggered by drugs, chemical imbalances and other things that effect the brain. Why would our Savior allow someone to be born Gay and then tell according to the BIBLE in the book of Romans discussed by Paul that it is a sin? I will say this if you don't beieve Jesus died on the cross for our sins and there is no way to the bother but through the son that's okay because if you are right then you have nothing to be concerned about now or there but if you are wrong in the day of judgement it will be hell to tell the captain.
Excuse the typo I meant no way to the father GOD almight.
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- "It does not matter where we go. It is not the destination that matters. It is the journey."
- ―Kreia
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is the sequel to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which was widely regarded as a major commercial and critical success. The original game, however, was developed by a different company, BioWare. According to the game's producers, the change of developers was primarily due to BioWare's occupation with other titles, such as Jade Empire and Dragon Age. BioWare is understood to have recommended Obsidian Entertainment as an alternative developer, having worked with many of Obsidian's key members when they were part of the now-defunct Black Isle Studios. The Sith Lords was constructed using an updated version of the original Knights of the Old Republic Odyssey engine, which Obsidian obtained from BioWare.
- "The first story draft was pretty terrible, mostly because we weren't allowed to play K1 before drafting it, so we really knew nothing about the first game and were writing in the dark (Revan who?)."
- ―Chris Avellone, Lead Designer for The Sith Lords at Obsidian Entertainment, talking about story development.
Development of The Sith Lords began at approximately the same time that the original Knights of the Old Republic was released for the Xbox, on July 15, 2003. From the beginning, the production team had decided that the general atmosphere of the universe would be much darker than in Knights of the Old Republic and that the situation for the Jedi would be grim.[1] Chris Avellone, Lead designer for the project, felt that it would be a challenging task to create a sequel to what he felt was an amazing story that BioWare had developed for the original Knights of the Old Republic and that there would be a lot of pressure created for the team. He began with determining what was considered fun in the gameplay elements and what kind of story would have to be developed to complement those elements. The next step was to watch every Star Wars movie, read every book and comic book about the Expanded Universe and even sitting through the The Star Wars Holiday Special. To him, it was vital to understand what adventures had already been created, the parameters of the EU, and which bad ideas it was prudent to stay away from. Only then did he feel it was time to look at the overall vision of the project.[2]
The first phase involved distinguishing the character, or the hero's motivation, from player motivation and how the story would develop to integrate the two. In The Sith Lords, the character was a disgraced veteran of the Mandalorian Wars who was the last known Jedi in the galaxy and the target of dark side assassins who were determined to eradicate all Jedi. Certain circumstances had severed the hero's connection to the Force, but the character was being given a chance to slowly regain that connection and rediscover what it meant to be a Jedi or Sith. The player motivation involved providing the teasers that would stimulate the player into wanting to continue the game and encourage the player to explore the story and locations fully. For example, this could have been accomplished by revealing critical information, introducing a new companion or acquiring new special abilities. It was felt that each stage of the game should ask and answer the question "Why should the player care?"[2]
The following phase involved devising the critical story points and filling in the story to link those points together. The purpose was to throw the player for a loop, but allow enough foreshadowing so that the player would stay interested. After the overall story had been developed, the game outline was divided up between the designers who would then go about filling in the details of their particular section of the storyline.[2]The main goal was to give the player high adventure, lots of alien races and new worlds to visit. The development team also wanted to create a story that would pull the player into seriously thinking about the difference in using the Force for good and evil and the consequences of those actions.[3]
Plot summaryEdit
The game takes place approximately five years after the conclusion of the first game, and during the times of the Dark Wars, and focuses on a mostly different set of characters. The conclusion of the first game varied depending on the choices of the player, with either the light side or dark side of the Force emerging triumphant—at the beginning of The Sith Lords, players specify which of these outcomes they wish the sequel to follow. Regardless of how the original game ended, however, the beginning of The Sith Lords sees the Sith having almost completely destroyed the Jedi Order. The character whom the player takes control of is a Jedi Knight banished from the Order after she went to fight in the Mandalorian Wars. The Sith believe her to be the last remaining Jedi, though in the beginning known simply as the Exile or Jedi Exile by characters in the game due to a customizable name.
Among the characters who join the main character are Kreia, who acts as a mentor to the main character; Mira, a bounty hunter (she only joins if the player is light-side aligned on Nar Shaddaa); Hanharr, a Wookiee bounty hunter (he joins only if the player is dark-side aligned on Nar Shaddaa); Atton Rand, a former elite operative for the Sith during the Jedi Civil War who turned to smuggling after leaving the Sith after finding out that he was Force-sensitive (Atton is the love interest of a female Exile); Bao-Dur, a Zabrak engineer; Brianna, an Echani Handmaiden (she only joins if the Exile is male and is one of the two love interests of a male Exile); Mical, a former Jedi Initiate turned historian (another love interest for the female Jedi Exile); Visas Marr, a Miraluka Dark Jedi apprentice to Darth Nihilus (she is the other love interest of a male Exile); and G0-T0, an interrogation droid. Several characters featured in the first game are also brought into this sequel, and a few can join the main character's party: T3-M4, an astromech droid; HK-47, an assassin droid; and Canderous Ordo (as Mandalore), a Mandalorian. Enemies include Darth Sion, a Sith Lord with a shattered body, held together with the Force and Darth Nihilus, a being of hunger that fed on Force-sensitive energy. The new planets which the character may visit include Telos IV, the environmentally destroyed home of Carth Onasi; Nar Shaddaa, the "smuggler's moon"; the planet of Onderon; Onderon's jungle moon Dxun; and Peragus II. Korriban and Dantooine, which also appeared in the original KotOR, are also revisited. The Ebon Hawk, the ship used by the main character in the first game, once again is the main method of transportation.
Opening crawlEdit
(Note: This is based on the canonical female light side version of the game. Gender, Force alignment, order of planets visited and other variables can differ depending on the input of the player.)
Escape from PeragusEdit
It is the year 3,951 BBY, five years after the Jedi Civil War, and four years after redeemed ex-Dark Lord of the Sith Revan's departure to the Unknown Regions. Revan's ship, the Ebon Hawk, badly damaged, emerged in the Peragus system, with six passengers on-board: two droids that formerly belonged to Revan, T3-M4 and disassembled HK-47, two other droids, 3C-FD and an HK-50, and two Humans, Meetra Surik, and an old woman named Kreia, both unconscious. T3-M4 managed to dock the ship into the Peragus Mining Facility, where Surik was put into the medical bay of the Administration level, and Kreia, mistaken for dead because she was in a deep trance to survive the flight, into the morgue.
After awakening, Surik found Kreia, as well as a smuggler by the name of Atton Rand locked in a prison cell. The three of them seemed to be the only beings alive in the entire facility, which was covered with dead miners and crawling with assault-programmed mining droids, which started "mining" organics. Eventually, Surik discovered that HK-50 was responsible for the damage done to the facility, and destroyed the droid.
Meanwhile, another ship arrived at Peragus: the Harbinger, the Galactic Republic capital ship that was transporting Meetra to Telos IV before a series of events that resulted in them ending up in the facility. When Surik, Kreia, and Atton—in an attempt to escape Peragus—boarded the Harbinger, they discovered that the ship had been overrun by the Sith, led by Darth Sion. As Kreia approached Sion, in an attempt to distract him, Surik and Atton escaped through one of the ship's fuel pipes. Meanwhile, Sion severed Kreia's hand with his lightsaber, and Surik discovered her newly formed Force bond with Kreia when she unexpectedly felt her pain. Meetra and Atton continued and met up with T3-M4, and after reaching the hangar bay, boarded the Ebon Hawk. As they were trying to stop the Sith from boarding, Kreia caught up with them after escaping from Sion, despite the loss of her hand. As they tried to escape the Peragus system, flying through an asteroid field surrounding the planet Peragus II, the Harbinger fired at the Ebon Hawk and missed, hitting one of the asteroids, which caused a sequence of explosions that completely destroyed the mining facility, asteroid field, and the planet itself.
Refuge on TelosEdit
With the Peragus astrogation charts recovered from the Harbinger containing only the planet Telos, which is slowly recovering after Saul Karath's bombardment during the Jedi Civil War, the three had no choice but to board Citadel Station. There, they were immediately disarmed and detained by the Telos Security Force for the duration of the investigation on the destruction of the Peragus mining facility—not coincidentally, the main fuel supplier for Citadel Station, without which the station would not be able to maintain its orbit around Telos. During the investigation, a mysterious woman stole the Ebon Hawk with T3-M4 locked on-board. Chodo Habat, the leader of the Ithorian team responsible for the restoration efforts on Telos, offered Surik to restore some of her lost connection with the Force, and provided a shuttle off Citadel Station in exchange for eliminating their rivals, Czerka Corporation. Despite Kreia's disapproval of an alliance with Chodo, Meetra accepted his offer, uncovered some details about Czerka's illegal business (certainly enough for the Telosian Council to drive them off the planet) and, together with her companions, flew to the surface of Telos.
On Telos, the shuttle was attacked and damaged by a Czerka air defense turret and crash-landed in a restoration zone, miraculously near a Zabrak named Bao-Dur who was a former technician under Surik in the Mandalorian Wars. He refused to call her anything but "General". He also designed the Mass Shadow Generator, which played a significant role in the Mandalorians' ultimate defeat in the Battle of Malachor V, and currently worked for the Ithorians. Fighting their way through Czerka mercenaries, Surik and her companions reached an abandoned Republic military base, where Bao-Dur pinpointed a breach in the planetary defense system in the polar region as the most likely location of the Ebon Hawk. Having boarded a yet another shuttle (in the process discovering the base was swarming with hostile droids), Surik, Kreia, Atton and Bao-Dur headed to the polar region of Telos.
Hidden AcademyEdit
Upon arrival, the shuttle once again crash-landed on a polar plateau as a result of being shot down by three HK-50 droids. After dealing with them, Meetra discovered a Jedi Academy hidden within the plateau. When they entered it, Surik's companions were locked in prison cells, and she was brought before Atris, one of the Jedi Masters (and, in fact, the only Jedi in the academy) who previously banished Meetra from the Jedi Order for fighting in the Mandalorian Wars. Surik offered her help against the new Sith threat that had revealed itself on Peragus by finding any Jedi who may have survived the purge after the Jedi Civil War. Impressed that Surik held no evil against her, Atris allowed her to take back her ship (Surik learned was stolen by one of Atris' handmaidens) and freed her companions.
When the party assembled once again on the Ebon Hawk, T3-M4 "told" Surik that he downloaded a holorecord of her trial from Atris' archives. It turned out that there were Jedi Masters in hiding. The Jedi Council members that exiled her, namely Zez-Kai Ell, Kavar, Vrook Lamar and Lonna Vash. She decided to find them to discuss a plan of action against the new Sith and maybe even figure out why she lost her connection to the Force.
The first stop on their search was the grassland planet of Dantooine. Dantooine was devastated by the Attack on Dantooine perpetrated by Darth Malak several years before. The surviving populace had established a government in the former home of the Matale family which they named Khoonda, with Terena Adare at its head. The people of Khoonda were fearful of the Jedi, who they associated with the Dark Jedi responsible for attacking them in the past.
Surik came to the world in search of Vrook Lamar, a Human Jedi Council member. Once on Dantooine, she heard rumors that Terena Adare was in contact with a Jedi, and she approached Adare to inquire about his whereabouts. Adare realized some time ago that the Khoonda Militia would not provide sufficient protection, so she had maintained secret contacts with the Jedi Master. The administrator granted Surik permission to search the Enclave ruins for Lamar. In the ruins, she fought through several waves of laigreks, but found no trace of the master. She ran into Mical, a former Jedi Initiate who was going to be her Padawan before she left for the Mandalorian Wars. He had been sent by Carth Onasi to find and protect any Jedi artifacts he can find. He agreed to join her group and help find the masters with her. Surik also found the corpses of several mercenaries in the library, and a datapad found on one of their bodies indicated that Vrook had been captured.
Surik led her party to the Mercenary enclave in the crystal caves not far from Khoonda, where they found the mercenaries preparing to sell Lamar to the Exchange. Surik approached the group and asked for his release, but her pleas fell on deaf ears and she was forced to defeat the mercenaries to rescue Lamar. Unexpectedly, the freed Vrook chastised her, telling her her that her actions just caused an all-out war, and revealing that he had allowed the mercenaries to capture him so that they would not attack Khoonda. As Surik left the caves to return to Khoonda, she met Azkul, the leader of the mercenary groups. He asked her to join him in his campaign against Khoonda, but Surik refused and dispatched Akzul's mercenaries.
Back at Khoonda, Surik bolstered the stronghold's defenses by activating droids and security systems, as well as gathering extra members for the Militia. Akzul's mercenaries attacked, precipitating a long and hard-fought battle that culminated with the defeat of Akzul at the hands of Surik and Lamar. With the mercenary threat averted, Vrook Lamar answered Surik's questions and taught her a new lightsaber form. Surik departed the planet, taking the gratitude of its people with her.
Nar ShaddaaEdit
The second stop on their search was the planet of Nar Shaddaa. Nar Shaddaa was the "gaping maw of Nal Hutta." The massive population and large cityscape of the planet made it easy for one to hide and lay low for a while. Unfortunately, Surik did just the opposite. In her attempt to find Jedi Master Zez-Kai Ell, Surik made an effort to cause much anger and distress to the Exchange, and get the bounty hunters off her back. When Meetra was captured, the famous bounty hunter Mira joined up with Meetra's party and they rescued her on G0-T0's yacht. During the rescue, the yacht's cloaking was sabotaged and one of the local Hutts Vogga, whose frieghters were being raided by G0-T0's yacht, quickly seized the opportunity and destroyed it, right as the Ebon Hawk escaped.
Finally, Surik came back to Nar Shaddaa and found the Jedi Master. The Master confessed that he felt that the Jedi Order had much to take responsibility for, and their inability to do so at Surik's trial caused him to leave. He answered her questions and taught her a lightsaber form. He then agreed to go to Dantooine and wait for her there.
Immediately after Nar Shaddaa, Surik sought out Jedi Master Kavar on Onderon. As the Ebon Hawk entered the Onderon system and joined the long line into Iziz Starport, Colonel Tobin fired on the ship and began a massive space battle above the planet. The Ebon Hawk took damage during the battle and was forced to crash land on the jungle moon Dxun. In their explorations of the moon in search of passage, the Exile encountered a large group of Mandalorians, led by Mandalore, also known as Canderous Ordo. Mandalore accompanied Surik to Onderon on his own shuttle.
Once Surik landed on Onderon, she grew knowledgeable of the crisis that was brewing in Iziz. Onderon military General Vaklu declared martial law in the city and began subtly rallying support for his revolution against his cousin, Queen Talia. Mandalore's personal friend Dr. Dagon Ghent, after being cleared of charges for the murder of Captain Sullio, thanks to Meetra's investigation, found Master Kavar and made contact. At the time, Kavar was serving as a Jedi bodyguard and adviser to the queen, and he left the palace walls to meet with Surik in the cantina.
Their meeting was immediately interrupted by Colonel Tobin and a squad of Onderon military soldiers. Kavar helped Meetra escape the cantina, and she then retreated back to Dxun.
Surik left Dxun on the repaired Ebon Hawk and departed the Onderon System, to be away until Kavar reattempted contact. Meetra went to Korriban, the last world she needed to visit, in an effort to find Master Lonna Vash, in the Sith Academy, located in the Valley of the Dark Lords. Unfortunately, Surik was too late to save her from Darth Sion. Sion sealed the door to the academy and tried to have Surik killed. With Kreia's help, Meetra escaped.
Return to DxunEdit
As Surik departed Korriban, she received word from the Mandalorians on Dxun that Kavar had just made contact, and that she was needed back immediately. The morning of that day, General Vaklu declared Queen Talia guilty of treason and began the revolt against her. But the situation had now become far more complicated, because the Sith, led by Darth Nihilus had become involved and offered aid to Vaklu's Separatists. The Onderon Civil War had begun.
The Sith were using the Tomb of Freedon Nadd on Dxun as their main base. After repairing the telecommunications array, the Mandalorians had finally found it. Surik handpicked a group of her party members to infiltrate the tomb and destroy the Sith forces there, while she would go to Onderon and help turn the tide of the Civil War.
The group hiked through the jungle, engaged the Sith on the field, and cleansed the tomb.
Return to OnderonEdit
Surik, along with Kreia took a salvaged Basilisk war droid into Iziz and interfered in the battle. They fought their way up the Sky Ramp and into the palace. With the help of Master Kavar, they got to the Queen before General Vaklu could kill her, and ended the Onderon Civil War. Immediately afterward, Kreia secretly revived Colonel Tobin from his state of unconsciousness and had him deliver a message to Darth Nihilus, informing him to go to Telos IV, and destroy the last of the Jedi.
Rebuilding the RepublicEdit
Surik learned much about her companions' past, learning that many of them were Force-sensitive, and trained them in the ways of the Jedi. Surik's apprentices who would later restore the Jedi Order known as the Lost Jedi. Furthermore, she discovered that Kreia was Revan's first teacher, exiled by the Jedi and later by the Sith, and that Revan himself left known space to fight an unknown threat from his Sith days that continued its existence beyond the Outer Rim.
When visiting Dantooine and Onderon, Surik was caught in the middle of conflicts between the weakened Republic and two powers aiming to weaken it further—the Exchange and Onderon separatists, respectively. By G0-T0's request (and having no other choice if they needed to contact the Jedi Masters), she stabilized the political situations on these planets, preventing them from being lost for the Republic, even though the resolutions led to two bloody conflicts known as the Battle of Dantooine and the Onderon Civil War.
Kreia's fallEdit
Finally, three of the surviving Masters—Kavar, Vrook and Zez-Kai Ell—gathered on Dantooine, in the rebuilt Jedi Enclave. Surik learned from the Masters that the Council did not cut her off from the Force (as Kreia led her to believe). She instinctively caused herself to become deaf to the Force after activating the Mass Shadow Generator on Malachor V and being unable to withstand the Wound in the Force that she created by doing this.
However, Surik failed to persuade the Jedi Masters to unite against the Sith. The Jedi Masters explained that this new Sith threat, which caught them unprepared, fed on Force users, so that whenever Jedi gathered, they inevitably died, and everyone and everything around them shared the same fate. This was what happened on Katarr, Visas Marr's home world and the location of the previous Jedi Conclave. The Jedi Masters explained to Meetra, that they believe she would eventually cause the death of the Force, and they feared that Surik would lead the Sith to the Enclave. Therefore, the Jedi Masters refused to accept Surik back into the Order and decided to separate Surik from the Force; this time, forever.
Kreia then intervened, forcing the three Masters away from Surik and declaring their arrogance and lack of understanding, before forcing them to undergo the same loss Surik had felt on Malachor with a powerful force drain. The masters, unable to live without the Force, died. Surik retained her connection to the Force, but remained unconscious as Atris' handmaidens ran into the Enclave and took Kreia to her mistress as a prisoner (If Surik is male, Brianna will take Kreia to the academy). This left Surik no choice but to return to the secret Telosian academy, as she believed that the Force bond between her and Kreia was fatal and, should Atris execute Kreia, she would die as well.
However, Atris did not execute Kreia, for while Kreia revealed her Sith name, Darth Traya, she also revealed to Atris that she had already, without realizing it, fallen to the dark side, studying the knowledge of Sith holocrons. Kreia departed for Malachor V; when Meetra arrived, she found only Atris, who revealed that Darth Nihilus was about to attack Telos, an event also orchestrated by Kreia through her manipulation of Colonel Tobin. Surik confronted the now fully fallen Atris and defeated her, but spared her life. Atris told Surik that Kreia threatened to destroy the force by sacrificing herself at the Trayus Core on Malachor V, and Surik departed to face the more immediate threat of Darth Nihilus.
Battle of TelosEdit
Surik arrived on Citadel Station to discover that the Battle of Telos IV had already begun. Fighting through Citadel Station, Surik and her companions managed to reach an orbital shuttle which they used to board the Ravager, with the help of the Mandalorians led by Canderous. Once on board, Surik, along with Canderous and Visas Marr, planted charges on the Ravager, Nihilus' flagship, before heading to the bridge to confront Nihilus himself.
During their duel, Nihilus attempted to consume Meetra as he did other Jedi, but it proved to be his undoing - rather than draining the force from Surik, he was weakened by the void in the force, the echo of the Mandalorian wars that she carried, and was defeated in combat. Surik and her companions departed the Ravager, which was destroyed, saving Citadel station and Telos.
Upon her return, Carth Onasi arranged an appointment with Meetra, and retold the story of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and asked her to search for Revan, to tell him that "Admiral Onasi is following his orders" to keep the Republic safe. After meeting Surik, Carth met with Bastila Shan, who followed Carth to Telos.
The final battle: Malachor VEdit
Surik left Telos, heading to Malachor V, where she found and fought through the Trayus Academy to reach the two remaining Sith Lords—Kreia, now as Darth Traya, the headmistress of the academy, and Darth Sion, his will broken. Despite Sion's regenerative abilities, Surik eroded his will through words, and during their duel convinced him to give up the force, and his pain, as she had, thus ending his immortality.
She then confronted Darth Traya at the core, who refused redemption, challenging Surik to silence the echoes she had started, to kill her former master, lest all she had accomplished "be as nothing, as empty, and as violent as Malachor itself." Surik dueled Kreia, and emerged victorious.
Upon defeat, Kreia gazed into the future from the Trayus Core, revealing the future of Surik's companions, of the planets they had visited, of the Mandalorians, and even of the Republic itself. She also revealed that Revan had come to Malachor, after the Mandalorian wars and again after the Jedi Civil War, where he discovered evidence of the "true sith," whom he had gone to fight, "in his own way." Meanwhile, on Malachor's surface, Bao-Dur's remote powered up and reactivated the Mass Shadow Generator, despite G0-T0's attempts to stop him, destroying them both. As Malachor V collapsed upon itself once again, the Ebon Hawk arrived in time to rescue Surik, while Kreia died with Malachor. Surik left Malachor for the last time, heading to the unknown regions to search for Revan.
Voice castEdit
- CEO and Executive Producer - Feargus Urquhart[6]
- Producer - Chris Parker,[4] Michael Gallo[4]
- Lead Designer - Chris Avellone[6]
- Design Team - Ferret Baudoin,[6] Michael Chu,[6] Tony Evans,[6] Scott Everts,[6] John Morgan,[6] Kevin Saunders,[6] David Maldonado[6]
- Composer - Mark Griskey [7]
- Lead Artist - Aaron J. Meyers[4]
- Art Team - Aaron Brown,[4] Trent Campbell,[4] Doug Cope,[4] Tim Cox,[4] David Espinoza,[4] Mustazar Essa,[4] Lucas Feld,[4] William Harper,[4] Edward Lacabanne,[4] Brian Menze,[4] Dennis Presnell,[4] Glenn Price[4]
- Additional Concept Art - T.J. Frame,[4] Chris Appelhans[4]
- Additional Modeling and Texturing - Robert Giampa[4]
- Lead Programmer - Chris Jones[4]
- Programming Team - Adam Brennecke,[4] Anthony Davis,[4] Jay Fong,[4] Frank Kowalkowski,[4] Ben Ma,[4] Dan Spitzley,[4] Richard Taylor[4]
An asterisk ( * ) indicates a character who is essential to forwarding the game's plot. Two asterisks ( ** ) denote a character whose first appearance or mention was elsewhere in Star Wars continuity.
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Alternative storiesEdit
If the player chooses to follow the dark side, they can throw Kreia into the core of Malachor V and assume the throne of headmistress of Trayus Academy. Meanwhile, G0-T0 destroys Bao-Dur's remote and deactivates the Mass Shadow Generator, keeping the planet intact.
Both Obsidian and LucasArts have expressed a desire to yet again expand upon the franchise, LucasArts' representatives stating they have no intention of abandoning Knights of the Old Republic. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3 was in development, but was cancelled sometime in 2004 due to a difficult period for LucasArts. In March 2007, news of a spin-off was made official when "Aristotle," owner of a Knights fansite, interviewed several staff members of LucasArts.
Later in the year, Electronic Gaming Monthly reported in the rumors section of their May 2007 issue that BioWare had hired an online team for work on a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the Knights of the Old Republic series.[8] The game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, was finally and officially announced in July 2008 by EA CEO John Riccitiello.[1] It was finally released December 20th, 2011, and was generally well received by the critics.
Behind the scenesEdit
Template:Soundcat In June 2009, in Kotaku Australia interview Chris Avellone revealed the "true Sith" planned to be remnants of Naga Sadow Empire, "orchestrating the collapse of the Republic from behind the scenes, interfering with key events to cause echoes through the Force and leave it ripe for invasion – hopefully without a shot even being fired."[9]
Although the game did allow the game character be named freely, Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan—Drew Karpyshyn novel released November 2011—did reveal her canonical name to be Meetra Surik, and appearance that didn't match any of the available female appearances on the game.[10]
Game modsEdit
Template:See also Because of the flexibility of the game's Odyssey game engine, The Sith Lords is often a subject of modding in the gaming community. A number of modding groups have attempted to recreate and restore missing or cut content left in the game files.
Team Gizka's project was the first of these, erected in 2004 to promise restored content, save the cut M4-78 Droid planet and in early 2008 their project reached closed beta stage. Other modders, using the handles DarthStoney and Zbyl, created a restoration mod inspired by Team Gizka, which accomplished all of Team Gizka's initial goals, including a restored HK factory and various bug fixes. As of late 2010, the Team Gizka site was disbanded.
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/rpg/kotor2/video/6095390/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-ii-the-sith-lords-developer-interview Url accessed on October 25 2008.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/rpg/kotor2/news.html?sid=6109428&mode=previews Url accessed on October 25 2008
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- ↑ Mark Griskey's Official Website
- ↑ KOTOR MMO in development?. Computerandvideogames.com (2007-04-25). Retrieved on April 30, 2007.
- ↑ Question Time: Your Interview With Chris Avellone. kotaku.com.au (2009-06-03). Retrieved on July 16, 2009.
- ↑ Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan
See alsoEdit
- Cut content from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (soundtrack)
External linksEdit
Official linksEdit
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- The Sith Lords Restoration Project which aims to restore the cut content to the PC version of the game
- M4-78 Enhancement Project - expansion of the original M4-78 mod, created by modder Darth Stoney, which restores the cut planet M4-78.
- Download KotOR II mods on the FileFront Network
- [2] The Sith Lords modding tools.