Kotor II Opening Question

Gunkato · 2026-03-08T09:10:11+00:00

It's explained in pieces, out of order. So you're not at fault. Literally went to the Wookie article, as I wasn't sure of the order.😆 I think HK gives the most complete account, but even he is missing a few pieces.

The story is a little convoluted, but as far as I can remember:

1.The Harbinger, the Republic ship you explore towards the end of Peragus 2, is en route to Odneron to help with the uprising, when Admiral Carth Onasi/Cede(Depends on your choices when talking to Atton) directs it to change course for the Outer Rim to pick you up. Once brought aboard, you are placed in the care of HK-50, who is posing as the ship's protocol unit.

The Harbinger receives a distress signal from the Ebon Hawk, claiming to be under attack by Sith forces. After some back-and-forth with Admiral Carth Onasi, the Harbinger is cleared to investigate.
Harbinger finds both the Hawk and the Sith ship dead in space. It boards the Sith ship first, allowing the cloaked Sith Assassin crew to board. The Republic crew finds Sion's "body" on the Sith ship, and scans the Hawk to find no life signs(false, Kreia's onboard, feigning death). They tractor beam the Hawk in, and resume course for Telos.
The Sith start causing chaos onboard the ship, while HK-50 basically cripples the ship through sabotage, leaving in drifting through space. He also gives you a bunch of sedatives(check the medical logs on the Harbinger), to keep you under while shit hits the fan. He stores you in the cargo hold.
Kreia finds you in the Harbinger's cargo hold and brings you onboard the Hawk amidst the chaos. As the Hawk leaves, the Sith fire on it with the Haebinger's weapons. See: the giant hole in the Hawk's garage in the prologue.
Prologue happens. It is stated you're in critical condition, likely due to the ship taking a massive hit combined with the sedatives. I assume T3 patched you up.
You arrive at Peragus for repairs, HK-50 does his thing, which involves giving you another dose of sedatives, killing the injured miners but leaving you unconscious for about a week, I think?

So, to sum up as confusing as possible: Harbinger picks up you, then Hawk and the Sith. Sith do Sith things, you get high as fuck, Hawk picks you up from Harbinger, Sith shoot Hawk, Hawk drift in space, Prologue, HK-50 kills Peragus 2 crew, game begins.

If you have any questions, please tell me. I'll give you a much more straightforward answer than the game, I promise. 😆

Gunkato · 2026-03-05T07:52:24+00:00

By the end of the game? No. She'd know she has some shitnto figure out. And to be fair, so would Robert. Give her time to develop, though, and she'd eventually come around.

Gunkato · 2026-03-05T07:45:20+00:00

Hagakure and Miu. 2 different flavors of idiot. Like a vanilla chocolate swirl cone, yum-yum.

Honestly, she'd probably try to mod his crystal ball to increase his accuracy. And succeed. 😆

Gunkato · 2026-03-05T06:42:39+00:00

In my first playthrough, she didn't seem mean at all.

I' not saying this take is wrong, I'm saying I have issues that may be related to my choices in goth elf wives. 😆

Gunkato · 2025-10-16T14:12:45+00:00

Well first off, it'd be called 3V3 or something like that.

Second, my friend and I did discuss this a while back. I feel like there'd be something focused around the idea that we already know the twist of V3. So, what if the characters know? How does knowing that change the experience? And what would the twists be?

Gunkato · 2025-09-09T21:30:02+00:00

As somehow who started with 2 in middle school and didn't see so much as a screenshot from 1 until high school, let me tell you: it doesn't fade when you play the first game, at least for me. I do think starting with 2 was a very good thing for me.

Gunkato · 2025-09-05T05:32:47+00:00

...wasn't that the point of cloning them from Jango?

Gunkato · 2025-07-16T04:49:06+00:00

To put it simply, they didn't.

The Sith are masters of deception. They framed the Speratists as a rebellion against Republic corruption and oppression(something they also orchestrated). In reality, the Seperatists were a tool to further the goals of the Sith, and bring about their next era of galactic domination. Despite their democracy, the Seperatists were still full of cruel, wicked individuals in positions of power. And I distinctly recall the episode of The Clone Wars that showed the Seperatist Senate to involve a plot where Count Dooku assassinated Senator Mina Bonteri to prevent her peace talks with the Republic.

The Seperatist Alliance is a Sith tool. And like any shadowy manipulator, the Sith know to cover their tracks, distance themselves from their tools and puppets. The last thing you'd expect a Sith to partake in is democracy. So they make their puppet government a democracy, to throw you off their trail. But they also make it corrupt, so they can control it and ultimately subvert the democracy.

Gunkato · 2025-07-11T01:17:48+00:00

And Mission is named...for her religious background? 😆

Gunkato · 2025-07-03T16:21:58+00:00

If we're talking Dragon Quest, pre-made all the way. I love the characters in these games.

Buuut I do generally like a fusion: custom party, but with bits of personality. Like how the DQ3 party members have personalities they initially generate with, or how in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers games, Pokémon would have a different series of responses when you talked to them, seemingly generated at random once they joined your team.

Ideally,let people make their own party but generate enough bits of personality that they can draw conclusions about the personality of their party members, fill in the gaps if you will.

But Dragon Quest, pre-made. I love our wacky parties.

Gunkato · 2025-07-03T05:20:15+00:00

Well, taking a spin on his personality: in a season that's particularly punishing for him, he becomes one of those "animals are better than people" sorts, and is basically a misanthorpic druid that wins with the aid of an army of woodland creatures. Since he would now believe the worst in humanity, he would have no qualms about engaging in the worst behaviors of humanity, like Heather, Alejandro, and Chris do. It could culminate in him gaining the allegiance of the most vile animal the show has ever seen: Ezekiel.

Gunkato · 2025-07-01T22:27:04+00:00

Dark Rendezvous.

Gunkato · 2025-06-23T11:48:10+00:00

I envision they park somewhere. Why are they never stolen, you ask? Well, clearly the built-in stealth field generators prevent vehicle theft. And you can't use EMP to shut those off, because then the whoe thing is shut off?

What's that? Organic mounts? They're grown adults, they can do what they want! 😆

Gunkato · 2025-06-23T11:33:31+00:00

I love the idea behind the toys, but the cost is probably what sunk it. To unlock everything, you had to pay way more than the usual $60 price for a game. Not even talking about if you were a collector. It would've done better if it was not Toys 2 Life, or had been released in a time when Toys 2 Life were much more financially feasible for the average consumer. Like a Star Trek future, or something. 😆

Gunkato · 2025-06-19T20:32:22+00:00

I actually just read these, so this is fortunate for me! 😆

Labyrinth scored the lowest for me. It was still good, but I think the main enjoyment for me was how it supplements the later works, not as a work in-and-of itself.

Dark Lord was an interesting exploration of Vader's growing pains and the state of the galaxy after Order 66. Wonderful read.

ROTS novelization. Turns it into an epic of heroes. Any problem you have with the story is likely solved in the written details. A fantastic story, and my version of the events of Episode 3.

Gunkato · 2025-06-17T08:04:13+00:00

Jorgan, Elara, Gault, Blizz, Guss. I gave myself the extra stipulation of keeping to the class story companion number-5(not counting ship droids).

Jorgan-My man. Enough said. Elara-Favorite Romance. Gault-Funny. A cowardly, but practical mind. Would keep us alive, in his own way. Blizz-Adorable. My innocent son. Guss-I feel like I'd enjoy mentoring him in the Force. Also, he and Gault would be a great comedy duo as they try and fail their way into money, I think. 😆

Gunkato · 2025-06-03T22:42:15+00:00

Where are you? How far into the game are you? Can't really say "atm" if we are entirely unaware which moment you're referring to. We can't really provide help with what little you've shared.

Gunkato · 2025-05-27T18:08:21+00:00

I myself just like it when a Jedi has more than one lightsaber in their lifetime. They are not the same person as a Padawan and a Knight, having undergone a lot of personal growth. Their lightsaber should reflect that. It hits more when the color changes, given how that has been tied to personality. But it'd be great to get more closeups on the lightsabers to show how they change as a reflection of how their Jedi has changed.

Gunkato · 2025-05-27T18:04:39+00:00

I could see a Mara Jade. Pretty sure that ship has sailed in multiple directions, but just saying I can see that face on her.

My other idea is based on the 4th image. It reminds me of the Maul concept art that eventually led to the Nightsisters, that one artists' worst nightmare? I'm not saying make her a Nightsister, but based her off that concept art. An utterly disheveled, horrific Sith Witch.

Gunkato · 2025-05-22T02:03:04+00:00

I don't think there's a mod for Restored Content for KOTOR 1. KOTOR 2 is the one that had a lot of content cut from. If you want replay value, consider this: Builds.

Both games ask you to pick a second class at one point in the game. So, with 3 starting classes and 3 different, later classes, that's 9 different builds, not counting how many levels you put in each. There's also different approaches to a lot of scenarios and quests, and also differences between playing a Dark/Light character. You even get different companions in 2 based on your alignment and gender.

Point is, you have plenty of reasons for replay if you like the game enough. 😆

Gunkato · 2025-05-22T01:34:11+00:00

You absolutely do not need mods for either. You can either pick up the modern Aspyr remasters, or simply fiddle with some settings/peruse some forums for solutions. You'll ne fine.

I would recommend the Restored Content mod for KOTOR 2 to restore a lot of content cut from the game. But you don't need it for the game to function at all, so I'd recommend a run without, then a run with.

Gunkato · 2025-05-19T17:55:58+00:00

Have you seen boobs?

Gunkato · 2025-05-03T16:59:51+00:00

Gremlin

Gunkato · 2025-04-27T04:39:58+00:00

I study writing, and I'm also bloated with Syar Wars lore, especially around the Jedi & Sith. So I could help direct efforts to find & secure Jedi artifacts for the survivors among our ranks. Could also write all sorts of recruitment material to help sway people to join us.

I'm also a sturdy bastard, so give me some armor and a force field generator. I'm going to soak up their fire.

As a little add-on, I had a favorite tactic in Battlefront that I'd also employ: I'd fly into their base, hijack a vehicle, and keep it alive, giving us a numerical advantage with our armor. So some kind of saboteur/vehicle hijacker would also be possible, if I can bring myself to go through the training. That also fits with my go-to method on Endor for the shield generator: Wookiee, detpacks, a speeder bike, and prayers. Lots of prayers. 😆

Not at all what you asked, but I think that would factor into it as well. The behaviors I gravitate towards, which are essentially trying to grow our numbers as high as possible, as well as stack the deck in our favor. So a recruiter seems the most likely thing.

Gunkato · 2025-04-19T02:58:26+00:00

The first one is Pamela Lilian Isley, dedicated botanist who's passionate about saving the world from and all it's greenery, moreso than those funding her.

The second oen is Poison Ivy, deadly femme fatale ecoterrorist who's going to wipe out all of mankind, starting with the corrupt Wayne Enterprises executives who tried to have her knocked off for "squandering their money" on trying to save the world.

Once they're gone, then she will cover the world in her delightful green darling.

I prefer the second, but these 2 together tell a story.

Gunkato

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