Rethinking Capitalrules

While I don’t agree with the idea of clans being destroyed left, right and centre, I do agree with them being downgraded after loosing all territory and then possibly, only after loosing their hiding place/all personel could they be classed as destroyed.

On a side note, the bad guys also won in Era 1, the Republic was wiped out over Kamino (after having several fleets replaced due to the early GMT raids by Mandos).

i understand what’s being saying, but sticking with the usual premise gets boring after 4 years of the same sort of thing. I’d honestly like to see a Mandalorian Empire ruling the galaxy during the imperial era. I’ve always ALWAYS been a fan of what-ifs when it comes to Star Wars. What if Anakin listened to Padme? What if Luke joined Vader? What if Obi-Wan was killed at Mustafar? What if the Emperor was correct with all of his premonitions? What -if- Dooku Succeeded in killing both Anakin and Obi-Wan?

So many questions left unanswered, so many answers left unquestioned. So many threads in the quilt that is storyline. So many choices. It drives one mad to think what could have become of the world if the Mandalorians had wiped out the Republic. If Revan didn’t disobey the council. If Malak had killed Revan. If Bastila had died on Malak’s flagship.

Sure, we can /guess/ that’s all fun and good. We can write Alternate Timelines. We can do all sorts of fun crazy things. But it doesn’t make it -real- unless others follow suit and create a place where said things can be roleplayed accordingly. The key thing to Star Wars is Storytelling, is choice. Is the eternal fight, waged within every man woman and child. I understand how we /can’t/ go off into a tangent. But I know if it was allowed, we could. LOTJ is about crafting your own destiny, creating your own Star Wars story(until KOTR comes out, anyway). I would love to see a change. I would love to see many a thing, that is merely a dream at this point. Code things, Story things, Character things. All sorts of crazy wild things. Clan names could mean something, sure. They could mean different things from what we all seem to understand, but if there were different clan names each Era.

The Mando’a Empire, vs the Scattered Republic. The Lorellian Empire vs the Hapan Republic. I don’t know. Mix it up. Let one side win. Change some clan names. Let the clans forge the future eras, rather then the Immortals following a age-old guide that’s been around since before i started playing. Or something.

Like I said, I don’t know. I’m just throwing out ideas.

What he said had the possibility to happen (Era 1 was a showdown between the Sith Empire, Mandalorian Empire, and the Republic. It just so happened the Sith won and we went onto an Imperial era that is more recognizable to the Star Wars theme of Galactic Empire.) The possibility of the Republic winning, or the Mandalorian Empire winning, as far as I understood at the time, was prepared for.

Era 2, the Empire pretty much beat down the RA and instead of the usual "hey the NR wins and becomes dominant", we had the Empire split itself up(By player choice, if I recall) and thus set the stage for era 3.

I’ll second what Ralen has said.

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard all day.

If a clan is wiped out the surviving members (if smart but I dunno most will be QQing the Imms) should make a different organization that goes on with the old organization. The begining of Era 4 was a good example. The Imperial Remnants tried to rebuild the Empire (failed but I think it had more to do with the players than the imms) And they got wiped out. They eventually joined major clans etc. The Old Republic -> Empire -> Rebel alliance -> New Republic is a good base but like in this era instead of a human run Empire why not a reverse idea where an Alien Empire (Argadzans or Arkanians) exist that wants to do a whole genocidal rampage on the different human races? It solves the problem of repeition but still keeps that similar cycle just different races or names. It keeps something old and at the same time keeping something new and that gives the more traditionalists the room to say I want a Rebel Alliance against the Gallatic Argadzan or Arkanian Empire. I am just using the next tl story plot as was given to us as an example. Not that something like this would happen but I feel it would make a lot of players happy. I am not saying change the cycle but introduce a different element like in this example an Alien Empire. Even in cannon the Empire is replaced by "Alien Empires" Yuzhan Vong, the failed attempt of the Yevethans, and the list goes on. But the cycle keeps going just different Empires.