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After much consideration, consultation with the Jedi faction, and feedback from a number of members, we are announcing that the Galactic Alliance faction will be merged into the New Jedi Order faction. This is only out of universe, not in universe.
This will probably elicit some questions from people, so let me first give you some background.
Background
During the first timeline, which was RPd in 2005, there was no Republic faction. The Old Republic existed in-universe, but there was no RP faction for it. Instead, the “good guy” faction was the Jedi Order, and Jedi Generals led and controlled the Republic military forces. Essentially, the faction was the Jedi Order with a military. Jetzt, the founder of this site, was Supreme Chancellor at one point, but he didn’t lead a faction, and there was no Senate until the second timeline.
We created the Republic faction 1/4 or 1/2 of the way through the second timeline because people asked for it. Even then, though, it was underused and no one was really interested in it, because it didn’t have much potential considering it was the faction of good guy soldiers. Through the third and fourth timeline, the Republic still never became that active or interesting to people, and now the same thing is happening with the Alliance.
So we have decided to go back to the successful way we did things in the first timeline and merge the Alliance and the New Jedi Order.
The Merge
I don’t want to bog you down with too many detailed details, since I already gave a lot of background info, so I’ll try to keep this brief:
Over the weekend, we’ll merge the relevant Alliance board sections into the Jedi board.
If you have an Alliance military character, you get to keep that character. You will serve under Jedi military commanders and be part of joint Jedi-Alliance missions.
The military ranks for Jedi characters are Padawan = Lieutenant, Knight = Commander, and Master and above = General. To keep things easier for now, all military ranks for characters created starting now will only have those three ranks. If your current character is not one of those ranks, you can keep that rank or we can shift you to the nearest applicable rank. Within those ranks, you can specialize in whatever way you want: battlefield soldier, pilot, etc.
For now, there won’t be a person who RPs an Alliance Chief of State. That character will exist IC, but, unless plans change soon or sometime further in the future, it won’t be RPd. Denzein is the faction leader of this grand unified faction, since the faction is the New Jedi Order still.
You can RP a Senator, but as of right now there isn’t going to be a Congress board with Congress sessions. It’s been unpopular and underused, and it doesn’t have much potential as an influential part of the faction.
The faction will act, OOCly, much as the Empire does in the sense that it’s one grand, unified faction with only one chain of command, although ICly it’s still 2 factions (unlike the Empire).
More specifics will still be ironed out over the next few days.
Final Thoughts
Back in the first time, this joint-faction concept allowed the Jedi faction, Jedi and military in all, to be HUGE. It kept the good guy on task, and it gives the Jedi the weight and influence they deserve in the RP when it’s made clear they’re running the show for the Alliance. It will allow for the focus of the main war between the good guys and the bad guys to be on the Jedi and the Sith, unlike the fourth timeline where it was Republic vs. Hutts and the Jedi and Bogan were relegated to second string.
This can give more faction pride on the good guy side as well, as well as make the good guy side feel that they really have the muscle that the bad guy side has. In the first timeline, the Jedi/Republic merged faction had more directly shared goals and there was more of an effort and thought put behind things for the whole of the good side, as there was a stronger unified OOC presence.
I’m very much looking forward to this, as is the rest of the staff, and the feedback we’ve received when floating this idea to other people has been very positive so far.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, by all means please post them here. There’s still plenty of time before the boards are merged and what not.
Thanks!
This will probably elicit some questions from people, so let me first give you some background.
Background
During the first timeline, which was RPd in 2005, there was no Republic faction. The Old Republic existed in-universe, but there was no RP faction for it. Instead, the “good guy” faction was the Jedi Order, and Jedi Generals led and controlled the Republic military forces. Essentially, the faction was the Jedi Order with a military. Jetzt, the founder of this site, was Supreme Chancellor at one point, but he didn’t lead a faction, and there was no Senate until the second timeline.
We created the Republic faction 1/4 or 1/2 of the way through the second timeline because people asked for it. Even then, though, it was underused and no one was really interested in it, because it didn’t have much potential considering it was the faction of good guy soldiers. Through the third and fourth timeline, the Republic still never became that active or interesting to people, and now the same thing is happening with the Alliance.
So we have decided to go back to the successful way we did things in the first timeline and merge the Alliance and the New Jedi Order.
The Merge
I don’t want to bog you down with too many detailed details, since I already gave a lot of background info, so I’ll try to keep this brief:
Over the weekend, we’ll merge the relevant Alliance board sections into the Jedi board.
If you have an Alliance military character, you get to keep that character. You will serve under Jedi military commanders and be part of joint Jedi-Alliance missions.
The military ranks for Jedi characters are Padawan = Lieutenant, Knight = Commander, and Master and above = General. To keep things easier for now, all military ranks for characters created starting now will only have those three ranks. If your current character is not one of those ranks, you can keep that rank or we can shift you to the nearest applicable rank. Within those ranks, you can specialize in whatever way you want: battlefield soldier, pilot, etc.
For now, there won’t be a person who RPs an Alliance Chief of State. That character will exist IC, but, unless plans change soon or sometime further in the future, it won’t be RPd. Denzein is the faction leader of this grand unified faction, since the faction is the New Jedi Order still.
You can RP a Senator, but as of right now there isn’t going to be a Congress board with Congress sessions. It’s been unpopular and underused, and it doesn’t have much potential as an influential part of the faction.
The faction will act, OOCly, much as the Empire does in the sense that it’s one grand, unified faction with only one chain of command, although ICly it’s still 2 factions (unlike the Empire).
More specifics will still be ironed out over the next few days.
Final Thoughts
Back in the first time, this joint-faction concept allowed the Jedi faction, Jedi and military in all, to be HUGE. It kept the good guy on task, and it gives the Jedi the weight and influence they deserve in the RP when it’s made clear they’re running the show for the Alliance. It will allow for the focus of the main war between the good guys and the bad guys to be on the Jedi and the Sith, unlike the fourth timeline where it was Republic vs. Hutts and the Jedi and Bogan were relegated to second string.
This can give more faction pride on the good guy side as well, as well as make the good guy side feel that they really have the muscle that the bad guy side has. In the first timeline, the Jedi/Republic merged faction had more directly shared goals and there was more of an effort and thought put behind things for the whole of the good side, as there was a stronger unified OOC presence.
I’m very much looking forward to this, as is the rest of the staff, and the feedback we’ve received when floating this idea to other people has been very positive so far.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, by all means please post them here. There’s still plenty of time before the boards are merged and what not.
Thanks!
