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raven-of-domain-kwaad · 2 years

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NPC Asks - Saresh !

Why thank you very much for the ask @swtorpadawan!

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Ah Saresh. Yeah she did not make it.

During Zakuul’s initial invasion, she placed herself on Amarra’s (my Wrath) shit-list. Amarra had taken control of the Sith Empire by consolidating the Dark Council and assuming the role of Supreme Commander of Imperial Forces. As Supreme Commander, she extended an official armistice offer to the Republic so that both super powers could focus their efforts against the invaders. Saresh didn’t even consider the offer before rejecting it and redoubling her efforts in the war against both Empires.

So, when Saresh attempted her little coup against the Alliance, she had someone that despised her ready and waiting on Odessen. In a drastic oversight, Saresh saw Amarra as nothing but a brutish enforcer and nothing more. What she failed to realize was that Amarra had secretly coordinated with SIS and Republic military personnel during Zakuul’s invasion to avoid Republic and Imperial conflicts. Amarra had also secretly provided intelligence to Havoc Squad and other Republic SpecForce personnel that deserted after Saresh had military leaders arrested for trying to arrest her.

With so much support and trust from Imperial and Republic members of the Alliance, Amarra was easily able to derail the attempted coup. Saresh’s mercenaries were eliminated and Amarra forced the former Chancellor to admit that she had arranged the hit on the Alliance Commander. Amarra then killed her and informed everyone that Ryscha (my Commander) was alive and returning from Dromund Kaas.

#leontyne saresh #oc: amarra kine #honestly amarra could have easily become alliance commander herself as she had the backing and trust of imperials and pubs alike #but she really hates positions of power and prefers being able to move about and operate freely which positions of power don't allow

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ospreyeamon · 2 years

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Lys’trel being a twi’lek has made me realise that she and Saresh are pretty fun as foils for each other.

They’re both twi’leks. More specifically, they’re both members of the twi’lek diaspora; I don’t think either of them has ever set foot on Ryloth or was raised speaking Ryl. (Their families both come from Taris, though Lys’trel’s forced separation from her parents has left her unaware of this.)

They were both slaves of the Empire. They were both captured during the fall of the Republic-aligned neutral systems in the Outer Rim during the Great Galactic War – sort of, Lys’trel is a generation younger than Leontyne and it was her mother who was enslaved before her birth. The Saresh family has holdings both inside and outside the Republic; I assume Leontyne was a teenager on a business-holiday that took her into what suddenly became a major conflict zone.

Being a former slave remains an important part of their identities, long after they make it to freedom. It’s also a part of their identities which they are very public about. Leontyne has definitely gone on the record about her experiences as a slave; I wouldn’t be surprised if she’d published an autobiography with the aid of a ghost-writer by the time she was appointed Governor of Taris. Lys’trel talks very little about that part of her life, it remains deeply painful for her. However, she openly and casually admits to being slave-born which is unusual in the Empire. In the Sith Empire having slave ancestry is meant to be shameful, just as coming from a military family is a point of pride. Most Sith born into slavery, like Thanaton, prefer to conceal their origins, but as a Rutian twi’lek it is the assumption most Imperials make about her even if they don’t voice it.

Neither of them originally planned on getting involved in politics, but once they found themselves with their feet in the water it didn’t take them long to wade into the deep end. Leontyne’s voice was seen as having a moral weight; she’d personally suffered at the hands of the Empire unlike the majority of the Republic’s politicians, core-worlders with cushy Coruscanti offices who never believed the Empire could touch their districts until Alderaan was attacked. It didn’t take her long to decide that she could do a better job than the people posing for photo ops with her. As an acolyte, as Zash’s apprentice, Lys’trel was mostly trapped in a mindset of survival, too focused on preserving her own life to risk ire on others’ behalf. As Zash’s acknowledged successor after her Master’s “death” she had Khem and Andronikos to rely on, she had Corin and Kaal enthusiastically claiming to want to help her reform the Sith, she had other contacts sympathetic to her agenda.

They are both intelligent, eloquent, determined, and skilful but do not rise to the heights of power by personal merit alone – there is another factor without which that ascendence would not have been possible. For Lys’trel it is her status as a Force-adept; Force-blind she wouldn’t have had the route to freedom and power the Sith presented. For Leontyne it is her status as a member of the Saresh family, rich enough to fund a dozen political campaigns and possessing a wealth of lobbying contacts.

Both make significant moral compromises to progress their careers; both become complicit in the evils of the systems they inhabit. When Pub-side players meet Governor Saresh on Taris she is embarking down the forced-labour slippery slope by weaponizing quarantine requirements. By the time Chancellor Saresh is encountered above Makeb she does not care one way or another if the proposed solution for dealing with the people of Makeb involves enslaving them. Lys’trel helps get the dominator program back on track knowing the ships will be used in the renewed hostilities with the Republic she does not agree with, knowing the role the Imperial Navy must have played in the invasion of her forgotten homeworld and the destruction of her family. Darth Occlus never personally keeps slaves but there are many trapped in servitude to the Pyramid of Ancient Knowledge which she heads.

They both become aware of the parallels between their lives and it makes them uncomfortable. One of the talking points that made it into Leontyne Saresh’s victory speeches after she was elected Janarus’ replacement was that her empowerment was something only possible in the Galactic Republic. The Sith Empire – corrupt, xenophobic, oppressive – could by its nature never tolerate an alien in a position of authority. The intelligence briefing including the report on the new, twi’lek, slave-born member of the Dark Council came like a slap to the face. The inflammatory, hawkish speeches of the Republic’s new Supreme Chancellor made it onto the official Imperial holochannels because they worked just as well anti-Republic propaganda as pro when broadcast in the heart of the Empire. While the exact identities of the Dark Councillors aren’t meant to be public knowledge, there were a lot of subtle, carefully workshopped jokes included about the depth of their enemy’s delusions and lies. The Saresh family’s investments in corporations like Czerka which keep large portions of the operations in places like Hutt Space where chattel slavery isn’t illegal also made it into the commentary. Lys’trel is sure she has self-awareness that Saresh lacks, but maybe the real difference between the two of them is another twenty-years in politics.

#Meanwhile in a Galaxy Far Far Away #Leontyne Saresh #oc: Lys'trel Kallig #slavery cw

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theshijlegacy · 2 years

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TBT: The Rift Alliance gets help and rewards, and Kagame gets a sweet new gig (Dec 2015)

#swtor #jedi consular spoilers #coruscant #leontyne saresh #qyzen fess #hallow voice #felix iresso #gaden-ko #jaric kaedan #alauni #diab duin #shuuru #satele shan #oc: kagame #tbt

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garrettel · 2 years

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Leontyne Headpieces

HERE (Publicly available August 13, 2022 @ 7:00 PM EST)

Hi! This is a new mesh based on Leontyne Saresh’s headpiece in Star Wars: The Old Republic.

-Compatible with my Twi'lek Lekku and Togruta Montrals Version One, Version Two, and Version Three for all ages, while the Adult and Child mesh is also compatible with the non-ponytail parts of the Nautolan Tentacles.

-Also compatible with my Twi'lek Ear Cones.

-All of these are found under Hats.

-Poly Count: 696

-12 swatches

#leontyne headdress #headdress pack #swtor #swtor sims #s4cc #star wars

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palepinkycat · 2 years

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[prompt list]

Day 26 - Dagger

~ And I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kiss

So many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out trying to lift it

But me I'm not a gamble, you can count on me to split

The love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist ~

DAY 22 | DAY 23 | DAY 24 | DAY 25

#inktober 2021 #swtor #sith pureblood #twi'lek #leontyne saresh #my art #oc:rhuno #dalitasaar's chilling somewhere in the background waiting for rhuno to finally stab leontyne uwu

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swtorpadawan · 4 years

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The end of the Jedi Knight story

So a fun thing i’ve discovered..... At the end of the Jedi Knight story, you get an email. Who that email comes from is dependent upon the action you take when you have the Emperor down in the Dark Temple. If you take the light-side option(s) and tell him “I’m taking you prisoner”, then of course he still “dies” in a murder-suicide attempt. After the ceremony on the Vigilant, you get this letter from Satele:

If you take the dark-side option and deliver the coup de grâce, the ceremony still goes on, and you get this letter from Saresh.

Now note here that Saresh refers to you as “General” and not “Master Jedi”. (Even if you got the LS ending. Satele only cares that you are on the “positive” side of the LS equation. She doesn’t seem to know or care about the how you finished off the Emperor.) So ... in a sense... the game assumes that if you made the DS choice in the Dark Temple, then you are DS period. For the record - both of my Jedi Knights are LS. Corellan - because reasons - took the DS choice while Kayeh Antilles - who frankly is a lot less the paragon than Corellan - took the LS choice, because she realized that if she’d struck Viitate down in that moment out of anger, if would start her down the dark path. So Kayeh got the Satele letter. Now... part of me is bothered by this. After all, Satele TELLS the Jedi Knight to take the Emperor out. She’ll still make you a Master so long as you are LS, but no letter if you actually do what she tells you to do. But at least the game cares. It also indicates that, in the “canon”, the Jedi Knight’s victory over the Emperor is not publicly known, nor does it become known until (at least) Rise of the Hutt Cartel. Still - i like Satele’s letter.

#swtor #jedi knight #hero of tython #oc: kayeh antilles #oc: kayeh #satele shan #saresh #chancellor saresh #leontyne saresh #vitiate #sith emperor

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reconstructionlegacy · 1 year

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Fellow citizens of the Republic. The Hutt crisis is over, and we have again proven that compassion is not a weakness, but a strength.

#swtor #braigwen screenshots #screenshots #jace malcom #leontyne saresh #satele shan #r

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domnorian · 2 years

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Penkawr was enslaved!? is there a story?

Oh yes, there is a story. When Penkawr was a Republic Senator he had a lot of enemies, including his own mother, Leontyne Saresh. They never really had a relationship to begin with, to be honest. Leontyne left him to his dad when he was a baby, and Penkawr made sure to be a pain for his mother when he started in politics. She eventually decided to betray him and made sure he was captured by the Empire so he would definitely shut up. Penkawr, however, being even more ruthless than his mother, gave them quite a show before being captured.

The Empire kept him alive, hoping he would be a good pressure point for the Supreme Chancellor but of course she wouldn't care so Penkawr eventually became a Sith Lord's slave.

Anyway, May the 4th be with you!

#my art #swtor oc #swtor #star wars the old republic #penkawr #lek'taha #saresh #smuggler

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lesbiannova · 4 years

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AU where the SWTOR fandom treats Leontyne Saresh with respect instead of turning her into a punching bag by bragging about how satisfying it is to punch or kill Saresh.

[Saresh Haters Do Not Interact]

#swtor #leontyne saresh #swtor fandom nonsense #leilukin talks swtor #i've ranted about this before and i'll do it again #until the swtor fandom stops being such a garbage #leontyne saresh defense squad 2kforever

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jarael · 3 years

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“Well now I know where the Barsen’thor gets her looks from?”

“What was that, Major?”

“Never mind.”

Also I’m not a fan of Saresh as well but don’t clown on my posts, guize.

#swtor #trooper #mirialan #Lehusa Medora #leontyne saresh #Kavi legacy

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raven-of-domain-kwaad · 1 year

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For the NPC asks.... What about the new Havoc Squad? (I noticed there were only four coffins so I'm curious if you have a HC for why or changed something etc) Or maybe Juda? -Oliver

Thanks for the ask @voidendron / Oliver! The time has now come for me to ramble!

Ask me about SWTOR NPCs

So the whole Trooper and Republic SpecForce story during the five year gap is somewhat different in my Kine Legacy. After the Revanite Crisis, Nyra Sartori (my Trooper) was promoted to Colonel and given command of SpecForce Division while Garza faced the political fallout of the Eclipse Squad tragedy.

Aric would be given command of Havoc Squad during Zakuul's invasion as Elara Dorne (my selected XO) accepted a promotion and became part of Nyra Sartori's staff. Aric's Havoc Squad would effectively be what we see in KOTFE as Yuun transferred to study Zakuulan tech for potential weaknesses, Vik just left and M1-4X was sent to the front lines. (Wow I'm remembering just how much I didn't care about 3/5 of the Trooper companions lol. Like for a supposedly hand picked special forces squad I sure did get assigned a ton of people)

After Leontyne Saresh continued to run the Republic through Jebevel Madon, Nyra Sartori was part of the military attempt to arrest Saresh. Just like in game, Nyra and her allies were arrested but were quickly freed by Aric's Havoc Squad and other SpecForce soldiers. Having lost respect for what was effectively Saresh's Republic, Nyra Sartori led a mass desertion of SpecForce personnel which included the new Havoc Squad.

Havoc and all the other SpecForce squads would go on to run a far more organized guerilla war against Zakuul than what is presented in game as they aren't just a single rogue squad but multiple squads with a very experienced command structure to direct them.

In order to effectively run their guerilla war, the rogue SpecForce needed reliable intelligence which came from a somewhat unexpected source. My Wrath, Amarra Kine, used the spy network inherited from Darth Baras to feed SpecForce reliable intelligence both before and after they went rogue. Amarra acted as Supreme Commander of Imperial Forces during the war with Zakuul and offered a cease fire to the Republic which was officially denied but unofficially accepted by many military leaders. This ongoing relationship meant that when the Alliance was forming (Amarra worked with Lana Beniko to put it together), the invitation to join was easily accepted by the Nyra's SpecForce.

As there was no real animosity and doubts between Havoc and the new Alliance Command during the Spire incident, Havoc did not suffer such severe losses and went on to serve as part of the Alliance's new Special Forces Division

#swtor #havoc squad #oc: nyra sartori #ask game #wow it has been a while since i thought about my trooper and that whole storyline #my havoc would also get another addition with my oc khefren shuffi a sixth line survivor and sis liaison similar to balker

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ospreyeamon · 7 months

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some heads are not fit to wear the crown

Houses Ulgo and Rist’s assassination of Price Gaul and Queen Silara Panteer is one of those decisions where – though murder is wrong, though it triggered great strife – I absolutely understand why they did it. Ulgo and Rist removed what they viewed as dangerously incompetent leadership because they believed it was necessary to protect Alderaan.

The Galactic Republic agreed to sign the Treaty of Coruscant because they lost the Great Galactic War. The Imperial fleet had succeeded in occupying Coruscant’s skies, giving them the ability to launch an orbital bombardment at will, while the Republic lacked the means to dislodge them. Imperial troops had taken the Galactic Senate hostage and killed the Supreme Chancellor. Because the Empire had already been winning the war even before they seized the capital to use as a bargaining chip, the Sith Emperor was the one to set the terms of the frosty peace.

The Treaty of Coruscant was a shockingly good deal for the Republic under the circumstances (which is why many in the Empire were so resentful of it). The only territory the Empire demanded they cede which the Empire had not already occupied or was actively contesting was seven uninhabited star systems, when the Republic did not expect to be able to hold most of those fronts. The Empire had Republic representatives followed around by droids to monitor their adherence to the Treaty, but did not demand any Republic citizens be handed over to stand trial in the Empire for crimes real or invented. Crucially, Empire set no caps on the Republic’s ship building or military expenditure and extracted no economic reparations.

Those like Gaul Panteer, Leontyne Saresh and Elin Garza who publicly decried the Treaty, saying that the Republic should have kept fighting rather than accept peace with the Empire, were in denial about the political reality of the situation. At that time, the Republic had no prospect of being able to swing the tide of the war to put themselves in a stronger position in the peace negotiations. If the Republic had refused to ratify the Treaty the Empire could have levelled its capital, killing billions and decapitating institutions like the SIS headquartered on the planet. The only meaningful blow the Republic was dealt by the Treaty of Coruscant was to its pride.

Bouris Ulgo hated the Sith Empire, but he wasn’t an idiot. The Treaty of Coruscant, humiliating though it may have been, gave the Republic the perfect opportunity to rearm itself in the breathing space provided by the Cold War. The Republic was bigger than the Empire – bigger economy, bigger population – so given the opportunity they could out produce and out recruit the Empire. If the Republic was patient, then they could have their vengeance and victory.

But being protected by the Treaty of Coruscant long enough to rearm required remaining part of the Galactic Republic, because the Empire made the Treaty with the Republic. The moment Alderaan seceded, it was no longer protected by the Empire’s promise to withdraw, and the Imperial Military could launch a second invasion without breaking the Treaty. And why wouldn’t the Sith Empire invade Alderaan? What else did all their forces ordered to break off the attacks on Coruscant and other Republic worlds have to do? Gaul Panteer’s very loud and public removal Alderaan from the Republic must have looked like an open invitation for the Empire to come and conquer some beautiful new camping sites.

And for what? Was Gaul Panteer arrogant enough to believe Alderaan so important that he could manipulate the Republic into abandoning the Treaty of Coruscant? Was he so myopic that he imagined he could sit on Alderaan feeling self-righteous with no consequences he hadn’t considered in the heat of the moment? Did he think that he could leverage Alderaan’s status as a Core Founder to extract concessions from the Republic to undo the cessation and stop opposing the Treaty – is that what his secret negotiations with the Republic were about?

Declaring the secession was an act of short-sighted rage. Failing to walk it back was self-absorbed irresponsibly. He placed his people in the firing line of a second invasion without so much as a warning, let alone a consultation.

Gaul Panteer was Alderaan’s senator, not Alderaan’s head of state. He wasn’t the elected monarch, just the reigning Queen’s heir. The decision to take Alderaan out of the Republic never should have been his to make; the question should have been decided by Queen Silara and the aristocratic assembly at the Elysium (and, if Alderaan were actually a democracy during this period, a general referendum).

This raises the question of why Queen Silara didn’t countermand her son’s declaration of secession. Maybe Gaul inherited his lack of strategic acumen from Silara. Maybe she disagreed with the secession, but decided that it was more important to avoid undermining the son she had appointed senator than to keep Alderaan in the Republic; that risk of House Panteer losing face took precedence over the risk of the planet being invaded. Or maybe Queen Silara, who suddenly fell ill upon her son’s return from Coruscant, lost control over the situation because Gaul took advantage of her poor health to usurp her authority.

Whatever the reasons, House Panteer was not doing a good job of fulfilling one of the most ancient traditional functions of any monarchy: making sure your lands won’t be conquered by an external power. Alderaan’s other great noble houses were not doing a good job of encouraging House Panteer to take their job more seriously. Probably the Elysium was already bogged down in the gridlock which would later prevent them from electing Queen Silara’s successor.

Bouris Ulgo was the head of the Alderaani military, its planetary defence force. It was his job to protect Alderaan from invasion. Gaul Panteer had made that job impossible. House Rist, infamous as spies as well as assassins, agreed with his assessment. Possibly the Rists had gotten wind of the Imperial Diplomatic Services overtures to House Thul.

Bouris Ulgo was a soldier, who had killed many times before in defence of his homeworld. Everyone and their pet Thranta on Alderaan seems to know the Rists are assassins; the nobility tolerating a house of assassins among their number implies a tactic approval of the occasional convenient murder.

To protect Alderaan, Ulgo and Rist decided, Gaul and Silara Panteer had to die. Only by killing them could they instigate the election of a new monarch – a monarch who would return Alderaan to the safety of the Republic before the Empire could take advantage.

According to his lore entry, Bouris Ulgo didn’t return to Alderaan after the Treaty with any ambitions of becoming king. I suspect he came back to see to the wellbeing of his lands and his vassals as he hadn’t been able to after the Battle of Alderaan, to keep an experienced eye on the planet’s defences during Panteer’s foolishness, expecting to soon leave again to assist in the Republic’s preparations for the anticipated second war. While some sources say he intended to usurp House Panteer, if that were true it would have made far more sense from him to announce the imposition of martial law and declare himself king immediately after the Panteers’ assassination while loudly denouncing the murders as obviously the work of the Sith Empire, not wait until it was clear that the election of Queen Silara’s successor had ground to a holt because of the assembly’s bickering and House Thul had appeared, plainly planning on letting the Empire in by the back door.

To me, Bouris Ulgo is a deeply tragic figure because his assessment that he alone of the heads of the Great Houses cared more for the good of Alderaan than petty politics was correct. Unfortunately, he was a military man with a military mindset who lacked the skill at political manipulation to achieve his desired goal of returning Alderaan to the Republic, falling back to military tactics inappropriate to the problem he was attempting to fix out of desperation. It feels unfair that Ulgo should be saddled with blame for the civil war over Panteer, when Gaul Panteer’s decision to secede was the pivotal domino in the chain of events which resulted in Alderaan becoming the stage for an Imperial-Republic proxy war.

It really says something about House Panteer that in their planetary missions they accept both factions’ solicitations of alliance and can be swayed to either side. Organa or Thul, Republic or Empire, Jedi or Sith – one is as good as the other if vengeance on Bouris Ulgo will be reaped.

Gaul Panteer claimed such outrage that the Republic conceded to a frankly beneficial peace with the Sith Empire that he took Alderaan out of the Republic, drastically increasing the odds the Sith Empire would launch another attack on the planet. The surviving members of House Panteer claim such outrage that the heads of their house were assassinated because they put the planet in incredible danger that they are willing to support the Thul puppets of that same Sith Empire Gaul Panteer deemed it unacceptable to compromise with, even at the cost of billions of lives. House Panteer’s effective foreign policy is that the last attacker to have assaulted Castle Panteer is the devil who must be destroyed, regardless of the potential cost to Alderaan. Truly, some heads are not fit to wear the crown.

#Meanwhile in a Galaxy Far Far Away #swtor meta #Bouris Ulgo #Gaul Panteer #Alderaani Civil War #Great Galactic Cold War #House Ulgo #House Panteer #House Rist #Silara Panteer #the Treaty of Coruscant #star wars the old republic

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