History & Context
History & Context
Embedded Files
Explore the history behind StarForgeRP’s shared Star Wars: The Old Republic setting. Find the conflicts, societies, movements, and individuals connected to a character’s background, an institution’s traditions, or a place’s surviving traces of the past.
Begin with the subject you want to understand, then follow its connections to the people and circumstances it affected.
Spoiler notice: Linked pages discuss major SWTOR story developments. Current Setting identifies the story boundary adopted for StarForgeRP and the circumstances of its shared present.
Browse History & Context
Browse History & Context
Choose the category that best fits your question. Follow related subjects when their histories intersect.
Explore the course and consequences of war, occupation, rebellion, and resistance. Follow the effects beyond military victory or defeat: disrupted livelihoods, displaced families, former comrades, damaged infrastructure, and obligations that remain after the fighting.
Discover earlier societies and regimes through their surviving communities, inventions, institutions, and sites. A state’s collapse does not mean its people disappeared, and an ancient civilization’s legacy may remain part of a living culture.
Examine the causes people supported and the meanings later generations gave them. Trace changes in belief, allegiance, and reputation while distinguishing a movement’s original participants from those who later adopted its symbols or admired its example.
Explore influential individuals from SWTOR and compatible Old Republic history. Follow their significance through the institutions, teachings, conflicts, and communities they affected, including the differences between a celebrated reputation and the experiences of those who lived with its consequences.
Find guidance for tracing a historical question across several periods or subjects. Examine how an institution changed, how successive occupants transformed a place, or how an inherited obligation acquired a different meaning. Consider both enduring connections and breaks in continuity.
Discover original figures established in StarForgeRP’s community history. Their profiles connect earlier lives with surviving students, descendants, records, and investigations. Follow those connections while preserving the distinction between documented events, personal recollections, and questions that remain unanswered.
Chronology & the Shared Present
Chronology & the Shared Present
The Timeline section helps place a historical connection within the circumstances of its period.
Galactic Timeline — Check dates, event order, and whether a placement is confirmed, approximate, or reconstructed.
Era Overview — Understand the wider conditions surrounding a character’s earlier life.
Event Directory — Examine a particular turning point and the changes it produced.
Current Setting — Establish which developments have occurred in StarForgeRP’s shared present.
History, Knowledge & Roleplay
History, Knowledge & Roleplay
StarForgeRP combines SWTOR’s setting with compatible Legends material and established community history. Continuity & Canon explains how those sources relate and how to handle interpretation or conflicting evidence.
A reference page may reveal more than a character could know. Consider who supplied an account, what they witnessed, and what they might have misunderstood or concealed. An authentic record can still contain an inaccurate claim.
lace the connection within the character’s lifetime and circumstances.
Establish how they encountered the history: firsthand experience, teaching, testimony, or accessible records.
Choose a consequence that creates a present concern, such as disputed ownership, an inherited duty, or an interrupted relationship.
Leave other participants free to decide what their characters believe and how they respond.
A local concern can give history lasting importance. Restoring a workshop, returning a family possession, or contacting a former colleague can begin a story without making its participants responsible for a famous event.
Follow the Connections
Follow the Connections
Visit Galaxy for associated places, Lore for the cultures and institutions involved, and Characters for individual backgrounds and relationships.
Explore Roleplay for opportunities to develop those connections. The Story Archive records concluded adventures whose outcomes can remain significant in later encounters.
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