Current Setting

StarForgeRP’s shared present begins in the aftermath of the confrontation on Khar Shian, which concluded SWTOR’s Legacy of the Sith storyline. The Galactic Republic and Sith Empire remain at war, institutions continue rebuilding, and the consequences of Khar Shian have yet to be fully understood.

This page establishes the circumstances surrounding contemporary characters and stories, including the SWTOR developments incorporated into StarForgeRP’s shared continuity. For the historical periods that led to these conditions, see Era Overview.

The Republic and Sith Empire continue fighting across worlds with different allegiances, resources, and experiences of earlier conflicts. Military demand affects shipbuilding, transport, industrial production, communications, and medical supplies. A strategically important workplace might receive urgent contracts or face increased security without ever becoming a battlefield.

Conditions depend heavily on location. A secure commercial center may continue operating much as before, while a contested settlement deals with disrupted deliveries, recruitment, or evacuation. Shortages and displacement remain important consequences of war, but they are not universal conditions. The circumstances of a particular world or community should determine how the conflict affects its inhabitants.

Not every world belongs to either belligerent. On the Hutt-controlled moon of Nar Shaddaa, Republic, Imperial, and independent interests operate within neutral territory under local authorities. Their presence does not grant either government sovereignty over the moon.

The Jedi Order continues recovering from the destruction and dispersal it suffered during earlier conflicts. Task Force Nova, a Republic-backed initiative, supports that recovery by helping locate surviving Jedi, rebuild training, and restore institutional connections. Preserving knowledge, teaching apprentices, and assisting communities remain important Jedi responsibilities alongside participation in the war.

The Sith Empire continues functioning through its military, intelligence services, civilian administration, and supply networks, as well as its ruling Sith. Authority depends on an individual’s actual position and responsibilities. A powerful Sith’s personal ambitions, or an officer’s independent actions, do not necessarily represent the policy of the entire Empire.

The independent Alliance still brings together people who previously served opposing governments. Its personnel and facilities support military operations, research, logistics, and diplomacy, but the organization no longer possesses the overwhelming military advantage once provided by the Eternal Fleet. Relationships formed during the struggle against Zakuul may continue even when former colleagues return to different political or military allegiances.

The Alliance Commander’s relations with Republic and Imperial authorities became strained during the pursuit of Darth Nul’s research. Cooperation at Khar Shian did not necessarily settle those disputes or change the Alliance’s independent status. The longer-term diplomatic consequences remain unresolved.

On Khar Shian, a Sith moon containing Naga Sadow’s ancient fortress, the Hidden Chain reconstructed Darth Nul’s machine. Darth Jadus had stolen Nul’s holocron, a component needed to operate it. Heta Kol, Shae Vizla, Darth Malgus, and Darth Jadus converged on the fortress with competing objectives.

The Event Directory records the confrontation as a major historical turning point. Its immediate consequences establish several important conditions in StarForgeRP’s shared present.

Mandalorians & the Hidden Chain

Heta Kol died during the confrontation. Shae Vizla suffered a mortal wound and died shortly afterward. Their deaths brought an end to the leadership at the center of the conflict, but they did not resolve every disagreement or allegiance among the people who had supported either side.

StarForgeRP has not established a successor to Shae as Mandalore the Avenger. Mandalorian clans nevertheless retain their own leaders, responsibilities, and relationships. The absence of a recognized Mandalore does not leave every community without authority, nor does it require all Mandalorians to agree on what should happen next.

The Hidden Chain's defeat also leaves individual circumstances unresolved. Former participants may have different loyalties, obligations, and relationships, while the consequences of their earlier actions remain relevant. Some might seek reconciliation, return to other employment, face captivity, or remain estranged from former comrades. None of those possibilities establishes a restored Hidden Chain, a new coalition leader, or a particular outcome for every affiliated group.

Ri’kan Kateen, formerly a Hidden Chain commander, escaped Khar Shian alongside his sister Sa’har. Their survival is established, but their subsequent paths remain unresolved. Their escape does not determine the fate of other Hidden Chain members or settle the movement’s future.

Malgus, Darth Nul & the Force

Darth Malgus used the reconstructed machine to transmit his legacy to Force-sensitive beings throughout the galaxy.

Recipients may understand the experience differently. Their training, personal history, and familiarity with the Force Traditions can influence whether they recognize what happened or understand where the transmission originated.

Receiving the message does not automatically reveal the events inside Naga Sadow’s fortress or explain how Darth Nul’s machinery functioned. Malgus’s statements remain his own account. Hearing them does not independently establish that every claim he makes is true.

The transmission also does not prescribe a character’s allegiance, establish a specific new ability, or require a particular personal transformation. Its wider political, institutional, and individual consequences have not yet been incorporated into StarForgeRP’s shared present.

Darth Nul’s surviving research and historical significance are covered in her entry in Historical Figures.

Darth Jadus

Darth Jadus survived the confrontation on Khar Shian. Although his involvement remains important to understanding the events surrounding Darth Nul’s machine, his subsequent activities and the eventual results of his plans remain unresolved.

The shared present is not defined solely by the war or the actions of major galactic figures. Families, businesses, schools, religious communities, medical facilities, and local institutions continue their work. Military conflict may affect them through an employer’s priorities, interrupted travel, a recovering relative, or changes in the people arriving in their communities.

The consequences of earlier conflicts can also outlast the fighting. A displaced family may have built a new home while retaining connections elsewhere. Damaged property, interrupted training, a former military assignment, or an unresolved loss can still influence someone’s circumstances years later. None of those experiences requires a direct connection to SWTOR’s principal characters.

This page is written for players. It describes a shared history broader than the knowledge available to any individual character. Someone may be aware that the Republic and Empire remain at war without knowing the details of private confrontations, concealed research, or restricted investigations.

When deciding what a character knows, consider the following:

• What could the character have witnessed from their actual location?

• Which reports, records, or accounts could their work and affiliations reasonably provide?

• Who supplied the information, and how did that person obtain it?

• Is the account firsthand, reported, rumored, incomplete, or deliberately misleading?

• Which details remain inaccessible, disputed, or uncertain?

Story Baseline & Date

StarForgeRP places the immediate aftermath of Legacy Reborn at 3621 BBY / 32 ATC. This is a community-adopted chronological reconstruction, not an independently confirmed SWTOR calendar date for the finale.

BBY means Before the Battle of Yavin and is used as a historical reference convention for readers. Characters living during the Old Republic do not know about that future battle. ATC means After the Treaty of Coruscant, which is placed at 3653 BBY and serves as the starting point for treaty-based dating.

The Galactic Timeline distinguishes supported dates from reconstructed placements and events whose order is known without an exact calendar year. The shared-present date provides a common reference for contemporary roleplay; it does not assign precise dates to every preceding SWTOR chapter.

Branching Outcomes & Community Continuity

SWTOR allows different player choices to produce incompatible allegiances, relationships, and story outcomes. StarForgeRP follows the outcomes established for its shared continuity rather than treating every possible playthrough as part of the same history. This includes the Eternal Alliance’s continued independence from the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire.

The Alliance Commander remains a historical figure whose personal identity is unspecified within StarForgeRP. The setting does not automatically assign the Commander a particular player character’s species, class, personal relationships, or complete biography.

StarForgeRP characters and collaborative stories can also establish events and consequences of their own. Such developments belong to the community’s shared history without becoming official SWTOR lore. Continuity & Canon explains how established material, proposed changes, conflicting accounts, and participant ownership are handled.

Beyond the Adopted Story

Masters of the Force and its Galaxy in Chaos storyline remain beyond StarForgeRP’s adopted narrative boundary. Malgus’s transmission has occurred, but subsequent storyline developments have not automatically become part of the shared setting.

A character does not need to participate in galactic affairs to have a meaningful place in the shared setting. Start with their existing relationships, responsibilities, and circumstances, then consider how the present period affects them.

• Begin with a concrete connection: a household, workplace, community, affiliation, or established relationship.

• Identify the conditions affecting that connection and how those conditions reach the character.

• Give significant information a credible source, particularly when it concerns restricted operations, private encounters, or classified research.

• Explore unresolved consequences without deciding the future of an entire faction or another participant’s character.

• Allow decisions to create lasting responsibilities, disagreements, relationships, and opportunities for later interaction.

Explore Roleplay for campaigns, missions, gatherings, and earlier story records. Current Storylines presents developing situations and links to their individual records.