Event Directory

While Republic and Imperial representatives conducted peace negotiations, Sith forces launched a surprise attack on Coruscant. Darth Malgus and the Imperial strike force devastated parts of the Republic capital and destroyed the Jedi Temple, placing enormous pressure on the Republic delegation. The resulting Treaty of Coruscant ended the Great Galactic War but required the Republic to surrender several star systems and recognize expanded Imperial control.

The treaty produced peace without reconciliation. Republic troops and Jedi withdrew from contested regions, some Republic-aligned worlds felt abandoned, and resentment toward both the Sith Empire and Republic leadership remained intense. Alderaan, for example, entered a major political crisis after its crown prince protested the treaty and withdrew the world from the Republic.

For roleplay, the treaty can shape characters far beyond Coruscant itself. A family may have found its home placed under Imperial authority, lost confidence in the Republic, profited from new borders, fled an occupied region, or regarded the treaty as either necessary survival or humiliating surrender. Imperial characters may inherit a very different interpretation: the treaty represented proof that the Empire had forced its ancient enemy to acknowledge its return.

After the Revanite crisis, Vitiate re-emerged on Ziost. Republic and Imperial attempts to contain the situation failed to prevent the Emperor from consuming the life of the world on a catastrophic scale. The destruction demonstrated that the restored Emperor represented a danger extending beyond the ordinary Republic–Imperial war.

Ziost is important not merely because a major Sith world was devastated, but because the event helped push Republic and Imperial forces toward cooperation against the threat that followed.

For roleplay, Ziost can produce displaced families, bereaved Imperial citizens, military survivors, researchers, intelligence personnel, Sith with personal or ancestral ties to the world, and people whose faith in either the Empire or its former Emperor was permanently changed. Characters do not need to have witnessed the catastrophe personally for its political, religious, or emotional consequences to matter.

Resistance to Zakuul eventually coalesced around the Alliance, an organization that brought together former Republic, Imperial, Jedi, Sith, military, intelligence, criminal, and independent personnel against the Eternal Empire. Its campaign culminated in the defeat of Zakuul's ruling regime and the Alliance Commander's seizure of the Eternal Throne and control of the surviving Eternal Fleet.

The Alliance was historically unusual because cooperation between people drawn from opposing factions became a practical necessity rather than a temporary battlefield arrangement. Those relationships did not automatically survive the end of the common threat.

For roleplay, former Alliance service can therefore create complicated loyalties. A character may have trusted people they had once considered enemies, built friendships across faction lines, become disillusioned with their original government, or returned home after years of serving beside people their society still regards with suspicion.

The renewed conflict became unmistakable on Ossus, where the Sith Empire attacked a hidden Jedi colony in a preemptive strike. SWTOR described the assault as the first blow of a renewed war between the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire. The conflict expanded further during Onslaught, with fighting across multiple worlds and both powers again committing themselves to a galaxy-spanning struggle.

This is one of the most important historical developments for StarForgeRP's present setting. The Republic and Sith Empire are once again active rivals, but they are not the same powers that entered the Great Galactic War decades earlier. Both have survived the Cold War, renewed hostilities, the Revanite crisis, the return of Vitiate, Zakuulan conquest, and the upheaval surrounding the Eternal Alliance.

For roleplay, the renewed war provides a broad background rather than a requirement that every character be a soldier. Military mobilization can affect shipping, intelligence work, politics, medicine, criminal activity, mercenary employment, refugees, resource access, border security, and local disputes even when a story takes place far from a major battlefield.

Characters may support one side, oppose both, profit from the conflict, attempt to remain neutral, or simply try to live around a war they cannot control.

The continuing Republic–Imperial war forms the background to the events grouped under Legacy of the Sith. The Sith Empire's invasion of Manaan targeted the world's strategically vital kolto supply, while Darth Malgus pursued an increasingly independent agenda involving ancient Sith knowledge and the forgotten legacy of Darth Nul. At the same time, conflict among the Mandalorian clans and the rise of Heta Kol's Hidden Chain developed into a major parallel crisis.

Over the course of the storyline, Darth Nul's holocron, Malgus's objectives, Shae Vizla's choices, and the Hidden Chain became increasingly interconnected. The arc ultimately culminated at Khar Shian in Game Update 7.9: Legacy Reborn, when Darth Jadus, Malgus, Shae Vizla, Heta Kol's forces, and the legacy of Darth Nul converged around Nul's reconstructed machine. SWTOR identifies Legacy Reborn as the finale of the Legacy of the Sith storyline.

For StarForgeRP, these events belong to very recent history. Their greatest roleplay value lies in the continuing consequences surrounding Mandalorian divisions, ancient Sith discoveries, the activities of prominent Sith actors, conflicts over strategically valuable worlds and resources, and the wider instability created by a Republic–Imperial war that continues alongside other threats.

Not every character needs direct knowledge of the individuals at the center of these events. A Mandalorian may experience the crisis through clan politics. An Imperial or Republic soldier may know it through deployments and intelligence briefings. A scholar, relic hunter, Sith, Jedi, criminal, or independent explorer may encounter consequences connected to Darth Nul's legacy without ever having stood near the central conflict.

Major Galactic Events are not limited to events established by SWTOR.

StarForgeRP community stories may also receive Major Event records when their consequences become important beyond the original roleplay. A regional conflict, political change, disaster, discovery, organizational collapse, major criminal development, or campaign conclusion can become part of the shared historical record when later characters and stories reasonably need to know that it occurred.

Community-created events should remain clearly identified as StarForgeRP Continuity. Their importance does not require them to rival the scale of an official SWTOR storyline. A development affecting one city, organization, sector, military unit, criminal network, or group of characters may be historically significant to StarForgeRP without altering established galactic history.

The purpose is persistence rather than escalation.

If a story changes something that later roleplay should remember, its consequences may belong here.

Major events work best as circumstances rather than predetermined character reactions.

Two people can live through the same war and remember it completely differently. One may become a loyal soldier; another a deserter. A refugee may hate the government that failed to protect them, while their sibling remains fiercely patriotic. Someone who prospered during an occupation may remember the same period that ruined another family. A former Republic and Imperial combatant who served together in the Alliance may preserve a friendship that becomes politically uncomfortable once their governments return to war.

When developing a character, consider which major events occurred during their lifetime, which reached their homeworld or family, and which they would know only through history.

Historical context should create possibilities rather than dictate personality.

StarForgeRP currently uses 3621 BBY as the present point of shared continuity and incorporates the main SWTOR storyline through Game Update 7.9: Legacy Reborn. Earlier events on this page therefore represent history that present-day characters may have experienced personally, inherited from earlier generations, studied professionally, or encountered through their continuing consequences.

The current date is an archive anchor, not a requirement that every documented roleplay take place at the same moment. Earlier stories can still be recorded when their chronological placement is clear.