Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:11 am
Imperial Intelligence and the Anti-Smuggler
It's time for me to go digging around for information again. Thankfully this one isn't as hard to explain as predicting the planets which TOR will have (although the new holonet maps are thankfully supporting my theories thus far).
So then, E3. Nice video eh? And it also has many people asking... Who was SHE?
When I first saw the video, the uniform she was wearing did look somewhat out of place for the Sith. While it was certainly dark it wasn't black and her face didn't show any signs of Darkside corruption. Which didn't make much sense as I thought all of the Sith were force-wielders to some degree. Or at least this new batch of Sith were. However the new timeline video has announced that there are two Sith groups, the Sith Empire which is made up of non-force adepts and the Sith Lords who are Force Sensitive. But with E3 over and the smuggler update announced the seperate snippets of information are starting to come together like a jig-saw puzzle. Let me start with the most obvious bit of evidence.
That should have got some alarm bells ringing for some people. The woman from the video is not a completely unknown entity. Her uniform has appeared before in the very first screenshots that TOR released. Furthermore we know that Bioware has specifically said that ALL classes are already in-game and playable, but at the moment they're all going through tweaking to get them right. So it would be fair to say, that we have seen all of the classes the game has in some of the screenshots by now. We've seen the Trooper, we've seen the BH, we've seen the Smuggler and of course we've seen the Jedi and the Sith. That just leaves 3 classes now. 1 Republic faction and 2 Sith faction.
Now bear with me here because for this to make sense you're going to need the official TOR site in-hand. Go look at the timeline videos in the holocron. At the top is the timeline bar with notches or markers at various points which are the topics that the Holocron videos are covering. It starts with the most recent event in Republic history and then goes backwards. You'll notice that the last available vid was about the smuggler blockade. The next one after that is going to talk about the re-emergence of the Mandalorians (as seen at the very end of the smuggler video) and the one after the Mandalorian timeline video says this:
So shortly before the Smuggler announcement we had the Smuggler timeline video (obviously explaining why the Smuggler class is in the game) and after they talk about the Mandalorians we have a video explaining Imperial Intelligence... which, I believe, will lead into the announcement of the Sith Spy class. Or you could call it Sith Operative. Or Sith Infiltrator. I dunno. Whatever the name is, it is all the same.
Want some more support? I'm all for it! The Bounty Hunter and the Trooper are clearly mirrors of each other. Some people thought the Smuggler was the BH counter-part or that the Smuggler was with the Sith. But those people were wrong on both accounts. The Smuggler isn't about heavy weapons, the description of them is someone who uses cunning and guile to reach their objectives. They're stealthy. They know how to escape and survive dangerous situations. They manipulate circumstances to give them the edge and out of all of the other classes Bioware has described them as the 'social' class. They get the dialogue options so they can smooth talk people or bit a bit sly when dealing with others. So then, we need a Sith counter-part or mirror class for the Smuggler. Know of any other potential class which needs to be stealth? Uses cover? Needs to get out of dangerous situations? Sabotages the enemy's plans to get the advantage? Gathers information from people? Exactly! A spy.
This is who we see in the video. It was Bioware saying 'Hey look, a new class!' right to our faces at E3 but doing it in such a way that it gets people talking about that character for weeks. Everyone is thinking it is Smuggler because she uses blasters and uses cover like a Smuggler. But they're forgetting the way TOR is mirroring classes. The whole fact that a Smuggler uses cover as a central play style means whatever mirrors the Smuggler has play the same way too. If you also look at the smuggler concept art and screenshots their whole style is very casual. They don't wear skin-tight bodysuits like the woman in the screenshot or the twi-lek in the video. That bodysuit is too formal. Too professional.
So here's my bet. I'd place money on this if it was worth it. I am 100% certain that the Sith Spy is not only in the game but according to the timeline video it will be the next announced class. All that leaves then is the Jedi and Sith, which we know of already. And whatever this final Republic class is and its Sith counter-part. Personally, I'm still expecting droids since more and more of your early screenshots released are turning out to be player classes. The Assassin Droid was among them and so was the T3 droid.
So then, E3. Nice video eh? And it also has many people asking... Who was SHE?
When I first saw the video, the uniform she was wearing did look somewhat out of place for the Sith. While it was certainly dark it wasn't black and her face didn't show any signs of Darkside corruption. Which didn't make much sense as I thought all of the Sith were force-wielders to some degree. Or at least this new batch of Sith were. However the new timeline video has announced that there are two Sith groups, the Sith Empire which is made up of non-force adepts and the Sith Lords who are Force Sensitive. But with E3 over and the smuggler update announced the seperate snippets of information are starting to come together like a jig-saw puzzle. Let me start with the most obvious bit of evidence.
That should have got some alarm bells ringing for some people. The woman from the video is not a completely unknown entity. Her uniform has appeared before in the very first screenshots that TOR released. Furthermore we know that Bioware has specifically said that ALL classes are already in-game and playable, but at the moment they're all going through tweaking to get them right. So it would be fair to say, that we have seen all of the classes the game has in some of the screenshots by now. We've seen the Trooper, we've seen the BH, we've seen the Smuggler and of course we've seen the Jedi and the Sith. That just leaves 3 classes now. 1 Republic faction and 2 Sith faction.
Now bear with me here because for this to make sense you're going to need the official TOR site in-hand. Go look at the timeline videos in the holocron. At the top is the timeline bar with notches or markers at various points which are the topics that the Holocron videos are covering. It starts with the most recent event in Republic history and then goes backwards. You'll notice that the last available vid was about the smuggler blockade. The next one after that is going to talk about the re-emergence of the Mandalorians (as seen at the very end of the smuggler video) and the one after the Mandalorian timeline video says this:
Frustrated by a series of Republic Military victories, Imperial Intelligence adopted new tactics to force an end to the war
So shortly before the Smuggler announcement we had the Smuggler timeline video (obviously explaining why the Smuggler class is in the game) and after they talk about the Mandalorians we have a video explaining Imperial Intelligence... which, I believe, will lead into the announcement of the Sith Spy class. Or you could call it Sith Operative. Or Sith Infiltrator. I dunno. Whatever the name is, it is all the same.
Want some more support? I'm all for it! The Bounty Hunter and the Trooper are clearly mirrors of each other. Some people thought the Smuggler was the BH counter-part or that the Smuggler was with the Sith. But those people were wrong on both accounts. The Smuggler isn't about heavy weapons, the description of them is someone who uses cunning and guile to reach their objectives. They're stealthy. They know how to escape and survive dangerous situations. They manipulate circumstances to give them the edge and out of all of the other classes Bioware has described them as the 'social' class. They get the dialogue options so they can smooth talk people or bit a bit sly when dealing with others. So then, we need a Sith counter-part or mirror class for the Smuggler. Know of any other potential class which needs to be stealth? Uses cover? Needs to get out of dangerous situations? Sabotages the enemy's plans to get the advantage? Gathers information from people? Exactly! A spy.
This is who we see in the video. It was Bioware saying 'Hey look, a new class!' right to our faces at E3 but doing it in such a way that it gets people talking about that character for weeks. Everyone is thinking it is Smuggler because she uses blasters and uses cover like a Smuggler. But they're forgetting the way TOR is mirroring classes. The whole fact that a Smuggler uses cover as a central play style means whatever mirrors the Smuggler has play the same way too. If you also look at the smuggler concept art and screenshots their whole style is very casual. They don't wear skin-tight bodysuits like the woman in the screenshot or the twi-lek in the video. That bodysuit is too formal. Too professional.
So here's my bet. I'd place money on this if it was worth it. I am 100% certain that the Sith Spy is not only in the game but according to the timeline video it will be the next announced class. All that leaves then is the Jedi and Sith, which we know of already. And whatever this final Republic class is and its Sith counter-part. Personally, I'm still expecting droids since more and more of your early screenshots released are turning out to be player classes. The Assassin Droid was among them and so was the T3 droid.
