Star Wars The Old Republic Wookieepedia. Star Wars The Old RepublicEven among its interactive peers, The Old Republic is touted as a leap forward. IL44gvYXbRHidr6yz-HTS-HQSB3CVeR9XiZ5crbSjAYpozXE_cvEce7YT7oOJRSV3CM5qbW5pfxq' alt='Old 37 Full Movie In English' title='Old 37 Full Movie In English' />Much as the first Star Wars movie in 1. Ben Fritz and Alex Pham for the Los Angeles Times, January 2. Star Wars The Old Republic, commonly abbreviated as The Old Republic, SWTOR, or simply TOR, is a massively multiplayer online role playing game MMORPG that was produced and released by Bio. G/31/img17/movies-tv/week10/ebenej_2017-03-06T09-02_464e36_12._V533477151_.jpg' alt='Old 37 Full Movie In English' title='Old 37 Full Movie In English' />With Kane Hodder, Bill Moseley, Brandi Cyrus, Jake Robinson. Two brothers intercept 911 calls in a beat up old ambulance to torture and kill helpless victims. With Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson. A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that. Ware, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts. Developed over the course of more than five years by Bio. Ware Austin and Lucas. Arts at a cost of over 2. Star Wars The Old Republic was first conceived in 2. MMORPG follow up to Bio. Wares previous video games, the popular Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords, and the game was first announced on October 2. The game itself was released to the public on December 2. The Old Republic is accompanied by an expansive metaseries of Star Wars multimedia, including a four book novel series, three comic series Threat of Peace, Blood of the Empire, and The Lost Suns, and a number of short stories, as well as additional content. Star Wars The Old Republic succeeded Sonys Star Wars Galaxies as the main Star Wars MMORPG, and Galaxies went permanently offline shortly before The Old Republic was released in December 2. Set over three hundred years after the events of the Knights of the Old Republic games, The Old Republic features seventeen fully explorable planets, eight unique classes divided into the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire factions, and over 1,6. Flashpoints and Operations, and it is the first MMORPG to feature full scale voice acting. The game features extensive references to pre existing Star Wars continuity, and introduces thousands of new characters, locations, items, groups, and events to the Star Wars universe as it depicts the conflict between the Republic and the Empire. With the discarding of the Expanded Universe on April 2. Star Wars The Old Republic is the only remaining source that continues to produce Legends information aside from the official Star Wars Blog. Over one million subscribers registered in the first three days following The Old Republics release, and over a million had begun to play The Old Republic by December 2. MMORPG in history. The Old Republic has received generally positive reviews from critics, with a score of 8. Metacritic, though it has received some criticism by players for the lack of late game content, which has led the games developers to focus on the addition of upper level content in many of their updates. Due to declining subscription numbers during the summer of 2. The Old Republic introduced a Free to Play option in November 2. Rise of the Hutt Cartel, was released in April. The Old Republic has received twenty one major content updates so far, and the second Digital Expansion, Galactic Starfighter, was released to free to play users in February 2. Galactic Starfighter was released to active subscribers on December 3, 2. Preferred Status players on January 1. A third Digital Expansion, Galactic Strongholds, was released in August 2. Shadow of Revan, was released on December 9 two more expansions were due by the end of 2. Opening crawls KNIGHTS OF THE FALLEN EMPIRE. It is a time of chaos. A mysterious. army led by twin conquerors has. Galactic. Republic and Sith Empire, then. Meanwhile, an older threat still. SITH EMPEROR. revitalized after annihilating all life. Ziost, has similarly. Determined to hunt down these. Imperial. leader DARTH MARR gathers allies. Wild Space. Plot summary. Prologue. A rough map of the galactic borders during the Cold War. In 3. 68. 1 BBY, a reconstituted Sith Empire, the survivors of the Old Sith Empire that lost the Great Hyperspace War over a thousand years earlier, return to the larger galaxy under the leadership of an immortal. Sith Emperor and invade the Galactic Republic, sparking the Great Galactic War. Though the Empire achieved many victories in the early years of the conflict, the Republic eventually rallied and won several hard earned victories, which caused the war to drag on for a total of twenty eight years. Finally, in 3. 65. BBY, the Empire attacked the Republic capital of Coruscant in what became known as the Sacking of Coruscant and forced the Republic to accept the Treaty of Coruscant, ending the war and beginning a tense Cold War. The Republic and the Jedi Order rebuild and recover over the next decade, while the Empire secures the territory gained during the war and rebuilds their war machine in preparation for the inevitable resumption of hostilities. By 3. 64. 3 BBY,9 the tensions between the Empire and the Republic have begun to boil over, and proxy and side conflicts occurring across the galaxy only serve to inflame these hostilities. The planet. Ord Mantell is embroiled in the Separatist War, a civil war between the Republic backed but corrupt government and the Mantellian Separatist Movement, which unbeknownst to the Republic is receiving aid from the Sith Empire. Some of the fiercest fighting centers on the island of Avilatan, which is home to the Republic garrison. Fort Garnik and a number of separatist bases, but many Mantellians are forced to become refugees as the war drags on. While making a delivery to Ord Mantell, a smuggler is double crossed by the criminal Skavak, who steals the smugglersship. Tvd Season 6 Ep 16. The smuggler works with local crime lord. Viidu and his lieutenants, including the native farmboy Corso Riggs, to track down Skavak, and in the process the smuggler deals significant damage to the separatists operations. The search culminates in a raid on the separatist stronghold, but Skavak is already on his way to Coruscant with the smugglers ship, thanks to Viidus traitorous lieutenant Syreena. Around the same time, the elite Special Forces unit Havoc Squad is on Ord Mantell, and its newest member joins the squads search for a missing ZR 5. Working with the other members of the squad, the Republic trooper closes in on the bomb, eliminating several of the separatists leaders in the process, but the rest of the squad goes missing in the separatists volcano strongholdand when the trooper rushes to the rescue of Commander. Harron Tavus and the rest of the squad, the soldier finds that Tavus and the others are traitors who defect to the Empire. With the Republics recent successes against the separatists,1. The surviving members of the movement flee offworld, finding sanctuary with Chornarov, the corrupt and power hungry governor of the Republic planet Cademimu V. The new Jedi Temple on Tython. After the destruction of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant during the Sacking, the Jedi Order retreated to its recently rediscovered homeworld of Tython in the Deep Core. There, they train a new generation of Jedi and rediscover their past amongst Tythons verdant forests and mountains, though the violent Flesh Raiders pose a threat to both the Jedi and the illegal Twilek settlers of Kalikori village. The new Padawan of Jedi Master. Yuon Par discovers that an ancient teaching hologram has been stolen from Tythons ruins and traces the theft to a villager named Nalen Raloch, but Raloch uses his newfound Force sensitivity to try and kill the apprentice. Studying the recovered hologram, Par and her student discover the existence of the Fount of Rajivari, a collection of knowledge left behind by the ancient Jedi Master Rajivari. Joining forces with the Trandoshan hunter Qyzen Fess, the apprentice locates the Fountdiscovering it to be Rajivaris own Force ghostand prevents a now insane Raloch from destroying the ancient Forge that the Order used to construct lightsabers, thereby earning the rank of Jedi Consularbut Master Par succumbs to a mysterious illness just after her student is promoted. A newly arrived initiate proves vital in halting an invasion of the Tythonian Gnarls region by the Flesh Raiders, defeating the Dark Jedi. Elf Wikipedia. An elf plural elves is a type of human shaped supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore. In medieval Germanic speaking cultures, elves seem generally to have been thought of as beings with magical powers and supernatural beauty, ambivalent towards everyday people and capable of either helping or hindering them. However, the details of these beliefs have varied considerably over time and space, and have flourished in both pre Christian and Christian cultures. The word elf is found throughout the Germanic languages and seems originally to have meant white being. Reconstructing the early concept of an elf depends largely on texts, written by Christians, in Old and Middle English, medieval German, and Old Norse. These associate elves variously with the gods of Norse mythology, with causing illness, with magic, and with beauty and seduction. After the medieval period, the word elf tended to become less common throughout the Germanic languages, losing out to alternative native terms like zwerc dwarf in German and huldra hidden being in Scandinavian languages, and to loan words like fairy borrowed from French into all the Germanic languages. Still, beliefs in elves persisted in the early modern period, particularly in Scotland and Scandinavia, where elves were thought of as magically powerful people living, usually invisibly, alongside everyday human communities. They continued to be associated with causing illness and with sexual threats. For example, a number of early modern ballads in the British Isles and Scandinavia, originating in the medieval period, describe elves attempting to seduce or abduct human characters. With urbanisation and industrialisation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, beliefs in elves declined rapidly though Iceland has some claim to continued popular belief in elves. However, from the early modern period onwards, elves started to be prominent in the literature and art of educated elites. These literary elves were imagined as small, impish beings, with Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream being a key development of this idea. In the eighteenth century, German Romanticist writers were influenced by this notion of the elf, and reimported the English word elf into the German language. From this Romanticist elite culture came the elves of popular culture that emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Christmas elves of contemporary popular culture are a relatively recent tradition, popularized during the late nineteenth century in the United States. Elves entered the twentieth century high fantasy genre in the wake of works published by authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien these re popularised the idea of elves as human sized and human like beings. Elves remain a prominent feature of fantasy books and games and thereby continue to have a role in shaping peoples understandings of their own real life identities. Relationship to Christian cosmologies. Title page of Daemonologie by James VI and I, which tried to explain traditional Scottish beliefs in terms of Christian scholarship. Recent scholars have emphasised, in the words of rmann Jakobsson, that the time has come to resist reviewing information about lfaren masse and trying to impose generalizations on a tradition of a thousand years. Legends of lfar may have been constantly changing and were perhaps always heterogeneous so it might be argued that any particular source will only reflect the state of affairs at one given time. Thus, elves have had a place both within and outside Germanic speaking Christian cultures. There is no doubt that beliefs about elves have their origins before the conversion to Christianity and associated Christianization of north west Europe. For this reason, belief in elves has, from the Middle Ages through into recent scholarship, often been labelled pagan and a superstition. However, almost all surviving textual sources about elves were produced by Christians whether Anglo Saxon monks, medieval Icelandic poets, early modern ballad singers, nineteenth century folklore collectors, or even twentieth century fantasy authors. Attested beliefs about elves therefore need to be understood as part of Germanic speakers Christian culture and not merely relic of their pre Christian religion. Accordingly, investigating the relationship between beliefs in elves and Christian cosmology has been a preoccupation of scholarship about elves both in early times and in modern research. Historically, people have taken three main approaches to integrating elves into Christian cosmology, all of which are found widely across time and space Identifying elves with the demons of Judaeo Christian Mediterranean tradition. For example. In English language material in the Royal Prayer Book from c. Satan. 5 In the late fourteenth century Wife of Baths Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer equates male elves with incubi demons which rape sleeping women. In the early modern Scottish witchcraft trials, witnesses descriptions of encounters with elves were often interpreted by prosecutors as encounters with the Devil. In medieval Scandinavia, Snorri Sturluson wrote in his Prose Edda of ljslfar and dkklfar light elves and dark elves, the ljslfar living in the heavens and the dkklfar under the earth. The consensus of modern scholarship is that Snorris elves are based on angels and demons of Christian cosmology. Elves appear as demonic forces widely in medieval and early modern English, German, and Scandinavian prayers. Viewing elves as being more or less like people, and more or less outside Christian cosmology. The Icelanders who copied the Poetic Edda did not explicitly try to integrate elves into Christian thought. Likewise, the early modern Scottish people confessed to encountering elves seem not to have thought of themselves as having dealings with the Devil. Nineteenth century Icelandic folklore about elves mostly presents them as a human agricultural community parallel to the visible human community, that may or may not be Christian. It is possible that stories were sometimes told from this perspective as a political act, to subvert the dominance of the Church. Integrating elves into Christian cosmology without identifying them as demons. The most striking examples are serious theological treatises the Icelandic Tfordrif 1. Jn Gumundsson lri or, in Scotland, Robert Kirks Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies 1. This approach also appears in the Old English poem Beowulf, which lists elves among the races springing from Cains murder of Abel. The late thirteenth century South English Legendary and some Icelandic folktales explain elves as angels that sided neither with Lucifer nor with God, and were banished by God to earth rather than hell. One famous Icelandic folktale explains elves as the lost children of Eve. Etymology. A chart showing how the sounds of the word elf have changed in the history of English. The English word elf is from the Old English word most often attested as lf whose plural would have been lfe. Although this word took a variety of forms in different Old English dialects, these converged on the form elf during the Middle English period. During the Old English period, separate forms were used for female elves such as lfen, putatively from common Germanic liinnj, but during the Middle English period the word elf came routinely to include female beings. The main medieval Germanic cognates words of a common origin of elf are Old Norse alfr, plural alfar, and Old High German alp, plural alp, elp alongside the feminine elbe. These words must come from Common Germanic, the ancestor language of English, German, and the Scandinavian languages the Common Germanic forms must have been li z and l z.