#khoric

Trooper Briyoni Nerai, Vica's younger sister. Hot-headed, sarcastic, reckless--and just Force Sensitive enough to seem like she has really good reflexes/luck. I've actually developed her non-Outlander version a lot; there's a whole longfic I'd like to write someday(but I"ve been saying that for 8+ years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). Her "romance" is Jonas Balkar, they're engaged by the end of the class story, but it's a nebulous "when the war's over" thing. She manages to grit her teeth and stay in Havoc through Saresh kicking Dorne, BUT then after the Eternal Empire invasion things go pear-shaped on Denon while Jonas' SIS team is working there and Commander Malcolm says there's no plan for an extraction for largely PR reasons. So she resigns to go rescue her fiancé. It involves "borrowing" Elara from Malcolm's staff and working with Fuse and Aleksei Dorne, and is ultimately sucessful. Elara and Jonas go back to work in the Republic, but Bry, Fuse, and Aleksei keep working as free agent resistance to Zakuul until joining the Alliance.

Jedi Knight Chayce Bekem dies during the Eternal Empire invasion. He single-handedly holds off most of a battalion that's mixed Knight and regular soldiers(not skytroopers, actual human fighters) during a colony evacuation, but is cut down by a Knight of Zakuul just before retreating himself. His crew all do their "canon assigned" arcs that match up with the game.

Smuggler Kina Taldine gets very busy. Any kind of blackade or occupation means people need things smuggled in, the black market starts booming, and she doesn't hesitate to take those risks and make those credits. Eventually, Risha gets an opening to make progress on reclaiming Dubrillion's throne and leaves to pursue it. It feels "righteous cause" enough for Corso to think it sounds better than blockade running, so her goes with her. Akaavi, Guss, and Bowdaar stick around until the Eternal Empire starts more stringently hunting smugglers and the like, the Kina decides it's best they scatter and lay low.

Inquisitor Enaia Kallig keeps her crew together and maintains her Council seat, though her subtle pushes for a more peaceful/rational Empire get mired down with Marr gone. He was really the only other one so inclined, and had more pull due to his longer tenure. So Darth Imperius turns her attention to consolidating power and tracking down artifacts of use in that pursuit. (occsionally allows Andronikos to engage in a lil piracy for extra funds >:3 As a treat.) Retreats more and more to her private sanctums, basically waves off the restructuring of the Dark Council until Anahel makes a play for her seat. Bodies him and returns to at least a level of involvement that won't give people the idea her power is ripe for the taking.

Bounty Hunter Khary Pace gets by for a while chasing bounties. People still want other people dead, captured, brought back alive, no matter what else is going on in the galaxy. Torian leaves at Mandalore's call for the clans to unite against the Zakuulan threat, but the rest of them are doing alright. And then he accepts a bounty on one of the Star Fortress Exarchs. It's a hard target, takes the whole remaining team to implement his plan... and still fails. Khary, Mako, and Skadge die(sorry Mako), Gault and Blizz bolt.

Sith Warrior Plikh'ori'coduyo (Khoric) continues to serve as Empire's Wrath as long as it's viable. The Hand gets less and less communicative before finally (basiclly) ghosting him. When now-Empress Acina and Vowrawn make terms of surrender with Zakuul he's sort of at loose ends for a while, as the Empire puts on an act of Good Behavior(which means not seeming overly-aggressive on enforcement). After a couple years, Acina sends him to investigate/put down a rumored cult attempting to establish a sanctum on the remains of Ziost. He succeeds at that, but nearly gets killed by a monolith before Vette and Pierce save his bacon. Vette, as his wife, is v grumpy at how much he keeps risking himself for the Empire as the Empire seems to care about him less and less. This is the straw that breaks the bantha's back. Given he's unconscious and barely alive, she and Jaesa drag him off to Manaan to recover. [He winds up with both legs cybernetic; one fully and one knee-down, facial implants, and a cybernetic arm.] Treatment for these kinds of injuries isn't cheap, and they don't want anyone finding him while he's recovering, which leads to Vette partnering with Gault to earn some under the table credits.

Agent Odessa Isric is working undercovering for Ardun Kothe, has her long distance/visit when I can romance with Chance from her canon, and serves as part of the Yavin 4 coalition. She's later part of Lana's team investigating Ziost, so still sees the devastation of that world. What changes with her not being The Outlander is on what would have been her last visit with Chance, when he asks her about them both walking away from government intelligence work, she says yes. Vitiate and... everything else is not her problem to bear. Others will handle it, she'll help when she can but it's not her responsibility.

My brother randomly texted me last night and said he'd be free to play together this afternoon, so, TATOOINE. (well, first those little in-between missions; getting Kallig's mask and hitting the monitoring station. then TATOOINE)

(he's so cute even when he's frowning)

Since all we did was class story stuff, not the planet quest, I don't have a lot of shots with us both in them. But Kiunnh got another new outfit.

as did Vette(bc the collar hides the slave collar)

though now I can see why she was worried about the sun. >.> At least we went to an underground pirate base after this. (all the while I can hear Starfish in the background asking if that's Auntie Cait's character and why aren't you killing more things? Six year old girls are so bloodthirsty. >:D)

Kiunnh photobombed meting Master Yonlach by just standing there. Menacingly.

Bro: funny that he knocked Vette out but forgot about my companion >:D

Me, clicking on a dazed Andronikos: You sure bro?

Bro: D:<

Still, even with just him and me it was fine. And he commented it was interesting Yonlach felt shame over the assumptions he made and actions he took since Khoric's light side and ofc had no intention of killing anyone and Just Wants To Talk with Jaesa.

Icing on the cake for me was letting Khoric keep the Fractured Ashla lightsaber and slapping a Charred Orange crystal in it for making his second class marauder, it look awesome as hellllll

The game tried to sabotage us by telling Bro to fly to Gorinth outpost for the records vault, but since I've played the Sinq story a... couple times recently I knew that was hogwash and we just followed the yellow brick dirt road.

Kiunnh, much like my Sinqs, thinks Hiran's a pompous jerk and Bessiker deserves a better kid.

Gee, Vette, I wonder if that's bc you're trying to graft yourself to Toovee there. >.>

(It's still hilarious to me that Bro is solving "Khem would hate my reformer Sith" by making 2V-R8 play tank.)

There might be lots of colicoids on the Sinq Balmorra arc, but there's also tons of unhinged dialogue like this, so it balances out.

He's so cute and

he's Vette-approved. :'D Truly the goal of everything he does.

Between Gorinth and Sundari Kiunnh got a costume change

and then I showed how much I love my brother by letting him have the Lachris flirts when we did the little Balmorran Arms side-arc. :P

(she's one of my favorite mini-romances in the game, I don't think my brother knows how NICE I was being to back off here. xD)

Wrapping up class quests involved my brother making the CLASSIC Sith Inquisitor mistake in the hazard vault: if you try to run along the wall on the first broken grate instead of just jump down a level

you fall and die in acid :D Fortunately for him he was in a group. Khoric and Vette just had to kill a bunch of colicoids on the way down, so I basically did his bonus quest for him lmao Whenever I screw that up solo I have to rez back at the medcenter and run over again.

He didn't get the ftb or kiss with Lachris, so idk if that's bc I accidentally took the first flirt(before I knew he wanted them) or bc we were grouped. We turned stuff in, I acquired Quinn, and then he had to leave to get Starfish from school. (and I swapped servers to do GS objectives on Malgus, which is now doooonnneeeee the track /finger guns)