Confirmation on when TOR takes place!

Greetings, Folks!

Cai, Prax's wonderful GM, decided to pose a question to BioWare on behalf of the Praxeum (and other RP'ers) asking when, exactly, does TOR take place. Rob Chestney of BioWare responded with a much different date then thought!

Quote :

There has been some confusion about this due to a press release which mis-stated the dates. The time in which the game begins is less than 10 years after the Treaty of Coruscant. In general, we've tried to keep this a little vague, because the Old Republic doesn't take place in a single moment of history but over a period of a few years. Suffice to say, the Treaty's been in place long enough for it to start fraying at the edges.

Hope it helps everyone as it does us! All of it can be read Here

EDIT : Huh, thought I've posted over here before. Guess not, double ahoyhoy then EPOCH, I am Iorio Tenova of the Praxeum

Yay! Thanks for the info Iorio, it's very kind of you to think of us and fill us in. That swtor.com thread was just choc-full of trolls and ignorant sons of b***es that it made my gore rise. It's why I hardly ever post there (though I did see our own zoran make a post on the thread [PS: zoran, can update your sig please!]).

Many thanks to Cai Durkin too for wading into the midst of all the haters to pull out this gem of info.

Oh, and welcome to the forums, Sir!

Nice work over there Prax saved us a bit of a headache!

Aye thankyou kindly for the update, and as Harewood said you had some major idiots on that thread. I'm well known for my dislike of RP-Haters of which there were a few, but there were also some non-specific freaks on there who needed to keep their opinions to themselves.

Its why, for me personally, I never post much on those forums.

I bet BioWare look at those boards sometimes and dispair as well.

Quick question, how will this effect RP timelines for Agents? E.g. the Hyperion RP?

Sharasvar wrote:

Quick question, how will this effect RP timelines for Agents? E.g. the Hyperion RP?

Well, we're going to have to get our backstories into perspective as some of our character's histories now don't make sense with what we have on the table now. Skursir himself would be akin to a 40-year old now. As for the Hyperion, that would simply take place before the game starts, ie. 9.5 years after the Treaty, or about there.

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Sharasvar wrote:

Quick question, how will this effect RP timelines for Agents? E.g. the Hyperion RP?

Don't worry, I'm a sly ol' fox. If you check out the first page of The Hyperion it says:

"The Hyperion is a new and more upper-class establishment than most Cantinas, found in the heart of Coruscant during the time of the ATC Restoration period."

So that happily equates to "any point after +0 ATC"
The exact date for the goings on at the club are deliberately not set, to ensure no timeline problems crop up.

Exactly. I and other members have kept character backgrounds and RP settings deliberately timeless with comments like "...in the aftermath of the Treaty of Coruscant" instead of saying "...in 20ATC". So while this [less than 10ATC] news is brilliant, it doesn't really effect much of much round here I'd say. A few tweaks to some members' backgrounds is all.