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Hyperspace Beacon: Timeline
When I started the Holocron Files last week, it slipped my mind that I have been doing this column for a year and a half and that not everyone has been following every issue. When I wrote about the Pureblood Sith, it was really meant to be a refresher course, not a comprehensive chronicle. It's extremely difficult to capture the full history of a species in about a thousand words. That being said, I understand that not everyone has a perspective on the Star Wars timeline, especially the time leading up to Star Wars: The Old Republic. I don't think it's any secret that BioWare stories are extremely deep, and Lead Writer Daniel Erickson has a nerdgasm every time someone interviews him about Star Wars history. The established history leading up to TOR will play a major role in the story that unfolds in the game, otherwise the development team would not have had the wherewithal to create the timeline videos for the website. Following the break, I would like to set you up for future, more comprehensive articles about the Star Wars lore. Although this column is certainly not exclusively about lore, when I bring up another Holocron File, I want reader to have a decent understanding of when these events fall in Star Wars history. So rev up your time machine to 88 miles per hour! This Hyperspace Beacon is about to go back in time -- way back!
Get your SWTOR concept art with a side order of forum avatars
We hope you're hungry for more Star Wars: The Old Republic artwork, because a fresh batch of concept art has been served up on the game's official site, ready for fans to consume. A handful of different alien species were evidently doing some posing in the Bioware offices, which has left us with portraits of some familiar faces, like the Nautolans pictured here. Don't go making fun of the Kitonaks now, ya hear? As an added bonus, this update also unveiled ten new forum avatars to tweak your appearance on the TOR blog. Whether or not any of the six species in the spotlight will be playable is still up in the air, but you can be sure that the game's followers are already casting their votes (both for and against) them. We've absorbed the latest concept art into our ongoing gallery, and you'll find plenty more to look at there apart from just the new stuff.%Gallery-35034%
