The Reincarnation that Brought Chaos.

Star Wars the Old Republic is one of my favorite MMORPGS of all time. I had sadly missed the launch, as I was during the time in my World of Warcraft days and spent all my time on that and work, but around the time Warlords of Draenor (one of the expansions to WoW) I felt tuckered out of the game. I had loved the story of World of Warcraft and during Warlords of Draenor, I realized I no longer liked the story that much. After the Lich King I felt that spark when questing start to falter, and my love for the story start to dwindle.

Around that time I picked up Star Wars the Old Republic and fell in love immediately. I quickly played through the game, and created a guild filled with friends. The times there were amazing, but sadly it didn't last too long. Very quickly the guild branched off to do other things, or just left the guild. Very quickly the guild turned into a group of seven friends. And at Alex and other people's want, we started playing other games like Call of Duty, League of Legends and more. Slowly the group left SWTOR, not picking it up again. Only two others of our group and I still played on and off again, that is, until Onslaught came out. I showed it to the group and wished for us all to play again like the good old days, this got most of them excited. I just felt glad I got some of the guild back together to play the game again.

"Alright bois, are we creating new characters or are we still gonna play with our old ones?" I said, taking command of the group like I usually did.

A incoherent torrent of voices as everyone talked over each other responded frustrating me greatly. I mean come on, I almost always gotta tell everyone to not talk over people but no one seems to listen.

"Ok ok, one at a time... Mono, do you still have your character?" I frustratingly cried out in an attempt to organize the messy Discord call. It didn't help much, as I don't think anyone heard me, and the call took an uncomfortable amount of time quieting down.

Exasperated, I asked once more just to test the waters of the call, my fingers crossed in hopes of things staying orderly, "Ok again, Mono do you still have your character?"

"Yes, but I kinda want to make a new one. Relive the good ol' days y'know." Mono replied.

"Ooh!" Piped up Justin, the competitive one of our bunch, "Lets make a challenge or whatever of it! Half of us go Imperial and half go Republic, and compete to see who reaches the new Onslaught DLC first!"

"Yeah!" Chimed in Sasha, "That would be a great idea! Dibs on Republic."

After much discussion the teams were decided: Imperials were Alex, Mono, Brian, and myself, Jamie. Republic was Justin, Sasha, other Justin (nicknamed Biggie), and David. I then suggested to go to different calls so as to not interrupt other people's planning on how to go through the game, and everyone agreed so we all left.

Then came deciding everyone's class. I was fine with anything, but Alex really wanted to go the Inquisitor and Mono really wanted to go DPS. After some careful decision-making Mono chose the Imperial class, Brian wanted to try the Bounty Hunter class as he had not tried it before. That left me with the Sith Warrior. Not really a bad class, but best at tank. With roles set, we all went together to build our characters, which took a lot of time...

I ended up as a Pureblood Sith Male with the sides completely shaven off leaving only a large streak of black hair on the middle of his head, orange-red eyes, a harsh and sharp face to match the Sith bad boy aesthetic, a tall and bulky figure with deep red skin. The name I decided on was Kadon.

Alex decided on creating a female character, which we gave him some flak for doing. His excuse was that "if I'm gonna look at an ass all game it better be a good one." His character ended up looking as a human female with straight black hair barely reaching her shoulders, clear gray eyes, pale white skin, soft and smooth facial features, and the average body figure option in the game. He named her Ashlynn, which gave me the feeling that he was creating a genderbent version of himself.. but that's his own business...

Mono chose a Male Cyborg with light-brown messy hair, light blue eyes, a youth-full teen face scarred on the right side of his face with two mechanical supports going through the bottom area of his cheek for the bottom of his jaw, a scrawny small figure with moderately tanned skin. He randomized until he found something suitable and this was the first preset that caught his eye. He chose to name his character Monochrome Robot, as a slight play on his name. I thought it was kinda funny, but no one really laughed except me when he announced the name...

Brian ended up with a Bald Male Rattataki with light blue (almost white) eyes, three small triangular pieces of jewelry embedded into his skin on each side starting from the middle of his cheek up to the bottom of his ear, a scar starting from just above where his eyebrow would be going down through his nose into the left side of his cheek, four long striped tattoos on the upper side of his head and two short stripes going down from the middle of his eyes. The name he chose was simply Guts. Only that name was already taken so I recommended he put some more z's to it and so he put Gutzz. That name was taken too. He kept on adding z's until it worked. It ended up being Gutzzzzzzzz. He wanted to look like a "badass" "seen some shit" stereotypical mercenary but wanted to try to be a bit different and original so added the stripes and jewelry.

With all our characters ready, we simultaneously clicked Play at my behest. Only, the game didn't start. Instead, the whole world faded into black...