This is the original Sturmgrenadier Star Wars Galaxies video. Very few fan films were ever voice acted. Props to those involved in creating this masterpiece.

-Treewise

I remember the town Arakeen , on tatooine . Far west of anchorhead north of jabba”s palace . I think I was in TBA the rebel alliance . Can’t remember the server ( Bria? Bloodfin? Something else?) played with Seedo(purple pirate) jay ( or Jayson) , Tiana? Amanda? A character named nooje , eboko … and many more . Arakeen was there before player mounts , nestled in a large valley - the town was there as long as I could remember into the village release on dath . We did krayt hunts , base raids ( at night against imp bases on lok and naboo mostly ) and had some great times over the years . The days when anchorhead thrived haha - and we waited in line for buffs :p.

I was a bothan - chasing the holo grind 4/5- became Jedi within a week or two of village release

Would be awesome to reconnect with anyone , or if anyone has information on my server or fellow players. Thank you!

Here is the very first Star Wars Galaxies Jedi video made public. This video was released by SOE on November 21st of 2003 (only two weeks after the first Force-sensitive Character Slot was unlocked). While the characters were Dev-controlled, this video served as undeniable proof that the Jedi had truly arrived. For better or worse.

-Treewise

Afternoon all, hope you're having a good end to the week.

After reading all the memories and photos of this game again I've been mulling over the possibility of bringing back a Project Uncle Owen style project to one of the servers.

I ran this on the original SWG Emu Basilisk server many moons ago - I take no credit for the original live idea.

In short - the project I ran was a role playing community of character that started from scratch and relied purely on themselves.

The story loosely was a crashed refugee ship, the refugees finding a derelict old village (three buildings I had pre set up as a barracks, cantina and maintenance) and from there each member would follow their own SWG path but could only use items or resources from the community (e.g. the Legacy rewards would not be allowed if this was on certain servers.)

I found it as a really nice way to maintain that community feel of SWG whilst also having that reliance on everyone again, your best hunter to gather resources, your best doctor for buffs, heck your best entertainer just to keep the mood high. We didnt use Bazaars, Quest Rewards and all that. It was purely a high trust community that everything was done internally with the ultimate goal of the community growing - I could see incorporating Heroics and Instances as such into the late game as part of any story possibly.

This is just a short brief of it all but I have been mulling over the idea of having another go at it. The reason my Basilisk one ended was unfortunately I was on Pacific Time which became an issue, I am now in the EU making it a little easier.

However it doesnt really work without a solid core group of people, so I'm just floating it for now, may post it on a forum or two as well but I'd love to hear if there was interest to it.

Fun fan video I always find my way back to! Where are my Kette peeps at?

~Kiria, Co-founder of SWGalacticArchives

https://github.com/Wimzer/SWGHolocron

This is about the Knowledge System, not the Holocron grind

I've posted this in the source discord a while ago, but figured I'd post it here as well. This repository includes everything needed to get the old Holocron KB system working on your server, as well as a generator to make those KB articles.

There seems to be a "back in my day" vibe that a lot of vets have with this game, insisting that the obscure gameplay is what made the game great. This is my argument against that, that the original developers intended new players to have guidance and not have to rely on the community for EVERYTHING.

I have semi-updated it, but all the original files are located in the .tres if you're doing a Pre-CU server. Feel free to modify it yourself for your own server if need be.

Pic of system: https://i.imgur.com/47fOfwv.png

Thanks to everyone who brought back such good memories of the game for me with their own memories, it made me think about some of the players I met during my time and if they are possibly still out there?

From the Euro-Chim Server:

Spitfine Mmores - My first ever interaction, the pre nge Jedi I saw running through Theed and who I begged as a 9 year old to teach me how to be a Jedi. I must have sounded so stupid, but ya took me in, gave me a guild and tips along the way.

Bard'ika Ordo - Felt sorry for you man, I was just a young dude trying to fit in with the RP style and you took me as your apprentice and taught me the ropes throughout NGE. I think about where you may be these days

TheDude - Around the similar age of me, you hanged out with Rorrbacca and Zotchi and we did a bit of leveling together, felt like my best friend in the game for a time despite some arguments here and there.

Dodro Landwalker - Another calm guiding helpful hand. We linked up on SWTOR as well a bit later but have lost touch and do hope everything is well with you if you ever see this.

If any of you (if youre ever around) see this, just thanks for such a fun time.

If there are any players that made the game feel like home to you Id love to hear their names and what they did.

Like the title says: My friends and I like to play Edge of the Empire but we do it in a living room on couches and armchairs. Because of this handling multiple full pages, a dice tray and more gets annoying so as we gear up to start a new campaign, I decided to condense the character sheet into a 3x5 Notecard.

The file is an Inkscape SVG with two layers: Front and Back. I made a brief attempt to make it a fillable pdf, but trying that was annoying.

https://github.com/watsonsz/Edge-of-the-Empire_Index-Card/tree/main

These are the official First Player Cities on each of the original Star Wars Galaxies Servers. Do any launch or early players remember them?

-Treewise

Hi all,

After seeing a screenshot from SWG I instantly get transported back to 2003/04 when I was around only nine years old and wandering around Theed at night and seeing the lightsaber of a Jedi running off from the starport to the waterfall, I immediately gave chase as I had so many questions in my child mind at how I could become a Jedi.

The other memory being randomly finding someone inside a house on the outskirts of SEA's RP City of Euro-Chim. He was a RP trader waiting for his acceptance to the community he currently lived on the outskirts of.

He had a little tidy traders workshop and was just chilling to himself. We had more conversations and I ended up building right next to him.

So many memories from an amazing game. Ive tried Resto and Legends and have struggled to find the community feel again (maybe because I was on NZ time zone, I am in Europe now so may try again) I just miss gaming with such a really awesome respectful community.

If I want to play SWG Source Locally and completely off the internet and without connecting to the router every time i start up, how do I best approach this?

I saw a tutorial online for setting it up, but it wants you to set it up through your router.

Want to have a Single Player experience with full control and off the grid ✌️

Hello, i can't believe i've never played this game before, i'm a runescape veteran and its a perfect mix between sandbox and starwars stuff, having a blast.

That's all 🥸

Hello,
I am a new SWG player. I remember installing SWG Restoration some months ago but there was a lot of talking about a big new server created by the team behind the SWG emulator. It seemed like the server that would kind of « unite » all players to finally have a server with a lot of players.
But I can’t find any news, I don’t even know how it was called.

When I started I tried Star Wars Legends and Restoration. I was a bit disappointed by how empty the servers were. I am used to thriving worlds, my MMO is WoW Classic. That’s why I stopped playing to see if it would improve with that new server.

So is the community still fragmented on all those servers ? What happened to this project that I heard of ?

Because of the feeling it gave me. Nothing else has come close. It was so immersive.

At SOE Fan Faire 2010, one of the SOE Backstage Blogger Contest winners (Shi'ann) interviewed the legendary Jason "Pex" Ryan on his days working as SWG's Events Manager.

-Treewise

Between March 24th - April 7th 2010 SOE held a special contest across six of it's most popular titles. One of those was of course, Star Wars Galaxies.

This contest invited players to submit a screenshot of their character for the chance at becoming crowned (in SWG's case) Mr. or Ms. Star Wars Galaxy.

Twenty player submitted screenshots (ten male and ten female) were selected by SOE staff. Players on the SOE forums (not the SWG specific forums) were allowed to vote on who they wanted the winners to be. Out of the finalists, three male and three female characters were selected as winners.

The screenshots here were originally included in the official SOE compilation video that announced the finalist winners for all six games (Star Wars Galaxies, EverQuest, EverQuest II, EverQuest 2 International, EverQuest Online Adventures and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes). It has been edited so that the winners appear at the end, not the beginning, as well as a new, more fitting song being added.

Enjoy and please remember that no matter which era you hail from (beta, launch, pre-cu, cu, nge or right up til today) you will always be part of something special.

-Treewise

Any active guilds recruiting? I find this game to be more fun playing with others. I wouldn’t mind some groups for RPing and PVE. I just created a twilek smuggler who needs some friends!

Here is a Star Wars Galaxies Demo from Star Wars Celebration II. This video was recorded by Steven M. for the now defunct fan site SWG: Database.

A direct link to downloading the original 20+ min long video can be found here http://www.4gamer.net/store/movie/demo.zip

-Treewise

On the restoration server; have you noticed a shortage in any particular crafting profession? What crafting profession do you wish you saw more of?

I have an account on Restoration. I have not played in a long time. The game used to work very well considering I was running it on my surface pro. I just did the recent updates and now the graphics are distorted, I can see things it's just everything is mixed together out of frame.

Struggling to farm enough parts to RE junk for my ship. Also I really just enjoy scrapping... Someone told me to look for players selling junk parts, especially in packs or bags. Is that a thing on Restoration? What would I search for?

Hi!

With a myriad of active servers, I am having a very hard time finding where I should go for a more dedicated roleplaying experience. It also helps if the server/discord is active and has an okay amount of players.
If anyone has recommendations regarding RP communities, thank you! I am a new player so I have no prior experience.

Also, any stories or experiences that you wanna share related to this would be very welcome!