#particularly with the original faction since the player doesn't have the same range

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Going through 7.5 story and I'm going to make a couple of theories on the future: 1) I'll bet Heta is Nul. Why? The weird and unusual fixation people have with her. Plays similar to what's been told about Nul when she was a Jedi and force bonds/connections. There's also the cinematic that had the Mirialan try to protect the group while a woman suspiciously tall and shaved bald has their back turned.

Not to mention the type of weapon going into storage there. No the lightsabers don't look the same but there's no guarantee she didn't strip down one of her own to a more base form. But Ri'kan's unusually fanatical, Shae's fanatical in the opposite way i.e wanting Heta dead, the Mandos following Heta despite a portion having their own reasons for joining her are weirdly dedicated to her cause when their nature is typically more fickle unless a strong leader's able to unite them. I just don't see Heta as particularly charismatic considering it feels she's more like a child going by what other people have told them rather than personal experience. Considering what's known about Mandalorians pre Shae's leadership and they actively wanted to side with the Empire to fight Jedi. Plus several other pretty extensive benefits too. 2) Our factions are going to turn against us. I've suspected this for a while but the recent 7.5 update's getting close to putting the nail in the proverbial coffin for me. I've done saboteur and loyalist and the main thing I'm getting in terms of vibe is our faction is losing patience with us. Shae's thing and her lack of responsiveness in general while she goes hunt murder. Basically put, during Kotfe/Kotet the point was basically driven home that our factions moved on without us. They took apart everything we worked for and stuck it as a mere footnote in the grand scheme of things. Sometimes we were pivotal in a particular objective but the grand scheme of things? Nope. Republic wanted us gone and refused to help, even when Saresh tried to take over. Empire assisted eventually but even during chapter 2 of Kotet it's very grudgingly while people think Acina's insane. During the uprisings, especially in the second round which was very Republic centered, you could see how paranoid they were getting over the Alliance. Equating them to potential terr*rists preparing to invade the senate because they had the Eternal Fleet. If you sided with the opposition on Iokath, its even less reason to trust you. Only reason why they did after all that was basically a combination of desperation for a win and to see what you were up to. It's out of character for either big faction to allow the Alliance to exist in the form it has considering both their natures to dominate. Either by diplomacy or force and currently both sides are getting tired of it because they can't outright control you like they used to. You're not playing by their game rules, so at some point in the future I expect the knives to come out at you. And it'll either be over the holocron, Shae or the Alliance itself being too much of a liability long term for their interests. 3) It's a suspicion and I could very likely be wrong but I'm thinking they may make all classes relatively accessible to one another. Reasons why: On the logistics end it's more than a bit inconvenient to have to make essentially 4 slightly different storylines to take into account force and tech users. I've been noticing over the past few expansions (I came into the game in 2015 or 16, just after chapter 10 of Kotfe was released) that the line between force user and tech has been getting more and more blurry over time.

I did run into cut content on reddit somewhere that actually had a different plan for the infamous Chapter 12 of KotFE, in which the protagonist was actually supposed to gain force using powers courtesy of Valkorion unlocking certain things. I suspect that it was originally in the plan but the game engine decided to have a massive upheaval which resulted in the chapters being pushed back a ton for a rush rewrite and rollback of the patch on the dev test server before what we got came through. Story wise, other than it's a bit jarring and weird to be the only gun in a room of lightsabers in general, there's been little hints here and there. Some of it long ago in the flashpoints for Taral V and Maelstrom prison in which Trooper and Smuggler can both see and hear Meetra Surik without assistance from Oteg, being able to use/channel Valkorion's power relatively safely during the times he offered the choice to (or by force), being easily able to enter into Satele's mind albeit with Kira's help, being easily able to stand against force users in general for the most part, being able to have certain force tech react to us. Then there's the weird scene where the player character, no matter the class, is reaching toward Nul's holocron even though the tech users shouldn't technically be able to pull it toward them. Why try? The holocron itself does appear to have a fascination quality to it since Sahar gets mesmerized by it for a period of time before she hands it to the player. Considering what it does, it leaves implications... If, and it's a big IF, the wall between tech and force user comes down at some point, then it would open up a few avenues. It would possibly allow for new classes to be made since you'd no longer need to make 4 of them just to keep things equal. Possibly just 2 or 1 with the extra effects changing various colours depending on alignment. It could also mean that content is released a little bit quicker since less work would need to be done to keep those hard-line distinctions from one another. Less work on voices and a few other things. It might not happen, depending on potential backlash, but I'd prefer the chance for new things to happen and explore rather than have stuff stagnate. with some caveats in place to ensure the old content isn't impacted *too* much. e.g running the unlock like a venture where player needs access to x planet or x place in the storyline or something.