50 Fun Facts About Star Wars: the Old Republic

SWTOR set a 2012 Guinness World Record as the largest entertainment project of which kind?

Voice-over work on the game ran to more than 200,000 recorded lines of dialogue, which earned the Guinness title. Every class story has both a male and a female lead voice.

Which toy company released four SWTOR sets from 2012, including a Sith Fury-class Interceptor?

LEGO turned the game's ships into brick sets: a Republic Striker starfighter, a Sith Fury interceptor, a Jedi Defender cruiser and a battle pack of rival soldiers.

Treek, a SWTOR mercenary companion who left her peaceful, low-tech people, belongs to which species?

Ewok mercenary Treek will join any class, but she demands a Mercenary Contract first: a purchase, or a million credits at Legacy Level 40.

Which planet's Jedi Temple does a Sith army storm and destroy in SWTOR's 'Deceived' cinematic trailer?

Coruscant loses its temple ten years before the game begins, and large parts of the city-world are still in ruins and under gang control when players arrive.

Which business model did SWTOR adopt in November 2012 after subscribers fell below one million?

Free-to-play went live on every server on November 15, 2012, with the subscription kept as an option. Free players get limits such as credit caps and slower levelling.

Which publisher released SWTOR and told investors in 2019 it was nearing a billion dollars in revenue?

Electronic Arts published a game whose development budget was estimated at up to $200 million, which at the time made it the most expensive video game ever made.

Which blue-skinned, red-eyed species, the people of Grand Admiral Thrawn, starts as Empire-only in SWTOR?

Chiss characters can at first be only Imperial Agents or Bounty Hunters, until the Legacy system unlocks the other classes, Jedi included.

In SWTOR, which desert world housed Czerka's Secret Weapons division and the lawless outpost of Anchorhead?

Tatooine first drew Czerka for mining, five hundred years before the game; when that failed, its empty dunes suited experiments too dangerous to run anywhere else.

Which Jedi Grand Master in SWTOR is a direct descendant of Bastila from Knights of the Old Republic?

Satele Shan shares more than blood with Bastila: Jennifer Hale voices both women, though their stories sit about three hundred years apart.

Which masked hero of Knights of the Old Republic is freed from the Emperor's Maelstrom Prison in SWTOR?

Revan had been kept alive for centuries so the Emperor could draw on his strength, but the link ran both ways and let him hold the Emperor's darker urges in check.

Which Sith Warrior advanced class can tank in SWTOR, soaking up damage through its Immortal discipline?

Juggernaut players can also pick the Vengeance or Rage disciplines to deal damage, while the Marauder fights with two lightsabers and never tanks.

Which Trooper advanced class tanks in SWTOR as a Shield Specialist, using heavy armor, shields and taunts?

Vanguard soldiers fight at close quarters, while the Commando hangs back with a blaster cannon and can heal rather than tank.

Which Imperial Agent advanced class can heal allies in SWTOR, using gadgets from its Medicine discipline?

Operative agents can instead ambush enemies with the Concealment discipline or poison them with Lethality, while the Sniper only deals damage.

What does SWTOR call its story-driven group adventures, such as The Esseles, Hammer Station and Athiss?

Flashpoints make a group decide the story together, and those choices change which enemies appear and how the adventure ends.

What name does SWTOR give its largest group missions, built for teams of eight or sixteen players?

Operations include The Eternity Vault, set in a lost prison under icy mountains, and Karagga's Palace, the compound of a Hutt crime lord.

Which SWTOR Warzone has two teams take turns attacking and defending as they race to reach a data core?

Voidstar is a derelict Imperial battle cruiser that vanished during the Great War, and both sides want the weapon schematics believed to sit in its memory banks.

SWTOR's Huttball matches, sponsored by Giradda the Hutt, are held in The Pit on which Hutt-controlled world?

Nar Shaddaa stages the sport in an arena where teams dodge fire, acid and anti-gravity traps while running or passing the ball over the rival goal line.

Which SWTOR Gathering Skill breaks into secured computers and lockboxes for valuable data and rare schematics?

Slicing is one of four Gathering Skills, and a crew may fill all three of its skill slots with them, though only one slot can hold a Crafting skill.

What is SWTOR's real-money store called, selling armour sets, mounts, pets and lightsaber colour crystals?

Cartel Market purchases are made with Cartel Coins, a currency bought with real money. Analysts estimated the store brought in $139 million in 2013 on top of subscriptions.

Which 2014 SWTOR expansion introduced player housing, with decorations to place and flagships for guilds?

Galactic Strongholds homes unlock for a player's entire Legacy, and a guild can pool funds for a flagship that gives members bonuses on the planet it orbits.

Which Republic-only playable species in SWTOR has no eyes and perceives the world through the Force instead?

Miraluka usually hide their missing eyes behind a headband or mask, because passing for the far more common humans makes travel easier.

Which horned species, the people of Darth Maul, is playable for both the Republic and the Empire in SWTOR?

Zabrak characters look different depending on their side at first, and along with Humans and Cyborgs they can take any class from the start.

Which species of striped head-tails and hollow montrals, Ahsoka Tano's people, became playable in SWTOR in 2015?

Togruta use their hollow montrals for a kind of echolocation, sensing the position and movement of objects around them.

Which amphibious species with a crown of long head tendrils became playable in SWTOR with the Onslaught expansion?

Nautolan Jedi include Kit Fisto of the prequel films, and the species comes from Glee Anselm, a world of swamps, lakes and seas.

Which feline species, the people of the Trooper's companion Aric Jorgan, became playable in SWTOR's Patch 2.1?

Cathar also include Juhani, the Jedi companion of Knights of the Old Republic, though she belongs to a subspecies that looks less catlike.

Which species with two prehensile head-tails, used for communication, can be played on either side in SWTOR?

Twi'lek literally means twin lekku, the name for the head-tails, and their language mixes speech with subtle movements of them.

In SWTOR, which native species of Hutta mortgaged its civilization to the Hutts and now lives in slavery?

Evocii leaders ignored the rumours of Hutt greed and kept making deals; when the Hutts' own world of Varl became uninhabitable, they called in the debts and took the planet.

Which plague-spreading monsters, created by Sith alchemy, roam the swamp ruins of Taris in SWTOR?

Rakghouls carry a plague once confined to the planet's Undercity, and each attack has a chance of turning the victim into one of them.

Which enslaved SWTOR companion of the Sith Warrior wears a shock collar that sparked a Daily Mail controversy?

Vette is voiced by Catherine Taber, and a later survey asked 369 players how they had actually chosen to treat her.

Which assassin droid became the first companion open to every SWTOR class, rebuilt through a galaxy-wide quest?

HK-51 lay dormant for years in the hold of an Imperial ship, and his design is based on HK-47, the droid companion of the Knights of the Old Republic games.

Which studio, whose Austin team led development, created SWTOR as its first massively multiplayer game?

BioWare waited years for the right project before making an online world, and said this one held more story than all of its earlier games combined.

SWTOR's conversations use a dialogue system like that of which other role-playing series from its developer?

Mass Effect also lends the game a voice: Jennifer Hale, who plays its Commander Shepard, speaks for the female Trooper.

On which PC storefront did SWTOR arrive in July 2020, nearly nine years after its original launch?

Steam came long after a launch that was itself staggered: North America and part of Europe played first, with Oceania and Asia following in March 2012.

Which earlier MMO based on George Lucas's space saga shut down in December 2011, the month SWTOR launched?

Star Wars Galaxies closed just as its successor arrived; a second online game, Clone Wars Adventures, lasted until March 2014.

Which studio, keeper of Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot, took over SWTOR's development in 2023?

Broadsword took the game on so that its original studio could concentrate on two other role-playing franchises; the planned handover was reported in June 2023.

Which game engine was SWTOR built on, with its client only moving from 32-bit to 64-bit in 2023?

HeroEngine powered the game from launch; the 2023 switch to a 64-bit client let it use more than 4 GB of memory, which cut the crashes caused by running out of it.

Which animation company made SWTOR's 'Sacrifice' cinematic trailer, named Best Trailer of E3 2015 by IGN?

Blur Studio's short tells the story of the twin heirs to the Eternal Empire's throne, and it announced the Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion.

Which world of feuding noble houses, among them House Organa, is the battlefield of SWTOR's 'Hope' trailer?

Alderaan quit the Republic in protest at the peace treaty; after its prince was assassinated and the queen died heirless, the noble houses went to war for the throne.

On which red, dusty world, home of the earliest Sith, does SWTOR's Empire re-establish its Sith Academy?

Korriban's recapture opened the war: the 'Return' trailer shows the Sith attacking the Republic station above it, decades before the game begins.

In SWTOR, which frigid world at the galaxy's edge holds the Adegan crystals that Jedi use in lightsabers?

Ilum was a quiet place of Jedi pilgrimage until the Sith Empire found it, slaughtered its few guardians and began an operation that seems to want more than crystals.

Which masked Sith Lord, a Great Galactic War veteran, do players hunt in SWTOR's Legacy of the Sith expansion?

Darth Malgus wears a mask over his nose and mouth after surviving an attack that destroyed his Sith war party, and he later joined the mobile game Galaxy of Heroes.

Which soft-spoken Sith Lord, voiced by Lydia Leonard, first appeared in SWTOR's story in a 2014 update?

Lana Beniko is known as the Dark Advisor, and her role in the story grows with each expansion that followed her debut.

Under which name does the Sith Emperor, once called Tenebrae and Vitiate, rule the Eternal Empire in SWTOR?

Valkorion gained his power through rituals that killed the populations of whole planets, and he learned to move his consciousness into new hosts.

By what title is SWTOR's player character known from the Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion onward?

The Outlander builds an Alliance of recruits from both sides of the war, among them companions once locked to other classes, to fight the Eternal Empire.

Which Empress, the subject of SWTOR's 'Betrayed' trailer, must players defeat in Knights of the Eternal Throne?

Vaylin's expansion marked the game's fifth anniversary, adding nine chapters of solo story and raising the level cap to 70.

Which actress voices Mako, the Bounty Hunter's first companion and romance option in SWTOR?

Lacey Chabert shares the cast with other animation regulars: Tara Strong plays the companion Risha, and Laura Bailey plays the Jedi Kira Carsen.

Which voice actor, also a screenwriter of X-Men and X2, plays the male Jedi Knight in SWTOR?

David Hayter is best known in games as Solid Snake of Metal Gear Solid; the female Jedi Knight is voiced by Kari Wahlgren.

Which remote jungle world is home to the Sith Emperor and his Dark Council in SWTOR?

Dromund Kaas has a sky of permanent electric storms, the result of dark-side rituals the Emperor performed there.

On which world, where the first students of the Force gathered, did SWTOR's Jedi rebuild their Temple?

Tython was nearly destroyed by a cataclysm among those first scholars; the survivors fled, founded the Jedi Order elsewhere and forgot the planet for thousands of years.

Which planet of towering stone pillars, settled by crash-landed refugees, arrived with SWTOR's first expansion?

Makeb's weak gravity lifts its stone pillars above the clouds, and the level cap rose from 50 to 55 for the fight against the invading Hutts there.