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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This is a reworking of the Timeline Videos from the SWTOR Official Website. I've edited and rearranged them so that they are in chronological order and with the game's intro cut-scenes incorporated so it makes more sense then working backwards through the history as originally presented by Bioware. The basic idea was to make it feel like a documentary, and by coincidence it turned out almost exactly an hour long.
UPDATE: I've had a lot of comments asking why it's not narrated. Answer: it is. Only the first minute or so after the title is music and text only, the narration starts at 3:06. I did it this way because there was no way I could ever match Lance Henriksen's voice as Master Gnost-Dural.
I claim no ownership of any of the content of this video - All source material came from SWTOR's website and is owned by Lucasarts, Bioware Corp. and Electronic Arts, Inc. My only contribution was in editing. - Фільми й анімація
All this, just from a simple story about a farm boy learning space magic and joining a rebellion against an evil government
That's the beauty of Star Wars. You can enjoy the simple stories as a newcomer, and enjoy all the rich, expansive lore (Legends or canon) as a longtime fan. Something for everyone.
best describing of star wars i ever read
We must thank George Lucas for giving us the greatest sci-fi story of all time.
The Dank Lord Of The Sith the empire isn’t evil
That’s the root of the Star Wars tree, yeah.
Malcolm charging Malgus with nothing but a knife was simultaneously the most badass and tactically stupid thing I've ever seen.
Because the game is ongoing and because Disney has yet to give us an alternate backstory to the entire SW franchise, I have personally accepted this as canon...for now. Otherwise, SW would feel pretty damn empty without all this lore, history and backstory.
I don't get why people get so worked up about this. I'm a huge Star Wars fan, but why can't they just be two universes. One is what Disney call cannon, for those who aren't so dedicated to lore. The other is a fan made universe built into the same world as the movies too !
I have probably watched this timeline over 20 times by now and I still can't get enough, I really hope the Old Republic Era never dies. This will always be canon for me.
Without doubt the best Star Wars history piece on UA-cam. Well edited, produced and perfectly narrated. Excellent work. Thank you for putting time and effort into this.
SWTOR is cannon. its one of the best if not the best starwars story I've ever heard in the starwars universe.
Yes!
All hail the Revan !
So Is Nihilus Canon?
Growmatt _13 No
+Logan Baxley For what it's worth, it used to be cannon, but after the Force Awakens started being made they said it was no longer cannon.
It's crazy how an hour long history on star wars doesn't even go into the fine detail about the universe. There's just so much, and that's why Iove it! Great editing too btw.
God dang it. These are the movies and tv shows we should be getting. This whole video was so epic and amazing, I can’t get enough of the old republic!
I'd like to let everyone know that I welcome and enjoy any and all feedback, both positive and negative and I will allow all comments no matter how harshly you judge my work. However, course language and personal attacks against myself or any other commenters is completely unnecessary and will not be allowed. The entries of those exhibiting such behavior will be deleted. I also will delete any responses to such entries even if those responses themselves are more restrained because I don't believe in letting arguments with chat trolls continue. Let's keep it civil please.
+David Hammer Thanks for the upload!
+David Hammer Well done. Now I'm interested in someone created a series out of this entire series of events.
This is the most educational video about the roots of star wars I have ever seen!!!! WOW!!! GREAT VIDEO!!!!
Feel free to make more, if you do I suggest making another video on the next some thousand years, or however long, up until episode 1.
Not sure what you mean by finished. I used all the "historical" videos that Bioware put out before SWTOR launched. This is as finished as it gets.
Lets all give Di$ney a huge round of applause 4 getting rid of this great history!
Actually Drumm, Darth Malgus isn't shown dying on Alderaan vs. Satele, he's only badly wounded (neither he nor his body is shown after the end of the battle, indicating it's possible he escaped). At the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, he returns wearing a mask because of those wounds he received on Alderaan and indeed also appears later multiple times in the game itself (always wearing the mask) which is set years after the attack on the temple.
Read "The Decieved" written by Paul Kemp :)
Oh, dear Lucasfilm, please let Bioware make their own Star Wars film. Or why not tv show?
Yes a movie
Braden Allman better to have a both. A movie to start the series off and then right after start the series. Pretty much copying what they did with star wars clone wars.
This is all infinitely better than the new canon. There’s so much ambiguity in the sequels that it’s almost like they’re trying to start the whole series over again just for the kids who haven’t seen any of the previous movies. I absolutely love how detailed and expansive the histories of the republic and empire is in this.
This is excellent! It's a shame they didn't do entries for KOTOR II at the time, as those are momentous events with three of the most fascinating Sith, Traya, Sion, and Nihilus in play.
I love how the Sith are always portrayed as evil but when you see things from their perspective of the end of the Hyperspace War, their "revenge" is 100% justified.
This actually gave me insight in things I hadn't learned yet, I really appreciate you making this! Love how you've edited this, was really enjoyable to both watch and listen!
Best 59 minutes of my day; thx alot :)
Currently.., those of us who unconditionally love "Star Wars: The Expanded Universe", are like the "Reconstituted Sith Empire" waiting in the shadows, growing exponentially, to take revenge on Disney. 😎
This WILL HAPPEN....
Well a year later we won, the rule of 2 has been redcon and now officially there were other sith on that era with Palpatine and darth Vader as the rulers, same while it was Palpatine and doku making any other sith that was made into legends because of the rule of 2 kinda cannon, darth vader could have had many other apprentices like the legends say same as Palpatine.
Yes
i want Disney to make Star Wars The Old Republics movies before i die !!
please make it
+crumcon not likely
The games are being remade, the first game remake is in Alpha.
+Samuel T. White What is an Alpha? Unfamiliar with that term...
Albert Radmacher When you make a game, it has 3 stages, Alpha, Beta, Game. So basically it in its early stages.
There is no death - there is the force
Maybe I missed something, but I feel like they left out a good chunk of history concerning the Exile and other events from KOTOR II. No ?
They missed lots of information around Revan:
- The Jedi sent to Malachor V were not his greatest supporters. Revan then activated the weapon (The Mass-Shadow Generator, a gravity enhancing machine, built by a Iridonian called Bao-Dur) killing the Mandalorians and his critics at once.
- Revan never fell to the dark side. He pretended to be on the emperor's side and secretly left the military installations intact of the planets he conquered. In some cases he even built more underneath their surfaces (Telos IV and the HK-50/HK-51 factory).
- The many simultaneous deaths on Malachor V created a wound in the fabric of the force. One man survived, but felt an enormous hunger and began draining the Force of entire planets. He became Darth Nihilus - Lord of Hunger.
- Revan did not give the order to destroy Malachor V, it was a female Jedi named Meetra Surik (but Revan would have done the same. His shuttle was held up, from fighting Mandalore the Ultimate). Meetra Surik was almost killed from the wound in the Force, but cut herself from the Force and survived. She returned to Coruscant and was exiled for following Revan into the Mandalorian wars.
- An Old woman, a former Jedi called Arren Kae had become the Sith Darth Traya and had begun training Sith students on the dead remains of Malachor V (including a near immortal man, named Darth Sion - Lord of Pain).
- (Revan is redeemed as stated in the video and returns to confront the True Sith)
- Darth Traya is betrayed by Darths Sion and Nihilus. Sion attacks and kills most Jedi during the first Jedi Purge. The Jedi masters want to see an accurate vision of the future, to see how they could stop the Jedi Purge and gather on Cathar with many Miralukans. (They see a vision of Meetra Surik). One of the Jedi Masters, named Atris thinks that no Sith could overwhelm this many Jedi Masters at once, and so she informs them of their location. Darth Nihilus appears and consumes all life on Cathar. (Atris flees.) There is only one survivor: A Miralukan Force-sensitive young woman, called Visas Marr, who is taken as an apprentice by Darth Nihilus.
- Darth Traya renames herself Kreia, finds Meetra Surik, establishes a Force-Bond, which causes Meetra to feel the Force again.
- Meetra goes on adventures to gather remaining Jedi Masters, from around the galaxy and becomes powerful enough to kill
Darth Sion, Darth Nihilus and Darth Traya - the Sith Triumvirate. She establishes the new Jedi Order (because even the masters were killed) and then goes to join Revan on Dromund Kaas.
(The military installations Revan has left behind; Mandalore the Preserver and his Mandalorians; Admiral Onasi; the republic's droid army, provided by M4-78; and other factions are prepared to face the future Sith, when they attack 300 years later)
God this was fun to watch! Some of you guys really go all out on these videos. My TV has UA-cam on it with surround sound, so this was like watching an unofficial Star Wars movie! Great stuff man!
Holy crap, does someone knows the name of the soundtrack playing a the end of the video, please ? (59:13) It's very impressive how well it fits both Star Wars, as an universe, and the Old Republic/Sith Empire thematic context.
By the way superb work with the video ; the editing is flawless.
[EDIT: Nevermind, i found it. It is called "Clash Of Destiny" for anyone wishing to know.]
Editing here is so good! Love the way you integrated the cinematics with the timeline records. Thanks for making this!
I know this video is now 3 years old, but damn! Well done good sir. Absolutely loved that it was in chronological order.The editing was great. So much lore in the game and in the universe, not to mention some awesome in game movies. Well done, and thank you!.
Now I feels like Disney's acquisition of Star wars IP means someone get a PHD, and enrolled in kid garden afterward.
+MNanme1z4xs atleast The Hundred Year Darkness is Re-canonized.
Conrado Javier That is good news. But canonized or not, the EU is an amazing epic saga on its own.
MNanme1z4xs The Hundred Year Darkness SHOULD be it's own Movie & have Darth Ruin as the Starring Villain Role, It'll Only achieve TRUE Greatness, IF The Mouse Acknowledge it.
Conrado Javier I don;t want a cynical reboot, I just want Star wars to be what it is.
+MNanme1z4xs This is Star Wars
I love how this leads in directly to the game's class story starting points, especially with the music at the end.
There is no ignorance; there is knowledge. There is no fear; there is power. I am the heart of the Force. I am the revealing fire of light. I am the mystery of darkness In balance with chaos and harmony, Immortal in the Force.
This is awesome !!! I love the narrator and the presentation. To me this is canon. Screw what Disney say. They have no clue what their doing with the canon.
I have watched this video numerous times over the course of a few years and find the stories and lore in this video to be far more engaging than all of the Disney sequels. It's a shame that these stories and lore will likely never be explored for the big screen, I still hold out hope but it's unlikely.
Thanks David for putting together the Timeline and adding the video scenes, Brilliant job.
I love this now there needs to be a movie i wouldn't care if it was Canon
Brilliant editing and great timing with the cutscenes. Nothing bad to say about this vid.
This video had to be a task to set up! Honestly wish more people would see it.
Really great work on this!
I have only one tiny nitpick. The voice overs from the cut-scenes aren't the original ones, but the later ones, after they changed them for some reason. I personally prefer the text of the original versions. But of course that's just my opinion.
Bravo man, was made pretty well and is actually on a timeline, the other histories kinda worked backwards then front again, very confusing especially when they take a lot of time to talk about the dark jedi wars that distract from the main conflict.
That amazing narrator sounds like either Lance Henriksen or Stephen McHattie.
That one jedi that fought malgus and his master was a badass
Everyone should stop worrying about what disney says is canon or not canon. All the stories we love are still here for all of us to enjoy. So enjoy it before the dark lord of the sith Kathleen kennedy and her sith apprentice Rian Johnson destroy the everything we cherish.
This is awesome! As someone who can't play the game, it explains a lot that I've been missing. Of course the only downside is that now I KNOW what I'm missing....
+WildHorseFantasy ik its a late reply but why cant you play the game its free to download...
Can tell you worked hard on it. Good job
damn star wars this is the longest history i've ever seen but DAMN this is cool
This is a really well done video. Thank you from a fellow Star Wars fan.
You did a fantastic job of recompiling this lore.
I enjoy it greatly and consider this to be the best of the old lore for Star Wars.
You should work on other compilations as well.
Thank you for the time you spent on this.
Really appreciate this. I was getting lost in the original presentation style. I'm new to this "universe" that I had no idea of. I was 10 when the first star wars moive came out and to me the only history was that. Although I knew there were comics, books, cartoon, etc...I never gave it much thought. Shame on me. So interesting to hear and read..just no time now. I wish they would do a CGI movie for the Old Republic. Those cinematic trailers are AWESOME!!
Nice compilation and editing.
this is absolutely brilliant. is there a part 2? what happened after the jedi relocated?
Baldev Singh Gill You have to play the game to find out ;)
this music score is everything!!
Fantastic video! Crazy that none of this is official canon, it's so brilliant
The mass shadow generator was the weapon. This weapon created Darth Nihilus.... And the name of the Sith Emperor??? DARTH TENEBRAE, LORD VITIATE, HIGH EMPEROR VALKORION...
wait? but in KOTOR you play as the person that defeats Malak and destroys the star forge?
Such a fantastic short film.
Do you know how many times I've watched this video? It has to be close to a hundred. I love that you spliced the cinamatics and put all the entries in chronological order. I love this. I hope they don't see a need to change this.
The more I listen to Hackett narrating this, the more I wait for him to say "Because war.. War never changes.". Ok, different franchises, different narrator, but Fallout's trademark motto would fit well in here somewhere..
Ikr. I completely agree
that was great! I love how you included the cinematic trailers for SWTOR!!
This game is by far the greatest source of history in the EU. Before it so much was left empty and we knew only a fraction of what happened before the Revan. Thank you, Bioware. Thank you.
Great work. I love the history of the Sith. Peace is a lie.
You beat it is fellow Sith! Tell me though, do you like the older Sith order or the true Sith order?
Greywolf348 I prefer the old Sith Order. Yes there is always infighting, thats unavoidable, but there is engrossing tradition here, and a passion and pride you can feel in the game radiating from Imperials/Sith thats inspiring. Unlike the Galactic Empire, this Sith Empire is full of vigor and passion. Its a source of pride I feel playing a Sith that I can't quite put to words. I'm also a warrior at heart. Hiding from the Jedi isn't in my nature. For the Empire!
Greywolf348 Two there shall be, one to embody the power, the other to crave it
I wonder if the Galactic Empire formed by Darth Sidious is an Incarnation of the ancient Sith Empire!
Must say, very informative for all Star Wars fans. Love the history, stuff I never knew
It’s amazing how a movie in 1977 about some space farmer kid with magic powers and an oversized glowstick blows up a massive moon sized ball of death evolved into this and so much more
Would love to see an updated version, that was really good!
REALLY ENJOYED THIS. HOPE YOU CONTINUE...
Love this video and the lore but I absolutely hate what they did to Revan's story saying he was overpowered or turned to the dark side by the Emperor. I think KOTOR 2 did an excellent job of suggesting that Revan returned as a sith lord in order to unite the galaxy against what he found in deep space and he was never truly evil all along.
This was better than the prequels
This is the best sw vid on youtube. George Lucas is the JOHAN SEBASTIAN BACH of fantasy/sci-fi. 50% of lure of star wars is in the names 😂
Great work David, nice editing. I watched the original but prefer this because of the chronological order. The original release was somewhat confusing. Thanks!
Whelp some of the best storytelling in Star Wars got flushed right down the drain
Excellent job David Hammer, YOU ROCK sir!
This was very well done, I love the fact the the cinematic was incorporated into the video, and in the right places. I wish I could play the game, especially after this video, but alas, I have a crappy mac
Is that Lance Henriksen doing the Narrative?
why didn't you make more of this :( this is amazing, with a great voice too. There's a lot more Star Wars history to cover
5000cz I didn't make any of the content. I used all the Bioware created material I could find.
David Hammer good work on reorganizing this. It sums up what happened before the beginning of the game, and helped shed some light on how some of these events happened.
disney is stupid for marking Revan as non canon
da da
Love your video man, as a fan of SWTOR this is a treat.
David Hammer well done, I hope one day a movie is made based on these stories of the Old Republic, I would be willing to spend $20 to go see it.
Excellent editing. I am extremely impressed and love this!!
Great video man! Thank you for the work you have done to put this togother.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. I just wish it were longer.
The only real problem i have with all of the old republic, are all these people walking around in robes and cloaks and ornate Ancient roman/persian style costumes. They have hyper drives, they have laser blasters, holograms, capes are fn impractical, its why modern militaries only use dress uniforms for ceremonies. Also, considering how far apart the hyperspace war is from the Sith War....from the clone war....they have clearly not advanced far enough in technology. If you have hyperdrives....4k years later its reasonable to assume you would have transporters or something. We are talking an unbroken civilization, no mass collapse.
+Bigbudd0045 Agree, but technology did advance a lot, for example Lighsabers had external power source wich means there was a cable that goes into a battery on back of the wielder. They were not really practical so a lightsaber was invented wich drained darkside of the force from the user wich was mosty used by some sith not Jedai. It was Revan who created the first fully functional Lighsaber with an inside fission battery and a focus crystal. Than it was used by Jedai and ofc Sith. Ik i got off the topic but yea technology did advance to some point...
>destroying our shipyards in the Sluis Sector
>Shows a picture of Kuat.
and let james luceno write the plagueis movie with a young palpatine it would be greatness
Good stuff fella, excellent viewing, much appreciated.
Thank you thank you thank you!!!! This video has helped me so much! I was always confused about the timeline of swtor and now thanks to you I have a clear understand of what goes on! :D
Darth Malgus survives survives the battle of alderaan, he even single handely killed a few patrols with Moderately life threatening injuries on his way back to the empire
This was awesome! Thanks so much for putting this together. What happens after this? Is there any other video online that you recommend?
In a nutshell:
People discover magic and become wizards
Evil wizard get kicked out
Evil wizards almost get revenge
Good wizards slaughter evil wizards
Evil wizards fight good wizards
Wow now this hole timeline actually makes sense to me now THANKS!
This is going to be real good
Awesome video on the history of the Star Wars!
the swor is endlessly confusing, thanks for helping to make it somewhat more manageable for someone like me, all though I fear I am still hopelessly lost trying to understand its chronology
thanks for the upload. the narrator sounds like the guy who played Raiden in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Everytime I watch this I visualize how it would be in a theaters or tv series my goodness get that Mandalorian team or people that know what to do and hou got something beyond Gold!!!!
(slow clap) Dave...watching this during the final weeks before Episode 9 ....this was great. Hope you do a part two.
Admiral Hackett!?
Bishop ?
Oh my god I had no clue Star Wars went this deep
Brilliant video that does Star Wars itself justice. Top job!
Well, this is a very good story, and also, David, you did a good job on editing it, i subscribe and like!
My goodness I want this on the big screen someday. I love watching this no matter how old lol!.
Thanks for making this ! :)
Amazing job. Simply amazing, sir!