what the hap is fuckening

My attempt to save one of my post from one of my dead account. In any case i tag this as [brainjuice], just to be on the safeside, this is a theory of mine. 

 -- RepComm's Force lore is based on KOTOR --


In the KOTOR companion Force Alignment you can see what place's the character have in the Force. Of course the non-Force user character cannot use the Force and it shouldn't affect them, but what it is actually affect them in the gameplay is morality. Basically Carth Onasi or Canderous Ordo having respectively Light Side and Dark Side Alignment gives you a clue that values these characters are representing and what is their preferred interaction through out the story either with them or NPCs. 

(Also you need to know that Bioware made tons of rpgs in the DnD universe in those days. They couldn't use the DnD Alignment chart, so they had to come up with a new morality system for a Star Wars game.) 

The way I see it, in RepComm universe, Karen Traviss kept the spectrum, dropped the morality alignments and focused on EMOTIONS:

-- Vau doesn't get "Dark Side points" for torturing people because he has no extreme emotions attached to it therefor Etain feels him Light Side aligned. Walon is sure about himself, he knows what he does servers the greater good. His mind and will is unshakeable. He can show his care but you wish he didn't. -> by this logic: If Vau tortures people out of sadism and joy, he would get Dark Side points. But because he tortures them for the greater good in mind, he doesn't get corrupted.  

-- Kal often making hot-headed decisions that is resulting in hurting people therefore he gets Dark Side points. Kal is constantly angry when he thinks about his sons and how the world is treating them bad. He is angry, he succumb to it, he gains strength from it. His armor is literally vengeance. -> If Kal was a Force-sensitive, he would be a perfect Dark Side user actually. 

-- Etain also sensed the Nulls Dark Side aligned because they are very disturbed and very emotional under the disciplined surface -->But Doctor, I'm not mentally ill, I just joined the Dark Side of the Force! 

-- Arligan Zey would sacrifice his two member of the Order to save millions of clones (saving Etain and Fulier was not priority) and this would make him remain on the Light Side because he is pragmatic about it. No emotions. He is also a greater good-guy, just like Walon Vau. 

•─────⋅☾ Force doesn't give a damn about morality ☽⋅─────•

Karen Traviss stated multiple times that she is not fond of Black & White polarized mindset regarding worldbuilding because she prefers realism where people are nuanced. Basically you can't just put characters into only Light and only Dark , and this is why I also have problems assigning DnD morality alignments to RepComm characters. It's futile. I gave up. 

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If the Light Side of the Force is totally okay with killing and torturing people, then you have to make it sense somehow. Therefor the Force is not give a damn about societal morality. And in my interpretation this is what she meant by this: You can literally make up thousands of excuses why is it okay to kill people. It doesn't make them less dead. Or less tortured. 

So to make sense of this loophole, - in my depiction - she made a twist: KT made the Force totally okay - or at least indifferent - with killing and torturing people = " it's okay for good guys decapitating people". Because the Force doesn't corrupt them! They do it from self-defence, they do it with clear mind, it doesn't matter. 

•───────•°•❀•°•───────•

Unless they feel regret, shame, anger, or similiar extreme emotions. 

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Etain had a goal in mind. Meeting with clones gave her a life purpose too. Something she lacked before. This is why she was able to torture that person without any emotional attachment. Exactly like Vau (or Zey existing with his pragmatic mindset). Having a greater good in mind. 

•─────⋅☾  Dark & Light = BALANCE ☽⋅─────•

So I don't see why KT couldn't use spectrum with the Force too. It's surely interesting to think about, because it means that in RepComm universe, Grey Jedi is a thing!

Originally the Grey Jedi are everyone who are not Dark Side users but opposed the views of the Jedi Order in anyway and refused to accept the hierarchy and rigid traditions. Qui-Gon Jinn is a Grey Jedi, probably the first in canon in this definition. In this definition in RepComm Bardan Jusik is also a Grey Jedi too because he left the Order. 

But they started to use this term for a Force users too who are wielding both Light Side and Dark Side of the Force, like Darth Revan, protagonist of KOTOR. (Or my personal all time favorite Jedi Master later in the rebel era, Kyle Katarn).

Meaning, this universe doesn't treat Dark Side as the ultimate CORRUPTION and Light Side as BALANCE in the world. It looks like that KT gained inspiration from the Eastern cultures and religions where together Dark & Light = BALANCE. 





Yin and yang are a concept that originated in ancient Chinese philosophy that describes how opposite or contrary forces may create each other by their comparison and are to be seen as actually complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.

I'm fond of Eastern religions (not follower, just personal interest) and philosophies, so I never found it disturbing or blasphemy when I noticed the similiarities in the books. 

But it definitely feels like that the Jedi Order here doesn't hold the ultimate knowledge about the Force. They are just one Jedi sect that interpret its working somehow, this particular one became the popular one, made a school around it and passed it generations to generations. This explains that the books mentions multiple little orders with different teachings and traditions, who didn't wish to participate in the One Big Centralized MegaChurch. So I can totally see that they have different approach about the Force too.


Ok so, conclusion or what, I just wanted to point it out that RepComm universe uses different rules regarding the Force than the original movies and one of the reason I wanted to do this because I always hear takes how "the books butchering the Jedi lore". It's not butchering. Just takes inspiration from a different continuity. 

There are several clues in the books that Republic Commando plays in the Knights of the Old Republic universe, starting from how Kal named Ordo ORDO, or Roly Melusar's background from Imperial Commando: 501st, who is from Dromund Kaas, which used to be the seat of the Sith Empire thousands of years ago. 

In any case, I wrote this, because I wanted to make sense how exactly the Force works in these books.