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Bounty Hunter Workin' For the Republic
Hengist
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Curse Bounty Hunter Preview
Plus you have a fun perk as a mercenary out for coin; the Bounty Hunter, according to Daniel Erickson - Star Wars: The Old Republic's Lead Writer - is the only class in the game that will be able to take on and perform missions for both the Empire and the Republic. There are potential repercussions to this, but it's a very interesting mechanic. Just be careful who you work for - money isn't everything.
So this was one of the cooler things I noticed from the recent previews. I've seen a lot of people saying they felt Bounty Hunter and Smuggler should have been a seperate faction entirely. I know this isnt the answer, and it only impacts one class, I'm glad to see that it is worked in, so if you want to "follow the money" to a Republic mission you can do that, even if you pay a price for it.
With Bioware pretty emphatic that opposing factions cant go to other Captial Cities, it's a shame that this quest line wont take a Bounty Hunter to Coruscant.
Anyone want to hazzard a guess that this line might start in Nar Shadda?
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can a sith work for the republic?
i'll leave it there for simplicity
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Shouldn't the trooper be able to do the same thing, then? Being the class equivalent of the bounty hunter?
Smugglers not switching sides I can understand, being that they are the counterpoint to the imp. agent (who can't switch for obvious reasons), and that bit in the lore about the smugglers and the Mandalorian Blockade. It wouldn't be completely unreasonable for the trooper to be a soldier of fortune though, or (more likely) a pirate. Especially given the way that so many worlds just abandoned their allegiances to the Republic as the Empire started to spread in the movies.
i don't think they will be truely switching factions. i think its more like, for some quest in your story you can end up taking some jobs for the republic. Daniel erickson has talked about a small group of republic bounty hunters. maybe its jobs you do with them or some thing
http://pc.ign.com/articles/115/1153371p1.html
IGN: What does "Star Wars bounty hunter" mean to BioWare? The movies don't really get into it all that much, but the comics and extended fiction get into the idea of the Bounty Hunter's guild, and how that's a source of tension for certain Bounty Hunters in the future. Is that sort of political environment present for Bounty Hunters in The Old Republic?
Erickson: As an unknown Bounty Hunter, early in your career the galaxy is pretty open. As you become more famous there are several different interested groups that can make life interesting. The Mandalorians are an obvious one, but the Republic has their own secret band of Hunters as well and there are always those trying to organize by force or bribe.
That's what it sounded like, maybe some sort of higher risk/higher reward mission with a time window for completion.
Maybe that is something could be expanded upon if they open up the possibilities with the space combat later on. Take a trooper that is willing to sell out his command, and team up with some imperials to board and raid a Republic ship, or something along those lines. Only as the trooper, you would have to play around some kind of mechanic to keep your identity concealed, so the surviving Republic forces wouldn't know it was you that screwed them over.
Good thing the Bounty Hunter is just a associated with the Sith faction, and not an actual Sith huh?
No it shouldnt. (just my opinion, and honestly just because one side has a class that does it, doesnt mean each faction should have one.)
Troopers have a story that carries them as part of the Republic Army. Trooper and Agent are both members of their respective military (Even if they arent the cross over equal's).
Now the Smuggler on the other hand really could make a case for being a little more mercenary and possibly having a role on both sides.
In any case, it does make the class a little more interesting I think.
Sounds quite right. Bounty hunter is just a hire blade, sounds logical for him to be working for whoever's paying.
I don't think that troopers are in the same shoes, though. They are actual SOLDIERS servicing republic. Most of them aren't free to do what they want to, afaik.
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The opportunist bastards ...
But interesting indeed. Fast track to a high light side alignment?
I wouldn't mind if smugglers could do a job or two for the evildoers as well though. But maybe they see the smugglers just in the light of republic blockade runners, having become smugglers mainly due to the business opportunities which the Sith threat brought with it. In that sense we should see them more like Republic-only resistance fighters I guess. Still ... it would be cool to have some ruthless oportunism on that side as well.
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Maybe they're fans of the O.G. Thrawn troligy and went with the smugglers approach in that story. While they had no love for the republic, they knew under the empire things would be much tougher for them. Just a guess of course.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
The Republic does not hire bounty hunters. Ever.
The Sith however have regularly posted high bounties for many Jedi, the highest being put on the Jedi Exile in KOTOR 2 and is described as being enough to buy your own planet.
Technically, smugglers do not work for the Republic, they are freelancers. But they openly oppose Sith blockades by smuggling goods through them to Republic worlds, hence their namesake.