Sunday, December 25, 2011

What are the various SWTOR servers named after?

Question

In WoW, Blizzard named their servers after prominent characters or groups. I had expected that SWTOR would be the same way.

Now, I'm no starwars neophyte, but I don't recognize half the terms that make up the server list.

"Space Slug"? "Naddist Rebels"? "Bondar Crystal"? "Veela"? (Trying to google that last one got me a list of harry potter references...)

Is there a generic solution to figure out what my server is named after? Where is Bioware getting these names?

Answer

All the servers that I reconize are taken from the various expanded universe novels and graphic novels (a few refrences to kotor as well). I assumed the few I don't are taken from the same place, although I wouldn't put a little "that sounds like star wars, right?" past them.

As for a specific method for finding out about one particular name, you could either read every single star wars licensed property, or you could do a specific search on wookiepedia, who does a pretty good job of keeping track for you.

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