Almost dropped off the map again, didn't I?

Just a few thoughts on the recent announcement of the "Super-Duper Videogame Which Is Likely Just a Test Drive for the Upcoming Star Wars TV Series Set In the Same Time Period".

First up, it slightly aggravates me that the listed systems are...

Platforms: Next-Generation Platforms, Playstation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS

I sincerely hope that will include PC. Why, oh why, do recent companies go to the effort of making an entirely different version for handhelds, a toned down version for PS2 and/or X-BOX, but refuse to make a simple PC port?
Grah.

Anyway, other than that, there's not much to say at this point, since little has been revealed. I'm fairly interested in whether the "Secret Apprentice" is a secret simply due to them wanting you to be able to create your own character looking however you want - like Knights of the Old Republic - or whether they're doing it to allow the Apprentice to be a Cylon.

(Note to the less BSG gifted: A Cylon is a humanoid robot on the television series Battlestar Galactica that is designed to look, feel, and act human (and they have a plan))

Referring to this line...

Decisions made by players throughout the game will determine the path of the story, including multiple endings that will rock Star Wars continuity as they know it.

In theory, this means that events within the game would have to affect things resulting LATER in the timeline, namely Episodes IV-VI and the expanded universe. In effect, this could mean that some unlikely Original Trilogy or Expanded Universe character we all know and love is/was really the "Secret Apprentice" of Darth Vader that helped to cause the extinction of the Jedi. Lobot could be a "Cylon"!

Or, you know, someone more important.

But even so, it only slightly shakes continuity backstory, it's rather unlikely that whoever might be the Secret Apprentice would have a resurgence years after the game takes place... unless it's a Sith we already know, which would make things even less earth shattering.

So... What are your thoughts? What other ways could they "rock Star Wars continuity as we know it"? Without it just being a little shake that puts things back pretty much as they are.

Oh well, hopefully it will be at least as much fun as Jedi Outcast, that's what really matters.
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