“Star Wars: The Old Republic” takes place 3,000 years before the original “Star Wars” trilogy and 300 years after the events of “Knights of the Old Republic,” during a tense and fragile cold war between a reconstituted Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic following a great war. “Knights of the Fallen Empire” is the game’s fifth expansion and it follows the arrival of the Eternal Empire, whose two princes, the twins Arcann and Thexan, all but conquer both the Republic and the Sith Empire in a surprise campaign of horror.
Though the game got some lukewarm reactions initially, “The Old Republic” is a fantastic follow-up to its predecessor, and it only got better with each expansion, which added to the mythology of “Star Wars” and its distant past. The trailer for “Knights of the Fallen Empire” alone is a stunning piece of “Star Wars” storytelling, showing the thrilling story of Arcann and Thexan, its heartbreaks and twists. It is a tragic story, of twins where one falls to the dark side while the other tries to resist it, and how it ends in death.
What does this mean for where “The Acolyte” is going? Nothing good, probably. If we go by the story of Arcann and Thexan, then a fight between sisters is on the horizon, and it may not end with both of them alive.
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