Seriously. A warrior people broken and scattered by a calamitous war, they now server under every banner imaginable.
There are Onyxian warships in the Cooperative, loyal to those who helped them escape their doomed sector. There are Onyxians settling Lesalia as part of a joint Sinsang/Coalition venture. There are Onyxian warships federalized into the Coalition navy to keep an eye on those same Sinsangese. There are Onyxian partisans forming rebellions in their former sector, and Onyxian renegades working with the Crusade, and the many Onyxians under the thumb of the Occupational Force.
The man in the cantina who's first to break a chair over your head escaped Bilbringi in a half-blown out frigate. The pilot who flies smuggler runs through former Hutt space used to be a navigator on the Steadfast when it was attacked over Ord Mantell. The merc who raids fat Commerce Guild shipping lanes for a mysterious benefactor fought at the retreat of Generis and spent two weeks hunting Imperial occupation troops through the lowlands before he heard the war was over.
I think it's neat. It reminds me that TRF is a huge galaxy with a lot of contributors, and leaves a lot lying around. Any loose end can be picked up by anyone and made into anything. Nothing is wasted, and unlike a series with just one writer you can never predict what interesting results might be produced by the mixing of several different writer's works.
Just an observation that struck me.
There are Onyxian warships in the Cooperative, loyal to those who helped them escape their doomed sector. There are Onyxians settling Lesalia as part of a joint Sinsang/Coalition venture. There are Onyxian warships federalized into the Coalition navy to keep an eye on those same Sinsangese. There are Onyxian partisans forming rebellions in their former sector, and Onyxian renegades working with the Crusade, and the many Onyxians under the thumb of the Occupational Force.
The man in the cantina who's first to break a chair over your head escaped Bilbringi in a half-blown out frigate. The pilot who flies smuggler runs through former Hutt space used to be a navigator on the Steadfast when it was attacked over Ord Mantell. The merc who raids fat Commerce Guild shipping lanes for a mysterious benefactor fought at the retreat of Generis and spent two weeks hunting Imperial occupation troops through the lowlands before he heard the war was over.
I think it's neat. It reminds me that TRF is a huge galaxy with a lot of contributors, and leaves a lot lying around. Any loose end can be picked up by anyone and made into anything. Nothing is wasted, and unlike a series with just one writer you can never predict what interesting results might be produced by the mixing of several different writer's works.
Just an observation that struck me.