The Star Forge SWTOR Podcast

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Scya was a streamer and she always had a blast
And she never had no trouble til she started up a podcast
Safe with her Academy or on her Twitch live stream
Til Scya decided to bring Mal upon the scene

Twas a chilly spring day when Mal came to fill in
For Scya's Thursday group because Bamm had up and quit
Mal had heard of Swtorista but not of Scya see
Why she went on the raid was a total mystery

Would you make a podcast with me?
The rest is Star Wars History
We say Oi to the news! And Oi to events!
Oi to our comedy about SWTOR content

After day 1 of recording Mal looked around and found
Editing was truly awful to produce a decent sound
Scya got some upgrades and Mal learned her mixing
And by Episode 2 all the listeners were cheering

Would you make a podcast with me?
The rest is Star Wars History
We say Oi to the news! And Oi to events!
Oi to our comedy about SWTOR content

Scya adds awesome info about all things in the game
While Mal just writes about how you Can't Make This Sith Up (so lame)
We dissappoint the people, and then we fly solo
And then you hear the news that you probably already know
Our theme song is so catchy and the music is all great
The end part even has a cool secret outtake!

Oi! Oi!

And the episodes are loaded with a lot of witty banter
Mixed and edited by Mal who's like an audio enchanter
Then it's published by Scya who knows all about these things
Which is good cause it's really her who's puling all the strings

Would you make a podcast with me?
The rest is Star Wars History
We say Oi to the news! And Oi to events!
Oi to our comedy about SWTOR content

Would you make a podcast with me?
The rest is Star Wars History
We say Oi to the news! And Oi to events!
Oi to our comedy about SWTOR content
Oi! Oi!

Parody of Oi to the World! a Christmas album by the southern California punk rock band the Vandals. It was released in 1996 by their label Kung Fu Records, who also re-released it in 2000 with altered artwork and a bonus track. It was the band's sixth full-length studio album and presented holiday-themed songs written and performed with the tongue-in-cheek humor for which the band is known. You may know of the version covered by No Doubt and Gwen Stefani.

Happy holidays!

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• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 42 (43 is out as well, we backtracked!): Happy One Year Anniversary!

Mal: Hello SWTOR players! I am The Mal.

Scya: And I’m Scya.

Mal: And we are so happy you are here with us for our One Year Anniversary Episode!

Mal: I would like to thank each and every one of you who listen to this podcast. We put a lot of hard work into it each week and thanks to everywhere here I am now known as THE Mal. 

Mal: So thank you everyone from the bottom of my cold angry nerd heart for making me feel so loved in the community. Huge shoutout to our loyal listeners and to all my friends who support the show especially Vaz, Sayuri, and Vorn. 

Mal: Now please enjoy this mix of both new and some of our very funniest outtakes from the past year. We love all you nerdy SWTOR humans

Scya: And as always–

Both: MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU

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Social

• Starforgepodcast.com
• Twitter @starforgecast at https://twitter.com/starforgecast
• Listen at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher
• Or on Swtorista’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/swtorista
• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 43 (we skipped 42!): SWTOR Wishlist

⭐ Group Topic: Group Wishlist
⭐ Can't Make This Sith Up: Save the Vorantiki
⭐ Solo Topic: Solo Wishlist
⭐ Flashpoint: Cademimu

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News

• If you are listening to this episode on the day it was released patch 7.1.1 has been implemented with lots of changes, updates and improvements to the game. Galactic Seasons Season 3 was also included in this patch and features a new companion, mounts, cosmetic items and a reputation track. The All Worlds Ultimate Swoop Rally is in full swing and will end on October 25th. Be on the lookout for the Feast of Prosperity event which will start on November 1 2022 and end on November 29th. That's it for the news.

Social

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• New Episode Every Friday

Lullabye of the Vorantikus music - copyright free music: Forest Lullabye by Asher Fulero https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKn6_1iFFC5fxSmFgVC9Fsw

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 41: Let's Look: The Visuals of SWTOR

⭐ Group & Solo Topic: How do things look

Scya: So today we are going to talk about the visuals of SWTOR in a group setting and Mal and I both agreed that since we talk about Operations A LOT we will try to just briefly touch on Operations and then move on to some other great views in group content. 

Mal: So some flashpoints I like. As awful as it is to pug, I like how A Traitor Among the Chiss looks. It kind of has it all! That town nobody wants to walk through full of trash, then into a more industrial area for the 2nd boss and then the end is you going through these snowy mountains with broken stairs and wampas come up the sides of the cliff that guy in a cove of trees who does blizzard tornados. Kind of cool! 

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News

• Pirate Incursion: September 20th - September 27th, 2022
• September 26th new forums
• Update 7.1.1 with new classes updates and Galactic Seasons Season 3

Social

• Starforgepodcast.com
• Twitter @starforgecast at https://twitter.com/starforgecast
• Listen at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher
• Or on Swtorista’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/swtorista
• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 40: Let's Listen: The Sound Effects of SWTOR

⭐ Group & Solo Topic: Sounds!

 In terms of SFX, this is the top thing I love about Operations and Flashpoints. There are so many good sound cues in the group content it isn’t even funny. I have been listening to this so long when it’s gone I notice immediately. If I have accidentally pressed ctrl+s boy do I know it and have to fix that shit fast. 

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News

• Pirate Incursion: September 20th - September 27th, 2022

Social

• Starforgepodcast.com
• Twitter @starforgecast at https://twitter.com/starforgecast
• Listen at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher
• Or on Swtorista’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/swtorista
• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 39: Let's Listen: The Music of Star Wars the Old Republic

⭐ Group Topic: Operation Music?
⭐ Spacebar PLZ: Hammer Station
⭐ Flying Solo: Music Around The World

That the music in the game is partially new and made purely for this game, partially movie music, and partially music from Knights of the Old Republic.

The SWTOR Youtube has an official playlist with EIGHTY TWO tracks including many of the newest ones! This isn’t even all the tracks in the game.

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5MoBb8-75E&list=PLiJsK_sFeeKygEepqlUoXIBwcyeGfXrXx

Music links

The Clairvoyance of Aryn Leneer (Live) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQBxW18zXzg

The Clairvoyance of Aryn Leneer (Not Live) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUU5_mmE-zE 

Balmorra the Forge, horns that go buh duh duh duh dun - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF7ROkpzQ1c 

Coruscant, The Capital theme, calming music, violins that go dan na na na na na nuh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAWDeWTlMjc 

Korriban, The Homeworld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heuveUxnLkA 

Dromund Kaas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmcKBsJ5-GY   

Justice the Knight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6spL_lN04g   

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News

• • Gree Event, Sep 6- 13
• • Dantooine Pirate Event, Sep 20 - 27
• • Nightlife, ends Sep 13
• + Maintenance Sep 1

Social

• Starforgepodcast.com
• Twitter @starforgecast at https://twitter.com/starforgecast
• Listen at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher
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• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 38: Let's Talk Lore

⭐ Group Topic: Codex Entries in Group Cotnent
⭐ Spacebar PLZ: Black Talon
⭐ Flying Solo: Collecting Lore Objects
⭐ Sith Up: ZZZZZzzzzzzz

Mal: So Scya, I know that you love love LOVE lore especially in the Star Wars the Old Republic era. You love it so much you did a panel on it during Celebration 2022. So lets start off with this very simple question: What IS lore exactly and in terms of SWTOR what does that look like?

Scya: When we’re talking about lore in different types of media, whether it’s video games, books or movies, usually refers to the larger over-arching story and its details, much of which is more obscure or not easily seen as part of the main plot or story. 

In Star Wars: The Old Republic specifically, apart from the cutscenes, books and comics, the additional Lore is delivered in the form of Codex entries, readable text snippets which can be found across the galaxy. They are broken down into several categories: Datacrons, Epic Enemies, PvP, Titles, Bestiary, Crew Skills, Events, Game Rules, Locations, Organizations, Persons of Note, Planets, Ships and Species.

Picture of Mal's patch of grass: https://starforgepodcast.com/episode-38-lets-talk-lore/

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News

• Nar Shaddaa Nightlife: August 2nd - September 13th, 2022
• Rakghoul Resurgence on Tatooine: August 23rd - August 30th, 2022
• Had update 7.1a with bug fixes

Social

• Starforgepodcast.com
• Twitter @starforgecast at https://twitter.com/starforgecast
• Listen at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher
• Or on Swtorista’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/swtorista
• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 37:  Flashpoints Then & Now

⭐ Group Topic: Flashpoints
⭐ Spacebar PLZ: The Esseles
⭐ Flying Solo: Solo Flashpoints

Scya: Mal, what are flashpoints?

Mal: Flashpoints are group content in SWTOR that has both story and unique enemies to fight. Each flashpoint is almost like an episode of Your SWTOR Character’s Life etc. Some of them have longer stories and cut scenes, especially the earlier ones, and some are more simple. 

Scya: What was your first ever Flashpoint? What did it feel like?

Mal: First flashpoint ever was Black Talon, I played the beta and this was kind of the first thing we did together, my husband and my best friend Norin. They were horrified at a choice I made, which is funny but it was nice to see that in the beta and know perhaps there was another way later! It felt like a cool adventure our characters were going on together outside of our individual class stories that we were all pursing. We did come together to do the world quests and heroics, but up until that point all the story we saw was alone. Plus we didnt want story spoilers so it was a nice coming together moment. COME TOGETHER

RIGHT NOOOOW OON THE FLEET!

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News

• Nar Shaddaa Nightlife: August 2nd - September 13th, 2022
• Rakghoul Resurgence on Tatooine: August 23rd - August 30th, 2022
• Had update 7.1a with bug fixes

Social

• Starforgepodcast.com
• Twitter @starforgecast at https://twitter.com/starforgecast
• Listen at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher
• Or on Swtorista’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/swtorista
• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 36:  7.1 and The R4 Anomaly

⭐ Group Topic: New Operation
⭐ Flying Solo: New Story, Dailies, Gearing

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News

• If you are listening to this Podcast on the date it was released Bounty Contract week is happening right now and runs until August 2nd. 
•  7.1 is slated for August 2, 2022

Social

• Starforgepodcast.com
• Twitter @starforgecast at https://twitter.com/starforgecast
• Listen at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher
• Or on Swtorista’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/swtorista
• New Episode Every Friday

You're listening to the Star Forge podcast with Scya and Mal, two nerds who  have a lot to say about Star Wars: The Old Republic and all its 'features' - rest assured, the podcast is working as intended.

⚠️ This podcast is rated E.S. for extremely silly and may contain bad words bad jokes and other bad content that is not suitable for children maybe it is we don't know we're not their parents.

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Episode 35 -  A History of Xpacs Part 6: Legacy of the Sith

We are covering the history of expacs as a series!

⭐ Legacy of the Sith

Scya: If you’ve been listening to the podcast, you’ll know we’ve been talking about every expansion, launch by launch, what they included, and how players felt about them at the time. If you haven’t listened to the rest of this multi-part series, you may want to back track, as each expansion launch episode will give you a lot of insight into why veteran players felt the way they did when the latest expansion, Legacy of the Sith, came out.

Mal: Okay so lets kick this off here, 7.0 a patch we all know and remember well because it is still going on. Scya, what is the release date for this patch and what is the controversy surrounding that?

Scya: 7.0 was announced early in 2021, to the great excitement of many players. It was originally supposed to debut late in the year, and the expansion was supposed to launch with the new story, new flashpoint, new combat style system, new operation, and new daily area on Manaan. In November of the same year, it was announced that the Operation and Daily area would be pushed back until January 2022, and we still didn’t have a date for the actual expansion that was supposed to launch during the “holidays”. At some point, we got a livestream, where the date was finally announced for December 2021! 

Mal: Unfortunately, a week before it was supposed to launch, the announcement came that the entire expansion was going to be delayed until February 2022, which is when it finally actually launched - but it still wouldn’t include the operation and the manaan daily area.

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News

• If you are listening to this Podcast on the date it was released Bounty Contract week is happening right now and runs until August 2nd. 
•  7.1 is slated for August 2, 2022

Social

• Starforgepodcast.com
• Twitter @starforgecast at https://twitter.com/starforgecast
• Listen at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher
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• New Episode Every Friday