I just wrapped up Coruscant with the Jedi Knight and a few things stuck with me, so here's some things I have as takeaways from both Tython and Coruscant's quests.
- The People of the Galaxy will sell the Jedi out to whoever is attacking them
- The Republic is trying to build WMDs and Super Weapons which the Sith are easily stealing as both sides scramble to control every super weapon, modern and ancient, while the cold war is still cold.
Some of the writing is so goofy. You roll up to some Coruscant Police in criminal territory and find that they're out gunned. The Republic General decided to pursue super weapon development in memory of the Jedi killed in the attack on Coruscant. The thing that gets me isn't that I don't like these beats. I mean, if it wasn't star wars I wouldn't like these beats. The writing hits for me because it is working through these in the vernacular and affect of star wars in a way i find satisfactory. Take the General of the Republic with a super weapon revenge plan.
In dialogue you can reply "hey, to the Jedi there is no death, only the force. You don't need to avenge them." But it clicks in that:
hey, this General looks to the tragedy of the temple's destruction to motivate him, and second that as the General of the Republic, his response is to develop super weapons that put the planet in crisis.
I end that conversation thinking: "To avenge the the atrocity, I will build more super weapons that can be stolen to commit more atrocities." And because I am at this kind of republic-cynicism, I feel like the writing is throwing me a bone to chew on as I develop my read.
Pretty fun!