Okay, this Star Wars Galaxies photo. This is late May 26, 2005, just after Revenge of the Sith came out. Let me tell you about Jedi networking at the time. This is what we called our Jedi Pajama party on Yavin 4. Proper Jedi robes were released so that we didn't have to run around in composite armor like before. All of the players in this photo are still alive and kicking it. On the right side of the screen is myself and @turnintoabat. Hell, two of the people in this photo, I won't name which ones, one is a lawyer in Texas, and the other worked on The Walking Dead telltale games and went on to work at Pixar. Crazy stuff. In Star Wars Galaxies as a Jedi, it's like I said. You had to stay on the move, stay as secretive as possible while you gained skills and force sensitivity. Now remember kids, this is BEFORE proper social media as you know it (this is Myspace era), so we spent a lot of time getting to know each other on the server. Your reputation on the server MATTERED; one bad set of behaviors and you could find yourself blacklisted by the whole server. This kind of networking was even more critical for Jedi due to the nature of being set back big time on death. It was very common for Jedi to have a set of safe houses they built on a planet to be able to duck pursuers, and/or have the network of people who gave them permission to rest in their homes. In the center back of the photo, that Twi'lek? That was someone I knew for a long, long time. I knew her when I was a Master Brawler, Master Fencer and Teras Kasi Master and she was just a Dancer. We talked and hung out a lot, and built a good friendship. I'd get beat up a lot and would take a lot of battle fatigue and mind wounds, and no matter what was going on if I was hurt she would stop what she was doing and come to me and help me repair that damage while I meditated my physical wounds off. So when I became a Jedi, she was absolutely a critical resource and saved my life plenty of times. She already had a house but had extra lots to spare, so she was a BIG part of my Jedi survival as I moved from planet to planet. Always had a safe house to go and rest, work on crafting, and source materials for building my next saber, as well as studying my paths to figure out how I was going to build things out. Plus, you get to see when a bounty hunter is coming. Housing entrance restrictions were VERY strong in SWG, so a bounty hunter couldn't get you inside a private structure. Eventually most would just give up and go find another target. But yeah, I wouldn't have made it if it hadn't been for her help. That's what SWG was about. It was STRONG community focused. Who you knew, and what you knew, mattered. So with her, when I would come to her house and visit to rest in the game, I would spend time telling and teaching her about what I was learning along the path, and she would watch me build new sabers. So naturally, when she became Jedi herself, she learned from me. This photo is her VERY FIRST OUTING. To finish this story, myself, her and the Trandoshan in that photo? They came to my town and we all saw Revenge of the Sith together in theater that May. ^_^

Here's a fun one for you. February 15th, 2005. Star Wars Galaxies. On the left was the first Jedi in our guild; I think I was 3rd. I didn't reveal myself until this point. I became a Jedi Sunday February 13th, 2005. That is me on the right with the lightsaber. I was an unusual Jedi according to server standards. @turnintoabat was there.