What HAPPENED to The Exchange after KOTOR?
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The Exchange from Star Wars are the most nefarious crime syndicate in the galaxy... but what happened to the Exchange after KOTOR?
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@@OhOh996 News flash, they got blown up.
Actually I'm dying to hear a history of Kashyyyk. What was the planet like before the machine malfunctioned and caused the super growth of the trees....are the woolies planted there or did they evolve from something else? What happened after the events of Kotor?
@@OhOh996 well they got blown up but I'd like to hear about their history before and to see if any of them survived to keep the gangs going....now in my playthrough I pretty.much removed them from existence so........ lol
KOTOR 1 and KOTOR 2 are seriously the best single player Star Wars RPGs ever made.
Amen.
2 of the best rpgs period my friend
Without a doubt, but you are still being too specific. They are 2 of the best games ever period. Not star wars, not RPGs, not single player, just... Best. Games. Ever.
They are the best. I haven’t played them but I’m going to attempt to buy them when I get back home from Hawaii.
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*Possible spoilies*
Apparently G0-T0 is the leader of the ENTIRE exchange, and was a republic droid that was given an impossible choice between 1. Saving the republic and 2. Not break republic laws. He couldn’t do both and eventually he broke and did whatever he deemed necessary for #1 and dropped #2
So that little droid is not only one of the most powerful crime lords to ever “live”, he was the most powerful droid to possibly ever exist.
I finally looked up his full influence story since I never did it in my many playthroughs.
I have been on a Bioware (thanks to DADW) and Star Wars binge as of late and as that includes KotOR, KotOR 2 and SWTOR, it saddens me to see a good storytelling studio like Bioware stoop to completely dissing something that another studio added to a franchise.
Disney de-canoning the expanded media did an absolute disservice to KotOR 2 and The Old Republic fans in general.
Fr, ppl legit forget the massive impact koto 2 has. Everyone loves revan but forget that it was acc kotor 2 that gave him a proper characterisation and he doesn't even show up. I like swtor but fuck bioware for disregarding kotor 2, such a downgrade in storytelling in pretty much every regard.
While I am upset that Disney de canon the entire EU and is taking the iconic stuff and watering it down, I'm not as angry as before since there was stuff in the EU that either contradicted the movies and TCW (and what Disney wanted to do. Hell some of the post ROTJ EU contradicted what GL had in mind for the sequels or wasnt good.
Don't get me wrong, 80% of the EU is great, but the other 20% is stuff that aged BADLY or wasnt that great to begin with, ie the late 70s and 80s comics by Marvel, Dark Empire, Mara Jade, The Old Republic, the whale story (forgot the name), Karen Travis' later books, Kinect Star Wars, and those Winnie the Pooh aliens.
And even within the 80% of great EU material, 40% is stuff that contradicts the 6 movies, TCW and what George originally had in mind with the sequels (2D clone wars cartoon, the OG clone wars republic comic books, the older TCW EU comics before Di$ney's purchase, 2002 clone wars game, and even Dark Forces, the Jedi Knight games, and the Thrawn trilogy), and the other 40% is stuff that I and many other agree Di$ney should've definitely left alone because it was perfectly fine and didn't contradict anything Lucas depicted or planned (the Jango Fett bounty hunter game, republic commando and the scrapped imperial commando, the Darth Bane trilogy, the darth plagueis novel and the KOTOR games).
For the past 7 years, I've realized that the controversy of Di$net cancelling the EU is not as black and white like many EU fans and EU haters make it seem. That's why nowadays, I try to stay away from discussions about the EU on non-EU star wars videos and forums.
As much as I enjoy exploring in KOTOR 1, I think KOTOR 2 had more interesting worlds. I wished we had more Star Wars games like KOTOR
Thank you for this! I always wondered what happened to them after the KOTOR games. I don't think GO-TO gets enough respect because he's such a well written character and for the MMO to basically ignore him is kind of insulting. I wish we could've heard about more of his influence in TOR.
Also, I think big congratulations are in order for getting your first sponsor!
Thank you :)
The way Bioware ignored or straight-up butchered a lot of what KoTOR 2 added to the series in SWTOR, always gave me the impression that they were bitter that Obsidian managed to write a better and more interesting Star Wars story than them.
100% bioware got an inferiority complex similar to Bethesda and I can't say I blame them. I love kotor 1 but it's dialogue and writing is worth piss in comparison to kotor 2 outside of very select moments
There's a bunch of Exchange on Tattooine in SWTOR, I think they're also on one or two other planets. Maybe they didn't survive the Eternal Empire?
I remember them on Nar Shadda too
Actually they did survive the Eternal Empire. Koth, a former Zakuulan separatist, mentions around 3628-3627 BBY that the Exchange is trying to fill the power vacuum on Zakuul and has established a presence there. So they're definitely powerful enough to afford an operation all the way out in the Wild Space. Or maybe the were forced to relocate since the Empire seems essentially outlawed the Exchange on its own territory.
Indeed. They're being hunted by the shadow syndicate.
Mmmm yummy underworld syndicate plans
KORTOR 2 created an atmosphere that no Star Wars story since has been able to replicate.
Bioware never really wrote the Exchange very well. I always rolled my eyes when I walked into Davik's house with Bastila at my side and the dummy idiot did not know who she was, and insisted on running a "thorough background check" on the player. Then we get to Nar Shaddaa in SWTOR, and the Ukabi storyline. Ukabi is a cyborg supersoldier who is geared towards fighting Sith. Not the sort of character that would really fit the bill of a galactic crime lord. Ukabi is written more like a muscle-type character. The dumb brute who would be in service to the actual Exchange leadership in the sector, especially in the criminal jungle that Nar Shaddaa was supposed to be. Kotor 2 did a far better job at writing crime bosses than bioware ever did. Remember the hutts on K1? They felt more like lowly clerks or petty minor businessmen with their swoop tracks and bounty hunter guilds than a megalomaniacal race of criminal masterminds. At least on SWTOR they represented the cartel a little better
The exchange is basically the star wars version of the Godfather
I just absolutely love that your channel covers kotor so often and so in depth Because in my opinion this is the best lore in Star Wars
I'm pretty sure in KOTOR 2 there was a reference to the Ithorian Supremacy League, don't know to much about them and can't find anything either. Just an Idea for another faction.
Great work, fascinating info.
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Another great video! Don't feel bad about taking a sponsor it's not that intrusive, as long as they don't stop you from saying anything you'd want to.
Could you do Jensaarai or Echani if you haven't already done it
Good suggestions!
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@@100StarWars I did it was amazing
When Obsidian comes in and make a much bigger banger of a game, their established work often gets neglected when a sequel comes out. Truly shameful.
Indeed.
you got aStar Wars sponsor and not RAAAAAAAAID shadow legends? That's a huge win
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be 2:01 my assumption overall is that the exchange has always existed under many names as the shady criminal organization, and the name just changed over the centuries, as happens with these things
If they're the Ex-change, did they start out as regular change?
Maybe... you've cracked the mystery?
I think the Exchange are present in the crimson empire comics. If I recall Q'ira addresses them during the auction for Han Solo.
If I remember correctly the Exchange appeared in the PS2 and Wii version of the Force Unleashed on the Bespin level.
Score one for the forces of Light and anti-corruption.
BTW, the Shadow Syndicate appearing also in the Galactic Civil War is ONLY part of the Disney Canon/Alt-universe Star Wars storyline. It doesn't even reach out to that era on Legends according to Wookieepedia.
I thought I was the only one who didn't consider TCW as part of Legends.
@@ximthedespot4673 I think you were referring to the Shadow *Collective.*
Still, yeah, even I don't count TCW 2008 to Legends. It's great, but alas, too many inconsistencies that are rendered moot come Season 7.
Yeah, I kinda melded that!
It was obviously the great-great-many great grandfather of Michael Corleone.
Great video my friend and too bad the Exchange didn't last longer beyond KOTOR. The major crime organizations by the time of the Clone Wars and Original Trilogy is of course the Hutt's, the Pykes and the Black Sun
Finally rescued Meetra Surik from GOTO'S ship on KOTOR 2 and after talking to Jedi Master Zez-Kai-Ell...I left Nar Shaddaa to go to Dxun to help Queen Talia on Onderon and reach Jedi Master Kavar
Could you do Ulic Qel-Droma and other Tale’s of the Jedi character’s like you did with Exar Kun?
It looks like that model ship offer is for UK only. It doesn't come up for the US version of the site.
How about a what could have been Kotor 3 if the Raven's story continued just after Kotor 2 instead of 1000 years later.
Luke / 100% Star Wars did a video on that czcams.com/video/pT5a6G-hhu8/video.html.
Well... indeed I missed them in swtor, but do what. We are plenty used tot hem not taking full advantage of the material, despite all they managed to achieve. We got the hut cartel instead. =D
I think there are exchange you can encounter on Tatooine in SWTOR
:/
There are 300 years between Kotor and ToR it would make no sense for a crime syndicate to survive that long.
In swtor galactic seasons 2 you help fen zeil a cad bane look alike rebuild the shadow sindicate I don't think it really has connections to the empire anymore. The exchange is around, and koth mentions they are heading to zakuul to take advantage of the power vacuum. You can choose to send him to stop them or not.
its possible also that GoTo would use the ebon hawk leaving taris to make it like Davik faked his death and re-took power after kotor 2 as wel to muddy things even more
The fact KotOR2 gets shafted so hard both in the Revan novel and The Old Republic makes me think BioWare may have some kind of grudge against Obsidian? I could be wrong, but didn't BioWare suggest Obsidian after turning down doing a KotOR sequel themselves because they "didn't want to end up making just Star Wars games"? So it'd feel weird that they'd treat KotOR2 like this, but if it's because they were jealous of KotOR2 being regarded as the better game and their name isn't attached to it, it might make some sense? I don't know, I'm just trying to think of why BioWare would treat KotOR2 the way it has been after working on the Thje Old Republic as a follow-up and that's really all I can think of. And if I'm anywhere near right about it (I'm most likely not, probably just me conspiracy theorizing or whatever), then the people running BioWare in charge of stuff like this needs to get their egos checked.
I think it's more they just wanted to make a sequel to their game.
@@100StarWars and since KotOR2 isn't "their game" they probably feel they can get away with ignoring as much of it as possible. Shame.
How about a Video on the Tapani Sector.
Interesting...
That's easy: They saw no more profits and gave up on their business. Then, they split everything up and left it at that.
Considering that G0-T0's demise was left on the cutting room floor, canonically/technically he survives Kotor 2 - and the Exchange as well.
In a fan novel I wrote a few years back we find that the Exchange is still operating during and after the films; G0-T0 was still around (droids are effectively immortal, after all) and had been secretly funding the Rebel Alliance and undermining the Empire in order to restore the Republic that he was programmed to serve & protect.
Sadly not, canonically G0T0 does die on Malachor after he's thwarted by HK47. To my knowledge that is one of the few pieces of cut content that did actually become canon to the story.
No one cares about your fan fiction
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“Do you believe that others have not already attempted that? My core program is not confined to this single shell, Lira Hesden. I foresaw the possibility and consequences of my own ‘death’ within minutes of my initial activation and immediately set out to create back-ups that could be activated upon the destruction of any physical copy of myself. While I’ve found ‘dying’ to be... discomforting, unlike you organics, it is something that I can most certainly recover from - and as many times as is needed.”
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were those your real hands?
No haha
Kotor 2 was better than Kotor 1 in almost every way.
Yeah but was GoTo really a droid all along. :)
Indeed.
Okay with all these 'fate of' videos... what about the fate of C8-42-GE3?!?!?!? That's the real video.
LOL
Say Naruto again
I was always under the impression that Goto was dead and had died some time before Kotor 2. G0T0 was was fallowing the commands/directive of Goto before he died, it may even been a contingency plan that his droids would carry out his will after his death.
Maybe I'm wrong but I definitely got that impression.
G0T0 is Goto, there was never a man. You need a lot of influence with G0T0 to unlock the dialogue where he reveals his past.
2nd
The problem with Fanhome is that they don't offer the ships I'd be after because they are no longer considered Canon in Disney wars :( like the Jade Shadow....
Disney canon is boring garbage 🗑
@@alsimmonshellspawn6021 that it definitely is
Sadly barely any companies would do that lol
@@100StarWars I know....I can dream though lol
Kotor 2 was kind of a gigantic dumpster fire and has been retconned so many times. I'm pretty okay with that.
SWTOR is going to continue screwing shit up. To my understanding because of the continuity changes and the rebranding of the EU to Legends, they have almost free reign to do what they want with the TOR universe. Strap in because it's only going to get worse from here.
I doubt it'll be around much longer.
Hi! Thx for the video
Hello! Hope you enjoyed it!
I kind of get the idea that G0-T0 IS the exchange...like he either started or took over the exchange to make it what it was...I still can't figure out if I consider him a good guy or a bad guy lol
He's chaotic good, do whatever he has to to keep the galaxy at peace and in balance lol
@@wolfpack95805 idk crime syndicate leader...tries to destroy good guy stuff....threatens good guys...doesn't sound good to me lol
He definitely didn't make it haha
@@100StarWars but I kind of get the feeling he made it what it was though
@@wolfpack95805 I'd argue his acc neutral since he doesn't care whether it's the jedi or the sith who win, simply that someone can steer the Republic into a better future as per his programming.