On June 18, 2010, Star Wars: The Old Republic was still more than a year away from launch. Players had not yet rolled their first Sith Inquisitor. Nobody had rage-quit a flashpoint over loot. Nobody had spent too long choosing between two nearly identical robes because one had slightly better villain energy. But SWTOR was already building its world. That day marked the release of Blood of the Empire Act 2: The Broken World, the second chapter of the pre-launch webcomic that helped define what BioWare’s Old Republic era was going to feel like: political, brutal, ancient, and very comfortable with Sith making everyone’s day worse. This Was SWTOR Before SWTOR Before the MMO arrived, Blood of the Empire gave fans a taste of the Sith Empire from the inside. Not as a vague evil faction. Not as a faceless army of red lightsabers and dramatic robes. But as a…
