On June 19, 2009, Star Wars: The Old Republic was still more than two years away from launch. There were no guild arguments over loot yet. No flashpoint queues. No Sith Warriors dramatically threatening people in dialogue wheels. No one had spent 45 minutes in character creation trying to decide whether their Jedi looked noble or just tired. But SWTOR was already telling its story. That day marked the end of Threat of Peace Act 1: Treaty of Coruscant, the first act of the pre-launch webcomic that helped set the stage for BioWare’s Old Republic MMO. And looking back, it is hard to overstate how important that setup was. Because SWTOR was not built on a clean war. It was built on a bad peace. The Treaty of Coruscant Was SWTOR’s Original Wound The Treaty of Coruscant is one of the most important events in SWTOR’s entire backstory. The Sith…
