Summary: <br> <br> It’s convention season, which means the devs are out there giving interviews, doing panels, whipping the fans up by hinting at wondrous wonders. What will our characters look like? What will they fly? What will they do when they fly? Why should we care about stories that happened 300 years ago? So much to talk about, so many names to mispronounce….<br> <br> Fact or Fiction? (1:59) Can you pick out the confirmed fact from the tall tales? This week’s host challenge concerns playable races and advanced classes.<br> <br> From the Newsnet & Beyond (3:51) Roundup of the most important announcements and news:<br> <br> * (4:01) New Timeline <a href="http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/timeline/mandalorian-wars" target="_blank">video</a>, “The Mandalorian Wars,” on the Holonet. Master Gnost-Dural goes deeper into history to examine the beginning of Revan and Malek’s fall to the Dark Side.<br> * (5:57) Four new playable races/species announced: Sith Pureblood, Miraluka, Mirialans, Zabraks. Official article <a href="http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20100806">here</a>.<br> * (13:03) <a href="http://www.swtor.com/media/webcomics/blood-of-the-empire/act3?comicpage=1" target="_blank">Ninth installment</a> of Blood of the Empire. Teneb Kel has many awesome adventures and 5-second conversations in just a very few pages!<br> * (14:15) T7-01 droid announced as companion for the Jedi Knight. Basically, R2-D2 with attitude and GUNS. More info on the official page <a href="http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/biographies/t7-o1">here</a>.<br> * (15:40) A cornucopia of Jedi Knight information: official <a href="http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/classes/jedi-knight" target="_blank">HoloNet page</a>; Advanced Classes (Guardian, Sentinel); and action-packed, albeit short, <a href="http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/jedi-knight" target="_blank">video</a>. Also, some nice <a href="http://www.swtor.com/media" target="_blank">screenshots</a>.<br> * (20:03) PC Gamer space combat issue woohoo! Is a cinematic tunnel shooter enough if it makes you “pee your pants?”<br> * (29:50) BioWare announces their new <a href="http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/space-combat" target="_blank">Space Combat Trailer</a> at <a href="http://www.gamescom.de/en/gamescom/home/index.php" target="_blank">Gamescom</a> in Cologne, Germany. Kathy swears that one of the pilots sounds exactly like Carla.<br> * (31:03) PC Gamer speculates on cross-faction changes. Is the author smoking something or does he know something we don't?<br> * (33:27) Celebration V panel. Writers Drew Karpyshyn and Hall Hood along with Concept Artists Arnie Jorgensen and Clint Young discuss the usual TOR topics, but elaborate a bit more on races, elder characters, player ships. We forgot to mention this in the podcast, but Darth Hater had great live blogging columns and pictures from the panel. You can read about Friday's panel <a href="http://darthhater.com/2010/08/13/swcv-live-blogging-from-the-art-and-writing-of-swtor/" target="_blank">here</a>, and Saturday's panel <a href="http://darthhater.com/2010/08/14/swcv-day-2-panel-live-blogging/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br> * (39:15) <a href="http://www.paxsite.com/paxprime/index.php" target="_blank">PAX</a> scheduled for Sep. 3-5 in Seattle Washington.<br> * (41:25) Daniel Erickson gave two excellent interviews for Game Informer. The first article, <a href="http://gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2010/08/06/storytelling-in-star-wars-the-old-republic.aspx?PostPageIndex=1" target="_blank">“Storytelling in Star Wars: The Old Republic,”</a> which we only mentioned briefly in the podcast, talks about solo play dovetailing into group play, how hard it will be to play the game against type (i.e. Light Side Sith),
