Star Wars Galaxies Temple of Exar Kun Preview
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Chapter 9 of Star Wars Galaxies will feature a new heroic encounter, the Temple of Exar Kun. These instances are design to provide high-level challenge for our players. They are instanced, scripted encounters where a group of them faces elite tests, and they allow us to create a custom event per chapter that feels completely unique. For example, we started the heroics system with an IG-88 battle in his droid factory, moved onto a Tusken raid on Mos Entha where players battled a new Tusken King boss, and then took players out to space and into a rogue Star Destroyer. In addition to their uniqueness, these encounters allow us to place some crazy high-end loot for the players that's not available to them anywhere else.
Re-imagining the Exar Kun temple has been a fun and informative process for us. We started with the current fictional canon in the Star Wars universe, as well as the basic temple layout currently in SWG. From there, we worked with Lucas Licensing to further develop the look and feel of the temple. When dealing with established characters and locations in the property, there's always a phase where you're fact-checking against current continuity. We have to make sure our proposed fiction doesn't clash with the established works, including prior movies, games, television, comics, novels... even toys. Fortunately, Lucasfilm keeps a detailed archive composed of decades of established canon - we can cross-reference that to make sure our Exar Kun content fits nicely with the existing timeline.
