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San Diego Comic Con has come and gone for another year and despite Bioware stating that they were “showing up in force” there were relatively few, if any, pieces of new info. What we did get was a new trailer for the upcoming companion HK-51, which was unveiled to the audience of Sunday's panel. the assassin droid will be available to all classes and factions via a quest that will take you into a droid factory beneath the surface of belsavis. The level it willbe available and what class roles he will be able to perform are still up for debate (although DPS seems like a good bet).

Apart from HK-51's announcement there were a few hopeful, in not vague, tidbits from the Bioware base. Talk of epic quests to attain legendary weapons and the inclusion of new and familiar mini-games like pazaak made their way around the Bioware Base and the internet. It was also confirmed that existing operations content will not be comprimised by the upcoming extension to the level cap, and the items recieved form current operations will be adjusted accordingly.

That's about all that SDCC 2012 had to offer fans of The Old Republic. Let's hope that Bioware can meet these goals and more in the wake of the recent second wave of layoffs.

You'll find the HK-51 trailer after the break!

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Warzone medals are one of the ways The Old Republic rewards players for contributing to their team’s chances of victory in a given match. In fact, the scoreboard presented at the end of a warzone is initially filtered to display based on the overall number of medals earned by each player by default.

• The Gold ranking is awarded for earning 15 or more medals during a match
• The Silver ranking is awarded for 7-14 medals
• The Bronze ranking is awarded for 1-7 medals

In a broader sense, each of the potential medals you can earn is based on one of the other core data categories displayed on the warzone scoreboard:

• Damage – All damage done to other players during the match will be shown here. While DPS specs will commonly do more overall damage during a match, all specs are capable of earning at least the first ranks of the damage-based medals listed below.
• Kills – DPS and Tanking specs most commonly earn the highest kill counts during a match, though the raw kill count medals are still easily obtainable by healers so long as they’re doing damage to enemy players as well as healing their teammates.
• Protection – This column is specific to tanks, or any advanced classes with...

For centuries the Emperor has been trying to pry the secret location of an ancient battle station from a powerful Jedi he has been keeping in stasis. This mysterious Jedi has recently escaped and fled to the station and thus revealed its location to Imperial forces. He is not alone however as the Republic Fleet has formed a powerful blockade around the station making it all but impossible for a conventional assault. Instead a daring plan has been set in motion to take control of a Republic Cruiser and sneak a small strike force past the blockade and onto the station. “Boarding Party” tasks your team with assaulting the enemy cruiser, eliminating all resistance, and taking control of its systems so it can be used for the assault on “The Foundry”.

Recommended Level: 33
Faction: Empire
Bosses: 6 (3 mini-bosses)
Alignment: 100 in either direction depending on whether you execute the crew or take them prisoner.

Trash MoBs

 There are two things you should be aware of when dealing with groups of Mobs in Boarding Party. The first are the medics which often appear with large groups of republic troops and should be the first to be taken out. The second are the large elite Battle Droids which can...

The Star Wars universe is pretty huge. From the original 1977 film was spawned 2 sequels, 3 prequels, countless books and comics, TV shows, video games, collectible card games, toys and loads of other things that continued to expand the setting. Star Wars: The Old Republic fits in there, too - it is part of the official universe and has added new elements and history to the continuity.

Of course, all these new additions came from the minds of a legion of different authors, and occasionally these different visions contradicted one another, creating conflicts in the universe's continuity. This can pose a problem for writers seeking to add yet more to the expanding universe, as well as for some of us detail-obsessed fanboys who want to have "official" answers for any given question. For example, consider the dent in Boba Fett's helmet.

In 1999, a series of comic books called "Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire," detailed a scuffle between Darth Vader and Boba Fett, which resulted in the crater-like dent above Fett's left brow. Three years later, Episode II: Attack of the Clones is released, and we see an alternate explanation: Jango Fett's helmet is damaged in a similar spot, and Boba is seen picking it up - presumably he carefully extricated his...