Diplomacy

[Tanis]

NICE.
I hope they release a limited free version, so I can check it out and see if it's WORTH the monthly fee.

 

[Otaku World Order]

Droid: And this one talks!

Murray: How did I get here anyway?

 

[Bluecho]

Then the Jedi masters come for a visit.

Masters: "Is that a Skull Throne, young Padawan?"

Chiss!Erin: "What? My droid keeps coming home with them! What was I supposed to do with them?"

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Can't you just jettison them? Or do they have enough value to keep around?

 

[The Great JT]

Patch up the eyeholes and make a skull drinking cup.

 

[antipunt]

I'm posting sheerly out of amusement of the floating hamster

 

[Sewa_Yunga]

I think Suchong looks like a pre-ooze Splinter from space. And an incredibly adorable one at that

 

[Thunderous Cacophony]

When i read the last panel, the first thing that came to mind was: Skulls for the Skull Throne!
So, yeah. You could take all those skulls and build a skull throne, or something along the lines of that.
Tho I´m not sure what game this comic is talking about. Sure, it`s some Star Wars game, but is it that new MMO? Or some other one? I really can`t tell, cause i haven`t actually played a lot of Star Wars games. Silly me.

Yes, this is a reference to Star Wars: The Old Republic, the MMO that recently came out.

You have companion characters that you can send away on missions, and they come back with useful items (if they succeed). There's an item called "humanoid skull", which is a gift you can give to companions (if they like that sort of thing) to raise their Affection attribute, which makes them more effective when fighting beside you in the field.

How in God's name is a pile of skulls supposed to make people more affectionate towards you, or increase their combat skills? (Unless you throw them, which wouldn't seem effective in a battle of lasers and armour and what-have-you)

 

[Ovrad]

How in God's name is a pile of skulls supposed to make people more affectionate towards you, or increase their combat skills? (Unless you throw them, which wouldn't seem effective in a battle of lasers and armour and what-have-you)

Using logic in the Star Wars universe is ill-advised...

 

[ThaBenMan]

How in God's name is a pile of skulls supposed to make people more affectionate towards you, or increase their combat skills? (Unless you throw them, which wouldn't seem effective in a battle of lasers and armour and what-have-you)

Like I said, if they like that sort of thing. If your companion is a blood-lusting warrior that lives for battle (like, for instance, Khem Val [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Khem_Val]), then they'll love the skull (it's in a category of gifts called "Trophy"). And no, they don't use the gift in battle. The gifts raise their Affection for you, and a higher Affection gives them stat bonuses.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

If you're playing a Chiss, it means you're playing as a either a Bounty Hunter or a Imperial Operative.

Skulls are considered trophies if I'm not mistaken, so Mako likes them for a BH and Operatives have Scorpio who gains a small amount from it.

That's all I gotta say, I'll go poop on a different party now

 

[Char-Nobyl]

Hey, you know what they say: when life gives you skulls, you make a goddamn Skull Throne.

Do you think that Khorne intended from the start to build his chair out of skulls?

 

[Thunderous Cacophony]

Using logic in the Star Wars universe is ill-advised...

I direct you to the nearly 90,000 articles devoted to sorting out the Star Wars universe: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page ; it may not be advisable, that has never stopped anyone from trying.

Like I said, if they like that sort of thing. If your companion is a blood-lusting warrior that lives for battle (like, for instance, Khem Val [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Khem_Val]), then they'll love the skull (it's in a category of gifts called "Trophy"). And no, they don't use the gift in battle. The gifts raise their Affection for you, and a higher Affection gives them stat bonuses.

I see. I have not played the game, so I thought that, since the comic implied that anyone can collect them, anyone can benefit from them.

 

[Fappy]

Yeah... not sure whats up with those companion missions. I guess the galactic public education system doesn't teach kids what "success" means.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Is it wrong that the first thing that came to me after reading this was:
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

no, it was the first thing that came to my mind as well, now, if one can actually CRAFT a skull throne ......

 

[Zen Toombs]

Definition: 'Diplomacy' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope.
Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, diplomacy is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and fewer would derive true diplomacy from it. Yet for me, diplomacy is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose, against statistically long odds."

 

[ikimevol]

to the victors go the spoils

 

[HalfTangible]

Gimme a minute to come up with a skeleton-in-your-closet joke...

 

[weirdee]

Y'know, sleuth diplomacy.

Whenever you enter a room, throw some skulls through the doorway first to make it more intimidating.