Two odd questions about SW:TOR.

[Shuguard]

So i have played SW:TOR for quite some time and even from launch till now. Enjoyed the game and not very knowledgeable on the lore, etc. etc.
My odd question has to be over the voice acting and hairstyles Bioware choose to implement in the game.

Question 1: After talking to certain female merchants in game, some of them have different voices. One in particular is a female southern style voice. If you have noticed she will say "Come back anytime" in a southern accent when you finish a transaction. My question is was there ever a "South" in Star Wars to have that kind of voice and accent or would everyone else in the lore look at this woman and find her very weird?

Question 2: At character creation you are given a choice in hairstyles about 5 or so reflect a Japanese style of haircuts and knots/ponytails, So the question is was there ever a "Japan" in star wars to reflect life styles and hair styles?

Please note: I'm not very knowledgeable on star wars. Just asking different kinds of questions.

 

[Spaghetti]

I would imagine given that the Star Wars universe is so very very large with trillions upon trillions of beings on thousands upon thousands of worlds living together, I imagine it's just a coincidence/inevitable that a "southern accent" or "Japanese hairstyle" were to appear.

An infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters kind of deal. Odds are that a few things would be similar between our universe and Star Wars...

...Or the SWTOR creators ran out of hairstyles maybe...

 

[Pandalisk]

Well earth doesn't actually exist in SW as far as i can, its in a galaxy "Far Far away" but the Rakatan empire must've found it and used the human population as slaves across their empire at some point, not ever the Humans no where they came.

I guess it just something you're not meant to over inspect, i mean Cad Bane has a penchant for Cowboy hats, were there space cowboys and a space wild west?.

 

[ThaBenMan]

I think it's really the devs just borrowing some real world elements that just work for the given situation.

A "Southern" accent works well for a character that is supposed to be more rough-around-the-edges and down-to-earth (so to speak), as opposed to the refined, high-class tone that a British accent can give a character.

And some of the hairstyles, I think, are just used to go for a strange, exotic feeling. Star Wars, from the very first movie made, has actually had a ton of Japanese influences - Darth Vader's helmet was styled after Samurai armor. The story was influenced by the story of The Hidden Fortress, a movie by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. During production of the first movie, George Lucas at one point considered making all of the dialogue Japanese, to give it a really exotic, otherworldly feeling (for a Western-made movie).

 

[Saviordd1]

In response to number 1

And to number 2, sometimes Jedi wear samurai style because, lets be honest, their space samurai, but it is a TAD out of place, probably an otaku on the team or something.

 

[Shuguard]

In response to number 1

And to number 2, sometimes Jedi wear samurai style because, lets be honest, their space samurai, but it is a TAD out of place, probably an otaku on the team or something.

I'm saving that picture for future pro-South references.

anyways thanks for the replies. I'll probably figure some other odd questions in the future.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

1: I know which one you mean- she's the Crew Skills supply vendor- but I didn't hear that much of an accent in her. The accents I really noticed are the various Scottish and Irish accented officers in the Empire alongside all the British ones.

2: They probably chose as many different types of exotic hairstyle as possible, regardless of whether it would be 'in galactic fashion'. Of course there's a hairstyle after Leia's infamous 'buns' and Padme's topknot.

 

[Gatx]

1. I imagine there would be different accents since Luke and the others have a very "American" accent while the Empire seems British, and then there's all the alien ones that may or may not be racist. In Republic Commando they say that Temuera Morrison's New Zealand accent when playing Jango Fett is explained as being from "Concord Dawn," so I imagine various real world accents could also be easily attributed to various Star Wars locations in a similar fashion.