There are a few quests later on - I remember one on Belsavis - where the dialogue options were various flavors of "yes, lets manipulate these things to our ends" (paraphrase, obviously) which... um... why am I suddenly speciesist? (And it doesn't make sense as a class-flavoring, as the Agent never has to be speciesist in story. So it must be that I'm playing a human. Or someone misread a memo somewhere.)
That's very odd. More so that it's not the case for a Sith (race, not class).
(I usually have the option to agree with racist lines, but I always have the option to protest them.)
You say that the Republic is even less respectful of the Voss than Serevin... I... Did not get that impression. (Maybe I was distracted by wishing my Smuggler could have a one night stand with the Republic Ambassador. ^_^;;) The Ambassador seemed to like the Voss and to respect their decission to work on their own problem just fine. Is this another odd class/planet interaction (different dialogues on a Jedi, perhaps) or was I/my character really distracted by the hotness? *sheepish*
No, the ambassador is fine. And, if you're playing a Jedi, he and the Sith Lord who's been training the failed mystics in how to use the Force both poke at you a lot about the Jedi's contemptuous attitude toward the Voss. (I wonder how the whole thing plays out for a non-Jedi; it doesn't really make a lot of sense that a Republic soldier or privateer can verbally commit the Jedi to training the Voss.) When you confront the Sith Lord, he tells you the Sith are willing to train the Voss; one of the Voss students asks if they have an alternative. Your choices are to say "The Jedi are just waiting for you to ask" or, "That's not an option." The first choice is Light Side. The first choice is also a lie, and you get "What were you thinking? Now we're stuck training these Voss who don't believe in the Light Side and the Dark Side!" from the Jedi Council and, "Wow, I didn't think you were actually going to do that" from the ambassador if you choose it.
And yes, Taris seems to be entirely an ego thing for both sides. Both the Empire and the Republic are going by an utterly false narrative where Taris was once one of the greatest planets in the Republic and crushing it was a great Empire victory.
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That's very odd. More so that it's not the case for a Sith (race, not class).
(I usually have the option to agree with racist lines, but I always have the option to protest them.)
No, the ambassador is fine. And, if you're playing a Jedi, he and the Sith Lord who's been training the failed mystics in how to use the Force both poke at you a lot about the Jedi's contemptuous attitude toward the Voss. (I wonder how the whole thing plays out for a non-Jedi; it doesn't really make a lot of sense that a Republic soldier or privateer can verbally commit the Jedi to training the Voss.) When you confront the Sith Lord, he tells you the Sith are willing to train the Voss; one of the Voss students asks if they have an alternative. Your choices are to say "The Jedi are just waiting for you to ask" or, "That's not an option." The first choice is Light Side. The first choice is also a lie, and you get "What were you thinking? Now we're stuck training these Voss who don't believe in the Light Side and the Dark Side!" from the Jedi Council and, "Wow, I didn't think you were actually going to do that" from the ambassador if you choose it.
And yes, Taris seems to be entirely an ego thing for both sides. Both the Empire and the Republic are going by an utterly false narrative where Taris was once one of the greatest planets in the Republic and crushing it was a great Empire victory.