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Cal Kestis ' journey to restore peace to the galaxy cover withStar Wars Jedi : Survivor . The subsequence to the 2019 hit game finds Kestis build up a team including old and new friends , namely Merrin , Greez , Cere , and single Father-God Rebel Bode , as they look for a new home to reconstruct the Jedi Order outside of the Empire ’s reach .
During his pursuance , Cal comes across Dagan Gera , a Jedi from the High Republic earned run average who ’s been kept in a bacta army tank for over 200 years on the distant planet Koboh . Initially await to enlist him in his seeking , Cal learns of Dagan ’s turn of events to the black side due to his obsession with the planet Tanalorr , having been imprisoned in the bacta army tank by fellow Jedi Santari Khri after she cut off his branch to prevent him from acquiring a machine to progress to it . Dagan later on becomes a central antagonist inJedi : Survivor ’s story , perpetually taunting Cal ’s failures as a Jedi and holding on to the past times .
While Jedi : Fallen Order was an amazing game , its sequel Jedi : Survivor , has managed to make some monumental improvements that make it frankly better .
In laurels of the game ’s nominations at The Game Awards 2023,Screen Rantinterviewed Lead Writer Danny Homan and Senior Writer Pete Stewart to discussStar Wars Jedi : Survivor , Dagan ’s emotional story , the parallel between him and Cal , and fleshing out the High Republic ’s canyon .
Danny Homan & Pete Stewart TalkStar Wars Jedi: Survivor’s Dagan
Screen blah : I adoredJedi : Survivor , I sunk in well over 60 hour from the 2d I got the plot , and I ’ve just been rant about it ever since . Diving intoDagan Gera ’s level , he is such a fascinating character , and I love that it ties into the High Republic , something that does n’t get explored very often . Can you walk me through the origination of this graphic symbol ?
Danny Homan : Yeah , Dagan is an interesting enhancer for Cal . I think one of the things that the team was really worked up about , in terms of search the High Republic , is that it was n’t that explored in canonical Star Wars . So , we have this good opportunity to aid worldbuild what the Jedi Order was long ago , and to have Cal reflect on what the Jedi used to be , and through Dagan Gera , find a character who maybe could have become a use model for Cal had not circumstance intervene . So , just playing the relationship between the two of them was a really rewarding experience for us .
Pete Stewart : Yeah , I think before even Dagan as a eccentric survive , we know what we wanted was a reflection of the dark-skinned track Cal could go down if Tanalorr became the same affair to Cal as it did to Dagan . The High Republic things slot in really , really neatly , and added to other themes , like Danny was saying . It ’s like , " Put Cal in a place where through psychometrika and through walk through ruins and stuff , he can have the aura day of the Jedi , " right ? It ’s the thing that he did n’t get to see , even when he was in the Order , they were a fading power . So , we put Cal in a really uncomfortable situation and prove him what he could become , and it ’s hopefully like a mirror for him as he pass through the game .
Danny Homan : Just adding to that , the Santari Khri - Dagan kinship is such an interesting mirror to Cal and Merrin . They ’re always grappling with their own personal aspiration , how you support someone that you ’re cheeseparing to , and there ’s patently a lot of complicated emotions up in there .
That reminds me a luck ofCere and Cal ’s kinship inFallen Order . You mentioned there not being much canonic storytelling for the High Republic , and I did actually want to touch on that . With the EU , there ’s so much lore there that can be explore . How did you go about finding the right way to blend some of that High Republic lore while still fleshing out the globe and stay true to Dagan ’s account ?
Pete Stewart : I intend one of the beauties of the High Republic is it having been 200 geezerhood before before Cal came to Koboh is that you ’re dealing with a really interesting affair of like , " What does space look like after something has happened to it , " ripe ? So , the High Republic is everywhere on Koboh , but the moonshine is broken because of the emergence , and Koboh is completely terraformed from what it used to be , because of these thing that happened during the High Republic , but we ’re seeing people move in , and ramp up on top of these ruins , and forgetting about history , and that was really fascinating from a world construction spot of view .
Like the way Greez reacts to hearing the set phrase Tanalorr , " Oh , it ’s mystical . It ’s a Treasure Planet , no one ’s ever been there . " It ’s a bit different in Star Wars in the fashion we recall about story , because we know , 200 days ago , we have quite detailed poppycock , it feel like we ’re walking over a dark old age . And that ’s just really , really fascinating in the same manner that the beginning of the sequel trilogy , you see Rey take the air through the shells of AT - ATs and Star Destroyers , and we ’re like , " Oh , nerveless , this time is numb , but hoi polloi still live the outer space that occupy . "
Danny Homan : So much of Star Wars is the myths and tradition that bewilder with us , and how they inform our present and our present battle . So , while Cal might have take up that the High Republic was a gold years where nothing went wrong , and the Jedi were always truthful . As you know , over the line of the events in Survivor , through psychometry , he occur to learn that every Jedi front their struggle against the dark side , even the legendary Dagan Gera .
With Dagan ’s ambitions in his pursuit of Tanalorr , how did you go about deciding when that villainous round would come in ? How did you go about discover the correct Libra of introduce players to this character , and then still making him somewhat of a openhearted villain ?
Danny Homan : Yeah , it ’s a with child question . For report weight and purpose , Cal expose Tanalorr and then complicate that , within relatively shortsighted order , finger correct , because as we have a go at it from Cal and his journeys , when something honorable comes around , there ’s always something spoiled on the horizon , too . That ’s just the times that he lives in , these disconsolate times of the Galax urceolata . On the other side , we wanted to check that that Dagan was n’t a static eccentric whose fixation on Tanalorr stay just the same throughout .
As you get to the end , and you present Dagan for the final time , there ’s that moment where he see to Cal , he ’s got the Stormtrooper helmet , he ’s like , " You flunk . You are not a Jedi , you pale in comparison to the Jedi of my day . " That ’s such an important history moment for Cal , because so much of his character is about reconcile the itinerary , continue the traditions of the Jedi , so for a fabled Jedi to seem at him and say , " This was on your spotter , " it ’s such an emotionally heart - sprain experience for Cal .
Pete Stewart : I think there was a time — it ’s still there — in the story where Dagan has fully fall before you find him in the bacta tank , reddish saber and everything , and clearly he ’s descending by the sentence he gets put into bacta . But it became really powerful for us , not just for the ocular level of it , and the wow cistron , but him bleeding the crystal in front of you and making that pick justly there , and then in the present twenty-four hours , he learn everything Cal has to say , " The Jedi are go , the Empire is here , it ’s just us , " and he still decides to go all in on the matter . That just speaks to his fixation , speaks to how far he has fallen , and then also we get to see a really radical scene where he bleeds his lightsaber there , which had n’t been see before , so it ’s just really nerveless .
It feels like there ’s almost no external audio , and it ’s just the vocalization actors come through . I ’m curious if that was the intent . Was the music purposely leave out to give these part their spotlight , especially someone like Dagan ?
Danny Homan : This is such an vivid moment , this confrontation between two Jedi from different periods of time , that I imagine the music can drop out so that you could hear every chip of delivery , because there ’s so much subtext and so much pain in each of these confrontation between Cal and Dagan . So , I think it ’s just a raw part of the process where you step back and go like , " Oh , we call for everyone to focus on every individual delicious word , because this is a confrontation worth hearing . "
Pete Stewart : I think there ’s also some really coolheaded things go on between Dagan and Cal , both in the first time they come across and the last time they gather . Like him bleed the vitreous silica is such an audio moment , drawing all of the air out of a elbow room before it bursts out again . And at the end , he mesmerise Cal , he get off him into a trance country , and you involve to palpate the uncanny upside - down - ness of the sound in that moment , as well . So , I call back we ’re just playing with the creature we had to produce this sideways experience for the player .
Given that you have mo - cap actors doing a fortune of this production , how practical were some of these fight between Cal and Dagan , particularly the one at the end where they go upside down and Dagan is just casually walk around on the roof while Cal is trying to get his footing ?
Danny Homan : Yeah , our actor do a mint of the P - pileus , even veering into some of the stunt and things . Cameron Monaghan is not only a really studied player , but he ’s really astute on these kinds of sequence too , so he ’s very involved . Whenever you could have the actor body forth not only just the dialog in the setting , but the high action as well , and to really put that character into the experience , I consider that ’s when you get really electrically charged moment like this one .
Pete Stewart : Yeah , I think when Cal is cabbage by his pegleg up and befuddle into the roof , it ’s probably an animation to make that . [ Laughs ] But , there ’s some really cool moments , like when you first contend Dagan and , at the end , there ’s a episode in the cinematic where his saber goes up into the air , and Cal is up in the air and Dagan jumps up really in high spirits , grabs it and then total back down again . That ’s a strong-arm stunt that was done on the microscope stage . Probably not by William Frederick Cody , because that ’s an intense level of athleticism , but yeah , a muckle of those really coolheaded acrobatic moment are strong-arm stunts that we then transpose . But , when unearthly stuff and nonsense happens , it ’s more than likely the energiser have some fun in the sequenator .
Danny Homan : And we do a mountain of action Mo - capping at the end of our days of bent . So , the worker are still there , and still getting to see that too , so we get laid whether they ’re involve in it or not . They ’re internalizing the drama , and the action , and staring intensity of those instant , and they ’re kind of using that to inform their performance .
In the first fighting with Dagan , if I hark back aright , you get his wellness bar midway down , and thenRayvis shows upand interrupts . How do you go about determining , from the writers ' perspective , when exactly a competitiveness like that should be broken up with something story - driven ?
Danny Homan : Yeah , that ’s another great enquiry . We ’ll give you our perspective , but we can also give our design manager , Jason , a prospect to kind of further explain that , because really , the solvent is story and design body of work hand - in - hand to make these clashes feel really give - an- take and to kind of carry both the story and also the gameplay together . Sometimes , you have a brush , so that the boss can switch to a different kind of maneuver or add new tools to their arsenal , so there ’s a practical side of that , as well . But then , of class , these are quite vivid battles , so there ’s kind of a sense , sometimes , to give the player a moment to kind of regroup and consider what they have to do next .
Pete Stewart : There ’s a sense of progression to them , as well , because like you say , you only get halfway through his first wellness bar on the first fighting before the chronological sequence terminate . I opine when you fight on the Lucrehulk , you get it down to maybe a third or a quarter , or mayhap a chip lower , but you ’ll find like you ’re progressing . And then finally , in the last one , you get it to zero and that ’s when he dies . So , I like that sense of you ’re push through each time to get better at nearly make headway the fighting . But , I think it works on the narrative and gameplay level when , visually , you do n’t get a health bar to zero , and you ’re like , " Ah , I ’ve been pipped to it , I ’ve been scramble , " like someone ’s [ outdo ] me , and it ’s Rayvis in this case .
It ’s such a fun twist to suddenly be like , " Wait , no , I was almost done with you ! "
Pete Stewart : " I have n’t fetch up yet ! " Yeah . [ Laughs ]
Dagan and Rayvis is such an interesting dynamic , and a lot of Dagan ’s backstory is give away through Force visions , but then a lot of it is left strange . How much actual backstory did you guy write for this character reference , and how much of that actually made it into the game versus just hold on in your head as a Bible ?
Danny Homan : That ’s another large inquiry . To spell a well - assail case , or two character who , like you say , they have a relationship that goes back century of year and there ’s a heap off - concealment , there ’s a lot implied , but in our room , we decidedly blab out through the sense of how they met , the circumstances . And like you said , we get bit and pieces of that in replication , but if you look at a aspect , like when Rayvis and Dagan are talking in the Lucrehulk that Cal take in , you’re able to show between the line and make out that their relationship go back , and there ’s a lot of pain in the neck and joyousness in it as well . Rayvis is n’t indisputable what his next move is going to be . Dagan obviously values Rayvis maybe more than he has valued other people in his life history . There ’s a real camaraderie there , that ’s not just about a exponent family relationship .
Pete Stewart : Yeah , I bed that when he says , " I take our oath fulfilled , " and then Dagan gets as close as he can to being like , " Oh , no , do n’t . Do n’t go , buddy . " [ Laughs ]
Danny Homan : " Whoa , whoa , whoa , not so fast , we have history . " [ Chuckles ]
Pete Stewart : " I ’ll have to suppose of another idea to keep you around . " But yeah , I think it varies depending on the character and their utility in the story , but most of the time , I cogitate there will be more information that we jazz that wo n’t be reveal in the game . Not that it ’s not all-important information , clearly , otherwise it would be in the biz . But like , we have our timeline , for example , where we know when characters were born , and where they were born , and not every small-arm of entropy needs to be put into the plot . But , when you translate how the tabular array is set , where to go to get sure pieces of nutrient and drinking , that ’s how we set about that kind of clobber .
Do you have a favored bit of information in regard to Dagan that did n’t make its way into the biz ?
Pete Stewart : I ’m gon na keep my sassing shut . [ Laughs ] Unless you have something , Danny ?
Danny Homan : For me , it ’s less about what did or did n’t make the game , but where it makes it in the plot . Because there ’s often , in how we work out in our elbow room and our revision process , we might have info that ’s in a cinematic , and then as we go through alteration , and kind of get things ready for a shooting script , we see that we have to take something away . But , the economic value of being a video secret plan and not linear media , like TV or film , is we often have other places to put that stuff , so that all that juicy info that we could n’t possibly get into a cinematic becomes persona of an sound reflection , or parts of the databank . That ’s part of the joy is that . There ’s oodles of different ways to order narrative in games , and I think character backstories and histories is one of those thing that we get to impart on the player if they essay that out .
I ’m not usually one to read all that extra information , butI did withJedi : Survivor , because I was so hooked with these characters . One thing I always come up interesting about boss struggle is the epigram that bosses will often throw at the thespian , and sometimes it can sense out of context in the middle of a conflict . How do you two go up that with Dagan for these three larger-than-life , emotional , climactic fights ?
Pete Stewart : You ’re right , it ’s a difficult needle to thread writing , like Buck VO . But basically , we seem at each fight , because Dagan has three battle , and he has three category of vocalism line for each . So , I do n’t conceive there ’s any lap between them , or if there is , there ’s just very few . The tone of each one is mapped to the tone of the combat , so the first one , it ’s a little chip disorientated , but he ’s still with it , and he ’s kind of figured out his purpose again . 2nd one comes on the back of the cinematic in Lucrehulk , where he ’s clear his intent , he tries to ruin Zee after you think he ’s gon na reprogram her .
And then , he can see his visual sense is re - illuminate into something else that becomes the novel dream , and he talks about a unexampled war to Rayvis . And at the end , he ’s a chip broken , because he ’s just visualize Santari Khri , who just 200 years ago leave alone him , like where he ’s just been broken up with over a video call , right-hand ? [ Chuckles ] And he ’s pretty upset , but he ’s so faithful to his goal , so he ’s a little bit savage , almost , so we just draw close it like that .
So we have the tone , and then we just get writing , and then the sly part is , " How often do they fire ? How many descent we desire for each family ? " like this . It ’s fiddly , you go back , and you tweak , and you tweak and tweak , and he ’d eventually still have to state me to stop doing that , because I ’ll do it always . But , it ’s just a longsighted process , and we normally start it before the honcho fighting really exists in any word form in the plot , and then adjust as the boss phase starts to take shape , and we work with combat pattern to get to a final merchandise .
I wanted to explore Khri and Dagan ’s relationship . Jedi typically are reckon as just comrades , there ’s not typically any kind of romantic affair there , but there felt like something deeper between them in comparison to say someone like Cere and Cal . Was it ever in your minds , or how you regard their family relationship within the fib ?
Danny Homan : I think it ’s fair to say that Dagan and Khri share a meaning relationship . Not needs romanticistic , but just in that they are both ambitious , they both have vision , they ’re both sort of leadership in their respective crafts , whether it ’s exploration or science , and they share a dream together . As Merrin sound out in Survivor , that ’s a ambition that they feel like could only come to fruition if they lick together . And you see in one of our psychometric flashbacks that Dagan had a moment where Khri palpate like her project is work to be pulled from her , Dagan pace forward and says , like , " I ’ll take the risk . "
And part of it ’s out of egotism , but I guess part of it is out of genuine compassionateness and understanding Khri has her own ambitions . And I think that is a mirror to Cal and Merrin , and to a quite a little of relationships in Survivor , and this kind of theme of how those closest to you could lease you down , but also build you up . It ’s never one or the other . Khri has to face Dagan , because she senses that he ’s go too far , and she ’s endeavor to help bring him back towards the scant side even then . But , of course , by then he ’s a bit too deplete by his own ego and his own drive for Tanalorr to hear her dustup .
Pete Stewart : Yeah , Dagan is clearly drawn to the people that share his imagination , so he ’s drawn to Rayvis after vote out him , and he ’s eviscerate to Khri because they ’re both scientists look for out what the next affair is . And then , like Danny say , a difference takes place when Khri keeps her cool , even if she is perhaps call out some of the flaw in the Jedi Order ’s logic , she ’s like , " Well , them ’s the formula , and I ’m not go to be the person that lead against the Council . " Whereas Dagan is like , " I ’ve pass away over the edge . " [ Chuckles ] That ’s where it changes , but he is absorb to the people , and forms a really strong James Bond with Khri , because they both share this passion and this dreaming . But the split occurs where she stays true to what she think in and Dagan loses himself .
It is a pretty heartbreaking decision when that split happens , and she has to take his subdivision . Since we ’re talk about mirroring characters , Cal choose quite a beating in that final fight against Dagan . Losing weapon system is a jolly coarse thing in theStar Warsuniverse , I ’m queer if there was ever a thought to really have that pass off to Cal by Dagan ?
Danny Homan : brusk answer , I do n’t recognise . That ’s a in force question . I ’m not sure if that was ever something considered . I imagine the opportunity we saw in that last clangour was more that marvelous period where Dagan has declared,“Hey , not only do I need Tanalorr for my own egotism and my own drive , but I ’m break down to use it to do what you should have done , which is to in the end construct an U. S. Army and take the competitiveness to the Empire . " That picture is , I recall , rich , because Cal hears Dagan ’s Holy Writ , and the wound to Cal is an emotional injury . " Maybe he ’s right , peradventure I should have fought hard . Maybe I need to use Tanalorr for more . " And , of course , that ’s one of the Apocalypse that causes the final kind of friction percentage point between he and Bode .
Pete Stewart : Well , I also would n’t want Cal to be stealing Greez ’s roaring . He ’s rocking the alloy arm now , and I conceive Greez has just gotten used to it , you know ? I do n’t call back either . I do n’t believe I recall a prison term where we considered a dismemberment for Cal . So , yeah , that ’s my knowledge .
I ’m curious how much you guys really ferment with Cody to find this character , and if he fetch anything to it that perchance you did n’t already see from the author ’s position ?
Danny Homan : We work hand - in - hand with our actors , they get other draft of the scripts , we do tabular array read , we get notes . And then , during our performance - capture shoots , where they ’re kind of work with the doer as they rehearse , to concluding transcription . Really every step of the way , I believe our performances in Survivor were so potent , because there ’s just a really open , positively charged collaborative relationship between us and our match , where they ca n’t return the carrying out we want until they really realize the core thing that characters are going through .
That was the same with Cody . I think of the daylight that we shoot the scene , the intro to the final conflict between Cal and Dagan , which is really , in a mint of ways , Cody ’s scene , because it is Dagan self - obsessed with Tanalorr , motor the nails into Cal ’s heart and calling him a bankruptcy . When we fetch up that shot with Cody , there was just electricity in the way , because he had felt and canalise so implausibly this tactile sensation of being able-bodied to look at a Jedi who is lost and confused and say , " You ’re a failure , and you ’re no Jedi to me . " That ’s something that really comes from collaboration .
Pete Stewart : I remember the very beginning , we had our first concluding mesa read , so everyone will record through the book , and we hear the shocks , and the cries , and the delight and the cataclysm of everyone figuring out what ’s happening for the first fourth dimension . But then , immediately after that , we did a roundtable where all the actors ride , and then Tom Keegan , the performance director , would sit and dig in . All of the actors sat there , and dug into the roles and really started to , for quite a farseeing clock time , we would pose there and dissect what they intend the script was sound out to them , what the characters were enunciate to them . I recollect that was so valuable , because then everyone allow for discernment more than just words on a Sir Frederick Handley Page , and the import behind it and what the characters were going through . You see that in the operation , it really pay dividend .
It sounds like another rich collaborative experience for you both . Now , we ’ve mouth a band about that terminal face-off between Cal and Dagan , where he ’s calling him a loser . If Dagan had not been so obsess with Tanalorr , do you think he really could have had something of a saving arc within this existence , whether it be in this game or in a follow - up ?
Danny Homan : I do n’t know about a saving arc , because I suppose it feel like at this point , Dagan , even if he were to fight the Empire , would be fueled by his own ambitions and for his own purpose . I think he ’s too far there . But so much of the report of Survivor is Cal conform to potential ally who he could really become brothers with , first Dagan , then , of course , with Bode , and kind of the calamity of both those fiber is the potential drop that has been wasted by their drop to the dark side . I think that ’s so instructive for Cal , this mind that he ’s seek out ally in this impossible fight , and on a few occasions , he ’s confronting the reality that man are delicate , and the dark side is something that draws people , so there ’s fights on galactic levels , and also just on a personal level .
Pete Stewart : So many of the relationship we ramble Cal against in Survivor are knock off the root of duty and desire . So , for me , at least , I could n’t see a path to Dagan being deliver , because we needed to see this responsibility versus desire play out to extremes . So , it ’s to see Dagan choosing desire , and that eat up him , and destroying him . Or , as we see , the same matter with Bode , who chooses duty as a father , and that squander him and destroys him .
Cal needs to be in the middle of these thing , and feeling this pull in either focusing , so I remember the things that happened had to happen . I intend Dagan surviving perhaps cheapens — not cheapens it , it softens what Cal is going through , the vividness of it is softened a little turn , for me , at least . Even though , as I ’ve enjoin before , I love visualise happily ever afters for characters where they do n’t have to die , but that ’s just not the story we ’re tell . It ’s not the galaxy we ’re telling it in , correct ?
Dagan die before really getting to go back to Tanalorr in the present storyline . Did you ever play with the idea of him really reaching the satellite and maybe having the final face-off with him there , or was it always he was never hypothesize to get there ?
Danny Homan : It ’s an interesting question , because there ’s something delectable about confronting Dagan at the moment where he ’s about to be quick to go to Tanalorr , and then Cal ’s confrontation with Bode later after Bode successfully arrived on Tanalorr . So , in some ways , Bode kind of continues that desire , so you get to see Cal confronts both Dagan before , then Bode afterwards . So , he kind of gets the full picture of Tanalorr as an object of desire that is kind of , as Pete was mentioning , represents this apple that is potentially venomous that can twist people and make them flow from grace .
Pete Stewart : Yeah , the final engagement with Dagan is also one of the last opportunities to cement Cal and Bode as the boys , the real friends , actual brothers and comrades in arms . Them working together to defeat Dagan really cements that moment , because we always had it in our head that the last fight was Bode on Tanalorr , and in a spate of ways , Dagon is the transparency that give Bode , amongst other things , cover . So , having the inheritor of his compulsion being Bode was always something that we find quite strongly about . And Bode being the inheritor of that legacy , and standing in the ruination of Tanalorr against Cal was a pretty strong throughline throughout the secret plan .
Well , I love the way it play out . Again , part of me would have be intimate to have visualise it , but at the same metre , as someone who was very anti - Dagan after his nefarious turn of events , I was like , " Yes ! No , you do n’t get it . "
Pete Stewart : [ Chuckles ] Yeah , there ’s something really large about that . It ’s something really tasty about the actual spoilt guy , the arch big guy , being denied what he require , it just feels beneficial .
We talk about the moral tug - of - war between responsibility and desire , and how it affects Cal . Cal has a trivial bit of a routine to the sour side as he chases down Bode . Was there ever a thought to introduce some of thosedark Force mightiness for Calduring Dagan ’s tenure in the narrative ?
Danny Homan : I do n’t think so , and I believe the intellect why is Bode ’s perfidy run into Cal at a layer deeper than almost anything he ’s felt so far . That bother has to be so big , because Cal is border by have it away ones who are there to protect him and to guide him . He has that conversation with Merrin after leaving the tattered lunar month after the Rayvis confrontation , where Cal fink that he ’s worried he could go down Dagon ’s path , and Merrin says , " If you do , we ’ll be there to check that you rectify your course . "
But the Bode perfidy , I retrieve , suffer Cal the most because , again , you could imagine a future tense in which Cal and Bode successfully take on the Empire . They have a genuine brotherhood that I think Cal has been looking for a very long time , and so that betrayal hits him at a mysterious point than I think he ’s experienced before . And that is , regrettably , the thing that tipped the scale and makes him dip into to a path that he hoped he would never take .
Pete Stewart : Yeah , I would n’t say he ’s on a tongue edge , but I opine he ’s wobbling along , pushing down any thoughts that he has , but they do up now . And then , he gravel raging , and he ’s hitch in choice that do n’t have ending that he loves . Like when he beat Rayvis and Rayvis exact that he kills him , Cal ’s like , " I do n’t really want to , but you ’re never going to stop . " These sorts of dilemmas he gets put into , but he fall out of it as much as potential with his ethics intact .
But then , like Danny says , Bode ’s [ betrayal unlocks ] a primal rage . You imagine you ’ve really got someone that you love , and that ’s taken , that ’s the affair that Dagon did n’t have . I do n’t reckon Cal ever saw Dagon and visualize — like , at the rootage , he ’s was like , " We could fight the Empire together . " But then that ’s it after that . It ’s like , " Oh , you ’re a tragedy , but also , you ’re in my way , and you ’ll do terrible things if I do n’t stop you . " Whereas Bode , maybe he wo n’t do terrible thing if Cal does n’t stop over him , but he has done terrible things like to Cere and co. , and it ’s just right in the substance .
I ’d love to actually hear how convoluted you guys were with the overall atm of the first Dagan scene , because one matter I love about the flashbacks in that succession , and then even his first bewilder out of the bacta tank , is the firing , the delivery of his line of credit , all finger like they nicely keep that villain work up until the very last arcsecond when , like we were talking earlier , he shed blood the crystal . How much of that was your hombre ' affaire ? How much of that was the actual commission and voice capture ?
Danny Homan : It ’s really everything . I think it ’s deserving mentioning our cinematic music director , Dori Arazi , who previously worked on God of War , who is an expert at his craftsmanship , and really talented at tone , and kind of shifting the various moods of that scene . It ’s a unmanageable , delicate scene , right ? There ’s a lot work on there , there ’s a minute of hope , and then it cascades into reverence , and it ’s something that really takes , as you mentioned , [ perfect ] sound purpose , it ’s dismount , it ’s cinematography , and it ’s writing kind of all coming together .
Now that the mainlineStar Warsfranchise is looking toexplore the High Republicwith things likeThe Acolyte , how involved are things likeJedi : Survivorin help flesh out some of the main canyon for this universe ?
Danny Homan : It ’s a unmanageable inquiry to answer . I retrieve the news report of our involvement in the High Republic was one of shape with Lucasfilm , and a mass of collaboration of worldbuilding together . I think from our perspective , the buff reaction to the High Republic was something that I think surprised me a little bit , because it just seemed like mass were so fascinated with it , and these are really interesting part of Star Wars history that I did n’t really bang much about , prior to this undertaking .
But I consider it speaks to the collaboration , and a caboodle of the details we were able to put in there — Pete mentioned them originally — there ’s wonderful echo and scan and databank entries that sort of give some interesting contours to the High Republic , as we do it it , on Koboh , which is a site of disaster and tragedy . So , for our involvement in fleshing out parting of the High Republic , it was a really coolheaded opportunity to get to show both the rise and the evenfall of this part of the High Republic .
Pete Stewart : Yeah , there was a real pleasure that I ascertain when I was image , " What if the replication and scan in the meditation chambers , Khri ’s meditation chambers , are all trying to create a slice of life . " When you put them all together , you may see , " Oh , this person met this person for a secret rendezvous in a different part of the planet , " and then these two masters are spill about this pattern that you see somewhere else , and just building this tableau of what life was like .
And like archaeologists dusting away ruins , that was really rewarding , and working with Lucasfilm on that , again , was really rewarding because it did n’t feel like there was any huge limiters or guardrails to how we wanted to separate it . As to the impact on the wider public canon , I ca n’t really say , but what I did mark today or yesterday , the High Republic primer , or art book or something , is out and Dagan and Santari are in it , and that ’s really rewarding . It feel really cool to see that the work that we did is being represented in a larger sort of world .
Danny Homan : As secret plan developer , we not only write , but we work up story and worldbuild with all the other disciplines at our studio . I opine part of why we see games amount into hump , or having a little more oculus on them , is that we build the levels , we fulfill every nook and cranny with interesting storytelling , and character , and tone , and if that revolutionise other people , that ’s great . What an honor .
For my final query , give how much talks there is , and how many secrets and databanks are shroud in this secret plan , how large did the hand for this turn out to be ?
Danny Homan : It ’s hard to say . We have cinematics , we have gameplay book , we ’ve catch barks , we ’ve get 100 and hundreds of Thomas Nelson Page of our cantina content . One affair that we thought a lot about on our squad is , particularly with the story we ’re tell — which is a hard narration , this is a difficult story in Star Wars canon , it ’s a news report of treachery and loss . We spent a lot of cause making sure that players , even after the acknowledgment rolled , could go back and talk to characters , and live Bode ’s perspective on his journey .
Games are a marathon , they ’re a multi - year development process , which takes a lot of time and energy for us as devs . But we cognise that our community of interests has such an emotional investment in our grapheme , in our worlds , so for us , it ’s worth that attempt , so that , on the tail end , when the game comes out , we can see players talking to characters after the credits have roam , and regain every echo , or every CAT scan . It ’s really rewarding to see how much love it seems like players fall on to with Jedi : Survivor .
Pete Stewart : I do n’t get it on an accurate number , although I do remember towards the end of the project , us clocking in , and it was like over half a million words . Probably way more than that in our database , but I do remember the hand papers we had for the cantina creak due to its size , so that ’s a testament to the amount of content that we created both for decisive and side content .
AboutStar Wars Jedi: Survivor
The taradiddle of Cal Kestis stay in Star Wars Jedi : Survivor , a third person extragalactic nebula - sweep action - adventure game from Respawn Entertainment , developed in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games . This narratively - driven , single instrumentalist claim picks up five year after the events of Star Wars Jedi : fall Order and follows Cal ’s increasingly desperate conflict as the galaxy come further into darkness . crusade to the edge of the galaxy by the Empire , Cal will find himself beleaguer by threats fresh and familiar . As one of the last live on Jedi Knights , Cal is driven to make a stand during the galaxy ’s gloomy times - but how far is he willing to go to protect himself , his bunch , and the bequest of the Jedi Order ?
Star Wars Jedi : Survivoris available to buy on PlayStation 5 , Windows , and Xbox Series X / S , with Xbox One and PlayStation 4 ports presently in development .
