Powertechs

I saw that the Incinerator tuning was fairly cheap on the GTN; at least 100M less than it was when I looked at it a couple of weeks ago, so I sprung for it. I don't have enough cartel coins to unlock it across the legacy yet, so I decided I needed to send it to the character who would use it the most. I did the same with the rakghoul tuning; I sent it to my Lethality Operative, because he has all kinds of poison attacks that are the exact same green drippy weirdness as the rakghoul weapon tuning. So I decided that my pyrotech would make the most sense for an Incinerator tuning, which makes your weapon look like a flamethrower. However... it turns out I don't have a pyrotech anymore; I guess Galation was my pyrotech! All three of my remaining powertech characters, Graggory, Gael Heckett and Vash Galaide, were all Advanced Prototype. What?!

I decided to turn my old hoary character Graggory into a Shield spec, since I'd never used that. After switching him, I played around a bit on the Operations dummy on my ship. It's a nice spec. And I turned Gael Heckett into the pyrotech, and loaded up the next few outfits of his, at least, with the incinerator tuning. I've also played a bit of him the last little bit on Taris. I don't remember really liking Taris that much as a planet, but I am this time. 

Although I'm also amused by the ridiculous light/dark choices. It's a dark side choice, and you get a major guilt trip if you take the rakghoul serum from the pirates, because they'll die of the rakghoul plague! But, I killed at least fifty pirates to get to that point, another twenty just leaving their base, and even had bonus missions to kill healthy pirates. You're supposed to do that. But killing the pirates who have a terminal and incredibly dangerous and contagious disease? That's bad.

Also, the rakghoul vaccine that saved the pirates no longer saves anyone else because it's 300 years old. But it worked just fine on the pirates! What the heck kind of crazy science is that?

The writers of this game are silly. Except I don't see it as harmless silliness anymore; I see it as dangerous, subversive and even treasonous. 

As a related aside, I heard the old 80s Camouflage song "Neighbors" this morning while driving my daughter and son-in-law to the airport. I used to think that was pretty harmless, if a bit pretentious. Now, it kind of ticks me off to listen to it. I might delete the mp3 from my micro-SD card that holds all my music, and from my computer hard drive too.

Anyway, here's Gael Heckett in the cantina on Taris, showing off his flaming gun and his Taris duds. I haven't messed with Corso since sometime shortly after I got him on Ord Mantell, so he still looks the same.

I'm not 100% sure still on the facemask. Nobody else on Taris wears one, but it is supposed to be toxic on the surface all the time. Whatever. I don't have enough excuses to wear facemask type things, and there are a lot of them in game. I can't just only ever load it up on characters when they're on Quesh, after all!