Seasons flubs my plans

The Galactic Seasons keeps flubbing my plans. I played a fair bit with Revecca Arden last night, because one of the Seasons Goals was to play 15 repeatable missions with a consular or inquisitor. I didn't advance her story, but I did advance her level, and I think I've done enough of the explorations and crap on Balmorra to be done with it.

Near the end, because it was taking so long, I took her to the fleet, picked up some Heroics on Korriban and Dromund Kaas and finished the Seasons objective there. When I get back to Balmorra, I won't need to do much except the two story quests; I can ignore the exploration and Heroics, because I've already done enough of them.

I also have seasons goals to play Directive 7 (or a few other flashpoints, but that's the only solo one—cue once again my lament that all of the Flashpoints don't have a solo mode) twice and two flashpoints from the Revan series that you do in Act II. After Balmorra for Republic and after Taris for Imperial. Anstal Tane was actually halfway through those; he had done the first one. Vant Galaide is on Taris, but he's just starting it. I decided that I'd do Anstal Tane's second one and get him ready to move on to Hoth when I pick him up again, and I also decided to do Vant Galaide out of order; just have him do it anyway, and come back and finish Taris afterwards. I swapped him out of his grungy jungle fatigues and into a slick, professional boarding action suit (see below) and took the mission right there on Taris, since that's where it's located. 

I said earlier that I was quite enjoying Taris on the Republic side with Gael Heckett, and that's true. The Imperial side looks very similar, but it's not identical; the daytime lighting has been replaced with nighttime lighting. 

In SOX, I have my own pseudo-Taris, called Vorli VI, which is now a Desai world, run by one of the Dhangetan cartel iconoclasts. This makes for a very different vibe than Taris, as well as the conflict being largely between Revanchists and everyone else (especially the Monarchy). The Seraean Empire is my kinda sorta Sith Empire analog, and it's not a major player on the system; the Monarchy and the Republic being two forces that vie for claiming the mantle of the old Marian Empire. One, however, is like Tidewater noblesse oblige elitists and the other is like the worst of woke totalitarians from today. In reality, the people of the Colonies have little interest in either; although they are largely loyal to the Monarchy and I see any of the Revanchists as villains who are even worse than the Imperials, they are also happy that the Monarch of the Monarchy and most of his hierarchy of nobles, is far away and have little to do with life in the Colonies. I see the Colonies as the American Colonies in the early to mid-1700s—fairly prosperous and established, and only just beginning to question their loyalty to the Monarchy. The Space Revolutionary War which seems obvious, is still at least a few generations away from happening, I think.

Anyway, the point of all of this is that I'm having to change my plans on what exactly I'm playing because of the Seasons objectives. Which is OK. As long as I'm making progress on both the seasons and my characters, I can't complain.

Vant Galaide's "Slick Professional" look

UPDATE: I kind of forgot how stupid the Imperial planetary story is on Taris, though. It just feels childish to even play through it. Sigh.

Yeah, I finished my weekly Galactic Seasons by doing the two higher value options that I had identified, which were both Flashpoint ones. I had to play an extra flashpoint, The Foundry, with Vant Galaide to get him back to Taris, but that's OK. And I played a team-up flashpoint twice, and sadly got the same one both times, Cademimu. Which is fine, but it would have been nice to do that one once and whatever the other one was too. Also, because I put a filter on it, I didn't get any credit towards my social achievement, which I'm still short on. Sigh again.

Anyway, so Vant is back on Taris, and I'll be going back and forth between him and Gael Heckett, who's also a bounty hunter class, but being played as a Republic smuggler on Taris at the same time. Vant is now nearly level 70 (Anstal is a bit higher, at 72, but Anstal has finished both Taris and the two flashpoints, so that's OK.) I'll be glad to hit max level with these two and be able to skip missions that I'm only doing for the XP.

Vant's jungle camo gear for Taris. I'd probably also break it out on Yavin IV.