Who said Hoth was no fun?

Why do characters always complain about Hoth and Tatooine? Those are two of my favorite planets, and yeah; if I were a real live space traveler, I'd go to both for sightseeing.

Here's Vant Galaide taking Mako, who despite her bold protestations really is just a pretty sidekick, on vacation to see the volcanos and crazy ice crystals on Hoth in the Molten Rift section of the Crystal Wastes.

Vant is about to hit level 80, but I think I'll finish the Hoth planetary story with him anyway before I retire that aspect of his game. Then I'll turn to Mirabeau Tane and have him finish Tatooine. Now that the swoop bikers are gone, it'll feel quiet and natural again. Then we'll see. Maybe I should finish someone else's earlier planet while the double XP is still running so I get ahead in the game. Also, I've got seasons objectives to do, including GSI (again; I'm already legendary reputation) and a bunch of Nar Shaddaa Heroics, and some Alderaan champion-level guys to kill. I'll figure out who benefits the most from doing those, so they can grind some 200% XP.

However, I have some very busy days ahead of me, with less free time than I'm used to (although I already don't have as much as I'd like) so it may actually be hard to finish everything that I want to this week, and the next several weeks may all be kind of quiet in terms of SWTOR progress. In fact, it could be so bad, that when my subscription expires in a little under two weeks, I may let it linger for another couple of weeks or so before I try to restart it. I might just be too busy to play much at all for the next month or so.

Sigh. We'll see. TBD on if this is really going to be a problem or not, but I suspect that it will.

I think it's curious that ice plants seem to be quite commonplace. More than half of the planetary (or lunar, actually, although I'm lumping them together for purposes here) bodies in our solar system are icy. But they're not like Hoth, which is like Antarctica across a whole planet. If the atmosphere is breathable rather than sitting in lakes and ponds of liquid or even frozen nitrogen, hydrogen, etc. then it's a pretty tame ice planet. That's why all of the "oh noez, Hoth is so cold" stuff makes me laugh. Europa? Triton? Pluto? C'mon, Hoth is tame.