Recently, I’ve been indulging in my alt-itis and playing lots of alts up to level 10 to leave their starter planets in SW:TOR.  It gives me a bit of fun in exploring each classes nuance, checking out new servers where potential new guilds reside, and generally exploring the different options in dialogues.  It’s interesting how some choices are purely superficial and others can actually add or skip additional objectives.  It’s neat to find out that ‘Hey, if I choose the Light side option here I won’t have to fight those guys’ or ‘If choose light side I have to go report this to a guy way back there or if I do dark side I get to run around and collect some doodads really quick’. Mostly, I’ve just been going with whatever my character does.  I don’t think I’ve played a single character thus far that hasn’t racked up some mix of dark or light points.  Most lean one way or the other, with a dash of the opposite tossed in for flavor.

Back to the point! I recently started leveling a trooper.  She’s a bald, Asian cyborg with a huge gun.  I love that I can say that with a straight face. It’s like an utter indulgence of my love of cyberpunk gushing out through ever slider on the character select screen. Early on in the trooper’s story – the second class quest I believe – you are quickly introduced to Aric Jorgan.  He’s one of the guys ordering you around.  He’s a big bald Cathar.  Which are cat people.  So if  you hear “Tough-as-Nails Cat Person Named Jorgan” and immediately think of this:

I like the way you think! But sadly, he instead looks more this:

Anyway, he’s one bad ass kitty and channels a serious Panthro vibe.  He doesn’t mess around when the safety of the Galactic Republic is at stake.  But when I first met Mr. Jorgan, I got a slightly different version instead.  Apparently, the game glitched during the cut scene and instead I got introduce to Mini-Aric instead:

The whole cut scene was like that.  It was AWESOME.  I couldn’t stop laughing.  The best part is when my trooper is supposed to look at Aric in the cut scene, she actually looked down at the ground.  So apparently the animation was designed to lock on to him or something.  Even the cameras repositioned themselves to include Tiny Jorgan!

Sadly, after the cut scene ended he returned to his regular size and has stayed that way since.  Still, for one glorious and hilarious moment I got to watch Chibi Jorgie try to be an imposing bad ass superior officer.  I will never be able to respect him.  EVER.