Every character has a start and an end to their story. The start is self explanatory, with you arriving on CZ-220 at the start of your character's career on this server. The end is more nebulous. It may be a final climactic moment, or a slow fade away into the background as time and interest for them fade away. It may be something you opted for yourself, or it may be something that the DM team decided was appropriate for your character given their circumstances.
Character Retirement Packages are intended to ensure that players see permadeath/character retirement as a result of in-character circumstances, and not as an out-of-character punishment. Intended to avoid stagnation and to promote players joining the server with fresh concepts without worrying overmuch about the early game grind.
Character Retirements are to be applied to brand new and staff approved characters. We will NOT apply retirement packages to characters that already exist. Do not start playing a new character with intentions of retirement without first discussing it with the SWLOR team via tickets. Character retirements will not be retroactively applied.
Any character retired is a final decision. A retired character cannot be brought back without approval from the DM team. This is true whether or not the DM team was the one to enforce the retirement. This is true whether it was a death or simply your PC leaving, and its unlikely to be approved without very good reason. The purpose of character retirement is to avoid stagnation, and resurfacing old characters is contrary to that.
When you want to retire a character, feel free to open a ticket requesting they be retired. You will be asked to provide a screenshot of your in-game character sheet (the NUI window, not the login screen one), and asked generally what you want out of it.
It is also required that the PC you are retiring have been around for a minimum of three months, be established in RP, and be at 350 SP. The final decision on if a character is able to provide these bonuses on retirement rests with the DM team.
The basic perks of character retirement is receiving 250 SP on a new PC. This avoids a bulk of the grind to 400 without removing the need to visit multiple planets entirely. You also can start pursuing Expertise right away.
Further, you may immediately request 3 ranks of Expertise, each with reduced cooldowns of one week (7 days) — these ranks must be distributed all to separate fields of Expertise. RP requirements for these ranks are waived, but normal requirements exist for anything afterwards. You may also request 1 Feat to go with these Ranks.
Finally, you will receive 100,000 credits.
Your first option, in addition to the Base Perks, is to receive the following:
Your second option is to instantly start the game with two ranks of Expertise already learned in addition to the base three 7-day ranks mentioned above, as well as an additional Feat. Further, the DM team will be far more open to requests to learn special skills.
The final available option is to receive a standard, unmodified Corvette ship to use in-game. This option requires that you have a confirmed group in mind and ready to play with to act as your Crew.
Players are also encouraged to join each other in creating factions. The aforementioned 100k credits is primarily there not only so you can gear yourself up, but also so that you can afford the cost of establishing a player owned city.
While the DM team cannot guarantee that every prelude request will be fulfilled, as it depends on DM interest and time, we are very interested in running these in general to ensure the server has fresh content and characters for players to engage with.