User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/The Old Republic, fanon, and you/@comment-29301-20120317050223

The whole TOR sub-franchise has only inspired me insomuch as its novels have so far all turned out to be pretty good, and thus lend me intellectual energy from my reading them. For examples, Fatal Alliance explores the implications of the Sith-Republic peace treaty in a sensible way and Deceived gives a great example of a well-developed villain protagonist in Darth Malgus. As for stuff I'm actually working on, the closest thing that can be said is that I'm (extremely slowly) working on a novella/novel-length story set during the Jedi Civil War, and the concepts in the TOR books have helped me to generate a lot of ideas (like various reasons and methods by which different Sith undermine and butt heads with each other). Regretfully, I've no plans to venture into the timeline of TOR itself in my stories; though I like the books a lot, I'm still of the opinion that the "Great Galactic War" is one Sith war too many for the timeline.