Many expert roleplayers like to create their characters like a mere sheet full of numbers, but many others, when it comes to character creation, like to give them a good background. MMOs are not free of this dilemma, the old fight between pure function and story.
Looks like Star Wars: The Old Republic, is trying to give its NPCs a good background with the nice Biographies section of its website. It’s very important to know who is who in every story, and I think alive environments like MMOs really need this effort even more, as it’s not possible to have any player wonder about the story behind the NPC, if that story doesn’t exist. Bioware is famous for its awesome RPG videogames and stated that they want to make a different MMO, beyond what we all are used to. Maybe that’s why they’ve set the biographies section in its website, relating the story of several NPCs appearing in its upcoming game.
This time, the renegade ex-republic general Bouris Ulgo, the disillusioned Republic diplomat Diab Duin and the Imperial Spymaster known as “Keeper”, are added to Biographies, telling us some good and very interesting stories about them, I really recommend to read. For it, go to the official Biographies section in the SWTOR website.