All Hail Lord Vader
by Alex
Super geeky but also stirs my fancy somehow: The 203rd Tatooine Expeditionary Stormtrooper Legion in Star Wars Galaxies has been so well organized that the game developers rewarded them with “a visit from Darth Vader himself”:http://www.corpnews.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=40594 — follow the link to see screen captures of Vader encouraging the troops. “The Emporer Knows Your Loyalty!”
There’s something going on here about fantasy and fandom in MMOGs that is interesting — instead of playing Just Another Elf you get to play Just Another Elf who has been cool enough to meet Legolas (or any other named character from the stories that a fandom is based on). I would talk about it more, but I must Work On The Dissertation instead. Bah Humbug.