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Another year has come and gone it seems, I guess time flies when you're having fun battling the forces of evil throughout the Galaxy. Awakening will be 11 years old on the 8th of November, and what an amazing adventure it has been.
On behalf of all staff, we wish to express our heart felt thanks for your overwhelming response to our recent fund raising efforts. After the anniversary celebrations have concluded Cyclone is planning to put together a little update as to where Dirge and him are at with their plans for the server migration and Koorlbardi's plans for our financial reporting.
This year's celebrations will begin with the server reset on Monday 3rd of November, and run through the following reset on Monday the 10th. All accounts that login during this time frame will receive a unique badge in honor of the week long celebration, as well as a random selection of paintings from the 2025 Anniversary collection. As a bonus, an additional 1x XP boost will be active for this weeklong celebration (along with the donation goal being met, this will bring us up to 3.5x XP).
The following special events will be run by the event staff throughout this week:
All hints, clues & results of the following events will be listed below once they are active.
Event List:
- Anniversary Lotteries
Three lotteries will be initiated during the week of the anniversary, each will be drawn in one week's time from the start date. Location TBA when active.- Lottery prizes include:
- Tier One: 1 Rare House of the Winner's Choice.
- Kashyyyk Tree House
- Cloud City House (Bespin)
- Commando Bunker
- Jabba's Sail Barge
- Jedi Meditation Room
- Mustafarian Underground Bunker
- Muunilinst Relaxation Pool
- Sith Meditation Room
- VIP Bunker
- Space Hangar
- Vehicle Garage House
- Yoda's Dagobah Hut
- YT-1300 House
- AT-AT House
- SMC Hut
- NS Hut
- Rebel Spire
- Emperor's Spire
- Diner
- Sandcrawler
- Tier Two: 1 Rare Vehicle of the Winner's Choice.
- BARC Speeder
- Imperial BARC Speeder
- Rebel BARC Speeder
- AB-1 Landspeeder
- Desert Skiff/Transport Skiff
- Mustafar Lava Skiff
- Tantive-IV Landspeeder
- USV-5 Landspeeder
- V-35 Landspeeder
- XP-38 Landspeeder
- Tier Three: 1 Prize Token (for use in the prize hall)
- Tier One: 1 Rare House of the Winner's Choice.
- Lottery prizes include:
- Imperial Investigation (Hidden Prize Box Event)
The Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) has been cracking down on the notorious Rogue Chiss faction for 5 years now. Our never ending efforts to exterminate this criminal faction has managed to chase them into deep hiding throughout the galaxy. However, it would appear that several shipments of Rogue Chiss armor have gone missing from the Imperial Security warehouse on Lok. All loyal citizens of our Glorious Empire are instructed to be on the look out for these items. It is rumored that these armor collections consist of both "Rogue Chiss Hunters" armor, and "Rogue Chiss Guardsman" armor.
How it works: The Hidden prize boxes (the treasure chests available for rent from the NPC Event Coordinators for reference) will be placed at random times throughout the week long celebration. Staff will announce when the boxes are placed, and all boxes will expire 24 hours after they are placed. All players are permitted to take 1 item from the prize box, and we ask that you not use alts to clear out any boxes you find, to allow other players an opportunity to participate in this event. A Sample of the available styles of Prize Boxes will be dropped in front of the City Hall in the Rogue OutPost, Naboo. These are empty and will expire 2100 Tuesday
Active Boxes: An announcement will be posted here with the expiration time of all boxes placed in the galaxy.- No Boxes are active at this time
The ISB is offering the following rewards for the first loyal citizen to submit to our agent (all 10 parts, including the belt in one bag, named "Hunter Armor" or "Guardsman Armor" ) in the Rogue OutPost, Naboo:
- Tier One: Rogue Chiss Guardsman Armor Collection.
- The rare staff awarded named crystal Awakening's Vibrance
- Tier Two: Rogue Chiss Hunter Armor Collection.
- 1 Prize Token (for use in the prize hall)
- Crafting Event
The Rogue Outpost Chamber of Commerce (ROCC) requires your assistance in acquiring the following items to assist in preparation for the celebrations.
How it works; starting around 08:00 after reset Monday, the Event Coordination staff will announce the first of 5 crafting items* to be created or resources gathered, and to be dropped off at a vendor located in the Rogue Outpost (-1020 -5572 Naboo). The final item must be crafted by the character submitting the entry (component pieces may be made by others, but must still meet any requirements requested). Items will be announced daily, until all 5 items have been listed. In order to ensure accuracy and to make things easier to track, only entries dropped off to the vendor will be accepted as valid. The time remaining on the vendor offering will be used to determine who was first to submit each item.
*Crafting items will only need a skill level of Master Artisan or lower, the name of the item (and or subcomponents) will need to meet that which was specified by the Event Coordination staff, to prevent submission of items produced prior to the event.
- 1: The RoCC has yet to determine the required item
- this item is not yet known.
- 2: The RoCC has yet to determine the required item
- this item is not yet known.
- 3: The RoCC has yet to determine the required item
- this item is not yet known.
- 4: The RoCC has yet to determine the required item
- this item is not yet known.
- 5: The RoCC has yet to determine the required item
- this item is not yet known.
Prizes will be awarded as follows:- A minor prize for the first character to submit the item to the vendor (one prize per revealed item).
- Limit of one minor prize per account to give all people a go at winning prizes
- Minor prizes are a Lesser Prize Token
- Grand prize for the first player to submit all 5 items to the vendor.
- First to get all 5 in will win the grand prize, time remaining on the final of the 5 items to be submitted by any character will be used to determine the fastest.
- The grand prize is a resource deed as awarded through the veteran rewards system.
- Every participant who submits all 5 items before the scheduled restart on the 10th will receive an accolade badge on their crafting character.
- 1: The RoCC has yet to determine the required item
- Live Events
- DWB Jetpack and Mandalorian Armor Run
At 2100 EST Saturday 8th of November 2025, the Event Staff will gather a group in an attempt to craft a Jetpack in the Death Watch Bunker. Staff will provide the parts for the Jetpack & a Droid Engineer/Master Artisan, but NO FURTHER STAFF ASSISTANCE/DIRECTION WILL BE PROVIDED. It shall be up to the community to come together to accomplish this and figure out how to survive the attempt, as well as provide the team members required. On the Awakening server, the DWB is a challenging place to be, so this will require some conversation among the community, and the correct group mix, doctor & medics are a must. Again, no Staff intervention will be provided. If the group is successful, the resulting Jetpack will be awarded to the survivor of a round of Dice of Death!
- If the Jetpack group is successful, a second run will be attempted to craft a Mandalorian chest plate. The staff will provide the parts and the required crafting professions, but it is up to the group to know how to run down to the correct room to actually craft the chest plate. Again, no Staff intervention will be provided. If this group is successful, the resulting Mandalorian Helmet will be awarded to the survivor of a round of Dice of Death!
- Race Track
The SWG Awakening racing team is proud to announce the commencement of our longest running race track yet. This Race track will be active for scoring from 0801 Monday thru 2359 Sunday night. As this is an epic race time, it only seems fitting that the track will be an epic one. Stay tuned for the exact announcement, but I am fairly certain you can already guess which track will be used! How does it work? All finish times recorded by our internal race tracker will be entered into the appropriate race. There will be a Grand Prize for all characters not possessing Force Run 2 or 3 (FR2, FR3) and a secondary Jedi race for all characters having those skills. Note, our logging system does not track the use of force run, only the possession of the skill. If you wish to enter in the Grand Prize race, you must use a character that does not have Force Run 2 or Force Run 3. The Grand Prize for this epic race will be a Rare Vehicle of the winners choice. The current status of the race track will be updated every day or two to show the leaderboard. Frequency of the leaderboard update depends on staff availability, but don't worry, all times are always being recorded, so just go for your own personal best time if you are uncertain. Also, please note the race tracks public time tracker resets every day around 0800, so it will only show the current day's race track leader.
The prize for the Jedi race will be a named crystal of your choice from the following:
The Grand Prize will be the winners choice of the following rare vehicles:- Awakening's Vibrance
- Baas's Wisdom
- Bane's Heart
- Bnar's Sacrifice
- Bondara's Folly
- Dawn of Dagobah
- Gallia's Intuition
- Horn's Future
- Kenobi's Legacy
- Kit's Ferocity
- Kun's Blood
- Maul's Vengence
- Mundi's Response
- Prowess of Plo Koon
- Qui-Gon's Devotion
- Quintessence of the Force
- Strength of Luminaria
- Sunrider's Destiny
- Tyranus' Malevolence
- Ulic's Redemption
- Windu's Guile
- BARC Speeder
- Imperial BARC Speeder
- Rebel BARC Speeder
- AB-1 Landspeeder
- Desert Skiff/Transport Skiff
- Mustafar Lava Skiff
- Tantive-IV Landspeeder
- USV-5 Landspeeder
- V-35 Landspeeder
- XP-38 Landspeeder
Reminder, to be eligible to get the anniversary rewards (badge and paintings) you will need to restart all Awakening clients and the launcher if you have both open, after the Monday, November 3rd restart. This is so the updated client file downloads to your Awakening install.
All events (their details, rules and/or prizes) for the 11th anniversary celebrations are subject to change, we will endeavor to advise players of any changes should they arise.
All times in this post are using United States Eastern Standard Time.
Important Notice: Time zones can be tricky, and to make it even more interesting, our server time (US Eastern) will go from Eastern US Daylight Savings time (EDT) to Eastern US Standard time (EST) on Sunday the 1st of November at 02:00. Please keep this change in mind when planning how you would like to partake in the anniversary events. As always, you can Google the current time in New York City, USA if you wish to get a comparison for your location, just remember to adjust for any differences in Day Light Savings settings!
May the Force be with you,
SWG Awakening Staff Team - DWB Jetpack and Mandalorian Armor Run
