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These timeline video continue to recount the events that build up the backstory for Star Wars: The Old Republic. This entry focuses on the Mandalorian Wars, which threatened to devastate the Republic. The Jedi Council wanted to sit out the conflict, but a group of them rebelled against orders and fought for what they believed in. However, this group would be among the first Jedi to fall to the dark side, which just goes to show that no act of compassion goes without consequence in the Star Wars universe. Star Wars: The Old Republic is currently expected to launch sometime in the spring of 2011.

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In the previous chapter of The Future Past, a series of developer videos that explain the backstory of Star Trek Online, the Klingons were fighting an ever escalating war against the Gorn. Well, it turns out that war lasted for several years, and soon that conflict reached its conclusion, the Klingon Empire set its sights on reclaiming territory lost to the Federation during the war from the original series. Old enemies and once allies of the Federation quickly become new enemies, and in comes a brand new war. Think you're ready for it? A gameplay trailer can be seen after the jump, demonstrating the glorious space battles players can look forward to.

Star Trek Online is expected to release in 2010.

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Star Trek Online takes place 2409, thirty years after the events of the movie Star Trek Nemesis. That's a lot of far future history to cover, and this timeline video helps prepare cadets for what to expect from the story. This first chapter covers a conflict between Romulan factions, which is soon interrupted by a Klingon invasion. Soon, the Klingons end up with their own problems as the Gorn march in launch their own war. A lot of information is packed into two and half minutes, so it might be worth watching this a few times to take it all in.

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This fourth Star Wars: The Old Republic timeline video goes into further detail regarding The Return of the Mandalorians, a group of the most ruthless fighters the galaxy has ever seen. Imperial agents, acting behind the scenes, played a great role in their eventual rise to power and support of the Empire. However, being excellent at their jobs, there's no concrete evidence left behind that ties imperial manipulation to the Mandelorians.

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This video provides a brief outline of the events leading up to Star Wars: The Old Republic, with particular emphasis on the conflict between the Jedi and the Sith.

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One of the world's best known authors, Michael Crichton, has died at the age of 66. According to an AP report his family announced that the best selling author of books like Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain and others had finally succumbed to a long fight with cancer.

While Crichton was best known for his books he was also a known fan of PC games. He helped to create a graphical adventure game for the PC in 1984 called Amazon that sold well and was acclaimed for adding things like music and color graphics (something which adventure games had not had at the time). In 1999 he co-founded the PC developer Timeline Computer Entertainment. The developer released only one game before shutting down, a poorly received PC action game based on his time travel novel Timeline that came out via Eidos in 2000. In 2002, Sega announced it would be publishing a new game based on an original concept by Crichton but that game was never published.