Flaming walkers, a destroyed bridge, refugees huddled on the outskirts of a large Republic base. These are some of the sights that let you know you’re on the war-ravaged world of Ord Mantell. But long before any of these elements were represented in-game, they were in the minds and design docs of the writers of Star Wars™: The Old Republic™. Read a blog from one such writer, Rebecca Harwick. As we got used with these by now, the article is filled with information that can help us determine what direction the devs are taking and why they made choices that they made. Ord Mantell is looking more and more like the starting planet for the Smuggler class me thinks.