About
Corellian Run Radio joined the Star Wars: The Old Republic™ podcasting community in July 2010. Hosts Carla and Deirdre keep things lively with their divergent points of views and wry humor. In addition to the usual news recap, Corellian Run Radio adds unique segments such as “Sith or Jedi,” which measures the hosts Dark and Light side tendencies in real life, and “Fact or Fiction?” which tests the hosts’ ability to pick out truth from rumor.
Hosts:
Carla was a guild leader in World of Warcraft for nearly five years before passing the helm and starting a new adventure with The Old Timers Guild. She started her online gaming career with Diablo and quickly moved to Ultima Online when it came out. Through the years, she has been lucky enough to get in beta testing for many other games, such as EverQuest, Asheron’s Call, Anarchy Online, Lineage, Star Wars Galaxies, EverQuest2, Lord of the Rings Online, Warhammer Online, and many more. Carla and her husband live near Houston, Texas.
Deirdre has been writing for the web since 2003. Generally speaking she’ll write about her latest gaming obsession, which is currently Star Wars: The Old Republic. In addition to Corellian Run Radio, her work can be seen over at TORWars.com, where she wears far too many hats, including serving as the executive editor and public relations czar.
STAFF WRITERS
Jason Taylor
My gaming started on the family Commodore Vic 20 and 64. The first game I started playing, after Space Invaders, was a text based adventure game called Zork. I love role-playing games, from tabletop games to modern single-player & MMOs. My life changed after an injury in December, 1996. I am in a wheelchair and have limited function in my arms and wrists, but no finger movement. It’s because of my injury I am pursuing a degree in game design and have the time to write for a Star Wars fansite (which has my geek fandom meter shooting way past 10 on the scale). There may be setbacks, but that’s life. I thank God and my family for helping me keep a positive attitude.
Thom Brinkman
Gamer, Eccentric, Edgy, Kreative. That would be a sufficient description of Thom, but even that does not tell you everything. His interests in gaming are very wide; he loves Civilization, C&C, Elder Scrolls, all Blizzard games, Sim City, and GTA series almost equally as much, but there will always be a special place for Knights of the Old Republic. After a 5-year stint in World of Warcraft and the official release announcement of Star Wars: The Old Republic, a spark ignited within and Thom’s life changed forever. And oh yeah, he’s Dutch.
Maer
With many diversified interests, Maer lists gaming as her favorite. Since The Legend of Zelda, she has loved gaming and went from that to the Baldur’s Gate series. She played World of Warcraft for five years before moving to SWTOR when it launched. She’s very happy with the switch. Maer makes her home in Southern Nevada, where she is working on her second and third novels, as well as short stories and a blog that she actually remember to post to, now and then. She is adjunct faculty at a local college and is the proud pet parent of a long-coat chihuahua and a miniature poodle. You can find excerpts of Maer’s work at http://maerwilson.com/. Feel free to follow her on Twitter and Facebook. You can find those links on her website.
Daniel Sperelli
Born shortly before the release of Star Wars: A New Hope, Daniel Sperelli has been a constant SW fan since he was 3 years old. Daniel has played First-Person Shooters, Real-Time Strategy games, Role-Playing games, and MMOs throughout his 25+ years of gaming experience. A former Guild Leader and Officer, Daniel left World of Warcraft behind in 2011 for his true love, a Star Wars MMO. A professed lore nerd, Daniel enjoys reading everything he can from Science Fiction to Horror to Fantasy, while also writing fan-fiction for the old Star Wars RPG system by WEG. Daniel is a fan of football, baseball, and an animal lover, also being a former amateur bass guitar player. Daniel currently resides in South Dakota with his wife, daughter, their cats, and their dogs, where he works in Emergency Medical Services and Youth Residential Treatment.
Mark Pajor
Since playing Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, Mark has been very interested in Bioware’s fully-voiced, interactive narrative style. He’s studying Creative Writing at the University of Illinois, hoping to become either a BioWare writer or a novelist. He enjoys acting and directing with a theater company during the school year (and apparently making funny faces during plays, just for good pictures). Among his plans for The Old Republic: playing the stories of all eight classes. Multiple times.
Timothy De Block
An avid gamer and baseball nerd, Tim’s enthusiasm for both subjects has led him to writing about both. His Sistine Chapel would be creating a Star Wars themed baseball story or a baseball themed Star Wars movie. When he’s not questing on his Imperial Agent or pvping on his Trooper he’s either watching Big Bang Theory or playing choo choo trains with his daughter. He currently attends the University of South Carolina (Go Gamecocks!) working towards a Media Arts degree, while working full time. It all started with Donkey Kong.
John Yim aka Ghoztt
The Atari 2600 is where John first started gaming and that passion has continued throughout his entire life. Originally a first person shooter fan who cut his teeth on the original Wolfenstein 3D game, he finally made the switch to the MMO genre after giving up Counterstrike to start playing City of Heroes. From there he moved on to the World of Warcraft where he acted as GM and raid lead throughout the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. He is now currently an operations leader for a large guild on the Shii-Cho server. Empire side, of course.
John lives in Houston, Tx with his wife and two children where he works for a major oil company as IT analyst. His hobby aside from gaming is racing cars where his racing suit has Imperial emblems on the shoulders and his helmet is painted like a tie fighter pilot’s!
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Kathy grew up playing video games, starting with the always mesmerizing Pong (“Whoa! Look at those graphics!”). She loved the early first-person shooters and then moved onto her first online game with Diablo 2. She is notorious for starting games and never finishing them, which is why World of Warcraft was the perfect game for her since it never ends. During the summers, Kathy’s gaming time drops precipitously when she works for a youth theater company as musical director and pianist. She and her husband live in the Washington, D.C. area.
Roxanne has been a gamer since she was four, when her parents got her a Sega console for Christmas because they wanted one. She loves the development side of the gaming industry and considers the Extra Credits team to be her personal heroes. She hopes to work for a gaming company some day, but until then she does 3-D modeling work for a consulting firm in New Jersey. Roxanne is Kathy’s daughter.
Corellian Run is a major hyperspace trade route starting from the massive city-planet of Coruscant and stretching to the Outer Rim.
