Getting Married in SWG

Check out the Wedding Guide to SWG. Two completely unrelated thoughts:

• The scaffolding material for the wedding pages is all over the Expanded Universe: comics, film frames, screenshots. Though Star Wars: Galaxies as a virtual world is a distinct sphere of activity, with radical formal and operational distinctions from Star Wars’ comics, films, novels — even from the other Star Wars games — it is marketed as part of a continuum. It’s another part of the “Expanded Universe.” It “takes place” right after A New Hope. Discontinuous and disparate forms are being presented as extensions of the same implied fictional world. I think understanding and managing that paradox is/will be key to the health of any MMOG that licenses a larger entertainment property (SWG, Middle Earth Online, Matrix Online, the vaporware Marvel Universe).
• I wonder how many gay weddings they’ve had so far in SWG? Would I be able to talk Mike into getting married in-game? What does it mean that I even contemplate these things, and that I find the idea of setting up a vendor to sell cake absolutely tantalizing?