Dropout star Vic Michaelis used to fall asleep to Attack of the Clones. Not because they hated it, like so many Star Wars prequel detractors, but because it was their comfort watch. The prequels hold a place in my heart where it is like nothing bad can happen when I'm watching them.” Michaelis has now gone from watching Star Wars to being a part of the larger Star Wars universe.
In Star Wars Zero Company, they played breakout character Runa Blask, the wise-cracking advisor to the titular mercenary group, led by Captain Hawks. Michaelis hails from the improv comedy world, but they’ve done film and scripted TV shows as well. Zero Company was their first-ever video game role.
The team at Bit Reactor was familiar with Michaelis’ Dropout work, and that was part of the reason they wanted Michaelis for the role. Their improv background helped influence their performance, though they weren’t changing lines or jokes. Among those lines were many instances of Runa saying “wizard,” which basically means “cool” in Star Wars.
She actually can’t be harmed at all. While the game features a permadeath feature for its operators, Runa doesn’t go on combat missions and doesn’t leave The Den, Zero Company’s headquarters. I’m going to be thinking about that.” Before Runa was a member of Zero Company, she was a self-described “freelance consultant to the top corporations and families in the galaxy.” AKA, a Separatist financial fixer.
She desires a fortune that working for Zero Company will never grant her. As she tells Hawks, if she had that fortune, she’d want to buy a moon and run a resort. Michaelis has much humbler aspirations if they were to live in the world of Star Wars.
Then I'm marching up to the Republic with my civil city ordinances, trying to get this comedy night happening, and I'm accidentally now involved and implicated in a sort of a greater plot,” Michaelis said.
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