^^^^^ Why not just role an Assassin? Weird faction loyalty that just limits your exposure to the full game? The only AC respec I approve of is a test drive phase. Let us try them out for a level or two before locking us into it and make that respect free. This helps people who may have just clicked the wrong button. In most MMOs we can get a feel for a class in the first few levels(hour of play) and decide we don't like it and play another. This forces us to go through a few hours of play before getting locked into a role. Playing for days or even reaching max level and then deciding you want to play an entirely different class is not a very good reason for respect however.

Half-hearted or the beginning of a new chapter in his story? I would think getting wrecked by new heroes and realizing he is going the same way Malak was would snap him back into reality. Seems far more half-hearted to have a video-game character's last adventure be told in a book and then have him brushed aside after some in game mentions of what happened to him. Almost like Epic having to clarify a baddies motivation&origin in a forum post.

Plenty of the light side options for Imperials have nothing to do with Yin/Yan, Black/White, Good v Evil, philosophy or the Force. You're rewarded simply for assisting the empire. Assisting Nekghouls helped empire via depriving the Republic of a potential ally. BT is the same way. Light side choice is him getting tortured not because you're preserving life but because the Empire wants to torture him and learn whatever bit info they can. Very stupid I know. As a light side Sith Inquisitor my storyline should be about not caring about or even actively changing/demolishing the Empire from within. Earlier quests supported this idea. . By Tatooine, "Its long live the Empire". Hopefully any expansions have a more cohesive story experience.

He also clearly says the Rise of the Rakghouls is more than one flashpoint.

Writer's got lazy. All the production value put into this game and yet some story lines have little effort put into them. Not cool that absolutely nothing happens levels 30-40 with a SI.