Pretty sure the smuggler themselves answers that question in dialog somewhere along the line. Something to the effect of Imperial Regulations and patrols are bad for business. If the Imps win it becomes much harder for the smuggler to survive, because while the Republic has rules and regulations, they have a lot more corruption and graft going on, meaning its easier to survive on the fringes, and grey areas. Also probably much easier to escape someone trying to capture you than willing to kill you outright.

Yes there is, you do nothing but. Seems like every time I enjoy reading a thread until you step into it to derail it with your superior garbage and arguing every little thing to death like you are a gift from the SW universe gods. You're a death knell on threads, engaging in slap fighting with whoever will take the bait until its completely derailed and everybody leaves. Hell the fact that you bothered replying to me shows that you're incapable of accepting a view differing from your own without engaging in retribution to the point of derail. I knew I was probably wasting my breath by telling you to shut up, so I guess the next best thing is the ignore button, and hope that other people follow suit.

Stop being a pendantic troll. Every thread I see you in is derailing it with your supposed superior intellect telling everybody they're wrong. Its like watching a 5 year old slapping everybody, and screaming.

You can piece it together from what the NPC's say. The way I understand it, as a new arrival on DK, you're given a meaningless series of tasks that look like something important is going on in an attempt to draw SIS spies attention and direct it to areas where Intelligence has the opportunity to tag them.

As I recall from doing it, most of his damage comes from aoe ground effects and meleeing, so as a Commando, I blew all my dps cooldowns while Vikk tanked him, and when Vikk went down I kited him around the area, using DoTs, instants, and the occasional channeled cast when I had time to plant my feet. I believe you fight him on a curved catwalk area, with plenty of room to run from one end to the other, then use stuns/knockbacks to get past him when you have to turn around.

Dorne, because I thought having the opposite personality of my trooper as XO was a nice way to cover bases, Jorgen would have been too close. Besides, then she does all the paperwork. ;-p