Has anyone on the imperial side gotten this message? I have gotten this message separately for the Jundland and Dune Sea areas, but I didn't notice it for Mos Ila (is that automatic?). All of the map for the entire planet is also uncovered. Is there some hidden area that unlocks the message for the entire planet? TIA

Do you mean the quest at the end of the Ilum quest chain where you have to talk to the Droid in order to join the war council and do the two flashpoints (Battle of Ilum/False Emperor)? While you can't abandon that quest, you can easily get rid of it. Just talk to the droid and decline to join the war council. The quest is gone from your log, but is available from the droid should you want to do it at a later date.

One of the underlying questions for me is once one of my L60 characters (or a new L60 one) start KotFE are they "cutoff" from the existing L1-60 galaxy? In other words, can my L61 Guardian travel back to Coruscant or the Republic Fleet if he wants to? I assume I will still be able to travel to my strongholds. Obviously the L1-60 galaxy will not reflect the KotFE defeat of the Galactic Republic and Sith Empire, but can I still go there? I am assuming that the factions, although defeated, still exist in the L60-65 galaxy. That is, we may be working together with the Sith (like we did in SoR), but we still maintain our separate identities. This seems to be supported by the statement that there will be 8 (versus 4) expanded class stories. I don't see how you could return to the L1-60 galaxy unless factions were preserved. In the L1-50 galaxy, we had on each planet a unique class mission, a faction-based planetary mission and a collection of faction-based side missions. Since we are "returning" to a focus on our personal story, will the new L60-L65 planets return to this formula? We know the first part is true, that we will have unique class missions, but what about non-class missions? In RotHC, we only had a faction-based planetary mission on Makeb along with faction-based side missions. In SoR, it was reduced to a universal planetary mission on Rishii/Yavin-4 along with universal side missions. Which one of these three approaches (L1-50 galaxy, RotHC, SoR) will they use for non-class missions? If I understood the material BW put out there, I will initially loose all of my companions and can reunite with some of them, find other companions from my other classes, and/or acquire new companions. I agree with what some people have said that it is unlikely all 40 will be available to be found, as that would require BW to voice act all 40 companion stories for KotFE (plus the new companions). It will nevertheless be interesting and/or amusing to have my Guardian take a Marauder companion back to Coruscant, assuming I can even go back there. The companion should have interesting things to say. What about crafting? If I lose all of my companions, does that mean I cannot craft until I acquire one? Once I acquire my first companion, is it like I am back as a low level on Coruscant where I have one companion and can either craft or Explore? It does makes sense that I should have one fairly quickly as some classes are better than others at fighting with no companions. These are all rhetorical questions for now, but I just wanted to put them out there.

Max Von Sydow is been acting since 1949 -- he is in his 80s. He has appeared in well over 100 movies and is a well known actor. He has had two academy award nominations and a host of other (lesser) nominations. He is a great actor and I am very pleased to see him in this movie. IMHO he would make a great Sith Sorcerer.