Even if you take the light-side option, you remain the most powerful person in the galaxy. That said, if your characters were really nice guys, I would think they'd be more interested in healing the ravaged galaxy than in seizing power, but that's just me.

So... you know how in KotFE, Vaylin specialized in telekinesis, and seemed to be able to see glimpses of the future and see people through the force? In that way, she seemed much like a jedi sage. She also seemed to be biding her time for the perfect opportunity to do... something. I have no idea what it might be. Then KotET rolls along and she's not only gotten way more impatient, she's using lightning and seems to have lost much of her telekinetic and clairvoyant power. At first, I dismissed this as a retcon or a dropped subplot, but now I wonder if Vaylin tapped into an as-of-yet unaddressed way to use the force-- one that could potentially explain how dark jedi player characters can still use light-sided powers-- that she lost the ability to use when Arcann left her, thus making her more emotionally unstable.

Sorry to come here just to complain, but I need to get this off my chest; and I'm kind of hoping to get some insight on this from a different perspective. I just hate when writers torture their characters just to make them more sympathetic. Partly because it's cheap writing, but mostly because it actually works. Remember in KOTFE when the player character and Senya are breaking into the Old World and you can ask her what her family life used to be like? She said that Valkorian locked away most of her power and much of who she was, and that he did it because she was always violent, and this made sense to me because I thought Vaylin came across as just another over-privileged dark-sider, but that she was also drunk on her newly restored freedom and power. I didn't find her that interesting, but I didn't think she was on objectively bad character. This whole Nathema thing, though, is pure overkill. What would even be the point of most of the things they did to her? And wouldn't Valkorion be able to control her in his typical way? I'm starting to forget how to articulate my thoughts because I feel sick with pity. Guess I'll just settle for saying I find her updated backstory to be horribly sensationalist and manipulative, and I'm really disappointed with it.

I agree with Aud, and I kind of feel like some audiences are so savvy that the only way to surprise them is to jump the shark. That said, I'm kind of excited now that SCORPIO is the new apparent big bad. I at least expect her to be much more engaging than Ude and Kuse.

My sith warrior kind of ended up light side by accident. While I think the sith really should dial back the social darwinism, I can understand the importance that they place on bettering oneself through conflict and adversity, and not letting evolution and progress grind to a halt. By extension, my warrior sees the dark side as a necessary evil that must be included in the grand scheme of things, even if it has to be forced on the galaxy-- but moderation is key, and the empire, generally speaking, lacks moderation. So imagine his confusion when he catches up to Jaessa and she tells him that his actions reflect only light, apparently due to his habit of doing as much of the empire's dirty work as possible so that others won't have to... oh, and being relatively merciful when he can. Who would have thought ethics could effect your alignment more that religion? I have no idea if I'm explaining this in a way that makes any sense, so to illustrate: there was this one quest line on Taris where you figure out what to do about some nekghouls. The light side option is to form an alliance with them, and the dark side option is to kill them all. They deserve to live just like anything else, but the plague they carry must be contained at any cost.. I was pretty torn about it, and I'd imagine my sith would be, too.