There were definitely other races allowed into the Sith Academy before (at least the old one, I don't know about the rebuilt Academy we see in SWTOR). In KotOR I, there was a Twi'lek Sith trainer named Yuthura Ban.

This is exactly the right approach for any character in my opinion. I personally had an amazing experience playing through the Inquisitor's class story, the only other class that came even close to the Inquisitor was the Imperial Agent. Chapter 2 onward especially resonated greatly with me, and it felt positively cathartic to put Sith Lords and Moffs in their place as my character grew in power. I leveled my Inquisitor before the LS/DS commitment system was implemented, and for the most part of the class story he stayed neutral, and only accumulated enough LS points to reach Light I right before the end – just in time to be named Darth Imperius rather than Occlus. From RotHC onward however, he went pretty much full LS, although he still did make DS decisions from time to time. He did make plenty of those in Onslaught, by the way, as he killed several Darths and the king of Onderon as a saboteur. As for my Inquisitor's motivations, he is primarily motivated by his hatred of the Empire (DS), but he will help other victims of slavery and oppression (LS). But overall, what Nefla said. Don't look at the LS/DS icon in your dialogue wheel (better yet, turn it off) and think of your character in terms of personality and motivations.

Like some players who posted here, I was rather disappointed with how "sabotaging" your character's original faction turned out in Jedi Under Siege. While it is somewhat sobering that the JUS story shows that defecting to another side in a war isn't pretty, and that common people are going to suffer, I would prefer it that the player character is able to show their new loyalties more openly, and seriously, those forced choices in conversations were a terrible idea. But now the new expansion, Onslaught, has been announced. And here is what the announcement says right at the beginning: This kind of wording makes me really afraid that the new expansion is going to be nothing but more of JUS - meaning more petty backstabbing against your "nominal" faction's common soldiers, and more forced dialogue choices, rather than an open defection, or at the very least some choice in how far your character is going to go down the "traitor" route. Also I wonder how much emphasis there will be on solo story content rather than repeatable content that I'm likely not going to touch anyway. I'm getting the feeling that Bioware starts to emphasize repeatable content more these days. So what are your thoughts on this?

My character's decisions seem to have been restored. Thanks.

That's exactly the problem. Torian is the default choice.

Or these are the default choices your character makes anyway. I checked my companions' status before starting Jedi Under Siege. My character had Aric exiled, and chose Vette over Torian. Yet when I start the new storyline, I suddenly have Aric and Torian as companions again, and Vette is dead. My interactions with other companions are also erased.

Yes, we do need another rollback. Once again I tried to start Jedi Under Siege, and once again my character's decisions got overwritten.

Trooper: Hmm... Yuun maybe? They're all kinda boring. Smuggler: Haven't completed the storyline yet. Knight: Kira and Scourge. Consular: Again, hard to pick. Tharan, I guess. BH: Haven't completed the storyline yet. Agent: The Agent has the best companions overall, only Raina is somewhat boring. So... Vector? Lokin? SCORPIO? I don't know which to pick, they're all awesome. Warrior: Haven't completed the storyline yet. Inquisitor: Ashara and Drellik.

It's not just for the Cartel Market crystals - all of my characters' and NPCs' lightsabers have turned white. And the blaster bolts too, apparently, but these are harder to notice.

My characters are rarely pure LS or DS, and neither is my pureblood Warrior. As of this writing (still on Dromund Kaas) he is Dark I - my very first DS character, actually. My idea of him is that he embodies the Social Darwinist aspect of the Sith philosophy - those who die deserve to die, those who become slaves deserve to be slaves, and the weak must either be destroyed or used as tools. And yes, he does have a code of honor, but it is a Sith code of honor, based on the ideas described above.