I imagine I'm late replying to this, but if it helps, you can't avoid fighting him. However, if you're having trouble, I would try taking out the droids he summons at the beginning of the fight first, otherwise they'll overwhelm you. Once those are gone, you can focus on him.

So probably no one cares at this point since I posted this over three months ago at the beginning of December, but I wanted to resolve this thread by saying it's working for me now!

So I've heard of people having this problem before, and I've done everything I've heard of, but NOTHING I've done yet works... So I'm not sure this is a bug, it could just be me, I guess, but I can't get any of my characters onto Hoth; the game crashes me to desktop, saying something about how "not room to load dat file..." and that the problem is unknown.... So now I have an Inquisitor and an Agent who can't progress their stories. If someone can offer a solution, thanks in advance. As a note, this seems to be a new problem, at least for me, because it's never happened before. I'm not sure if it happened after the last patch or not, but if this is in fact a "bug"... Can somebody please fix Hoth?!

I may have found a bug as well. Okay, maybe this is just me, but when I enter Chapter 2: A Dream Of Empire, the conversation with Valkorian starts but almost immediately freezes and I have to shut down the game window, because it doesn't even let me abort the conversation. I tried it several times but the same thing kept happening. Has anyone else experienced this?