My Sith Purebloods breather mask is invisible. Any other races have this problem?

I dont understand why there is such a huge imbalance with the Republic? Is it cooler to play Empire? Is it because they are mostly winning and thus everybody flocks to the Empire side? Disclaimer, this is by no means a negative post, I just want to know why on my republic character I almost never end up with enough players, but on my Empire character I usually end up Huttballing against other Empire players.

Ok, I'm a little confused, So after Maelstrom, Revan goes to the Foundry, and is killed by Empire players? Is that it? They wrote out one of the most AMAZING characters ever created in a game? ...poof...bye bye Revan? Please tell me it aint so! Please tell me they dont Force Ghost him and thats the end of him