Exactly! I thought it was Theron or Lana possessed by Valkorion, but your version is better. The player character mind-controlled by Valkorion or Vaylin without us knowing would have been awesome, and a better plot twist.

Avoid spoilers if you didn't play these storylines. Either the story doesn't make any sense, or it is not finished, and we are yet to find out who the traitor really was (Valkorion lives and was behind it?). I played through the stories again, starting from Iokath, this is what happened.

Bounty Hunter: Favorite: Torian - loyal, cultural, noble, totally marriage material Least Favorite: Scadge - stupid and bully Imperial Agent: Favorite: Vector - intelligent, poetic, sensitive. good-looking for a bug Least Favorite: Kaliyo - a nutcase Jedi Knight: Favorite: Kira - smart, good friend least Favorite: Rusk - nothing bad, just less special than the other 4 companions Jedi Consular: Favorite: Zenith - competent. passionate about his revolutionary stuff. hope he will be romance option at some point. Least Favorite: Nadia in the past, but she is much better now after 5.10 Sith Inquisitor: Favorite: Talos - nerd, intelligent, loyal Least Favorite: Khem Val - he has an interesting story, but really gives me nightmares. prefer not to summon him... Sith Warrior: Favorite: Quinn - Smart and competent (though whiny...). I actually liked his betrayal arc. His loyalty had to be conquered, not just earned or bought with presents. But how many times did he get your SW *** out of trouble?? Least Favorite: Broonmark - nutso serial killer Smuggler: Favorite: Risha - like her personality and attitude Least Favorite: Aakavi - too somber Trooper: Favorite: Aric - the most interesting companion story and arc among trooper companions Least Favorite: M1-4X - least personality of all droids Overall Favorite: Theron Shan first, then Torian, Vector, Kira and Risha equally favorite among the old ones. Overall Least Favorite: Skadge - I am not a school bully to have such a sidekick.

My female SW welcomed back Quinn as her husband, but then cheated on him with Arcann, and recently started a relationship with LS Jaesa. It was brave of Jaesa to hit on my SW like Quinn never did. So, my SW got a whiny letter from Arcann after that, but Quinn's romance tab says that he is still a romantic interest for my SW.

Who are these all-powerful people who requested Theron's death and are entitled to decide for the whole SWTOR community?

There is a Hasbro series of toys called "Era of the Force", so I thought it might be the name of episode 9.

Nah, the show directors worked with the source material, so everything you wrote there was already in the books by GRR Martin.

Why not. He will betray our character in the back when the time comes, as we apparently get have enough back-stabbing boyfriends in the game...

This. My favorite companion backstabbed my character, what a great story it makes, yay. I unsibscribed.

At some point of the romance arc he will also back stab you for no apparent reason, because it's Bioware's idea of a good story.

There were some female betrayers, Kaliyo for instance. But I think with the last one in "Crisis on Umbara" was the last drop for me in this game. They took away old companions for 2 years, bring them back too slowly, and when they eventually come back, they don't really matter. You get emotionally attached to the new companions (not talking about leveling the influence with presents, lots of credits there). Betrayal together with a romance arc, repeated several times on different characters and companions, is no longer fun.

It explains why her son turned this way...

I marked [spoilers] just in case. I suppose everyone watched TFA, but I hide TLJ. So, in TFA movie Kylo Ren does something extremely dark: he kills his father (it looked like he did it). But he didn't get his eye color changed, like Anakin had when he had turned to the Dark side, the color of burning amber or red. In TLJ Two movies, two directors, did they drop the dark side corruption eyes concept? Or is it on purpose to show that he is still hanging there in the middle between light and dark?

The most blind people to what is actually happening in the movie is the Star Wars fan community. Guys, you are watching, but not seeing. Read the book “The Force awakens “, it explains things well. The book and the new movies speak about the balance in the Force. The book begins from the citation from the Jedi annals about the “gray” Jedi. The link between Kylo Ren and Rey has already existed, it was not Snoke who formed it (reinforced, maybe). Rey has beaten Kylo Ren in the lightsaber duel, because he didn’t try to kill her, for very obvious reasons. They together are destined to bring the balance to the Force. He is a Sith with some light in him, she is a Jedi with some darkness. He fell for her in TFA, she understood him and responded in TLJ. They have sort of recognized each other when they first met. Whatever the Force is doing there, is first of all balancing out the light and dark sides. There was nothing wrong with Anakin when he was a Jedi with some darkness in him. He was balanced, he was perfect. The Jedi Order basically misunderstood him, didn’t know how to handle his “grayness” and pushed into Darth Sidious clutches with their stupid rules and dogmas. Same happened to Kylo Ren, Luke was scared of the dark side growing in Ben Solo, and couldn’t help balance it, because Jedi mistakenly think that Darkness should be destroyed, not contained and balanced. Luke himself had moments of giving in to the Dark side, and it only made him stronger when needed. Rey is the one who is not afraid of the Dark side, and from time to time embraces it (her rage and hatred moments). So, it this case training would do more harm than help, because the Jedi order was doing it wrong the whole time when some individuals were naturally attuned to both Dark and Light, like Anakin and Ben Solo. Rey is guided by the Force itself (or who knows if Anakin’s spirit is involved somehow), so she gets it right with the balance so far.

As for taking the Galaxy. Remember, they had that Star destroyer thing which took out 4-5 planets out with one shot. Those were not just some planets, among them was Coruscant (the capital planet with the seat of the Republic Government). And the book "The Force awakens" explains the point that the New Republic was not really working out, as people were not used to democracy, many systems plainly supported The First Order, they even didn't need to be conquered.