It drops from Underworld Trading, but you may be able to find it on the GTN.

It'd be nice. I'm 9/24!

She does, assuming you turn her dark when you recruit her.

It's not hard, per se. It just requires gifts and occasionally taking the light option in dialogue. Yes, but more importantly you can't advance her romance plot until you remove the collar. Personally, Vette's voice drives me up the wall so I'll be going after Jaesa anyway. But you won't HAVE to go lightside to hook up with Vette...it's just less muddled if you do.

Tankassin from Western NY. Allegany County, for anyone bored enough to look it up. Haven't picked a server because I haven't gotten my code, lazily looking for a PvE guild.

Jaesa. Vette's voice bugs me. Besides, you can't shock her if you're romancing her. Where's the fun in that?!?

Not quite what comes to my mind... There we go, that's more what I think of. Anyway, sucks for everyone on the server, but hey...at least you guys got in on day 1. I'm still waiting for my invite.

Depends what you're asking, honestly. The quick and easy version is, yes, they CAN tank and/or heal flashpoints and still leave room for success. The full truth is somewhat less promising, however. Unless things have changed dramatically since beta, companions will generally do fine tanking or healing in BT or Esseles, though players tend to do better (real intelligence vs AI). By about the second FP though, I found that they weren't really well-suited to tank, (again, mostly due to AI issues. Accidentally pulling pats and such). They may be ok to heal though, depending on how good your group is.

Doesn't matter when you actually spend the money to preorder. It just matters when you REGISTER that preorder code. And also, chillax. Have a drink and go to bed early, you may be in tomorrow.

And they'll make some sort of surprised sound. In beta, it wasn't too bad to avoid mobs. I pretty much stealthed through the whole last mission on DK at level 16 and only almost got caught once. But I also gave them a wide berth whenever possible and made sure I was never directly in front of anything remotely close to me. So it really depends on your own ingenuity.