There would need to be more than incentive for this to work. Say a republic smuggler wants to defect to the empire and be an agent. There are many things to consider with this and since this is a story driven game you cant just stop in the middle of the smuggler's story and pick right up with the agent story with no transition at all. Unless the idea is implemented at max level once the character's main story is done I just don't see a cost effective way for there to be faction switches. What I would do to help faction balance would be to give the underdog faction a bonus. Say, depending on how big the faction imbalance could increase xp gains, warzone and mercenary marks given and green quality and above gear drop rates. Would certainly give some incentive to playing the other faction without imbalancing things.

What about second bacon? He's probably never heard of it Pip.

Rodian, have always wanted to play rodian.

What I did to get by the imperial outpost was just south of it is a pass that heads up into the mountains above the town and just walked along the ledges above it. Only problem is you have to jump down at the far side of the town where champions are but I just made elara take healing aggro as I ran like hell.

"Sounds like you could use a soldier." "I could do this in my sleep, maybe I will." Both of those I hear at least 3 times per planet.

I have no strong feelings on this subject one way or the other. Yay for morally neutral characters \o/

He was Lawful Evil. Only went down to Dark 2 on the morality bar.