So word on the street is they are soon to announce Voss as playable race...

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=479757
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=640602

This answers your who wants it. Cathar was NEVER above top 3 and got in. Voss, IF it is the next species, would make it only the second out of only 2 times where Bioware pisses on its community - nothing new, though.

I'd love to have Voss as a playable race.

Given the number of felines I see every day as I play, it seems like a whole lot of players enjoy being... erm, as you so tactfully phrased it... pissed on.

Surprisingly enough, all I`ve talked to ingame actually like Cathar more than Togruta and would like Voss more. But the forum poll says otherwise. Might be just novelty, might be because they are all secretly warm and fuzzy on the inside, I don`t know. While I do appreciate that at least SOME got their wish, we have only humanoids + cats and dogs + twis. I`d like one more alien like species that is the NUMBER ONE asked thing and not one more humanoid, thank you. Not even creative, since we already have blue humanoids as Chiss and red ones as Sith, or bald / white as Rattataki so Voss won`t bring anything new.

Thats because the forum community is never representative of a games actual community. Only a small part of a games community actually uses the forums - and from this small part of the community only a small part actually goes to vote on such polls.

Wonderful. There was also a Twitter poll issued by Bioware - I linked for it a while back, I`ll try to dig it up again. And it won`t kill them to poll INGAME, would it? If they truly want to give the species the players want and not gain artistic points, that is.

[EDIT] http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=555544
Scroll to 13 November.

As for voting, they asked a planet vote around that time, too, then we ended up with Makeb. And Makeb was NEVER a top 10.
http://torwars.com/bioware-wants-fee...customization/
http://www.swtor.com/community/showt...78#edit4229478

On a largely unrelated note, is there a list or guide somewhere that says how much of the backstory in the game comes from pre-existing lore, and how much was made up by Bioware (in this or the KoTOR games)?

I totally would.

OP, as for Voss, I wouldn't play one, I don't particularly like the story on Voss, the Voss people, or anything Voss. But others have been asking for it, so if it were to hypothetically ever enter the game as playable it wouldn't affect me at all.

Devaronian on the other hand...

Voss can't be a playable class, they don't speak basic. It sounds like basic, but all they can say is nonsense about mystics and visions.

They're fluent in mumbo jumbo.