That was pretty much my feeling, after a great deal of thought.

I'm frustrated by

Eh, Hunter is often fairly civil, if you play nice with him. A few I can remember...

At the very least, there's some dialogue in the game that basically says that the Force users consider all non-Force users to be beneath their notice. Which is where the Star Cabal thrives...they're pretty much ignored/disregarded because the Emperor/Jedi/whatever else is like, "Whatever...you're just a bunch of force blind wannabes..." So it does seem entirely possible that the Jedi and the Sith sort of know about them...just don't care all that much. And the Star Cabal exploits that as a way of killing all of them.

Just to rub some salt in the wounds, it only gets worse.

Hunter has some...interesting objectives. There are a lot of ways of reading the ways he behaves towards you. I will agree that at first he's more or less friendly , then suddenly becomes...less so. There are reasons. You'll perhaps figure them out. I don't want to spoil them yet...

I'm guessing that the Star Cabal are mostly opportunists. They strike when they can, hide otherwise. And from that perspective, yeah, I can see them doing pretty well. They hide, they make a move when it looks likely to pay off, and otherwise they just slink about in shadows. I doubt the Emperor knows about them, but who knows?

I think so too. But to be fair, a lot of the male romances are: Kaliyo: EVIL skank (I love her, but I can see how Temple: Boring, then oh so creepy Vette: Sick, twisted, and Stockholmed Jaesa: Really demented. Just...really demented. Ashara: Jail bait mixed with social worker. How can this go wrong? Mako: Like dating your kid sister Risha: Spoiled brat Akaavi: Boring Elara: Boring Kira: (OKay, I have nothing bad to say about this one) Nadia: So freaking twisted, I can't even start on it... Although men get a lot more choices so less sympathy. But still...an awful lot of the female LIs are pretty twisted as well. (Or boring. Or, in Temple's case, both.)

Yeah, the complaints make me think, "Well, someone wasn't paying all that much attention..."

I miss male Hunter, too. He was a remarkably *fun* villain. With that said, we have no idea what the woman who played Hunter was actually like as a person. We get a very small glimpse of her at the end. Almost all we know is that she was the Star Cabal's enforcer...and that she seemed to be having the time of her life in creating a remarkably fun, yet utterly screwed up, alter-ego. I'm really curious what she *would* have been like, and sort of wish she'd been kept alive so that you could try to figure that out in later chapters.

This is probably a bit overdue, but the possible Chap 1 endings are:

I think a lot of us wanted that option. With that said...

You know, I would have agreed around launch. At this point, I worry that we'll *never* get a chapter 4. (Since I'm not sure that the game has the numbers to justify the programming that would be required for that.) And since that was always a very real possibility, it would have been nice had all of the classes had a fairly solid stopping point at the end of chapter 3. I felt like some did...but that agent really feels like it ends with a big "To be Continued". Which will be very frustrating if the story isn't continued in the future.

I love my canon character too! (Which is why, all things equal, I'd prefer to play the game as intended with a chapter 4, 5, whatever.) But...it does seem possible that stories won't be continued. (Esp. with a FTP model, where it seems plausible that the team will go after simpler revenue streams than developing content that can only be accessed by one class.) And if that happens, most likely, any stories that have already been written *would* be thrown out. (As the writing is the cheap part of the game development. The expensive parts involve all that animation.) So...if we're in a scenario where Bioware/EA isn't thinking that programming chapter 4 and on is worth it, *but* the stories have already been written, I would *far* prefer the stories released in some form rather than left to molder on a corporate computer. (Where they're no good to anyone.) Bioware in particular has had an amazing track record of collaborating with fans to produce mods, etc....and I'd really rather see fans try to mod additional game play (or even just write fiction that details the continuation of character stories) to some kind of scenario where all that awesome story is trunked.