Tristan to the rescue!
Good thing I'm here guys!
Here's the skinny.
Galaxies is *not* expected to be released until sometime after Ep2 (I will not call it by the name... will not!)
You will have 7 species to choose from for player characters:
humans, wookies, Mon Calamari, Rodians, Zabrakians, Trandoshans, and uh... Bothans! They will add more races eventually.
No offense Borsk, but I hate Bothans...
But anyway, You can choose from 3 affiliations for your character: Rebel, Imperial, and Independent. Eventually they will introduce such factions as Black Sun, the Hutts, etc...
From what I've seen The game will be set mostly on Tatooine with new planets cropping up once in a while.
Jedi and other Force-Sensitive classes will be available.
Sith seems highly unlikely.
Special note about Bounty Hunters. If a character is Independent or Imperial (at least outwardly, deception is possible.) Then for a certain amount of credits your character can become a Bounty Hunter.
In game terms, you are a player killer killer. Got that?
If Fred the Smuggler is killed by Bob the Rodian in game then Fred's player can post a bounty on Bob. Bounty Hunters can then legitimatly hunt Bob down and either capture of kill him (depending on the terms of the bounty). The BH also gets experience and the monetary value of Bob.
How cool is that? And also, if the BH follows the proper rules of the hunt then Bob's player will be unable to post a bounty on them.
Betcha wish the moderators here at thebothanspy.com had that ability, don't ya?
Anyways, that's all I know so far. It just ticks me off that when the game is finally out, I will no longer have regular access to an internet capable computer.