The Millennium Falcon, The Uwana Buyer, The Slave I, The Executor. The best, most well known and well loved ships in the Star Wars galaxy have names. Not that naming a ship is an easy thing to do. There can be a lot of thought going into even the most simple names. The Empire tends to give their ships, and by extension their weapons, really imposing names. There's not much to mistake that when The Executor flies into a system, heads are about to roll. The Republic's names for ships tend to be softer by comparison, either being simple like the Tantive IV or the telling, like The New Hope.

Star Wars: The Old Republic, continues this trend. From The Black Talon to The Brentaal Star, just looking at a ship's name can give someone a clue to its origins or to the person and the crew who pilot her. A ship is more than just a way to get around, to hop from point A to point B. To our characters, their ships are their homes (and for others it's their livelihood as well). With ships having such a deep connection to our characters, naming them seems the next step. Names of ships aren't to be considered lightly, as they reflect the personality of the character as a whole.

The names of the ships for my own characters vary greatly. From my smuggler's Nothing to See Here to my Sith warrior's The Death's Hand, they reflect something I try to make apparent with even how the characters are played. So my question to you is simple; what does your character name their ship and what made them choose it?

In what has proved to be a controversial move, restrictions on who is admitted to train as Sith have been loosened even further. What does this mean for the average Imperial Citizen? Our ruling class is now being infiltrated by aliens! Though this is not the first time the academy has loosened it's restrictions, it is the first time they have allowed slaves and aliens.

If you're anything like this Reporter, the idea of calling a former slave – especially an alien – 'My Lord' chills you to the bone. What happens when we give power to these scum? These former dregs of the universe? When we wrap them in shimmersilk and throw laurels at their feet?

Are these former slaves even loyal to the Empire? If you consider it, what reason do they have to be? If they weren't properly broken before being set free, we are allowing sedition into our very ranks. The Sith did, and should, represent the best of us. The most pure and the most worthy to carry out the Emperor's will. And these days the title is being bestowed on anyone, even those that we knew were unworthy.

What is truly terrifying to consider is the fact that these slaves are now beholden to no one. They're given free reign within the Empire.