Today on Bioware’s developer’s blog, they announced many important details about their recent unveiling of the Bounty Hunter Class.  In this lengthy blog post, the developer also clarified some points on how their game is going to work out.

One of the more important points in the blog post is the fact that, initially, Bounty Hunters are only going to be available for the Sith Empire.  After tooling around with the idea of having a Republic Bounty Hunter, Bioware has determined that they do not want to crossover classes with both factions.  Because in the Star Wars universe, Bounty Hunters are primarily hired by the Empire, Bioware determined that they should only be available to the evil side in TOR.

Personally I find this a little upsetting, as I was planning on being a Republic Bounty Hunter, but the point that they made makes sense.  They did not want story arcs to cross factions, as in they do not want both factions to be partaking in similar quests or calls to adventure.

In this blog post, they also clarified the Bounty Hunter’s purpose.  The Bounty Hunter is to be called on when the life or death of a single person can drasticly affect the entire galaxy.

Sounds pretty cool.

If you want to check out the whole blog post, click here