According to Hillary Stone at IGN, we’ve got two things that will be appearing in Star Wars: The Old Republic. The first is space travel and the second is customization to both your space ship as well as your PvP armor, gear and everything else. Information that people have been dying for is finally out. I was right about PvP appearing a little at E3 and I knew there would be space flight mentioned. How could there not be? It’s Star Wars!

While BioWare is not going to be talking a lot about space flight, a little information was released. This information, specifically, was that every class gets a ship. The type of ship varies from class to class and, more importantly, from sub-class to sub-class. Hillary had this to say about the choice of ships:

Always dreamed of flying a Corellian vessel? Choose the Vanguard class when playing. Or maybe you’ve had some sort of sick dream where you gangster walk through the galaxy aboard an Imperial transport (if so, choose the Sith Fury class).

However, there can only be so many classes. This would normally be a problem, but not in BioWare’s game. They have made it so that you can customize the heck out of your ship. In other words, you can take your ship and make sure that it is unique in some way. There will be thousands and thousands of different looking ships flying through the galaxy. This makes it so that you truly feel unique, something that BioWare was hoping for.

While talking about customization, we move to PvP. Hillary didn’t go into detail about the PvP challenges because BioWare isn’t discussing it yet, but what she did say was that there were specific prizes for participating in PvP. In other words, if you get into a PvP fight–such as a war between Jedi and Sith–you get new stuff. This stuff can be just for looks, but a lot of it can also be useful to your character’s success.

This PvP system provides an interesting experience. This game has been called a MMO, but it also can be played as a single player. Why you’d want to is beyond me, but if that’s your cup of tea, so be it. However, if you want to get the extra goods such as a stronger crystal for your lightsaber or a really cool jetpack–these are just guesses, by the way–then you’ve got to get involved in PvP. This, in other words, makes it very possible for there to be massive PvP battles.

Finally, you can customize the heck out of your PvP stuff as well. So, while I might want to play as a Jedi Knight and I want the armor that goes with it, I won’t look like another Jedi Knight because my armor will look a little different. That way, I really am a unique Jedi.

What do you think? Are you as stoked as I am about space travel, customizations and the slightly forced PvP? Chime in down at the comments. Also check out this great video from IGN that lays out in simple speak what this great game is all about.