The movies were written with Jedi protagonists in mind. In the power fantasy that is Star Wars, of course the Jedi are the baddest buggers around. In a Star Wars MMO, the fantasy is written from everyone's perspective! So a Trooper will have to be as much of a bad-ass as the every one of the six hundred extremely rare and precious Jedi knights who live in his apartment building, but in a different way, and the Jedi will just have to live with that. It's not a brilliant shifting of reality, but it goes some way to justifying a balanced game even before the developers take their necessary mechanical liberties.