none of the following post is new, it's just a mesh of a few previous for JP so he dosen't have to look through 9 pages of posts:
The time setting is going to take place about a year before the second move (attack of the clones), so we wont be at the start of the cone wars just yet.
questions for character generation:
1) what is your character concept. This has nothing to do with stats just yet (SE you've got the rule book so go ahead and do what you want).
2)What is your relation to the other players (if any).
3)List in detail any NPC's from your past (ie before the adventure starts) that might have a role in the campaign, and what their relation to you is. Go crazy and I'll let you know if there's anything I don't like.
4) A detaild description of your characters past listing anything you feel significant to your characters personality, life (like he became a bounty hunter to find his parents killer, or was filthy rich and lost everything in a gamble and now is a 2 bit thief). and related info. This can be a list, timeline, story, or what ever coveys the info to me.
5) Any personal goals your player has. Like finding the murder of your parents, become a true Jedi, own you own casino, etc
6) any mannerisms, quirks and flavor things to make your character more realistic.
7) any equipment you want or have. This should be balenced, You can have a starship if you give a good reason to have one and for something that good you have to have something bad to off set it (like debt, a major enemy, one leg or what ever)
What I'm going to do is award you points (which can be used to raise skills or gain aditional equipment) for doing this. You'll get 5 character points for completing the list to the bare miniumums and a possiblity of 5 more for going into more detail. Also another bouns of doing this is it gives me a better feeling of your character so I can award you more playing in character bonus points and special ponints for completeing goals you specify, and any other reason I might find later on. Go ahead and e-mail them to me. Then we'll go into stats and such.
oh and FYI you can goto the starwars website for info on races, places and other things to help you with all the character stuff.
http://www.starwars.com/databank/ and feel free to come up with your own races,planets and stuff like that.