Originally Posted by
jsg388
I really doubt there will be any ties to KOTOR 2, simply because they did not develop that one (Obsidian did, I think?). I don't know if I ever considered Darth Nihilus to be an emperor... he seemed too removed from political and war gains... I mean, his whole motivation seemed to be too straightforward. I could see the final boss being more akin to an emperor.
I also doubt any real ties to the movies, ESPECIALLY the prequels.
The fact that they're setting this an a familiar yet new setting makes me think that it won't matter so much who the emperor is, unless they try some crazy arc about how every emperor is a pawn to the super-master-ultra emperor who's hiding even further away in even deeper space. Unlike WoW which had some previous lore to draw off, they have the luxury of getting to introduce mostly everything through the game itself (and/or through comics and webisodes on history). So... It's probably Bob, the half-sith-half-jawa.
But then this is my opinion and it's at most a guess and/or nonsense.