I'm not big in SW lore but it seemed like Grand Moff Tarkin was a mix of military and bureacratic. He was a Grand Moff but he still held his military rank which seemed common under the empire.

My guess is that he rose through the ranks through the services intelligence division, modeled more on the SS than any of the current services intelligence warfare areas. His younger days are unclear and undocumented.

If playing this class will let me rise to the rank of Grand Moff, I think this is the class I'm going to play. I much rather be a Grand Moff than a Jedi...remember, it wasn't a Jedi that brought down the Death Star, but a flawed engineering plan and a lack of Operational Risk Assessment (ORM). : )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDEyLbUSxo

Agent should get scent attacks only if Jedi get elevation-based attacks like Obi-Wan. Notice in every fight Obi-Wan fought in the prequels(and subsequently won), he was on uneven ground. Obi vs. Maul? Obi was in a pit, lower elevation, he won. Obi vs. Jango? A stalemate, but only because his uneven ground clashed with Jango's being a Fett. Dooku? Even ground, Obi lost. Grevious? Hanging off the edge of a hangar's rim, lower elevation, Obi won. Obi vs. Anakin? The titular "I have the high ground!" fight, Obi on a slightly higher hill, Obi won. If Obi-Wan had been the one to fight Palpatine, he would've won easily. All he had to do was jump on Palpatine's desk, instant high ground, he wins. Or he gets in the Senate Chamber, lots of uneven terrain, Obi-Wan wins by default. It's just like a Law of Physics in Star Wars.

So if we go by the movies, Jedi should have attacks based on vertical orientation in relation to their foes. :)

You've never been to the DMV? Bureaucrats can be brutal.