A little more info at Polygon.
A couple of interesting quotes:
"You're able to recruit help and additional companions from an expanded cast, including companions who were previously exclusive to other classes," said Maclean.
"We can look at this stuff and say, 'look, if you want to go and play the standard MMO game PvP, doing a flashpoint, operation raiding we have that. We've always had that. We continue to expand on that. But we also heard, loud and clear, this scream for story, for personal custom story.'"
"I want to be really clear to our fans out there who are deep MMO fans. We're not forgetting about that part of the game either," said Hickman. "We just have a focus right now on the story. We're doing lots of stuff around flashpoints and operations and raid bosses and PvP and that stuff. But it's all about story this year."
Some of the other info I'm reading makes this all sound a bit crazy.You wake up from being frozen in carbonite and the brothers from the video have basically destroyed both the empire and the republic. Your companions have been scattered and you need to recruit them (and others) again.
Sooooo.... No new raids/pvp maps until next year then? If sooooooooo...