Cries of Alderaan

The Cries of Alderaan was an attempt early on to have content in the form of a "monthly" storyline featuring Dr. Vacca and the Dead Eye formula. Each faction had quests to complete for different stages. At the end of a stage, a winner was chosen based on the number of faction members who completed the quests, or for the last 2 stages it was based on the percentage of players from each faction who completed the stage. This was later scrapped and replaced with thematic publishes.

The winning faction of the stages, and ultimately of the storyline, was deemed to be winning the Galactic Civil War. This brought with it certain advantages, primarily in the form of a 10% bonus to any faction points you earn...wether you kill an opposing faction member, or you buy the points from a recruiter as a smuggler. The Rebels won the CoA storyline, so they got the 10% FP bonus.

This is an advantage for Rebel faction brokers because after the bonus, Rebels only pay around 72 credits per point (10000 / 138). After you factor in a /del ratio (Example 1.18:1 for Colonel), that comes to a "cost" of 85.5 per point. So you can charge less than Imperials per point, but still make a nice profit.

It also of course means that doing rebel missions gets you more faction points than the imperial equivelant.