How to swtich from light to dark (or vice versa)?

Unlike other MMOs, there should be the capability to switch between the 2 factions. Why? It just makes sense to fit in with the lore.

In WoW or CoH or WAR you have to choose your faction at character creation. You are either the good guys, or the bad guys. And that's it. This determines your story, your classes, your abilities, your racial home and the other players you will be playing with for the rest of your MMO life. Obviously you can change your mind and re-roll on the opposite faction, but this means you have to start from day one as a brand new character with no story, no equipment, no nuffin.

Throughout the Star Wars lore, there are many accounts of Jedi who fell to the Dark side (obviously the most famous is Anakin Skywalker becoming Darth Vader) and almost the same number of Sith turning back to the light (Darth Vader again)! So for me, it only makes sense that in a KOTOR MMO, you are allowed to change your faction allegiance.

Now that is a pretty big commitment and shouldn't be done easily or off a whim. When you're leveling up, you should gradually gain more enemies on the opposite faction and more allies on the faction you're aiming towards. So how then do you suddenly make your enemies like you and trust you?

I think at some point you have to make a definite decision. Lets say you're a Jedi who wants to go bad, you have to swear yourself through a commitment to the causes of the Dark path to a Sith Lord.
Now there are those Sith who are still not going to trust you. And why would they? You've been killing them off for the past few years and now you want to be BFF with them? Ha! You should now have to do menial tasks for them to work your way up the ranks.

There may even be times when headstrong Sith want to kill you. If you fight them back, that might improve your score with the Jedi again so what do you do? I think you should submit to them. Allow them to beat you down for a bit until they can see that you are worthless and truly non-aggressive toward them. With the Sith it is a little different because you can still kill Sith and become one yourself, but if you're trying to become a Jedi and you're attacked by one (who doesn't know better), then you definitely have to submit to them.

I think turning from one side to the other has MASSIVE story line and game play potential and that's what BioWare have said they're all about. My idea needs tweaking but I think it's definitely do-able.