Lu'ukke

 
As always, the spelling is for the game's sake, because it doesn't allow more than one person to have the same name in game. Luke is how you should read this. Luke is my OG smuggler; a gunslinger, or two-gun wielding gunfighter type. There are two completely separate double-gun gunfighters, including one that was (originally) a bounty hunter class.

Luke, and the whole concept of the space gunfighters, is pretty iconic to me. I think that's the most iconic character type on either setting, quite frankly, or even the space opera genre overall. In fact, in the 40s and 50s there were magazines that lamented the idea that space opera was just reskinned "horse opera" with green-skinned Martians standing in for Injuns, and astronaut colonists standing in for homesteaders, and the main, heroic characters being... basically... cowboys.

I'm not sure what else to add to that text, so let's just get on to the pictures. I will say that even though Luke predates the cosmetic weapons, I ended up carrying around a number of weapons in my inventory with the mods in them so that they'd be good enough to use, and I'd go back and forth between them. So even before I had weapons matched to outfits, I still had too many cool blaster pistols that I wanted to use. Actually, now with the cosmetic weapons, I can even use lower level guns, like some of the crafted ones, if I like the look of them, and sometimes I do.

Although I've customized the color somewhat, this is the truly iconic look in SWTOR for smugglers. I kind of like it for that reason alone, but otherwise, it's kind of silly. He looks like he's wearing a bib in case he spills his soup on his shirt, and the jacket has a neck pillow like he's about to go on a trans-Atlantic plane flight and take a nap on his chair. These are some pretty honkin' big guns, but then again, most of mine are. I know its kind of grossly over-sized, but I like the exaggerated look.

I like this one as a kind of high-class privateer, with a fancy outfit and plenty of money from his success.

On the opposite end of that spectrum, here's a more thuggish version of my smuggler, who I use during bounty hunter week, and other times when I want to look more like a criminal.

When it's hot and he wants to go sleeveless. The bared midriff on a guy looks kind of gay, I admit. I'm not sure that I'll keep it. I may switch to a normal shirt underneath the vest; I have plenty of options that work that way already.

Trench coat gunfighter. I worked this up after watching that Cad Bane episode of Boba Fett. But it's a good noir-like look anyway.

A Han Solo-esque outfit. I really like this one, but it's a cartel market item, so you have to pay real money for it or something.

This hat/mask combo is a smuggler specific thing that only smugglers can wear (although there is another version that's slightly color-swapped that anyone can wear. It's a pain to try and get, though—takes tech fragments and stuff.) This jacket is also another smuggler specific one, that you can craft if you can find the schematic, and goes back to the very launch of the game. It's a kind of vintage look for smugglers. 

Another Han Solo lookalike outfit, and one that's really easy for anyone to get. This is also probably my biggest type of blaster pistol. It's bigger than some of the rifles, and I'm dual-wielding them. The purple pants are based on a bunch of purple dye modules I got from seasons.

I've had this outfit for a long time, although I had a black and gray coloration on it, and only recently changed it to brown and white. The original colors are really strange; bright orange, mostly. 

I'm not sure if this is him hanging around casual on his ship or one of his strongholds, or if this is a stripper outfit. I created this on a whim, and I've got a lot of characters that have one of ten outfits shirtless, but I'll probably get over it later.