All U.S. and European galaxies will be taken down at 4 a.m. PDT Thursday morning for server maintenance and to implement Hotfix 10.2. According to the announcement on the official Star Wars Galaxies Web site, you should "expect extended down time due to additional maintenance."

The update focuses mainly on battlefield issues, such as fixing a bug where group leaders were not correctly de-queueing their groups. You can read the patch notes for Hotfix 10.2 here or after the jump.

Star Wars Galaxies: Hotfix 10.2
Publish Notes, June 11, 2009

Battlefield

• Fixed issue with group leader not correctly de-queueing the group.
• GCW point gains for anyone within range is now 80 meters instead of 100 meters.
• Beasts getting a deathblow now award a kill point to their master and the victim properly gets a death point.
• You cannot capture data or battlefield terminals while in stasis.
• Battlefield terminal waypoints now clean up after 90 seconds, if they have not been cleared by capturing a terminal.

Quests

• Quest target Joti Laike no longer occasionally spawns inside a building in Nym's stronghold.

Jedi

• Antaria Wellos (a melodramtic Jedi) will now upgrade your Battlefield Saber Schematics into Fifth Generation Versions.
  • He will only offer to take them if you have already completed the collections that grant 5th Gen sabers.
  • He will only offer to take them if you have them in your inventory.
  • He will destroy the old schematic and replace it with a new one.

PvP

• Entertainer buffs now decay properly when a player dies on the PvP battlefields.