UPDATE: The list of source and target servrs has become too large to maintain by hand. I highly recommend everyone interested in which server is allowed to transfer checks out this thread on the official forum maintained by official SWTOR staff.

Together with the end of today’s SWTOR maintenance it got revealed which servers are eligible for server transfers initially. This got posted on the official website on the server transfer page. For those of you not able to acess the official website – here’s a summary:

UPDATE: The list of servers eligible for transfers has been expanded with additional 5 NA servers and 3 EU servers. Additionally, Joveth Gonzales (Senior community manager) has posted on the official forums a list of Destination servers as well (while the transfers page on the swtor.com website only has source servers). Transfer table bellow has been updated to reflect this new information and we will keep updating it as the situation progresses.

NA Servers:

  
EU Servers:

To start the character transfer process, login to your account on swtor.com, click My Account and then click Character Transfers in the left hand menu. From there you will be able to select Start a Character Transfer and see if you have any characters eligible for transfer to selected servers.

I would also recommend you read the Character Transfer Service FAQ before you initiate the transfer process.
 
 

Surge of The Old Republic related news is starting along with the appearance of patch 1.3 on the Public Test Server. The most awaited piece of news is certainly how will Character Transfer Service work and when will it start. Answers to both of those questions can be found at the official blog post on swtor.com entitled “Character Transfer, Server Populations and You“. We find out that the Character Transfer Service will start on June 12th 2012. – even before patch 1.3 is deployed. Character transfer will only be allowed between certain source servers to certain destination serves (which servers exactly will be offered to move where exactly remains to be announced). The intention here is to try and improve the population on certain servers. Albait limited, this service might get extended later on with a paid option where you can move to wherever you want for a fee.  
It seems that a certain level of manual labor will be involved in character transfer so this process will not be instantaneous and you can even expect to see long transfer times in certain situations where there is a huge number of characters to be transferred. They are hoping to do it in hours, but it might take much longer than that if there is a huge rush.  
Here are some more details that will be covered in more detail in an upcoming FAQ:  

Legacy will be transferred to your new server and your unlocks will be available there too. If you have already unlocked your Legacy on your destination server, the higher level Legacy will take precedence. For guild members and masters, you will not be able to transfer your guild as a whole to your new server; instead you will need to reform it. If you have a guild bank, it will be re-granted to your new guild on your destination server by Customer Service. This is not an automatic process and you will have to contact Customer Service directly. If your transferred character’s name conflicts with an existing name on a destination server, you will be asked to rename your character. In the case of Legacy names, unless you have unlocked your Legacy on your origin server, you will need to rename your Legacy upon transfer (although you may pick the same Legacy name as on your origin server, if available).

  
We wish everyone at Bioware good luck with this new Character Transfer Service and may it be the first step towards complete recovery of this great game.  

During the pre-E3 press conference in Los Angeles, dr. Ray Muzyka announced the new content we will be seing in The Old Republic this year. It was not mentioned whether this will be a paid expansion or a patch update, but from the rumors it seems this will be given to players for free (unverified). The amount of new stuff certainly warrants for the patch to be called an expansion because every aspect of the game will have something new added to it. Here are the most important things announced along with the content trailer.
 

• New companion – HK-51 (we had him on our companions page since December)
• New playable race – Cathar
• New level cap
• New planet – Makeb
• New warzone – Ancient Hypergates
• New Operation – Terror From Beyond
• New Space Mission – Space Station Assault
• New abilities
• New version of Nightmare difficulty mode.
• Free to play up to level 15 starting this July