Updated: 1/28/11 @ 12:45PM
The official Friday Update is the new Flashpoints section under Game Systems on www.swtor.com.  It contains several examples of Flashpoints in SW:TOR including early game, mid game and end game for both Republic and Imperial classes.
At last we are blessed with gameplay footage of Star Wars: The Old Republic!
Gamespot revealed a new flashpoint trailer for Taral V, intended for players level 32 and higher.  World designer at BioWare, Jesse Sky offers a great overview of the flashpoint:
“The emperor is holding a powerful Jedi captive in his personal prison–a massive space station at the heart of the Maelstrom Nebula. Only a Gree computer is capable of navigating the treacherous cosmic storms that surround the prison. Fortunately, the Republic has learned that the Empire guards just such a device on the remote jungle world of Taral V.
Your mission is to infiltrate the hidden Imperial fortress on Taral V and recover this computer. Success will mean that the Republic fleet can launch an assault on the prison where you can, perhaps, rescue the Jedi prisoner.”
For a working dissection of the video, please visit our friends over at Darthhater.com!
