Most will probably bypass all the text, but the summary of what I am about to describe is a possible method to fix faction imbalance and lack of objectives on Ilum. I just wanted to know if my ideas are any good.

1) Combinations of Turret Defense and Objectives

in a match of 70 imps vs 30 republics

an ops leader can activate an activation alert, that triggers an invitation from enemy ops leader to spawn their NPC, once both team agrees and a 2 minute warning a NPC will spawn.

Leader of each ops controls which three path your NPC travels, you have 1 minute to get in position

each player can activate a cannon turret( 15 seconds to  activate ), but once its activated the player's only job is to aim at enemy boss npc. ( like in flash point wargame) So basically you lose a player's strength because he is stuck at turret cannon duty. ( max  cannons activated with no one protecting or fighting based on number of players, so 70 players 70 cannons  )

Boss NPC can not be destory by enemy players, only by cannons activated by a player character.

In a outnumbered match, the faction with the least number of players will have additional boss npcs ( example : 3 to 1 match, underdog spawns 3 boss npcs, and enemy has 1, but each npc for underdog is buffed 25% , while enemy is debuffed 15% or something like that based on number of imbalances)

Game objective - Boss NPC needs to go from one point to another, and if they meet enemy npc half way they will each attack and destroy one another.

Bonus: items on the map that can be collected to boost the strength of your cannon fires but they will be protected by NPC, So its like those valor buffs we get, the more we collect, the higher the damage of the cannons are. But bonus has diminishing returns so it gets used up. ( eg. each collected bonus gets fired 3 times )

I figure that 70 imperials, 30 are cannons, 20 collects bonuses, 20 attacks our cannons, because we have three bosses, one will intercept enemy boss, and because we are stronger, ours will win, so they need cannon to back their up, but 15 of them will have to destroy the other 2 bosses, so bigger number of one factions the harder they need to work together.