Extended Maintenance for 1.4

As has been reported elsewhere, today is the day the SWTOR community gets Patch 1.4: Terror From Beyond. The maintenance window, originally expected to last six hours, beginning at 2am CDT, has now been extended another two hours to 10am CDT (11 EDT, 8PDT, your time zone). Why the extended downtime? Is it the sheer size and complexity of the patch, or is it that all of the “body type 2” characters need a little extra recuperation time from their recent plastic surgery? The rumor mill has it that, at least on the Republic side, there’s been some shortage of qualified plastic surgeons since the Face Merchants were put out of business.