Never played Ps1, lots of questions. Long thread

[FunkyGroove]

Well, like the title states, never touched Ps1, first time I heard of it when I saw Ps2 trailer. And don't get me wrong, if I had know about Ps1, I would of played the hell out of it... Also love the way everybody's attached to their empire, which makes me want to play the game even more, lol. Most of the games I played were large scale combat type of games - Operation Flashpoint, Arma, Battlefield. But anyway, on to the questions, which are all Ps2 related:

1. Will I be able to create multiple characters on one account, and if so, could they be from different empires ( let's say 1 TR and 1 NC)?
2. Will the infiltrator only be able to use the sniper rifle ( not including the pistol) or will he have some sort of different weapons?
3. I heard that the engineer will have a deployable turret, which will be player controlled, but what I'm wondering, if there will be a way for it to be an automatic turret, using skill trees and such?
4. One of the trailers states, that Tr will have faster fire rate, Nc will have more damaging weaponry and that the Vanu will have alien technology. So, what does Vanu differ from other factions?
5. If one of the empires simply dominates the other two, what happens then? Let's say the Tr will have all the hexes, without the possibility of the two other factions getting the hexes back. Will the game restart, will something else be done with the Tr or will the game continue like always?
6. Last question ( Finally right? lol), I know that you get new weapons and attachments when leveling up. But how will that work? In Bf3 you get weapons both for leveling up your character and your class (medic, recon, support, engineer), in CoD you get all types of weapons, simply by leveling up.

Sorry for the long post, sorry, if I made any grammatical errors and thanks to anybody who had the time to read my question, and maybe answer them. Thank you!