With the game having expanded past Eorzea's shores, if they did an update where you're starting area could be in any mentioned area accessible within the game now, would you have picked an area that was under imperial control and likely started as an imperial soldier? Maybe you could defect to Eorzea after a time and join the Alliance?

Of course, the next question would be, would you also be a Garlean knowing that you'd likely not be able to use any class that uses aether in a prominent way? (If I remember correctly almost all of them do in some way or another, but we know Garleans can be Reapers so there's that.)