Eh no, you keep access to all the DLC content that was available during your subscription.
Any future DLCs will require a new subscription though, but e.g. you can wait one year, then subscribe for a month to get all the new content and unsubscribe again to keep access.
When you unsub, you will become a Preferred player with a few restrictions. For example, you can only play 8 of your characters (but you can choose which ones to play), you have a maximum credit limit of 350k (everything above is kept until you resubscribe), you can no longer do operations without buying a pass, you have a maximum limit of weekly warzones, to name some of the restrictions. But you will get all of that back when you resubscribe - there isn't really a disadvantage in letting your subscription lapse.
You keep access to all content released until the end of your subscription, including the KotFE chapters. If you only want to play through the story, a single month of sub time will get you plenty of story to play through. Any future content will require a subscription again when that content comes out, or any time afterwards (this may change for the upcoming KotET expansion; we don't know details yet).
My recommendation would be to definitely get a subscription, even if just for a month. It only costs like $15 but you get access to plenty content to play through at your leisure, even after your subscription, and as a Preferred Player many F2P restrictions disappear.
So when my subscription ends, I will loose access to the DLC content but if I re-sub a few months later I can continue where I left off?
Eh no, you keep access to all the DLC content that was available during your subscription.
Any future DLCs will require a new subscription though, but e.g. you can wait one year, then subscribe for a month to get all the new content and unsubscribe again to keep access.
Nice. thank you very much for the clarification. I was nervous about loosing characters an content because I knew I couldn't afford a sub year long but after your explanation, I am quite eager to give it a try, the Cartel coins will come in handy too.
Much appreciated.
