NO worries, my friend. I just blitzed through 60 essays with 28 more to go, so there isn't a PRAYER of me getting to posting today xD 

Hehe...well, I thought slipspace might be a good thing to introduce. I've read about it in a couple of books regarding the SW universe, so why not, right? :p

I think that would be the gist of it, yeah. It might be cool to recruit some more permanent "followers"(or "companions" if we're using Mass Effect terminology) that become important NPC's, but that would take a lot of effort on our part...so I guess most of them would be cannon fodder that we can bring up when necessary. 

Maybe bring aboard a handful? Most would either be dead or captured by now. So...three? Four?