I was going to make Palpatine's shuttle pop in after a few player posts.

The timing on additional evil ships really depends on what the party gets up to. My plan is to [s]surprise the party ten seconds in[/s] [color=#2e2c2c].[/color][s]make space rocks fall so everybody dies[/s] time reinforcements based on when the party needs bigger/weirder challenges or based on when it would be most narratively interesting; whichever comes first.