Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed...The coming space expansion

IGN have garnered an interview with Haden Blackman, known to we mere mortals as Shug_Ninx. The content? It's all about space baby!
The upcoming space expansion aka Jump to Lightspeed has raised a few eyebrows to say the least.

We'll launch with over fifteen player-operable starships, with the greatest emphasis on starfighters. Players will be able to pilot canonical vehicles, including familiar X-wings and TIE fighters, as well as some newly-created "mercenary" craft. We also hope to have well-known capital ships from Star Wars lore in the game as NPC-controlled opponents that will be central to epic battles.

There are many juicy tidbits in this interview so say head yourself over to IGN. I know you can't resist.

In fact so much so that you probably want to talk about