@BK: Hey, who said I'd only be a member of a single faction?;)Though I wouldn't join with the Camara character, I intend to leave him pretty much as-is.
And for the graphics, yeah I was pretty shocked when I first arrived, I'd gotten so used to SWWT I'd forgotten what vanilla looked like... though it doesn't bother me too much, I prefer having masses of unique ships to fly and fight over pretty graphics.