A new component has been added: see http://swm.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Carbonite_Capacitor_Chip for more details.

Update 1.3
JEDI SYSTEM OVERHAUL

As part of an ongoing rationalisation exercise, the method in which you get Force Powers and Lightsaber components - a feature wanted by many - has been fixed.

Jedi and Sith tenants are now to be guard warriors, and while they do not pay any Pixels, they do give out some of the Force powers as rent rewards.

In future, offensive Force abilities, particularly Force Lightning will have a new system implemented in which you will have to obtain Essence to upgrade them at the Ancient Forge. This feature is still not implemented yet as we are still trying to overhaul Jedi and Sith tenants to the best of our abilities.

COLONY TWEAKS

It is now possible to deliberately spawn tenants of a certain race into Starbound now, using a combination of furniture. Visit http://swm.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Species/Spawning_rules to see what race requires which items in order to spawn.

In addition, the 501st Fanboy has now gotten an upgrade - he doesn't pay cash for rent, but treat him nice, and he might become the faceless minion of your dreams aboard your ship.

FURNITURE TWEAKS
Any artefacts related to the Galactic Empire now have "human" added as a colony tag, making it easier to spawn the 501st Fanboy and other later NPCs.

STAR NAMES sub-mod.
After much consideration, I have spun off the original planet names patch from this mod to keep up with the premise of a "galaxy away from the Galaxy" as it greatly interfered with my own personal game. It is now a separate patch at https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1302925783&searchtext=awakens+names

501st FANBOY
Get ready to host a Star Wars fan who takes his hobbies a little too seriously! the 501st Fanboy is a stormtrooper wannabe who for various reasons has never left for anything beyond the parade grounds. He's still enthusiastic about his role, though, and if given a home will provide you with some fairly special loot. Beware though, he doesn't have a steady job although you can have a good try at selling off whatever swag he drops off at your feet.

In other news....
Paintings now have more than just a few colony tags, meaning that you should be able to spawn Jedi and Sith more easily, as well as other tenants covered by the vanilla version of Starbound (and other mods like Colony Tweaks and the Tenant Pack).