Now's probably a bad time to tell you that recruiting as an underdog can be bad due to the high likely hood of trechary, huh? I tried a hard game as the Empire ( I thought it would be sort of like when I managed to whoop everyone's butt on easy... ) and recruited like mad with Palpy my first few days. I had jedi Niles Ferrier and Jedi Ozzel (He tends to be a jedi a lot, doesn't he?). Anyway, I then went on to lose Coruscant to some well placed sabatoge missions in addition to a loss of much maintenance point-wise and ship wise (They killed three Victory two and two Imperial Star Destroyers!... All seperately because I was stupid.) Anyway, like I was saying, they took Coruscant and I fled to my advanced shipyard Alpha site (Endor, go figure) where I promptly found that I had several triators. They ratted me to the Rebels and before long I got nailed with about, oh, two Mon Cals, six Blockade Runners, and seven or eight escort carriers chaulk full of X-wings and Y-wings. Needless to say I got to see my SSD blow up in the lovely cut scene... So it can be a bad idea to recruit people when at your whit's end.