That might describe your group, but doesn't match up to most of the groups I've gamed with regarding the "beer and pretzels" attitude.
As for the difference of being a murder-hobo vs. defender of the light (who don't always have to be stoic), maybe that says something about you that you find it easier RPing a murderous thug as opposed to RPing someone who wants to actively make their world a better place.
Besides, nowhere is it said that Jedi have to emotionless automatons on par with Star Trek's Vulcans.  Even in the films we see Jedi who freely engage in humor; Obi-Wan is infamous for it, especially in TCW, and even Yoda and Qui-Gon get in on the act.  Ahsoka was anything but stoic, and apart from some early series brattiness did a pretty good job of being a "defender of the light" in what was a very dark circumstance.

Hey, some of us happen to like nanny states! I keep all my stuff in one!
Having survived the grimdark era known as the 90s, I've pretty much had it with that particular brand of anti-heroes, and most characters I play these days are people who generally try to be good people in bad circumstances. Struggle to be good in most cases. The thing is, being the good guy should be the hard choice in most cases, and playing someone who tries to uphold paladin-esque jedi ideals while being on the run from the empire tends to be very hard.
What do you do if a dangerous enemy surrenders? Keep him locked up on your ship? Look around for a prison that will take him? Let him go, potentially putting others at risk at a later date? Execute him on the spot? 
Playing jedi from a position of power isn't as interesting because there's a system to fall back on. Under the empire you might only have yourself, and starting to give in to the more pragmatic choices might become neccessary. Which, of course, might send you careening down a dark path.
Being a noble jedi should be a struggle, with constant temptation to do things the easy way.
 

What about top-secret designs for safety rails?

Every campaign needs a place for weary adventurers to sit down for a while, enjoy a drink, and maybe find some new work, and that’s no different a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Looking for a cantina for your spacers to visit that’s not on that dust-ball called Tatooine? Need some staff and patrons to interact with? Hooks to kick off your next adventure? Then fire up your hyperdrive and make the jump: we’re heading to the Smuggler’s Moon of Nar Shaddaa to grab a drink and some work at the curiously-themed cantina known as The Astrogation Glitch!
We've got a quintet of the Glitch's staff and patrons, such as:
Quorsil, Givin Owner and Bartender with a fascination with hyperspace disaster art and a grudge against the Body Calculus. Thriask Fey'lya, no relation, an arms dealer who contracts work out to other crews - and secretly a Commander in Alliance SpecOps. Louye, Quarren fixer who knows people, products, and places and brings them all together in profitable ways - for a fair cut, of course. For a total of thirteen different adventure hooks and jobs between them and the cantina itself. Give this system-agnostic locale a visit, and see what job your own crew might find next. Thanks for reading!
 

Spanner would prefer you use your Triumph to help any civvies escape.  He's a soldier and he was literally bred to die for the Republic, so self-preservation is somewhat low on his list of priorities.
 
Besides, the athletics check was to make it to the turbolift unshot.  Failing it doesn't mean I don't still make it since I'm upright and mobile.  Spanner's just really pissed about his current state of affairs.

You should watch Avatar: The Last Airbender, season 3.  It's got a GREAT storyline in their about how fire isn't always about destruction, and is a force of creation as well.   You might try incorporating that kind of philosophy to things.  
He could also try and use his flamethrower in indirect ways, not specifically cooking enemies.  Perhaps using it to lay down hostile terrain, closing in enemy units so his allies can gain an advantage.  Or perhaps focusing on destroying enemy cover, basically any number of things that a wall of flame could improve, other than directly barbecuing sentients.

Given I’m a sapper I like the game dea of collapsing a section.  Let’s go with that.

Datapads should be thought of more like e-readers than tablets.  Its there to substitute for paper in Star Wars (Lucas made it a point there be no paper in the OT apparently).   It might be able to display information from another device, but it’s not a tool made for slicing.  More a high tech notepad/portable monitor.

In most cases... the same way they do it in movies. There's always an out. You just game the system to minimize probability and develop alternative solutions to "failure."
Swinging across the chasm with the princess:
Failure: You swing out over the chasm, but misjudge the distance, and end up swinging back to the starting platform. 
Threat: The princess also comes loose and you have to kinda drag her back onto the platform, take strain or something...
Despair: The princess comes loose and starts to fall, you catch her with your free hand at the last second and she grabs you with both hands. You see the blaster rifle she was holding fall into the bottomless abyss.
 

Also, if, your character already happens to have all yellow dice in his pool to begin with, then he adds a green die instead. 

One of your green dice becomes a yellow dice when making any of the social skill checks listed

Another option for environmental horror could be that the stations inhabitants didn’t breath a standard atmosphere.  That way they get the stations life support back running only to find its pumping out an atmosphere poisonous to most or all the crew.  Ditto gravity, could have been a high G species and when they get artificial gravity up it smashes them flat the deck unless they are able to make athletics checks. 

Datapads should be thought of more like e-readers than tablets.  Its there to substitute for paper in Star Wars (Lucas made it a point there be no paper in the OT apparently).   It might be able to display information from another device, but it’s not a tool made for slicing.  More a high tech notepad/portable monitor.

I think it really depends on where you go with the ship.  Outer rim world somewhere, no one is going to bother checking the BoSS registry unless they are given a reason to.  Somewhere with an Imperial presence they might make sure the ship name given matches the one the transponder gives out.   
Core worlds would be a different matter.
Also I wouldn’t rule out there being groups out there that offer a very expensive service to slice new transponders on to a ship.  The Millennium  Falcon was suppose to have multiple transponders and a few Legend books have it being a semi common practice.
I personally have it as you can get a new transponder and registration in BoSS, but it’s a very costly service both in credits and obligation.

Thanks for the post Tramp The problem with datapads being a one stop computer tool is that the big terminals and consoles are absolutely ridiculous at that point. Also I find that datapads are often used as story bypass widgets. No need to go research in the library, or to use a terminal or computer of the facility, just use the datapad for everything. It's not that it makes sense for datapads to basically be little notepads and minor computer tools, it's that it fits the feel of the first movies where characters do things manually. So I'm ok with them being like a basic display interface tool, but not an actual computer that can vie with other computers in functionality. Also because I have no real WiFi they don't serve the purpose of modern tablets or laptops. 
Also a lot of what I said in the OP probably doesn't hold up to canon or legends status simply because those movies predated the massive rush to codify everything brought on by the original RPG books and the paperback books. What seemed to happen was that Pablo Hidalgo and the other guys at West End Games did a lot of fill-in-the-blank with stuff from the movies and usually were not super creative in how they did it, often taking the path of creative least resistance. They also sometime would do things that were counter to the use of things in the movies like assuming a bunch of assassin droids have to be around because one was in the movies. You can assume that, but you could also assume the opposite. If you had a word processor and worked for west end games in 1989 or whatever you got to codify it cause George wasn't really minding the store and didn't give a crap.  
What I mean by this is that you can choose to use whatever material you like, and I think that is great. I am currently playing in a game that is in no way close to my version of Star Wars, but I respect the GM and I don't undermine or complain. But since I am trying to go off of what is in the original movies and do minimal extrapolation sometimes explaining everything runs counter purpose to my endeavor. Just want you to know I appreciate your input and where you are coming from though.

Datapads should be thought of more like e-readers than tablets.  Its there to substitute for paper in Star Wars (Lucas made it a point there be no paper in the OT apparently).   It might be able to display information from another device, but it’s not a tool made for slicing.  More a high tech notepad/portable monitor.

Datapads should be thought of more like e-readers than tablets.  Its there to substitute for paper in Star Wars (Lucas made it a point there be no paper in the OT apparently).   It might be able to display information from another device, but it’s not a tool made for slicing.  More a high tech notepad/portable monitor.

I agree with the bulk of your list, but not with this item. The Prequels went for this feel (and suffered in my opinion), but the OT and the more recent stuff have characters speaking much more naturalistically. When people in the OT speak this way, it's either because they are a relic of the past (like Yoda), or are putting on the schmooze (like Lando hitting on Leia). I much prefer my players emulate Han Solo speaking rather than the stilted stuff we get among the Jedi in the Prequels.

Comlinks are not smartphones. Don't assume they can text, take video or still pictures, or download files 

Believe or not my PCs actually bought a ship for once! (of course this was after they stole 2.2 million credits worth of blaster rifles and sold em to a mercenary company because the big idiot of the Dm thought it would fine to let them raid a blast tech factory)

So my group is composed of,
Myself. Psychotic assassin astromech droid(weaponry includes fully modded Heavy blaster pistol, micro-rocket launcher, and a flamethrower)
2 Force users: Pantoran outcast and a Zabrak monk.
A Human smugger, Human ex-Rebellion soldier, and a Duros Slicer.
After capturing a young Hutt who was the only surviving member of a group who ambushed us, after we found out the whole thing was a set-up, while we were flying to go find his boss/our boss who hired us. My droid just starts casually strapping down everything in the cargo hold of our YV-666, which is where the Hutt is being imprisoned. Our smuggler, who realizes I am about to space the fat slug, beats a retreat and has to bodily block our Pantoran jedi from checking out the hold. "Just let happen man! Nothing you can do!" he says. Just before I magclamp myself to the deck and open the side door, and am treated to the sight of a Hutt being sucked out an airlock too small for his body.
This is happening at the same time that we are dogfighting a couple Z-95s, and I roll a triump to have the hutts corpse slam into one of their cockpits.

FFG Pres: Have we fixed the shipping issues? I don't want another load to end up impounded in Jakarta.
FFG Employee: Yes sir! All fixed, new company looks great, even inspected the ship myself.
Pres: Oh? How's it look? Is it going to be any faster than the previous?
Employee: Oh yes sir, looks great, and you can just smell that diesel everywhere. The crew says she's the hottest running ship in the Pacific. Blazing fast!
Pres: Perfect.

Bad pun warning.
To claim a pirate ship for yourself all you need to do is say it's "R's".

4. Give out 5xp in lieu of the starting equipment.  A pacifier to those who may feel shorted, but also a 'fair' trade-off since you can spend 5xp for credits at creation.  Why not run it backwards? 
5. Their equipment is all prison stuff. Mining equipment, heavy clothing for the cold, backpack, utility belt, fusion cutter, axes, picks, etc... 
100% agree that the Empire isn't going to keep your stuff for you.  I mean, do they ever intend for you to get out???  Nah....