SWG lead designer Thomas "Blixtev" Blair stopped by the official forums to offer a short progress update on Chapter 7.It sound slike things are going pretty well:

Right now the design team is spending a good chunk of our day playtesting the new features. We log in to that days build, rally in the Township, group up, buff up, hop on the drop ship to the instance, die horribly, move onto the next instance rinse repeat. Aftrer a run through we gather in someone's office talk about the fights then suggest tweaks and talk about fixes. Some classes have had some tweaks and additions to them in order to beat the content. I also think everyone will be much happier with this version of instance controllers over the old ROTW implementation.

I think the Township is on its 7th series of tweaks and I am really happy with the size, functionality and feel of the Township.

Collections are looking fantastic, the art team really busted their butts getting design everything we asked for and then some. New vet rewards are being worked on, mission terminals saw some love and we even have a new vendor interface with which to purchase some fantastic item sets out in Aurilia.

I think the team did an amazing amount of work in a short amount of time, remember of course we didn't start working on chapter 7 until BugBash went live. I am pretty sure everyone will enjoy it when you get to see it sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon!