I appreciate the clarifications for the upcoming patch!
Is there any chance we can get a definitive underlying criteria a player must reach in order to send out X amount of companions? Being an altoholic, I'd like to know what level/stage/etc to reach in order to send a particular amount of companions out. This way I can become a finely greased machine to help provide things for other characters if I know that it is within reach. Is this restraint relieved via progression of story chapter, character level, planet, or something I'm not looking into?