Just to make you a bit more happy, the servers TOTAL pop of subscribers is around 20,000 imo and colculations.
on a weekend evening there is around 1,500 ppl online (both sides included).
MMO "rules" say a given population on evenings is 10% of total subscribed population.
so we have ~15,000, and i'd say its more toward 20,000 based on the amounts of views some forum threads have recieved.
add to that that the new cartel shop is bloody amazing, i predict we are defenetly gonna see fleet 3 again (i once saw fleet 5 ), at least for few days after the patch...