Vette all the way! I am only disappointed that when I had to choose between them, the "both" option killed the Vette romance possibilities. So I took Jaesa romance wise, but Vette is my constant mistress in the field.

This happens to me too, and I know it's not because of lag. It doesn't happen all the time, or even most of the time, but when it does, the consequences can really suck in things like huttball.

I would agree the GTN does need some work, but it is far from the horrible mess some of you seem to be saying it is. If you want to search by slot all you have to do is set your required tabs, hit search, and then fill in the relative term for the item your looking for. Slots of a certain level range all share the same name, ie Greaves, armguards, etc. Once you search based on that, you will get all of the items for a slot listed. Does it take effort to do this? Yes. Should it be neccesary? Not really, but that hardly makes it broken. The most important thing you have to remember when using the GTN is to do one broad category search, and then search by name. Once you have that down, it's all simple. As for why it's not an Auction Hall, that is fairly simple I imagine. Higher level players, ie Rich players, can't drive up the prices beyond unreasonable rates for the newer, lower level players.

Force charge > Smash > Force Scream > Sundering Assualt > Ravage when partnered with Vette against common mobs, that plus a few auto attacks usually wipes the three of them out since I am constantly switching targets, letting Vette deal killing blows. Against Silver and common, I start Vette on her burst before doing this with the common as my target, then just lay the rest on the Silver, he usually goes down after Ravage and maybe one or two more small hits.

As a Juggernaut I can say that I got my first companion during my class quest missions at the end of time on Korriban (around 9-10) and I got my second one with my ship (16ish), which is the end of the class quests on the home planet. If this pattern holds true, next one should show up around the time I am done the next planet, but I dunno for sure, never made it that far in the beta weekends.