We'll know in six weeks or so.

(Just to be crystal clear, starbase overhauls are *NOT* currently targeted at a particular release and the amount of work required to ship something worthwhile in this area is extremely open-ended at this time.)

So when are we going to start seeing 'new content' that one would expect from a new release/expansion.

Don't get me wrong, I love all the updates and improvements (never stop this part), but new stuff is great too.

What makes you think that updates, expansions and improvements to existing features is not 'new content'? They're adding something that wasn't there before, so it's new content, too, no? Personally I feel they should first finish updating, improving and expanding existing features before they start adding more to the pile. Solid foundation for the castle because a castle in the sky won't work and all that.

NPC Null exists. It just doesn't do anything really. So expanding on NPC sov being there but not doing anything other than preventing others from taking sov to doing something and improving the flavour and significance of it could be considered working on existing content. Then again doing that would also add something new, so it'd add new content to the existing content. Though I would say adding meaning to NPC sov would go hand in hand with a sov rework.