http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=4698
A look and discussion about the starting PCs for the upcoming Beginner Box. Including confirmation that two additional PCs will be made available for download,.
One of the issues with the EotE pregens is that recreating them as legal starting PCs was pretty much impossible (especially the humans, who had an extra 10 XP each and a lot of extra credits), but it looks like more care was taken with the AoR PCs to make them more compatible with the full rules, or at least make it simpler to convert them over to the full rules.