The rules don't seem to stipulate if NPCs that are not adversarial follow the same guidelines as enemies. Im assuming a squad of Rebel soldiers would use the Minion rules, the pilot of the ship you hired might be run as a Rival and the old Jedi who joined you in our current adventure would be run as per the Nemesis rules?

Dumb question and seems obvious but as Im new to the system wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something somewhere

You are correct, the titles for the NPCs are adversarial but they are just a difficulty level for the NPC, not unlike the CR system of D&D.

You are correct, the titles for the NPCs are adversarial but they are just a difficulty level for the NPC, not unlike the CR system of D&D.

And to govern what rules-set they use (i.e. how strain affects them)