This is star wars, don't your parties spend a lot of time in cantinas? Do they not get invited to parties thrown by hutts? What about a grabbing a nerf burger or bantha dog while at a swoop or pod racing meet? Heck, in the last session of my campaign a little over a year ago (when my son was born and I turned over the gm reigns to a player who started a kotor era campaign) npc sabaac ringer npc lando calrissian got food poisoning at the boonta's eve sabaac tournament and needed a PC to sub in for him.
I admit I usually cutscened through hyperspace though.