Add lots of guides. Tactical guides, guides to various classes, dogfighting guides, formation guides, street combat guides, and so on. Pull from military and sim sites and manuals and the like (for example, the Falcon 4.0 manual describes various formations and their pros and cons), not just from us players. I imagine clans could have a field day with them. As a matter of fact, I just looked through the formations guide in the Falcon 4.0 Allied Force manual, and thought, 'hey, this isn't just for F-16 sim pilots. We could use these formations in First Strike!'.

I was just thinking about that, add lots of images. They should be high-quality and, preferably, have a purpose other than mere illustration.

Definitely keep the firing arcs. Not all of them are as self-explanatory as you'd think.

As for dorsal and ventral, they're just two words. Won't take hard to learn.

Might just be that I live in a nation with a long maritime history, but my impression is that a lot of people know their port from their starboard. And in my eyes, it's not about it being 'cool' at all, but about practicality. Take, for example, the Star Destroyer turbo laser battery you need to destroy in the Escape from Hoth map. Do you say that they're on the left or right side of the ship? I'd say left, but then people won't know if you mean left to people approaching the ship from the bow, or the left-side (port) of the ship. You could write 'the battery closes to the buoy, but simply saying 'starboard' is shorter and leaves absolutely no room for confusion, as 'starboard' refers to 'the right side of a vessel as perceived by a person on board the ship and facing the bow (front)'. Let's use port and starboard, and have them link to a Terminology page.

Port and starboard were invented to keep things simple.

Edit: We really don't need two separate, distinct links to the same article. When both Imperial and Rebel medics have the same article, the defibrillator doesn't need one link to Imperial medics and one to Rebel medics.