I rarely catch any of that, don't have the spare time, but I'm familiar enough. I must've been knocked out a long time to get all the way out of our galaxy. If you aren't "from the same time", what does that add up to?
I have an Artoo unit with me named R2-D2, but it looks like we're missing his protocol droid counterpart. If we used the escape pods, though, wouldn't we just end up stranded in unknown space?