I should have just asked them to leave their posts the first time.
Gallagher will go back out and tell the guards that they can leave their posts and join the crowd, using his Mind Trick power again.
That should let Jelena in (and Jelena can even distract the crowd for me, like Roan did) and take care of that.
Ok! Another force-spend for Gallagher gets the guards to depart... walking straight past the altered camera, thus starting the countdown to trouble as they are immediately radioed by the defenders who want to know what they are doing.
I make a general Observation roll from Iffa; failed. The bridge is defended but the hostages are not on it.
If we are all inside, we could also go to the main sleeping quarters as well, as that seems to be another likely location for them to be kept.
I think now, we secure the senators, and then try to deal with the rest of the guards on the ship.
Is there some terminal that we could get access to, which would allow us to check where the senators might be?
if we check a room and the senators are not in it, but the "bad guys" are... could we disable the door in a same way as Luke did in ANH by blasting the control panel? It should give us some time to find them, take off in the ship and then mob up the guys one by one in a less agressive negotion style.