Bugger

ok, right after you have searched the net for 2 hrs and lastly posted here, you suddenly have the right idea... the party selection screen (which i hadn't used in kotor2 since there was no choice up to this point) can fortunately be used to bring the comrades back - woot, now i can continue... :D however, it's still a bug and reading through this thread i'm afraid of what's to come...

ok, i also had that swoop bug on telos, it then disappeared suddenly. much more important is that i lost my complete party while still on telos, after playing the robot solo (downloading data from czerka mainframe) - they don't come back when i get to control the main character again in ithorian compound. i'm on my own! i tried starting again from a save before the mainframe quest but the result was the same. this means that i currently cannot continue at all... \ in another forum where a user had encountered the same bug it was suggested that he "reset the party" - what's meant by that? i'd be grateful for any help... and a PATCH!!