I agree that having even the toons just there would be taxing to the servers, we don't want to do anything that might slow those down.
However, having a seperate area off the COH website, or have NCSoft give us some code or something to post on our own webpages, to have some sort of control over events in the SG Bases, such as who is online, planning events, or even doing something like buying and selling stuff from other SG, without having to get online.