Well, I think it looks cool already and I don't know how you could make it more "user friendly" Maybe if you changed the menu all around! Like make a whole new one. Give it a more...Imperial feeling. If you made your whole site with that Imperial feeling to it...It would be sweet!
Like you know in WD, with those stories and things they do...with the date and all that. It would be cool if you had the date in 40k time on your site.
And maybe change the colour of it around....white on black is so...average.
I don't know...I'm getting away from the orginal question, hehehe. Yeah, the first paragraph tells what I think you should do with the site menu. Second one...my idea.