Iweneh is a 64th level Spy. She's lvl 17 of 18 on piloting, and all she has to do is that final mission to get her ace.

Ongvar is a lvl 90 Droid Engineer, and a master ace at 18/18 on piloting. He has almost all the multiplayer (POB) ships, including the Y-8 mining ship. (Iweneh has one too but isn't certified to fly it yet.) Finally, a guildmate (Light of Ossus') came onboard with me and ran the gunnery while I piloted. We pulled in some carbonaceous asteroidal materials while swatting TIE fighters and bombers and asteroid bandits (in Z95's) off of us... and even nailed two hostile YT-1300's (Millenium Falcon-type ships). My guildmate, a bothan, did a sweet job on the gunnery despite the fact he was stuck with a mining laser since I'd done a crappy job of placing the weapons on the ship chassis. At least he had a Mark III mining laser, which packs a bit of punch. Next time out he'll have the real firepower available to him at the top and bottom turrets, where I should have had the real weapons. The mining lasers belong on the limited-field forward positions. I had a tractor beam in the bridge gun position, but I didn't find it useful and replaced it with a Mark II mining laser. The forward guns now both have Class III's and the top and bottom turrents now have killer guns. I also threw some armor in there since I expect to be taking the ship to tougher systems once I can get at least two crewmates up with me.

I have to tell you, running a POB ship is a blast when you have a crew. Just make sure you configure the weapon placements sensibly.

In other news, Ongvar now has a cybernetic right arm, which provides him a melee buff. That and the Knuckles of the Katarn (which have a cold energy attack bonus) helped him take out a few elite Storm Troopers in Theed. A Droideka only helps plus now a force buff item he's been neglecting in his backpack.

Ongvar's been making money on his droids and also on Vehicle Restoration kits made from asteroidal materials. With the Y-8 in action, this is only going to get better.