Just throwing my bucket in the ring here. Have any of you considered the possibility that because the BW Devs know how much people want Mando stuff, there might be a bigger story to this than "we don't care about our players" (honestly, Guild Ships, meh, I'll take BW's better storylines over a gimmicky ship any day). Mandos are a major part of this world, but only loosely affiliated with the Empire at this point. IMHO, I think there's a good chance the reason we haven't seen any decent Mando gear yet is because it will come in another Major (Hutt Cartell lvl) expansion - something which will deal with Mando culture in much more detail.