Slacking here with 7 million.

Yes, speeder bikes and ship upgrades and things like that which hardly anyone is currently making.

There is no skill only CC

Exactly.

Being extremely intelligent, manipulative and long-lived they pretty much fooled a bunch of lesser races into becoming their servants for eternity and giving up their planets etc.

Cheesey compared to what? These 2 cinematics are like the Godfather 1 & 2 compared to the drivel that is episodes 1, 2, 3 and the Clone Wars.

You also get rare/epic crew missions and cybertech plans and stuff, like i got a 370 purple shield schematic for the ship.

Youre just feeling the effect of the poorly implemented bolster. Tank has zero advantage when everyone has generally the same health.