Terrible raid if you're F2P

What exactly are f2p players supposed to do in this raid?

An entire faction (pirates) isn't even launched yet. 3 ds clones aren't even farmable yet. New mace is also not accessable. If you didn't spend anything on accelerating the new bad batch toons, they also won't be ready. All that's left is some random oddball Jedi vanguard team which in all likelihood won't do much.

So are we supposed to do just that 1 run and sit?