The owner is an ex-Admiral whose social status is off the charts, and yet his race (and even gender) is unknown.  The ship is basically a space-yacht, but it's been retrofitted for<em>murder</em>, which sounds inefficient when compared to buying an actual warship and merely sprucing up the captain's quarters to match the owner's lifestyle.  (And the turrets are obviously not just "in case we need to defend ourselves," because they're looking for military crew.)<br/><br/>In short: it is basically guaranteed that the PCs will be<em>earning</em>their pay.<br/><br/>(Also: the pilot is neither intelligent nor high-class, but for some reason is incredibly well educated.)