PvP is at the very End of the To-Do list and will be considered after questing,space-missions, crew skills, grinding / farming (and i think there were some other things aswell) are done. (free quote from a developer)
Understandable, I am my self realy looking forward to getting a 10-50 profile for my Mercenary I appriciate that other players use there own time to make my leveling easiere, cheers for you lot!
In the meantime using the Combat Bot should certainly help with PvP. You'll move the bot while it handles the combat end of things.
pvp is at the bottom of our list gathering, sending companions off, and space combat are at the top (as well as questing ofc, which is what i'm on)