Welcome to the Forum. I totally forgot to make an introduction myself, I am also rather new.
So, how is your character going? I am actually looking for a multiplayer partner, but modded (The only mod would be one that makes multiplayer a bit more challenging. Well, challenging at all. Vanilla multiplayer is easy mode, especially on multiplayer. Just asked around for clarification in a thread yesterday).
I would even suggest to use a merit so we can start in Elite with a brand new char (Or use the merit, leveling them quickly on veteran till we are on an acceptable level).