So, I'm going to reflect on some thoughts trying to build and play Seperatists (otherwise known as the Coalition of Independent Systems or CIS). If you really have to be somewhere or suddenly realized the breaks are out on your car, the TL:DR version is that they're an oddball faction that's hard to play and is best characterized as a dark horse that you might randomly lose to, but doesn't appear to be consistently powerful enough to bring home the gold long term at least for now.
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The Ships
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-=Sith Infiltrator=-
I'm not a huge fan of 1 AGL ships with a large base and front arc only and the SI isn't really causing me to reverse that. It maneuvers like an elephant and never really seemed to do enough work. The meta is also leaning towards more ships making the SI even more cumbersome with it's big base. The only real thing it has going for it is a bevy of weird upgrades. Side by Siding this ship with the generic ARC-170, it has a more cumbersome base, +1 hp, doesn't have a rear firing arc and has a slightly better dial...for the low low price of +11pts. That's actually pretty insane even if I do think the I2 ARC might be 2pts or so undercosted. It's possible there's an obscure combo of upgrade cards/pilot that makes this thing less bad or even outright good, but I'm pretty unconvinced on the SI right now.
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-=B-22=-
The B-22 is another weird offering because it's particularly good action bar including a Boost>focus and Roll>focus gives the impression that you might have a flanker or arc dodger, but the minute you get stress or have to turn around, the ship becomes clunky fast. It only has 3 sloops as it's turn arounds and it's 3 turns are also red and this combos very poorly with it's blues (2 banks and 2 and 3 straight) making the dial actually way more limited than it first appears. Every time I get stress with one of these things, I just kind of write off the next turn and hope I can find a maneuver that doesn't outright kill me. This just kind of means the B-22 is a glorified jouster, but at 37 for the I1 generic, it doesn't match well in terms of economy with other commonly available jousting options. Captain Sear is a solid pick on this ship because he's 1) pretty cheap at 39 and 2) his pilot ability keeps Vultures threatening even after the energy shells are gone. Wat is also a good pick because he should be re-rolling his dice pretty consistently, but both him an Sear just kind of want to fly with the swarm, so the B-22 is pressed outside of it's role. Grievous, on the other hand, is a different story. His pilot ability really wants him to be a flanker/dodger, but the ship isn't really made for it...which would also be fine if he was cheap, but he's comically expensive at 47. You're paying +10pts over a generic for I4 and a pilot ability that the ship doesn't use that well. It feels like he's paying a premium for having an usually effective ability, but in reality, I'm pretty convinced he should get a discount for the ability not being well matched to the ship.
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-=Vulture Droids=-
So the main event, the Vulture Droids. They're fine(tm). Yeah, its not a ringing endorsement, but they're carried hard by energy shells and Networked Calculations. Of note, because of the specfic way Networked Calculations is worded, it will bump against he "once per opportunity" clause, which I'm sure people will get wrong when they roll 2-3 focus icons. It's 1 spend for Networked Calculations per roll, but the droid can still spend it's own calculates on top of that, but if you're running a swarm this will definitely come up. Energy Shell Charges is pretty great and, honestly, I think these things are pretty close to unplayable without them. Also, occaionally, you get some breathing room to reload as well. Discord Missiles, on the other hand, Hard meh. 6pts for what might be a single crit when energy shells are 4 is rapidly becoming a hard pass for me (especially since energy shells can let you turn a focus to crit). This might be because Discord Missiles don't play well with Swarms and maybe a smaller ship count list with an infiltrator where you have less attacks to power through defenses and less bodies to get in the way makes more sense. The named character droids are all overcosted and I'm not even mincing words on that. The "I'm Halping" droid that passes a single calculate, might be interesting if you didn't pay 4 pts for the ability and can mostly get the mods where you need it anyways. The "don't crit me bro!" droid seems like a real waste of time given how fast these things die and that it requires a token spend to turn on anyways (something charge-based might've been a firm "maybe" if it wasn't also 27pts). The predator Drones are interesting enough, but you're paying +4pts over an I3 generic for a worse version of a 2pt EPT which is really garbage. Then the target lock droid might get an extra target lock once per game before they die horribly, but the fact that it's "take an action" as opposed to gaining the token means you can't use it while stressed i.e. the 1 time it's super relevant and I have little desire to pay 3pts over the generic with the same initiative for that. Then, you also have to consider the fact the Vulture Droids are unconvinced of the efficacy of 45 degree angles, so they're very limited in terms of not moving in cardinal directions.
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The best way to describe flying a swarm of vulture droids is that it's like herding a bunch of very sociable, meth-addicted, roombas. If you told me before I had put them on the table that the cheapest spammable ship in the game with a 3 dice dirt cheap missile might need a cost reduction, I would've thought you were crazy, but after playing them...at least some of the character ones definitely need to come down or there's no reason to bother just settling with either the I1 or the 2pt bump for I3 to fight certain meta builds (I'm specifically thinking of it for some of the I2 spams like 5x Y-Wings or even some of the new clones).
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The weird dials and preference for close formations definitely gives the list a high skill floor, but I'm not convinced that it also has a high skill ceiling i.e. you need some practice to get it right, but I'm not sold you'd win a large even with it.