RW, yup, there were 5-10 loose sapphires and 2 treasure chest in my haul. It was painfully long to the point where I'd hesitate to do another, but very rewarding.
Iduno, you can get an out-of-depth experience that's not wholly dissimilar to that a bit earlier with Marsec Bodyguards. Having 4 of those on the first ship where I saw gauss weapons (and worse still, right after I streamlined what I took into battle, so no huge piles of grenades or hammers, because who needs that when intercepting ships?). I managed to bleed 3 to death based on insane amounts of assault rifle/cannon shots and some welcome assistance from their charge's poor aim (seriously, I think 2/4 went down to friendly gauss fire), but the last one standing was gradually over 20 turns or so of painful out-of-ammo melee guass-rifle-butting 4 or 5 hands (who had nothing left but ballbats, handles, and desperate hope) into submission before the remaining hands who were looting choice items in preparation for a morale-crushing retreat found a lone stray previously-unnoticed rocket launcher on one of the Guild security. Needless to say, that was the last time I went marauding without demolition tools, cattle prods, spiked maces, heavy clubs, etc.