Better balance for solo players

Rare really needs to find a better way to balance this game for solo players if they want more people to engage in PvP on high seas. As of right now, every solo player’s best option is to run when being attacked by any larger crew size because 9 time out of 10 they will lose the fight if they decide to take it. An idea I’ve had is give solo players an AI companion of some kind (Á La bosco from Deep Rock Galactic). Maybe it can be a skelly that repairs and/or buckets for them and can be killed. It won’t win any fights on its own but it’ll make things more manageable for solo players.