It gives virtually no rewards (in the area of 10-20 combat/light xp) and claims to unlock a mission that doesn't exist. I have noticed many new players complain about this mission. It serves no purpose but to confuse. Kindly remove it until the succeeding missions are added.

+1, it's really pointless.

(In fact, I think all training missions outside the training sector should be removed. Getting hit by a blaster should hurt! If you must, call them "simulator missions" and drop them in a special sector immediately on taking the mission with preset equipment)

+1 to the OP

No. Not only is adding new content asking too much, even suggesting that they fix the buggy crap that's been broken for over a decade would take too much valuable Dev time away from important new platform opportunities/refining existing platform U/I.

EVERYONE MUST BE ABLE TO PLAY, EVEN IF NOBODY CAN SEE WHY THEY'D WANT TO!