Camped this mob last night and for some odd reason he shapeshifted into a jaguar mob during the fight. Has he always had this ability? Dropped the intensity steamcore.
I believe this mob spawns in the "south-west pod" in SHIP - I think his placeholder is any of the four gnomes on the computer terminals in the room. There is also a roaming clockwork in the tunnel leading to the pod that you will need to kill first (spawn time on it is about 15 minutes I believe). Not sure, will check again and post more info if I camp this mob again.
Camped this named mob for quite a while until I had collected 8 steam cores.
some info: I highly recommend that everyone in the group first get the task 'Disrupt the workshop' from Gurtrude the Spymaster in fortress mechanotus. you can use this task to get an illusion at the beginning of SHIP to make you dubious to 99% of the zone (still use invis). take the elevator up. Go up the first spiral staircase. The Tunnel on the SW side is the correct camp. There is one wandering mob that paces up and down the hallway from the center, to the pod. The named can pop in the place of ANY of the 4 gnomes standing in the middle of the room, tending the machines. (careful, there are little brownies that like to hide behind boxes in the room). I do not know if he can pop up the elevator, or in the pit. Named is weak, does some shapeshifting, nothing special.
In the time it took to collect all 8 steam cores, I gained roughly 100 AA's. we got 8 steam core: consort, 7 of the stupid glowing metal bearing, and ZERO 0 of the wizzy/ber steam cores. sorry wiz/ber =(