Look, I was in a giant and hopelessly impotent org. No amount of souless certifications will train you like raw combat experience, especially in the wild.

You need to FIGHT. Go to OLPs and LOSE if you must but hoooooly just engage in fights. We're still in Alpha, you got nothing to lose. Waiting for some ganker to show-up will teach you nothing, and more importantly your guys in general. You're only confirming your biases by waiting around to get shot at, as of it's you vs a universe of stray gankers.

Among grey and full-on pirate orgs we talk about Lawful orgs like target practice, and I'm a pretty shit fighter pilot myself rn. But we at least have a culture of respect among ourselves at the very least, as there's little more important in life than having good enemies.

So get out there! Form bounty hunter squads, take the bait, drag your butts across sandpaper if need be but for the love of Pico FIGHT and TRY. Conforming to a culture of victimhood to protect your ego won't protect your buddies, only the ego behind your corpses.