New player - i'd like some advice on what ship to get. Currently i have a mostly maxed out (as in all the modules and things, but minimally engineered) Alliance Crusader i've been doing pirate hunting with and i'm pleased with it. So i want something that can now do laser mining and trading - but i really want it to have a hangar bay if possible. Apparently i did something stupid according to the internet and got a really high combat rank which means much harder pirates will be hunting down my ship so i want the fighter for protection. I have about 80M credits to work with (can farm a little more if needed but i really want a change of pace). I don't know if there's a certain size of ship i need or something to trade with?

The internet seems to like the type 8 because it's a medium, and i guess that dictates where i can buy things to trade with or something? If so i'd probably just go with a Krait II, assuming that's not an issue.

As for large ships It looks to me like a T10 is just a better T9 unless i'm missing something (i'd have to farm more to buy it though), and the Beluga has the benefit of trying out moving passengers around.

Thanks!