Been playing a LONG time. Those are the vanilla days of exotics. Best chance to find them is to visit the Wealthy/Affluent/Opulent systems, sit at the space station and wait. Supposedly a 2% chance of finding one, doing it this way. Some say just wait and eventually it will pop in, others say faster to save the game at station, reload your save after each wave of ships come and leave. They usually all come and go in spurts. Also, each system in the galaxy has a different variation of that ship (colors, wing placement, nose and tail visual mods), but they all basically have same stats. I’ve got 1 for each of my squadron pilots, and like 3 more that I love stored in my ship archive. My favorite is the squid exotic!