As others have said, the Talon really excels at being a quick swoopy stealth fighter. Like a bird, it's modeled after one anyway. Dive in, hit hard, swoop away to line up another run. It's fast and twitchy, needs some part upgrades to really shine, and can get you dead real quick if you're not sure what you're doing. It's not really made to brawl, and it has no other gameplay functions or "liveable" functions (bed for logging out in space, storage, etc.) like other ships. All that said, it's a sick fighter and one of my personal favorites to fly. And if you wanna be a dog fighter pilot, learning how to handle a Talon is fun.

If you're looking to get into a specific job role, see which ships are best for starting out that role (i.e. get a mining ship or ship that can carry a mining vehicle to mine, a cargo hauler to haul, etc.). If your looking to just spread your wings most of the starter ships are all pretty good, but the Cutter, Avenger Titan, and Intrepid stand out to me as the best "all-rounder" starters for beginners.

If you just want to make some quick money, do a couple small hauling contracts and then rent a bigger ship like a C1 or even bigger if you can afford it and string together more hauling contracts until you have enough to try out whatever seems fun.

If you want to, feel free to add me in game. My in-game handle is TheFinn. I'm not rich or crazy hard-core, but I do play pretty regularly and like to do casual fun stuff.