[Quitch]

What sort of difficulty do people tend to tackle? I thought I'd start out on the hardest one, as I tend to in quick save games. Big mistake, on my first cargo mission I ran into pirates (lots of them) hanging out the warp gate I came out of. Reloaded, and this time find a bunch of them hanging around the gate I want to go through.

Go down a level of difficulty and it's pretty much the same, but this time they whoop me with less ships.

Presumably this game is supposed to be possible at this difficulty, so where am I going wrong?? I try to blaze past them, but my ship is so slow...