You get Anubis around level 12 -13 i think.

Search through older threads its been mentioned a lot already

You don't need to care about reputation too much, it is completely reset when you complete the story line.
But I found it helpful to kill many bounty hunters early in the game to get good relations to pirates and corsairs. It helps alot when trading in the early game.

u get the anubis when u go onboard the huge battle ship Osiris with orillion on it, and u have to buy it 4 1100 credits.
and about the re-engineering. . .well, i gues they have to make up for it somewhere... and i had the same idea as well. enter formation to be like the 'match speed' in starlancer. and.. . . the enemies somehow have weapons of mass destruction . . . sth like a torp, cept better. my shields were gone but my armour was full . . .and i heard teh missile bleep. . . then ::BOOM:: my ship contributes to the amounting space dust (tats probly how they get sound to carry across)

presently, my world is upside down, so if u do not mind, u'll have to tok to my a$$

Have also found that at certain points within the story line your reputation with some pirate/lawful factions will change.

Yep. The game messes around with your rep too much. AT the very last mission, all my pirate, liberty, bretonia, and rhineland factions were perfectly neutral or better, but the moment the finale was over all of the pirates went hostile. And I was gonna go buy myself a Dromedary, too. *fumes*

Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless

so when you finish the storyline they reset it for you? Good, because right now i'm on level 8 or so and i've got so many god damn enemies its not funny =[

k.