Heh, I'm lucky, I didn't find the 'real' Border Worlds till I wasn't so much of a newbie, lol, I was too busy trying to find every detail in each map -- I didn't think there were other systems till I found a few jumpholes to places I'd never heard of. From the sound of it, I don't think anyone in the Omicron systems would
let him dock, let alone get a mission.
Do do missions that will raise your rep with criminals, you really need to take missions from criminals. And to do that, you need to be at least neutral so you can dock with their stations. Attack Bounty Hunters -- if you can
. The only way of being allies with all the criminals with any degree of speed is to kill as many Bounty Hunters as you can. Unfortunately, you'll have us on your tail from then on, but you would as a criminal anyway
"If it aint on fire, you haven't shot it up bad enough yet" - my old teacher on Planet Housten.