Best trade route i''ve found GOOD money and NO hostiles!
Then buy yourself a Rhino no guns to it nothing except shiled and maybe nano or shield stuff if u want to waste money on it.
Then travel to colorado if you die just start over and try to get to the next station and don't waste batteries if you don't know u'll make it.
After colorado it will be a little harder take one of the two systems and then go to the shi***u system i think it's there are NO ENEMYS at all, the only problem u'll have is to get there but it isn't impossible...
Anyway then head for New Tokyo and the space station outside it and buy luxuary consumer goods sell all you're nanobots even your shield you won't need it. Head for the hokkaido system and the Ainu Depot owned by GC in sector C6 there you dock with it and sell you're luxuary consumer goods making 600 earnings each for just one system jump and well 30k cruise won't take long at all... and nothing dangerous
Then you buy Cardamine and head back the same way to the station outside New Tokyo and sell em earning 400 a piece or something i think it was. Then after maybe 2 rounds u'll be rich and able to buy the drone freighter on New Tokyo and then continue the trading in maybe 2 hours u'll have a million credits if you are fast and no chance of even dying
That is my tip of trading...