been playing the game for all of 2 days, so any help would be appreciated:

I'm finding trading a bit arsy to do, and don't seem to make much in the way of cash, so have resorted to blowing away rogues to sell dropped cargo, or taking on jobs (usually police/navy ones). Of course, unfortunately this means I've become a right goodie-two-shoes, and any pirates try to blow the crap out of me (even disrupting trade lanes as I pass). Whats the best way to remedy this?

I wanted to do some piracy myself, but only find freighters near bases, where police are crawling all over. Can i disrupt trade lanes by some means? I tried shooting them but it didn't seem to do much.

How do i find all the bases and stuff that aren't at the end of trade lanes (rogue bases, science stations or whatever)? Once you've found them, do they appear on your map?

I went looking for some wrecks in the cool blue nebula place at the south of the New York system near the Ithaca research station, but couldn't find them. A mate told me they were there, is he bull****ting me?