So things have not been going so well. I have failed one mission and cannot complete another.  It looks like my Intrepid is just not up to the task and I am using the wrong ammo along with the wrong guns.  I need to get a Breacher and fix some rail guns to it to try and work from range against these Pirates.  I am down to my last 24 isk and it is not looking very clever.  I may well be reduced to searching around asteroid belts for  something to kill in order to get the right type of mission.  Another option might be to try courier missions, but there again I cannot afford the collateral.

Its seems my first steps into New Eden have been a complete failure.  How am I to even begin to get to know my fellow Pod Pilots without having some credibility!!