Renegades are always trying to kill you, there aint nothin' you can do about that.
As for a ship, try the turncoat (controversy :)). it's what most of the other pirates use, and is pretty crappy. However, in the right hands with the right weapons it can be very lethal. I managed to complete the whole game usng only a turncoat (plus the shuttle I used to get the 1.5 mill).
It can hold 3 turrets, and if you ditch the Blaze's and go with some Neutrons you'll be laughing. Get all the speed / turn ungrades and the jamming equipment and you can run away from pretty much everything. Oh, and one last final thing, definatly get rid of the krait bay. To put it frankly, Kraits suck, by an Azdara bay.
Oo! Just had an idea for EV 3, how about being able to re-paint your ship. It shouldn't be too hard to add a few extra transparrency layers in their to enable you to chose from a set of predefined colours. Then they'd be arguments over which ship / colour combination their would be I suppose...
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Oh, I'm sorry. Did that break your concentration?
I didn't mean to do that.
Please, continue.
I believe you were saying something about "best intentions."
-Jules. Pulp Fiction
"He must have made that before he died."
- Yogi Berra (on seeing a Steve McQueen movie)