I started playing half a year ago, fooled around a bit in open and got away with it (in retroperspective) a long time.
I earned my Cobra MKIII and got a mission for a delivery to a place called Colonia some (?) ly away. Before I realised what I was doing I was on my way into the black with a completely under equipped ship. No AFMU, no DSS, but I still had a blast even though I needed some repairs in between. Thanks to the highway service I made it in one piece. Even managed to finish the mission successfully.
I was happily on my way back out of Colonia, when for no other reason than, I assume, asshattery some dick had a blast at me with his Chieftain.
Apparently killing unarmed explorer ships is what is considered fun to some people. After taking a little break because of other reasons and playing in Solo some time since then I thought there has to be another way to play with non-asshats. So here I am.
Atm I'm trying grinding to unlock engineers unless I'm getting distracted, the next big goal is a fully equipped long-range explorer ship for DW2.
Fly safe and see you out there!