Finally got a Vulture last night.
Searched about 20 systems and finally said screw it, made the trip to Anlave (Thanks
KleinerFisch for the tip).
Managed to kit it out in Anlave
to my liking and started the 150ly jump back to my home system.
Along the way, I ran into an Elite Sidewinder as I was scooping at a star. He came towards me, got within range so that I thought he was going to interdict me, but instead, he turned and ran. No Fun. But I was going to get a chance to Pew Pew in a few jumps anyways.
Got 2 jumps from my home system and was interdicted by an Eagle (Competent i think it said) and throttled back. The usual "Time to die" blah blah and I went FAO and faced him and got a scan. Wanted. Perfect. But I had never shot at another ship in the game, not including the training missions. Deployed hardpoints and started to track him. In my excitement of a my first battle, I accidentally switched weapon groups and couldn't figure out why i had no guns. Retract, Deploy, Retract, Deploy. Oh wait. Let me check the groups. Oh! Look Guns!. I lined him up and put 4 pips into weapons.
Squeezed the trigger and in what felt like a LONG time (actually about 10 seconds) he exploded! 16,000 Credit Bounty Awarded. NICE! First Kill. He hit me a few times, but shields didn't even drop a ring. I had just had my first battle in Elite. Discovered that the bounty was local, so I headed to a local station to collect.
I have to say, that it was a huge thing for me to fight another ship, even though it was like an elephant stepping on a mouse. I have been interdicted hundreds of times. But always ran. My T6 and my Hauler have no weapons. In fact, I only today put a chaff launcher on my T6. So this was a huge step for me.
Later today, I will look for a RES area and see what I can get into. Probably will be killed lol But I have my First kill.
Cant wait to see my Rating Change from Harmless.