Yeah it definitely took awhile to sell all the data, couple days....Was nervous at first flying around with all the data, didn't want to get shot down and lose all of it, but after a couple interdictions I got the feel for it, and my worries went away. For some reason I remember it being harder to evade interdictions, maybe flying a DBX made it easier, but out of only maybe 7 or 8 interdictions I failed one on purpose and just boosted away, the others I just played the blue circle mini game and won every time.....Docking was the hardest part to relearn, it was ugly haha....
First I figured i should unlock Alioth and Sirius, then I wanted to grab those relics for elvira martuuk, brought those over, and used data to level her up to grade 5, still had data left, so I googled for people's favorite empire systems, bounced around getting allied with systems around Cubeo, Cemiess, Wu Guinagi, and Cartu...got allied with empire, still had data to sell. Noticed Azrael was nearby, so got Allied with Order of Mobius
Next i googled some federations spots, got allied with systems around Lembava, Tun, Rhea, and a few spots around Sol (still have to rank up to unlock Sol), got allied with fed, so figured I should hit up alliance next....was only able to get allied with the factions in Alioth and a few systems around there before running out of data
Was kinda cool hitting all those spots in the bubble, now I have a much better understanding of where everything is, Think I'm going to do the bubble ELW/TFC tour for that last 25% for elite then try out some other stuff