Difficulty?

@GavinRuneblade. On the easy difficulty you will have much more of those neat Battlestations around, giving you support bases. Use them to your advantage as much as you can in the beginning. You can stay around one for a while and wait if enemies would come to it, or to nearby sectors.

Now when you jump in you can always escape back to the Battlestation, and if they follow, well they will be met with a nice surprise It's a trap! Just remember to jump really close to the Battlestation and hide behind it so that the enemies focus fire on it instead of you.

The distress beacons are superb for this, you can simply wait at a Battlestation sector, use it, and have them come right into the trap.

This tactic should give you that good start to a better fleet, and get you further into the game.