New player

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I've played freelancer on & off since release, but it's been a good few years since i last played & wanted to play something more than
boring vanilla & in an active server with a good community, bear in mind the mod & all it's content is new to me, so i just explored
Pennsylvania & New York & kept myself to myself looking for some trades in a confined & relatively safe zone until i got used to the
controls again & adjusted to the mod content & the server play style/rules etc, within an hour of doing a couple of small runs i got
lane hacked & fired upon, guy looked like an npc as it showed him as a rouge & there was some npcs about firing, i tried to get back
in the jump lane only to be disrupted & shot at, to which i returned fire in defense but was killed with a full cargo.

Apparently im within the lvl parameters to be involved in pvp/rp but i feel this is bs to be fair, im a noob in a new trade ship with
nothing of real value & im getting raped by players who should know better to be fair, it's enough having to re-learn the game as
well as all the mod content, new ships, weaps, commodities, trade runs etc, ontop of this a large set of server rules & rp do's &
do not's, i was hoping the noobie starting system would offer me a small sheltered zone to re-familiarize myself with the game &
learn the new content/rules etc without being trolled, rp or not.

Without being overwhelmed with long & forum posts & rules, is there any post or resource towards a basic rundown of the mod
content & rules or a good guide to starting off please?