You’ll first start on a barely functioning fighter. Energy and engines should be the Engineer’s focus. The fighter may start running out of air due to a failing environmental system. You’ll need to find a better ship to move to in the junkyard before suffocating. The next ship will be nearly as damaged as the first, but it has greater overall potential. Captured repair crew from the station should help you assuming you help them escape the same Kraylor brig you were in. They not only help with repairs, they know people on various stations that can make even more repairs. The junkyard owner may sic his enforcer on you. The enforcer normally should be easy to deal with, but with your “borrowed” ship in its current state, you will need to think carefully on how to defeat the enforcer.

Once you start visiting these other stations as recommended by your enthusiastic rescued repair crew, your ship will get closer to full functionality. Once you get your communications fixed and switched over to Human Navy, all you need to do is dock with any Human Navy station. Of course, all those Kraylor that were neutral to your ship while it was Independent will now be hostile…