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Jump around to different planets and get encounters with Crimson Fleet ships. Take out their engines, board, and steal their ships. Just be aware that once you pay the registration fee on the ship, you'll only net maybe 2k credits upon selling it. If you're interested in stealing ships for credits, there are many more lucrative options (though you definitely could score a decent amount of contraband with the aforementioned strategy).
Without flat-out telling me "Go to X place and do Y", what are the better options? Am I just getting bad ship spawns or is it something to do with selling unregistered ships to a location I may have not yet found? Or is it just me needing to go full space pirate and embrace bad decisions?
You can accept missions from the mission terminals to take out pirate ships.
Bet, I've largely avoided the terminals cause I'm usually doing faction quests. I'll keep this in mind.
This, but you can only reliably take out the engines if you put a skill point in targeting. Then there is a trick to sell them for a bit more. First find all contraband on the ship or you'll get caught when you enter most systems. Then sit in the chair to take ownership. Press Tab or whatever controller equivalent for the menu is, and pick Ship in the lower left corner. There should then be a key to press to register the ship and for some reason it's cheaper there than at dealers. Then the ship can be sold.
Oh also you can't fly some ships without upgrading your pilot level to B or C. I boarded a really nice pirate ship and couldn't fly it, had to leave it. :(