Starfield has such random and organic storytelling if you let it

Restarted the game now that i have some time into it, am familiar with the game system etc. I make a Bounty Hunter as i like its starting skills and RP potential. I added wanted as it gave me an in game reason why my character is laying low as a miner in some backwater.

So i leave the mine, Barrett shows up and i leave on the Frontier. When the Crimson Fleet shows up i was able to disable their ship, board it , kill the crew and hippy hoppity now their ship (a Crimson Fleet Ghost) is my property. (the game could do a better job recognizing that im no longer on the Frontier btw) . So i make it to New Atlantis, meet the folks at Constellation, return their ship and say "i'll think about it" to working together further. At this point my character is happy to be offplanet (mining sucks) happy to have his own ship (even if it is a bucket of bolts) and eager to make some money to support himself. I start taking some jobs at the local mission board to ship freight and hunt down Pirates. While doing this im able to capture a Crimson Fleet Phantom which is a nice upgrade! (PROTIP : when signing up for mission board quest be careful when you sign up for both cargo missions AND pirate killing missions as you'll double up the number of Crimson fleet ships that show up and it can be overwhelming) Unfortunately the ship came with some valuable contraband and im not willing to just jettison it into space. but its keeping me from returning to major settlements. i find a planet in the middle of nowhere with a small settlement and i go to see if i can offload the goods. They dont buy contrband however but notice a ship coming into a landing off in the distance so i go investigate (you know in case its another ship upgrading waiting to happen :p ) Turns out its some smugglers and they are wondering why im early. I tell them because im in a hurry and to hand over the goods so i can get moving. They do and off i go with more loot. i finally try to make it through customs and make it to the red mile to unload the contraband (I had to make sure that the contraband on the dead pirates on the ship was moved to the shielded cargo hold) i stayed too long on the red mile though as when i enter orbit a certain smuggler is pretty missed at me for swiping his cargo. i tell him to piss off but hes got 3 friends and i dont like those odds to i send all power to the Grav drive to bounce out of there in a hurry. I nearly make it back to New Atlantis (damn this Phantom has a shotglass for a fuel tank) when that Price on my head comes back to haunt me. Bounty Hunters here for my head , or at least a bribe to make them "forget" they saw me. Unlike the smuggler the odds are better here so i fight them off.... I've been getting by before by hiding in plane sight but that might not be working anymore , maybe its time to talk to the folks at constellation