i lost my starship and I need help desperately.

lemme rewind a bit started playing the game a couple of weeks back. I finally made a hyperdrive and went to another star system. i found a distress signal to a nearby planet, which turned out to be part of the main mission. i landed on this planet and went after the signal. found the broken ship and base of someone called Artemis. got the blueprints for advanced mining laser and had to go to space station for wiring loom. I’d added Artemis’ starship to my collection and when i turned to go to my starship, the HUD showed the new starship as ‘my’ starship. it won’t show where my actual starship is and now I’m left with this hunk of junk.

this thing has absolutely nothing in working order, you have to repair a lot of stuff, and some of it requires: a wiring loom. anyway, I tried to summon my ship but it says “you need 25% fuel in launch thrusters to summon. you have 100%”. wtf. I’d checked the launch thrusters before embarking towards the signal, and it had 16% in launch thrusters. I mistakenly assumed that would be enough and went on my merry way.

now how do i get out of this. the only way i see is to restore a previous save, but that would set me back quite a bit. does anyone know any other way?

So I am very new to the game and still figuring things out. I’ve played for about 5 days.

I was doing some exploring and suddenly found myself in a dogfight in space defending a freighter. Cool! I fight off a wave of pirate vessels and survive. Then I am welcomed aboard the freighter, neat! Maybe they’ll reward me! I go aboard the freighter and suddenly they GIFT ME THE FREIGHTER?

Now apparently I’m a freighter captain? With a frigate as well? I have NFI what I’m doing. I’m in over my head! Is this ship my new base? How do I fly it? And do I need to bring the frigate with me somehow?

Can anyone provide me some tips on what I should do? Or some resources I can read up on? Thank you!