Free Ships

There are several free ships in X4, their locations can be read about at the Egosoft Forum https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=405524 these are my notes with regard to finding and taking them.

Callisto Sentinal
The first Mission in the Hatikvah Trade Revolution Mission chain is to deliver 250 Medical Supplies, they provide the goods and a Callisto Sentinel Courier to deliver them in. You get the ship for free. That Mission chain is offered when you are close to Hatikvah's Choice I, look in Mission Offers. It might seem like a useless ship but it is worth about 500,000 Credits.

If you are starting the game with a Custom start in a Spacesuit it might be possible to ride the Highway until you are close enough to land at the HAT Trading Station.

Odysseus Destroyer (Faulty Logic 7)
There are two routes to Faulty Logic VII. The second route will avoid most of the mines in the Sector.

Holy Vision ... Faulty Logic I ... Faulty Logic VII

The Void ... Frontier Edge ... Atiyas Misfortune I ... Atiyas Misfortune III ... Faulty Logic VII

From the bottom left gate of Faulty Logic 1 just head straight up the map or head straight left from the gate at the top right of the sector, it should be close to a group of 3 asteroids but on one occasion it was alone so maybe they are random. Usually there is no station closeby but I had no problem avoiding the one in the picture.

Go there with a ship capable of fighting a few Xenon ships which sometimes hang around the gates. Take the ship using the "F" menu and "Claim", you will need a Marine for that. Send a few Engineers across, the ship might be damaged during the Claim and they will repair it. It has 2 or 3 repair drones but they tend to stay still and do nothing. The ship has a lot of mines etc which can be sold.

Faulty Logic 1 is full of mines and the ship is big so avoiding them is hard if you take the short route (right) into HoP (Paranid) space, I read somewhere that if you fly high enough or low enough you can avoid them. I fly through the gate at the bottom left then up through a few more Xenon sectors until I reach The Void.