Improving my moderate ship

Hello :)
i was asked how i can collect uri ,creds before
im doing bks joining some outfits and doing missions
i have 20 bo2 17 lf3
Now i bought a pet its lv 5 and what shall i do?
Note:i dont have rebate, pre or anything
lvl up my pet to 8 buy a auto looter gear 3 with some radar protocol (so i will have a uri source)
or buying a diamond design to help in pvm and buying some booty keys or
buying log disk (im 9pp now) to improve my ship
or just do my pet 8 take a resource collector to do pally (but in my server the ships are really aggressive to do pallies cant even pally for 30 min)
i really spended time in this game and i still want to play :)
Thank you guys for your helping (before your tips helped me a lot and i still need tips :) )

Hmm without even premium it´s a bit difficult but I would do 2 things at the same even if it sounds a bit too much for a new player:

The better way in this case is indeed go for Pet level 8 buy ressource collector and go for pally (30 minutes collecting is good on some server u don´t even have 5 minutes, sometimes even somebody wait at entry of the field). Best tip: Get a Vengeance. With it u collect faster than with goli.
The second way is to buy auto looter and 3-4 radar protocols and put the PET when u shoot aliens. Also buy the trading gear for 5.000 Uri so you can sell the cargo. (Don´t listen to somebody who says this is not good because of fuel: your PET would need 1+8x2+4x2+2x4=33 fuel/minute this means for 30 seconds it needs 17 fuel. this are 4,25 Uri for selling a full cargo.)

You can go pally and collect and when u see there is too much trouble then u can go on x-6 shoot cubes (if the big players allow you to do so) or at least collect the cubes cargo because not much people do it. Then shoot some (Boss-)Kristalins and look at the borders and edges if there are some nearly shoot down.

With the collected credits from cargo selling u buy an Aegis in trade and after some time (or at same time, you will see if u have enough Uri) u buy diamond formation. Aegis can heal much more HP than shield so u can even stand on x-7 and shoot a Kristalon. And in Gates it is also easier.