Your equipment requires your skills. You skills require your equipment.

Warp Core Stabilizer. (overwrites enemy warp disruptors)
Burst ECM. (overwrites enemy's target lock on you)
Guidance Disruptor. (lessens damage from enemy missiles)
Tracking Disruptor. (ruins enemy turret tracking)
Shield Booster and Shield Boost Amplifiers.
Sensor Boosters with ECCM scripts. (overwrites enemy ECM)
Remote Shield Booster. (boosts your friends' shields)

Your weapons are usless if you're not in range.
Not all stations have the services you are looking for.
Core probe launchers help you find wormholes and other cosmic anomilies.

Bounties are paid every 20 minutes.
Research the original blueprint in order to enhance the blueprint copies that result from it.
Your blueprints have to be in the item hanger in order for them to be used