Demiclise is probably the better person to answer you Brohawk. Different ships excel at different things. I mostly up to this point flew cruisers since I tend to like to keep moving and do broadsides. Right now my main three are riding around in one of the Jemhadar Cruisers with the wingmen mechanic from the Victory Is Life expansion. I’m sitting on some zen myself waiting for the next 25 to 35 percent sale to come around and I might grab a couple of the cross faction ship packages since I have characters on both sides. Plus I need to grab some extra character slots and some other things from the services section.
I believe they did a game update a while ago that allowed all T6 ships to be claimed once your character was out of the tutorial and it will level up with you. It allowed people to hop in their favorite ships from the beginning.
Mith