Still have the feeling that this is an alt char of a veteran player.

But still a good read and gives new players an insight that low-sec is NOT as bad as their coward NPC School corp dwellers say.
And if it actually is a genuine new player....Welcome to EVE, younare going to make it far into EVE with that attitude.

I already admitted I played eve years ago for a few months. But certainly not a veteran. I would offer to give you my API thingy but then you would know my main and put a bounty on me like you promised to so, that wont happen.
So I will take your backhanded compliment.

I dont trust any API. It only shows one account, if you have multiple it wont show. Anybody who justifies that an API check is a solid proof of something is a ******.

And the compliment is genuine, I really like the post and it is true and I like the attitude about jumping into low-sec as a new-ish player.

Then I genuinely thank you.
You will have to take my word for it that I am a new player. I cannot prove otherwise. If your doubt is sown by the knowledge I show in the OP let me say this. I simply did as I was advised in the many places a newbie receives such wisdom. I wanted to specialise in exploration, planetary interaction and scanning/scouting. I did want to get into the low-sec areas because all the guides point out, you make better money there.
So I Googled and used the search feature to find the information I need to make the risks as minimal as possible. I simply did as you yourself tell people to do, research. I then thought, rather than say "get out of empire and discover" to tell a my story in a manner that made for a nice read. I hope I succeeded
I am learning that the "trust no one" attitude prevalent in this game is justified in many instances, but I fail to see what I gain by being duplicitous in describing my learning curve.
Maybe you are a born cynic?

*edit*I also wanted to brag and show off a little that I had made so much money from PI which for the most part is passive income.

Maybe for the next step, you might want to look into some NPC null-sec or Providence. Null is even better then low-sec with the benefit of not having to deal with sec. status hits when you do shoot someone and of course it pays out even better.

Excellent stuff OP!
Good to see that you did your research before embarking on your business too.

Sooner or later, you will get your ship destroyed in low-sec, possibly with a haul of valuable cargo.
This will be the true test of your grit; you'll either become another nay-sayer who spends all their time in high-sec misinforming other new guys with tales of insta-death on arrival of a 0.4 system... or you'll analyse what happened, learn from it and become a more savvy low-sec industrialist

spoils.

So, reading many posts and researching topics on this forum indicated to me that in order to reap large rewards in this game one needs to take large risks.

It was with some trepidation that I pressed that button "yes I want to jump into lowsec" But I did it, heart pounding, blood sounding loud in my ears. My hauler appeared on the other side of the gate with a hold full of command centres. I actually felt a little faint when I saw my controls indicated that there were no pilots within shooting range. I, with shaking hands, aligned to my trusty ship to safe spot I had scouted out earlier in the day. What was only seconds felt like time was dilating but eventually the reassuring roar of my warp engine kicked me in the ass and hurled me through space. I arrive at my safe spot and was able to cloak my ship. "phew, first gate done!" I was now able to scan the next gate for anyone that might take a fancy to my new ship. 448.000 ISK and the command centres were at risk, but the lure of those two planets I had scanned in a 0.2 system kept me focussed. I was gonna make millions if only I could get to them and start my colony.
The scan of the gate was good, all clear. Coming out of warp on top on top of the gate started my pulse racing again. The gate activated and I held my breath. "YES! This is actually going to work." All clear only one person showing on the local comms. channel in the system and my hasty, hand shaking, database searching showed him to be of good standing with concord. I quickly warped to my safe spot so I could deploy my command centres.
The deployment could not have gone better. I was now the proud owner of two planetary stations and was extracting raw materials. I planed on making different P2 materials as my research showed that that was the sweet spot for profit with my current skill.
Four days have passed and I now have 2000m3 of P2 materials to get out of low sec to sell them. I found a spike in the price on both items I made. But there is a problem, I have to get it to the station. "To the brave go the spoils" This would be simply a reverse of how I got it set up.
After an hour of nervous energy I have the mats safely in the station that I need to sell at. I made 12 million ISK gross profit. Damn those export taxes! But I am deliriously happy. I took the advice I got from seasoned veterans and it paid off. I had tried this planetary stuff in high security space and only made a quarter of what I have now made in the same time in 0.2.
Maybe next time I will not be so lucky, but I am going to have a lot of fun finding out.


Take a chance fellow newbies, it is exhilarating

My next plan is to start exploration to find rare ores but at the moment I have geared my skills to exploration and industrial things, so combat skills are lacking. I think my next move should be a low sec corp. Keeping my options open at the moment though.

Remember to use the maps, be they ingame or DOTLAN(google it) to figure out how dangerous any given system is, using the stats like "pilots in space" and "ship/pod kills in the last x hours"

...loads of good stuff.