Just a tip for dodging is to engine kill, then thrust with your afterburner while spinning your mouse (flight) in a circle while strafing at the same time.
You'll still get hit, but far less, and NPC's wont be able to keep up with afterburner speeds forever.
Alright, ... once you got a distance between you and the NPCs (taken they're just fighters) to be out of their weapons range, EK and turn around facing the ships following you.
It'll accomplish the NPCs to stop using their thrusters while you'll still drift with your initial thruster speed away from them. You'll see you'll get rid of those nasty 'lil buggers quite fast that way.
Well, like Aurigae said, I've finally arrived in Chester, so hopefully going to 99 or Iota will be much easier, but thanks everyone for the advice, I'll keep that in mind.
I almost got ganked by a Player Police on the way though, got me really stressed.
Was trying to tell him in alien-speak that I was trying to go back home, which I described as a place of bright lights, then he told me "Don't worry, I'll show you bright lights" then started spamming missiles and stuff at me, thankfully I got away.
I'll also stay in Chester a bit longer though, because I've heard after the next server restart I should finally be able to buy Nomad weapons for my little Morph.