- Hire the Teladi Albatross
- Buy a Solar Power Plant
- Transport it to the Greater Profit system
- Deploy it near the crystal plant
- Buy crystals at the crystal plant and stock them in your solar
power plant
- Check the price of energy cells at the other two solar plants in
the system and adjust yours to make good profit fast
After getting some money, buy a telardinium mine and a freighter.
These produce profit fast and with no attendance like the solar
plant, except to get the credits
Hints:

The best thing you can do in the beginning is to buy and
sell energy units. Buy energy from solar power plants that
have a lot of energy (they'll sell it cheaper), and sell
them to various factories that are low on energy to make
a fast profit.
Once you've saved up about 15,000 credits, talk to one of
the transports in the system and have it accompany you when
you buy a power plant of your own. You'll need the transport
to carry the new power plant to the system in which you want
to open up shop. Find a system that's low on power plants,
and park yours next to a cluster of factories to rake in the
big bucks.
Don't attack or destroy any Xenon buildings until you reach
the appropriate quest. You won't be able to complete the
quests required to win the game if you destroy one of the
crucial Xenon targets before the quest flag is set.