right now, you can be a trader, bounty hunter and smuggler.
What I really miss, is starting as a pirate. I went with the smuggler, but I am hostile with
pirates and I am killing loads of enemies of the pirates, but I can only increase my relationship with them
with trade, which takes ages. (With my other character I got +100 with one or two factions just
by murdering pirates; right now I am at -62 or something with pirates although I sold lots of
stuff to them

starting relations with pirates should be neutral or above, if someone selects the "I am pirate"
route.