[Dracus]

There is a strat guide in the mod section that answers alot of questions.
As for the attack, You can not excape was combat begans. You can run around and hope that your ship is faster then the attacking ship. Most of the time you will lose the unarmed ship. I personally ram my unarmed ships into the attacker. If I am going to lose it, maybe I can damage the enmey ship and they have to go back for repairs.
I did this with a large transport and the two ships got stuck together. Neither exploded. At the end of combat we both had un movable ships.

As for dropping sats in space, You can do this. You have to built a ship with Sat bays.