To earn the biggest profits right away go straight for starship ai valves, they'll net you a solid 50 million units each when you scrap the right ships. The real money makers after that are crafting stasis devices or fusion igniters, which bring in about 15.6 million units per piece, but you'll need some serious setup for those. If you're just getting started, scrapping s class or exotic ships for compressed indium scraps is a decent option, pulling about 3 million units each time.

Something interesting to keep in mind, storm crystals can be a nice backup plan during extreme weather, selling for 200k each if you're brave enough to hunt them down. The fastest path to serious wealth is definitely ship scrapping for those ai valves, but if you enjoy the crafting side of things, setting up a production line for stasis devices can be really satisfying once it's running.

Theres also been talk about some new ultra valuable item that just dropped, but maybe hold off on chasing that until there's more solid info about it.