The best spots for top tier fighters are gonna be those wealthy systems, where you'll want to look for words like opulent or affluent in the economy scanner. Space stations are your main hunting grounds, and you can park yourself at a trading post on any planet to watch ships roll in. Getting into a freighter battle is actually pretty reliable too, just make sure to create a save point before warping since you might need a few tries to get the class you want.

A lot of folks share portal coordinates for guaranteed s class finds these days, which is super helpful if you're after those sweet supercharged slot versions. While you're searching around, might be worth checking out sentinel interceptors, since defeating them can lead you to some pretty impressive crashed variants that pack quite a punch in combat.

What is worth remembering, is that ships will keep cycling through if you reload your save or leave and come back to the system, so dont get discouraged if you don't spot what you're looking for right away. The key is staying in those high-economy systems, since that's where the good stuff tends to show up more often.