Unless alpha/beta takes care of this urge, I'm planning on playing Squadron 42 before entering the 'verse, which concerns me slightly about getting late to the bigger game. We'll see.
I've got a Super Hornet for escort duty. I might get into military action, or I may just prefer to run PVE bounties and escort/protection. It'll depend on how good of a pilot I am, relatively speaking.
I'm also interested in something related to exploration/trade and might eventually buy a Freelancer. For now I have a 315p that I plan on wandering around in, though I might opt to turn it into a stealth-and-speed bucket and do blockade running or courier missions with it.
My interest is in coordinated actions with similarly minded folks, be that 501 actions or something more broad. My reality, though, is that I don't know that I'm gonna have that kind of time to dedicate to things, so I may default into things that I can do to contribute with odd and infrequent play hours.
Edit: It might be interesting early on for those of us with LTI to take our unmodified base ships and dogfight each other to both develop and test our skills. It'd be useful to know how we rank with each other in terms of dogfighting skill, as well as who's got a mind for squadron-level tactics.