It was a late 90's to early 2000's space mmorpg, 3rd person view game, that revolved around space ship combat, trading, and glaxaxy exploration. You started out on Earth with this little crappy shuttle craft and had to work and trade your way up to better guns and ships all while avoiding raiding ships from enemy aliens that were in your area. Once you got better weapons and better ships you could start exploring the massive galaxy map where there were other hidden systems containing either hostile or freindly alien races.

Ive been looking for this game for about 10 years now and cannot for the life of me remember what the name of it was. Someone help me out!