The Interceptors are no joke.
Yeah even with the one krait mk 2 prebuilt ax combat ship i bought i cant 1v1 a interceptor no matter how much i try though with scouts and hunters they are easy to go 1v1 but interceptors are on another level youre lucky to even get it xeno scanned and destroy 1 of its hearts thats how far i have gotten other than that they just shoot you with their lightning and bring your shields all the way down, they also slow your ship down and by the time you wanna escape your hull is at 10% i tried adding more hull reinforecments but nope that didnt work.