Noob mistake #1: No firepower

Back in high/low when I would explore I would often find sites completely unguarded by rats and those few that I would come across I could just speed tank while my hobgoblins clean up whatever's there. This not the case in null however and my measly dps from 3 tech 1 drones isn't going to cut it. After checking a few sites out and pooping myself after seeing the npc spawns I realized that I didn't really bring any firepower whatsoever. Once I got back to  the station I jump cloned back to jita and I'm fitting up some pew pew now. Hopefully after this I won't have to come back to high sec for awhile. Kinda kills the whole living in null sec thing