Your best option is to restart your account.

1. Find a low lvl legion (it will provide you with good base production)
2. Your first planets may be better than now
3. Colonize 4+ research planets in the beginning (so you will tech faster)
4. Put your rank point into decks - so you can have all 5 scanners installed
5. Always scan with full buffs - listed above (if you dont have any of those artifacts ask some1 from your legion)
6. You can also choose Explorer profession at the beginning(+20% scan)

Your best option is to restart your account.

1. Find a low lvl legion (it will provide you with good base production)
2. Your first planets may be better than now
3. Colonize 4+ research planets in the beginning (so you will tech faster)
4. Put your rank point into decks - so you can have all 5 scanners installed
5. Always scan with full buffs - listed above (if you dont have any of those artifacts ask some1 from your legion)
6. You can also choose Explorer profession at the beginning(+20% scan)

I'm pretty new to Galaxy Legion, but I understand planets are key. However, perhaps because of my low rank, I have issues finding good enough planets. My scanners are only barely enough to rate a poor chance at finding a planet, because I have only found two with even moderate resources. I find it hard to upgrade my scanners further because I am currently splitting a very rich research/1x mega rich artifact planet (the best I have found) between the two, and the only other OK planet I have found is an Extremely Rich mineral planet.

Everything else I have found has either been Tiny Rich or Massive Sparse in everything else, and it's starting to take all of my energy to simply scan for planets. In the mean time I'm left taking in 19rp/hr boosted by whatever I manage to hack.

Edit: When I say my scanners, I mean after installing four Proximity Scanner Mk IIs and a Proximity Scanner Mk I.

No wonder you can't get any good planets. Research better scan modules. If your scan chance rating says Poor, you're only gonna finid like 1 planet per 6 - 15 scans.

Trust me, I'm trying. But I'm only Rank 8 (6 experience from 9 now, actually), and only obtaining 19 rp/hr. However, I would like to say I'm doing alright with 19 PKs, 0 PDs, and 21 hacks. One of my friends actually has the forum name I'm using as his Galaxy Legion name (He got me to create a facebook just to play it, and I'm enjoying it), so it's a little misleading.

Edit: Emphasis on "like to say". I've only done 2 missions (not completions), because I would like some Dominion Cannons to act as deterrents when I get to a higher level and start doing missions (considering they have some of the highest Attack/Deck for a good few ranks, and would also open up more deck space).

I'm also experimenting with a Power Scout build, because the bonuses smaller ships get are just stupid powerful. Eventually it'll probably turn into a Power Light Frigate once everyone else is about a Frigate size and I need more space for scanners. Thanks for the advice on looking for a good low level legion though - I'm currently in an ok one (although it hasn't been around long enough to get the Loyalty production bonus and looks to be very promising for research after that kicks in!)

Doubledit:
I turned all production from the 1x Mega planet to Research. It was only giving me about 8 research (but a good 30 artipoints) per hour, but I figured until I find a good research planet I need its research more than the artis.

1. DO NOT BOTHER restarting your account... not just yet
   
   1. you're only rank 8... you have plenty of time to find more planets, better planets...
   2. it's only natural that your first few planets might suck.. many of the good planets are already colonized and well cloaked, so it'll take many many scans just to find a good one
2. i agree 19 research per hour sounds a little low... here's a tip... since your planets aren't so good, demolish any attack, defense, or cloak structures on the planets and fill them with whatever the best resource is for that planet...
3. if your scan rating is "poor" it just means there's a 15-40% chance of finding a planet.... 40-70% = fair, and 70-100% = good... but your scan rating doesn't determine whether the planet itself would be any good... it just minimizes the amount of energy wasted between successfully finding planets
4. another tip.... don't bother wasting your red badges on dominion cannons so soon... it's really a waste to buy the lower level dominion cannons, so save up for the Mk 3 dominions.... which you can't even install until you hit lvl 100...... just get yourself 512 red badges to buy the 4 as soon as possible.... THEN... if you're not anywhere near lvl 100 yet... go ahead and get a few more reds to buy ones that you CAN install (but buy your 4 Mk3's first... trust me)
5. also... while you're so low level, go around hacking everyone you can.... get yourself the 3 cipherbots and 4 decryption quad frames as quickly as possible.... i know someone that had 4 quads as low as lvl 20
6. oh, and while you're going around getting your red badges, don't forget to attempt a raid on all those folks you disable.... you'll want to get your protean armories as early as possible

in short.... you're not messed up yet... don't bother resetting, you'll lose your planetary aegis and really not gain anything... you can fix yourself...

Edit: you might want to leave attack and defense structures on your 1x mega rich planet... being so low level don't get discouraged if someone takes that planet... at your level you really have no way to protect it, but a few structures will show people that you're doing your best to protect it

i think there's an absolute 5% chance of a critical fail on both raids and hacks

and maybe just one Dom might be ok...

Is the loss from the raid mostly negligible?

And what does a critical failure do on a hack?

depends on how many crewmembers you have total... if you only have 5 crewmates left, losing 1 is a big hit... but if you have 10000 like some people, losing one is really meaningless (though they still make a big fuss about it)


Critical Success: You will steal the location of a planet in the enemy ship's database
Success: You will steal some research points from the enemy ship
Unsuccessful: No research points awarded
Failure: Enemy ship will counter-hack and steal research from your ship
Critical Failure: Enemy ship will counter-hack and steal the location of one of your planets

Complex Tech Parts

you'll see it called CTP by most people.... and the regular player-trade value is 1 CTP = 10 Kurenite (ku) = 100 Exotic Matter (em)

so for 30 CTP, you can easily find someone that can give you 300 Kurenite.... which if you sell off the minerals in-game, you'll have 360,528,240 credits

you might not see CTP as important to you right now.... at your level, trading some ctp for kurenite is a nice idea.... in the future, you'll have a few things to spend CTP on... but not anytime soon, really


but.................. be careful what you're scrapping.... if it was an item that dropped from an NPC, you'll see more again later... if it came from doing a mission, you probably don't want to scrap it as those are limited in quantity..... if it came from an npc that spawned as a result of completing a mission...... you also don't want to scrap those, they're limited quantity