No real tutorial/intro possible other than the in-game tuts, which i have no idea if they're useful or not.
Best way to get your head around things is to just throw yourself in there and join up with a knowledgeable faction (or several)
Watch youtube tuts/read forums etc
GenXNova server is a nice place if you wanna find an established faction to learn from, not too farmy & an active community of everything from the absolutely clueless to the absolutely neckbearded. Bitminery is another interesting one, less restrictive albeit more farmy & a relatively young but growing community. Best place to learn the absolute basics if needed is just single player, download some ships from CC, give them a look and appraise the stats/looks of each to get an idea of good & bad building techniques/system designs, fight some pirates, figure out factories etc.