Damn the Imperial Cutter is expensive to A rate

Like the title says, after spending probably 4-6 hours grinding to get the rank of Duke I purchased my Cutter only to find the thing has a BASE jump range of basically zero. Spent some credits ti have it shipped to my home station and then promptly discovered that upgrading it to hopefully A rating is going to cost at least 50 million credits per part. I guess I’m going to need to find some laser mining to do in order to earn the credits before I can fly this thing