Yes I got there but it seems a bit silly to have to go all the way over there. Really ruins the flow of the story to have to backtrack like that.
I like the difficulty of the CF campaign but it really gets bogged down by having to accumulate 10 million more credits (that I cant even really spend on anything b/c my level is low) in between every mission.
I remember vanilla freelancer you basically just ran a few kill missions in between and you were good to go..
I guess at least when I finally reach a decent level, I can buy anything I want