Smuggler: you need a blockade runner. and forget about drugs and such. youll be smuggling cheap things from high security space to sell at 300% profit in null. takes about a month just for the ship, and another 120-160days to get the skills you need to fly it effectively.

Pirate? if you have friends you can enjoy piracy as a tackler approximately 24-72 hours from new account. all you need is a frigate, microwarpdrive skills, and propulsion jamming to 3.

For the dustbunnies who are not eve players a tackler is someone who flies a cheap, expendable ship, and uses speed as their main defense while rendering warp drives useless and effectively immobilizing ships that can cost millions, or even billions of ISK helpless so their buddies with the big guns can pound them to scrap. frigates are the best tacklers, and with a bit more work interceptors are tech 2 frigates that specialize as tacklers.

If you get tackled by a taranis, you are dealing with the frigate equivalent of a pitbull. its not as fast as its contemporaries, but it packs the firepower to massacre cruisers and battlecruisers that arent prepared for it.