Looking for a game

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Hey guys,

I'm looking for a game I played a long time ago and was wondering if anyone could help.  It's a 2d space strategy game similar to Strage Adventures in Infinte Space (which I thought it was, up until last month), but has a more free-roaming aspect to it.  I think there was space cops, trading, missions and the like, too.  The only thing I can specifically remember about it is an item you could get; it was some type of ramscoop that allowed you to travel fast through nebulas by pushing them aside, it was also illegal and if you were caught by the cops, you would be fined or something.  It was also a shareware/try before you buy kind of game, like Strange Adventures in Infinite Space.

Any help would be cool.