Locating your own wreckage

[Sable Phoenix]

My first ship got destroyed by pirates in a sector very far from my "home" sector.  I managed to jump back to where the unfortunate circumstance occurred but I can't find the wreck of my first ship or any of the stuff it dropped.  I have nothing except a couple salvage turrets since all my stuff was on the ship that died.  At this point, if there isn't some way for me to locate my original ship's wreck, I might as well delete the galaxy and start over, since I will be in a much better place equipment-wise if I do that.

[thedamngod]

You can try to look for them if you zoom out and enter the strategy mode. That should make the modules and turrets more visible, at least in my experience. Especially since you can move around relatively quickly using that perspective.