I don't want to have to go try to fight someone with jank weapons
Non-jank weapons: Plasma, Rails, Frags, Pacifiers, Missiles. Rarely — beams (high skill and demands at least some knowledge of reverski maneuver); Also, most other weapons can be used as supplementary for your build.
And no, you can’t stop faster ship from waking unless you kill it’s FSD module. It’s difficult to stop even a similar speed ship from running. But if you’re good, it’s possible. Sometimes