Burn Jita targets freighters, Bowheads and Orcas. They aren’t typically new player ships.
However, it’s often claimed that this type of ganking is vets targetting new players, so I just went and grabbed the last 6000 highsec killmails (1000 each for Obelisk, Charon, Fenrir, Providence, Bowhead and Orca) and checked the ages of the characters. The data goes back to January 2016, so it covers the last 2 and a bit years completely.
Here’s the averages:
| Summary | ||
|---|---|---|
| Average Age (Days) | 1749.7 | |
| Average Age (Years) | 4.8 | |
| Std Deviation | 1287.5 | |
| Median Age (Days) | 1513.5 | |
| Median Age (Years) | 4.1 |
So the mean age of characters flying freighter size ships being killed in highsec is 4.8 years, with 50% of all the values being above 4.1 years (and some well over 10 years). 84% of all the characters are well over a year old.
Gankers of these size ships don’t appear from the data to target noobs. They just target the ships and in most cases, the data shows that the characters are pretty much veterans.