You made a good decision i think going for ships. The hyper drive bundle doesnt give you a huge advantage in ships, and a lot of players dont really care.
So onto the questions
1. Geo ships and their pilots, they are a great starter line up. Pair them with silencer from kylo and the vulture droid and you got a good fleet right away. Those ships appear in the GW store.
2. If you are not going phoenix dont buy chopper. But buy boba instead. He has a great ship and is a great stand alone character early in the game. If you run out of ship building materials you can always buy some of them there.
3. Correct, nothing else to say to that.
4. I would buy tarkin after kanan. After that you can get upgrade materials for capital ships or buy either mace windu or ackbar for their capital ships (i recommend ackbar, his ship is better) once you reach level 85 you will need 2 fleets for grand arena so might aswell start preparing for that.
5. Depends on what you want. Phoenix ships are kinda lack luster without a full rebel fleet including the millenium falcon. But phoenix does give you thrawn and palpatine. First order is also a great team to get. But their ships need the finalizer which is harder to get.
Since you already have jedi, it might be a good idea to go for jedi revan. No ships but it is a great squad for squad arena and grand arena.
6. Anakin, ezra and yoda all have great offense. If you run these under a bastilla shan lead you can drop out old ben or ahsoka, for some extra damage. And with bastilla you have enough survivability with the protection up. Once you get jedi revan he will boost their damage, but for now mods and gear are your best bet to increase their offense.
Some other things to consider is the hounds tooth. Its still one of the best ships in the game and gives you the millenium falcon, the finalizer and the raddus.
Also once you reach level 65 and do guild events, eventually you can earn guild event tokes 2. With these tokens you can buy 2 capital ships, the negotiator (with general kenobi) and the malevolence (with general grievous) these 2 ships are the best capital ships in the game so far. Pick 1 you want and only buy those blueprints. The currency is rare so dont waste it trying to bet both at the same time. Both are great and you cant choose the wrong one. Depending on your guild it could take very lomg to unlock them, but since you have some separatist ships already the malevolence might be a good option to get first. However if you plan on getting general skywalker quickly, you will need a galactic republic fleet so it is best to go for the negotiator. So it really depends on what you plan on doing or going for.
Do know that you dont need the negotiator for general skywalker, you can use mace windus capital ship.
I hope this explains it, otherwise just ask.
