Thera is going to be a bloodbath at first. So many groups are going their and if you can't put together a good t3 fleet you'll likely just get farmed.
It mentions in the above blog that we will be able to manually pilot using WASD in rhea. I tried it on test server and it's pretty great. It's like CCP is going through the checklist of every change players want in the game and implementing them all.
Check in the FOH in game channel if you don't know what to do. We have people who do everything, from brave guys and other null sec alliances, to wormhole people, to low sec/npc null pirates.
Brave is great if your a newbie and want to get in on big null fights, although many null alliances also recruit newbies and have very good services for them also. If your not too interested in the gigantic fleet battles i would at least take a good look around at other corps. Personally, I like smallish/medum sized fleets (like 10-100 per side) with expensive subcaps and limited caps so I found a corp for that. Whatever you want to do in eve it's about finding a corp that does it.