Enter the Elite
03 Aug 2019Tenescio
This update comes from my new office in Jameson Memorial. You won't believe how expensive it is to set up here, but I bought a small apartment in one of the higher-grav sections of the station. I don't want to think about how much this office space is to rent, but I regularly get a lovely view of the Founder's World. Got elite rank in trading, and now I have all of the perks. I sold the Asp Explorer like I said I would, and traded in for the Vanus, a Python-model mining vessel I outfitted extensively myself. It is a multi-role vessel often used for combat patrols, but this classy ship can carry so much cargo it almost seems a shame to outfit it for combat. You can load it up with cargo racks, a pulse wave analyzer, a surface scanner, an abrasion blaster, and a seismic charge launcher and still have slots and hardpoints left over to set a gimballed large multicannon under the nose and two large burst laser turrets on top. Pips to weapons and systems will take care of most pirates in the rings. Full pips to engines lets you outrun the rest.
What a ship. And yet, somehow, I have begun a collection of ships. It is too easy on Jameson Memorial: you get all the best deals here. I picked up an Alliance Chieftain that needs to be finished outfitting for a dedicated fleet escort. I never realized how many pirates there are in the bubble, but it's pretty essential to have a dedicated combat vessel. On top of that, the news about the Thargoids is unnerving... I went to Maia myself, a short two-day voyage in my new Diamondback. I needed to pick up meta-alloys from Darnielle's Progress for Felicity Farseer - its time to get my ships engineered and tuned up. I wasn't prepared for the amount of non-human signal sources that showed up on the scanners. It was extremely eerie.
I think I also need to get in contact with a group of other commanders. Running my own operations as a private void opal contractor is profitable, but I think getting involved with an organization that can give me more purpose than money... well. I already am an elite trader. It would be nice to work together out in the black. Make some friends, you know?
Maybe I should just hire a fighter pilot.