A little Mining trip
27 Sep 2019Marcus1701
Location set, ship loaded, targets to meet.I need to mine 10 tons of painite so I can visit of the engineers. I have been working towards this ever since I knew I could get my first Cutter. My first attempt almost ended in disaster as I was ambushed while leaving a system. Cutter's are fine mighty ships but they fly like bricks.
This time I went to a new system, I knew it was loaded with painitie hotspots. Taking with me a second crew member and a fighter, I wanted to make sure I could do this trip with no problems. Of course as you hit the location no matter how quiet it is, you always seem to find a pirate.
My first one scanned me, nothing in the cargo hold. I lunched my fighter cover and that scared him off. Now for session of mining. Quickly I found my first astroid loaded with minerals and watched as my cargo hold filled. I kept a watching brief on my scanner, at odd times I saw approaching ships and readied to leave in a hurry.
Fortunately no one bothered me and I kept on filling the hold. Finally I reached my target, a simple 10 tons. A few bits over so I could make a profit. Nice for just an hours work. Now the tricky part, get to a station. I recalled my fighter, set myself to combat just in case and locked in a station.
Full throttle, head out wait for the green light. Finger hovering over the super cruise button. Green light and go! Ok first part done, now fly and scan. The station was not far but you know that someone will be after you. It seemed like hours that last few light years. Then I made it. However, someone was still trying to get but I was inside the safe zone.
Others responded and and he quickly left. Sit back let the automatics guide me in and land. Sell what I did not need and keep the 10 tons. Now all I have to do is reach the engineer. How difficult can that be?