Cmdr Eli the Dangerous
Role
Explorer / Adventurer
Registered ship name
Emergence
Credit balance
-
Rank
Elite I
Registered ship ID
Sidewinder Mk I f1rst
Overall assets
-
Squadron
Allegiance
Empire
Power
Independent

Logbook entry

Mission Aborted.

I'm flying around in Bluehairville. Just picking off some Yuri Grombles and Navprat invaders.
Suddenly there's a blurp on my comms.

A mission.

Pick up 6 geosamples from there-and-there
So I check there-and-there on the galaxy map. It's a neighbouring system. So that's okay. Sometimes these donkeycaves make you fly halfway to Triangulum to pick something up.
So hey, I accept the mission. I swap the Sustained Attack, Release Decay for the Only the Cat knows because I need an SRV and make my way to the system.

No problem! I find the site on a planet, land without too much problems and start carting the containers with samples into my ship storage.

And now?

Ah! I need to deliver it on another planet, a small base. Great!
I plot a course, I engage my friendship drive, I get to the planet, well... moon, and I attempt a landing.

Landing request refused.
What?
Landing request refused.
But I...

Then I'm declared hostile...

I try a few more times to deliver the crates... no luck.

So I hang 0.5km above the settlement and jettison my cargo, Hope it hit someone. Bastiches.

Last time I do that. People who offer missions outside the proper channels usually screw things up at some point. The target is missing. the contact keeps jumping in-and-out. There's always something. The credits aren't worth the hassle.
If I want to burn time for no result I'll go mine raw materials.

Get a clause in every contract that reads: "If anything about the mission changes after the mission is accepted the mission giver is obliged to pay 75% of the agreed upon sum immediately. The rest will be paid when the mission is completed if the pilot chooses to complete it."
I invest time. That is what you pay for. If you can't organise your missions properly I should not be the one suffering for it.

I think I'm going to hang around a navigation beacon and get some scans. Maybe chew up some more Grombles.
Today was a good day! I learned something useful!
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