Tending the Fields
17 Apr 2020Flambard Quinceteth
Been a little while since I've been back home to Ray Gateway. A lot of nothing has happened, and it's been right up my alley.I left Farseer and, per her recommendation, headed out to Borann for a little mining. Wandering those asteroid fields is magnificently serene; just pootling about, hopping between asteroids, giving them a scan, and blasting away for anything good. Took me a fair while to get my bearings, and I wasted a number of limpets on poor positioning. Spent a good few hours there, mind, just listening to my thoughts and the whispers of the universe. Reminded me a lot of of driving through the outback back on Earth, with nothing but a vast emptiness to occupy your horizon.
I managed to come out with around 50 tonnes of diamonds, which was one hell of a haul to me. I dropped them off at a nearby station, and collected nearly 80m in credits! It's one hell of a lot more profitable than I expected it to be, if I'm honest! All flush with cash, I spent the evening buying out a bar on the station, and, in my excitement, may have been a little too loud about how I got my earnings. All worked out, though. Friendly fella overheard and we got to talking about the operation; turned out he was a dab hand at mining himself and he recommended I funnel my earnings straight back into it. I was pretty gone by that time, but we met up for lunch the next day, and he ran me through how he had outfitted his Python for mining.
I echoed his layout, and commissioned the Folly of Veracity. He's one heck of a boat: kitted for both laser and core mining, pretty damn tanky, can handle almost 200t of cargo, and, for a brick, he flies pretty good! I took the Folly straight back out to Borann and, working on my flight control, was able to fill the hold in only a couple of hours! I'd more than quadrupled my efficiency, and, when it came time to off-load, I stumbled across a system in boom, and managed to get over 230m for the haul! God damn.
I'm back at Ray's now. Got myself a Krait Phantom, which I intend to take back out to Farseer and show her what her recommendation got me. Fittingly, I've christened it the Mendicant of Excess. Reckon Felicity'll enjoy that, and I'm excited to see what she can do with what's under the hood. I made some of my own tweaks to the Jaunte, and have really specialised it for long distance exploration. Looking forward to heading back out into the black.
Flambard out.