I can't handle all the moonshine and HGE's!
01 Oct 2021SolidSapien
It all started when I was on my way to engineer a new ship. It should have been SO easy.I'm building a new Anaconda long range xeno exploration ship and I'm running around the Bubble collecting the few various grade 5 materials I'm out of, trading those, and stopping off at various engineers to have them apply their special touches. On my way to Deciat to visit with Ms Farseer, I passed through the Velli system. I stopped and took a t look at the old non-functional unregistered comms beacon, and while doing that, received a mission request. Someone just needed me to jump one system over, grab 9 bottles of hooch they'd left on a planet, then deliver the moonshine to their surface base in the Velli system. I always turn these missions down, but this one, this one paid 800,000 for such a simple job, so I accepted! I jumped the effortless 10ly to the Xinca system, found my target body, and landed only a few minutes later. Not only did I collect the booze, but I also found two xenofauna to scan near my ship as a bonus! Going great! Then I headed back to Velli with plenty of time to kill.
I don't know WHAT is up with the Velli system. Nothing stands out about it. I arrived and discovered three active High Grade Emissions (HGSs)! Cool, I thought! So, because I had plenty of time to finish the mission, I started harvesting the HGEs. These were great because I still needed a few grade 5 materials. After harvesting those three HGSs, I did an FSS scan of the system, and found two more! I harvested those, scanned, and found two more! These crazy thing keep popping up here, all full of Grade 4 and 5 materials. They stopped popping after those 7, and I proceeded down to the planet to drop off the liquor. Only to discover they ONLY HAD A SMALL LANDING PAD@! (Remember I'm in my new Anaconda outfitting it?) Geesh! Then I realized I have a cargo hold of illegal alcohol which is illegal in Deciat, and no way to get safely there and, because I have the cargo, I can't just jump into any old ship to complete the delivery.
So, I looked around a bit and found an intoxicant friendly system with a large pad and a shipyard. They only had a few ship to select that came stock with enough cargo space, so I selected the old reliable Cobra MkIII. I outfitted the poor thing with scraps of A grade, B grade, E grade, and even a C grade module from what they had available and headed back to the Velli system. I immediately dropped my clinking cargo at the planet! They even gave me a bonus which doubled the price, leaving me with a profit after buying the new little Cobra! Awesome! I went back out into the system and scanned again. Yep, sure enough, three more HGEs showed up, then two more....
And wow, will I ever finish my Anaconda?