Now I am the Master
25 Jul 2021Captainfink
So it's been a while since my last update and a lot has happened. Looking back at my last update, I managed to achieve my immediate goals. First, a trip back to Robigo to earn some buffer cash. A few days out there running passenger missions was enough to net a few hundred million. Hopefully enough to complete outfitting the corvette. And so to take "Sagan", my new long range explorer out for a first run. I had heard of crystal shard sites good for gathering g5 raw materials and so I plotted a course. Once outside the bubble, I changed my route plotting to most economical. Smaller jumps, more scan data and hopefully enough to push me over the line for elite exploration. The crystal shard sites proved excellent for high grade materials. Looking at my galaxy map, I realized I was close to the Witch head nebula and so decided I'd pay a visit. A beautiful part of the galaxy I'd recommend a visit to.
Back to the bubble and I hand in my exploration data. It pushes me to Pioneer at 92%. So back to Robigo to get that first elite rank. I found each run pushed me up a further 1 to 2%. A few runs later and I finally land elite. Yay! Time to move home base! Much as I love Sol... Shinrarta Dezhra here I come.
I hear over to Jameson Memorial and then I spend millions shipping all my ships there. You can get all modules art Jameson so I figure it'll be my new home and best place to outfit the corvette using the buffer funds from my Robigo runs. Between prismatic shields and all the rest I wasn't long burning through my cash buffer. From 1.6 billion, I ended up with 500 million. So, I learned it costs around 1 billion to outfit a corvette. That includes a discount from Jameson memorial. Good to know. I named it 'Balor', from Irish myth, the chief God, of the evil eye, AKA The Scorching Sun. Seemed appropriate for my chief combat dominator and is in keeping with many of my combat ships named from Irish legend and myth.
My final goal was to rank up my combat ranking. So off I go in Balor to both test and rank up. I took massacre missions and assassinations and found the corvette handling itself well. Though I struggled with a wing of 4 elite pilots. Multiple engineering tweaks later, I finally ranked up my combat from Expert. Now I am the master! However, the corvette needs more work and I think I'll shield tank it. Which now has me on a mission to unlock guardian shield reinforcement modules. I've already hopped into my reliable asp X - Munchkin - and have located a good planet for farming guardian materials and blue prints. I have the encoded, now just to get the blue print and remaining materials.
Now that I've started into the guardian sites again, I think I'll also unlock the hull reinforcements and weapons and dip my toes into some anti xeno combat. Possibly. I want to research the history a bit further as my gut feeling is the xeno's aren't necessarily our enemy. As is all too common in the history of humanity, I fear we may have started the fight. So I'm not sure on this just yet. Further research needed.
To do;
Trip to Colonia and unlock engineers there.
Research into the xeno's
Buy and build a mamba racer
Master core mining
Complete engineering Balor, Banshee, Phantom Queen, Rocinante
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