Farming from Hell
27 Dec 2021SirPuma
Personal log, Galactic date 12.27.3307I'm sure everyone feels the same; farming materials for feed to the engineers blows big chunks. And these damnable brokers who help sort out your material inventory, those bastards are robber barons. But we needs the materials.
Engineers need the materials to build their gizmos and gadgets they install on our beloved ships to improve them. But we also need them for our ships synthesis systems to generate ammo, heat sinks, fuel and other such stuff. So we're constantly going through them. You'd think one of these Material Traders would break down and accept credits for goods rather than barter with other materials.
I'm planning a trip to Beagle Point and taking the long way around. While my exploration ship, Golden Hind, gets just over 63LY in a jump, I'll need fuel boost when I get to the deep stretches out by Beagle Point. So I need materials. Raw materials. And the best place to get them is a couple systems over 17,000LY from the bubble. Like holy crap. I've spent the better part of the past three weeks making trips out, loading up, coming back to a material trader to barter for materials that aren't out there, then heading back. Four trips now to HIP 36601. Ugh! All this crap and it's my birthday, today.
Then once I'm done out there I need to hit up a few other locations and load up on some manufactured goods and data, just to be sure I have everything I could possibly need out in the black. Now if I could just load up on enough coffee and BBQ ribs to last a year, then maybe I'll survive my quest.
Marcus Apollo St Martin-Sepert AKA Sir Puma