CG and the Spice Run
22 Nov 2015Jim Beaumont
Been a while since my last log, so an update on activity.I scuttled off to the Mining CG at HIP 8396, and spent the remaining fe days of the CG cutting out Osmium and delivering it to HIP 8396. Made myself a nice amount of money from it, with plenty of Platinum, Painite and Palladium supplementing the Osmium. Once that had finished it was back to EZ Aquarii to continue with BB missions to raise the ranking.
While doing this, FBook (some old technology from the 21st Century) sparked up an opportunity to join a gathering of Cmdrs at Tarach Tor to endulge in a Spice run. This looked interesting. so I made my way across to Tarach Tor a couple of days beforehand and spent that time running missions nearby. The day of the Spice run arrived. I had to change ship to my Infante Henrique (Asp), to make sure I had sufficient jump range for the run, and not slow anyone else down. So a stop in Tranquillity, a minor refit, and an installation of some software to enable my comms system to work on open channel chat with rest of the gathhering, and then it was just a matter of waiting outside Tranquillity for the others to arrive.
Slowly but surely as departure time got closer the scanner began to fill with those familiar hollow boxes, Cmdrs arriving to pick up the Spice to deliver during the run.
In all, 15 Cmdrs were in attendence, so we formed up in like for like wings with much discussion of jump range and fuelling opportunites to be heard across the open channel. The one by one, each wing started to make there jumps across the 141Ly to get to the first destination of Lave.
As my wing made it's way, scooping and fuelling chatter continued, occumpanied by many a 'S***, i hope this next star is scoopable' and one 'S*** I'm out of fuel, anyone got fuel limpets available'. Our wing docked once on the way, and carried on to Lave.
Eventually everyone made it Lave, docked and sold there goods before wing by wing jumping out to Leesti and purchasing more rare goods. Next stop Diso, same again, then Uszaa and then Orrere. On the way we lost a couple of members, somehow they dropped out of the network but we all managed to find each other again at Orrere.
By now everyone was filling their cargo's with the rares on offer, before the final stop at Zaonce for the 1 Leathery Egg each available.
Up to now, there had been very little activity in the regards to enemy interdictions, but on leaving Zaonce, one party got some action. Unfortunately, of the 2 Cmdrs in battle, one went to meet his maker and so lost his entire cargo. And then it was all back to Tarach Tor to sell of the wares. Donations were made to the Cmdr who lost his cargo, to at least ease his pain.
I'm sure one or two Cmdrs at the various locations we passed through wondered what the hell was going on when they saw 15 Cmdrs suddenly drop into station space!
So the Spice run went really well, a great experience to fly through the Galaxy with so many others.
And now, Pirate hunting and BB missions once more.
Cmdr Beaumont (Ranking Up)