Commander's Personal Entry - October 30th, 3303
30 Oct 2017Orion Starhunter
The events that unfolded today started out being profitable, but towards the end of the day, all profit that had been acquired from the mining runs, had been depleted and then some.I'll start off by saying that the Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat did her job well, navigating the ringed planet of LHS 2661-6, and in those rings we did find Painite, Palladium, and Platinum, with a few others such as Osmium to carry home to the Pan system at Xiaoguan Orbital. We turned in around 2 million credits of mined ore. Not a bad profit for her 3rd time out.
I then decided that we could make more profit using the Aurora Sagittarius to transport data missions, which had much more profit outcome than the hours of mining did. That being said, starting out at 16 million credits after mining, I am now down to 5.3 million credits due to several insurance payouts to replace the Aurora Sagittarius two times over. While I did finish the missions, the interdictions that I ran into with various pirates cost me more than the missions made me.
After that loss, I opened communications with Cmdr. Indigowyrd, and we decided to plan yet another Ancient Ruins mission with the both of us rendezvousing at Felice Dock in the Meene system. The mission has a total payout of 101 million credits if completed.
So with this up coming mission in mind, I have outfitted the Aurora Sagittarius with a 4G Planetary Vehicle hangar that contains 2 custom painted Scarabs.
The crew and I will turn in for the night here after we head over to the mess hall and wait for Cmdr. Indigowyrd and his crew to arrive. We will pick up our mission tomorrow. The crew seems to be in good spirits despite the financial loss today. We haven't been to the ruins in quite some time, so this will be a break from the normal routine missions. We will be outside the bubble so this will also eliminate the pirates for quite some time.
More later as it happens...
Commander Orion Starhunter