Hard times for the passenger business
26 Jan 2018Khorolev
It appears that a kind of cartel has built among the tour operators...a nonsensical low-cost tickets frenzy..... same prices for Lagerquist Getaway as for Smeaton Orbital... at these rates they can forget even to clean the floor of the Prince Myshkin.....going to try a new venture, to try to overcome this situation, which by the way it cannot last....I outfitted Stakhanov for asteroid mining, reinforced the bulkhead, packed long-range cannons and multicannons, packed room for an extra escort fighter... resource extraction sites are said to be for rugged men, not for passengers farer... well I have a little experience with pirates...
Up to now I mined in LFT 65, not many pirates there, but a friendly one, who said that If I did not fill my cargo hold his children would not eat tonight... this summarizes how lucrative the business is, and how dangerous it can be if I crossed the wrong people...I have just made enough money to spend at the Trader Rest... not a holiday vacation, more of a "do it yourself club of engineering" with a guru and a lot of people trying to learn the skills... everyone around scrap components, things I would throw away, and used to... it seems they can be really useful on a ship instead, with some fantasy...
Since the business is not going to pay, I will try to salvage stuff from wreckages, decode weird data, and try to tweak my ships defense.