Finally accepting that I stranded myself in Colonia about a year ago, I decided to make use of being here by getting some rep with the local engineer. The other one. That isn't a slave trader.
This led to needing osmium. Fair enough, my Phantom is a decently sized ship, and it wasn't too hard to refit it for a little laser mining. Except that for some reason, Jaques cannot store power plants. It just can't. Nothing you do can make Jaques store that specific item for you. And I wasn't going to give up my engineered lightweight explorer PP, so that's now stored at the station next door.
It
seemed like a good idea to find a mining contract or two, which I did... and rapidly regretted it. Not only did I now need 34t of osmium instead of 10, but the contract paid 2 mil, where the market sale price was 150k per ton. The contract was paying half that. Ouch.
Still, as luck would have it, I found a painite hotspot, and spent about an hour bouncing off rocks and reducing my hull to 50% before finally returning with my haul. Overall, seem to have broken even on the refit, and I'm pondering whether it's worth buying myself a Python to do some hardcore mining out here... 55m to buy, or 120m to ship mine from the bubble feels like it might not be silly to have a second!
Edit: also! Saw some fellow commanders in Mobius PvE. I guess Jaques is the place to be
