I'm Triple Elite in my main commander, but this is my Free Epic noob, who is now proudly flying a Phantom. The problem is, his ship is a bit basic for some of the missions he takes on above his pay grade.
He saw a nice "kill 7 pirates" mission for several million credits, which looked pretty attractive. Unfortunately, the pirates are in a lawless area where the Nav Beacon is Compromised. It's either take on three pirates at a time in a USS, or try to pick them off one at a time at the CNB. That's progressing, although weapons, shields, hull strength are proving a challenge against these; the repair station is many tens of thousands of light years away, so it becomes a jump to the next system every time.
So he decides to fit more hull armor. Shields to grade 3 engineering with Elvira Martuuk aren't proving enough to keep battling away. He buys armor and then realizes he has too few credits for a rebuy ! Dangerous stuff taking on pirates like that, so he takes a mission offering to carry gold for 3 million. Nice, which leads to this station offering multiple missions to the same place, each for over a million credits to shift Bio Waste.
Not quite enough room in the ship to carry all the biowaste in one go, even with shields removed. Note how the game trolls you sometimes? It puts you just over the limit of what you can carry in one go ! So I resolve to do two journeys ....
... which is how I end up carrying biowaste to a distant, scarcely visited outpost I hope never to have to visit again
As you can see, not a lot happens out here. Cmdr Big_Pete is top of the WANTED list with a bounty of 1800 credits
Even the manager looks surprised to see me
..
OK ... got to get back to hauling this
poop valuable cargo ... apparently "Enemy Ships" have been sent to get me !
