Naval promotin mission - deliver biowaste [stolen] very confused HALP!

[GunnerBill]

OK so I have this promotion mission - deliver biowaste [stolen] to a station.
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No idea where to get stolen biowaste from as I tried giving them legit biowaste and that was no good.

 

[Kingtutuk]

If you check out any salvageable wreckage in the system you took the mission in or the destination system you should come across cargo you can pick up and it will be classed as stolen.

 

[GunnerBill]

Roger, Wilco & Out!!

 

[Kiiyor]

My first promotion mission was like that, and it sucked a great deal.

Just to save you future heartache, you can recycle your available promotion missions by either waiting for the mission board to refresh, travelling to a different system/starport/planetary base, or using the tried and true method of switching between open and solo play. What you see on the board is random, and the promotion opportunity will not go away if you don't take the first mission you see.

The superpowers can be a bit masochistic when deciding on promotion tasks; sometimes they insist you murder or smuggle or take insanely tedious missions (like the one you accepted - quite possibly the worst!), and other times they offer you a nice trading milk run and ask you to pop down to the shops to fetch something for them.

My third promotion opportunity opened my eyes to this. Up until then I thought you were offered only one mission, but then my glorious promotion to midshipman went pretty much exactly like this:

"HEY YOU! We're a prestigious organization! To attain the rank of midshipman, you have to travel to this sector, murder these three people, steal the tea they were carrying, and bring it back to me! AND IT HAD BETTER BE STOLEN! None of this "buy tea from some other place without killing anyone" crap, I WILL KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. And you'd better hurry, i'm parched and I want my murder tea."

Or... OR, you could travel to lave, buy some tea there, and bring it back to me.

You face a difficult choice, commander"

 

[GunnerBill]

^^^^ !
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So I checked various SS and salvageable wreckage for over an hour with no luck.
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Then I ditched the mission in favour of killing 9 civilians.
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I only took that mission coz I've not tried smuggling before. Which is fine because I had not tried sneaking into a station before and got quite good in my practice runs.

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P.S.

I usually stack several promo missions as they seem to earn more progress than normal ones even after the promotion has been registered.

 

[Mrjupp]

Get a friend to buy the biowaste and then have them jettison it for you to pick up as stolen goods. Work as a team and you can do a lot of stolen goods missions that way.

 

[Certacito]

Just be aware that if you take a promo mission that needs you to go and buy something and bring it back to the station giving the mission, when you get back (well inside the time limit) the mission will probably have disappeared. Its a bug and has been reported.

 

[Cliffson]

Salvageable wrecks, wss and scanning transports in uss/sc is how you can usually find goods to steal.

I do worry about the obsession the fed military have with stolen poop based pranks though.

 

[Ranualf]

MY latest naval progression mission was the same, go find 2 tons of military plans(stolen) and fetch them back... EASY promo to Rear admiral...
Except i was in my exploration anaconda, which has 2 class to beams... okaaay, lets try this and see what happens...

I fly to the area, spend 5 mins lurking about, looking for USS / WSS and i find one, drop in and there is the stuff... several tons of it..
And 2 eagles pop in.. okay lets do this, beams on and fry one eagle... his mate see this and legs it, top speed away and poof, gone... LOL

Now for the hard bit, collect stuff with the anaconds cargo scoop... very, very carefully...
I manage to nab all 7 tons of it, fly back, hand in and get a promotion. The remaining 5 tons got flogged on the black market, so bonus pay