Finally, on the way to Hutton!
Whaddya know, the Gnosis is there.
No hollow icons, time for a bit of X-files.
Whaddya know, the Gnosis is there.
No hollow icons, time for a bit of X-files.
Thanks for the offer but i'm only a few jumps from safety,now,so i should be on my way again tomorrow.Did not know about ship rats.Or outposts in the clouds.You know that there are people who will repair your ship in the black. Ship Rats are part of Fuel Rats I think - they use repair limpets.
(If you are near the DW2 route I have a repair limpet controller fitted for the expedition.)
Thanks for the offer but i'm only a few jumps from safety,now,so i should be on my way again tomorrow.Did not know about ship rats.Or outposts in the clouds.
Im on 23% hull.If i was on 77%,i'd probably push on.Past experience has taught me that prudence gives a longer ship life.
Don't forget the SRV.
Took a long, hard look at my Clipper, wondering what possible use it could be, particularly when I have a Python in the garage. Haulage? Python does it better. Passengers? Not really. Mining? Looks like my Krait II is better. Exploration? My Phantom and AspX are better. Combat? Don't know about that, being such a pleb at it.
What does your Clipper do, guys?
What does your Clipper do, guys?
My Clipper is gathering dust, sadly. It's a joy to fly in many ways, and I want to get back to Engineering it one of these days, but...for now it sits.
In other news, I did successfully go mining today. It turned out to be rather more fun than I expected. I started out by canvassing a couple nearby systems to find some planets with rings. I then mapped the rings to find hotspots, and fussed around checking EDDB to see what the various stuff was worth. I'm definitely still at the learning stageThere are no nav beacons around, so I had to use my now-stellar FSS skills to find stuff.
Eventually I found a Benitoite hotspot, and it looked like Benitoite could be sold at Jacques for about 1.1 million a ton. That seemed good enough for me, so I dropped in there, but missed and wound up some distance away. I looked around anyway, and found a 'core' asteroid by chance. It had Alexandrite in it, but I decided to blow it up anyway. Alexandrite was listed around 500k per ton, but I wanted to see how things worked so...boom.
I wound up with 12 tons of Alexandrite. But I still wanted to find Benitoite, so I relocated.
Of course, as soon as I did that, a pirate appeared out of nowhere. He literally just dropped in right next to me. I mean, I get it, it's part of the current game, but it's really lame. And of course he saw the Alexandrite in my hold and wanted half of it.
So, this gave me a chance to see how the mining build would hold up trying to defend itself. I had to run less shields and leave a couple weapons behind--and no fighter bay--so I wasn't sure how things would go.
I fumbled about at the beginning, trying to find the right fire group and hud mode -- mining requires lots of fire groups and I wasn't used to my new setup. But eventually I did get my weapons out and told Mr Pirate what I thought about giving my hard-won cargo away. He was still asking for cargo when he exploded...
I was pleased. Despite my terrible flying (I forgot throttle till near the end, lol) and slow reflexes, the Krait pulled me through.
I goofed around for a while more and found one Benitoite asteroid, from which I got 15 tons of the stuff.
Of course, I got interdicted trying to fly back to Jacques because, of course. I evaded it and landed safely.
Sold my haul for 27 million credits. I was happy. I had fun and got paid well enough. I'm sure I'll do better in the future. Or not.![]()
The Guardian adventure continues!
Visited 6 blueprint sites so far, also a couple of the obelisk sites. Looks fantastic, getting much better with the SRV although navigating sites in the dark is... not good.
Couple more sites then back to the bubble.
As for the Guardian fighters, maybe another time (forgot cargo rack and energy weapon!).
Never considered, but killing the Sentinels has bumped my combat rank up twice. Nice.
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Nightvision mode is good for driving in the dark.
Ive been in a all out trading missions run these last days!
Trying to get my credits up, up, up...
So i can eventually try out the Anaconda, but for now im considering giving a go at the Type 9... At least for the task and job at hand, cause my heart is set on the exploration...
I did try in the middle of this to go to the guardian site that gives the blueprints for the fsd booster in my DBX but i am a trainwreck with the SRV so far so i lost it and didnt complete that, will give it a go later on, when i come back with more than 1 SRV, cause i think that will be the way to get it.
Currently parked at Beta Site asteroid base, Jellyfish Nebula.
It's quiet, too quiet.
Another couple of jumps for Palin, back to the bubble. Possibly time to smack some Thargoid Scouts about.[alien]