Right now I have a station consisting of 2 farms running and a few traders. I just managed to find some impulse ray emitters on a Baron light weapons complex in Rolks fate. I bought their entire stock, to fit my discoverer and a few of my freighters. K know this is a weak weapon, but I was still happy to find it. Now I tried a few protect and Assassination missions. THe easy protection missions are no problem but the assassination missions I found was to tough. I ran out of time twice trying to shoot down the targets. I try to stay around sectors with shipyards to hopefully find some discount ships to buy, and this finally pays off.
A nice little Baracuda raider. As you can probably tell, it isn’t in great shape, but I got it for allmost nothing and it’s quite fast to repair.
I equip a few Impulse ray emitters and a few particle accelerator cannons. I’ll use the IREs to try to capture ships without doing to much damage to the hull.
Now when I have a combat ship, I decide to travel to some more dangerous, unexplored sectors.
Somewhere during the early game, I received a mission to go to Argon sector 148 to talk to somebody. I decided now was a good time to do this, and maybe find some useful sectors along the way.
I did eventually get there and received a new mission to help in the war effort. Well, that’s easier said then done. I went off to Omicron Lyren and ended up in the middle of a fleet battle. THe AIF ships didn’t fire at me, but most of the ships in the sector ware really big ships that I didn’t want to touch. I decided to retreat and come back later.
Not sure I want to get close to these guys with my M4 fighter.
On the way back I stopped at a pirate base where I found cargo bay life support. This will enable to to transport a small number of passengers. I can now do passenger transport missions unless they require comfort. Military personal, for example, will be quite happy travelling in the cargo bay. I guess I could also trade slaves, something I’ve never tried.