Ronny Fiesty,son of Norman.A new era begins.(Terran/Aldrin economies saved)

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I have added this poll because the numbers of visits shows there is some interest here.
I am just curious.The results may influence the chances of Ronny continuing after he has reclaimed his losses and set Aldrin/ Terran economy to order.

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Game Base = X3 Terran Conflict version 3.1 + Bonus Pack + mods/scripts listed below.
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"Ok then. lets roll !",as Norman would have said.

In this story I have chosen to use ,in no particular order...

• X-Universe Plug-in Manager Lite
  
  Remove Adsigns
  Bullet Effects(Toned down)
  Equipment Research and Development
  X3TC Cheat Package : v1.60 : Updated: 15/10/2009
  [MOD]No Fog 2.5comp Fake Patch [V1.0 22/03/2010]
  [MOD] No Suns
  No Tubes Mod (keine Komplexrohren)
  [MOD] No Floating Icons (removes floating mission icons over stations)
  Universal Best Buys/Sells Locator by alex2069
  Memia Automatic Advances Satellite
  [SCRIPT] Remove Rocks from Universe *UPDATED*
  [Mod/Patch] X3-Unleashed [RC2] [Aug-06-2010] - X3 Performance gains up to 38%
  Al Plugin: Auto-Rename Player Property
  All Plots Complete
  
  A number of game FPS enhancers.If anyone can point me in the direction of a low-poly roid mod compatible with this version of TC,then thanks in advance.
  And other mods and scripts which will be added to this list.

This will not be a tutorial as such.Much more a story.But if you have any questions or suggestions please post in this thread and I will give them consideration

Having completed his biggest coup in his service for the Argon he retires from the Argon Navy to follow in his father's footsteps as a trader.

The former companies owned by his late father were affiliated with the major corporations and naval forces working within the sectors they operated in.
Unfortunately,like so many corporate take-overs,this resulted in extreme asset stripping and former board of directors given a good pension to leave quietly.
This means that none of the massive complexes that were built still remain and the navy was absorbed into other existing fleets.

However,all is not lost.Blue prints are available from good sources and some questionable ones too,so many of the "special ships" of his late father's fleet can be rebuilt at the HQ.

But there has been a setback.
Due to a malfunction when test-driving his latest acquisition,an over-tuned Hyperion and some other ships,he has lost much of the data on his ships computer ,and links with his central database was lost.
Upon reconnection,he has found that it too had very little information left.
Other than his ship's data it only contained the whereabouts of his rewards for earlier missions within the Commonwealth and Terran Societies.
And a few blueprints of his late father's acquisitions.
Even this data may take days or months to extract and use again.

His first task will be to map the universe and collect these rewards and set up his HQ.
There will be a "save the economy" for Aldrin and Terran space.
I posed a poll for this.Predictably most were supporting Terran economy first,but some pointed out that that can be regenerated at any point in the game,but certain factories in Aldrin never respawns.
So Aldrin will come first.
the acquisition of his rewards will come as and when it seems logical within the realms of the story.
To start... this game will have no mods added ...But will be added as and when it seems to fit.
Performance scripts and suchlike will be added as and when the game requires.

Then I will be adding mods and scripts as and when they fit into the story.
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Stage One
Establish a trading foothold in Split Space.

Stage Two
Map locations of all Commonwealth Sectors/Misc Enemy sectors,except Kha'ak Sectors.

Stage Three
Curry favour with other Races and gain Police Licence

Stage Four
Have Ship's Computer restored and linked to original Bank account

Stage Five
Map Aldrin 1/ Aldrin 2...Place holding ships in all stations

Stage Six
Put TSs in Aldrin Sectors 1 and 2 to save economy.

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Acknowledgments
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First on the list must go to
glenmcd
for allowing me to use one of his Poisoned Paranid starts.He even reloaded it a few times to give me not only an over-tuned Hyperion,but also an ot'd Advanced Perseus too.Well done mate.
Link to the thread that gave me the idea is here...http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php? ... sc&start=0

Thanks to LV for redirecting me to what I was looking for...Reveal sectors in Cycrows cheat
package.
It seems very full of useful stuff,but how much I will use is yet to be decided.

Thus Cycrow is next for his wonderful Cheat package !
I have used several parts of this for my story and general play.
The "equip target with ..." commands are so useful.After buying as much as I can for any particular ship,without leaving the sector I can just use this to add the missing eq.
This is also useful for adding ships that either you as a player can't manage to board properly,or ships that are not boardable in vanilla.
General warning to those who have not tried this one before...Overuse of cheats can spoil your enjoyment of your game.Just use what you "need" and justify it within your style of play.A Godzillion credits might look nice but I find it better to have worked for it.

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NOTE:
If you got here via a link,please scroll to the top of page.


The end of an era and start of things new.
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Extracted from final notes on Norman Fiesty.

Time went by.
Months,years...even decades.
Norman's illness had taken the zeal out of him and ,for the most part, he let his organization be run by those whom he had learned to trust.

Eventually set up home with Leila,who proved to be very understanding,and soothed his soul when needed.
Seeing that he would never achieve the destruction of the Teladi Trading Empire in his life time,he contented himself in the knowledge that he had got his family name re-instated and gave the Commonwealth a new way to build their massive complexes.

After some months Leila gave him a son,Ronny Norman Fiesty .
Ronny was a spirited lad who took his education seriously and eventually entered service in the Argon Home Fleet,which was set up as a sector patrol group around Argon Prime and nearby Argon sectors.
Argon One was getting old now and could no longer sustain prolonged attacks.Although still the flagship of the Argon Navy,she was only sent out on diplomatic duty,leaving the Home Fleet to continue in her wake.

Later Ronny decided to look into all the big commonwealth job offers,did some work for the Terrans,tamed the Kha'ak and even gained an HQ from the Boron,from where he decided to set up his own trading company.
His crowning glory nearly got him fried ,when he decided to work for the Argon to try and get some Terran technology.

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Ronny sat looking at the sparks coming out of his computer's paneling.

"Hmm.Not good. Not good at all."
All that training and experience he had before and during his service to the Argon was going to be needed now.
He carefully lifted the panels off after cutting power to the unit.

"Yep.Pretty much fried."

He did not yet have a full team with him,just a couple of good fighter pilots with basic knowledge of their ship's systems.Any Maintenance would have to be paid for,if he was unable to do it himself.

Carefully he removed each fried component,labeled it and set it aside for replacement.

His crew set to work cleaning the rest of the effected areas in the same manner.

Hours went by and eventually he had a rudimentary system working.Very little information was left.
He had learned from his father to always take notes for every sector and station he went to,but such notes could not be used to get the system working at full speed.
He had to fit new ,blank data plates to the system so very little navigational info was available for the ship's navigation system to use.
Visiting every important sector is now a must,in order to get things running anywhere near perfect again.

"Now to find out what info I have managed to salvage..."
Ronny got back in his seat and pressed a few keys on his console.

Personal Status...

Account 14,347,636 cr
Location Queen's Harbour

Trade Rank Entrepreneur 90%
Fight Rank Harmless 0%

PR Status
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Argon Suspected Foe
Boron Aquaintence
Split Distinguished Associate
Paranid Nomad
Teladi Profit Initiate
Goner Sceptic

Known Sectors 6

Recorded Property
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M6 Hyperion Vangard

M3 Advanced Perseus
M3 Blastclaw Prototype

M5 Jaguar Raider

TP Iguana - no shields

Four Marines
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"Ok,guys." He called over the intercom to all crews onboard his minimal fleet.
" It seems we have lost contact with much of our fleet.We need to upgrade our ragtag and meet for discussions.We need to glean as much info from each other as possible and compile it to our new central database."

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For some odd reason my links go to here,but start at the top of this page for more info.


"ok then. All ships are to be upgraded with just the immediately needed EQ etc.
I notice that we have a supply ship hired to us.So we will use this in-sector only to reduce initial costs.
Here in Patriarch's Conclusion we have all we need to establish ourselves as sector traders,and to that end I have personally acquired a Caimen Super Frieghter XL with maximum EQ available here for the job at hand."

A few nods of approval and a mood of agreement rippled through the team.After all,It's no good running through the universe without any income etc.

"Good.I am glad we agree on that.There is a 'roid here that gives a 13 yield Ore production.Ok it's not a lot,but putting a mine on that will give us a foothold.Then expand out from there with other stations to boost local economy and ,of course ,our own funds.Spekalate te akumalate,as my late father would have said."

A few days later,with a few trips supplying energy cells The ore mine was up and running.
Looking at other stations Ronny noticed a need for Raster Oil.
There are three fabs producing Chelts Meat so that will be ok to supply the new factory,which Ronny now had the supply ship captain deliver near the Ore Mine.Soon that too will be working well.
"Memo to station masters...all profits above 1,000,000 cr must be transferred to main account to enable us to move out of this section of the Universe."
"message sent" replied Betty,the ships computer,as he said "send".
Thankyou Betty,Ronny said absently as he noticed a request pop up on screen.
A Boron named Tata Ga offered him some sector charts..just a few thousand credits,but worth adding to his computer's database.More sectors = more options.

Still light years away from getting the Trading System Extension.Having to be hands on with every transaction was getting tedious at best.
The Boron were still suspicious of his activities,so EQ could not yet be bought.Split EQ offered bare-bones trading."We must get this sorted soon." he muttered,much as to himself ,as anyone else that might have been listening.
Occasionally he was offered 2nd hand ships,but did not take up any offers from outside of docks. and only then he bought a single Falcon Hauler.
"Might come in useful later" He thought.

A lot of the EQ and software he really wanted was not available here,mainly Argon and Teladi technology.Still there was still possibilities with what he had.

A bit more buying of Boron E-cells for his two plants in Patriarch's Conclusion and he was allowed to get three important bits of EQ from Atreus HQ.Namely the Docking Computer,Triplex Scanner and the Jumpdrives.

"All pilots to dock at Atreus HQ asap.We have been granted access to needed EQ.Then on the to Boron EQ dock for other bits that may prove useful.
Keep an eye on the budget though chaps.We only have two stations making credits for us at the moment."

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After this initial upgrade,Ronny bought some more sector charts and went exploring a bit more.
Found a beaten up second hand Scorpion in a dock .Stripped it of EQ etc,repaired and sold it.
He then ventured West into Paranid space and bought a cargo load of E-cells.Looked for a likely place to sell it and checked the comms.
Lucky for him,he had over 10k of e-cells,as there was someone in urgent need of e-cells at the said station...about 7k worth.
And that pushed up his rank with the Paranid.
Having done that,Ronny set course for the nearest Paranid EQ dock to see what was available.

"Just what I wanted,mate! I'll even pay you to install the Trading System Extension.It will save me a fortune in time and jump-fuel."

Happy that he could now better control his small trading fleet and station,he retired for the night.

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Norman,Ronny's late father had always been impetuous ,racing ahead to better know in advance things that may be effect the "now and when" of his career.This had lead to his illness and final loss of his expanding empire.

"Noo den Ronny,me lad," Norman was saying to Ronny when he announced he was joining the Argon Defence Cadetts, " Tek t'ings steddy in ya loif.Rushin' ahead will git ya inte all zorts o' trouble.'member te not volla me life an' lose ever'ting.Plan ahead,yes.But be car'ful."

Now,years later,these words echoed in his ears as he found this release of burden and decided to navigate more sectors.He was impatient.He
wanted to pick up all the bounty he had lost.Most importantly he wanted access to his former credit account and HQ.

He was now able to assign ships to stations and keep the stations well stocked,but was running out of credits.
"Ah need more trade opportunities and more trade ships,father...so I hope you don't mind me ignoring you for once." he thought to himself as he headed out for Belt of Aguilar.

Well,he may be suspected foe,probably because his ship's computer is still not fully functional.But he could still dock and trade.So across to Midnight Star for a bit of trading and then head West a bit more.

Into Wastelands and a couple guys needed transport to any station in Nathan's Voyage.

"well I be heading west.Welcome aboard.We have a few computer data problems ,but I am sure between us we will get you there."

Upon arrival at the nearest station,he was credited wit a few hundred k of credit and an official acknowledgment that made him a Federation Member @ 75%.

"things are looking better," he mused to himself .

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Then Betty coughed and spluttered a bit..
"IN-In-Incom-inco-incomming m-m-m-m-m-mess-ss-ss-message."
It reminded him of one of his father's crew,Tolgarth.How he used to stutter so much when excited.

"what is it now?" he asked.

A message with an ancient time stamp on it.He opened the message.
"well well well...Seems you are getting your memory back Betty.Well done"
It was of course the request to go to Omicron Lyrea for escort duties.How he remembered that and how he misses those ships he was rewarded with.
"Exciting times,they were.Must get those ships back some how." he thought."Maybe I will be able to nudge Betty a bit more...but how?"

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Another taxi run ,and with the Split up and into Treasure Chest for a few k of credit.This boosted Split rep and the trade ships left behind have increased Boron rep too. So now would be a good time to see how Ronny has progressed...

Personal Status...

Account 1,859,888 cr
Location Treasure Chest

Trade Rank
Merchant @ 9%
Nuisance @ 34%

PR Status
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Argon Federation Member @ 75%
Boron Trusted Courtier @ 0%
Split Family Protector[L] @ 5%
Paranid Friend of Priest @ 21%
Teladi Company Helper @ 23%
Goner Sceptic @ 20%
Terran Citizen @0%

Known Sectors 24

Recorded Property
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M6 Hyperion Vangard

M3 Advanced Perseus
M3 Blastclaw Prototype
M3 Falcon Hauler

M5 Jaguar Raider

TS Caiman Super Freighter XL

TP Iguana - no shields

Four Marines

Stations Owned
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Ore Mine L 13y
Rastar Refinery L

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By a stroke of luck Ronny was able to purchase some star charts which included the whole route to PTNI HQ.
He set path for the EQ dock.This is what he wanted.

"Seems I have been trading with the Split too long.Always 'This is what I want...'. Never 'Could you get ,please...'.Well now to get what I need."

He walked into the Store room at the EQ dock and spoke to Rusiris Gustiosanis Hurlis X,the current clerk of office.

"Hello Ronny.It pleases us to make much profitsss with you again.We heard you were lossst after an accsssident.We hope all isss well?"

"Rusiris...you are only hoping I will live long enough for you to make more more credits out of me !"

"Not sstrictly true it'sss not.But let'sss get to busssinessss.Lossst time isss creditsss lossst.What can I interessst you in?"

" I need the following items installed.Fit them well and I will bring more 'profitsss' to you...

Best Buys Locator
Best Selling Price Locator
Explorer Command Software

Please fit them while my two fighter pilots and myself take advantage of the station's hospitalities."

"Much pleassure doing busssinesss with you again Ronny.Come back before you leave.I will have ssomething which may interessst you."

... Sometime later Ronny returned.
"So what have you got Rusiris? I hope you are not wasting my time.I have much to do."

" Do notss leave usss without looking at thisss productss. I thinkss you will be pleasssed with itsss."

Ronny glanced at a large package on the robolift behind Rusiris."So what's under the wrapping that would interest me?"

"It is latessst technology",Rusiris replied enthusiastically." it will save you much time and e-cells"
"oh? How?"
"Sssimply put ,it acquiresss the nearessst available Advanced Sssatellite and placesss it in the centre of any sssector you visssit,if there isss not one already in the sssector...at a cossst of courssse."
"ok. I will test it for you.But make sure your around if I have any problems"

With that,he arranged the deal and left for his Hype.

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He then headed towards Split home territory ,but as soon as he entered Two Grand,he was set upon by Kha'ak.

"I thought I had dealt with them",he thought as he saw the Hyperion's shields dropping. "All crew to battle stations! Maybe only a few scouts but they're damaging the paintwork.Move!"
He sat in his control seat and manned the forward guns and selected nearest targets. Meanwhile his crew did an excellent support role in fending off other Kha'ak not in his direct line of fire.

Result?

11k cr for defending Teladi Space using Police Licence
Graduate @ 87%

Satisfied,he headed back to Profit Centre Alpha to check for profit opportunities,which he may have missed passing through.
That Kka'ak attack woke him up a bit.

Upon entry he check the sector map and sure enough,there was the satellite.

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Having worked his way around to Rhonkar's Fire he decided it was time to return to his stations and see how they were doing "on the ground",so to speak.
He asked the onboard computer to lay a course.

"Well that's good news! This computer is getting better at retrieving lost data ! It's actually sending us through sectors not mapped in yet."Ronny was delighted.

A few more Kha'ak clusters and scouts pushed his fight rank up a bit more.
Then he bought a second hand TP.repaired it and allowed three low ranking Mercenaries to take it to the nearest shipyard.
Seems the new owner was delighted and asked the mercenaries to work for him.He even paid Ronny a high transfer fee over the top of the TP's sale value.
"Hmmm. I wonder if I can get extra money that way with the pilots I pick up?" he asked himself.

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Next up for sale was a Demeter Super Frieghter.
Ronny equipped it with EQ from his Hyperion-docked M3 and sent the pilot off to see Rusiris for MK3 trading software.
There Rusiris was able to send word back to Ronny about "a new ssssoftware for universssal trading.Would you be interesssted?" he asked.

"Tell me how it works first."

"You just asssk it to ssssupply pricesss and jump range etc of the goodsss you want to trade in and it sssendsss back the info.Then you tell it which ssstation you want trade the goodsss with and which ssship."

"Very well Rusiris. Send it back with my pilot,thankyou."

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Ronny spent several days using this new trading software.He found it very useful.While traversing his limited universe,he bought and repaired and sometimes resold a number of ships.
During this time he had discussions with a number of traders and hired a few more experienced traders who showed him other ways of trading.

So his company crew has expanded to include

Fighter Pilots
Station Traders
Sector Traders
Local Traders
and Commercial Agents.
He has heard about commodity logistics officers,but as yet has not ventured that far into trading.

As much as possible,all traders are home-based now to stop his main account from continually being emptied when he most needs it.
Even those traders who draw a salary,now draw it from the stations they are assigned to.

Later he combined his two factories into a complex and built a Silicon Mine 11yield in the same sector.Gained a Dolphin Hauler (2nd Hand).Set it to buy the required e-cells and home-based one of the CAGs there.

Little by little he is creating a foothold in Split territory,with Boron to the East,Teladi to the North and Paranid to the West.
Overlapping trade means rep is going up with each of these races,but it still means further travel to gain Argon rep

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Having looked in at his stations and re-organized his trading fleet,he ventured out and mapped some more sectors,especially some Teladi home sectors.

Siezewell was far more cleared for navigation now,as some mineral merchant had cleared all the rocks from that sector.

"Come to think of it," he mused," there seems to be quite a few sectors cleared out now. I guess some merchant has invented a giant vacuum cleaner "

It was then he was offered some more local sector charts,which included Aladna Hil,which reminded him of something his father had told him...

"Son,if yer effer be a lookin' fer der best ships fer a tradin' int' Commonwealth, be goin' te de OTAS Shipyard an Otas HQ.Dey be real cen'ral ,loik.Zo yer won't 'av' var te go vor em."

Ronny leaned back to grab his notes and checked his map sketches."Ah ha!.There it is.Not much credits at the moment ,but no harm in seeing what's there."

He went straight to OTAS HQ and checked in for overnight stay.Then he went to the EQ store to see what,if anything any new ships would be supplied with,when he had the credits.

"Yes...Father was right," he thought to himself,"Very useful indeed."

After some sleep he went to the terminus to check up on what ships were available.There was a Zephyrus,just 1,000 crs more than he had at the moment,other than the 4M tied up in station capital.He could get a basic Mistrel or a Solano,but he could wait.Early days yet.Need to expand his station sectors first.Or find better places to train his traders.
He had heard of at least two such places,but had not found them yet.More navigation needed to get all sectors' info back into his ship's computer.

Before setting off he checked what the Argon shipyard had to offer.He noted that the XL variant of the Mercury Tanker was available in all three classes,S,M and L.Don't know if buying L is cheaper than buying S and upgrading later though?

Exploration has always been an enjoyable chore.
A chore in so much as it had to be done to gain any advantage in the universe.
Enjoyable in so much as it was different every
time you went to a sector.You could go and find nothing,or you could find a battle taking place and loads of containers just floating around to be picked up by anyone with room in his cargo hold.

Eventually two more strategic sectors' where-a-bouts were offered him.Home of Light and Cloudbase SE.
A little more mapping and he would go to the home of Julian's Cafe,which his father should have had shares in ,with all the coffee he had drank in his lifetime.
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And for those hoping to learn a little...
If you do not know already,you can get Salvage Insurance at the OTAS HQ too.

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Now Ronny had a few Boron sectors to go through,and he was getting cheesed off with the thick pea soups of those and some other sectors .
It was time to give his Teladi friend a call.

"...I mean...just how do you Teladi manage to navigate in this stuff?" he was asking .

" Perhapsss you needsss sssome ssspecialissst equipmentsss.Perhapsss we can trade?"

"Hmm.What does this equipment do to help,first?"Ronny had learned that Teladi can't always be trusted,especially when dealing with "under-the-counter" products,which was inferred by "specialist".

"ok.ok.Ronny.Keep your cool.Russsirisss not trick you." "(well not this time)" he thought to himself," It usssesss a sssophisssticated ssscreening techniquesss that clearsss away all unwanted cluttersss of data.Thusss giving you better visssibilty from your ssship'sss camerasss."

"Very well. I will be visiting you soon.Have it ready for me." he said after sorting a price.

When he arrived there was an additional piece of vision software for his approval too.A "Sun Filter",which stopped the glare from the sun interfering with navigation.

"It'sss very ussseful when being attacked by Xenon etc.I only asssk 1M credits."

"1M crs!!! ?" exclaimed Ronny.

"But it may sssave your ssships from much lossses,Ronny.You will thank me sssomeday."

"Well...putting it like that..."

So Ronny now had better vision from his cameras,so returned and headed for Kingdom End.
His father had spent many hours of his life in the company of the Queen and members of the Royal Court,so he felt it his duty to at least pay a visit while there.

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The Queen told Ronny many things about his late father.She missed him and his odd manner of speech when caught off-guard.
He had been source of friendship and amusement .

Ronny was told he was welcome to visit any time he wished,which he gratefully accepted and departed for Argon space.He moved across the Northern most sectors and down to Cloudbase South East.Then into Ore Belt and up to Home of light where he docked at the Terracorp HQ.

Here he gained the last two pieces of needed software...the Bioscanner and the Transporter device.
Now he could get a detailed report on all mercenaries etc that he may wish to purchase or train.
And he was able to transfer goods and himself between ships whilst in space.

Then he headed north.

"What the ?" he exclaimed,maybe not so politely as that.
As the new adv sat deployed he saw an invasion fleet of Paranid,busily destroying any ships they did not like.
First instinct was to inflict pain on the Paranid,but he had ships trading in Paranid space,and such lucrative trade could be jeopardized.

"Now then son..." his father's words came back to him yet again..." If effer ya zee two o' yer frendz having a squabble,don't yer be tryin' te inteveen or tekin' zoids noo.No profit in that an'yer might mek enemees of em....What yer shud do is sit back and see what goods are lost from both sides...collect it and zell on fer best proyce ye kin git."

So that is what he did.Transferring any Disruptor missiles to his docked ships and selling the rest.
At one stage there were thousands of e-cells scattered around.Too many for him to collect in the Hype.So a recent acquisition ,now trading in Ore Belt ,was ushered in to do the collection and selling.After the sector was clear,it was returned to sector trading at Ore Belt.

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Pirates seem to have settled now.
And the Yaki were easy to deal with.
I was able to dock at the shipyard but not The other stations in Weaver's Tempest,but one quick blast at a Kha'ak Cluster,and I was able to dock at any of the Yaki Stations and placed 4x Yaki fighter craft,one in each of the these latter stations.

There are two scripts/or mods which give an EQ Dock etc to the Yaki.
I may add them later when I get back to these sectors.
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Having made peace with the Yaki , Ronny then returned to mapping the where-a-bouts of the remaining south western Quadrant of the universe.

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Time went by and he remapped the South West into his computer.More echos of past adventures were subsequently awakened within the ships computer.

Soon he only had the North Western Quadrant of Commonwealth area and a few Xenon Sectors to get get restored to the ship's computer.
Then he must get enough trade going to purchase the many M5s he will need to help stabilize economies in Aldrin ,first and then the Terran Sectors.Maybe about 30 M5s should leave him some to send exploring or use as relay ships.

Gradually ,piece by piece, he is restoring the ship computer's memory of the universe.But he still wants to get access to his small fleet and credits waiting for him.He can't do that without his ship's computer being fully repaired.
He just may have to seek outside help,once he has enough capital behind him.

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Mapping the NE Quadrant was easier than he thought.There were plenty of pilots willing to sell information,at a cost.
All he had to do was jump and dock at a station ,by which time the Satellite would be installed in the sector.
He did find one things amusing though...
Sector 534...Every time the Xenon destroyed the satellite a new one replaced it all the time he remained IS.

The Unknown Sector next door had had at least one interesting and different Pirate Station,last time he was there,but no stations remained.Just a couple of Yaki ships were leaving as he arrived.

Retracing his steps back ,he entered Menelaus Paradise.About to dock when he noticed a lone Q !
"Can't miss this opportunity to retaliate for all the grief I've had off 'em" he thought to himself.
So off he went ...a first sustained attack bringing his shields down to 20%,but Hull intact.
Q's shields down to 97% !
A second attack ,after his shields were recharged to 50% , saw the demise of the Q,for which he was paid 10,000 crs.
Hardly a scratch on the Hype so off to dock for a well deserved break.

After this he concluded his mapping with the remaining Xenon sectors etc,leaving Aldrin and Terran sectors out of it,as he wanted his ship's computer to be overhauled,now he has some reasonable capital again.
First though he has a few TS to get working for him,and needs to acquire some TMs ready to transport twenty to 30 Fighters to Aldrin for holding ops.

So at this stage there is still a lot of trading to do before he can sort out the economies of Aldrin and the Sol System.

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An old locked thread comes to mind...
Complete list of Aldrin stations and co-ords.
Probably before they are re-arranged in Aldrin Expansion.
However it gives an idea of how many holding fighters are needed asap.

http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=221924