Where are the aliens?! (Hard)

Patrol independent dead planets as far away from coordinate (1,1) as possible. I go for the ones in the bottom right corner of the map. Gotta have good fuel consumption to do multiple patrols in a row. It'll take a while, maybe a LONG while, but if your doing it right you will EVENTUALLY ALWAYS encounter an alien.

You need --- Money to constantly get fuel and repairs, pacience, good fuel consumption for many patrols in a row, high warrior skill, weapons and offcers to win vs. Aliens, and if yu really want to find them more, carry artifacts. But depending on AI, each artifact could double their power when fighting, so I wouldn't carry any. You also have a MUCH bigger chance finding aliens in red sectors than green sectors. And again, the father from (1,1) the bigger chance of finding aliens. 95% of my encouners have been in red secotrs on th very botom, very right, or bottm right corner of the map, or patroling independent dead planets in the bottom right corner of the map. Also, the higher difficulty, the greater the alien encounters.


Happy alien hunting!

Rabid Rabbit was busy cleaning the bits of brain and general flesh stuck in the chainsaw's mechanism after a rather messy little fight with a bounty hunter.

Bonnie was reviewing the list of bounties on the crew of the Carrot Stick. "These sort of bounties are going to bring the very best after us, Captain."

Rabid glanced up, "So what's your point?"

"I think we should establish a relative base of operations. Somewhere we can stash some fuel, weapons, and come back in case things get bad."

Rabid Rabbit thought about it, then shrugged, "Ok, no need to get cocky. I know just the place too."

Bonnie grunted in satisfaction. Having a base of operations would help general survivability.

Rabid Rabbit pressed some buttons on the map screen, "I think this should be the very first place to set up a base of operations." The Mad Rabbit highlighted a planet and brought it up to screen.

Bonnie stared at it for a long ... long ... minute, "That's Thulun Prime. Most of the bounties are theirs."

Rabid Rabbit shrugged, "So what's your point?"

rabid

Great thing about Thulun Prime is that the Thulun Honor ship is always a perfect emergency ship. Always available, decently specced, even straight off the factory line. Thulun might be up themselves, overly snobby, but they do know how to build a good rank ship.

Xeen Prime, on the other hand, might have been a good base of operations at early last century, but now you have to spend inordinate amounts of time weaving through large debris fields of Steel Song scrap. When you do get to the surface, you have to wear hazmat suits all the time because of the nuclear fallout from thousands (yes thousands) of Cadar nukes*.


*Annotation 2196.1:
In 32.39AE, Cadar became the final signatory to the Nuke Minimization Effort Accord (NME Accord), which aimed to minimize the nuke stockpile within the six recognized factions of the Quadrant. It had taken 6 years of tiring negotiation, not to mention the fact a couple of Council delegations were accidentally blown to smithereens by Cadar patrol ships, but the Cadar Government agreed that although Cadar held 97% of all nuclear weapons in the Galaxy, there should be some limit to the number stored.

In reality, the Cadar Military had discovered that they simply weren't going through their nukes fast enough to use them up before their "Best Before" date was reached. Nonetheless, Cadar agreed to decrease its holdings of Nukes by a significant 70%.

The economic depression in Cadar (32.49AE - 34.21AE) was a direct result of the signing of the NME Accord because approximately 38,000 nuclear weapons manufacturers filed for bankruptcy during this period. So many companies went through hardship that the Cadar Government was forced to initiate stimulus programs like:
* Fire Cadar Made. A campaign launched to promote purchase and use of Cadar made ordinance
* Shoot First, Second, Third, then Acknowledge. This encouraged captains to communicate in morse code via the medium of torpedoes. Coincidentally, this is how the now-standard Cadar Greeting was started.

Finally, in 34.15AE, Commander John Squishem actually READ the NME Accord, and discovered that the Accord did not restrict manufacture, but rather total numbers of nukes. This meant, if Cadar captains used up the stockpile, new nukes could be manufactured!

He immediately arranged for a battlegroup of 20 Cadar warships to surreptitiously fly 9AU south of Cadar Prime to dump 16,000 Nukes on a small backwater planed called Xeen Prime.

The resulting solar war between Cadar and Steel Song lasted a record 17 years! Cadar has been trying to break that record ever since.

You get cake.

I found that out to late. I got a message from steel long saying they'd like to give me cake as bribe so I stop blockading them. But it wasn't a cake, it was a torp

I was actually thinking of a new "nuke" operation idea. Its like patrol except it causes HUUUGE rep loss and rather than finding low level merchants and smuglers, you'd find high level military and aliens. Nukes would only be gven during a Solar War, and you'd have to have rank 21 to have them.

Welcome to the forum. Glad you're enjoying Star Traders

Dry Docking ships allows the Captain to build up a personal fleet of ships and stash them across the Quadrant at friendly military bases or with Indy worlds.

This way, my Captain can have a long-haul merchant ship (with large Cargo and a Water Tank) and a fast/agile warship with extra Torps and Armor.

It also increases the chances of survival to have a backup ship to run to!