need advice for Blackheart unlock

[Fourth Horseman]

Back after a long furlough and am trying, and failing, to unlock the Blackheart sprint. It requires survive 50 blockades under 2 years (Hard). My problem is can survive about 20 and one of two things happens:

1) I have angered a faction to far and I meet one of their BH or MO and am outclassed by them and can't escape even while stacking fast escape

2) I run out of money because I don't have time to run missions.

Please help, Forth Horseman and Dark Messiah are pirates from the original ST and I want to play the build but need Blackheart to recruit pirates into my crew.

[jarvis]

Orbital Ops get actually easier if a hostile ship disables your own one good enough that every following battle is immediately aborted for whatever reason, like too many crew kills or engine failures.
Otherwise, always give up if possible! Just don’t bother to land and repair. Just keep on pressing the button.
That suicidal approach is obviously not recommended if you want to play on with that captain and its battered crew.

Worked for me at least. It's a bit harder with exploring where you should definitely look for low-danger planets.

I recommend to pick the most powerful ship typ (A) for these unlock runs althoug it could work with more squishy ones too.

[Fourth Horseman]

No, I just want the unlock. So you thinking going on a spice bender and trying to take an expensive and armored ship on a suicide mission. I typically choose pirate for my officers so I can take the the talent that replaces risk cards with merchant cards. I also wait about a year before i start blockades. Is there enough time to do 50 blocks in a year?

[jarvis]

When I did the unlock, I started a new captain and immediately blockaded 50 times in a row. Just try it.

[Fourth Horseman]

Thank you. Was simple that way. Simple thing escaped me. Off to be a terror of DV shipping lanes

[Hellanicus]

One suggestion that made these unlocks easier for me was to choose starting ship priority at the highest but start in the juror which is the cheapest, this gives you like 100k cash to start. Just spam, run away and repair as needed, none of them should be a challenge.