Postby uvelius » Fri Jan 30, 2015 11:12 am
Whoa, finally arrived at Mobius Rafferty station! And boy, what a journey. I parked my free sidewinder with its mining equipment in LHS 3447 (and probably won't see her again, up until, if ever, a ship transfer feature is implemented). reminded me instantly of my first take-off with the freagle where I very nearly crashed into the inner station halls – well, I did a good deal of scraping, might even have got a fed bounty on my head for "loitering" during the process; hell what a beautifully energetic bird that is.
Of course it was quite a hopping for my little freagle to come to Mobius Rafferty. When entering the near-void at the border of the Federation (coming from LHS 3447), I almost got stranded – even though I knew of the fuel problem, I could just jump back two systems instead of doing a final, emptying jump into just as empty space, and refuel. By the way, I can highly recommend to stop by Zhen dock, they have an excellent choice of hi-tech parts to sell; a good possibility to upgrade both energy diverter and generator for my freagle and some smaller stuff. So the backjump wasn't all that bad (albeit stupid).
Then it was mostly jumping on and on, the freagle fluttering eagerly to cross the vast distances to Azrael. Twice escaped interdictions easily, once got interdicted at the border of Imperial space with the blue column being nearly on top and then suddenly collapsing to nothing, but the interdictor seemed to just have lost interest when he only saw an annoyed freagle popping out of frame shift with no cargo but a pair of claws.
But what a difference is Mobius Rafferty compared to you basic Federation Coriolis! Looks great indeed. Well, nice place to make a nest in I assume. The bird can ruffle its wings a bit now.
Now I will look around for some reputation gaining with the Imperium and replenishing my money stock which got down to 16 k by upgrading and fuelling (I am not much of a money-maker I fear). Oh and practice fighting of course. We want to bring some light upon the troublemakers, do we, and might it be the swift and deadly light of laser beams.
Oh one question, any ongoing thoughts on a Blood Serpent red paint job? Is it agreed to take a red one (whichever)? Would be nice.
See you around!