Matewis: I make most of my money on scanning/surveying runs, however I've made some good dough with trade (300k once with a huge shipment of drugs). Not a pirate myself, but I am pals with them (mostly so that they'd leave my poor colonies alone)
OT:
- Shielding my damaged carrier with my battlecruiser, while unleashing glorious broadsides
- Hiding in a planet's shadow from a nearby pulsar
- Said pulsar
- Unsuccessful attempt to destroy a cult's battlestation
- Momentous occasion: my first colony increased in population (means I can expand its industry)
poooh talking 'bout colonies, instead of colony .....
last night turned out way to eventful. Decided to hunt pirates in a system just for a snack, jumped in with transponders activated, guess what the portal was swarming with pirate fleets! Lost all the Destroyers i had and a heavy freighter, talk 'bout a setback!
At the end of the evening things where returning back to normal, decided on taking on a survey mission in the outer rim. Found a battleship, and some other ships, a weapon cache, found some dormant ancient defenses, hey look, a solar flare, and another solar flare, suddenly notices how his supplies are running back with 24 a day ( normal use 1.8 per day ) uhhh .......
Long story short, made it back, had to mothball 5 ships, mission's successful. now will probably see the entire profit to be spend on repairs and getting the ships space worthy again