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In the meantime IвЂ™ve been zipping around in the Mother Hen (Chokaro TM), doing missions to improve trade relations with all the races and picking up cheap second hand ships whenever I ran into a good deal.ДЄs part of this venture, IвЂ™ve ended up buying three Nova variants - one base model Nova, one Sentinel and one Raider.

My most recent hire, Elmanckalsann, is roaming Empires Edge to get the gist of things - he is currently a Level 7 Distributor.

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Tupman is now fully graduated as a level 20 Major Dealer - I will probably keep him as a sector trader with a 5-10 jump range rather than letting him go free as a Universal Trader.ДЄlman and Raman have mostly figured out what the cockpit switches do and are becoming increasingly useful at levels 14 (Chief Trade Negotiator) and 15 (Small Trader) - they can also now stretch their legs across a few jumps to get access to better trades.

I currently have four sector traders working for me. I have been slowly adding to the trade fleet. IвЂ™m all about financial planning, baby (the worst pickup line ever). So - now I was kind of sorted out for a bit! Geared up for a few different missions / exploration with my Hen & Chickens, with the main goal of getting a few Traders up and running in the core sectors for passive income. and a spare space for abandoned ship mission pickups. You can have a decent M3 there for when the going gets tough, a little M5 mostly just to hold jumpjet spares etc. The handy thing about TMs is - they kind of act as a mobile base.

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I then also went to pick up the Buster, my first ship, and jumped off to Terracorp HQ and a bunch of other places to pick up groceries - extra jump jets, triplex scanners, Trading Software and the like. So I picked the Chokaro up, left the freighter at the shipyard for the time being, aptly named the Chokaro вЂњMother HenвЂќ and went to pick up the unshielded, unarmed Nova. 154 m/s, baby! SheвЂ™ll outrun an M3 if youвЂ™re not carefulвЂ¦and sheвЂ™s got a good booty to boot, with a decent cargo space for energy cells and the odd passenger. Luckily, my booze runs with the Yaki had helped and they were happy enough to let me get my hands on my favorite TM, the Chokaro. I do need an employee, thoughвЂ¦right now IвЂ™ve got no passive cashflow. I think IвЂ™ll max out this ship flying it personally first before employing a trader. The early acquisition of the super freighter has shaped my game somewhat. Not badвЂ¦the Split now consider me a Comrade rather than a Shameless Creature and while I canвЂ™t buy their best wares, at least they now let me dock at their stations in core sectors as well as border sectors, something they did not let me do yesterday. Mitigate slow in-sector speed by jumping to the nearest gate. 5900 energy cells from an XL solar plant somewhere, haul it to a sector with no solar plants and sell to the highest bidder. While lugging around at 77m/a is slow, itвЂ™s okay at 1000% SETAвЂ¦so I ended up doing supply runs for the Split and the Pirates. IвЂ™d forgotten how much cargo upgrades costвЂ¦and how good commodity runs are for improving rank.

I transferred the jumpdrive over and set out to get some of the necessities for a sector trader. I set out tonight to shuffle my equipment between the Mercury Super Freighter (the one I bought off that poor chap who ended up as a pirate slave) and my Buster. I paid the money, watched the pilot get out, took ownership of the ship. Well, itвЂ™s a slow, lumbering beastвЂ¦but at that price, who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth. Mercury Super Freighter with a 61% hull for 87k or so. I jumped from Teladi space back to The Hole to drop off an Argon chap at some factory or another, when I saw a freighter pilot advertising their ship for sale. I then set out to explore Boron / Teladi space in my trusted Buster (usure why IвЂ™d trust that old rust bucketвЂ¦but alas, sheвЂ™s my only friend at this point). ThereвЂ™s a reason why thereвЂ™s a lot of pirate traffic there, but IвЂ™ll keep that detail shrouded in secrecy so as to not spoil anyoneвЂ™s fun.ДЄnyway, I managed to get enough credits together for a jumpdrive and a cargo lifesupport system with 200k credits to spare. I had a bit of luck with more pirate loot, primarily at AtreusвЂ™ Clouds.

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A little update (I guess I should start an X3:AP AAR thread, but given the relatively small thread, itвЂ™s probably okay here for now).