Still unlocking engineers. This time, just doing trades here and there to unlock Lei Chung and then Ram Tah. I'm fairly sure Ram Tah needs to be unlocked before I can get the Guardian missions, assuming they're still a thing.

I noticed I was just a few jumps away from Upaniklis where the generation ship "The Golconda" was recently found.

I'm now flying a Python. I just didn't like the feel of the Krait. Then I tried an Anaconda and liked that even less. Somehow, the Python just feels right.

It's weird. Lots of people moan about how hard Modular Terminals for Marco Qwent are to find.

I'm currently in the process of unlocking engineers. I've already got Felicity and Elvira; today was Marco's turn. Once I'd allied with Sirius Corp and done the invite mission, I needed to find 25 Modular Terminals for the final unlock.

In the same station that was the destination for the invite mission, I perused the Mission Board looking for missions with Modular Terminals as a reward. The first one I found was a data delivery mission for 6 Modular Terminals. Easy! The next one was a pirate massacre mission for 20(!) Modular Terminals. How many kills? Two.

And so just like that I got 26 Modular Terminals from two missions from the same station I got the invite.

Grind? What grind?

After two days doing a mix of surface prospecting and Void Opal mining, Cmdr Miriel Byrde now has a shiny new A-rated Krait Mk2!

The Void Opal Mining was all done in the ice rings of BC+35 647 ABC 5:

The plan changed from a Python to a Krait because I'd never flown a Krait before.

The next job is to start unlocking the Engineers and Guardian tech.

Miriel Byrde is Cmdr Werdna's alt account. The original plan was for the account to be a non-Horizons test account, but with Distant Worlds 2 I decided it might be fun to make her a waifu and sit her in a seat on the Beluga's bridge. That required upgrading the account to full Horizons, and so a third account was acquired for non-Horizons testing (yet to be activated).

Anyway, Miriel initially flew to a Low Res to get some credit bounties to upgrade the Sidewinder FSD, fuel scoop, and detailed surface scanner. Then she followed the Road to Riches and in next to no time ended up with 40MCr, 20% Ranger exploration rank, and a spiffy A-rated Cobra Mk3.

This is all in about three days. Cmdr Werdna set out on the first Distant Worlds after more than a year of playing with only 8% Ranger exploration rank!

Miriel still has 40MCr in cash on hand, and is planning to go Void Opal mining and see how that turns out. The plan is to get an A-rated Python, then start unlocking engineers.

In fact I think Miriel might become a Faulcon DeLacy fan, and just stick with those ships.

Update: First Void Opal sortie produced 11T and sold for 7,106,781Cr. Trade rank jumped directly from 0% Penniless to 11% Merchant.