A teammate and I decided to go off into the black and do some flower picking. He's looking to make elite and I'm looking to make elite 5. We are a few hundred lightyears apart as we don't want to interfere with one another while exploring. Trying to get first discovered and first footfall.

Decided to finish ranking up with Empire. Currently I'm -24 reputation with Empire, that's right , a negative 24. I don't think they care for me much. I am a Duke with 53% towards Prince. Shouldn't take too long for Prince, then grind for King. Getting my reputation up to Allied or even Friendly might be the challenge. We'll just have to wait and see.

Went out to do some material farming, needed some Imperial Shielding and a few other things to top off my supply. Found a bunch of Military Grade Alloys and Proto Heat Radiators, which I didn't need. After the fifth system where all I could find were Military Grade Alloys and Proto Heat Radiators, decided to trade them for something I need.

Now, I can't find any Military Grade Alloys or Proto Heat Radiators. Revisited all the systems that I visited before and not a damn Military Grade Alloy nor a Proto Heat Radiator to be found. Ain't that some shit? Finding nothing but Imperial Shielding, Proto Light Alloys and Proto Radiolic Alloys.

Decided to call it a night and will try again later.

Signed up for the community goal at HIP 54530, fighting for the Silver Legal Group. I'm really disappointed that there are no massacre missions for this. Can't make credits with just combat bonds. Got bored with it after two days. May go back latter to ensure I get in the top 25%.

Been gathering engineering materials was almost out of everything. Damn it's a slow process, decided to do some mining to breakup the monotony. Decided on some Tritium mining using my Cutter. Using a Seismic Charge Launcher for cores,  for core and surface deposits and Sub-surface Displacement Missile for sub-surface deposits. On Tritium, I'll use the Sub-surface Displacement Missile and the Abrasion Blaster most of the time. If I find some core material like LTDs or VOs, I'll use the Seismic Charge Launcher. Normally, I wouldn't suggest you use a Cutter for sub-surface mining, I'm using it for the challenge and It is a challenge sub-surface mining with a Cutter. It's not really the fact that it is slow getting around an asteroid with it, although mine is fully engineered with grade 5 dirty drag drive thrusters, it's that it's long. You have to pick your way around the asteroid trying to keep off the asteroids around you. That can be quite challenging sometimes. Well, off to do some more mining, later.

Traveled back to Musca Dark Region IM-V C2-24 yesterday.  Explored damaged megaship. Found you could repair Hull Breach. Repaired all hull breaches to see if there was a reward of some kind, no reward, not even a thank you.  Used Silent Running on ship to break open cargo hatch. Opened hatch, no supplies came out of hatch even though the manifest scanner said there was cargo in cargo bay. There must be some kind of a glitch with the cargo bays, the escape hatches work fine, was able to load occupied and damaged escape pods. Sold the pods to Hannu Arena.

Jumped to Coalsack Sector VU-O b6-6, checked out damaged megaship there. Pretty much the same as Musca Dark Region IM-V C2-24. Cargo bays not releasing cargo.

Heading to Delphi, heard that there were 4 damaged megaships there.

Traveled to Musca Dark Region IM-V C2-24 yesterday to checkout the damaged Megaship there. Found the ship and scanned the beacon. Checked cargo hold with Data Link Scanner and Manifest Scanner. Used Hatch Breaker Limpets to break open cargo hatch. Incurred fine and received bounty on ship. Flew to Hannu Arena to pay fine. Was immediately arrested and sent to Panopticon in the Synuefe BR-L C24-24 system. 400ly from Musca Dark Region IM-V C2-24. My ship wasn't designed to travel that far. Had to send for my carrier, thank god I have a carrier. Going to try some more exploring around the damaged Megaship today.

Traveling the Galaxy looking for systems with pirate attack state helping them rid themselves of these scoundrels.