New Players Guide to the Galaxy!

Part I: Starting off Part II: The Borderworlds Part II: Other Stuff Part I: Starting off Ok, you start at Manhatten. Make enough money to get a Rhino, either by doing a few missions or shoot the wrecks to get cardamine/weps and sell them, the wrecks can be found at E6, D6, and E7. Also, shooting a few Police Storage depots near Newark Station above planet Manhatten is helpful. To find them, fly near Newark station and select the loot scanner option on your hud, or find them on the nav map. They may have already been destroyed, if so you will only see the metallic cross that holds them. If they have not been destroyed, the part to shoot at is the container like object held by the cross, usually there is 4 of these per depot. Shoot them until they explode, and only shoot as much as it takes to get nuetral with the Liberty pirates. Then when you have a Rhino, head down to Dresden, in Rheinland. Once there, go to Bautzen station (just follow the trade lanes) and if you think you have enough money to buy diamonds, then buy them and skip the next part. If you don´t head out into the clould just to the east of Bautzen, or find it in your Nav map by selecting &quot;mineable zones&quot;. shoot up the asteroids that come hurtling past. You have to shoot quite alot before you get a diamond, depending on your luck. Once you have diamonds, head up to Planet New Tokyo, Kusari via Sigma 13. At Planet New Tokyo, sell the diamonds, and depending on how much money you have, buy a drone, and buy niobium. Head down to The Ring, a station orbiting above planet New Berlin. Sell the Niobium, go to Planet New Berlin, and buy diamonds, heading back to New Tokyo once again. (optional) Once you have enough money, buy a better freighter, either a Humpback, available on most of Rheinland´s planets, or, a Dromedary, which has more cargo space but is less powerful and cheaper. The Dromedary can be bought at Mactan base, sector D4 of Magellan system. The Lane Hackers own this base. To attempt to go to the border worlds and outfit a very heavy fighter, you need at LEAST a million credits, but alot more is preferrable. Part II: The Borderworlds It is probably wisest to ditch your freighter when heading to out of the known systems, there are many evils such as gas pockets and Corsairs out there. Get a temporary ship, a heavy fighter maybe, such as the Barracuda. Don’t spend too much on it though, its only temporary. Head up to Sigma 13, and dock at Helogoland station (this may take a few tries) Now, we are attempting to get to Omicron Theta, you can either do this via Sigma 13 to Sigma 17 to Theta, or Sigma 13/Honshu to Sigma 19 to Sigma 17 to Theta. For the first one, head from Helogoland to the top of sector F6, there is a jumphole to Sig 17 there. WATCH OUT, there is gas clouds that explode and do a lot of damage, and also there will probably be Corsairs near the hole as well. If you choose to go via Simga 19, which is probably safer, there is a Jumpgate there from Honshu, or a jumphole from Sigma 13 at the top of sector E3. From Sigma 19 the jumpgate to Sigma 17 is to the right of Sector E7. Got this far? Doing well. As soon as you get to Sigma 17, you will probably be ambushed by Corsairs. Put on your thrusters, hit engine kill, and turn around to look at them. Yes, you must TURN AROUND. They will soon become dots on the horizon. Now, in Sigma 17, get to F6. Here is the Jumphole to Omicron Theta. Once in Theta, get to Freeport 9, at sector F4. Congratulations, you made it. An eagle is available for purchase here, one of the four Very Heavy Fighters. Try to get a Corsair bribe from the bar, if its not there the first time either undock and redock, or, if in multiplayer, press F1, Select New Character, and select the same character, this will refresh the bar. Once you have it, F7, Omicron Gamma jumphole. Gamma is owned by Corsairs In Omicron Gamma there are two bases, Planet Crete at F5, and Tripoli Shipyard at D6. The Titan VHF is available at Crete, also some good class nine weapons. Once you have explored Gamma, There is a Jumhole to an Unkown system in F1. Back in Theta, there is a Jumphole at G3, to Omicron Alpha. Alpha is owned by Outcasts. There is Planet Malta at sector D5, where the Sabre VHF is available, and also some more class 9 weapons. There is also another jumphole to an Unkown system at G4, and a jumphole to Omicron Beta at G5. So there you go. The rest is up to you, go explore Part III: Other stuff Choosing a Very Heavy Fighter: All VHFs have 2 class 9 weapon slots, 4 class 10 weapon slots, and a turret (except for the Hammerhead Bounty Hunter VHF) The Titan is the most powerful with 12600 armour, and backward facing turret but it manoeuvres like a falling refrigerator. Sabre is the next most powerful with 10800 armour, and it has the most firepower with a forward facing turret. Its manoeuvreability is average. The Eagle is by far the most manoeuvreable VHF, but with only 9900 armour and a backward facing turret. The best sheild to equip these VHFs with is the Adv.Brigadine sheild available from Crete, Ruiz, or Malta. To make a lot of money, take missions from either Omicron Gamma or Alpha agains the Bounty Hunters Guild, or from Omicron Beta agains the GMG. You can always get a bribe to fix your reputation if you need it. In the unkown systems, if you are level 34 or over, and you destroy nomad ships, you can tractor in their Nomad class ten weapons. There are also two dockable planets in the unkown system off Gamma. Class nine weapons: Name: Hull / Shield Refire: Energy: Base name/System/Owner <pre><font size=1 face=Courier> Buckshot 391 195 4 122 Deshima Station/Shikoku/BHG Firekiss Mk II 978 489 2 203 Pirna Border Station/Dresden/Rheinland Police Hornviper Mk II 217 108 5.88 81 Pirna Border Station/Dresden/Rheinland Police Kraken Type 2 586 293 4 122 Ruiz Base/Omicron Beta/Outcasts Reaver Mk II 163 81 8.33 61 Deshima Station/Shikoku/BHG Salamanca Mk II 489 244 4 97 Planet Crete/Omicron Gamma/Corsairs Skyblast B 244 122 8.33 61 Gas Miner Naha/Sigma 13/ Tizona del Cid 40 1242 4 97 Tripoli Shipyard/Omicron Gamma/Corsairs Wyrm Type 2 652 326 3.03 163 Planet Malta/Omicron Alpha/Outcasts Missiles: Cannonball 4890 2445 Crete, Malta Firestalker Homing 2445 1222 Crete, Malta &lt;/font&gt; </font></pre> You can get other class 10 weapons in Wrecks, a lot are found in Sigma 13, West of Helogoland, and others near the jumpholes in Theta, Sigma 17 and Gamma. Here is a list of Class 10 weapons Name: Hull / Shield Refire: Energy: <pre><font size=1 face=Courier> ARCHANGEL 978 489 2 268 BLOODSTONE 880 440 2 220 BLUE BLAZE 1075 537 2 244 CEREBUS 1173 586 2 293 DARK BLOSSOM 978 489 2 268 DIAMONDBACK 1173 586 2 293 GOLDEN BLADE 782 391 2 195 GUARDIAN 1075 537 2 268 IRON HAMMER 880 440 2 220 JADE 652 326 3.03 163 Nomad Energy Blaster 635 317 4 0 Nomad Energy Cannon 847 423 3.03 0 ONYX 1075 537 2 268 PROMETHEUS 586 293 3.03 146 SILVERFIRE 717 358 3.03 179 THOR´S HAMMER 880 440 2 244 WILDFIRE 1075 537 2 220 &lt;/font&gt; </font></pre> A few helpful bribes and locations you can get them: <pre><font size=1 face=Courier> Corsairs: Freeport 1, Freeport 5, Freeport 9 Outcasts: Freeport 4, Freeport 6, Freeport 10 GMG: Gas Miner Naha, Yanagi Depot Bounty Hunters Guild: Any Freeport Lane Hackers: Freeport 4 Liberty Rogues: Rochester Base &lt;/font&gt; </font></pre> Edited by - Griffon_26 on 23-09-2003 10:51:52 Edited by - Griffon_26 on 23-09-2003 10:53:23 Edited by - Griffon_26 on 23-09-2003 10:56:40 Edited by - Griffon_26 on 23-09-2003 10:57:57 Edited by - Griffon_26 on 23-09-2003 10:59:15