And so the journey of the to-be-famous hero, Ferris begins.
And so we begin in a shuttle, a vanilla shuttle armed with a single gun, low speed, low armour, fuel for 3 jumps, obviously the only appropirate name for such a thing would be GRAVEDIGGER.
Although the grave is more likely my own.
After only a few minutes, I find myself running for my life as I casually flew into the middle of a battle between the Feds and some pirates. Thankfully my shield only got a tiny bit chipped.
Since it was the first time I landed, in that system, the Tutorial guy turns up. He seems friendly enough but I told him to go away, he said something else to make him sound all cheerful, but I bed he's just pissed off he just got denied a free ride.
As you can see, I've been spending some cash. On what? I hear you ask. Well, if you look at the radar, we've got colour now marking out who the guys are who are trying to induce pain on me. Additional purchases were the upgrade that shows you what size enemies are and the almighty auto-refuel item, very handy for someone like me who forgets to do it every time I land.
Fuck.
One crash from pressing random keys trying to communicate with someone later, I'm back in action and doing an easy trade route to raise some cash for stuff to stop me running out of fuel, Earth in the Sol System has nice cheap Med supplies and Port Kane buys it for a high price, they also sell equipment which Europa in the Sol System buy for a lot, coincidently Europa sell medium price Luxury supplies which Sol buys for more, nice trade circle.
Some weird guys came up to me, asking if I could transport some weird probe or something, sounds scary, I remember that old episode of South Park that told me how bad probes can be. Money offer was nice so I accepted.
Wait, long trip? I only have fuel for 3 jumps at a time.
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Turns out the destination was a long long long way away on the map, I left the system and immediately jettisoned the probe into space, maybe it'll find it's destination some day.
Back to trading, I decide to get a friend since they can help me carry more. Unfortunately for me, he decides to take my cargo and cash and bugger off. Unfortunately for him, his ship has no weapons so I destroyed him, those three fed guys enjoyed the show.
Back on Earth, i'm approached by some weird individual who I happen to know as the Vell-os guy. He asked me to help him, so I answered politely that the forces that control me have requested that my life be spent elsewhere in this universe and hope to maintain good relations with his kind.
Turns out my answer didn't work and being what can only be described as a faggot, he sets the entire federation army on me, a lonely guy with three slaves and piloting a shuttle, what's his problem anyway? Selling the rest of the goods you can see on the right, I made a little over 500k.
Turns out there were more Feds than I thought.
SAVE ME SLAVES, SHIELD ME WITH YOUR UGLY SPACESHIPS. OH GOD MISSILES.
Turns out I jumped straight into the crossfire between the Aurorans and the Feds.
Out of Fed territory but still being chased, I landed on a friendly Auroran base to recharge, in the bar I was approached by the trigger to the Polaris campaign, great.
Wild Geese? New Ireland? Someone has some poor naming abilities, regardless that's our destination.
Oh wait, I just got blown up as soon as I left the base, screw you Feds, I'll take you down one day.