Lamb pulled away from the star to let the Mamba cool before she jumped again. There was a lot missing for Maul's latest round up she guessed, but at least it had the ring of truth to it this time. Not all the facts was better then a load of make believe.

"Hm. sounds like nothing much when you put it like that. A personal journey of no interest to anyone but you, and the people you worked to rescue I should think. However, I think you maybe underselling the experience"

Coming around on the next jump beacon, Lambast engaged the FDS. She held the La'Bast 24 off target so it didn't jump as soon as the drive was charged, and waited for Maul to get quite close.

"You said weird. I like weird. No one talks to me about weird"

Although they were still in supercruise traveling at multiples of light speed, the size of the star and their speed relative to each other made them appear to be sail boats, slowly drifting on a dark ocean. Serene and peaceful.

"When we get to the next star, you'll have to tell me about the weird. This bloody thing uses about a third of a tank every jump, so you'll have time"

Activating the supercruis boost, Lamb left Maul standing. She'd told him he may think the boosted FSD was fun, but he wouldn't get it until he'd seen it. Once the Mamba's heat got into the seventies, she aliened the ship to the jump, and left the system. She hoped seeing the boost in action would give Maul something fun to look forward too. Lamb felt he could do with a frivolous distraction.

For a brief moment, Maul had considered making up something or dodging Lambast’s question altogether but that’d be a step back from the new path he was on.

The coms produced static as he opened the line.

“Uh, that Carte family I mentioned, Julie, the ex wife, hired me to find an asset she’d won in the divorce from Stefan. The whole job was shady, but I owed her one for some damages I had caused.”

He brought his ship to a halt next to Lambast’s to begin the refueling process and continued.

“The asset was a megaship that’d been missing for an unknown amount of time. I found it after a few weeks of investigating and threatening some folks. The thing was in a near irreparable shape. They had signal jammers installed to hide their location as they moved about the bubble. That shit backfired though because it wouldn’t allow a strong enough signal out of the ship for a proper S.O.S when they had been hit by…whatever it was that hit them.”

Maul monitored the rising heat levels and maneuvered slightly further from the massive star.

“However, there were survivors onboard the ship. I decided to get aboard myself and help them disable the jammers. Then—“

Finding the words to describe what he’d experienced was impossible. It all sounded ridiculous no matter how many times he recounted the events.

“…Well, they were using the ship for some sort of human trials, one of the things they were testing was a form of memory erasure. Was supposed to help PTSD ridden military personnel, or be some sort of reform for irredeemable criminals.”

“FUEL SCOOP COMPLETE” The covas belted through the coms as Maul moved away from the star to cool to ship before engaging the FSD.

“I mean, long story short, things got messy and weird. Time slipped between my fingers and I feel…half alive…I guess? I’m not really sure how to explain it. Spent a lot of time reliving memories from the past. Coming to terms with things that I had repressed for years. Thats why I contacted you. I literally just left the facility I was recovering at after all of that.”

“In the end though, I did help the survivors escape and I do plan on looking into everything deeper after I’m back on my feet. I’m in no rush though. That was a violent messy end to a chapter of my life that I don’t particularly want to reread again.”

Lambast monitored the scoop and heat while she waited for Maul to drop into the system. The Mamba was great ship for posing outside a station, or letting its super-chrome paint job impress people that didn't know better. It was rubbish for a woman that liked getting to the destination, but not trip there.

The jump range of the Mamba was poor, and the fuel scoop was small, so Lambast was board already.

"Nine jumps to go Mr Montresor" said Lambast as soon as his ship dropped into the stars gravity well. "What were you doing while you went dark on everyone?"

Most people would pussy foot around the difficult questions. Lambast didn't.

I don't remember having to re-engineer modules after recovering an insured ship... Ever.

Providing your credit is equal/superior to that of your ship rebuy insurance cost, it should cover the more expansive modules you have equipped her with.
I see no reason for it to be different for Pre-Built ships...

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I don't know if it's one of those Server thing or if they nerfed the Robigo run, but I have to log out and in again several times to fill up a 7 cabins ship, I have one third of the number of available customers I had two days ago...

So, if I understood you correctly you engineered stock modules which came with the ship, and you got them back also for free fully engineered after the loss, right?

You pay the insurance price. I don't think, though, you pay anything extra for the original modules that you engineer. I died after engineering the FSD and the rebuy was free.

There’d be a lot of salt on that day. Apparently, if you’re also lazy, and/or never engineer it, or do whatever with modules, you can “summon” the ship at a shipyard after selling it. Not sure I’d consider it practical…

Maybe also needs to have it in stock but idk. Not giving out money for this and likely won’t buy it when it becomes available for us plebs with credits.

Would be funny to have rebuy price for them in Arx. :p

Hi, i have a question about the “Photographer” achievement. This will probably be my second question on this topic in this forum thread.

I noticed this nuance: many commanders already have the fourth level of this achievement if they have 30+ screenshots. I'm approaching my 50th image, and the achievement level is still three. I upload to the gallery not in batches, but a maximum of one image per day.

Just trying to figure out how this should work.

Does anybody know how exactly re-buy work for pre-built ships. I read FD posting that you will be getting your pre-built ship back for free after the loss but it is not clear about the cost of your modules you installed. Do you have to pay their actual price or you will be paying the cost of insurance for those modules? Thanks

Currently working on a log entry where I’m making use of the quote function more than… a few times, and I’m noticing in the draft preview that it only shows the text after the most recent “quote”, even with non-quoted text inbetween those pieces.

Figured I’d mention it. Any good way to fix that without making post previews in ‘latest posts’ go back to that format where they showed quotes too?

Pico4.

You have to understand that full VR haven't been implemented while playing on foot, we have a boxed FOV which is ennoying, when flying, nothing beats a good headset in this game.

What I appreciate with the Pico is its lenses, they have a very large sweet spot, so most of the time you don't need to turn your head to read which in a game like DCS is particularly important.

Lenses are Pancake type, no funny circles there, like with good spectacles, you got 4320 × 2160 (2160 × 2160 per eye) and a refresh rate of 70 or 90Hz with a 105° FOV.

The only thing it lacks compared to sets 3 X its cost is a larger FOV but 105° is enough.

I don't remember the name but I use a cable pluged to the main and I don't have any issue with battery life, it's worth it.

I appreciate the recommendation. I've borrowed a headset in the past and was really impressed with the VR experience in Elite Dangerous.
I have a comfortable HOTAS setup as well; it does make a big difference for gameplay, IMO.

Thanks again!

Thanks. Yeah, I figure that much, meaning there will be a lot of FDL/Mamba pilots out there who aren't going to like it a bit.

I still prefer to use my Krait MK II, partly because it is close to the Python, but more because of my Fighter and pilot XG9 Lance/Elite, I'm already over the buzz.

Yeah it works well, I wish we could farm Raw Material this way...

Maul smiled and shook his head as he placed the ear piece in. It never failed, each time him and Lambast would cross paths, something big was always happening.

He thought about what Lambast had said about Holly, he truly never understood the workings of the ancient hardware and software that went into such a relic of an AI. Decade old memories of searching the Galactic Web for instructions on the thing began to flash through his mind.

“Lamb, if Holly is on the Thunderchild, ask them if they can have him start searching his database for the “Undead Archives” and begin his side of the decryption process while we’re on route. I’ll do my end of it once we arrive.” Maul said, unaware if the EoM Captain was able to hear him or not.

"Holly's main unit is Holly. You never seemed to grasp that. He's tied to his handwear; its the main reason he's so slow compared to a modern covas. He's a hundred and forty years out of date running of vintage tech. I physically take the dull old begger with me everywhere, and plug him into the emulator interfaces I have made for him. You bloody well designed them man!"

A long mag-tram arrived at the little stop nestled between the farm plots and the doors quietly slid open. After waiting for a few people to get off, Lambast boarded and waited for Maul to take a seat. She watched him while he settled to see if he was still emotional. There was a lot he hadn't said, and the lack of response to her mentioning of Vega was getting on her nerves. It was no fun poking a soft spot if the subject didn't respond.

"Let me contact the Thunderchild. Most of our ships are in for a refit thanks to the new drives, but maybe we have something in size three we can pull out of another ship for you"

A bit of squinting at the computer brought up the holo-bust of a brown skinned man in Errand of Mercy uniform.

"Ah, I'm pleased to see you madam. Is this a safe line?" asked the image.

Activating her studs and passing an ear piece to Maul, Lamb nodded.

"The carriers Destinies Jester and Löwe have attacked the Anansi. Captain Hooder is very seriously out gunned and may not survive the primary encounter. Kaisla and La Phresh have taken their respective wings out for emergency assistance, but its not looking good. Are you returning to the Thunderchild Madam? Captain Hooder did express great disappointment at your absence"

"I'm sure he did Captain" answered Lambast with a 'business as usual' tilt of the head to Maul.

“Holly should have access to everything if his primary unit is still being housed at Hauser’s. I occasionally had everything important sent to him to manage for me just in case something like this occurred.”

His data slate chirped, notifying him of his Couriers arrival.

“Okay, if I fly Desumashin to Thunderchild, is there anyway your techs can fit one of the new FSDs to her while I work on the transponders? Got a feeling it’ll come in handy here soon. But yeah, I have a few hundred legitimate ship ID’s I’ve swiped over the years that should be stored somewhere that Holly can access. I could use them to mask your men’s ships. Though, some raiders near the Diaguandri system may be in for a bad time afterwards.” Maul smirked. “Win-win”

Simple. Y/P/R rates in ED are totally arbitrary and bear no relation to physics. Same as with maximum/boost speeds (this one ought to be obvious; in real life, the only maximum speed is c). Thruster performance curves aren’t based on physics, either (see here for the general formula).

Good to know this signal source relog trick still works. (It’s been some time since I really had to farm materials that way.)

Also: the video does rub it in that EDDB is no more

93 Military Grade Alloys in 36 mn. How do I do that?

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This is an old video I published for the purpose of explaining the loop, I just scored 93 Military Grade Alloys in the Ross 342 System.

"Oh no. No no. I'm in a damn Mamba!" The Reach is .. .. That's about twenty-pulse jumps away in that bloody thing. Although, it dose look very good"

"Listen, Thunderchild isn't that far away, and Holly should be back in my office on board. Did you store your stuff at my place or, is Holly holding it for you?"

Valve Index has been treating me well with ED, especially after I got a basic HOTAS and could ditch peeking-at-the-keyboard-to-find-keys gameplay. I have no experience with any other HMDs though, so take my recommendation with a grain of salt.

Maul furrowed his brow as he watched Lambast struggle with the neuralwear. He could think of a dozen issues with such a device but now was not the time for discussion on the matter. His friend needed help, a friend who'd been there for him when nobody else had.

"I can't do anything from here. Got nothing but this stock data slate and the clothes on my back. But my ship should be here soon. If the failsafe worked correctly, Desumashin should be the only ship to have copies of my usual toolset. That is, if it hasn't been too long and my second failsafe activated and fried the servers on board that ship as well. I've really lost track of time these days. BUT if that's the case...fuck..."

He'd been lost in thought, as he tends to do when discussing work, but suddenly he had found himself giving Lambast a frightened look.

"...The last back up location I have is, uh, and don't get mad about this. It's at your place...in the server room...with Holly."

Maul had moved Holly into Lambast's new living quarters on Hauser's Reach over a decade ago. With the amount of caution and security involved in installing Holly, he knew even then that would be the safest place in the galaxy to store anything even remotely important.

"Let's just hope it doesn't come to that." He said, with a sigh as he looked up at the stars.

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