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 He's a hundred and forty years out of date running of vintage tech.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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Looks like it, this thing is selling like cookies...

Job done :-)

As I just checked, the game shows that Helium-3 should be present there and it probably can be "mined" only with the atmospheric/vapor He-3 extractors and not the regular ones (there is a few of other planets of this kind). If you are still looking for the sources of Solvent, on some other planets the flora/fauna can be domesticated for it, too.

"Pay me back? Mr Montresor, that is a ludicrous notion." said Lambast walking towards the ring transportation stop.

"To think you owe me anything at all is nonsense. Besides, if you did pay me back, I wouldn't notice. In fact, you could be the only person that hasn't asked me for an investment now I think about it"

As they walked, Lamb pondered who from the old team had given her somewhere to funnel credits away from taxable accounts.

"Yes, Vega had a good idea that was worth dropping a bit. Even Echo and Raven came up with something, though I gave them the credits for old times sake"

Turning to give Maul a little smile "Looks like it's just you and Kai really, though Kai pretty much sends me all her bills as far as I can tell. That means your in the black with me. I do recommend getting a new FSD with the boost feature. They are rather fun, and I think you'd enjoy it, so I wouldn't mind footing the bill for that if they have them here"

Sitting at the stop, Lambast patted her knees, looking at the greenery encapsulated by the ring. Watching the stars spin by reminded her of the fight that must be taking place by now, between Mr Hooder and Red Jade.

"Oh yes Mr Montresor, there is something you can do for me if you still do your computer things"

Taking her holo-computer out, Lamb concentrated to bring up the ship files that were being used in Mr Hooders little spat. Talking slowly, because talking and using the neuralwear link was still hard, Lambast explained what she wanted doing.

"I'm currently involved with this pirate chap for one reason and another. Right now, he's in a scrap with another pirate, well imperial privateer, and I've lent him some of my pilots and ships"

The holo-computer was having trouble displaying what Lambast wanted because she wasn't concentrating on the files only.

"Now, we washed the ships transponders before I sent them in, but I have since learned that Imperial Intellagance could be involved. I don't think our rush job is going to cut it should they poke their Roman noses in. Do you think you can help?"

In the case of the Anaconda you can be sure that 400 t is a typo, it's the weight of an Imperial Clipper...

Physics applies when it comes to flight envelops (they have to use something as a basis), you can see this when you engineer your thrusters, at a certain point, the drift becomes more and this is due to the level of inertia included in the computing of the flight envelop. It works with mass and acceleration.

I noticed this with my Corvette, even more since I decided to give her a weight diet, took the Fuel scoop off, mounted a 3C FUEL TANK and a 3D FRAME SHIFT DRIVE.

The weight saving seems to work a lot more on heavier ships or at least performance gains seems to be higher than for example on my Krait MK II, same thing happens when I optimized both the Python and the Krait MK II.

I have to say that Space-based game developers have it comparatively easy compared to DCS module developers due to the amount of work involved.

Aircrafts are submitted to aerodynamic constraints and to get a flight envelop anywhere near to realistic involves fluid simulation with a water-tight models (water tight means that the CAD design have to be made to industrial standard instead of game standard, that's hundredth of mm instead of tenth).

Some module developers teams are more successful than others, for example, the Mirage 2000C module is so accurate it is used by the French Air Force at Squadron Level. https://moovely.fr/larmee-de-lair-francaise-sequipe-de-dsc-world-mirage-2000/

For having worked in the 3D Industry and done some limited fluid simulation myself using CATIA and FLUENT (simple F-100 Super Sabre wing simulation), I can tell you that a whole Mach 2 Aircraft demands a LOT of work.

I thank you for your efforts here to easy our life
I confess I was confused since I was searching for a domestic source - as part of a production chain, then I realized it was impossible.
I am deep to the neck on this great game, with 3500h + under the hood, so if I can help you with anything, just beep me here.

( in a side note, Katydid has no real source of He3, even if it is "officially" presented on the search tab, on the Katydid 1-A - I spent over 2h there, searching, with 50+ jumps on all biome - HE3 simply do not show-up ; maybe bc also the "craters" biome, the "home" of He3, is not present on this moon... maybe a side note on the description ?... my "solution" to power-up the indicite extractors was to simply build an extra inter-sys cargo link importing fuel from another system, store that fuel ( He3) then use that to power-up another cargo-link to "export" the indicite to the factory planet. )

You could ask the same question of how an Anaconda with a - supposedly - lighter hull and identical thrusters still has the same speed as a Corvette in a straight line. Whatever logic those things operate on, I’m not sure how much mass has to do with it. Not too much when it comes to the top limit, anyway…

Agreed. This is completely arbitrary, in all logic, if they have wanted to make the MK II more maneuverable than the previous Python, they would have made it lighter not 100 t heavier and equipped it with Class 7 Thrusters, with the same MASS-LOCK FACTOR???...

I can't wait to see what the next Combat ship will be like.

Anyone knows how developers managed to get a ship 130‬ t stock heavier than a Krait MK II end up with a pitch rate 8°/sec higher with the same Class 6 Thruster and engineering???

I'm thinking of the Python MK II, because if they start to depart from standard like Class/Thrust we're gonna end up with totally fantasist results with equivalent fits...

Just posted a thread in Elite Forums...

Its manoeuvring thrusters are more effective blah blah blah including the fact that, on any ship, you can get almost the same thrust out of those little holes as you're getting from a beast of an engine (or even several engines) with its exhaust pointed backwards in the classic way... We're living in a world where we can land on 63G planets anyway, no surprise. :p

You missed a scoop, Python MK II flown by gankers killed a hauler and we got an update about aviation language where evading a threat involves dogfighting.

Anyway I find sad that it had to be a bunch of emotionally challenged cyber-bullies to report the first kills of the new combat ship, then I wonder where the laws of physics went for a ship 130‬ t stock heavier than a Krait MK II can end up with a pitch rate 8°/sec higher with the same Class 6 Thruster and engineering.

Smells like commercial BSting to me. Just saying...

Not sure what I missed overnight, but I can’t say I managed to keep track very well reading up…

Dirty Dicks Dry Dock commercial has never been so close to the truth. :p

Yeah, no. I'm done with you. Sound and fury signifying nothing. Have a nice life.