The best early-game shop-find ever (possibly)

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So I was playing my current game in T (Edit: Vanilla 1.2 Alpha). It wasn't going well. My self imposed conducts of:

1. No particle weapons
2. No non-disposable launchers
3. Permadeath
&
4. No lasers except the mining lasers

were making things interesting, and I had rather poor armor....and bad luck.


And then I found it. A full-on Xenophobe Ion lancer....in the system before Charon. The black market wanted 90K for it.

Move forward over an hour of RL time, not all of which was spent gaming. Four BM stations emptied of drugs. Several systems mined. One and a half korolov stations worked out. Many pirates killed, and lots of trading later.....

...and I have proven it is possible to make over 100,000cr before Charon, and possible to get the ion lancer before Charon.

....sadly, due to a lack of random-drop military IDs, I couldn't install it until St.K's. But still. That's not bad.


(Other options I could have gone for were the Dwarg Behemoth Cannon and a Mk.5 Howitzer. Kids, sell drugs and make lots of money to buy illicitly procured military weapons.)

Anyone able to beat that?

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Epilogue: That ion lancer, with some help from other guns, lasted all the way to heretic, and was one of the best guns I've used.

Since multiverse doesn't work for me, here's what the game looked like.

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ANDERSON

Adventure	Domina & Oracus I: The Stars of the Pilgrim
Black Market rank	Enforcer
Commonwealth Fleet rank	Fleet captain
Commonwealth militia rank	Colonel
Domina relationship	Canon
Fate	Left Human Space on a journey to the Galactic Core
Game	Unregistered
Genome	Human male
Korolov rank	Journeyman
Money (credits)	622,211
Money (rin)	15,488
Score	1,446,370
Ship class	Sapphire-class yacht
Time played	12 hours and 31 minutes
Version	1.2 Alpha 1

ACHIEVEMENTS & REGRETS

Became Defender of the Huari	
Became Legendary Hero of the Arena	
Cleared the Charon system for Korolov Shipping	
Defended Point Juno	
Defended the CSC Antarctica	
Found and delivered Professor Dall's alien sphere	
Liberated Raisu station	
Lost Jenna	
Rescued Mr. Katami from the Black Market	
Rescued Project Lamplighter scientists	

COMBAT

Enemy ships destroyed	2385
Enemy stations destroyed	172
Friendly ships destroyed	30
Friendly stations destroyed	17

COMMERCE

Profit on arms	569,872
Profit on goods and materials	618,995
Profit on illegal items	41,011
Profit on luxury goods	76,921
Profit on medical supplies	25,989

CONDUCTS

Honored permadeath	

ENEMY SHIPS DESTROYED

Iocrym command ship	1
Phobos-class dreadnought	14
Iocrym sentinel	54
Aquila-class cruiser	6
Gaian processor	6
Ferian warrior	34
Deimos-class destroyer	13
Dragon Slaver	1
Chasm-class heavy gunship	21
Cometfall-class missileship	8
Ventari destroyer	26
Polar II-class freighter	5
The Slicer	1
Tundra-class heavy gunship	45
Ranx dreadnought	2
Centurion/X-class heavy gunship	7
Tripoli-class destroyer	1
Manticore-class heavy gunship	2
Polar-class freighter	19
Earth Slaver	30
Kobol gunship	25
Luminous drone	48
Aurochs-class mine layer	1
Zoanthrope behemoth	1
Wolfen-class gunship	2
Sandstorm-class gunship	433
Ares sentry	81
Dwarg master	4
EI500-class freighter	3
Huygens Explorer	1
Urak destroyer	6
Centurion-class heavy gunship	38
Atonement-class heavy gunship	6
Charon frigate	2
heavy IAV	2
Steel slaver	26
Ranx gunship	97
Barbary-class gunship	6
Sung transport	5
Drake-class missileship	5
EI200-class freighter	1
Repentant-class gunship	7
Ferian miner	349
Heliotrope destroyer	3
Meth enforcer	17
Marauder raid platform	5
Ronin/C-class gunship	3
Sotho-class gunship	1
200A defender auton	1
Viking II-class gunship	60
Zoanthrope raider	71
Wind slaver	201
Heliotrope gunship	7
Revelations-class missileship	12
Sapphire-class yacht	5
Plague-class gunship	18
Hammerhead II-class gunship	37
Arco Vaughn	1
Urak sentinel	24
T31-class armed transport	6
Corsair II-class gunship	40
Oromo-class gunship	4
EI100-class freighter	10
Viking-class gunship	65
Centauri heavy raider	3
Borer II-class gunship	40
Ronin/A-class gunship	6
Earthzone-class armed shuttle	11
Zulu II-class gunship	5
Himal interceptor	2
Hornet-class battlepod	51
Hammerhead-class gunship	37
light IAV	2
Borer-class gunship	50
Corsair-class gunship	80
Tenhove-class sentinel	11
Centauri raider	43
Zulu-class gunship	8

ENEMY STATIONS DESTROYED

Ares commune	14
Ares shipyard	6
Kobol Warlords camp	4
Ranx fortress	3
Rogue Fleet settlement	3
Ares outpost	10
Penitent sanctum	2
Ranx outpost	3
Rogue Fleet cache	4
Ventari colony	8
Dwarg fortress	1
outlaw pteracnium mine	8
Sung citadel	7
Sung fortress	5
Heliotrope colony	3
Marauder stronghold	1
outlaw duranium mine	6
Penitent shrine	5
Arco Vaughn's container habitat	1
Death Drug Cartel outpost	4
Dwarg colony	9
Marauder compound	1
Marauder outpost	5
outlaw ceralloy mine	2
Sapiens compound	4
Sung slave camp	3
Urak fortress	4
Anarchist settlement	3
Charon Pirates stronghold	5
Fortress of the Charon Pirates	1
outlaw haven	2
outlaw palladium mine	5
Sapiens camp	2
Urak mine	1
Centauri Warlords stronghold	1
Charon Pirates outpost	2
Himal refuge	2
outlaw base	2
outlaw camp	1
outlaw titanium mine	5
Urak outpost	1
Anarchist camp	4
Centauri Warlords camp	7
Charon Pirates cache	2

EXPLORATION

Systems visited	28
Never reached the Galactic Core	

FINAL EQUIPMENT

enhanced Iocrym Fracture cannon [+Fast]	
enhanced Fusionfire howitzer [+Fast]	
enhanced Xenophobe ion lancer [+Fast]	
enhanced Mammoth 100MW deflector [+150%]	
3 damaged segments of light Iocrym armor [+50%]	
enhanced segment of light Iocrym armor [+20%]	
enhanced Koshiba-500 reactor [+Enhanced]	
enhanced Titan 440 fusion drive [+Enhanced]	
high-speed howitzer loader	
smuggler's cargo hold	

FINAL ITEMS

3 barrels of ithalium paste	
portable autodoc	
79 pteracnium fuel rods	
enhanced plasma torch [+20%]	
29 xenotite fuel rods	
Commonwealth military identification chip	
weapon optimizer ROM	
black market identification chip	

FRIENDLY SHIPS DESTROYED

Britannia-class heavy gunship	1
Molotok bounty hunter	1
Centurion-class heavy gunship	2
310A aegis auton	1
Wolfen-class gunship	1
Ferian miner	11
Scarab-class superfreighter	1
Ronin/C-class gunship	3
Salvager Nomad	1
Zoanthrope raider	5
AutoSentinel®	1
Ronin/B-class gunship	1
330M mule auton	1

FRIENDLY STATIONS DESTROYED

Teraton research center	1
Ferian colony	16

ITEMS INSTALLED

light Iocrym armor	
Iocrym Fracture cannon	
octocarbide armor	
Kytryn blaster	
Fusionfire howitzer	
Hecates cannon	
Koshiba-500 reactor	
Mammoth 100MW deflector	
orthosteel armor	
quadrocarbide armor	
SN2500 reactor	
Xenophobe ion lancer	
150NX reactor	
advanced plasteel armor	
heavy ceralloy armor	
high-speed howitzer loader	
mark III howitzer	
patch spider	
plasma torch	
Titan 440 fusion drive	
ceralloy armor	
Nova-100 reactor	
Yoroi S100 shield generator	
Ceratops 1T quasi-armor	
Nova-50 reactor	
PK25 Morning Star cannon	
smuggler's cargo hold	
AK15 Partisan cannon	
light plasteel armor	
miners's cargo hold	
solar panel array	
tritium propulsion upgrade	
cannon accelerator	
DM1500 disposable missile rack	
mining laser	
reactive armor	
class I deflector	
DM600 disposable missile rack	
recoilless cannon	

MISSIONS & ACTIVITIES

Commonwealth habitat missions	2
Commonwealth militia missions	6
CSC missions	11 (1 failed)
Korolov escort missions	8
Mining colony missions	2
Money earned on missions	5,100
Slaves offered to Domina	25
Value of supplies donated to Commonwealth Fleet	25,012

WEAPONS FIRED

Iocrym Fracture cannon	1,752
Kytryn blaster	37
Fusionfire howitzer	7,850
Hecates cannon	3,367
Xenophobe ion lancer	28,958
mark III howitzer	45
plasma torch	259
PK25 Morning Star cannon	3,721
AK15 Partisan cannon	2,882
DM1500 disposable missile rack	7
mining laser	1,915
DM600 disposable missile rack	16
recoilless cannon	770

Interestingly, I never actually saw a Xenophobe ship in the entire playthrough. Guess the black market took them out.....