
Transcendence version 1.0
I cant remember the exact day I started to play transcendence but I know it was in between october 20-27, 2011. I selected the freighter and read through everything on the sisters of domina station, accepted the missions to destroy centauri and charon stations and gated in the 2nd system (I did not know about arco vaughn at this time). It was one of those oddly generated systems that had few friendly stations and many enemy stations along with some planets with odd orbit lines. I destroyed all the enemy stations and continued on to the 3rd system... by this time I was running low on fuel and was searching for a place to refuel and get more fuel rods, when I should have been heading back to eridani, some minutes later I was starting to panic and during this panic I saved the game (facepalm now that I look back on that moment).

Man, its times like this when I wish there were some panic smilies.
2nd Attempt
Same version, but a different ship and a new sense of caution toward the game. I selected the yacht and copied what I did in the first attempt but actually noticed all the stations chattering about arco vaughn, one of those stations suggested I go to the raisu station so I did and the station master gave me a DM600 missile rack after I accepted her offer to defeat acro. The battle was close, but the reactive plating of my yacht resisted the starburst missiles long enough for me to destroy arco vaughn with the missile rack, I continued to the 2nd system (5 indi, I believe was the name) and cleared it of hostile stations and did a few missions from a mining colony. In the 3rd system I encountered a agricultural station and agreed to defend the inhabitants from pirate attack not knowing the danger I was about to put myself in, I managed to destroy the first 2 waves but on the third wave... those corsair-II's destroyed the station in seconds and there missiles dropped my shields and ripped through my armor in a similar amount of time.
And that was my first and second playthroughs of transcendence. I cant remember everything in the second attempt, as this all happened over a year ago, but some other memorable events were when I destroyed the kronosaurus and got volkov as a wingman, accidentally killed jenna, lost rama when a marauder stronghold exploded as he flew over it, and encountered the ventari which i created a topic about for advice on this forum (and some very helpful advice i got, thank you all that posted on that topic!
