Shady Business
Requirements
The plot begins as soon as Operation Loose Ends (Terran Commander and Aldrin Adventurer starting scenarios) or the Albion Prelude Main Plot, Player Headquarters Plot and HUB Plot(Commonwealth starting scenarios) are completed and the player has the Race Rank of +10 (Honoured Strong Arm of Rhonkar) with the Split.
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Comm the corporate headquarters of the chosen corporation
Time Limit: N/A
Loss Conditions: N/A
Reward: Dependent of the corporation sided with
Time Limit: N/A
Loss Conditions: N/A
Reward: Dependent of the corporation sided with
Strong Arms: 5,000,000 credits and Pteranodon blueprints
Jonferco: 15,000,000 credits
Beryll: Wheat Farm M/L, Space Fuel Distillery M/L, Dream Farm M/L, Bliss Place M/L, Plasma Burst Generator Forge (Teladi) and Incendiary Bomb Launcher Forge (Teladi) become available for purchase at the Shipyard in Senators BadlandsÂ
Jonferco: 15,000,000 credits
Beryll: Wheat Farm M/L, Space Fuel Distillery M/L, Dream Farm M/L, Bliss Place M/L, Plasma Burst Generator Forge (Teladi) and Incendiary Bomb Launcher Forge (Teladi) become available for purchase at the Shipyard in Senators BadlandsÂ
Commentary: Lost order is a pirate sector past Mercenaries' Rift, both of which are crawling with pirate capital ships, so it is recommended to become neutral with the pirates since the player will be coming here often over the remainer of this plot. The best way to make pirates neutral is to build an illegals complex in Hatikvah's Faith and to do as many Trade and Build missions for pirates as possible. Once in Lost Order find the Elephant (TL) in the east of the sector and comm it. Ho t'Sht will reveal that she has been working on a prototype M/A-M engine and has reached the stage in development that she is looking for sponsors. The player is given the choice in deciding who she should partner up with out of Strong Arms, Jonferco or Beryll. Which corporation is chosen is entirely up to the player but does affect what rewards are received, what missions in the next part of the plot are skipped and which corporations attack the player later on.
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Next up is the Paranid researcher requiring 100 x Hull Plating, 250 x Teladianium and 500 x Ore to the Elephant in Lost Order. The Teladianium and Ore should be already stored in the PHQ while the Hull Plating should be easily sourced from Aldrin and Unknown Sector (T1,6) (the one at the end of the chain from Oort Cloud).
Next the The Boron researcher then wants 10 x Spaceflies, 250 x Matter/Anti-matter Warheads and 500 x Quantum Tubes. If allied to Beryll the spaceflies will be provided from the Beryll Research Station (there is a bug that the docking ship requires enough free cargo space for the ore delivery request). At the Stongarms HQ and the Military Outpost in deapths of silence 5-10 Spaceflies are added to speed this part of the mission along. Alternatively use an Ion Disrupter in UFJD sectors to collect Spaceflies. Matter/Anti-matter Warheads should be able to be sourced from the various equipment docks in terran space but if not then the player will need to purchase them from the equipment docks in the war sectors when they respawn or kill terran Heavy Load Transporter Springblossoms until a lucky drop occurs. The time between the Quantum Tube delivery for to Kao t'Nnk and this mission should have given enough time for the PHQ to have stored enough to complete this part of the mission almost imeediately.
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