Post Captain promotion

I'm please to say that my efforts in the Federal Navy Auxiliary Fast-Track Program have finally been recognised.
I took a courier mission but I've added a few other mission screenshots below for anyone who interested in the types of mission available. The missions are still all available but they won't  promote me again!

 This is the destination of the courier trip I ran:

HIP 38747 must become a Winters system - based on colour scheme alone

Winters Preparation Cayley Settlement in HIP 38747

Because some muppets (or 5th columnists) have been prepping a loss making system (see below) I decided to get some propaganda to HIP 38747.

When I arrived I realised this HAS to be a Winters Wolves system. If only for the colour scheme!

 Not a moon but a rock and metal planet with a CO2 atmosphere with amazing rings.

Back in Winters Wolves Livery and trying out 2 Large Pulse Lasers and a Beam

I'm back in the White Wolves Livery now having completed many Minutemen missions. Now it is time to make sure the Winters fortification gets under way.

I did decide to ditch one of my pulse lasers so I have now got:
Two Large 3E Gimbaled Pulse lasers
and a Large Gimbaled 3C Beam laser

plus the usual 2 Medium F2 Multi cannons for tearing up the hull once the shields are down.

Interestingly I don't seem to be over heating the ship with the Beam much but that is because I have set my main fire-group to :

PRIMARY
Pulse
Pulse
Multi-cannon
Multi-cannon

SECONDARY
Beam laser

This means I can keep the beam boiling up the target but if it over heats I can stop using it by releasing the second fire button and let the cannons & pulses keep going.

The verdict: Great - I really find this combo is quick at stripping off the shields and then the multi cannons start tearing up the hull.

Great Minutemen missions

I have had some really good pirate hunting missions for the Minutemen recently. One was even 1.2 million CR for 35 pirates!

When on my missions I have adopted my Minutemen livery rather than my usual Winters Wolves white:

My first Minutemen Paycheck

I can't believe it they actually paid up!

I've been hanging with the player group called the Minutemen for months now - my kind of guys. They always said they would come though in the end & cough up some readies.

I never believed it though. Still good times. But now they are here - finally a Minutemen has been voted in an one of the systems is now officially under new Minutemen management. L 190 to be precise.


Here is my first view of a Minutemen star port (not sure who that independent CMDR on my scanner is up to - doubtless some MnM black op):

And my first mission