There’s definitely something odd happening with Personal Transport missions. I keep getting Rich Tourists who have Illegal status! No mention of being illegal in their details, only the warning that pops up when they’ve settled into a cabin.
Picked up and outfitted a Panther Clipper II; no engineering done as yet. That cargo capacity is pretty wild!
If you know the origin of the name, and my commander’s name, you know your Elite history.
I didn’t pick up the plipper, but have had a lot of fun in the Mandaly and now hauling my Caspian ( The Spinward Marcher) out on DW3 , it’s got the kitchen sink , and the laundry room and still 70ly jump range.
I’ll probably spend more time making data visualizations than exploring , but each to their own.
My alt “Cody Eyrmon” (a play on Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen) has the Tina Louise, a Mandaly outfitted for exploration. I play too infrequently to join any expeditions, though.
I just pulled up EDDiscovery and those are not from the bubble but rather achieving Elite in xenobiology, nearly two years ago. And had already been sold back then.
Given that the plipper and my T10 occupy the same niche, with the T10 having one-third the cargo capacity and being worse at evading interdictions, I’ll be stripping the T10 of its engineered parts and selling it.
Feels strange, completing bulk cargo missions in one or two runs all by myself.