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The Woodlander Chronicles

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May 13, 2012 Woodlander link
I first discovered, and then joined, the VO universe a little over six months ago. My first employee was a sentient life form going by the name of Crena Tuda, a dubious character by all accounts, and to cut a long story short I had to let this creature go after only a few short weeks. As it turned out I was then called away on business so had to put my VO career on hold until I got back just recently.

And so I started to look for a replacement for Crena. It was quite difficult finding a good pilot but after many scintillating interviews I decided to give a young humanoid, call sign 2Dog, a limited trial contract. Everything was going smoothly until 2Dog was sent to deliver some cargo to Odia. Unfortunately I've not heard anything from him since and can only assume hes either been killed or hes turned into a pirate.

There's now no other choice but to take the bull by the horns and do all the flying myself. So this seems like as good a place as any to document my VO journey. I'm going to start a new UIT character called Woodlander and see where the wormhole takes us.

Please feel free to comment on The Woodlander Chronicles but if he should respond, it will be in character.
May 13, 2012 Woodlander link
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Mission - Training I. Location - Dau J-7. Ship - EC-89
Basic Flight & Combat

Notes - Well that was easy, don't know what all the fuss was about. Blasting those Orun Collectors was a piece of cake, "chestnuts roasting on an OPEN FIRE!"
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Mission - Training II. Location - Dau J-7. Ship - EC-89
Advanced Flight, Combat and Navigation (Turbo, navigation, no-fire-zones and docking with capships)

Notes - OK, blowing up those DenTeks wasn't as easy as the Oruns but still. Capship docking was a walk in the park too. Don't know why I bothered hiring those other pilots now, this is lemon squeezy. Where's the bar, I need a drink?
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Mission - Training III. Location - Dau J-7. Ship - EC-89
Navigating to the Capitol (Dau L-10)

Notes - Goodbye training sector, hello universe!
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Mission - Training IV. Location - Dau L-10. Ship - EC-89
The Station Interface (Buying and Selling items & other common in-station tasks)

Notes - Someone wake me up when this is over.
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Mission - Training V. Location - Dau L-10. Ship - EC-89
All About the Galaxy (Learn about the universe from an experienced captain)

Notes - All I needed was a few comfy sand bags to lean on.
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Mission - Basic Flight Status. Location - Dau-L10. Ship - EC-89
Test

Notes - That's more like it, bring em on! Got enough dosh now from the cargo dropped by those bot kills to buy a new ship - lets see, what shall I have? That Centurion looks good with a Light Power Cell and a Plasma Cannon HX, sorted.
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May 13, 2012 USMC link
L O L , keep going lets see how it works out
May 14, 2012 Woodlander link
Thank you space life form.
May 14, 2012 Woodlander link
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Mission - Rogue Drones

Location - Dau L-10

Ship - Centurion

Power - Light Power Cell

Loadout - Plasma Cannon HX

Notes - My first REAL mission... sweeeet! Those Orun bots in Dau J-12 just didn't know what hit em. Two cores delivered as per. Who's the daddy!
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Mission - More Orun processors needed
Collect parts from specific drones for research

Location - Dau L-10

Ship - Centurion

Power - Light Power Cell

Loadout - Plasma Cannon HX

Notes - Starting to get the hang of this. If all the missions are as easy as this I'll be a top gun in no time. Right, whats next?
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Mission - DenTek processor cores needed
Collect parts from specific drones for research

Location - Dau L-10

Ship - Centurion

Power - Light Power Cell

Loadout - Plasma Cannon HX

Notes - Wooooh hooooah! That's what I'm talking about baby... Those DenTeks in Dau H-12 were a little harder to slot but were no sweat really to a pro like me. And my Combat and Light Weapons Licenses are going up nicely too with only relatively few bot kills.
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Mission - More DenTek processors needed
Additional DenTek processor cores are required to generate an unbiased estimate

Location - Dau L-10

Ship - Centurion

Power - Light Power Cell

Loadout - Plasma Cannon HX

License - 1/1/-/-/-

Notes - Ten cores delivered for inspection. And they thought I might need a wingman... ha! Soon be at Combat and Light Weapons License 2 at this rate.
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May 14, 2012 Dr. Lecter link
I am so looking forward to (briefly) meeting you.
May 14, 2012 pirren link
no comments
May 15, 2012 Woodlander link
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Mission - Alternative Avenue of Inquiry
Further studies of the rogue drone phenomenon requires an upgraded facility

Location - Dau L-10

Ship - Centurion

Power - Light Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator

License - 1/1/-/-/-

Notes - Two Artemis cores delivered and a couple of license upgrades too, cool. Time for an ship and power upgrade.
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Mission - Artemis Core Sweep
We need a large pool of Artemis processor cores and scrap to run our experiment

Location - Dau N-2

Ship - Centurion MkII

Power - Medium Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator

License - 2/2/1/-/-

Notes - These Artemis bots really are a piece of cake once you get into the swing of things. Bumped into an ApuTek-5 Guardian on the first run out, nasty bit of kit.
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May 16, 2012 Woodlander link
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Mission - Aurum Potestas Est
We need someone to physically transport our experimental findings to an archive for verification

Location - Dau D-9

Ship - Centurion MkII

Power - Medium Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator

License - 2/2/1/-/-

Notes - Those bot transports were so slow I almost ran into one of em, jeez. Don't you just luv the baby sitting runs...
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Mission - More DenTek Processors Needed
Additional DenTek processor cores are required to generate an unbiased estimate

Location - Dau K-10

Ship - Centurion MkII

Power - Medium Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator

License - 2/2/1/1/-

Notes - Oh yeah! Just like shoot'n fish in a barrel.
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Mission - Artemis Core Sweep
We need a large pool of Artemis processor cores and scrap to run our experiment

Location - Dau I-7

Ship - Centurion MkII

Power - Medium Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator

License - 2/2/1/1/-

Notes - What a bot killing fest that was, rock on!
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Mission - More DenTek Processors Needed
Additional DenTek processor cores are required to generate an unbiased estimate

Location - Dau K-10

Ship - Warthog MkIII

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 3/3/1/1/-

Notes - That ship upgrade really made a difference and those stingrays pack a nice punch against DenTeks, hit quite a few of them as they were mining the asteroids.
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May 17, 2012 Phaserlight link
Grats on Combat license 3.
May 17, 2012 Woodlander link
Thank you!

Thank the fucking stars I found those training and quick license levelling streams on that inter-galactic neuro-net thingy, they've been a really great help! It's just a shame the data feed of tutorial 6 has been blocked, but I guess that's the way the moon of Eo spins sometimes. Good training streams like that should be made much more visible to any new pilots hoping to get their career off to a solid start me thinks.

Safe hunting.

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"Know many, trust few, learn to fly your own ship too."
May 17, 2012 Woodlander link
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Mission - Escort

Location - Dau D-9

Ship - Warthog MkIII

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 3/3/1/1/-

Notes - Ah, the joy's of being an escort, at least it pays well.
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Mission - Escort

Location - Azek I-4

Ship - Warthog MkIII

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 3/3/1/1/-

Notes - Lost the escort near the end, still got a tidy payout though. My Combat & Trading licenses seem to be going up a little after each escort run too so that's a bonus.
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Mission - Escort

Location - Dau D-9

Ship - Warthog MkIII

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 3/3/1/1/-

Notes - Easy money!
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Mission - Escort

Location - Arta Caelestis C-4

Ship - Warthog MkIII

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 3/3/1/1/-

Notes - Ah, this is the life.
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May 18, 2012 Woodlander link
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Mission - Escort

Location - Dau D-9

Ship - Warthog MkIII

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 3/3/1/1/-

Notes - Money money money, must be funny...
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Mission - Escort

Location - Dau K-10

Ship - Warthog MkIII

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 3/3/1/1/-

Notes - Over a 100k on that run, wow.
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Mission - Escort

Location - Azek M-4

Ship - Warthog MkIII

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 3/3/1/1/-

Notes - Only just over 6k for that one, your have'n a laugh.
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Mission - The Gauntlet
Fight multiple waves of enemies to test your endurance

Location - Arta Caelestis B-7

Ship - Warthog MkIII

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 3/3/2/1/-

Notes - READY! ..................and they shall know my name, ah hahaha. Must be time for an upgrade after that bot slaughtering fest. It's amazing what you can find in the debris of a bot kill too.
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Mission - Help! Rogue Queen Detected
Seeking a pilot to assist with destroying a queen

Location - Arta Caelestis B-7

Ship - Warthog Territorial Defender

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Valent Neutron Accelerator, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 3/3/2/1/-

Notes - Talk about getting over confident, those Guardians tore me a new arse hole! It didn't help right enough that I let them surround me. Next time!
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Mission - Help! Rogue Queen Detected
Seeking a pilot to assist with destroying a queen

Location - Arta Caelestis B-7

Ship - Warthog Territorial Defender

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Neutron Blaster, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 3/3/2/1/-

Notes - You just can't get the staff these days. Killed all the bots leaving the queen undefended and what happens? The bombers don't bleed'n bother to show up, just great! I'll be putting an official complaint into the sector commander about B squadrons no show, it's ridiculous.
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May 19, 2012 Woodlander link
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Mission - Help! Rogue Queen Detected
Seeking a pilot to assist with destroying a queen

Location - Arta Caelestis B-7

Ship - Warthog Territorial Defender

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Neutron Blaster, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 3/3/2/1/-

Notes - CONTACT FRONT! The adrenalin was a pump'n that time I can tell ya, nearly ripped the bloody flight stick out of its socket at one point. But in the end it was my overwhelming skill, ability and intimate ground knowledge of combat that won the day, a case of Good... Night... Gracie... for that queen and her feeble escorts.
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Mission - Hive Skirmish
Wipe out the small hive presence in Initros B-9 (Ion storm in progress)

Location - Helios B-7

Ship - Warthog Territorial Defender

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Neutron Blaster, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 4/4/2/1/-

Notes - What a difference slotting hive bots in an ion storm has on rapidly increasing your XP, oh yeah!
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Mission - Hive Skirmish
Wipe out the Hive in Initros E-8

Location - Initros O-12

Ship - Warthog Territorial Defender

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Neutron Blaster MkII, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 4/4/2/1/-

Notes - Was taking out bots good style when all of a sudden I gets the order to regroup and try again later, with a big fat mission fail when I got back to base. Jeez, that sucks!
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Mission - Hive Skirmish
Wipe out a common hive presence in Initros M-12

Location - Initros O-12

Ship - Warthog Territorial Defender

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Neutron Blaster MkII, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 5/4/2/1/-

Notes - Fuck yeah that was intense! It got a bit wild at one point and had to bug out for a repair and reload but I got right back in there. In the end we got the order to regroup. Shit happens. Engaged a couple of bots that were right in my face, they seemed like kamikazes, weird. Not come across that sort of bot behaviour before.
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May 19, 2012 Woodlander link
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Mission - Escort

Location - Arta Caelestis B-7

Ship - Warthog Territorial Defender

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Neutron Blaster MkII, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 5/4/2/1/-

Notes - Did that moth pilot go to basic flight school? You've gotta laugh sometimes, where do they get em from.
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Mission - Trading Guild
Mixed jobs from the local trading guild

Location - Dau L-11

Ship - Revenant MkIII

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Gemini and Stingray Homing Missile Launchers

License - 5/4/2/2/-

Notes - From the missions available by the trading guild, procurement's a winner as far as the wages go.
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May 20, 2012 Woodlander link
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Mission - Trading Guild
Mixed jobs from the local trading guild

Location - Arta Caelestis B-7

Ship - Revenant MkIII

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Gemini and Stingray Homing Missile Launchers

License - 5/4/2/3/-

Notes - Same old, same old.
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Mission - Trading Guild
Mixed jobs from the local trading guild

Location - Arta Caelestis B-7

Ship - Atlas

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 5/4/2/3/-

Notes - At least the Atlas has a bigger cargo hold than the Revenant.
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Mission - Trading Guild
Mixed jobs from the local trading guild

Location - Arta Caelestis B-7

Ship - Atlas

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 5/4/2/3/-

Notes - One more run after this'n should do it. Could have sworn I spotted a Corvus Greyhound on the way out, at least I think that's what the radar said.
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Mission - Trading Guild
Mixed jobs from the local trading guild

Location - Arta Caelestis B-7

Ship - Atlas

Power - Heavy Power Cell

Loadout - Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 5/4/2/4/-

Notes - There we go. More steam!
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May 21, 2012 Woodlander link
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Mission - Mining Tutorial
Explains the basics of mining

Location - Dau G-2

Ship - Revenant MkIII

Power - Fast Charge Power Cell

Loadout - Mining Beam, Mineral Scanner, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 5/4/2/4/-

Notes - That new HUD upgrade really makes a difference. As for mining... is fun, honest.
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Mission - Mining
50 crates of premium carbonic ore needed

Location - Dau G-2

Ship - Revenant MkIII

Power - Fast Charge Power Cell

Loadout - Mining Beam, Mineral Scanner, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 5/4/2/4/1

Notes - No comment.
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Mission - Mining
Premium carbonic wanted

Location - Dau G-2

Ship - Revenant MkIII

Power - Fast Charge Power Cell

Loadout - Mining Beam, Mineral Scanner, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 5/4/2/4/1

Notes - Ah, the joys.
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Mission - Mining
Aquean drillers wanted

Location - Dau G-2

Ship - Revenant MkIII

Power - Fast Charge Power Cell

Loadout - Mining Beam, Mineral Scanner, Stingray Homing Missile Launcher

License - 5/4/2/4/2

Notes - Thirsty work!
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May 21, 2012 Rejected link
Why do you carry weapons when you mine? Most of the ore you're mining can be found in sectors without bots, and mining is more efficient when you use more mining beams. Also I enjoy reading about your progress.
May 21, 2012 Pizzasgood link
He may not have the licenses yet to equip a large-port mining beam (assuming those have a license requirement).
May 21, 2012 Woodlander link
There wasn't really any reason for carrying weapons other than the fact that there wasn't anything else that would fit into that large port at mining license level one (at least not at Dau G-2).

My mining license only went up to two after the last mission had finished so I'll now be able to swap the missiles out for another mining beam before my next rock hunt.

And thanks, safe hunting.

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"Know many, trust few, learn to fly your own ship too."