Corporate Strategy

Simon Sibbald
May 19, 2017
4 min read

Patch 2.3 went off like a small neutron nova, its effects reverberating across influence charts galaxy wide. The 2.3 cataclysm hit 339 shortly after Starship Enterprises had recovered from the Big Dip, and it caught us on the back foot.

SE influence slipped over 10% in less than two days and continued to trend down for the better part of the next two weeks.

SE responded in a flurry of reorganization.

The quantum supercomputers at SE's 'Think Tank' labs analysed the massive amount of research data SE commanders had collected regarding influence and eventually (to a chorus of whirs and beeps) spat out a neatly printed set of instructions of how best to handle the situation.

The instructions highlighted some of the important points regarding influence and how 2.3 had altered some of the major underlying mechanics.

The instructions also contained a list of thirteen activities for SE commanders to complete.

Quietly ignoring the ominous implications of the number thirteen, the Think Tank staff quickly passed on the list to higher echelons of the SE structure, who in turn passed on the List (somewhere it seemed to have picked up a capital L) to everyone else.

what follows is a copy of.... the List:

T.H.I.N.K..T.A.N.K.. thinking machine results.

> 13 activities

..#BEGINLIST

....

TASK 1 Take and complete any two quests given by Starship Enterprises from WHITSON ORBITAL ..

TASK 2 Go to OLIVAS CITY in the LHS 3505 system and buy: 10 + tons of Consumer Technology, 10 + tons of Advanced Medicines, 10 + tons of Agri Medicines, 10 + tons of Progenator Cells, 10 + tons of Performance Enhancers, 10 + tons of Aquaponic Systems, 10 + tons of Animal Monitors, 10 + tons of Bio Waste, and sell at WHITSON ORBITAL in the LP 339-7 system for PROFIT ..

TASK 3 Go To MALLET HUB in the GILGAMESH system and buy: 10 + tons of Beryllium, 10 + tons of Copper, 10 + tons of Gallium 10 + tons of Gold, 10 + tons of Silver and sell at EARTH'S INHERITANCE WILDLIFE RESERVE in the LP 339-7 system for PROFIT ..

TASK 4 Complete two MINING quests from EARTH's INHERITANCE WILDLIFE RESERVE in 339

these quests can be completed in the adjacent rings of PLANET 4 (inside resource extraction sites to collect bounty vouchers also) OSMIUM from high metal content RING A planet 4 BROMELLITE and METHANOL MONOHYDRATE CRYSTALS from icy RING B planet 4. ..

TASK 5 Go to FREY or COL SECTOR 285 KY-H C10-14 and MINE: 10 + tons of Osmium 10 + tons of Palladium 10 + tons of Platinum 10 + tons of Preseodymium 10 + tons of Painite and sell at EARTH's INHERITANCE WILDLIFE PARK in the LP 339-7 system for LOADS of PROFIT ..

TASK 6 complete 4 BASIC PASSENGER QUESTS given out by Starship Enterprises from any station in 339 **THESE QUESTS GIVE LOTS OF INFLUENCE** ..

TASK 7 complete 2 passenger -sight seeing- quests given by Starship Enterprises from WHITSON ORBITAL in 339 and use a DISCOVERY SCANNER to collect data to hand in upon your return ..

TASK 8 complete 1 passenger -collect data- quest given by SE in WHITSON ORBITAL to a range of 1000-5000 LY and use a DISCOVERY SCANNER to collect data to hand in upon your return ..

TASK 9 use a DISCOVERY SCANNER to collect 10 MILLION CREDITS worth of CARTOGRAPHY DATA and hand in at WHITSON ORBITAL in 339 ..

TASK 10 Go to OLIVAS CITY in the LHS 3505 system and buy: 10 + tons of Explosives 10 + tons of Synthetic Reagents 10 + tons of Evacuation Shelters 10 + tons of Microbial Furnaces 10 + tons of Advanced Catalysers 10 + tons of Resonating Separators 10 + tons of Medical Diagnostic Equipment 10 + tons of Land Enrichment Systems 10 + tons of Scrap and sell at GELL-MANN RING in the LP 339-7 system for A LOSS note - prices fluctuate and sometimes you will not make a loss on these items.. a good rule is to buy things that either Gell-Mann ALREADY SELLS, or items that it DOES NOT WANT AT ALL...(for example 'skimmer components' are used by surface installations and will probably sell at a loss, or 'bio reducing lichen' is of no use to an industrial station and should also sell at a loss) ..

TASK 11 Farm 1 MILLION + credits worth of STARSHIP ENTERPRISES BOUNTY VOUCHERS in the LP 339-7 system and hand in at WHITSON ORBITAL

hand in often (each million credits) rather than farming large amounts. do not use a kill warrant scanner do not hand in federation vouchers ..

TASK 12 Go to HARVESTPORT in the KAPPA FORNACIS system and buy: 10 + tons of ONION HEAD, 10 + tons of IMPERIAL SLAVES, sell these on the BLACK MARKET (in station contacts) at KERWIN GATEWAY in the LP 339-7 system. ..