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 Just another boring day at joves... Support crewman 2nd Class Jahkin sat in his quarters, reading a Jenquai gentlemans magazine, when the Intercom sqawked. "Jahkin, what are you doing"? Came support leader Ahhmmadd's voice from the box on his desk. "How does he know" wondered Jahkin... "Ahh.. Nothing sir". "Well then, get loaded up and ready to head out, we've got a new crew of Defenders coming out". Finally, some action! He headed down to the Support/Search & Rescue bay. Surveying the hold, he quickly got rid of the Sculptors left from the last explorer mission, and loaded a pallet of Roadrunner +'s, 10 new lasers, 5 Azure scale shields,a box of Aquila's and a batch of 200% reactors into the hold. Then, using his security ID, he loaded a Crate containing 5 new prototype engines aboard. When he was done, there was barely room to make his way forward to the cockpit for preflight prep.
"Joves Fury, this is StarterJS, ready for departure". "Good luck, Starter1.. Don't lose anyone today". Starter1 is cleared for departure to Europa gate". Slowly, he eased the huge orange and white vessel out from the station, The Logo on it's side "Saving 1 life at a time" was visible to the tourists gawking out the station windows. Members of other guilds gnashed their teeth and shook their fists at the sight. Engaging Warp, he soon left the station behind. As he came out of warp, he saw the gate to Europa start to swirl and flash. 1,2,3,4,5 gleaming new J'nai class Defender ships.. Paint still gleaming.. traces of smoke from new component's burning off. One at a time, they docked, and he transferred their new equipment over. Then, he took them on a quick tour of Jupiter so they could get familiar with their new equipment, and raise their explore rating to the point that they could put at least the new lasers and reactors in. They went back through the gate.. And the most tedious part of his job began. He hoped all 5 would come back from their initial training, but he knew that with that equipment, they stood a much better chance. To be continued......           

 

"You awake over there, starter"? Jahkin looked out the window to see all 5 of the Defenders arrayed of his bow. They all looked ok, except the paint was burned off 1/4 of Whoomee's hull, and he could see where hasty repairs had been made. He'd have to keep a close eye on that one... He set up formation orders, and they all formed up. He started with a tour of the entire Sol system, stopping occasionally in known areas to allow them to practice combat. They learned more quickly, as they could learn from each other's successes and mistakes. Soon, all he needed to do was keep their reactors optimized, and bring the occasional sheild up to snuff. Only once, when a Bio hunter ambushed them, and Whoomee fired upon him instead of running as set out in the mission brief, did he have to bring the great ship out of cloak and add his lasers to the weight of theirs. He thought for a minute that he'd be calling for Search & Rescue for all of them, but with some frantic shield repair, they managed to survive... But if there had been 2 bio hunters.. At that point he was glad for the fully upgraded systems on his vessel. With no need to build anything, he had all combat systems fully upgraded. Even the scanners were upgraded to the point that he could feed information, including cloaked objects, directly to their less capable scanners. For their part, they were intrigued with the possibilities that firing from cloak offered.
As their holds filled with loot, he docked with them and took it into his own larger hold. They got experience in trading from this, and when they reached stations they distributed items needed for guild analysis into vaults, and he sold the rest, using his superior negotiation skills to maximize their profits. (The explorers were kings of this process... They mined ores, and stacked them in his vault for trade, then when they reached the station he gave it back to them and they refined it into materiel needed by guild builders and traded it back for more trade). As items needed upgrading, they docked at stations with Guild builders at them, and carefully revaulted their starter pieces for the next batch of trainees. In no time at all, he was bringing them all to Paren Shipyards for their level 30 hull upgrades.

[So, you get the concept, I'm sure... Maximize Combat, Explore, and Trade on new toons by grouping them with a support vessel. As he helps them level more quickly, they add to his capacilities. And we get a crop of new toons in record time.]

Ensign Dragoon,
signing off
 

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