{"id":9354,"date":"2018-07-23T00:31:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T04:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=9354"},"modified":"2018-07-25T05:04:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T09:04:02","slug":"a-sound-plan-to-get-the-sirius-permit-but-first-some-guardian-grinding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2018\/07\/23\/a-sound-plan-to-get-the-sirius-permit-but-first-some-guardian-grinding\/","title":{"rendered":"A sound plan to get the Sirius permit, but first some Guardian grinding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now with the EDEX, I was able to begin the process of trying to get a tradeconda build to get the Sirius permit. Then someone said “actually, go as you are and get 10M in exploration data, and sell it to get the permit”.
\nAfter asking “10Million, huh? So surely I can go to the neutron fields and get it, right?”, I got this link<\/a> to the ‘road to riches’, being told that those ‘trash’ HMCs(High Metal Content worlds) have been buffed to where they’re quite valuable, since I’ve been gone. It’s from the same website that navigated me back to the bubble (from Sag A*) after the GNE.
\nSo with its planner, I thought “let’s see how much data I’ll get if I go to Colonia”, and answer nearly blew something in my brain.. nearly 200million credits!! WOW that’s a lot of good money (when I have 171mil in the bank)!
\nThat total could possibly double when going back to Sol (if<\/em> it doesn’t pick the same systems I’ve already scanned when going there, which is a slight concern).<\/p>\n

Then the conversation went to my explorconda, of how I’m trying to get rid of some weight for the trip (to add a repair limpet controller and a cargo rack for them). Dezent said that I should get the ‘Guardian FSD Booster’, where I only seen the name from Youtube videos. He gave me this Reddit thread<\/a> and said to go to the other system (which is almost 1,000Ly away from Sol).
\nWith KICS (somewhat) set up (including finally getting the “gear up” and “gear down” commands to work.. the entire thing still has a few bugs I need to iron out somehow(aka commands executing that I never said)), I was enroute to the SYNUEFE NL-N C23-4 system (planet B3); my mission is to locate the ‘Guardian Site’, land as close as I can and deploy the SRV, and then complete ‘The Procedure’ to get the blueprint needed. But it also mentioned about ‘Guardian Sentinels’ and how they will fire rockets, then it said “your ships PDs will deal with them”.. what the fuck are ‘PDs’? But I went with it.
\nMade it to the system, and made a guess decision where this ‘B3’ planet might be (as this is a multi-star system, with some of the planets between the stars.. which made it confusing to figure out which planet is which, but I got it on the first try).
\nImmediately after scanning, ‘Guardian Structure’ with three ‘Ancient Ruins’ sites appeared as POIs on the planet surface. Wait.. ‘Guardian Structure’? The link said ‘Guardian Site’, not ‘Guardian Structure’. Ehh, whatever, and tried to land as close as I could (still wondering about what ‘PDs’ are that my ship somehow has).
\nIt’s on the dark side of the planet (of COURSE it is..). What’s worse, this thing is tidally locked. Though it’s impressive this planet’s orbit is 66 days faster than Mercury orbits Sol(20 days compared to Mercury’s 88), that means nothing when the LZ is eternally in darkness (as a tidally locked planet doesn’t rotate on its axis). Though if this was a moon, it wouldn’t matter.. but I’m digressing all over the place here. Someone clean up this digression!
\n—
\nAfter encountering one of the Guardian Sentinels without warning (that I swear look similar to the face of a Reaper Leviathan from Subnautica<\/em>), I hear “Mothership under attack!” after it fired its missiles. Killed it (they can take quite a beating before they go down), then promptly searched for “wtFUCK is a ‘PD’?!”… ‘Point Defense’ was my answer.
\n*facepalm.jpg* Point. Defense. launchers. FUCK! And I’m 950LY away from Sol!! D:{
\nChecked EDDB, hoping for a closer station that would sell one. Closest were all 800+Ly away.
\nWelp.. time to head back<\/strong> to the bubble. Oy vey.
\n–
\nDocked at one of the systems and immediately installed four PDs on the top of the Conda. Now, I’m ready.. I hope. I’m still confused if I was at the right spot (as I can’t really see shit, even with ship lights).
\nBack at the system (20 jumps to get there), landed as close as I can and prepared to do this ‘Procedure’. Something about to raise energy pylons, and then shoot at them to charge them up, and then go in a pattern. Though the Reddit post seemed to contradict itself, first saying “it doesn’t matter how you do it”, then saying “do it by the diagram”. So what the FUCK do I do?! Most importantly.. where in the fuck are these pylons?
\nDriving around, I started spotting them rising from the ground. They’re kind of hard to miss, so I tried to cross-reference their positions to the diagram.. looks like I’m actually doing something<\/span>.
\nGot them all up, using the diagram to map out a route to take. Shot one until it glowed, 4 minute timer.. it’s on! Everytime I got another one to glow, I got another minute added (giving me more than enough time to complete this). A few of the sentinels showed up, they charge their missile attack and my ship’s PDs deal with it within seconds.
\nFelt I had all five going, yet the central pylon wasn’t raising. Time’s counting down, and I’m getting quite confused where I’m fucking up. I check them all… for some odd reason, one of them I had charged gets uncharged. Hit it, and my SRV’s computer says “central pylon activated”. Finally!
\nNow to collect one of these power crystal thingies and drop it down the hole. Collect one, drop it down. The timer resets, and shit goes south as every sentinel spawns in at the same time. The SRV is being tossed around like a toy by their plasma shots, losing shields.
\nForced to drive away, I try to pick them off one by one. But everytime, they seem to attack in numbers (severely knocking off my aim as the SRV flips over on its back like a turtle).
\nBut I managed to get in a position where they couldn’t snipe me anymore (yet I could). They tried firing their missiles, and I saw just how quickly they were destroyed by the Point Defense guns. Extremely happy to have these.
\nWith them all dead, I was able to scan the ancient orb to get the blueprint. Immediately after I did, another sentinel spawned in right next to me. I stood my ground and killed it.
\n—
\nThen, it was the process of collecting the Guardian-based mats (according to this video). Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get all of them.
\nThe next day, I was told I could had simply relogged (forgot about instancing… just shows how long of a hiatus it has been) to get the remaining parts. So I did, and actually got more than I needed.
\nTime to leave this rock and get back home to Earth.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd before anyone asks, no<\/em> I haven’t<\/strong> forgotten that the Pristine Impalong in Wurm starts this Friday. As long as I make the lamps (and get them imped as high as I possibly can get them) before Thursday, I’ll be golden. \ud83d\ude42
\nInfact, after I made it safely back to Sol, that’s exactly what I did. And I just got done typing this post. Now all I need is 40 Focus Crystals, and 8 HN Shock Mounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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