TopHat,
1) There are some reason why they didn't open it
2) Getting registering not equal registered . And we need good reputation
3) I see no use for a prisoner, as for open crates they'll give much smaller reputation boost
4) Why do you think that he will be loyal? No thanks, 2 other pirates are from some minor faction, this one obviously one from large pirate fleet and we killed his friends
6) No mission, just a safe convoy. I want get us protected, not make some money
7) I don't think that small crafts are that useful. We should
consider selling some\all if price is godd, while the figters won the last battle for us, we can find other uses for dock place like converting it in med bay, cargo bay, workshop... hell we can convert it to something like secondary reactor room far in future. There are many-many variants what we can do with that place from utility to shields and additional weapon systems.
Also we may find pilots with their own small crafts for hire, that would be better use for dock space then using our own crafts
Also, we may use our docking place to transport small crafts, for a price. I am sure, many needs that service in pirate infested systems
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New proposal
0) Dock to the station, Try to find a hospital for our wounded
1) Let MMC to refine the mined materials
2) Load all that materials in the cargo shuttle (we should sell it at shipyards if we do sell it)
3) Use 2 units of complex electronics [2] to patch\upgrade our sensor room (just in case...) more complex repair should be done at shipyards, including patching holes in cargo bays
4) Give captured pirates to police. Also give them complete report about the battle and give them 5 mysterious metal boxes [5] as they are obviously stolen (and may contain something dangerous). After that contact the MMC and repeat the story (but don't say about another loot, we boarded, took prisoners and this boxes, and got out)
5) Examine our loot
6) Look for passenger\small craft transport jobs
7) Go to the shipyards sector (if possible try to join some convoy, for safety)
Get shopping list (including prices for materials, our fighters, red rocket, the cargo shuttle and jumpcore )
Diana spends her time in the dock looking for passengers that want to get to shipyards, for some additional profit. Additionally she looks for small craft owners that need their ship to be transfered to spaceyards for repairs\upgrades [/i]