Timbur's Log, There's never a dull moment hauling cargo. I keep telling myself I'll quit once I get bored of it but I have yet to lose interest thanks to events like today. I started off trading, it's peaceful and quiet in the mornings, nothing but the sound of 1.6 million kilograms of Drake Caterpillar rumbling through the dead silence of space, that and the sounds of millions of credits earned. With an easy run to 045 and back I pocketed a nice 300,000 credits. 
But great cargo haulers don't haul alone and seeing that no one was online I thought to recruit a player from the general chat. The servers are almost always full, so the best way to make friends it to get online and play the game. Today I had very little luck finding anyone wanting to pilot the caterpillar.
Soon enough, a new player requested some help earning credits via a delivery mission. Turns out he's a completely new player, so I had him fly the ship. We ended up with this quick clip of how the route went down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4w5u3tFpq8

Light posts are over powered at the moment. Remember to fly safe out there and avoid light-posts! Just as I was about to purchase a ship full of Laranite, I paused to see how the ship was doing, looking out the window to my surprise I see the ship shaking. I go outside to find the ship stuck on the light post! Then, suddenly the ship comes free but the new pilot is not quite familiar with hover mode yet so the ship gets rammed into the ground and explodes. Luckily, there was no cargo on-board, so I was just standing there, stranded on a remote moon with no ship. I'll make sure to give our newcomer a second chance and this goes to show an experienced crew  is well worth it.


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