Cue fanfare – Commander Altsain has done it, she is now officially Elite!

It was the trip to the Patchwork Plains that did it, the Wolf-Rayet star about 6,000 light years from the core systems. Upon handing the latest batch of exploration data to the astrographical folks at Jemison Dock (in the FK5 2550 system), Commander Altsain soon received a message from the Pilots Federation congratulating her on becoming an Elite Explorer, and inviting her to the Founders World in the Shinrarta Dehzra system.

The commander had travelled past Shinrarta Dehzra several times, but did not have the permit to jump there – now she did! So, grabbing the Type-10 Crimson Heffalump from Ito Orbital (knowing it would be the first ship to receive attention from the outfitting centre at Shinrarta Dehzra), she promptly made the short trip.

Upon arriving, she quickly ascertained that the main station was Jameson Memorial, and a short supercruise from the primary brought her to the dock.

Once inside, Commander Altsain performed a few quick upgrades on the Crimson Heffalump (which we will come back to at a later date, as that ship is by no means finished), then promptly set about making as many friends as possible. Just as she had done in Rhea, the commander scouted out the main powers of the system (LTT 4487 Industry, Future of Arro Naga, Los Chupacabras, and the mysterious Dark Wheel), then set about making donations to their pension funds, bringing donuts back for the local law enforcement, and taking any odd jobs that were going.

The people at Jameson Memorial seemed friendly and receptive to these overtures, and so the commander decided that the station would be her new home. She started ferrying some of her ships from Rhea to Shinrarta Dehzra, but within a day had broken down and brought them all over. Then she began travelling to nearby systems, performing missions to demonstrate her trustworthiness, all the while slowly upgrading her growing fleet with the high technology available at the Founders World…