On an a completely different note... wow... the Concordia is a sweet looking ride.  What I wouldn't give for THAT as a flagship...<br/><br/>And on Glyph's question, can I add one?  After TGT gave me my equipment list (thanks for that!) I remembered reading about getting low end stuff (to start with, that is...) pretty easily?<br/><br/>I was just wondering if I could fill out Darius's equipment list a bit more with some cheapo stuff... (I like detailed equipment lists... go figure...)<br/><br/>Stuff like, oh, Frag and Smoke grenades (elcheapo...) A grapple gun... (I ALWAYS try to get one of these, if they have them in the game, and this game has them...) and that instant cement stuff they use to patch bullet holes in power armor... when you've just been shot but don't want to explosively decompress.<br/><br/>If I need to make acquisition tests later, that's cool... I just want to know if I can simply start with low end stuff like that.<br/><br/>As for the station, well, I'd say finding naval officers (and void trained crew) to man Attica station would be a huge benefit... and quite possibly the cheapest way to go for giving us a leg up in the system.  Now, is it me, but wouldn't a whole bunch of 20 something kids that have been raised all their lives on board a space-ship have a bit of a leg up in learning, oh, the stuff needed to run a station?  Could we run a recruiting drive for the navy out of our prospective colonists, and instead of getting a colony world with them, turn a whole bunch of them into naval personal that Attica station needs?  I'd think we could even find a way or three to benefit from something like that.  (don't naval personal get to have families?  Salaries?  Access to information and equipment?)  We could start a "Attica Station Naval base" / colony, maybe?<br/><br/>The point behind having the kids in the cargo hold form a colony was their having kids to become crew on the ship later... there isn't any reason why they can't do the same thing on Attica Station as navy personal... and still raise kids and send us recruits... ones that, instead of being raised as ground pounders, would be raised as naval trained spacers?<br/><br/>Sounds like a win/win to me... if we worked it right.