Balancing the Books (3 of 10)

Objectives:

• Kill enemy ships at target location.
• Deliver 33 Tritanium (3.3 m3) to your agent.

“Mine the ore and, from it, refine 33 units of Tritanium for your agent.”

Enemies (Caldari)

• Group 1: 1 x Guristas Pirate

Total Bounty: 3,000 Isk

Overview

The third mission in the business career arc has you flying out to a target deadspace location to mine some ore and kill a pirate ship. For starters, it’s important to realize that unless you actually mine the ore at the mission location and kill the pirate, you cannot complete this mission, so just buying 333 Tritanium is not an option.

For Balancing the Books 3 of 10, you can take the frigate you received last mission and fit it with a single weapon along with a single mining laser (more if you have the space, but one of each at least). You can use either the civilian miner you should have from your rookie ship or purchase one off the market. Try to make sure your cargo is mostly empty, with the exception of a small handful of ammo (you won’t need more than one reload), so you can fit as much ore as possible.

Travel to the mission location and travel through the acceleration gate into your mission deadspace pocket. Once inside, you will find a single asteroid of Veldspar sitting in space amongst some other decorations. Lock the asteroid and approach it until it’s within range of your miner (10km), then activate the module to start filling your hold. After a cycle or two, which takes a minute for each, the single pirate ship will spawn and start to attack you. You can lock it as you continue to mine the asteroid and fire a couple shots to take it down easily.

Protip: You can make the pirate spawn faster by turning your laser on and off a couple times without completing a full cycle.