oh yes, i love flying the eluder. only a few ships i like more, but most of them are not really available in the story.
a problem that i had with that little journey was that i hadent recruited the spathi yet, so i could not build more eluders. that's been taken care of now, though i wandered into orz space, and managed piss them off. my flagship was not upgraded enough, and all i had was one cruiser and fwiffo's eluder. not the best setup to take four orz. i now know to avoid that section of space for now. perhaps i'll search out the pkunk, as furies are mighty fun to fly.
going at it without a walkthrough has become a process of trial and error. my only real hope is to stumble across enough planets with life to gain enough credits to get the lander upgrades from the melnorme. all the good mineral rich planets i've come across are rife with fire, earthquakes, and storms.
perhaps i'll putter around neutral space untill the spathi are back on spathiwa and i can get the hyperwave caster to get the ilwrath moving to the thredash and save myself a lot of grief getting to the pkunk.
