'lo all. I just came up with this great idea for being friends with ALL the governmets (except the renegades, of course). Once you start a new game, hyper to the Miranu, and work there. (Without doing a single UE mission. You can buy outfits and gas up in UE space without becoming enemies with anyone.) Only problem I can see is that you have to nuke some renegades to get into good graces with them. And with a shuttlecraft, that could be a bit hard...plus, without any work, you can't get any money. You've got 10,000 credits to spend, and about 1,000 of that will be used just to get from Sol to the Miranu homeworld (you'll have to pay for gas when you get stuck in a system). Plus another 2,000 to max out on guns so you can at least take on a Krait fighter. But don't you have to do that mission for the UE first before you can be friends with the Miranu? How about this: fly to the Zachit homeworld. I don't think you have to do a special mission to be freinds with them. Just zap a few helpless trader vessels, steal their credits, buy a better ship, repeat steps one and two. And you could do that without making enemies at Huron. They allow you to attack traders. And buying ships in UE space doesn't make the Voinians mad at you, does it? It's just doing UE missions that upsets them, right? Help me out here! Is there any way to be friends with everyone?
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