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Originally Posted by vistarnh

Precursor system - If you go east of the 1st waypoint that has all the artifacts, you'll find a Starhammer memorial in side a giant sphere. It dropped a precursor ship artifact and a precursor gun for me. I also got ambushed by 8 aliens. The precursor ship can sell for almost $120,000. Side note: I don't always get the ship or gun, it's pretty random, but aliens will keep spawning in waves until you actually destroy the Starhammer. If you are tough enough (and save enough) you can gain quite a bit of XP here (I got ~600 my last game before the missile boats got to be too much).

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a good tip to permanantly tank aliens in Precursor system is to use the following setup on your Astarte :
kali * 2 (+3000 shield hp and +10 hp regen/s each)
tungsten *1 (+20 armor hp regen/s)
helios * 3
system firmware mk 3 (for the 250% armor/shield regen boost)

You can get those modules at normal cost in Charon at the Styx station, if no access to FTU warehouse or dont wanna pay for smugglers fee. Make the money for them in XB-19 and get the firmware easily.

With the IA pilot you regen 50 shield and 50 armor per second, you are generally at 90-100% armor because of aliens missile and shield generally drop at 10-20% when they are all on you at same time, but by the time a wave is destroyed, shield is back to 50-80% enough to protect from next wave. If you want to use your fighters the trick is to redock them all when there are 4-5 aliens left on the field before next wave pop so they dont get hurt by missiles and let the Astarte fnish them (had a triden with a phoenix repair system, but wasnt enough to prevent damage from missiles over time)

The tungsten is mandatory because even if they (almost) never get past throu your shield with their guns, their missiles blast in a green cloud that harm your armor over time preventing you to stay there indefinitly. This way you can leave the game running without watching at your ship.

I even left the game running for 1h in 4x time mode without getting killed, with fighters docked. Made a few thousands stat points ^^ well that's a bit of a cheating i admit, that was purelly for testing purpose, i reversed my save after obsiously

Beside this fit, i'm using all the time a similar fit using 2 kalis and an emerald on the astarte with system firmware mk3, this setup tank almost every huge ennemy pack fleets at this stage of the game (managed to beat all ships in InoCo system multiple times before the precursor mission and cleaned Beta Larethia with the mothership as tank when entering system). Only non laser user weapon are a real threat to this setup (like kinetics on gunslinger ships, they melt this fit but you can tank 30 tiers 4-5 laser user fighters easily). No need of Smog unit with such fit.
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