Who has work for you
Bound with the Flight Manual · the missions as the game offers them
The original Elite gave you one mission, from the Navy, after your first sixteen kills. HARMLESS keeps that one and adds more. Five people on five worlds have work for you. Each one is a few jumps farther across the first galaxy than the last, and each gives you a short chain of jobs. When you finish a chain, or fail it, the next person sends word. You hear it first as a rumour on a station board, and then as a message when you dock nearby.
This page shows who has work for you and what each job is. It does not tell you how a job ends. Your own record of what happened is in the game, under COMMANDER'S LOG on the station menu.
When you take a job, the game shows you where to go. The world is marked on the charts. When you arrive, the console tells you where the target is, and the target is marked on your scanner and on your screen. The console tells you what happens at each step.
The five worlds, in order.
Corvin Thale, the governor at Lave
The governor of Lave lost the export ledger to a smuggler. Recover the canister, then hunt the smuggler down.
Corvin Thale counts every sack of tree grub that leaves Lave, and the count does not lie.
Torvin Adeyemi, a faction's envoy at Rabedira
An envoy at Rabedira needs a truce paper carried to a neighbour. Then he needs an escort to the meeting itself.
Friend of the cause, well met on Rabedira. I am Torvin Adeyemi, and before I name a single fee, I promise you my gratitude runs deep and does not fade.
Ilona Draske, the planning director at Vetitice
Pirates hold the lane a shipment must cross at Vetitice. Clear the lane, bring a survey pilot home alive, then carry the manifest on.
The quota stands, commander. Pirates hold the lane our shipment must cross, and the collective needs it clear.
Bridget Calloway, the elected port administrator at Xeer
An Anaconda is forging the harvest figures at Xeer. Watch it without firing, then find and destroy the ship that carries the false papers.
Bridget Calloway here, port administrator of Xeer. The docking fee is due, and the harvest quota is short again.
Ferris Adalwyn, a colonel of the state guard at Edle
A colonel at Edle has a manifest to move and a transporter to guard. After that, an Asp is marked for destruction.
Manifest first: sealed transport crates, state guard chain of custody, no exceptions. This is Ferris Adalwyn, colonel of the state guard at Edle.
Every station board offers two or three of these. The same world offers the same jobs on every visit.
A lost fight does not end a job. Each job has another way to finish. Whatever happens, the next person with work for you still sends word.