Python Squeeze OXZ - Revision history

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== Convoy Services Agency (C.S.A) ==

We at C.S.A. are delighted that you, the adept and ambitious Merchanter, have discerningly chosen us, Galaxy One's undisputed experts in the selection, hiring, and maintaining of reliable crews and ships, for the hazardous business of interstellar convoy work.

At a modest cost, we can put together and offer to you a close-knit Group of experienced pilots of that formidable and, now a major improvement on its precesessor the venerabe Python I, proven trading vessel, the Python IIc freighter-cruiser.

Leave the tedious administration and management chores to our staff while you conduct your invaluable vocation of keeping the million worlds supplied with the goods and products they most need in these uncertain times.

== Terms and Conditions ==

Convoy companions expect wages and regular maintenance for their ships, which you, as part of your contract with our Agency, and as convoy leader, have undertaken to cover from your account. In addition, you have agreed to pay the convoy 5% of your station earnings, as bonus and incentive. In return for your protection, each companion will pay you 10% of their total trade-earnings at every Main Station market your convoy docks at.

The wages (0.05 of initial cost) are levied upon docking, the maintenance fees (0.075 of cost) every 10 (ten) trading runs.

Should you wish to terminate your Convoy Contract with us at any time, we must charge a dismissal fee (0.5 of cost) to cover any losses, compensation, or legal fees incurred during service.

== Points to Note ==

It ought to be superfluous to point out, although it is something we always do, that you are not an escort! - You are Convoy Leader, and it is your job, your only job, to ensure the security and cohesion of your Group from Witchpoint to Station Aegis. This task primarily entails keeping your companions in scanner range - and preferably within viewscreen-sight - at all times. Should a member-vessel fall behind for whatever reason, it is your responsibility to make sure this ship rejoins the convoy at the earliest possible moment. For this you will need to reduce speed or even retrace your course until the companion re-appears on scan.

On the whole, our pilots have excellent astrogational skills, and will do their utmost to locate and rejoin your Group, should they become separated. We like to state that none of our crews ever becomes 'lost' in the common sense of that term. We select, vet, and test all of the pilots on our lists exhaustively before offering them to you, our esteemed client, for consideration.

C.S.A. employed pilots are schooled to keep their Leader informed through comm of their position at regular intervals during the course from Witchpoint to Station Aegis. On arriving at Station Aegis, your group will disperse and leave for docking or planetfall under their own command and at this point your duties and responsibilities as Leader end until your next departure from Station.

== Little Friends ==

Having indicated and stipulated that Escort duties must never fall within the purview of your Contract with us, we at C.S.A. strongly recommend that you as Leader avail yourself of a good fighter-escort service.

Our affiliated company M.L.S.S. (Merchanters' League Ship Services) will be delighted to supply you with a flight of robot-piloted Mamba IIe escorts to accompany your convoy's every trade-run.

These A.I. pilots, unlike you (an organic life-form like your companions), are merciless hunters, programmed to scour the scanner space around your vessels for potential attackers. Their neuromechanical nature renders them merciless, and they never let go. Once located by one of them, the likely threat is invariably neutralised before it has time to scan and lock you.

'Little Friends' Escort Service may be contacted here:

[[Little Friends OXZ|'''Engage and hire a "Little Friends" Escort flight''']]

== Download Python Squeeze OXP ==

Zipped OXP Version

Just unzip it to your Oolite->AddOns directory.

[https://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/6/6e/Python_Squeeze.oxp.zip Download Companion Trader V.1.0.0 OXP]

== Quick Facts ==
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|version = 1.0.0
|release = 2025-04-27
|features = Enhances Trading
|license = CC BY-NC-SA 4
|category = Mechanics OXPs
|author = [[User:Reval|Reval]]
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 === Essential OXPs ===
-[[MarketObserver|'''Market&nbsp;Observer''']], it goes without saying, enhances the Merchanter.&nbsp;experience greatly. Running with ''weapons&nbsp;offline'' is always to your advantage.
+[[MarketObserver|'''Market&nbsp;Observer''']], it goes without saying, enhances the Merchanter&nbsp;experience greatly. Running with ''weapons&nbsp;offline'' is always to your advantage.
 C.S.A. regards the following basic upgrades as <i>useful</i> if not primary:

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		+	[[File:Convoy_Muster_Witchpoint_01.jpg\|thumb\|right\|500px\|Python Squeeze: Convoy Muster at Ararus Witchpoint - Cdr. Astra Sigal in Python IIc "Storm of Atriso", aft view. Note the presence of Cobras and Pythons - this is a two-group run.]]
	== <b>Convoy Services Agency (C.S.A)</b> ==		== <b>Convoy Services Agency (C.S.A)</b> ==

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	[[Little Friends OXZ\|'''Engage and hire a "Little Friends" Escort flight''']]		[[Little Friends OXZ\|'''Engage and hire a "Little Friends" Escort flight''']]
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		+	== Recommendations ==
		+
		+	=== Auxiliary Pylon ===
		+	<b>[[Auxiliary Pylon OXZ]]</b> - [https://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/2/26/Auxiliary_Pylon.oxz '''Auxiliary Pylon download'''] - adds in a pylon to pylon-less ships. For [[Cargo Pods OXZ\|<b>cargo pods</b>]] only - not missiles! Full details [[Auxiliary Pylon OXZ\|<b>HERE</b>]].
		+
		+	=== GETter HUD ===
		+
		+
		+	[http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/File:GETter_HUD.oxz '''GETter HUD download'''] - the only HUD in the inventory designed ''by'' Traders ''for'' Traders, showing digital speed and cargo hold contents in place of missiles. [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20813 BB thread].
		+
		+	Full details and illustrations [[GETter HUD OXZ\|<b>HERE</b>]].
		+
		+	=== FE Ships ===
		+	[http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/File:FE_Ships.oxz '''FE Ships download'''] ([https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20786 BB Thread]) and
		+	=== FE Ships Player ===
		+	[http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/File:FE_Ships_Player.oxz '''FE Ships Player download'''] ([https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20787 BB thread]) favour the Trader/Explorer and bring core ships into line with those of [[Frontier First Encounters]], expanding cargo-capacities across the board.
		+
		+	=== Goods Containers 10-50 TC ===
		+	[[Goods Container OXZ#I-2 Trials\|'''Goods Containers download''']], externally mounted 10-, 20-, 30-, 40- or 50-ton cargo cannisters, fitted to any spare missile pylons, will speed your course to riches and larger ships. [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20810 BB Thread].
		+
		+	=== More Moolah Market ===
		+
		+	[[More Moolah OXZ\|'''More Moolah''']] is an enhanced and extended <u>Market</u> for the zealous merchanter. 5 (five) new commodities for industrial and agricultural economies; 9 (nine) recast display aliases for the Oolite goods. More variety, more realism, more trade possibilities, more moolah.
		+
		+
		+	=== Essential OXPs ===
		+	[[MarketObserver\|'''Market Observer''']], it goes without saying, enhances the Merchanter. experience greatly. Running with ''weapons offline'' is always to your advantage.
		+
		+	C.S.A. regards the following basic upgrades as <i>useful</i> if not primary:
		+
		+	* [[Cargo Space Refit OXZ\|'''Cargo Space Refit''']]
		+	* [[Cargo Pods OXZ\|'''Cargo Pod''']]
		+	* [[Goods Container OXZ\|'''Goods Containers''']] (pylons permitting)
		+	* [[Overdrive OXZ\|'''Overdrive''']]
		+	* [[Auto S.O.S OXZ\|'''Auto S.O.S.''']]: S.O.S. <i>does</i> mean 'HELP' doesn't it? - for when your 'Little Friends' might be otherwise engaged...
		+	* [[Little Friends OXZ\|'''Little Friends''']]
		+	* [[Advanced Space Compass]]
		+	* and a [[Beam Laser\|beam laser]]: if not for its destructive potential, then for the quality of its '''reticle'''! However, it must be conceded that most convoy leaders prefer the Military Laser, if only perhaps for its <i>cachet</i> value. Convoy Companions need to be impressed, and at least made to <i>feel</i> safer.

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 We at C.S.A. are delighted that you, the adept and ambitious Merchanter, have discerningly chosen us, Galaxy One's undisputed experts in the selection, hiring, and maintaining of reliable crews and ships, for the hazardous business of interstellar convoy work.
-At a modest cost, we can put together and offer to you a close-knit Group of experienced pilots of that formidable - and now a major improvement on its precesessor the venerabe Python&nbsp;I - <i>proven</i> trading vessel, the <b>Python&nbsp;IIc</b> freighter-cruiser.
+At a modest cost, we can put together and offer to you a close-knit Group of experienced pilots of that formidable - and now major improvement on its predecessor the venerable Python&nbsp;I - <i>proven</i> trading vessel, the <b>Python&nbsp;IIc</b> freighter-cruiser.
 Leave the tedious administration and management chores to our staff while you conduct your invaluable vocation of keeping the million worlds supplied with the goods and products they most need in these uncertain times.

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 == Little Friends ==
-Having indicated and stipulated that Escort duties must never fall within the purview of your Contract with us, we at C.S.A. strongly recommend that you as Leader avail yourself of a good fighter-escort service.
+Having indicated and stipulated that Escort duties <b>do&nbsp;not</b> fall within the purview of your Contract with us, we at C.S.A. strongly recommend that you as Leader avail yourself of a good fighter-escort service.
 Our affiliated company M.L.S.S. (Merchanters' League Ship Services) will be delighted to supply you with a flight of <b>robot-piloted Mamba IIe escorts</b> to accompany your convoy's every trade-run.

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	On the whole, our pilots have excellent astrogational skills, and will do their utmost to locate and rejoin your Group, should they become separated. We like to state that none of our crews ever becomes 'lost' in the common sense of that term. We select, vet, and test all of the pilots on our lists exhaustively before offering them to you, our esteemed client, for consideration.		On the whole, our pilots have excellent astrogational skills, and will do their utmost to locate and rejoin your Group, should they become separated. We like to state that none of our crews ever becomes 'lost' in the common sense of that term. We select, vet, and test all of the pilots on our lists exhaustively before offering them to you, our esteemed client, for consideration.

−	C.S.A. employed pilots are schooled to keep their Leader informed through comm of their position at regular intervals during ~~the course~~ from Witchpoint to Station Aegis. On arriving at Station Aegis, your group will disperse and leave for docking or planetfall under their own command and at this point your duties and responsibilities as Leader end until your next departure from Station.	+	C.S.A. employed pilots are schooled to keep their Leader informed through comm of their position at regular intervals during transit from Witchpoint to Station Aegis. On arriving at Station Aegis, your group will disperse and leave for docking or planetfall under their own command and at this point your duties and responsibilities as Leader end until your next departure from Station.

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	Just unzip it to your Oolite->AddOns directory.		Just unzip it to your Oolite->AddOns directory.

−	[https://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/6/6e/Python_Squeeze.oxp.zip <b>Download ~~Companion Trader~~ V.1.0.0 OXP</b>]	+	[https://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/6/6e/Python_Squeeze.oxp.zip <b>Download Python Squeeze V.1.0.0 OXP</b>]