Okay folks, you all got your Steltek Drones and Fighters, now I'll show you something really
HOT.
I suppose I am the first one to figure this out. If not, I apologize. Thanx to steltekwarrior for his cool tractor hint.
Ever wondered how to get multiple boosted Steltek Guns onto a standard Fighter? As many as you want?
You will need a fighter with at least 4 possibilities to mount guns. A Demon or Centurion will do.
This is how it works. Do as steltekwarrior told, buy a drayman an tractor the fighter (it is the key to your guns). Tractor the Drone also if you want, the drayman has enough cargo space for both. BTW, if you have problems in capturing the fighter:
1.) Use Autotracking on your Tractor Beams
2.) When you enter Nitir, lock the Fighter, hit Tractors, then Auto. The Drayman will reangle its "nose" directly towards the Fighter. Should me no problem to get it in.
After you tractored at least the fighter, fly to any base with a ship dealer. Sell the ships in the commodity exchange and buy them back in the ship dealer. You own them now without spending your drayman on it. Visit Terell.
Now take any ship and fly to Jolson. You can land, but RF won't start. I suppose it is because you own too many Steltek Guns in your Fleet.
SAVE NOW! Don't save between the following steps or it won't work!
At Jolson, go to the Ship Dealer and switch to the fighter. Sell all of it's Steltek Guns. They will appear in the dealers upgrades. Now launch with your disarmed fighter, fly into docking range with the planet and - eject (CTRL+E). Yes, eject! In your rescue pod, fly back to the planet. If you have the drone, repeat (drone's guns don't appear in the upgrades, so no need to sell it). Afterwards, switch back to your Drayman and launch. The abandoned fighters still orbit Jolson. Tractor them in and dock with Jolson again. Sell the Stelteks and buy them back using the Ship Dealer.
By now, you should have three boosted Guns at the upgrades. Switch to your Centurion (or Demon, Gladius, Stiletto,...) and mount the boosted guns. This ship should also be equipped with the gun you got at Delta Prime Derelict Station. You can do this again by selling and buying back if necessary. Anyway, you should have all of your four green guns on your ship by now.
Launch and land on Jolson. RF will start. The game will take away two of your four guns. When I tried it, it took away two boosted guns.
NOW sell the remaining guns and switch to the Ship you want to have equipped your BOOSTED STELTEK GUNS with, and buy them back from the dealers upgrades. You'll see: Alien guns are not expensive at all. You got your first boosted gun by now.
Want more? Then switch to your Steltek Fighter using MyFleet. Remember, you sold its guns in the upgrade. But now you can see that at the time you tractored it back in and bought it back, it came back FULLY EQUIPPED with three guns.
SAVE NOW!!!!!
And repeat as often as you want! RF is running right now, so any repeat will bring you three steltek guns! Selling the fighter's guns, launching in the fighter, ejecting, landing, switching to drayman or paradigm, tractoring fighter back in, selling it, buying it back into MyFleet. That's how you duplicate your boosted guns!
NOTE: I tried this in PR 1.2, don't know if it works in other versions or not. Always remember. If you save in between the steps and load again, the ship dealer will loose the guns!
Write comments if you want. I'm a newbie in this forum so I hope you are all impressed too...
Even you, steltekwarrior!!!!