Hey gang, I’m after a day of doing Rotary stuff, I’m back with an exploration of the Rogue Token Systems of Mitchum, Van Cleef, and Doniphon.
Once you reach the Scoundrel relation with the Rogue, you’ll open up the Outlaw Warp Tokens. This will allow you to enter three systems in the purple “Rogue space” section of the map (pictured above.)
You’ll be able to get one per day, with Eclipse Security Codes.
Some in your alliance may have already been there, so this might be a bit of a “so what” for you. This is sort of like opening up Al Capone’s glove compartment and finding road maps. (Corpsman, make a note in the ship’s log, first Weird Al Reference, Stardate 98095.98)
But it’s not what I was expecting to find. It may be there later, but there are no epic Eclipse armadas there. It seems like where they’ll be if the trend from the Borg events is followed, but they’re not there now.
As to what is there right now, proceeding from North to South, we have…
Doniphon
Doniphon is named for Tom Doniphon, the character played by John Wayne in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. If you haven’t seen the movie, it’s great. If you’ve got Amazon Prime, it’s free to watch. Go do it now, I’ll be here when you get back.
Okay back to the game. The system of Doniphon has, and I know you’ll be shocked when I tell you this, six fast ore nodes that max out at 27,000.
So in Doniphon, this Valkis crewed with Stonn, Ten of Ten, and Helvia gets 19,948 ore per hour – the same ore miner, same crew in Niawellen would get 13,299 an hour.
So it’s a 33% increase in speed. Not too shabby.
Van Cleef
Van Cleef is named for character actor Lee Van Cleef, who was famous for playing villains in Westerns. Also there’s a Primus song about him. He’s the guy in the video below who is not Clint Eastwood.
The middle system in the Rogue token systems, Van Cleef has six fast Crystal nodes, in two groups of three each.
Mitchum
Of course named for legendary actor Robert Mitchum (or the “Beef, It’s What’s for Dinner” guy if you’re my age.)
Like Doniphon, it’s got six fast nodes, except that here they’re gas.
How This Affects Latinum Rush events
The place where this has the potential to be a real difference-maker is in the Ferengi Monday events. Essentially, you can now get a third again as many points for materials, which means that you might want to consider dedicating a ship (or two) to collecting materials from these systems in addition to a D’Vor out mining Latinum.
I’m thinking ore might be best, because of Stonn‘s cargo capacity, but this may vary for you depending on your ship strengths, and needs.
I’d also treat this like the Borg Latinum systems that need tokens – but with less risk, as you’ll lose no points. When I send a D’Vor into the Borg Lat systems, I watch it like a hawk once it’s over it’s protected limit, I don’t think I’ll do that with the Rogue token systems.
