It was the 8th July 3263 when myself and my crewmember, Pam Gilmour, set out for an epic journey that lasted nearly a year and covered 38 different systems. We decided it would be a good project to write a guide for bounty hunters. We happened to be in the Ackanti system at the time, and decided to make this our start point. Ackanti, for those who have never been there, is on the southern edge (1, -9). We decided to see how much money we could make by pure bounty hunting. We didn't realise that we would end up starting a whole series of Bounty Hunter guides this way - it just seemed like a good idea at the time. So we departed in our fighter-configured Asp on our long journey.

  The rules to create this guide were: we would do "pure bounty hunting" - that is, our sole source of income would be from the bounty received from defeating pirates, and any cargo we scooped up from the pirates. We would not perform any other work (such as trading, assasinations, courier runs etc.)

  This guide is the historic first edition. Pam and myself periodically got together to pen new editions of W&G as it became known, once every couple of years. We made quite a tidy sum out of this guide! More recent guides are more comprehensive, covering all good bounty hunting systems in the galaxy. Since both myself and Pam ended up working for the Alliance, we no longer fly the trips, but instead contract that work out. So if you have a system guide you'd like us to include, let us know!

How the guide is organized

  The systems we visited are listed to the left in the order that we visited them. You can change the list to alphabetical order if you prefer. Select the system, and you'll see what we encountered, how many dogfights we got in, and what cargo we scooped up from those we defeated. Also included are some comments on what we found in the system.

BROAD STATISTICS

Here are our broad statistics for the entire mission: