Night Runner

Layout A · Smuggler

Two nooks, forged papers, and chain-shot for anyone who follows.

A smuggler: illegal cargo pays 25% more.

Starting crew: Vulpine, Rigger; Quartermaster, fugitive; Wild caster

Starting stores: 12 crystal · 35 silver · 8 provisions · 8 bolts · 1 flasks · 2 dust

Layout B · Blockade runner

A lean raider hull: Drive 3 and chain-shot to outrun the cutters, but only one nook.

Deliver 3 contraband crates in one run with the Night Runner.

A blockade runner: illegal cargo pays 35% more.

Starting crew: Vulpine, Rigger; Quartermaster, fugitive; Wild caster

Starting stores: 12 crystal · 30 silver · 8 provisions · 8 bolts · 1 flasks · 2 dust

Layout C · Honest trader

Two Cargo Holds, a Crown Pennant, a merchant's ballista and clean-looking crew: hiding in plain sight.

Win with the Night Runner.

An honest trader: legal cargo pays 15% more.

Starting crew: Vulpine, Rigger; Quartermaster, fugitive; Deckhand, Lowborn

Starting stores: 12 crystal · 35 silver · 8 provisions · 8 bolts · 1 flasks

Layout D · Nightjar

Runs dark and looks first: a Lookout that sees far, a Construct Bay with a Ward Wisp and a Brass Weevil, a Silent Grappling hook for her rigger, and a single chain-shot; one nook.

Hold 300 silver at once with the Night Runner.

Starting crew: Vulpine, Rigger; Wild caster; Quartermaster, fugitive

Starting stores: 12 crystal · 35 silver · 8 provisions · 6 bolts · 1 flasks · 2 dust

Layout E · Press-Gang Cutter

Takes people, not crates: a Prison, a Boarding Harpoon, grapeshot and two fighters; one nook and a little heat. A Vitality Chamber brings her boarders back.

Reach heat 8 with the Night Runner.

A runner for the Admiralty's forced-recruitment gangs: illegal cargo pays 15% more.

Starting crew: Duelist, fugitive; Marine, Lowborn; Vulpine, Rigger

Starting stores: 12 crystal · 25 silver · 8 provisions · 8 bolts · 1 flasks