X3: Reunion Gameguide (Story Walkthrough)

Autor: Christian 'Simon Moon' Riesen (simon@gomp.net)

After writing a guide for X2, it seemd natural to me to do the same for X3. This guide does not claim to be perfect, 100% accurate at all times, nor complete. But you should know a few things before considering this guide.

First, it's based on the UK version of X3.
Second, it's written using the patch 1.2 (Released late October 2005).
Third, I played with "normal" setting.

If you use other versions or settings, things might be different, so this guide might not be always right for you. For everyone else it's a pretty close fit to what you encounter in the X-Universe.

Starting Tips

Skip it if you like, but I found these things very useful to know over the course of time.

Use the sector map to find your way around. Hit the "." key and you will see it. You can still fly around with it open, watch the white arrow that tells you where your ship points. This is very useful in finding gates.
When you've found a destination (gate or station) in your sector map, select it, then hit "t" and you have it as your target. Remove the sector map from your screen by hitting "." and use the autopilot "shift+d". In case of a station, it will fly there and dock you (if you have permission). In case of a gate, it will fly you safely through it. Also very practical, run the SETA and it will be used until you either are docked or through the gate.
Standard SETA is at 600%. Go into your options and change it to 1000% to shorten wait times.

Further Info

Since the X-Universe is built in a pretty square fashion, in nearly every sector there is a gate that's called one of the four main directions. So when you just have to fly through a series of gates to get to a specific location, I won't write long descriptions, simply the gates you have to take. If you want to fly from Argon Prime to Home of Light, you take the south gate, so I simply would write someting like "fly to home of Light (S)" and that's it. If you were in another sector that might be a longer list. Sometimes there is a long journey and I will add a name of a sector to it. This would look about like this: (W, S, Argon Prime S, E) This means you fly westgate, then southgate and you arrive in Argon Prime where you take the southgate again. This is to make sure you never get lost in the universe. With this guide you should never fail to find where you need to go.

I add a lot of paragraphs, mostly grouping together one action before the next one comes. So best is to save when I make a new paragraph. That's lots of saving, but might save you a lot of frustration. Saving in stations should be natural to you right after your first mission.