Mammoth and Training Large Hybrid Turret

Starwalker had reached a milestone recently - two years in R1FTA. It was surprising how time had gone by and he hardly noticed its passage. He still enjoyed the same types of (frigate) ships, solo combat and spent virtually all of his time in low security space.

The recent Odyssey changes offered the opportunity to buy (clone) tags that could be used to raise his security status and allow him to travel in high security space again. It was not a particular goal but it would simplify logistics considerably. Starstepper had very few skills, less than 320k, and could just about fly the Mammoth but with hardly any fittings beyond cargo extenders. 

Whilst this Mammoth was sufficient to transport one battlecruiser or seven frigates with fittings it was insufficient for battleships. Starwalker was not ready to fly battleships yet, he was still training large hybrid turrets, but it would be much easier to buy and fly them from high security space rather than transport them to low security space. Similarly, Starwalker did not expect to fly battleships very often but for him it was about having the ability to do it rather than actually spending significant amounts of time in those larger hulls.

Given that Starwalker now had over 47 million skill points he was rounding out missing skills or getting select skills to level V. Training skills to fly bigger ships and using bigger weapon systems was part of that rounding out process. He wanted to be in the position that he could fly (almost) any sub-capital ship and have sufficient trained skills to justify flying it. It would be a completely different matter as to whether Starwalker had sufficient pilot skills or the knowledge to justify flying it.