A solid video that contains some useful info that should still work: UPDATE: Please see the updated systems for Federation rank; Sothis-Ceos are no longer the most efficient - see below! Federation Systems Ochosi | HIP 67086 Imperial Systems Ngalinn | Mainani I find this narrator's anecdotes insufferable, but this video is more recent:
Updated Info: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDange...rind_how_to_get_federation_empire_rank_in_12/ Empire Ranking : Things you need: Ship - I recommend small ship DBX / Cobra / Hauler (reason you will landing outposts and in times medium pads are full so you better grab something small + those are outposts). Location: Mainani - Mies van der Rohe's Claim What to do: Grab all the Data delivery missions and deliver them only to Ngalinn and just keep going between those systems. If you get rank up mission just take Data delivery mission to Mainani or Ngalinn. Federation Ranking : Things you need: Ship with largest amount of cargo (Cutter / Type-9 / Anaconda) - I use 664T Cutter and at times I'm short. Location: Go system: Canopus (309ly from Sol) - Rangarajan's Base (42,415 ls from star) What to do: Once docked take every Data delivery mission and look for Cargo delivery missions (not the ones what ask you to buy anything or collect from the signal sources), that go to system: Exphiay (8.06ly from Canopus). Note: As there is only couple of systems 300ly range, but you still get main missions between Canopus and Exphiay. Ignore planet missions! Travel to system Exphiay (8.06ly from Canopus) and pick any station (861ls away) - note both stations are just 1ls from each other! Deliver all the Data and Cargo missions and pick new ones from Worlidge Hub and James K Winston station (once you take from one station go pick from another). Take all the Data and Cargo missions back to Canopus. Be ready for many interdictions as you carry cargo. Best advice is to just play the minigame and that is it. Most things that hunt you are NPC Type-10s / Anacondas and FDLs.
