Look I know getting Envoy or the shield augment is good, but is it really worth all that pain and suffering?

Arceny, it's "I'm about to end this man's whole career", also you messed up career. Otherwise, Lanius do be doing that.

Lanius: I'm gonna end this man's whole carrer.

You have 30 missiles a pegasus, cloaking, and a burst laser mk2: Actually...

You immediately get Zoltan shield bypass from putting out a fire in a space station :/

lol

And then the next sector is a Rebel Stronghold that has a suspicious amount of automated scouts

And then the next sector is Abandoned...

5th step "buy zoltan shield bypass"

thing is here though that you could just keep warping and get the shields from the zoltan