Farming

Farming means repeatedly doing missions to obtain rare loot. You chose the most efficient missions (quickest or giving best loot).

Best missions for farming:
 * Sector 1:
 * With sufficiently upgraded ship, you can Finish Mission 3 with one salvo, and missions 4 and 6 with two salvos. Missions 5 and 7 will take about 3-4 salvos. All those missions have a chance for a rare drop, but it is unclear if the odds are the same.
 * Sector 2:
 * Completing Mission 17 unlocks HMS Courageous. You can use it to more easily farm the missions in that sector before using the wormhole to leave it.
 * Sector 3:
 * Mission 19 seems to have pretty good odds for Very Rare items, and a (small) chance for Legendary drops.
 * Sector 5: Unlockable Missions Dangerous Equipment and Last Bastion have a minimum drop of Rare, average of Very Rare, and a decent (~10-20%) chance of Legendary. Last Bastion where your opponent is a station is one of the easiest farming spots, as the stations do not roll a wedge.

To be efficient at farming non-weekly events you will want to have installed and maxed out a warp charge generator component on a bridge.

Farming weekly events is also a possibility, as they do not consume warp charges.