===== Section 23: Region Guide 3: Hook =====
=== Introduction ===
- 3rd region (40,000 to 140,000 miles), semi-experienced area, can be completed within 4-6 days.
- Resource: Black Slate
- Minimum-maximum speed range: 900-1,500
- Time per standard voyages: 96-160 minutes
- All building upgrades: 15,500 Slate (including 2,000 for Mystical Portal)
- All ship upgrades: 4,000 Slate

=== Recommended Crew ===
- Never ever buy golems or speed-only crew.
- Soothsayer is not needed.
- Buy 2 Traders: Merchant +20% trait, useful for both resources and trade good voyages, rounds down, but ensures at least 1 bonus trade good.
- Buy 5+ Feral Chimeras (do not buy Golden Katana Clansman after you unlock Feral Chimeras).
- Buy other crew as you see fit or need.
- See Section 57: Crew Analysis 1.

=== Recommended Buy Order ===
Gilded Rudder > Heavy Cannon x2 > Oxskin Rigging > Large Crate of Riches > Hull of Tides > Armored Hull > Skeletal Figurehead > Armored Ram > Renovated Office > Refitted Workshop > Refurbished Warehouse > Renovated Bar > Renovated Lodgings

=== The Hook Islands (9) ===
- Bay of Playful Sirens
- Carlos's Fusion Kitchen
- Hubbub's Lovetubs
- Rapa Causeway
- Rei Ti
- Teardrop Islands
- The Earthquake Straits
- The Fistmarks of Genma
- The Forgotten Chimera Straits

~Portmaster Kags :D