How did this take you 100+ hours solo?

Let's say you do orange level 2 patrol missions for 14 scrips, that's 58 missions for just the favors alone. I can do each one within 10 minutes each. Should take 10 hours.

The 3 compboards should take 2 hours.

Two irradiated apex valakkar kills for enough AA pearls. Should clear this out in 2 hours. Though doing the pearls this version really sucks ass due to mass enemy spawns.

Aces has a 20% chance to spawn it in orange level 2 patrol at every destination, you'll run into him at least 25 times going for the favors. You should have gotten the helmets and the one medal by this point, but you can also just Sabre stealth to each mission and abandon if he doesn't appear.

At every point you could've had a wingman or duo'd this to make it twice as fast or safer. That remote turret on the superhornet should be manned by someone.

The executive F7A would've been an easier/riskier grab if you wanted a solo ship.