Heretic or Phantom

[Nanaki]

I am curious as to the consequences of choosing one over the other, from what I gathered, I do know that giving the cargo to Heretic will later get you the Pirate loot mission, wheras giving the cargo to Phantom will later get you the USS cargo mission in Debris, but given the difficulty and underwhelming reward (30000 on hard difficulty, a drop in the bucket compared to the oodles and oodles of loot in Pegasus), and the fact there is a completely random encounter with Phantom if you go the Mercenary (NESF) route, makes me believe that there must be some other bonus, but I have not gotten that far in my new game yet.