Been PL for a while now, and dropped my first* Athena today, and ran the Athena flag. I knw that Athena voyages gave you a bunch of different things to do - cargo runs, skeleton crews, etc.
What counfounded us was that very little we did counted towards our Athena grade. Sink a skelly, fine. Drop a meg, fine. Dig up some cheap athena cargo box, fine.
But all of the chests and gems and skulls and everything else we picked up along the way, none of it counted towards grade and none of it could be sold to the Mysterious Stranger, so what was the point?
We got to about grade 2.5 before we just dumped it and decided to go back to hoarders emissary.
Did we miss some kind of grand finale that was supposed to have our knees all a-quiver, or are regular Athena quests as worthless as we perceived them to be?