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FC1 is good enough. Basically you're going to be watching not just where you're shooting, but where the shots are going in relation to the target. It's not too hard to get the hang of. Of course, if you're just armed with IRE's, you're probably close enough that it won't matter much.
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For the record all the content you are seeing is after that game. All of this is the DiD which is and entirely different game then then one i died in.
@Triaxx2: I have a real hard time with that in LU. I didn't have much of a problem with it in Vanilla but in LU PACs are the only weapon I can seem to use well without FC2. The bolts for the IREs are so tiny and fast and the fire rate is MUCH slower. I think Litecube did that to improve performance especially late game when you have massive fleets nuking it out. Sucks for early dogfights but worth it late game. So for now i'll just avoid dogfight unless i know i can win.
@Triaxx2: I have a real hard time with that in LU. I didn't have much of a problem with it in Vanilla but in LU PACs are the only weapon I can seem to use well without FC2. The bolts for the IREs are so tiny and fast and the fire rate is MUCH slower. I think Litecube did that to improve performance especially late game when you have massive fleets nuking it out. Sucks for early dogfights but worth it late game. So for now i'll just avoid dogfight unless i know i can win.
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Pain. Head pain. Head ache. Yeah, that's what it was called. So many lights... where am I?
As my eyes slow adjusted to the light I found my self sitting in the cockpit of The Hermes docked under the glaring lights of the hanger bay. Sitting wasn't the correct term though. My left foot was propped on the dash, my right foot stuffed between the aft rudder control and the ejection lever. I was laying on my left siding facing the side of the ship, my body curled around the flight stick and my but hanging down into the floorboard. I felt like someone had just tossed me inside the ship.
"Good morning boss," Gizmo said startling me, "Rough night last night?"
"Not so loud Gizmo," I replied as I started trying to get out of the weird position I was in, "What happened last night, how did I get here?"
"All I know is that you left here in search of a bar, and then several hours later a Split carried you back. Though he did say that you drink well for an ape as he walked away."
"I was drinking with s split?" Well that explained why I felt like I had been thrown in here. I had vague memories of walking into a bar but nothing about drinking with a split. Really I couldn't remember ever having dealings with a split. My dad had always warned me that they would rather punch you in the face then just about anything else. Apparently beating each other up and watching each other being beat up was THE major pass time for them, when they weren't at war.
It took me awhile after that to extract myself from the cockpit. My head still hurt and I kind of wondered if the split had actually split my head. I guess that I owe him a drink though, he did get be back safely to my ship. Which is more then I can say about most of the scum you would run into in a bar on a free trade station. Finally I made it out of the ship and wondered around until I found the station's chief mechanic.
"Good Morning, Sir!" The mechanic almost shouted in my ear. Wayyy to hyper this one. " What can I do for ya?"
"Bring it down a notch for starters." I said a little more grumpy then I intended, though all it did was make him chuckle.
"Sorry about that" He said in a softer voice "I saw you last night in Joey's Bar and I had to give you a little crap for it. Tell you want though, you sure can down them. I thought for sure you would end up in medical. I have never known anyone to challenge a split to a drinking contest. But anyway what can I do for you?" I challenged the split to a drinking contest!?!
"My Pegasus is factory fresh and that means slow. What can you do to make it faster?" I replied trying to get back onto the reason I was here in the first place.
"Oh I have just the thing. Some new carbon foils, and removing the speed cap should help out a lot. A few other bits here and there also might help. Give me a few hours and she will be ready to go. In the mean time, that bar you were in last night serves a killer breakfast, helps with the hangovers they caused the night before."
The mechanic was right about the food. Some local eggs and meat-steak went a long way for making my hangover feel better. The barmaid didn't seem to recognize me luckily. I cant even imagine how much I must have embarrassed myself last night. Challenging a split to a drink contest? What was I thinking? After I finished my coffee I paid my tab and moved towards the exit only to find it blocked by the biggest split I had ever seen.
"Wil'hem!" the split roared in a deep throaty voice, "Back 'or anot'er round already? 'oar father's spirit must be proud indeed." That I was drinking? Not likely, I thought to myself. Not that I was about to teach a lesson on alcoholism to a split though.
"I am sure he is." I lied "I'm sorry but I seem to have forgotten your name, to much alcohol and all."
"HA HA HA HA HA" he laughed as if I had told him the biggest joke of all time, "My name is Kar'lunton of family Trukon." He swelled in pride as if I should know the family name.
"It is an honor" I lied again, no reason to upset and insult a 450 pound killing machine though, "but forgive me for I must depart. I have a patrol starting at 1600 hours." I was going to have to watch all this lying but I really was ready to get back out in space. Places to be things to do, you know how it is.
"But, it is already 1730?" he said in confusion. This is why I tried never to lie I sucked at it.
"See?" I said making my way past him "That's why I really have to run."
Back at the hanger the mechanic was all to happy handing me the bill. "I installed 15 engine tuning as well as 10 rudder improvements. The total came out to be 16737. I was going to install a whole new racing block but you don't have the credits for it." Don't I know it.
"Sounds good to me. Thanks for the work." I replied as I climbed into the cockpit.
As my eyes slow adjusted to the light I found my self sitting in the cockpit of The Hermes docked under the glaring lights of the hanger bay. Sitting wasn't the correct term though. My left foot was propped on the dash, my right foot stuffed between the aft rudder control and the ejection lever. I was laying on my left siding facing the side of the ship, my body curled around the flight stick and my but hanging down into the floorboard. I felt like someone had just tossed me inside the ship.
"Good morning boss," Gizmo said startling me, "Rough night last night?"
"Not so loud Gizmo," I replied as I started trying to get out of the weird position I was in, "What happened last night, how did I get here?"
"All I know is that you left here in search of a bar, and then several hours later a Split carried you back. Though he did say that you drink well for an ape as he walked away."
"I was drinking with s split?" Well that explained why I felt like I had been thrown in here. I had vague memories of walking into a bar but nothing about drinking with a split. Really I couldn't remember ever having dealings with a split. My dad had always warned me that they would rather punch you in the face then just about anything else. Apparently beating each other up and watching each other being beat up was THE major pass time for them, when they weren't at war.
It took me awhile after that to extract myself from the cockpit. My head still hurt and I kind of wondered if the split had actually split my head. I guess that I owe him a drink though, he did get be back safely to my ship. Which is more then I can say about most of the scum you would run into in a bar on a free trade station. Finally I made it out of the ship and wondered around until I found the station's chief mechanic.
"Good Morning, Sir!" The mechanic almost shouted in my ear. Wayyy to hyper this one. " What can I do for ya?"
"Bring it down a notch for starters." I said a little more grumpy then I intended, though all it did was make him chuckle.
"Sorry about that" He said in a softer voice "I saw you last night in Joey's Bar and I had to give you a little crap for it. Tell you want though, you sure can down them. I thought for sure you would end up in medical. I have never known anyone to challenge a split to a drinking contest. But anyway what can I do for you?" I challenged the split to a drinking contest!?!
"My Pegasus is factory fresh and that means slow. What can you do to make it faster?" I replied trying to get back onto the reason I was here in the first place.
"Oh I have just the thing. Some new carbon foils, and removing the speed cap should help out a lot. A few other bits here and there also might help. Give me a few hours and she will be ready to go. In the mean time, that bar you were in last night serves a killer breakfast, helps with the hangovers they caused the night before."
The mechanic was right about the food. Some local eggs and meat-steak went a long way for making my hangover feel better. The barmaid didn't seem to recognize me luckily. I cant even imagine how much I must have embarrassed myself last night. Challenging a split to a drink contest? What was I thinking? After I finished my coffee I paid my tab and moved towards the exit only to find it blocked by the biggest split I had ever seen.
"Wil'hem!" the split roared in a deep throaty voice, "Back 'or anot'er round already? 'oar father's spirit must be proud indeed." That I was drinking? Not likely, I thought to myself. Not that I was about to teach a lesson on alcoholism to a split though.
"I am sure he is." I lied "I'm sorry but I seem to have forgotten your name, to much alcohol and all."
"HA HA HA HA HA" he laughed as if I had told him the biggest joke of all time, "My name is Kar'lunton of family Trukon." He swelled in pride as if I should know the family name.
"It is an honor" I lied again, no reason to upset and insult a 450 pound killing machine though, "but forgive me for I must depart. I have a patrol starting at 1600 hours." I was going to have to watch all this lying but I really was ready to get back out in space. Places to be things to do, you know how it is.
"But, it is already 1730?" he said in confusion. This is why I tried never to lie I sucked at it.
"See?" I said making my way past him "That's why I really have to run."
Back at the hanger the mechanic was all to happy handing me the bill. "I installed 15 engine tuning as well as 10 rudder improvements. The total came out to be 16737. I was going to install a whole new racing block but you don't have the credits for it." Don't I know it.
"Sounds good to me. Thanks for the work." I replied as I climbed into the cockpit.
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In that case then, knife fight close is probably the best option.
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Nice one - drinking contest with a Split. Sounds suicidal to me 
Fighting in an M5 really is hit and run, there is no other way (unless you have Wasp missiles). Maxing out speed and steering is essential.
And before installing bigger guns (don't know of the top of my head whether your fighter can use anything larger than IRE like PAC), always think of energy. Bigger guns are useless, if they run dry after 5 seconds. This is one of THE key learnings in LU.
Fighting in an M5 really is hit and run, there is no other way (unless you have Wasp missiles). Maxing out speed and steering is essential.
And before installing bigger guns (don't know of the top of my head whether your fighter can use anything larger than IRE like PAC), always think of energy. Bigger guns are useless, if they run dry after 5 seconds. This is one of THE key learnings in LU.
@kaul: naw this pegasus can't even load them. Glad u liked the drinking lol
Back to the story
I could feel the difference as soon as I was clear of the trading post. Everything about the Hermes was more responsive, more agile. Wanting to test the engine I gunned the throttle. 100m/s, 200m/s, 300m/s.... 340m/s. Well I wouldn't even be able to qualify for a race but it might just manage to keep me alive.
"Hey boss, Ore mine gamma is sending an SOS" Gizmo siad
"Let me hear it." I repled
A stressed looking Argon appeared on the comms panel "This is Carl from the Gamma Mine we are under attack and helpless. Any nearby ships please respond. We are offering 1420cr to any ship that comes to our aid."
"This is William McCloud," I replied "I'm on my way." Turning towards the mine I accelerated to full speed and armed my weapons. At 15km I was still to far to see anything on my scanners. 14k, 13k, 12k, 11k...
Alert! Enemy contact identified.
A single Xenon N. Just one. Not three, not two, just one. "Gizmo, correct me if I am wrong but couldn't that thing dive head long into the station and still not hurt it?" I asked
"Haha, that's right boss. Not enough fire power to even scratch it's shields either. I read it going 300m/s, so we have a slight speed advantage. From it's weapons fire it looks to be equipped with IREs. Usually they have 2 mJ shields just like us. It should be a fair fight."
The xenon was so focused on the mine he didn't notice as I slide in behind him, waiting for just the right shot... Now! Pulling the trigger I felt the guns unload. PewPew, PewPew Direct hit! The xenon's shields dropped to 45%. Of course now he noticed me, banking sharply to the right to evade me. Luckily with my new upgrades it was nothing to follow him laying down fire. Miss, miss, miss. "Come on Gizmo I know I am firing where you telling me to, why aren't I hitting?"
"Boss that's not part of my program. Your ship only have a basic prediction software." That makes since I guess Gizmo really wasn't made to be a combat program. The xenon was still trying to lose me but I was stuck to him like glue, I just could seem to get a firing solution with him. Miss, miss, hit, miss. At this rate his shields were easily compensating for the damage I was dealing. Then I pulled the trigger and nothing happened looking at my weapons display I see the reason why, my weapon energy was completely drained. SHIT!. I let off the trigger but stayed on his tail, if I lost him he could easily flip the tables on me. As I fought to keep on his tail a spiral of missiles flew past my ship and impacted the Xenon N. Turning around I find the culprit, A Shrike belonging to the Plutarch Company. I guess they were worried about their profits. Still the mine paid me which made my wallet fell much better. As I turned to leave the area the Shrike hailed me.
"Thank you for helping in the defense of our interests." The captain of the shrike started, "I'll pay you 1400cr if you find and eliminate any more Xenon." I took him up on his offer and spent the next couple hours patrolling and exploring ore belt but nothing showed up. Finally the shrike captain called me back, thanked me for my time and paid me 300 cr. Now that I had completely explored ore belt I started towards the east gate, only to have Ore mine beta hail me begging for protection, offering 388 cr. The money wasn't good but money is money so I headed their way only to arrive in time to see a Plutarch Ares blast another N to oblivion with wasp missiles. I guess the Plutarch Company had this area well protected. So I said bye to ore belt.
<Jumping to Cloudbase Southeast>
"Hey boss, did you know that we have an extra 1 mJ shield gen?" Gizmo said "Its been there this whole time." I hadn't realized that and was kinda curious why it was there. However I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth. Cloudbase southeast looked just as I remembered it, including the shipyard where I sold the extra shield gen for a couple thousand credits. Just as I was getting ready to leave the stations klaxons sounded.
Red alert. Red alert. All hands to your stations. Incoming Pirates. All fighter pilots to your ships!
No need to tell me twice. I was salivating over a chance to take down some pirates.
Back to the story
I could feel the difference as soon as I was clear of the trading post. Everything about the Hermes was more responsive, more agile. Wanting to test the engine I gunned the throttle. 100m/s, 200m/s, 300m/s.... 340m/s. Well I wouldn't even be able to qualify for a race but it might just manage to keep me alive.
"Hey boss, Ore mine gamma is sending an SOS" Gizmo siad
"Let me hear it." I repled
A stressed looking Argon appeared on the comms panel "This is Carl from the Gamma Mine we are under attack and helpless. Any nearby ships please respond. We are offering 1420cr to any ship that comes to our aid."
"This is William McCloud," I replied "I'm on my way." Turning towards the mine I accelerated to full speed and armed my weapons. At 15km I was still to far to see anything on my scanners. 14k, 13k, 12k, 11k...
Alert! Enemy contact identified.
A single Xenon N. Just one. Not three, not two, just one. "Gizmo, correct me if I am wrong but couldn't that thing dive head long into the station and still not hurt it?" I asked
"Haha, that's right boss. Not enough fire power to even scratch it's shields either. I read it going 300m/s, so we have a slight speed advantage. From it's weapons fire it looks to be equipped with IREs. Usually they have 2 mJ shields just like us. It should be a fair fight."
The xenon was so focused on the mine he didn't notice as I slide in behind him, waiting for just the right shot... Now! Pulling the trigger I felt the guns unload. PewPew, PewPew Direct hit! The xenon's shields dropped to 45%. Of course now he noticed me, banking sharply to the right to evade me. Luckily with my new upgrades it was nothing to follow him laying down fire. Miss, miss, miss. "Come on Gizmo I know I am firing where you telling me to, why aren't I hitting?"
"Boss that's not part of my program. Your ship only have a basic prediction software." That makes since I guess Gizmo really wasn't made to be a combat program. The xenon was still trying to lose me but I was stuck to him like glue, I just could seem to get a firing solution with him. Miss, miss, hit, miss. At this rate his shields were easily compensating for the damage I was dealing. Then I pulled the trigger and nothing happened looking at my weapons display I see the reason why, my weapon energy was completely drained. SHIT!. I let off the trigger but stayed on his tail, if I lost him he could easily flip the tables on me. As I fought to keep on his tail a spiral of missiles flew past my ship and impacted the Xenon N. Turning around I find the culprit, A Shrike belonging to the Plutarch Company. I guess they were worried about their profits. Still the mine paid me which made my wallet fell much better. As I turned to leave the area the Shrike hailed me.
"Thank you for helping in the defense of our interests." The captain of the shrike started, "I'll pay you 1400cr if you find and eliminate any more Xenon." I took him up on his offer and spent the next couple hours patrolling and exploring ore belt but nothing showed up. Finally the shrike captain called me back, thanked me for my time and paid me 300 cr. Now that I had completely explored ore belt I started towards the east gate, only to have Ore mine beta hail me begging for protection, offering 388 cr. The money wasn't good but money is money so I headed their way only to arrive in time to see a Plutarch Ares blast another N to oblivion with wasp missiles. I guess the Plutarch Company had this area well protected. So I said bye to ore belt.
<Jumping to Cloudbase Southeast>
"Hey boss, did you know that we have an extra 1 mJ shield gen?" Gizmo said "Its been there this whole time." I hadn't realized that and was kinda curious why it was there. However I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth. Cloudbase southeast looked just as I remembered it, including the shipyard where I sold the extra shield gen for a couple thousand credits. Just as I was getting ready to leave the stations klaxons sounded.
Red alert. Red alert. All hands to your stations. Incoming Pirates. All fighter pilots to your ships!
No need to tell me twice. I was salivating over a chance to take down some pirates.
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Very cool. If you're interested in some pilots to fly your fighters, let me know.
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I would defiantly love some wingmen, might be awhile before i can use them though lol I am still using every dime i get to upgrade the hermes
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No worries, just planning for the future.
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Litcube quit sounding so smug lol It is freaking hard to adjust to the changes you made in fighter combat I like the challenge though. It wasn't so bad on the advanced start, I got my fight rank up to 15 in the first hour (capped a few phanon traders and assorted drones then started dropping every combat mission in a system at the same time) but this is really testing my skills lol. I am still hoping to cap a m5 that can equip PACs I think I could do better with though even if I have to watch the weapon recharge closely.
Note: I started checking the stats for ships on the Wiki before I engage them. It isn't always accurate due to the fact that LU made Balancing changes to most ships but it will at least give me an idea what I am up against before I engage.
Lets resume the story
"What do you see Gizmo?" I asked as I accelerated away from the ship yard at full speed, weapons hot.
"Two pirate scouts coming in fast. A Rapier and a Octopus. The Rapier's speed is 437, be careful boss it is a terran ship. It can equip 2 electromagnetic plasma cannons that will shred us, it also has 5mJ of shielding. The octopus on the other handis cruising at 354m/s it can equip 4 IREs and only has 1 mJ of shielding.
"Gotcha, lets go octopus hunting then." I turn to engage the Octopus doing a quick jib to the side to avoid its fire, then rolling to bring it into my line of fire. PewPew, PewPew My first salvo shredded its shields. The octopus tried to barrel roll away from me but I was tight on it. Another volley of fire clipped its wing bringing its hull to 80%. The Octopus pulled hard to the side... Right into a spiral of Wasp missiles!
"Damn it!" I shouted "That was my kill!" Pulling my ship around I found the culprit, an Argon military patrol of an Centaur and two Novas. The novas made short work of the Rapier leaving nothing for me. The Centaur hailed me, a short balding captain appearing on the screen.
"Good flying pilot, I have a 3265 cr reward for your help for you."
"That was my kill." I glared back at him
"That kind of thinking only gets pilots killed. A dead pirate is a dead pirate. I am transferring your money now. Safe flying." The money did make me feel a lot better but I was still mad, so close to my first kill. I landed back on the ship yard and used my reward money to nby some more upgrades for my engines and rudder. 10646 credits later my new top speed was 381 and my ship felt like it could turn on a dime, though i barely had enough money left over to buy myself some steak before leaving the station. With the extra Military ships patrolling the sector I doubted that they would need my services anytime soon so I headed north to President's End.
<Jumping to President's End>
The wreckage floating in front of me still evoked rage in my. Why the Kha'ak choose to devastate this system was still a mystery. I quickly mapped out the sector but since it only had wreckage and jump-gates it wasn't long before I jumped through the east gate to Elena's Fortune.
<Jumping to Elena's Fortune>
Elena's Fortune was packed full of stations and military patrols. A quick sweep of the system netted me a mosquito missile and a Mass driver. To bad I couldn't mount the mass driver it would have greatly increased my damage output. I sold the missile at the Military Outpost but couldn't find a buyer for the Mass driver. Guess I'll just hold on to it for now. I was just turning to head back through the west gate when several Factories sent out SOS. A swarm of Xenon Ns were attacking the local stations, I sent a quick message to them telling them that help was on the way but before I could get in range the Military Patrols made short work of the Xenons. They still paid me some chump change for my efforts. I was starting to feel sleepy so I decided to call it a night and dock at the Military Outpost and got myself a room for the night. Thoughts of the days events brought on dreams of the revenge i desired.
I like the challenge though. It wasn't so bad on the advanced start, I got my fight rank up to 15 in the first hour (capped a few phanon traders and assorted drones then started dropping every combat mission in a system at the same time) but this is really testing my skills lol. I am still hoping to cap a m5 that can equip PACs I think I could do better with though even if I have to watch the weapon recharge closely.Note: I started checking the stats for ships on the Wiki before I engage them. It isn't always accurate due to the fact that LU made Balancing changes to most ships but it will at least give me an idea what I am up against before I engage.
Lets resume the story
"What do you see Gizmo?" I asked as I accelerated away from the ship yard at full speed, weapons hot.
"Two pirate scouts coming in fast. A Rapier and a Octopus. The Rapier's speed is 437, be careful boss it is a terran ship. It can equip 2 electromagnetic plasma cannons that will shred us, it also has 5mJ of shielding. The octopus on the other handis cruising at 354m/s it can equip 4 IREs and only has 1 mJ of shielding.
"Gotcha, lets go octopus hunting then." I turn to engage the Octopus doing a quick jib to the side to avoid its fire, then rolling to bring it into my line of fire. PewPew, PewPew My first salvo shredded its shields. The octopus tried to barrel roll away from me but I was tight on it. Another volley of fire clipped its wing bringing its hull to 80%. The Octopus pulled hard to the side... Right into a spiral of Wasp missiles!
"Damn it!" I shouted "That was my kill!" Pulling my ship around I found the culprit, an Argon military patrol of an Centaur and two Novas. The novas made short work of the Rapier leaving nothing for me. The Centaur hailed me, a short balding captain appearing on the screen.
"Good flying pilot, I have a 3265 cr reward for your help for you."
"That was my kill." I glared back at him
"That kind of thinking only gets pilots killed. A dead pirate is a dead pirate. I am transferring your money now. Safe flying." The money did make me feel a lot better but I was still mad, so close to my first kill. I landed back on the ship yard and used my reward money to nby some more upgrades for my engines and rudder. 10646 credits later my new top speed was 381 and my ship felt like it could turn on a dime, though i barely had enough money left over to buy myself some steak before leaving the station. With the extra Military ships patrolling the sector I doubted that they would need my services anytime soon so I headed north to President's End.
<Jumping to President's End>
The wreckage floating in front of me still evoked rage in my. Why the Kha'ak choose to devastate this system was still a mystery. I quickly mapped out the sector but since it only had wreckage and jump-gates it wasn't long before I jumped through the east gate to Elena's Fortune.
<Jumping to Elena's Fortune>
Elena's Fortune was packed full of stations and military patrols. A quick sweep of the system netted me a mosquito missile and a Mass driver. To bad I couldn't mount the mass driver it would have greatly increased my damage output. I sold the missile at the Military Outpost but couldn't find a buyer for the Mass driver. Guess I'll just hold on to it for now. I was just turning to head back through the west gate when several Factories sent out SOS. A swarm of Xenon Ns were attacking the local stations, I sent a quick message to them telling them that help was on the way but before I could get in range the Military Patrols made short work of the Xenons. They still paid me some chump change for my efforts. I was starting to feel sleepy so I decided to call it a night and dock at the Military Outpost and got myself a room for the night. Thoughts of the days events brought on dreams of the revenge i desired.
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The command and control room was a bee hive of activity, officers nervously manning their stations. Dark with only the red emergancy lights to illuminate the room an errie glow seemed to settle into my soul soul. In the center of the room I stood facing a holoprojection of the system, allied ships and stations in blue, the enemy in red. My fleet was positioned just south of the center of the system blocking the path from the south gate to the planet we were trying to protect. But the battle was growing desprite, no matter how many of them we destroyed, more and more came through the gate.
"Status report." I stated to the room
"Shields at 83% and holding. All cannons at ready sir. The final transports are on their way" My second replied. Focus was hard to be found, I noticed, as I tried to make since of the picture in front of me. The lead elements of my fleet, 4 destroyers and my flag ship were holding the line as scores of fighter craft swarmed around us. Behind us several frigates served as a shrapnel screen for any fighters that might try to make a run on the carrier. Finally in the back the mighty Argon One sat, on loan from what was left of the government, corredinating fighter operations. As I shifted my focus to the enemy position another wave of enemy destroyers warped in through the gate. Seven this time, more then anytime before.
"All right, we all know the drill by now. Focus fire my target. Kill the one in the center and then we will work our way out." I tried to sound confident however I feared that it may not have been the case. I watched as our PPCs fire in sequence quickly overtaking the first destoryer and reducing it to a firey inferno. However my elation was short lived as the destoyers returned fire. The room shook as beam after beam ravished my ship's shields. However the hologram showed that we were not getting the worst of it. The Hades, a Split python, was awash in flames as it's shields buckled and the Kyon beams ravished its hull. Explosion on explosion errupted from the python until in a vibrant flash of light errupted from within it's main reactors imploded. Christ my knees feel weak, and at this rate we wouldn't last much longer... If only those transports would hurry up.
"Admiral, the last transport made the jump, the evacuation is complete." The room burst into cheers as my second anounced the good news.
"Alright everyone, spin up the warp drive. Let's get out of here." I said, then opening a line to the rest of the fleet I continued, "All ships, all ships this is the admiral. The evacuation was a success. Prepare for emergency jump. All fighter craft are ordered to combat land on the carrier. Repeat All craft prepare for a emergancy jump." The bridge shuttered as I finished my speech, another volley from the enemy hitting us hard, throwing me to the deck.
"Hull breach!" The chief engieneering mate cried, "Shields down, hull breach on decks five through seven. Guns fifteen, sixteen, and nineteen are unresponsive."
"Get us out of here!!!" I screamed as I picked my self up. The bridge shook again as more lasers danced across our hull. Finally the warp drive engaged and seconds later we found our selves face to face with the enitre paranoid fleet, sitting just off of paranoid prime. Then to my relief a familair face appeared on the view screen, hailing us from the lead paranoid ship.
"Admiral, I am glad to see that the transports made it safely, but how goes the fight? Why are you here? Where is the rest of the fleet?" Senator Litcube, last surviving memeber of the once great Senate of the Argon said. Looking at the hologram for the first time I relized that my ship was the only one that had made it through the warp. I felt my eyes tear up as I addressed the senator.
"Senator Litcube, their gone. We are all remains of the fleet. There is nothing else left. We have lost the battle for Argon Prime."
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I woke with a start. The dream had been so real, I couldn't shake the feeling that there had been more to it then just a nightmare. Getting up I splashed some water on my face and tried to forget what I had seen.
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A few hours later found me back in the cockpit of the Hermes accelerating as fast as I could away from the military outpost. I still hadn't shaken the feeling that something was up but I figured that if I put several light years between me and it then the feeling would fade. I quickly transversed though President's End and into the wall, exploring it was not much of a chore and I continued north to the hole. I hate the hole. It should be renamed the soup because that is what it looked like, and it was so big that I spent hours exploring it and I was still not sure if I had found everything. Onwards to Antigone Memorial.
<Jumping to Antigone Memorial>
The first thing I noticed was the equipment dock, or rather the big sign outside of it advertising that they had the fastest engines in the galaxy. I was out of cash but I still had mass driver in my cargo so I docked and set out to find a buyer. It didn't take me very long, a young Argon weapons dealer was astounded to see such high quality military grade hardware and paid me over 50 thousand credits to get his hands on it. Suddenly feeling rich I headed over to the mechanic's bay to meet the Teladi selling my new engine. It was a thing of beauty, and after doing some research I confirmed that it really was the fastest engine that could be installed into a pegasus. After some haggling I handed him over 33306cr and started towards my new engine.
"No, no, no." The Teladi said with a sly grin, "That is just the show room model. You will have to wait for yours to arrive from Blue Profit. It should only take 2-3 weeks."
"What!?!" I exclaimed "You said you could have it installed in 4 hours!"
"Of course I can! After it arrives that is."
I wanted to make a new pair of boots out of that reptail. But that would only land me in jail and I still would be no closer to my new engine so instead I just stormed off and went to find a room for the next couple weeks.
Let us continue
The command and control room was a bee hive of activity, officers nervously manning their stations. Dark with only the red emergancy lights to illuminate the room an errie glow seemed to settle into my soul soul. In the center of the room I stood facing a holoprojection of the system, allied ships and stations in blue, the enemy in red. My fleet was positioned just south of the center of the system blocking the path from the south gate to the planet we were trying to protect. But the battle was growing desprite, no matter how many of them we destroyed, more and more came through the gate.
"Status report." I stated to the room
"Shields at 83% and holding. All cannons at ready sir. The final transports are on their way" My second replied. Focus was hard to be found, I noticed, as I tried to make since of the picture in front of me. The lead elements of my fleet, 4 destroyers and my flag ship were holding the line as scores of fighter craft swarmed around us. Behind us several frigates served as a shrapnel screen for any fighters that might try to make a run on the carrier. Finally in the back the mighty Argon One sat, on loan from what was left of the government, corredinating fighter operations. As I shifted my focus to the enemy position another wave of enemy destroyers warped in through the gate. Seven this time, more then anytime before.
"All right, we all know the drill by now. Focus fire my target. Kill the one in the center and then we will work our way out." I tried to sound confident however I feared that it may not have been the case. I watched as our PPCs fire in sequence quickly overtaking the first destoryer and reducing it to a firey inferno. However my elation was short lived as the destoyers returned fire. The room shook as beam after beam ravished my ship's shields. However the hologram showed that we were not getting the worst of it. The Hades, a Split python, was awash in flames as it's shields buckled and the Kyon beams ravished its hull. Explosion on explosion errupted from the python until in a vibrant flash of light errupted from within it's main reactors imploded. Christ my knees feel weak, and at this rate we wouldn't last much longer... If only those transports would hurry up.
"Admiral, the last transport made the jump, the evacuation is complete." The room burst into cheers as my second anounced the good news.
"Alright everyone, spin up the warp drive. Let's get out of here." I said, then opening a line to the rest of the fleet I continued, "All ships, all ships this is the admiral. The evacuation was a success. Prepare for emergency jump. All fighter craft are ordered to combat land on the carrier. Repeat All craft prepare for a emergancy jump." The bridge shuttered as I finished my speech, another volley from the enemy hitting us hard, throwing me to the deck.
"Hull breach!" The chief engieneering mate cried, "Shields down, hull breach on decks five through seven. Guns fifteen, sixteen, and nineteen are unresponsive."
"Get us out of here!!!" I screamed as I picked my self up. The bridge shook again as more lasers danced across our hull. Finally the warp drive engaged and seconds later we found our selves face to face with the enitre paranoid fleet, sitting just off of paranoid prime. Then to my relief a familair face appeared on the view screen, hailing us from the lead paranoid ship.
"Admiral, I am glad to see that the transports made it safely, but how goes the fight? Why are you here? Where is the rest of the fleet?" Senator Litcube, last surviving memeber of the once great Senate of the Argon said. Looking at the hologram for the first time I relized that my ship was the only one that had made it through the warp. I felt my eyes tear up as I addressed the senator.
"Senator Litcube, their gone. We are all remains of the fleet. There is nothing else left. We have lost the battle for Argon Prime."
---
I woke with a start. The dream had been so real, I couldn't shake the feeling that there had been more to it then just a nightmare. Getting up I splashed some water on my face and tried to forget what I had seen.
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A few hours later found me back in the cockpit of the Hermes accelerating as fast as I could away from the military outpost. I still hadn't shaken the feeling that something was up but I figured that if I put several light years between me and it then the feeling would fade. I quickly transversed though President's End and into the wall, exploring it was not much of a chore and I continued north to the hole. I hate the hole. It should be renamed the soup because that is what it looked like, and it was so big that I spent hours exploring it and I was still not sure if I had found everything. Onwards to Antigone Memorial.
<Jumping to Antigone Memorial>
The first thing I noticed was the equipment dock, or rather the big sign outside of it advertising that they had the fastest engines in the galaxy. I was out of cash but I still had mass driver in my cargo so I docked and set out to find a buyer. It didn't take me very long, a young Argon weapons dealer was astounded to see such high quality military grade hardware and paid me over 50 thousand credits to get his hands on it. Suddenly feeling rich I headed over to the mechanic's bay to meet the Teladi selling my new engine. It was a thing of beauty, and after doing some research I confirmed that it really was the fastest engine that could be installed into a pegasus. After some haggling I handed him over 33306cr and started towards my new engine.
"No, no, no." The Teladi said with a sly grin, "That is just the show room model. You will have to wait for yours to arrive from Blue Profit. It should only take 2-3 weeks."
"What!?!" I exclaimed "You said you could have it installed in 4 hours!"
"Of course I can! After it arrives that is."
I wanted to make a new pair of boots out of that reptail. But that would only land me in jail and I still would be no closer to my new engine so instead I just stormed off and went to find a room for the next couple weeks.
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I wasn't able to make very much time for X3 this last weekend so I am going to work on character creation as much as possible in this week's upcomming content. That being said there is some really cool DiD content too, including a brush with death that left me with 12% hull remaining!!!
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So I spent quite a bit of time in game and now have over three pages worth of notes not including the content I am about to post, and what I am about to post only represents 5 lines of notes! It might take me awhile to get it all written out, and I have then next week or so off so I am not sure when I'll be able to post again but it is going to be worth it!
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The housing conditions on the equipment dock were pitiful. I thought that rats would not be an issue on a space station. However in hotels and shops I went into, rats seemed to be everywhere. In addition the hotel rooms were tiny, and the beds were flat, hard and smelled like bodily fluids. Having seen enough and feeling throughly nauseated, I bought a ride on a local transport to the local Trade Station. The ride was bumpy and slow and I was convinced that the port engine was going to die at any time by the way it was sputtering. In the end however, we made it to the Trade Station without any incident.
Stepping off the transport onto the Antigone Memorial Station I was awe struck. When I was last here, less than a year ago, it had been a dark, run down crap hole with nothing worth talking about in it. Now there were neon lights everywhere advertising anything and everything you could buy. In my awe I had forgot where I was and didn't realize that I was still standing on the transport's ramp, blocking traffic, which was exactly what the split behind me decided to remind me of.
"Get moving!" He behind me bellowed as he shoved me out of his way. Glarring at him I picked myself up off the tarmat, dusted myself off, checking to make sure that a special package I brought with me was still in my pocket, and intact. Finding everything ok, I started down the neon light streets. I wasn't feeling tired yet so I hoped into a few of the local stores buying a couple of trinkets here and there. After satisfying the hole burning in my pocketbook, I headed to the hotel I had book before my arrival. The doorman greeted me warmly and informed me that all of my luggage had made it safely. Once I made it into my room I locked the doors and pulled the curtains, making sure that the room was secure before pulling out the special package, a small laptop on which I had uploaded Gizmo to keep him safe and secret.
I hated not trusting anyone, but you never knew who you could trust and my dad had told me to NEVER trust a Teladi, and on top of that the Teladi I had left my ship with had seem like a PARTICULARY untrustworth sort. I could just imagine him finding Gizmo in the ships computer and then that would be that last I saw of him or Gizmo. Reaching into one of my shoping bags I drew out a small watch. Plugging the watch into the laptop I transfered the necessary file and then...
"Morning boss." Gizmo piped
"Closer to evening really," I replied "I thought you would know that since you in a watch."
"Yeah I did," Gizmo replied "Where did you find this thing it is pretty advanced. I thought you said this station was really back water."
"The station has really improved since I was last here. They have a new senator running things and he seems to have really turned around the place. You know that the watch has a holo display, why don't you try it out?" A red display apeared in the air above the watch and several images appeared before it finally settled on an image of a sound wave.
"That's what you want to look like?" I asked
"Nothing else really fit, this is me, I am but sound." I shrugged if he wanted to look like a sound wave that worked for me. After tinkering around the room for a couple of hours I decided to call it a night.
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The bridge was quite, a silent testonmony to stress that ran through everyone of the crews veins. The entire bridge was on high alert, searching for an enemy that they all hoped was not out there. The worst part was that they were in the middle of Argon space, a place where they should feel safe and secure, but today that wasn't the case. Their ship was the Dauntless, an Argon Cerebes, once a brand new frigate, it was now scared from countless battles with the forces that hounded them across the galaxy. William glanced to the tactical display checking on the status of the rest of the convoy. The Dauntless was positioned at the head of the convoy with 5 Murcury Tankers in close formation behind. Two Dragon corvettes guarded the tail of the convoy as several Nova Fighters provided fighter support.
"Contact! Unknown ships bearing 12 degrees off port bow, range 20km. Two M7C class frigates, Ariadnes. Their launching fighters!" The radarman yelled
"Shit, captain those can hold up to 24 fighters each." My first officer informed me.
"Sound the red alert. Comms, message Sec. Def. and ask them politely to come to our aid, also send out a mayday to all local ships." Klaxons blared as the Comms-man followed my orders. "Launch all of our remainning fighters, order the Dragons to get those transports out of here!" With only 10 fighter craft to my name it was going to be a tough fight but I felt confident that it could be done. "Helm, Full speed ahead I want this ship as close to those frigates as possible. They will regreat ever hearing my name!"
"Sir, I have Sec.Def. on the comm."
"On screen." A fat old man appreared on the screen in an worn, wrinkled Argon uniform. It looked like this man had not seen a shower in months.
"This is Commedore Riagus. I regreat to inform you but will be unable to come to your defence at this time. You are engaged in a war with Phanon co., and by Commonwealth law we can not interfere in legal corperation warfare. Good luck." He said cutting the line without giving me a chance to reply.
I turned the screen back to radar and watched as the last of the enemy fighters launched from their carriers, formed into formation and headed straight at us. My Nova's were headed right towards them with less then 5km seperating them. The two squadrens exchanged fire before breaking apart into melee. As I watched the dogfight, i saw that the M7Cs were close coming into range of our forward cannons.
"Guns, main cannons are to focus on the frigates, all turrets to support the fighter wing, I want a firring solution on those frigates NOW."
"Aye, Aye Captain. Firing solution in 30 seconds." It felt like seconds were lasting hours as I watched the radar. The Nova's were doing themselves proud. With the support of the Flak arrays they had already destoryed 8 of the enemy while only losing 2 of their own. As I watched, a glaring white light erruped between my ship and the frigates we were hunting.
"New Contact! It's a...ah...ah... Captain, it's a Titan..." The room fell silent as the news sank in.
"Captain, just to be the devils advacote, maybe retreat is our best option, you know live to fight another day." My XO said. It wasn't a bad idea but the transports don't have jumpdrives and the only thing between them and the attackers was... Me.
"No XO, that is not an option today. Guns, lock the main cannons onto the Titan. Helm, set a course for the Titan, full ramming speed. XO, get everyone off the ship and to saftey." Then picking up the PA I continued, "This is the Captain, everyone is to abondon ship. Repeat, all hands abanodon ship." The bridge went silent again as the bridge crew all looked to me.
"Umm, sir.." XO stated.
"I dont want to hear it, XO. You all know the captain goes down with his ship. Besides it is me they want and as long as I am alive they will keep hunting us down. Now then I believe I gave you all ORDERS."
"Aye, Aye captain." Came the response. They quickly finshied the task I had assigned them filed off the bridge. The XO was last to go.
"I'll keep up the fight, sir."
"No, dont. Find some other outfit to run and live your life. There is no need for more people to die on my account." His face fell but I could see the acceptance in his eyes.
"It's been fun sir."
"That it has, XO, that it has." The ship vibrated as the first of the titan's cannons hit. "Go XO. And may life smile on you." He left with a wave before breaking out into a jog toward the excape pods. Turning back toward the view screen I could see the titan getting closer as my cannons now on auto, exchanged fire with it. "Computer turn on some classical music." he computer complied and soft panio music loft across the bridge to underscore the blasts that could be heard from the hull. I watched as the last of the excape pods blasted off. Going over to the engineering consule I began to spin up the warpdrive, if I was going out then I was going to do as much damage as possible, and an active warpdrive made a hell of a fireworks show if it exploded. The bridge shook as the shields failed and the hull started to take a beating. Calmly walking over to a near by replicator and replicated a wiskey on the rocks before sitting bac down on my chair.
Collision Alert, Collision Alert
1km to go, 500 km to go, 100km to go. I threw back the entire drink as I watch the nose of my frigate impact the titan. I was thrown to the floor as the enitre ship thrashed. In a last brust of effort, I jumped back to my chair and engaged the warp drive.....
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I woke with a start. These nightmare, they felt so real. Glancing down at Gizmo I saw that it was only 3 in the morning. I had only been asleep for a couple of hours.
These past couple of weeks on the station had been a lesson in tediousness. I had spend most of my days in bars and dives just passing time. Finally my new engine had arrived. A day later found me back in the cockpit leaving the equipment dock behind. It had cost me a small fortune but this ship was now as fast as it could be with all of the latest and greatest engine and rudder upgrades. Getting a feel for the new engine I pushed the throttle all the way in. I quickly discovered a new top speed of 477m/s with hairpin turning.
"Not bad, not bad." I said to no one
"About as good as a Argon ship gets" Gizmo replied. I laughed at my self a little, sometimes I forgot that gizmo was with me. "Boss I am picking up an SOS from Cattle Ranch gamma. Seems they have a Xenon problem."
I didn't need to hear anything more. Turning towards the cattle ranch I speed to it's defence. A lone Xenon N was firing it's cannons but not doing any damage, still it needed to be taken care of and I needed to test out my new abilities. I gunned my engines and quickly fell in behind the Xenon. Pew,Pew Pew,Pew I fired my cannons missing completely. Sticking to the xenon as it tried to shake me I kept firing but to no avail. Finally a Military Eclipse showed up and destroyed the N with a single blast from it's powerfull cannons. I felt so frustrated even with my ship as upgraded as I could make it, it still was not good enough.
"Gizmo, from now on if there is an SOS just forward it to the Sec.Def. and let them handle it. We are obviously not capable of doing any damage."
"Aya, boss I can do that. Will we still get the reward money though?"
"Yeah remember the Admiral said that he just wanted us to inform the military so that what we are going to do from now on." I contacted the eclipse and recieved my payment and then headed west through the gate.
The next couple of days saw us exploring Argon space and mapping the core systems, but nothing intresting happened. Couple of days later found me in Elaine's Fourtune on my way to Split fire. As I approached the gate a wing of 9 Pirate fighters jumped through in fast pursuit of a Split transport. I felt the rage boiling inside of me. Before I knew what was happening I was flying at full speed towards the pirates.
"Umm boss no offence to your flying skills or anything but I don't think that we can take on 3 heavy fighters and four intercepters... hell we have not been able to even take out a scout ship yet! There are two of those as well." Gizmo inserted nevously but I couldn't hear him over the rage I was feeling. I was just to far away and all I could do was watch as the pirates blasted the transport to dust. Then instead of heading back to pirate space they turned their ships towards the Argon Orbital Weapons Platform.
"Are they suciadal?" I asked
"They might be, but you too boss!" Gizmo replied "There is no way we can take those!"
"The Heavy fighters are to slow to be a threat to us, I am going to engage them from their blind spot in the back where they are vulenerable." I said as I angled my ship to head for the Pirate Novas.
"This is the Weapons platform to Pilot William McCloud, Stand down those Novas will eat you alive." I didn't bother to reply the anger was to strong. I raced towards the Nova at the back of the pack from the side intending to strafe it before it could turn on me. Before I could pull the trigger blue light sprang out from the back of the Nova and impacted my Starboard wing throwing me away in a tailspin.
ALERT! ALERT! Shields down, Hull Critical.
A quick glance confirmed what the computer had said, my shields had been blown away by the bast and my hull integraty was down to 12%. Struggling to regain control of my ship I finally managed to turn the ship out of the tail spin and head away from the pirates. It felt like I was crawling, my airspeed only showing 120m/s.
"Gizmo, Give me full speed! We need to get out of here!"
"I can't boss we have a coolent leak, any faster then this and the engine will overheat and we will be stardust!" Shit I thought know that he was right. Luckily for us though the pirates didn't seem intrested in us and just continued on their way. Once we were 10km from them I stoped the ship grabbed my repair laser and opened the hatch. From this distance it looked like the Orbital Weapons Platform was having a fireworks display as the entire space around it was filled with exploding missles and ships.
Turning away from the slaughter I surveyed the damage to my ship. It was much worse then I had imagined. The wing had almost been severed off where the blst had impacted it. I thanked my lucky stars as I noticed that if the blast had been but 3 inches closer to the fuselage it would have hit one of the plasma-fuel lines causing a chain reaction ending in the complete destruction on my ship. It took me several hours to find and close the coolent leak, and then several more hours to completely remove the wind and reattach it after patching it up. After a total of 8 hours of work I finally had her back to mint condition. Climbing back into the cockpit I repressurized to ship and headed for the local trading station.
"Gizmo, remind me never to do that again"
"Hey boss I tried to warn you, the military tried to warn you. Next time just listen." I chucked as I let gizmo bring the ship in.
Stepping off the transport onto the Antigone Memorial Station I was awe struck. When I was last here, less than a year ago, it had been a dark, run down crap hole with nothing worth talking about in it. Now there were neon lights everywhere advertising anything and everything you could buy. In my awe I had forgot where I was and didn't realize that I was still standing on the transport's ramp, blocking traffic, which was exactly what the split behind me decided to remind me of.
"Get moving!" He behind me bellowed as he shoved me out of his way. Glarring at him I picked myself up off the tarmat, dusted myself off, checking to make sure that a special package I brought with me was still in my pocket, and intact. Finding everything ok, I started down the neon light streets. I wasn't feeling tired yet so I hoped into a few of the local stores buying a couple of trinkets here and there. After satisfying the hole burning in my pocketbook, I headed to the hotel I had book before my arrival. The doorman greeted me warmly and informed me that all of my luggage had made it safely. Once I made it into my room I locked the doors and pulled the curtains, making sure that the room was secure before pulling out the special package, a small laptop on which I had uploaded Gizmo to keep him safe and secret.
I hated not trusting anyone, but you never knew who you could trust and my dad had told me to NEVER trust a Teladi, and on top of that the Teladi I had left my ship with had seem like a PARTICULARY untrustworth sort. I could just imagine him finding Gizmo in the ships computer and then that would be that last I saw of him or Gizmo. Reaching into one of my shoping bags I drew out a small watch. Plugging the watch into the laptop I transfered the necessary file and then...
"Morning boss." Gizmo piped
"Closer to evening really," I replied "I thought you would know that since you in a watch."
"Yeah I did," Gizmo replied "Where did you find this thing it is pretty advanced. I thought you said this station was really back water."
"The station has really improved since I was last here. They have a new senator running things and he seems to have really turned around the place. You know that the watch has a holo display, why don't you try it out?" A red display apeared in the air above the watch and several images appeared before it finally settled on an image of a sound wave.
"That's what you want to look like?" I asked
"Nothing else really fit, this is me, I am but sound." I shrugged if he wanted to look like a sound wave that worked for me. After tinkering around the room for a couple of hours I decided to call it a night.
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The bridge was quite, a silent testonmony to stress that ran through everyone of the crews veins. The entire bridge was on high alert, searching for an enemy that they all hoped was not out there. The worst part was that they were in the middle of Argon space, a place where they should feel safe and secure, but today that wasn't the case. Their ship was the Dauntless, an Argon Cerebes, once a brand new frigate, it was now scared from countless battles with the forces that hounded them across the galaxy. William glanced to the tactical display checking on the status of the rest of the convoy. The Dauntless was positioned at the head of the convoy with 5 Murcury Tankers in close formation behind. Two Dragon corvettes guarded the tail of the convoy as several Nova Fighters provided fighter support.
"Contact! Unknown ships bearing 12 degrees off port bow, range 20km. Two M7C class frigates, Ariadnes. Their launching fighters!" The radarman yelled
"Shit, captain those can hold up to 24 fighters each." My first officer informed me.
"Sound the red alert. Comms, message Sec. Def. and ask them politely to come to our aid, also send out a mayday to all local ships." Klaxons blared as the Comms-man followed my orders. "Launch all of our remainning fighters, order the Dragons to get those transports out of here!" With only 10 fighter craft to my name it was going to be a tough fight but I felt confident that it could be done. "Helm, Full speed ahead I want this ship as close to those frigates as possible. They will regreat ever hearing my name!"
"Sir, I have Sec.Def. on the comm."
"On screen." A fat old man appreared on the screen in an worn, wrinkled Argon uniform. It looked like this man had not seen a shower in months.
"This is Commedore Riagus. I regreat to inform you but will be unable to come to your defence at this time. You are engaged in a war with Phanon co., and by Commonwealth law we can not interfere in legal corperation warfare. Good luck." He said cutting the line without giving me a chance to reply.
I turned the screen back to radar and watched as the last of the enemy fighters launched from their carriers, formed into formation and headed straight at us. My Nova's were headed right towards them with less then 5km seperating them. The two squadrens exchanged fire before breaking apart into melee. As I watched the dogfight, i saw that the M7Cs were close coming into range of our forward cannons.
"Guns, main cannons are to focus on the frigates, all turrets to support the fighter wing, I want a firring solution on those frigates NOW."
"Aye, Aye Captain. Firing solution in 30 seconds." It felt like seconds were lasting hours as I watched the radar. The Nova's were doing themselves proud. With the support of the Flak arrays they had already destoryed 8 of the enemy while only losing 2 of their own. As I watched, a glaring white light erruped between my ship and the frigates we were hunting.
"New Contact! It's a...ah...ah... Captain, it's a Titan..." The room fell silent as the news sank in.
"Captain, just to be the devils advacote, maybe retreat is our best option, you know live to fight another day." My XO said. It wasn't a bad idea but the transports don't have jumpdrives and the only thing between them and the attackers was... Me.
"No XO, that is not an option today. Guns, lock the main cannons onto the Titan. Helm, set a course for the Titan, full ramming speed. XO, get everyone off the ship and to saftey." Then picking up the PA I continued, "This is the Captain, everyone is to abondon ship. Repeat, all hands abanodon ship." The bridge went silent again as the bridge crew all looked to me.
"Umm, sir.." XO stated.
"I dont want to hear it, XO. You all know the captain goes down with his ship. Besides it is me they want and as long as I am alive they will keep hunting us down. Now then I believe I gave you all ORDERS."
"Aye, Aye captain." Came the response. They quickly finshied the task I had assigned them filed off the bridge. The XO was last to go.
"I'll keep up the fight, sir."
"No, dont. Find some other outfit to run and live your life. There is no need for more people to die on my account." His face fell but I could see the acceptance in his eyes.
"It's been fun sir."
"That it has, XO, that it has." The ship vibrated as the first of the titan's cannons hit. "Go XO. And may life smile on you." He left with a wave before breaking out into a jog toward the excape pods. Turning back toward the view screen I could see the titan getting closer as my cannons now on auto, exchanged fire with it. "Computer turn on some classical music." he computer complied and soft panio music loft across the bridge to underscore the blasts that could be heard from the hull. I watched as the last of the excape pods blasted off. Going over to the engineering consule I began to spin up the warpdrive, if I was going out then I was going to do as much damage as possible, and an active warpdrive made a hell of a fireworks show if it exploded. The bridge shook as the shields failed and the hull started to take a beating. Calmly walking over to a near by replicator and replicated a wiskey on the rocks before sitting bac down on my chair.
Collision Alert, Collision Alert
1km to go, 500 km to go, 100km to go. I threw back the entire drink as I watch the nose of my frigate impact the titan. I was thrown to the floor as the enitre ship thrashed. In a last brust of effort, I jumped back to my chair and engaged the warp drive.....
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I woke with a start. These nightmare, they felt so real. Glancing down at Gizmo I saw that it was only 3 in the morning. I had only been asleep for a couple of hours.
These past couple of weeks on the station had been a lesson in tediousness. I had spend most of my days in bars and dives just passing time. Finally my new engine had arrived. A day later found me back in the cockpit leaving the equipment dock behind. It had cost me a small fortune but this ship was now as fast as it could be with all of the latest and greatest engine and rudder upgrades. Getting a feel for the new engine I pushed the throttle all the way in. I quickly discovered a new top speed of 477m/s with hairpin turning.
"Not bad, not bad." I said to no one
"About as good as a Argon ship gets" Gizmo replied. I laughed at my self a little, sometimes I forgot that gizmo was with me. "Boss I am picking up an SOS from Cattle Ranch gamma. Seems they have a Xenon problem."
I didn't need to hear anything more. Turning towards the cattle ranch I speed to it's defence. A lone Xenon N was firing it's cannons but not doing any damage, still it needed to be taken care of and I needed to test out my new abilities. I gunned my engines and quickly fell in behind the Xenon. Pew,Pew Pew,Pew I fired my cannons missing completely. Sticking to the xenon as it tried to shake me I kept firing but to no avail. Finally a Military Eclipse showed up and destroyed the N with a single blast from it's powerfull cannons. I felt so frustrated even with my ship as upgraded as I could make it, it still was not good enough.
"Gizmo, from now on if there is an SOS just forward it to the Sec.Def. and let them handle it. We are obviously not capable of doing any damage."
"Aya, boss I can do that. Will we still get the reward money though?"
"Yeah remember the Admiral said that he just wanted us to inform the military so that what we are going to do from now on." I contacted the eclipse and recieved my payment and then headed west through the gate.
The next couple of days saw us exploring Argon space and mapping the core systems, but nothing intresting happened. Couple of days later found me in Elaine's Fourtune on my way to Split fire. As I approached the gate a wing of 9 Pirate fighters jumped through in fast pursuit of a Split transport. I felt the rage boiling inside of me. Before I knew what was happening I was flying at full speed towards the pirates.
"Umm boss no offence to your flying skills or anything but I don't think that we can take on 3 heavy fighters and four intercepters... hell we have not been able to even take out a scout ship yet! There are two of those as well." Gizmo inserted nevously but I couldn't hear him over the rage I was feeling. I was just to far away and all I could do was watch as the pirates blasted the transport to dust. Then instead of heading back to pirate space they turned their ships towards the Argon Orbital Weapons Platform.
"Are they suciadal?" I asked
"They might be, but you too boss!" Gizmo replied "There is no way we can take those!"
"The Heavy fighters are to slow to be a threat to us, I am going to engage them from their blind spot in the back where they are vulenerable." I said as I angled my ship to head for the Pirate Novas.
"This is the Weapons platform to Pilot William McCloud, Stand down those Novas will eat you alive." I didn't bother to reply the anger was to strong. I raced towards the Nova at the back of the pack from the side intending to strafe it before it could turn on me. Before I could pull the trigger blue light sprang out from the back of the Nova and impacted my Starboard wing throwing me away in a tailspin.
ALERT! ALERT! Shields down, Hull Critical.
A quick glance confirmed what the computer had said, my shields had been blown away by the bast and my hull integraty was down to 12%. Struggling to regain control of my ship I finally managed to turn the ship out of the tail spin and head away from the pirates. It felt like I was crawling, my airspeed only showing 120m/s.
"Gizmo, Give me full speed! We need to get out of here!"
"I can't boss we have a coolent leak, any faster then this and the engine will overheat and we will be stardust!" Shit I thought know that he was right. Luckily for us though the pirates didn't seem intrested in us and just continued on their way. Once we were 10km from them I stoped the ship grabbed my repair laser and opened the hatch. From this distance it looked like the Orbital Weapons Platform was having a fireworks display as the entire space around it was filled with exploding missles and ships.
Turning away from the slaughter I surveyed the damage to my ship. It was much worse then I had imagined. The wing had almost been severed off where the blst had impacted it. I thanked my lucky stars as I noticed that if the blast had been but 3 inches closer to the fuselage it would have hit one of the plasma-fuel lines causing a chain reaction ending in the complete destruction on my ship. It took me several hours to find and close the coolent leak, and then several more hours to completely remove the wind and reattach it after patching it up. After a total of 8 hours of work I finally had her back to mint condition. Climbing back into the cockpit I repressurized to ship and headed for the local trading station.
"Gizmo, remind me never to do that again"
"Hey boss I tried to warn you, the military tried to warn you. Next time just listen." I chucked as I let gizmo bring the ship in.
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Ok so I have a LOT more content that I am currently typing. You will all be glad to hear that this chapter will soon be finished as I have now moved on from flying my pegasus, and life is a LOT more intresting now.
It seems that I am going to need supportive characters a lot sooner then I thought. I have a few character I am already planning, including bringing back and fleshing out my alcholic split friend. What I am looking for at first is going to be fighter pilots, then bridge crew as well as senior officers(engineering, medical, marines, XO). It takes me a LONG time to flesh characters out in my head plus TONS of writting before I feel like a character I made is finally alive. That being said if ya'll can help me make the characters including back grounds, quirks, and stuff like that it will really help me bring this story to life.
What i am looking for is:
Name:
Race: (I want to end up including all commonwealth races in my story)
Occupation: (Preferred plus a secendary in case i get 10 fighter pilots all at the same time)
Background:
Quirks: the little oddities that make everyone unique
Speech: A couple of line to give me an idea of how the character should sound..... shit is boring when everyone sounds excatly the same.
Anything else that might help me in fleshing the character out. For the record you dont have to include all of the above but the more flesh you can give me the easier it will be in write in the character...
It seems that I am going to need supportive characters a lot sooner then I thought. I have a few character I am already planning, including bringing back and fleshing out my alcholic split friend. What I am looking for at first is going to be fighter pilots, then bridge crew as well as senior officers(engineering, medical, marines, XO). It takes me a LONG time to flesh characters out in my head plus TONS of writting before I feel like a character I made is finally alive. That being said if ya'll can help me make the characters including back grounds, quirks, and stuff like that it will really help me bring this story to life.
What i am looking for is:
Name:
Race: (I want to end up including all commonwealth races in my story)
Occupation: (Preferred plus a secendary in case i get 10 fighter pilots all at the same time)
Background:
Quirks: the little oddities that make everyone unique
Speech: A couple of line to give me an idea of how the character should sound..... shit is boring when everyone sounds excatly the same.
Anything else that might help me in fleshing the character out. For the record you dont have to include all of the above but the more flesh you can give me the easier it will be in write in the character...
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