Squiddy McSquids possibly short life - {Possible spoilers inside}

[ColinGrogan]

Great story! I want more

[KiwiNZ]

Good on ya mate.

I just died in my Teladi Trafficker through the missile of a 'helping' sector police ship when I tried to capture an Elite. Good help is hard to come by. New start it is again then.

[MegaJohnny]

Awesome! Pffff - everything Terran looks like it was designed for a low-budget 70s Sci-Fi TV series...

Especially the stations (I'm sure I've posted this link before, but hey, I like it):

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education ... t/art.html

I suppose if you think about it they do look a little 70s.

My first reaction to seeing screenshots of the Terran stations was that they reminded me of the kind of style of the X-wing.

That clean lines style is awesome.

[Tanathar]

The Teladi lookssss for much profitssss. Lotsss of profitssss made with Ssssquiddy killing Ssssplitssss.

Split say you be wrong, split kick Squiddy bottoms.

Much profitssss to be made from Ssssquiddy killing Ssssplitssss. Ssssplitssss go to war with Boronssss, warssss issss good profitssss.

[VolKoV47]

The Teladi lookssss for much profitssss. Lotsss of profitssss made with Ssssquiddy killing Ssssplitssss.

Split say you be wrong, split kick Squiddy bottoms.

Much profitssss to be made from Ssssquiddy killing Ssssplitssss. Ssssplitssss go to war with Boronssss, warssss issss good profitssss.

Split say Teladi foolish. Spaceflies harder to catch than killing Teladi Albatross with Split Jaguar.

[NUKLEAR-SLUG]

What exactly are you doing with all these important ships you keep losing? (personal Blastclaw, Kestrel)

Sector mapping, seems to be a dangerous occupation.


Well, my ghetto chip complex is busy cranking out silicate goodness and currently even turning me a profit as I supply it with resources so it's off to the Goners again. Sadly it seems they've had all the minerals they want off me which is a shame, I was quite happy supplying them. Now they want me to run a Teladianium panelling delivery for them which I'm quite happy to do, it's an easy run and the pay is good and I'm all in favour of that kind of thing.

Next job they've got for me tho poses a slight complication. Seems they want three Argon transporters. I'm hoping they won't mind if they come with a few scorch marks as I'm going to have to purloin them someplace. Nopileos Memorial being my favoured hunting ground I jump to the south gate ready to setup a capture operation. As I arrive I check the sector map to see what's what and..

http://dbbr17626.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/m1.jpg

.. the situation suddenly changes just like that and it's another crash-plan mission on a capital ship. Unfortunately the majority of my Mercs are busy in training and currently the only ones free are the three remaining members of the Misfits and three complete noobs who couldn't be greener if they were cabbages and are probably more dangerous to themselves than anyone else.

As if that wasn't bad enough Nopileos is not a good place to perform the op the way I would prefer as it's too cluttered and I have to make the intercept before the Minotaur reaches Brennans Triumph as there's a Brigantine hovering around Brennan south gate and will very probably wipe it out.

Relocating to Dannas Chance I setup and wait for the Minotaur to reach strike point..

http://dbbr17626.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/m2.jpg

.. which gives all it's escorts plenty of time to form up into a nice tight group which I'll need when I alpha-strike the lot..

http://dbbr17626.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/m3.jpg

.. quad-Hammerhead salvo away and a few seconds of patience is rewarded with..

http://dbbr17626.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/m4.jpg

.. clean connection and the entire escort wing insta-gibbed.

With the escort removed I switch turrets to missile defence, load ION-D in each one to give me all around protection and bring down the shields. The Minotaur fires a few rounds of Flails at me but with my EM defence not a single missile gets thru. Shields down and I jump my TP up north and deploy troops..

http://dbbr17626.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/m5.jpg

.. It seems they elected to split into two teams because I get a fail message on the hull followed by a successful breach so it looks like one guy tried to go solo. You can see him heading back to the TP here..

http://dbbr17626.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/m6.jpg

.. With my team onboard I'm fairly confident they'll do the job and I'm just sitting back to wait it out when..

http://dbbr17626.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/m7.jpg

.. it all goes a bit wrong. Ok, seems I have a problem here. A moment ago there was an M7M in front of me the next it's jumped.. taking all my Mercs with it. Not good. So I'm sat there looking stupid, wondering what I'm going to do next when my comm beeps and a really rather pleased with itself Teladi voice informs me they've captured the ship! That's nice, care to let me know where it is? I start checking nearby sectors and then realise that's a dumb move and just look under my ship list and yep...

http://dbbr17626.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/m8.jpg

.. there she is and hadn't gone too far.

Debrief:
Another successful zero-plan mission. That can't continue. I suspect the Misfits did most of the grunt-work but at least the other guys made for good meatshields. As it was there were only two casualties although one was unfortunately Olmanckelttak, which is a bit of a shame as he was getting to be quite good.

Anyways, another M7M to add to the fold, now I really need to work on that missile complex..


Total Assets:
1x HCP 'Thunderchild'
4x 200Mj shield
6x HEPT, 2x PBG, 3x PBE, 3x ION-D

1x M7M Minotaur 'Shoot First'
1x M7M Minotaur 'Ask Questions Later'
1x Zephyras TM
1x Medusa 'Questionable Ethics'
1x Blastclaw
3x Blastclaw Prototype
3x Caiman SF - L
2x Caiman SF - S
1x Caiman Hauler 'Logistical Support'
1x Caiman Miner 'Red Dwarf'
1x Toucan Hauler 'Training - 01'
1x Hermes 'Training- 02'
1x Express 'Carjacker'
5,800,000cr

[dminor]

Nice Job on the screenies Nuke. Adds a nice touch to Squids story.

[KiwiNZ]

You are amazing. Great job yet again.

[Andaius]

nice work Squiddy! So what are you going to do with your second missile frigate? Sell it back to the athorities with some story about salvaging it from pirates?

[GCU Grey Area]

Another successful zero-plan mission. That can't continue.

Seems to me that your zero-plan missions go to plan more often than the meticulously planned ones (remember 'Operation: Ooh look, shiny'). I'd stick to making it all up on the spur of the moment, doing the missions in the wrong sectors & carefully avoid having the right troops ready when you need them - seems to be working out better for Squiddy that way...

[VolKoV47]

Split say Boron lucky.

[Alec_trev]

1x M7M Minotaur 'Shoot First'
1x M7M Minotaur 'Ask Questions Later'

hahaha love the names.

[xiriod]

Great play! Grats with the Mino'

I had the same thing happen to me when I capped a Deimos. My marines had just gone inside, and I mean by the millisecond before it jumped. And I was like 'wtf?' Was my men lost? Where did they go? And since this was at the beginning I did not hear anything from them so I had to search and find out where that bleedin' thing was. Found it two jumps south, and I jumped after. And they were at the core a that time, as I got normal coms when I entered the system and they grabbed it.

But at first I thought I just lost my men, that ship and a the reputation. hehe.

[Random_Guy]

You never cease to amaze me, Squiddy. Good job.

Let's see, he's a Split, you're a Boron, there was a Teladi back there someplace, and the Paranid just suck... Ah!


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[VolKoV47]

Don't do that again, it confuses Split.
Split say binary codes are useless and Squiddy be good pirate, but Split families be stronger and will send McSquid to say hello to spaceflies.

[Al]

I need to get me some trained marines......

[[Snipe] Bando]

I need to get me some trained marines......

I was thinking along the same lines. Amazing stuff.
Way to go Squiddy

[phoenix-it]

Okay, I have just one question... The Minotaur didn't get very far into Aladna Hill...

So how is it that it ended up captured on the side near the Akeela's Beacon gate?



-EDIT- Nevermind! It jumped... I was thinking it entered the warp gate.

[Tenlar Scarflame]

Ha! It certainly would have sucked if the capture had failed. Imagine if he'd jumped farther, too... say, Getsu Fune... or Belt of Aguilar...

[Tanathar]

Teladi proud their troopssss do well. We Teladi are sssstrong. Much profitssss to be made from Ssssquiddy capturing Argonssss!