Commander Lima Tango Charlie - Log V- Defending our homes
07 Jul 2020Lt.CanadianJesus
It's been quite a while since I've done one of these, I took a break for a little, Lived on my Anaconda; Stacked it full of supplies and parked it on a planet.It was nice, resting for a while, taking a break; I'm not retiring though, not anywhere close to that.
Anyways, I decided to have a go at taking down a Thargoid Interceptor, I decided to do it solo too, Got myself a Krait Mk2 since I learned from the AXI that it's one of the best ships for dealing with the bugs; A while back I'd gone to the guardian ruins so i already had all the weapons I needed to take one down, I had to go on a bit of an engineering adventure though, beefing up the hull strength and everything, grabbed some repair limpets too, just in case.
I made my way to Asterope in my new ship; still a 32LY jump range with all the combat equipment on board; Wasn't hard to find signal sources, they were everywhere.
Eventually I found one scanned as threat level 5, the AXI database says that usually contains a "Cyclops" the weakest of the Thargoid interceptors, although "weakest" isn't the best description, it's still incredibly tough.
The battle went better than I expected, I quickly exerted the first heart and destroyed it and boosted away at 400m/s, launched a repair limpet and turned around and began to work on the thargon swarm, once I took them out and the Thargoid's shield was dissipated, I came back into range; Exerted and destroyed the heart, and repeated the same thing again until I destroyed the last heart.
The thing was still alive, still a threat; The Thargon swarm was gone though, I can only assume that the hearts have something to do with controlling them, but I'm not sure, either way, I went back in and gave it everything I had, only took a couple of hits from my 3 Gauss cannons to take it down, sound and explosion that followed, I'll never forget.
These bugs... they Invade our systems, Kill thousands, wreak havoc on our stations and ships; I'll say one thing, they can expect a fight if they want to pick one.
*END OF LOG V*