A Milestone in my Career
31 May 2021Korzhakov
Back in the bubble from our adventures fighting Thargoids and rescuing humans. To be honest, neither went as well as I had hoped, at least not the missions I piloted. The station I was trying to assist with evacuations was tumbling from orbit, the thrusters on my dedicated rescue python are very weak and this caused the station to hit my ship as I tried to enter, I could not successfully enter the station and took a lot of damage to that ship. My first fight with a Thargoid interceptor went about as well. I managed to destroy one petal off of it before it sent me packing with a busted canopy back to the carrier for repairs. Thankfully my crew had better luck that I did and once we made a difference, we jumped the carrier back to Wolf 1301.
I took some time to get my head right after my twin failures out in the incursion zone. I went solo exploring and had a good time while working on my exobiologist ranking with the pilots federation.
I jumped back to The Dive in Wolf 1301 and met up with my fiancé for lunch. We headed back to the Archangel, our carrier so that I could swap out ships and do some bounty hunting. I need to hone my combat skills before I take on another interceptor. I pull my Federal Corvette "Retribution" and head across the system to a Haz Res site for some hunting. I get in the groove and with her amazing prismatic shields, I just slug my way through every ship in my path like a juggernaut.
I work through a lot of ships, a lot of groups of ships, and find that I am engaging faster than I probably should as I get a little bit of shield degradation each engagement. I let the shield get down a bit lower than I should so I started to use my cell banks to replenish them. Well after a while those have to be reloaded at a station or carrier so I head back to the carrier for a rearm.
A quick turn around by my ground crew and I am back in the fight. I take on a few higher ranking bounties and then rapidly engage two groups of three, one had a leader that was ranked Deadly and the other leader was ranked Dangerous. I work through both of those groups and then suddenly a message hits my computer. Congratulations Commander, due to your recent victories, you have been promoted to the combat rank of "Deadly". This stops me in my tracks, I knew it couldn't be too long but I didn't think it would be today.
I stowed my weapons after taking out a few more people that were attacking the miners and then headed back the Archangel. I am greeted by my fiancé Jean, the Captain of the carrier Bailey and Randy my crew chief. Randy orders his team to start outfitting my combat ships with the new rank insignia and the three of them escort me to Finnegan's which is the bar and restaurant on our carrier. We celebrate this milestone as I am now just one rank away from making Triple Elite.
I know there is a long road ahead of me, but I will get there, just like the previous two Elite titles that I have earned.
It's a good feeling to be recognized for these accomplishments.