A Close Shave
20 Dec 2019Space Boomer
I had just bought my Type 10 and took it for its first mining run around the water world in Hyades Sector DB-X d1-112. Within a half hour I had amassed 50 tons of Painite, and I was looking forward to a good reward. I had engineered the lasers and the multi cannons, so I felt safe, but I had not really upgraded the shields and armor. I figured my initial profits would pay for that.As soon as I hit super cruise I was interdicted by a Mamba. He didn’t even begin his monologue about my “big haul”; he just immediately opened fire. Before I could spin my giant space cow, my shields were gone. It took a second for my turreted weapons to get a bead on him, but eventually I started to deal back the damage. The FSD timer was taking forever. I kept taking hit after hit. Suddenly my thrusters went dead, and I started a slow spin. He was coming around for the kill while my multi cannons were reloading. It looked like the end, when suddenly my weapons went full bore on him, and his ship split in two.
While his debris floated away I was still stuck in a spin. The thrusters were totally gone. Turning them back on and off again only made an empty click. I didn’t have room for an AMD unit, so I thought that the mission was over. My finger hovered on the self-destruct button when I remembered the reboot-repair option. With hope I toggled the switch. The cabin went completely dark. The only sound was my panicked breathing the emergency oxygen. After about a minute the zooming sounds indicated that my ship was starting back up. I desperately looked at my modules to find that my thrusters managed to gain two percent. I carefully pushed the throttle forward and finally made it out of that spin. I managed to jump three systems to a station where I made thankful repairs. Before I left I bought a very expensive upgraded shield, and I engineered the crap out of my hull.
Haven’t had a problem since then! Fifteen pirates have been dispatched without a scratch on my paint job. Lesson learned: defense wins.