bruised, but mighty fine
06 Feb 2020DrPillman
Remember the Indaol mafia, dear Ms Martinez had me eradicate lately? They are back "under new management", and guess whom Nataly had me present a stack of invitation cards today, "on occasion of our recent boom...", gold letters, fancy print, the works.Politics. yuck.
Anyway, I had spent some time sifting through interplanetary scrapyards for niceties to please the engineers with. If your job starts to suck, nothing better than a galactic shopping trip to beef up your gear.
As the Workers have some beef with a federal corporation down in LHS2948, I went there to hit three birds with one stone: Help them make a stand against corporate greed, cash in some, and take my freshly pimped Vulture "Kashima Yuki" for a spin, to see if it was worth all these materials.
It was.
Boy, is the Lady a killer! Too bad "Snowblood" doesn´t fit in the ID field on the registry form.
What this vehicle can soak up and dish out is amazing. I brought down a Federal Corvette, for starters (ok, I had help, but not as much as I thought I would need). It could turn all it wanted, with the thrusters Yuki would stay under its nose to tickle its belly until there was no belly left to tickle. Hehehee.
What else? 2 Pythons that went down a lot easier than anticipated. It took time, but it didn´t hurt. The other vulture lashed back. A little. But obviously sported less hull reinforcement...chrrchrr. Couple Vipers, couple Eagles, the odd Cobra, an Asp Ex that soaked damage like crazy, but was too slow in the turn.
It was fun, and it payed off, I am more than pleased. I am getting the hang of wet work. Can´t help it.
P.S.: Nimble solved the docking problem on the Type7. It wasn´t the computer itself, at all, and it wasn´t the connection, either. Because it needs to be really precise, Lakon draws its power from the HV shield system via a special transformer. This thing, for some strange reason, raises its voltage output when it ages. Lakon knows that, that´s why Lakon docking systems have this seemingly totally useless fuze right at the power input....voltage gets to high, this thing pops, and the Lakon service guy knows, what´s up. Of course you can, like I did, fit a shiny, fancy, off-market, "slightly used" Saud-Kruger docking computer into that slot, and it works just fine. Luxurious, even. But it lacks that crucial fuze, and once the transformer back in the shield bay gets old, the voltage goes up, and the boards are slowly frying, leading to increasingly erratic docking procedures...sigh....at least now we know. Let´s hope there is no permanent damage. I don´t want to pester Vulture for a "new" Saud-Kruger, and I don´t want to go back to stock Lakon, either.