Stardate 3307, January 7th
07 Jan 2021Chillswitch Engage
It has now been over a year since I first started my forray in the Milky Way galaxy. The amount of new things I've learned and comrades made has been absolutely amazing. I now have myself a fully outfitted ship for Anti-Xeno combat against the mighty Thargoids and have managed to solo a few cyclop interceptors already in my Krait MK II. My other main stay ships such as the Python, Anaconda, Chieftain and FAS have fallen out of favor for my now one true love in this Galaxy. The all mighty Diamondback Explorer. I had stopped using the vessel as I transitioned more into combat due to its main stay use for exploration and lack of offensive capabilities, shields, manueverability, cargo space and general multi role use. One has been kept in my main fleet as my taxi of sorts with its impressive 65ly jump range but I started a new DBX ship build focused solely on combat after I began to grow tired of just how effective my other ships were once engineered. Armed with three PA's, primsatic shield with boosters and cell bank, it has turned out to be quite deadly in taking down ships, especially the larger ones. I have taken down vultures and vipers as well but is admittedly a lot slower than with a bigger ship due to their agility and trying to land a shot on them. Boasting an impressive 663Mj in shields with an additional 552Mj in stored cell banks for a total of 1215Mj, I'm sure it has taken many commanders by surprise already who thought they could get my shields down quickly and score a quick kill.
Getting it to this point certainly wasnt easy though, it took weeks to engineer to where it was actually viable in combat against pretty much any ship short of capitals. I recently had taken on an FDL and actually managed to drop its shields while I still had atleast 50% before the system authorities had shown up and helped him, forcing me to leave lest I chanced taking the rebuy.
Otherwise, I think I have reached a but of a stand still as far as my quest and continued goals through out the universe. I would still like to build out a canyon racer and see unique planets and systems that have been noted by various commanders over the years. I continue to farm HazRes for credits and materials. The pilots federation has recently increased the payouts for bounties making them now much more lucrative and feasible to live and flourish off of.