Looking back 11.2.3306
02 Nov 2020Bear Force One
This log is long overdue, Commander Bear looks about his shiny new viper and reminisces about the journey so far.Just five short months ago, I had stepped stepped out of the pilot's academy and into his very own sidewinder. He hadn't pawned it off yet, still parked in Dromi, one of the first systems in which he earned money. After a few weeks worth of flying mail too and from stations and the occasional tussle with pirates, I was able to afford a Viper mk III which I trekked from Dromi to Diaguandri.
After finding not much in Diaguandri, I explored some neighboring systems before finally stopping at HIP 13644 to pay the bills hunting bounties. It was never really a home to me though, more of a temporary base. Bills were paid, and the money was fine, albeit a little risky and a little slow, so I supplemented my income by stealing kills from the police. Later, when I had gotten tired of being a pure combat pilot after ammassing somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 million, I outfitted a cobra for some basic core mining and mined alexandrite from one of the local rings in HIP 13644. It was at this point that I saved enough to buy myself the chieftan. Beautiful ship which I still love, but need to engineer.
A few weeks later, I heard about the mining rush over in the triple LTD in Col 285 sector cc-k a38-2, more commonly known as Kirrie's icebox, I scraped together an aspx with some basic mining equipment and made my first hundred million within a few hours of mining. After making enough for an anaconda, I moved most of the mining equipment inside and ran three runs of ltd's amassing close to 600 million in total credits. After which I became satisfied with my financial situation and decided to stop mining and return to the life of combat instead.
It was on this mining trip that I was contacted by Farseer and thus, I took my aspx over to get the FSD checked out, and drove her back. A majority of this period was lost to bounty hunting and practicing flight, but I was never able to get the hang of FA off. I unlocked Todd, and did some minor engineering of multicannons. And then I went dark. Life had other plans for a while.
Only a couple weeks ago did I come back to join the fray, after meeting Commander Selene Stardragon, I felt the itch again, and set out to fight alongside the Wake Angel in Eurybia, against the Blue Mafia. It was fun, albiet stressful at times, but friends were made, and I flew multiple sorties with Commanders Selene, SIMM, and Winterice. After the fight cleared, I set out back to farseer to engineer my viper to be as fast as I could make it at the time, and then trekking her to Mitnahas to aid the efforts of the 10th in their defense of the home system.
Currently I am a pilot under the flag of The Nebula Roses, and with dreams of becoming a ace viper pilot and climbing the ranks, hopefully taking part in decision making, alongside Admiral Selene Stardragon.