11 Jul 2016John wood vii

My name you say. Its Seven. Although my friends call me V. Its stupid really. Some old kind of way of writting the number seven...VII. Oh how did i get here. Well its a long story. Started off in a sidewinder. It was loner but it taught me basics. Hung out around a nav beacon in chakarra for a few days. Killed my drives, Weapons, pretty much everything save life support and sensors. I was invisible. Well at least on radar. I waited, it took a while but i finally found what i was looking for. Cobra mk3 bounty 62k cr. Turned the power on and woosh the battle commenced It was hard work but i got him. Dont think ive ever been so excited in my life racing back to claim my bounty. What did i buy. Well what else is there for a bounty hunter better weapons, better shields.  
Thats how it was for a while, scan em, kill em, Get paid. Gave my sidey back and bought a cobra mk3. Now that thing could fly. I tried trading. Scouting near by systems even picked up some missions for one of the local minor factions. But it wasn't enough. I didnt feel like i had a purpose.  Bounty hunting was the only thing that made me feel alive. The mark 3 didn't thank me for it. I was going after bigger enemies. Tougher ranks. Bigger wings. I needed something better. One of the guys i ran into suggested a mk 3 viper. I had a couple of mil cr so i could certainly buy and outfit it. When i spoke to the dealer he was all ready to sell it to me. Then. I saw her. I asked the guy what It was. Its new he said just got em in. Thats the viper mark 4, i can get you the specs if you like. I looked at her and i was in love. How much i asked. 440k. Done have it ready by the end of the day. Ill be back tomorrow to retro fit it. I spent my 2 mil but earned in back in a day. I hit up a high res in nearby system. I forget its name now. I had the viper A rated in a few days a missle rack, beam laser and 2 multi cannons. She was a tank. Throughout the systems i was making my name bounty hunting. My ship. It was always just refered to as The Tank. Thats when it began. That  need to be part of something more. Word was spreading of cmdr based factions. Things were changing. The bubble as it is now was unstable, volitile even. Factions making their power plays. It was chaos. I wanted to help. To stand for something. Then i met gunner. He was in an asp x. Two anacondas bearing down on him. His sheilds almost shot i could tell he was looking to call it quits. I rushed in as fast as i could. And in my tank let me tell you she was fast in a straight line. As soon as i cleared the the 3km mark i let rip on one of the anacondas MISSLES AWAY i remember yelling as i emptied a 2 barrels of multi's a full charge of my laser and 6 missles off its shields. The conda turned to face me. As i was reloading i hailed the cmrd on the comms and switched targets. As i send covering fire towards the second anaconda. I introduced myself while sending a wing invite. He said his name was gunner. He told me to get out of there while i still could. I slammed down. On the sheild cell bank release button triggering a sheild recharge. It wasnt much but as long as i didnt fire a 3b sheild cell wouldn't overheat my systems and gave me just enough of a boost to prevent the sheilds from colapsing. I told gunner i had this covered so either shoot or leave. He choose the former. My sheild cells didn't last long i burned through them fast. Eventually my sheilds collapsed, it was inevitable really, but i didnt care. The new miltary grade composite and hull reinforcements ment my girl could take an enormous amount of punishment. Chaff came in handy too as it forced most of the hits off course.  My hull taking a hiding and ive never  felt my ship vibrate as it did when the beams and cannons hit. But my Tanks integrity was holding strong. Shields popped back online once the generator had regained a significant charge.  Gunner had used the time to target the enemy's power plant. The first anaconda went down relatively quick.
Once my sheilds came back online i charged for the second ship using my thrusters boost capability 0 to 330mps in 2.1 seconds. Both me and my new ali immediately targeted the enemies power plants. As soon as we broke through his sheilds we laid waste to it in seconds. Once we had completed the task we made our way to the nearest starport for repairs and to split the bounty. It gave us some time to talk. He told me that he had never seen anyone be able to tank an anaconda like that. Let alone two in a ship of my size. Whats under the hood he enquired. Figuring i owed him for the easiest 250k cr i had earned i send him my ship specs. You know im in a cmdr faction that could use someone like you. Why dont i arrange an introduction. I agreed. It took a week or two till his CO reached out to me. In the mean time we hit it up big time in the res sites around apam napat and hip 20227. I was in. On the surface the cmdr faction was great. Active and not afraid to stand for something. It took a few days before i really reliased what i had really let myself in for though. The faction i joined had reports for pirating, undermining and even player killing. This really wasnt my kind of thing. I was better than that. I apologised to gunner mearly stating that the faction wasn't for me. I just grabbed my things and left. I looked else where for other cmdr factions and i found several that i tried to join. Some i got into some i didn't. But to be honest None of them felt like home i found myself getting accepted but just turning them down. Fuck it i said giving up all hope after the something teenth faction i had applied to. I decided to find a system and settle down. Maybe do a little exploring. I parked up my viper in a nice backwater system called dongzi. It was the nicest system i have ever been in. It was quiet and had a decent high res that wasn't that well patrolled making bounty hunting relatively profitable. I decided that i had enough cash to buy a much more versitile ship that would let me explore faster and further than i thought possible. I spent nearly 20 million cr purchasing and outfutting an asp explorer.  Then i spent days jumping from system to system truly exploring. I even got into some trading. Now we'e not talking sothis style trading missions but i was making good credits doing very little work. Then i saw it on the wall of a station. It was saunders dive a station in wolf 1301. it was an EXO recruitment flyer. So, thinking of joining a voice said i turned to see a guy sizing me up. Angus. Names Angus, and yours.
Jo... seven. Names seven.
So thinking of joining.
I want to be part of something bigger but no faction i have been part of yet has felt right. I don't want to waste your time. So whats E.X.O. all about then.
Bottom line we live together. Fight together even die together if it came down to it. Dont get me wrong mate We do what we want as pilot's as long as we follow the code that is.   Youll never be forced to do anything you don't want to. We have explorers, bounty hunters, traders, hell we have one guy that mines rocks like you've never seen. Most of our members just reffer to him as rock fucker on account hes got the gaxaxy record for pretty much evey mining competition you can think of. He pretty much lives in the rings of gcrv. Now If you want the orders on the other hand join our navy they're a pretty versatile bunch and they do it all. They have toppled governments, crashed economys. Pretty much anything that needs doing. The code we'll get to later. But Our moto, Well that is simple. Rise up Never surrender. When cmrds are being killed. We go hunting. When a faction over steps its mark. We draw the line. When a battle needs a victory. We claim one. And if you oppose us. Know this. If you attack one of us you attack all of us. That, is EXO.

My reply was simple
Im in.