AX Combat
25 May 2021Da9mrd
After buying a Krait Mk II and having a go in a conflict zone I discovered I really like my Corvette, not knowing what to do with the Krait I parked it up and went on to other things.Recently I had been toying with the idea of doing a little AX combat, I have read a lot on this and was a bit nervous about taking on these alien ships, so using the advice on the Anti-Xeno Initiative site I took the Krait out of storage and dusted it off.
After engineering and equipping it for AX combat I set off, as I approached the AX conflict zone I made the first of a couple of rooky mistakes, to fast and to close to the planet, how did I manage to hit a planet, I mean it's huge, sustained hull damage, not a lot but figured I needed to be fully fighting fit for my first encounter, so off to the nearby station for repairs.
Once again, I set off telling myself 'this time pay attention to what your doing', dropped into normal space and there's a scout right in front of me, not being very good with fixed weapons I line up and fire, hit, boom, the scout blows up, now I'm thinking, what's all the fuss about, that was easy, as I take on a second scout it takes a few seconds to realise I must have taken someone else's kill the first time as this one isn't going down so easy but I prevail and get the kill.
After a few more kills I get a message indicating, incoming Interceptors, my ship shuts down and I'm dead in the water so to speak, floating in space. Power comes back on and I join the fight again, had a couple of go's at the interceptors but then decided to leave them to the professionals and concentrate on the scouts, now what did they say about the green cloud's, oh that's it, don't fly through them, remember, don't fly through them, why did you fly through it?
Took myself off to a safe distance and started firing my weapons to heat up my ship, thinking, are you sure this is right as temperature warning after temperature warning came, but yes it appeared to work and remove the corrosive substance, shields still up and hull around 90%, so back to the fight.
Two min's into it and a swarm hit me, now what did they say about this, a second swarm hits as the first moved off and I try to deploy my AX weapons, sensors indicating several ships firing on me, shields going down and hull starts dropping rapidly, start to boost away and get the FSD up and running but getting messages about being mass locked, no other human ships appear to be in the vicinity but a lot of red dots on the scanner, finally jump, hull 13% and corrosive warnings flashing up so drop out of supper cruise and start firing my weapons, but this time they wont fire, not sure what to do and start to panic, back into supper cruise and run for the station, get docking permission and activate the auto dock, nothing, check the modules panel, more red than I remember seeing before including the docking computer, hull still dropping, now glad I did all those rescue missions on the burning stations, manual docking it is, straight for the slot, barge past another ship, in and down, get a message about a fine for dangerous flying but ha I'm safe.
Wish there was some way to declare an emergency and request priority landing to the station like the old planet side airports did in the past. Well, back to reading, need to figure out these swarms.