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09 Apr 2021User319792
A couple hundred or so Vequess Brotherhood anarchists and an Imperial Navy Strike contract since the last time I'd spoken to him, and I got another call from the man in the black suit to congratulate me for my promotion to Earl of the Imperial Navy. I haven't done much else after the first few courier missions since getting to Cemiess. I finished up the re-outfitting of the Burr and Socrates and decided to bring them out here too. I'm really liking the way Socrates is flying for me. Gutemaya really could have spent a little more energy retrofitting the hard points to give us a better convergence, but with the fragment cannons I've got on them, I don't really have to worry about it. I've been testing it out in a few different circumstances and it's gonna make a solid wing-based attackdog with the right support craft. I got into a scrum during the Galactic Summit with a pilot working for Winters that popped onto my radar on my six while finishing up the build. I recognized the call sign immediately and pulled my nose up to reverse our position before asking if they'd wanna do some bounty hunting so I could test out the build again in a wing. They ended up in one of the Core Dynamics Federal ships, which wasn't necessarily ideal with the general piloting style being semi-redundant, but it was good times.
Check it out:
After that I pretty much settled in to a nice rhythm with the Ovid and Burr, taking down Vequess Brother anarchists for the next day or two before finally getting an offer for an Imperial Navy Strike contract. I happened to be in the Burr at the time so I too it out instead of the Ovid.
As soon as I dropped in, I immediately regretted it. The target was sitting pretty in a Federal Corvette with two plasma accelerators and who knows what else. The target also happened to be a Dangerous-level combat pilot, which didn't make me feel all that great about the situation either. I did ok, but with the odds stacked against me I knew it wasn't gonna be easy so I decided to go straight for the belly of the 'Vette, hit it hard, and with everything I had.
Here's the cockpit video:
It turned out ok and I got notice of the promotion to Earl right afterward and the call from the man in the black suit. He mentioned that with the promotion I'd have access to Facece, which is something that could be really useful to the suits. I didn't really have much to say about it.
"You told me to stop worrying about your side of the organization"
"And you remembered. Good. You wanna do me a favor and get me some scans?"
"No. No I do not."
He looked away from the camera and his chin jutted out to the left with a slight smile on his face. I lowered my head and widened my eyes slightly.
"Would you like me to do some scans of Facece?"
"That would be lovely, Cadence."
"Would you like to ask nicely?"
"No. No I would not."
We stared at each other for a few minutes before he said thanks and congratulated me again.
"You're free to leave Cemiess if you'd like."
I mentioned that I'd like to put in some work so I could pick up a Cutter.
"Do what you like. Just get me those scans, Cadence."
"I'm getting better at piloting, too, ya know."
He looked at me with implacable calm.
"I know, Cadence."
We stared at each other without unlocking our eyes as he raised his hand in super slow motion and lowered it closer to the comms before the picture went black.