Commander's Log: 7 October, 3302: I am an Idiot
08 Oct 2016Cartlidge1000
This will be a short update, since I am currently in the Ballista on her final voyage. I just wanted to explain what had happened to my Paladin Mk II.Put simply, I crashed it.
At the time this log was written, a couple of community goals had started in Slink's Eye. One of these goals was a call for bounty hunters in the area. Naturally I responded by going to the nearest hazardous REZ site I could find. Things went well at first. I earned half a million before I was forced to leave after taking too much damage from an Anaconda that was a tad bit luckier than I.
My second trip there presented a wanted Fer-de-Lance, an equal match. I was successful in bringing down the target, but not before my shields had been reduced to a bare minimum. That's where I made my mistake. A few moments later I noticed a wing of fairly low level ships attacking a clean python. I figured I could handle it, so I charged in, guns blazing.
I should have figured that all three would turn on me instead of the python, and soon my shields had dropped. I had little reason to panic at first, since the Paladin was a fairly tough ship, but I had forgotten a critical part of the REZ sites: the asteroids.
As I desperately tried to outmaneuver an expert viper, I had forgotten about my trajectory and struck a nearby rock at full speed, causing me to detonate instantly.
I had been played... by an expert viper NPC...
Needless to say this is why I am in the Ballista right now, rather than the Paladin.
--Commander Cartlidge