Are you robbing me?
10 May 2021Benito Stone
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Bringing back the personal weapons I pried from the mission target I stumbled onto a distress call several LS out from the main station. "What do we have here I wonder", I thought as I altered course and target to check it out. When I dropped in, some sow got on the radio and started babbling about running out of fuel. I told her she was in a rough part of space to be running herself out of gas. She blathered on about needing some fuel if I could spare it. I told her sorry, but I was not out outfitted for fuel transfer. Then I targeted her cargo hatch and blew the thing to bits, the idiot was flying shieldless to boot. Out spilled about 24K worth of cargo. She has a complete fit inside her Cobra, even deploys her hardpoints. "Are you freaking ROBBING me"?
I told her that yes, I was actually robbing her and that she should be grateful I wasn't killing her. "This will be reported to the authorities" she yelled into the radio. I laughed a little. Told her that I wasn't sure if she was aware of where she was, but I would be reporting this myself and laughing with the authorities at the bar if she needed me. I left her there and headed on into Brunel Ring to complete my original mission and turn in the extra 20T of cargo she graciously provided to me at the black market. I did report her position to the S&R network so they could handle her fuel transfer. I'm not completely heartless after all I guess.
The move out to Delaine's territory was a risk for me but gives me much better access into various factions space without needing to traverse the core of the Empire to get there and I can be relatively certain nobody will be that interested in digging into my new identity. It's been a bit difficult to reestablish myself but already a few of the crews are getting me some missions that pay decent money. I've been working with a few of the engineers to upgrade parts of the ship that I am pretty sure are staying. I've picked up some rail guns for the small hard points and tuned them for shorter range but more punch and engineering on the lower frag cannons means they hit hard now too. As long as I can keep glued to the target this boat can dish out some damage now. Best scrap yet came from a Python that tried to pull me and demand my cargo. Raven pounded that sucker to dust just as he tried to turn to run. "My regards, you son-of-a-bitch".
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