Beebbs needs to start explaining...
09 Jan 2022Rixses
I'm no encryption specialist. I can muddle through, but I'd rather pass that on to someone else. Thankfully Beebbs is on board for the moment. I passed the encrypted file over to them and went back to trucking ceramics for Brewer... Slow, but money was there. Hope I'm one of the few to get one of those FSDs. Be pissed if I did all of that for just credz. Moved about 10k tonns and told Beebbs we'd head back to Robigo for a while. Moving people sucks too, but at least some of them pay with the random materials I need so badly right now.
So, we swapped back into She'dre to make the quick jumps back to Robigo and what do ya' know... A few jumps in and Beebbs says we need to detour. Gave me some system I've never heard of over 500ly away. Svarogich or something. Said they had to make a stop on Sva 3A. Normally I'd throw a fit for such a random request, but they had that look that says to just do it. I've learned to never question that look.
500ly later we're in Svarogich. Imperial. Headed to a plain rock in space. There is a station and a few surface installations on the rock, but Beebbs directs me to a set of coords in the middle of nowhere. Looks like there is a tower or something in the distance, but I'm to land here. Nowhere. Then it's a track in the SRV to the tower, Beebbs on the comms. Ain't seen anything like it before. Looks like some sort of space telescope installation. Heavily armed space telescope... What in the five arms is this!
Beebbs has me drive up to the front door. Just park, right there in front of the door. Someone walks over and Beebbs has me setup a datalink with them. What the hell is this? I've never in my days seen Beebbs act this way. After they break the conn Beebbs has me head out and around the installation to scan a data point. Thanks, Beebbs! Some warning would have been nice. Every turret and sentry skimmer lights up. And they are pointing at me. FUCK!
I took cover behind a blast wall long enough to search my contacts list. Turret control, YES! I'm in luck and might actually survive this. I lock on and floor it that way. Dodging every skimmer and turret until I'm in range. No time to stop. I leave the throttle at full and switch to the turret to get the datalink while I blow past. Hopefully I don't hit anything... But I guess luck was on my side. Turrets are off-line.
Back to driving. Gotta get the hell out of here. Those skimmers are persistent too. Followed me a few k out. Managed to blast them and call my ship for a pickup.
Me: What the hell Beebbs? What was that?
Beebbs: I need some time. Head back to Robigo while I work on this.
That's it. That's all they said... I got nothing. Nothing at all. Well this has been a great start to the year.