Someone needs some killin' doin'!
15 Jun 2016AVON NOVA
This week we had a mission. Seems some pirates needed teaching a lesson.
Ashley accepted the mission. I think we were both happy to be heading back out. Ashley's status as a level 5 rank with Sirius had slipped. Sirius have a very clever way of ensuring the commanders in their navy keep working. When I joined I was excited by the prospect that you can work your way up from level 1 to 5 ranking quite quickly but to stay at 5 you need to maintain a very high level of work. Its a treadmill, every week your work is rated and you get paid according to your new adjusted rank.
So we jumped into Alpha Centauri and I began scanning anything moving through the shipping lane. The distance between the hyperspace jump arrival point at Alpha Centauri A and the furthest of the two orbital outposts, Hutton Orbital is vast. This provides lots of opportunity for Pirates. The legendary Hutton orbital truckers controlled the system and Sirius had attempted to broker a trade deal for Centauri Mega Gin. However the trade delegation had been intercepted by pirates and killed.
Our first kill was an Anaconda. It was designated as part of the Gold Brotherhood, it was painted with a pirate colour scheme and it lasted exactly 14 minutes from the point of interception to the moment the ship went pop. By the end of the week we had destroyed 10 ships of the Gold Brotherhood. The last was a Viper that we blasted following it out of Hutton Orbital.
The local authorities were not impressed but we high-waked out to Sirius before they could do anything.