Adventures of a space hobo. Episode 2
08 Apr 2017DRTerminus
After releasing my pent-up aggression, I retired to the local space port bar, to toast a good honest days work.While there I got talking to a young pilot by the name of Alden Cain who seemed very keen on the life of a privateer. He claimed to have been an Imperial Navy fighter pilot and that he had once taken out five pirates in just a short range fighter.
This morning I awoke to a knock on the hull. "Good morning commander" Alden said as I opened the airlock door, nursing a pretty bad hangover, "reporting for duty sir". In my slightly inebriated state I had apparently hired Alden, paid him 15000 credits and agreed a 2% profit share!
After a few cups of coffee, I decided I would see if Alden could fly as well as he talked, so I plot course for a standard resource extraction site. I figured we could find a few pirates, Alden could increase his pilots federation rank and I could make back some of the 15000 credits I had lost the night before.
A few light seconds into the journey we picked up a USS, a quick scan revealed weapons fire detected a level 4 threat. Baptism by fire I thought as I disengaged the FSD. Assessing the situation, there were 4 hostile vultures. I targeted the lead and Alden launched in an F63 Condor. I instructed Alden to attack my target, and the battle began. Moments later Alden reported that he had "lost comms" with the fighter. Great I thought, 4 vultures vs 1 federal gunship, this is not going to be easy and it is going to be another 90 seconds before Alden is going to be of any use.
By the time the fighter bay had assembled another F63, we were down to 3 vultures, but I had lost shields and a few percent of hull. Alden launched again as the federal security services dropped in. I decided to sit back and see how Alden handled himself, moments later Alden "Lost comms with the fighter" again. "you did not loose comms you muppet, you got the thing blown up again!" I yelled.
As the security services finished off the remaining pirates, I jettisoned Alden out of the airlock. As he floated away I could not help but wonder.. what should I have for lunch?