Excitement in Swaza - Pirates and Pods
15 May 2018Daemonhunter Kees
Dropped into the Swaza system in the Rubicon (with my substitute pilot NecroTecho) to deliver some commodities to one of the outpost, and decided to do a little exploring. Saw several planets that were unexplored so we decided to scan them to collect some exploration data. The second planet was a nice looking rocky ice world, so we thought we’d drop down for a planetary landing and pick up some mats.We had collected a nice little hoard of mats when we discovered a wrecked ship, will multiple escaped pods scattered around. We recalled the ship and transferred all the escape pods to the Rubicon. Heading out again we discovered another signal which indicated a second shipwreck. We approached the area and were suddenly attacked by sentry skimmers. We backed off and took stock of the situation. Eventually we decided to remove the skimmers and collect the additional cargo, which turned out to be another escape pod.
Having filled up we decided to head back to Onnes Settlemnet, an orbital outpost about 1500ls away from the planet. One the way to Onnes we were attacked by pirates. NecroTecho managed to evade the attack but the Rubicon was severely damaged (hull damaged down to 31%). Our thrusters were knocked out, and we had no lateral control of the ship. We ran the ship through a reboot/repair sequence which fortunately managed to reset the thrusters and allowed us to make our way to Onnes Settlement.
Exciting times in Swaza!!