How rude!
14 Jan 2018El_Idiot
Starport: Friend Terminal , Mitnahas.'Racing" through the rank of Post-Captain towards my Corvette I took on only missions providing me with decent ranking upgrades while the risk doing so is small and the pay is good. Surface scan missions and a lot of them. No way to avoid displeasing some factions and before I knew it I was marked 'wanted' in most nearby systems. Besides wounds, time also heals bounties is my device. Yet one bounty......well.....I shouldn`t have been shooting at a defensive aircraft of HIP-11728, that bountie stucked on me like glue for many of days.
So time for a new aproach, good rating, low risk but low pay. I started playing 'the mailman' running around with data. For that I used a Class-A unmodified Sidewinder, (rebuy costs 30.000cr.) called 'Sacrifice', ship-ID (just to make it easy on the bountyhunters) 'WANTED".
Data transfer missions enough and a lot of them into HIP-11728 and one of those missions..............how rude!
That specific missions I got from the main faction in that system, data delivery to a planetary base called Franklin Vista. Making sure I didn`t got scanned and putting my little ship 'on the deck I startied handing in missions. "SHIP IS UNDER ATTACK" my computer called out......WTF!!! Indeed it was....laser bursts all around me (a bad shot because none hit) so going underground in the hangar asap my attacker was one of the local defence force. Finnished my bussiness and waited for half an hour before getting out again hoping my attacker would broke off by then. I could clear the pad and then the "Idiot-shooting" started again. Taking damage as I speeded up dodging the most laser bursts but still shields gone, heatsink gone, chaff launcher gone and hull rapidly dropping. But during that twisting and turning I see my H-jump to Mitnahas. Way to close to the planet but no mass lock and my fsd was still working......I took the change and powered up. Hull 48%......45%....43%...41%.......BOOM and off I popped into safety.
Doing a job for them and yet getting shot up by them that in my book is called RUDE.
El_Idiot signing off with an icecold beer.