05 FEB 3306 - Royal Bacon
05 Feb 2020Jason Frimantle
- COMMANDER'S LOG - 05-02-3306 1146 - INARA - CITI GATEWAY -I flew some combat sorties in my Imperial Courier. When I first started flying with the Angels in the Ancient Oath, someone noted I had tuned the visible spectrum of my lasers towards ultraviolet for the extra radiation bleed through enemy shields. The response from the wing was "Purple for the Princess!" So, when I was promoted within the Imperial navy, I requisitioned a Courier, gave it a custom paintjob, and dubbed it the Purple Princess. It's important to have a little levity brought into a situation when possible; it helps keep us all sane.
What's not sane is the Courier's heat management.
I equipped the Purple Princess with a pair of beam lasers and a plasma accelerator. I don't have the know-how to tune a railgun the way I would like yet, so I went with something a bit more reliable. Unfortunately, the Courier isn't terribly reliable in and of itself when it comes to handling heat output. I spent a good portion of my time in combat zones roasting. At one point I pulled off my flight jacket and let it float behind me in the cockpit just so I wasn't sweating into my eyes. I really need to do something about that, and that probably requires finding more engineers to talk to. There are brains bigger than mine to pick on how to tweak my systems, and I'm not afraid to admit there are things I don't know how to do.
For now, I think I'll keep the Purple Princess docked at Medupe City until I learn a bit more. If for no other reason than it'd be a bit uncouth to start frying bacon on my console in the middle of a dogfight.
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