Impending Doom
15 Apr 2016Tristan Pacheco
ACCESS GRANTED SUFFICIENT SECURITY CLEARANCE I'm done. Done with the secret kill-warrants, at least. It's back to the considerably less secret stuff for now. A great deal has happened over the last few months. Two Kids' Tuition's engine room took two torpedoes, splintering into a the upper cargo bay and the rear bedroom. It totaled the ship. So, after a teary-eyed farewell, I sold her for scrap. I made a lot off of the components and weapons, and the duralium itself still fetched for twenty-million-ish. On the other hand, my CO finally stuck me in my first small capital ship- A Federal Corvette which was christened the FNS Last Horse of the Apocalypse. I gave the Incorruptible back to the Navy, who gave it to some startup Captain. I'm still getting used to the huge amount of legroom in this ship. There are several corridors with glass walls looking out into space. It's spectacular. There's also a sizeable fighter bay below the bridge. Once I get a crew I could see putting a few F-63's inside. The craziest thing about this beast is the two class 4 hardpoints on the aft dorsal section of the ship. Right now I have class 3 burst lasers in them. They look puny in comparison to the amount of space they have, but I haven't found anyone to date selling class 4 turreted burst or even pulse lasers. Once I do I'll definitely be replacing them. In the small hardpoints I put a few missile racks for dealing with small fighters. All of this armament looks like it's going to come into extensive usage sometime soon, too. Tensions between the Federation and the Empire are at a high that we haven't seen since the Cold War several decades back. In conjunction with a possible alien threat, we have the potential for a galactic war of unimaginable magnitude. I dearly hope it does not come to this, but if it does, then I will be ready. My job of testing experimental weaponry is ongoing, with my latest test run being a torpedo/missile hybrid bolted onto my medium hardpoint. The rack ended up messing with the targeting system and the torpedoes flew uselessly into the void, so we removed the rack and I'm now waiting for my next assignment in the Phra Mool system. We recently put down an insurrection in the system, so tensions here are high as well. Wish me luck, and until next time.