My NPC pilots
27 Feb 2021Boni58
From my pilot's log diary (handwritten due to a log failure)
3304, 18 Jan:
While in a thargoid cyclop combat I lost my anaconda and my pilot, due to Swarm attack. The beast was infuriated and my Conda had not speed to escape.
(Just a remark: guardian weapons were in game only in Feb that year.)
Jasper Curry was with me since Nov. I trained him to Elite, in fact he reached earlier than I did, but we did the way together.
When he died I had a sense of loss, was sad for some days. It touched me.
A conda with a rebuy of almost 30M at that time was a great loss too. (1033M I had only)
One month later that year, from Feb until July, I had with me Ronaldo Pearson. He got also to elite.
He was lost stupidly during an heavy attack to one of my passengenr ships.
Again, I had that sense of loss, and was very sad.
Since then, I only hired and discared expert NPCs.
3306, 12 July, I hired Ellery Wheeler.
She was supposed not to rank, because of exploration. Do you remember expedition Camel Train to formidine? That was the reason!
But with time we got friends.
We had good and bad moments. I still remember when in an medium gravity she almost lost my explorer conda, but we survived.
Time passed by, and I got used to her presence. With me in the ship, or meeting her in the FCs bar ????
Millions or billions do not matter for a comradeship, or do they?
3307, 27 Februabry,
Today, bravely fighting in Sirius for the Community Goal she got Elite rank :-)
Godfathers in wing were my friends Cmdrs Eon Solsen and Hunter_TTC.
Long live Ellery, good job!