Holy hell.
26 Sep 2017Colossus1921
My hands are still shaking. I was grounded until about mid-day in Merope, and as soon as I took off again, I started detecting strange signals. I dropped into one of them, to find a bunch of wrecked Cutters and a Thagoid ship.It scanned me and went back to picking something out of the field of debris. I tried to scoop up a life-pod, then the thing attacked me.
Thankfully, I was in the Limper, so my shields took the hit pretty easily, but I still took some hull damage.
I survived the initial salvo, then started firing back.
It did nothing. A fully engineered corvette. Did nothing.
Dear stars, what are these things?
I high waked at 30% hull integrity, then went to repair. As soon as I got out of Blackmount Orbital, I found another signal of non-human origin.
Stupidly, I dropped in. Same thing. This time, though, I fired first. And it tore me up.
I tried to low wake out at around 60% hull integrity. That thing had a mass lock factor of 30. 30!!!
I managed to high wake, but not before I took another 30% damage to my hull.
These things are dangerous, but I went out a third time, this time with a fighter pilot and a plan. I wanted to see if the fighter would be able to keep those little drones off of me. It did.
Of course, my weapons still did dick against the Thargoid. Even ramming it with a corvette didn't really do anything but push it off course for a few seconds.
Liz, we need those weapons. They're abducting people, and there isn't a damn thing we can do about it.