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28 Mar 2020Tregonsee314
So I spent the 21st working with some fellow Hutton Orbital Truckers in a war zone in one of our areas. A group appeared to be trying to horn in on territory that had been ours. Took my Challenger Rodger Young (originally fitted out for AX but since refitted til such time as the bugs return en masse). Had an absolute ball even a very tough war zone is relatively simple when you have 2 wings of engineered hardware. A mamba, a Krait MkII, my Challenger, and a boatload of heavier stuff (mostly corvettes). Was very envious of the corvettes pretty and very tough. I had recently achieved Rear Admiral so thought why not. Using Coriolis I specced out a corvette and found a Li Yong Rui (not elite so no Shinrata Dezhra for me yet) Vendor that had my model on the lot (so to speak). Hopped in one of my commuter ships (Revenge a Cobra III) and went over to provide the credit chips and pick up my new toy. I even splurged on a new paint job and 6d fighter bay (with fighters). Then trudged it back to home base. Even with a A rated FSD and full level 2 enginerring it tops out at about 15 Ly (the cobra goes 25+ly). Couldn't do any higher engineering as I was out of Phosphorous so no level 3 extended range.
On the way back stopped on a planet to look for phosphorous. No Joy but I did find 6-7 salvage containers including 2T of platinum. Scooped that up and off to PSPF-LF 2 Geston Port where I base out of. As I dropped into PSPF-LF 2 I thought " Need to baptize this baby". I figured some wanted idiot in a Asp-Scout would be stooging around the navigation buoy. So I wandered over and dropped out of supercruise. Nothing, nary a target of any sort, a system eagle and a viper III but totally kosher.
Then a big pop and in drops a T10 and an FDL. Both wanted T10 is dangerous, FDL expert these folks are out of my league even in a corvette. FDL heads after a T7 that dropped in a moment later. But the T10 heads my way. All of a sudden the T10 is ordering me to drop 55K of cargo NOW. I know a T10 is tough but no way am I knuckling under and anyways I don't have an cargo to drop. I already had hardpoints deployed so I lit into the T10. Shields dropped pretty quick, but even with a Huge and 2 beams (and everything else engineered guns) I am making NO impression on this t10. Then I look and my damage is at 65% Explosions going off everywhere Mines? Torpedoes? Missiles? No clue, time for the better part of valor. I may not be able to out fight the T10 but I know how fast my T9 is and a T10 is even slower. I'll bet a corvette with A rated thrusters can outrun a t10.
Damage now down to 55% as I turn tail put 4 pips to engines and boost so I'm moving like a scalded cat. Finally get out of mass lock and go into supercruise. Over to Geston Port. On the way I realize I do have cargo, the salvage I found. Dock at Geston port, was down to 48%. 150K in repairs, salvage was only 80K. Not the baptism of fire I desired for my Corvette Constellation, but it will have to do for the moment