Goodbye Kreet
09 Oct 2023Cilazsun
Had a nap after taking care of the pirate captain. Feeling much better. Cough's gone. Will fly to the northern pole of Kreet. Maybe I missed out some Flora or Fauna. Vasco explained to me how and where to deliver him and the ship, though he doesn't seem to complain about me doing other things first.Found a new type of flower. Half frozen, some leafs, mosty tubes. Looks edible, but not tasty eaten raw. While exploring I figured out how to use the boostpack. It's part of the backpack I took from one of the pirates earlier. Funny at all, but I already sprained my ankles. Shouldn't jump too high.
Was writing down some notes when I was attacked by spacers from a nearby facility. More pirates, more stuff to sell. Going to investigate.
It has turned out that the building is an abandoned mine. I'm curious if I can figure out something about building mining equippment to start my own operations soon. Anyhow. I need to proceed carefully. Spacers are not the crimson fleet. They are known for their ruthlessnes.
After entering the mine I managed to activate one of the combat robots. I wonder who put it there and even more why. For sure the spacer didn't. Though the bots tend to only guard their position, it's good to have a backup running in too much of trouble.
Man, they did't lie about spacers being dangerous. After he had seen me melt the helmet of the first spacer I came across with my laser cutter, his comrade ran away. My first thought was I frightend him off. While still laughing about him silemtly, all hell broke loose. Frightend, or not, he alerted any other pirate.
Figured out that the "action film style" tactics isn't the best one to use. Got hit a lot while trying to get in range to use my mining laser on them. Spacesuit got more holes than a sieve. Should have known better. Sure, for mining ore the tools range is fine. At least ore doen't try to shoot you.
The spacer lieutenant were tough ones. Luckily the cutter staggers them. They couldn't shoot a lot, but also my laser had a hard time cutting through their suits.
Got severe wounded, but the mine's secured. The guard bot at the entrace turned out to be complelty uselesss. Found a laser pistol on one of the spacers.
Will use it for my next combat. Its range's somewhat higher.
Before heading back to the surface, I'll take some painkillers, however. There is a lot of mining equipment I can examine. Even found notes about how to fix some of the machinery. One of the former mechanics must have left it behind.
All in all, it looks like it paid out comming here. Will fly to the constellation guys now.
Don't want to upset Vasco.