After discharging myself from the hospital (against doctors wishes) i headed over to the nearest ship dealer on Planet Erie. After a bit of charming and threatening I manged to get a great deal on a rust bucket. Oh man I'm now the proud owner of a Stargazer ... it really don't pack much of a punch but what else am i going to do, at least i have some credits left for a drink.
I arrived at the bar and got myself a stiff drink...then i saw the date on the news screen and bought the bottle...have i really been in a coma for almost a year... I can't remember what happened I know the doctors said the LSF had questions for me but i wasn't sticking around, I have questions for them myself at this point I know my name and i like this whiskey and that's about it.
One thing is pretty clear to me if I can't remember whats going on or anything about myself I should keep a log to keep track of things, Its strange I just know how to do somethings ...like I knew I was a pilot but how is it I can work complicated machinery but not remember where I come from or things of this regard ?
I got myself a bounty mission off the job board , the target was some outcast druggie thug out in the badlands, My skills may be a little rusty but hell they came right back to me, the ship performed better than i expected but then again i wasn't even sure i was going to break orbit so it was performing better than i thought it would the second the engine fired up. What surprised me the most on this mission was the automated messaged i received from the Battleship Gettysburg, things must of got bad while i was K.O'ed they are paying crazy prices for Xenos and Rouge pilots, When I got back and off loaded the scum from my Gazer my eyes almost popped out of my head when i got transferred credits and for a man like me nothing much surprises me, I think I'll take another job!
This time i was contracted to take out some Hell Legion guys in the California system at Grid 3E, I made quick work of them and headed too the 2nd wave killing their leader. Once again i got a good cash bonus for those pirate pilots. I almost have enough cash to buy a new ship I got my eye on this BDR-360 Executioner its a Liberty Heavy Fighter. I'm starting to see flashes now...images... I think i was in some kind of fight... I see faces but I don't know there names, I'm gonna pick up another mission, Not much point upgrading the RustGazer its doing just fine, I'm actually starting to like it.
Chalk me up some Liberty Rouges, this job took me back to the Badlands but close West Point military Academy in the Manhattan system, Not much to say killed rouges captured pirates got paid The Rustgazer almost bought it though ... its enemy a frigging rock .. can't trust that nav computer in the badlands it smashed me right into the biggest rock it could find , the shield died on impact and it damaged over half of the frigging hull, I made it back to the Gettysburg got paid and got myself the Executioner Heavy Fighter... Gonna have to say good bye to the RustGazer I wounder if they will scrap it or sell it again. I'm gonna try this fighter out it looks a lot better than that shuttle. My goal right now is to get better armed ... I can't shake the feeling someone is looking for me...I need more cash.
I just put a bunch of new weapon systems on the ship and I'm going to take a mission against the Xenos we will see how well they do, I still need a better shield and equipment. I actually slept for the first time since i left the hospital ... I saw more faces in my dreams.... I can't tell if my dreams are memories or not but they don't seem random. I see an Ugly man in the background and a beautiful woman stood before me she is reaching for me and then there is a explosion of light and things go dark..... I'm heading out for those Xenos.
Yeah I took out those Xenos with relative ease but my ship has some problems, after I launched the ship computer detected that some of these new weapons are draining more power than they should I guess they are not compatible, I'll have to throttle that equipment dealer...I mean talk to him.
Well I just got back from another mission usual suspects again, Turns out after "talking" to the dealer these Navy boys don't like Freelancers having full power on Navy ships that they frigging own and paid for, so it maybe nice and shiny compared to the StarGazer my old Rust bucket but I don't like that i only have 75% of my ships power working for me If i could find a Lane Hacker to unlock it I would but its not worth the hassle I will have to save up and shop around, I'm on Planet Erie right now I'll ask around for whats on the market right after i sell off this salvage.
I made a mistake buying this ship, I just had to abort a mission against some pretty powerful rouges ...why because my dam weapons kept running out of juice.... I bugged out with only 3 rouges left , only 3 rouges ...man i cut thought so many of them so easily but those last three just had me out gunned.
I've come down to Planet Erie there is a heavy fighter ship here called a IDC K-VI-18 Sunrider, It looks pretty fancy for a "Civilian Ship" but the stats ain't that much better or are basically on par with what i got right now also its twice the price i paid for this rip off......ugh .... at least I'll have 100% power out of it, time to start grinding to save up for this thing, Oh almost forgot to mention I just upgraded the thruster from a standard model to the Deluxe Thruster Model.
The new thruster works great its a nice change in my luck, Just took out some space base the rouges had setup in sector 3E here in Pen....didn't i have a battle in Cal 3E as well same sector different system that's strange anyway that base was gone as quick as they set it up.
Alright after another couple of jobs of the job boards I finally had enough credits to buy the Sunrider, as long as its good to me I'll be good too it and having said that I just purchased a Advanced Deep Space Radar for it and upgraded from the Deluxe Thruster too the Heavy Thruster. Now its time to start setting up the weapons ....need more cash.
I'm about to test the my new bird in combat its not fully configured yet but I don't have time too waste, I spotted a woman watching me at a bar in Planet Erie...could be nothing could be something or maybe I should of just asked her for her comlink, either way I better be frosty.
I got my weapons setup.... no honestly they are the best i can do right now (sigh) but they pack more heat than what i have had up to this point I think I'm going to buy a Train Disruptor you never know when it may come in handy, I'm looking at one of them right now here in the equipment dealership on the Gettysburg yeah I'm gonna shove that right up someones arse if they mess with me, I actually just got back from a bit of a trip i heard a rumor about a Freelancer base in the Coronado system and it panned out, I met a woman at one of the bars there she said she could put in a better word for me with the rest of the Freelancer pilots, I tried to take her up on her offer but she blew me off ... blew me away like that woman in my dreams.....wait WHAT !?
(Ronan suddenly feels overwhelmingly ill and falls to the floor people in the dealership rush to his aid)
Log next entry I have awoke back in the hospital on Planet Erie... and I'm not sticking around ...hold on...
( Ronan detaches the medical equipment takes his belongings out of a near by container and rushes out of the hospital in a surprisingly stealthy manner. As Ronan walks into a nearby alley way a doctor goes and enters Ronan's now empty room with no Ronan in it and finds a hastily written note explaining he was checking out again, The doctor cruses in a rather profound and extremely irritated manner )
... Okay what the hell I saw it that beautiful woman of my dreams she SHOT me !.... what a bitch, Here I'm thinking this was some kind of love revenge thing and that I was in love with this woman nope she straight up tried to kill me ... oh ... oh no maybe we are in love and I just pissed her off or something and that's why she shot me....either way I'm not happy with her.
I'll think these things over and continue to do some more Freelancer Missions in the mean time.
Well I have managed to improve my reputation rating among the Freelancer community and it only cost me $500,000 Credits...a lot of good and bad pirates died and were thrown into the slammer to make it happen. Its nice being in good standing with the Navy but I don't want people getting the wrong idea I may have to move on soon, Besides its probably not good to stay in one place long enough to be found by my past life .... not that i don't want to its just i have to be ready I get the feeling its nasty, I'll save up some more for the next bribe to finish up fixing my rep to be a respectable Freelancer and then move on....bribe to be respectable Ha ! strange times.
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I gave myself a bit of a break last night and I went on a bit of a trip over to Bretonian. I found myself drawn too the BMF's base and some station called Cross Harbor theirs something familiar about them but I don't know what ? Next I headed over to a system called Dublin and headed into a gold ore field, I actually saw some transports heading into the field I think they where from Rhineland? I didn't get to close but i followed them around a bit looks like the Mollys are pretty setup in that field I get the feeling it wasn't always that way.
I'm on my way back to Liberty I'll take some more missions on and take things from there.