I'm sitting here on Ouray after reloading my bomber, so I figured I would write a report.
Starting off today, XA Golden.Tree and I went to California. It wasn't long before an Outcast Gunboat flew by with a firefly floating after him (clearly asleep at the wheel). After them, came some Navy and a bounty hunter, along with one of the Hellfire Legion's ships who had come to join up with us. After a little while, the bounty hunter got frisky, and the liberty cruiser started shooting at everyone as a result. Chaos ensued, and everyone shot everyone else while the firefly pilot slept through the whole thing. Golden and I got our ships a little fried out there, and were transported to different bases by separate Xeno patrols.
After that lovely mess above, Golden was in Pennsylvania, and I was in Colorado. Golden met up with an unfriendly Hegemon in York, and I was unable to reach him in time. Before this however, a silent Mastodon carrying about 3k worth of Boron cruised through Colorado until, after repeated attempts to communicate met with attempts to run and complete silence, I tore him apart.
:::ENEMY ENGAGED:::
Target: Haymarket with Freelancer ID
Ship: Mastodon
Cargo: About 3k of Boron
Destiny: Torn to pieces by XA-Egg.Eater
Imagine my surprise when the very trader who shot up Golden's Starblazer came floating through Colorado with the Firefly who had been sleeping in California at his side, both of them hauling Helium. They told me they were headed to the Osaka storage facility in Kusari space, and naturally, that didn't sit well with me. I gave them a chance to drop their cargo since I'm generally a nice person (or is it because I knew they would refuse?), but they refused, and Pendragon ran through a lane. StarKing paid for his friend's mistake, and died from a blast of my anti-matter cannon just as his plea for mercy came over the comms. Oops, little too late.
:::ENEMY ENGAGED:::
Target: StarKing with Miner ID
Ship: Hegemon
Cargo: About 1.5k of Helium
Destiny: "One SNAC too late for mercy" by XA-Egg.Eater
And you thought it ended there, didn't you? Well it doesn't. Pendragon was running, and I figured I might be able to catch him in Kepler. Upon entering Kepler, he greeted me with weapons fire, and then tried to talk me down (kind of out of order, don't you think?). I was willing to talk until, while sitting in front of the lane and making multiple dock attempts while I disabled the lane repeatedly, he opened fire suddenly. My guns took out his shield, my antimatter cannon brought him to his knees, and then hell's fury descended upon him, leaving nothing but dust and the faint echo of a scream.
:::ENEMY ENGAGED:::
Target: Pendragon with Freelancer ID
Ship: Firefly
Cargo: About 3.5k of Helium
Destiny: Hunted down and ripped apart by XA-Egg.Eater
That sums up the action so far, maybe there will be more today, maybe not, but this is Egg.Eater, signing off.
***Transmission Terminated***
Said the pirate to the merchant: Your money or your life?
Merchant: What was the question?
Pirate: Pay or Die!
Merchant: That's not a question.
Pirate: Hand over 2 mil you corporate flunky, or be atomically disgronified!
Merchant: Sorry, I can't hear you, too busy docking.
Pirate: Wha... Dang it. *Turns to the new recruits* And that is why you shoot the trader who refuses to cut his engines. You just have to make sure you asked them to stop, and threatened them properly before you space them. Also, record your conversations in case the dead come back to complain. That's how it works here folks. Now go out and cut yourself a piece of the corporate pie!
