Not much ta report today. Seemed kinda quiet patrolling the lanes. Ran into an old beatup transport piloted by a coot by the name of Kaptain.Kirk. I did a quick scan of his hold and lookey here. What did I see, but three of Liberty Navy's finest being held hostage. On top of that he kidnapped a civlian as well.
Well that got my blood a'boiling. When I addressed the matter to him in the most respecful way possible, he docked quicker than a rat in a field of bull snakes. A departure notice was also seen flashing upon my HUD.
That ticked me off even more. But I just try to remember those anger management classes and start my countin to ten.
I was fixin to head back to Planet Manhattan, when all of a sudden, Kaptain.Kirk returned. I caught em undocking from West Point, and whaddya know. The Navy officers were no where to be seen. I'm assuming he returned them to their homes, cause I like ta give people the benefit of the doubt, but there still was the matter of him dockin' when I tried to stop him.
I told him to hold once more, and do ya know what that little bugger tried to do. You guessed it, he took off. Well he tried to anyways. A couple of CD's slowed his mangy hide down. But then, he had the nerve to fire upon me. In a stupid ol'transport. Well, I wasn't havin any of that. I sent a couple missles his way, with little effect. So that's when I whipped out ma big gun. I gave him a couple tastes from my SNAC and whoooo boy, all of a sudden, now he wants to talk.
Well son, I was in a charitable mood that day. I told him the fine was 2 mil for hostages, and double for fleeing. The poor ol' coot checked his bank account, his wallet and emptied all his pockets, but alls he could come up with was 200k. I nearly choked on my donut at the small pittance I had to accept. So, as I said, I was in a charitable mood, and I took his credits and kindly told him to leave the system immediately...which he did. I better not see his sorry ship in New York for quite a while.
Some pics of the encounter and 200k fine submitted to LPI-Rikers