While flying unarmed ships (or effectively unarmed ships), I've had a couple of run-ins in Power Play flying on Open this week.
The first I was using a Viper III to run stuff into a system and was intercepted and politely told to get out of 'my' system. When I didn't obey orders I was intercepted again - this time he was firing lasers ... but I boosted away until I could low-wake out. Later, I had a brief conversation with the guy, 'cause he had been honourable and respectful, giving fair warning.
The second was tonight at Poisson Orbital in Kappa. This time I was in an Anaconda (I know, the Viper would have been better), and was running some cargo out of system - mostly commodities, but some PPlay stuff too. The 'conda was equipped for mining, but otherwise, unarmed.
Even on the pad I could see that there was an armed human around so knew there was a risk ... but my course had been set - my task was to high wake out of there.
Anyway, I take off, exit the station , and start boosting for home, and - a first for me near a station - violet flashes start going off around my ship.
{ "timestamp":"2019-10-22T21:27:03Z", "event":"CrimeVictim", "Offender":"*", "CrimeType":"assault", "Bounty":1000 }
{ "timestamp":"2019-10-22T21:27:04Z", "event":"UnderAttack", "Target":"You" }
His bounty? Only one thousand!??! My repair costs were over two hundred thousand. Still, that's better than arebuy insurance claim.
The first I was using a Viper III to run stuff into a system and was intercepted and politely told to get out of 'my' system. When I didn't obey orders I was intercepted again - this time he was firing lasers ... but I boosted away until I could low-wake out. Later, I had a brief conversation with the guy, 'cause he had been honourable and respectful, giving fair warning.
The second was tonight at Poisson Orbital in Kappa. This time I was in an Anaconda (I know, the Viper would have been better), and was running some cargo out of system - mostly commodities, but some PPlay stuff too. The 'conda was equipped for mining, but otherwise, unarmed.
Even on the pad I could see that there was an armed human around so knew there was a risk ... but my course had been set - my task was to high wake out of there.
Anyway, I take off, exit the station , and start boosting for home, and - a first for me near a station - violet flashes start going off around my ship.
{ "timestamp":"2019-10-22T21:27:03Z", "event":"CrimeVictim", "Offender":"*", "CrimeType":"assault", "Bounty":1000 }
{ "timestamp":"2019-10-22T21:27:04Z", "event":"UnderAttack", "Target":"You" }
His bounty? Only one thousand!??! My repair costs were over two hundred thousand. Still, that's better than a
