Yesterday I was trying to do an impression to the Empire in order to make them offer me Naval Ascension missions, so I set of to do some mission running for sub factions and bounty hunting – just to give rise to my standing in their eyes (such a perverse sentence).
Anyhow, I arrived an RES in Beta-1 Tucanae and started looking for bandits as I soon notice couple of CMDR's had the same idea, hunting at the RES. "Well OK" I thought, maybe there's enough for all of us and carried on scanning and hunting procedures.
After couple of competed bounties I accidentally land couple AC rounds to a commander in a Vulture – which I didn't even notice until he gave couple pulses (or beams, I dunno?) back to my Asp shields; it was only after that when I realized that I had indeed be fined for "friendly fire".
Without further hesitation I initiated combat. It was difficult: he was in Vulture and I was piloting Asp. There we exchanged energy instead of words of apologizing. It lasted perhaps for a couple of minutes: me emptying rounds of auto-cannon ammunition to him and he discharging his lasers onto me. We never spoke, I guess we didn't need to.
Few moments later we are both stripped of shields and the real battle begun. Who had the courage to sacrifice the hull when it comes to the last moments of battle? Well, I took the advantage as I had projectiles which penetrated Vulture's hull more efficiently than it's lasers my military grade composites.
When he was around 50's on hull, he decided to pull it. But in the RES you don't run that easily. He started to boost outside the mass lock of asteroid field, but I was right after him, continuously emptying my barrels to his thrusters. "Frameshift surge detected", announced my computer. Damn it, I thought, he is getting away. All power to the guns and engines! Last few hits and his ship gave it up and exploded. A sweet victory, but over what? Couple errant shots for few bucks? I guess it was worth it
Docked and paid my bounty for murder. I apologize those few shots I accidentally land onto your ship commander no-name in a Vulture at Beta-1 Tucanae RES. It was you however, who started to shoot back and it was not accident fire, but few too many that pulled me over the edge and made it come after you.
It is nice to know that Asp can beat a Vulture. To my opinion it was quite a fair fight. Thank you.
CMDR Maxim Cliff
Anyhow, I arrived an RES in Beta-1 Tucanae and started looking for bandits as I soon notice couple of CMDR's had the same idea, hunting at the RES. "Well OK" I thought, maybe there's enough for all of us and carried on scanning and hunting procedures.
After couple of competed bounties I accidentally land couple AC rounds to a commander in a Vulture – which I didn't even notice until he gave couple pulses (or beams, I dunno?) back to my Asp shields; it was only after that when I realized that I had indeed be fined for "friendly fire".
Without further hesitation I initiated combat. It was difficult: he was in Vulture and I was piloting Asp. There we exchanged energy instead of words of apologizing. It lasted perhaps for a couple of minutes: me emptying rounds of auto-cannon ammunition to him and he discharging his lasers onto me. We never spoke, I guess we didn't need to.
Few moments later we are both stripped of shields and the real battle begun. Who had the courage to sacrifice the hull when it comes to the last moments of battle? Well, I took the advantage as I had projectiles which penetrated Vulture's hull more efficiently than it's lasers my military grade composites.
When he was around 50's on hull, he decided to pull it. But in the RES you don't run that easily. He started to boost outside the mass lock of asteroid field, but I was right after him, continuously emptying my barrels to his thrusters. "Frameshift surge detected", announced my computer. Damn it, I thought, he is getting away. All power to the guns and engines! Last few hits and his ship gave it up and exploded. A sweet victory, but over what? Couple errant shots for few bucks? I guess it was worth it
Docked and paid my bounty for murder. I apologize those few shots I accidentally land onto your ship commander no-name in a Vulture at Beta-1 Tucanae RES. It was you however, who started to shoot back and it was not accident fire, but few too many that pulled me over the edge and made it come after you.
It is nice to know that Asp can beat a Vulture. To my opinion it was quite a fair fight. Thank you.
CMDR Maxim Cliff
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