Now that was an interesting mission!

[Marc_Hicks]

I had to recount this event. I had a legal salvage mission in the Procyon system (commercial samples), & have an ongoing pirate elimination mission in that same system.

So I see a salvageable wreckage site, & drop out of Super-cruise. Lo & behold, it's what I'm looking for. Then, just after I drop my cargo scoop, I see a new contact.....a Federal Gunship (& pirate). So a pitched battle ensues, with me forced to retract my cargo scoop before I can reach attack speed, & quickly losing shields along the way (I have a Vulture, so slow recharge rate). I am also trying hard to avoid hitting the cargo canisters. I feel the battle would have gone very badly for me, had 2 Federal Security ships not come to my aid! So, not only did I achieve my salvage mission, but got one step towards my pirate elimination mission too. All in all it was *very* exciting!

CMDR Marcus Hicks.

 

[W4rSkuLL]

I had to recount this event. I had a legal salvage mission in the Procyon system (commercial samples), & have an ongoing pirate elimination mission in that same system.

So I see a salvageable wreckage site, & drop out of Super-cruise. Lo & behold, it's what I'm looking for. Then, just after I drop my cargo scoop, I see a new contact.....a Federal Gunship (& pirate). So a pitched battle ensues, with me forced to retract my cargo scoop before I can reach attack speed, & quickly losing shields along the way (I have a Vulture, so slow recharge rate). I am also trying hard to avoid hitting the cargo canisters. I feel the battle would have gone very badly for me, had 2 Federal Security ships not come to my aid! So, not only did I achieve my salvage mission, but got one step towards my pirate elimination mission too. All in all it was *very* exciting!

CMDR Marcus Hicks.

Interesting. So I guess this pirate jumped in to investigate or maybe it was part of the instance. The combination of doing 2 missions in on instance is proof that the E.D universe is getting more and more alive and random.

 

[catanonia]

I like taking multiple missions such as smuggling and pirate elimination in Anarchy systems at the same time. Makes for much fun and action

The attacks are tied to the missions you have on board. So a smuggling mission will get you more interdictions / investigations and carrying the cargo brings the pirates like flies to the proverbial as well. Double wammy

 

[F4ANTOM]

I've had a similar event, I come out of supercruise to find the mission cannisters I need, floating by a wreck. About halfway through scooping, I hear some 'pops' of ships coming out of supercruise, and it is a wing of 4 NPCs. One of them says over comms "HAH! I can't beleive that worked!" Like they had just sprung a clever trap on me/ I killed two, Boosted away, got my shields back up, boosted back in, killed the 3rd, the 4th ran to Supercruise away, leaving me to scoop the rest of my mission cargo. The bounties on the three were worth the same as the mission reward, so to me, it was all gravy!