Thought I'd try my hand at mining. I'm a little off the beaten track, so got a mining laser and scanner into my cobra and went off to find a deserted asteroid cluster in an anarchy system.
The first 2 clusters produced rubbish, but I hit the jackpot on the 3rd-platinum. Let the credits roll.
I am busy concentrating and trying to get them pesky chips in my cargo scoop when I get a scan alert and sure enough there's a ship on the scanner. Carry on scooping.
One last chip to get. It's about 300m away. I lines it up and approaches cautiously, when in between launches a anaconda straight in front of me. Scared me out of my skin. It was like something out of Moby without the splash.
I scoops my chip and target the anaconda. He's wanted, mostly harmless. He is shouting die, drop cargo and deploying hardpoints but not firing. I watch him circling for a good couple of minutes, but all he does is shout at me.
Well, thinks I, in a niave sort a way, he ain't armed otherwise he'd have done me before now.
I wait until he circles again, and while going away from me and I let him have it right up the rear boosters.
He circles to face me and I'm so sure that he won't fire back I just sit there. Anyway after 2 missiles and lots of other shooty things later, I high tail it outta there with no shields and half my hull missing,
My platinum more than paid for the repair and some liquor for my nerves.
What a game. Excellent.
Anybody else got any bizarre npc stories?
The first 2 clusters produced rubbish, but I hit the jackpot on the 3rd-platinum. Let the credits roll.
I am busy concentrating and trying to get them pesky chips in my cargo scoop when I get a scan alert and sure enough there's a ship on the scanner. Carry on scooping.
One last chip to get. It's about 300m away. I lines it up and approaches cautiously, when in between launches a anaconda straight in front of me. Scared me out of my skin. It was like something out of Moby without the splash.
I scoops my chip and target the anaconda. He's wanted, mostly harmless. He is shouting die, drop cargo and deploying hardpoints but not firing. I watch him circling for a good couple of minutes, but all he does is shout at me.
Well, thinks I, in a niave sort a way, he ain't armed otherwise he'd have done me before now.
I wait until he circles again, and while going away from me and I let him have it right up the rear boosters.
He circles to face me and I'm so sure that he won't fire back I just sit there. Anyway after 2 missiles and lots of other shooty things later, I high tail it outta there with no shields and half my hull missing,
My platinum more than paid for the repair and some liquor for my nerves.
What a game. Excellent.
Anybody else got any bizarre npc stories?
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