So I was out hunting some Pirates for a friendly group on this Space Station. At one point, this dude in a Cargo thing says, 'I'll match the bounty mate if you kill two Space Scuffers'. So, I'm like, 'no way mate, I ain't the bad guy here', but by that time, he'd legged it.
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I find this big ship named after a snake, Anaconda or something, maybe a Python, I don't know, but he's a bad guy, Wanted! He's being attacked by a pair of Space Scuffers, and I'm only in a Viper, so I let the Scuffers take down his shields before piling in and shooting a pod full of rockets at him. For some reason, one of the Scuffers decides to ram me, and I'm like, ouch man, easy. Then one of them decides to open fire on the bad guy whilst I'm in the way. Police Brutality man.
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As it happens, the bad guy explodes after a few more laser shots, but I don't get a bounty. I check my mission board, and it's now got all this text about blowing up two Scuffers or seven Pirates. Now, I've already trashed four pirates and this Pythaconda guy, but the count has reset to zero, but the timer is still ticking down, only forty minutes left. Whilst I'm puzzling it all out, one of the Scuffers, both of whom would be dead if it wasn't for me, scans my ship and fines me 50K for carrying stolen goods. No way, that's a plant, entrapment or whatever. Look, I found them floating in space and I was gonna hand them in when I docked... honest.
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So, I just leg it out of there, cursing the ungrateful scuffers. I'm in an independent system with just one space station. Now that I've got this whopping fine to pay, and a hold full of 'legit salvage', or stolen superconductors if you believe the corrupt scuffers, and I'm not sure what to do next. Can I dock and pay off the fine and sell my 'legit salvage', or will the station open fire destroying me and the cargo. Also, this mission that has now decided to reset itself, I'm not sure what to do with that, so I press the cancel option in the belief that it will take me back to my original mission of killing pirates with four down and three to go. But of course, it doesn't, it just cancels the whole thing.
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I make a decision. Screw you guys and your independent police fascists, I'm outta here. So I hyper to another star and take a 10-100, forgetting of course that once I drop from hyper, I'll be heading straight for the big yellow one. I come back from my space toilet to find myself walking on the sun. Not nice, but fortunately, I'm cloned back in another system and given a new Viper.
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My question is... what happened with the mission? Did I have to start it all over again and either kill two space cops, or seven pirates? And what would have happened if I went to their only space station (a big one shaped like a rubbish D&D dice). Would I have got shot?
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I find this big ship named after a snake, Anaconda or something, maybe a Python, I don't know, but he's a bad guy, Wanted! He's being attacked by a pair of Space Scuffers, and I'm only in a Viper, so I let the Scuffers take down his shields before piling in and shooting a pod full of rockets at him. For some reason, one of the Scuffers decides to ram me, and I'm like, ouch man, easy. Then one of them decides to open fire on the bad guy whilst I'm in the way. Police Brutality man.
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As it happens, the bad guy explodes after a few more laser shots, but I don't get a bounty. I check my mission board, and it's now got all this text about blowing up two Scuffers or seven Pirates. Now, I've already trashed four pirates and this Pythaconda guy, but the count has reset to zero, but the timer is still ticking down, only forty minutes left. Whilst I'm puzzling it all out, one of the Scuffers, both of whom would be dead if it wasn't for me, scans my ship and fines me 50K for carrying stolen goods. No way, that's a plant, entrapment or whatever. Look, I found them floating in space and I was gonna hand them in when I docked... honest.
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So, I just leg it out of there, cursing the ungrateful scuffers. I'm in an independent system with just one space station. Now that I've got this whopping fine to pay, and a hold full of 'legit salvage', or stolen superconductors if you believe the corrupt scuffers, and I'm not sure what to do next. Can I dock and pay off the fine and sell my 'legit salvage', or will the station open fire destroying me and the cargo. Also, this mission that has now decided to reset itself, I'm not sure what to do with that, so I press the cancel option in the belief that it will take me back to my original mission of killing pirates with four down and three to go. But of course, it doesn't, it just cancels the whole thing.
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I make a decision. Screw you guys and your independent police fascists, I'm outta here. So I hyper to another star and take a 10-100, forgetting of course that once I drop from hyper, I'll be heading straight for the big yellow one. I come back from my space toilet to find myself walking on the sun. Not nice, but fortunately, I'm cloned back in another system and given a new Viper.
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My question is... what happened with the mission? Did I have to start it all over again and either kill two space cops, or seven pirates? And what would have happened if I went to their only space station (a big one shaped like a rubbish D&D dice). Would I have got shot?