Post the *worst* thing you've done or participated in inside the ED universe?
I had to get this off my chest sooner or later. I did it and I feel bad about it.
I murdered hundreds of sick, innocent civilians fleeing a viral outbreak in a couple of random systems in the bubble. I did it because the T9 ships being used to transport them carried sweet, sweet combat materials and doing it this way was faster than USS searching.
So for at least 30 minutes, I blew their ships up repeatedly. I felt bad, guys. I knew they just wanted to be safe. I knew they were already victims once, forced to leave home, maybe having lost loved ones along the way. As I put them in my crosshairs and brought my many guns to bear on their unsuspecting, largely unprotected formations, I was reminded of the BBC series Planet Earth and I suddenly a kinship to a lioness laying stalking a caravan of gazelle from a bush, offering no regard or quarter for the soon-to-be life lost, chops licking looking forward to a fed family. And those of us with lots of engineered ships (I just finished my last G5 on ship #25) understand how much it takes to feed those mouthes.
But as much as I felt like a predator from an animal documentary, I am alas not an uncaring animal and so indifferent to the kill as those lesser beings. This was months ago and it still bothers me that I did it. Don't get me wrong: I've blown up many transport ships in my day (most flying around Nav beacons) and for the same reasons (Engie mats)...but this felt different. I feel like I sought out the most helpless and in need, many of those ships failing to provide me with the material I needed at all making them unnecessary casualties. I quietly apologized for each ship along the way that fell to my rails and incendiary munitions.
I still feel bad. I didn't have to do it (there are other ways to get those mats) and hadn't done it before I tried it a couple of months ago, after I had already completed 22 or 23 G5 engineered ship projects. It was a shortcut for the last few mods on the last few ships. My desire to get those last ship modifications done quickly lead me to some morally repugnant decisions resulting in the murder of hundreds.
Thats my story and I am a bad person. What's the worst you've done, CMDR?
I had to get this off my chest sooner or later. I did it and I feel bad about it.
I murdered hundreds of sick, innocent civilians fleeing a viral outbreak in a couple of random systems in the bubble. I did it because the T9 ships being used to transport them carried sweet, sweet combat materials and doing it this way was faster than USS searching.
So for at least 30 minutes, I blew their ships up repeatedly. I felt bad, guys. I knew they just wanted to be safe. I knew they were already victims once, forced to leave home, maybe having lost loved ones along the way. As I put them in my crosshairs and brought my many guns to bear on their unsuspecting, largely unprotected formations, I was reminded of the BBC series Planet Earth and I suddenly a kinship to a lioness laying stalking a caravan of gazelle from a bush, offering no regard or quarter for the soon-to-be life lost, chops licking looking forward to a fed family. And those of us with lots of engineered ships (I just finished my last G5 on ship #25) understand how much it takes to feed those mouthes.
But as much as I felt like a predator from an animal documentary, I am alas not an uncaring animal and so indifferent to the kill as those lesser beings. This was months ago and it still bothers me that I did it. Don't get me wrong: I've blown up many transport ships in my day (most flying around Nav beacons) and for the same reasons (Engie mats)...but this felt different. I feel like I sought out the most helpless and in need, many of those ships failing to provide me with the material I needed at all making them unnecessary casualties. I quietly apologized for each ship along the way that fell to my rails and incendiary munitions.
I still feel bad. I didn't have to do it (there are other ways to get those mats) and hadn't done it before I tried it a couple of months ago, after I had already completed 22 or 23 G5 engineered ship projects. It was a shortcut for the last few mods on the last few ships. My desire to get those last ship modifications done quickly lead me to some morally repugnant decisions resulting in the murder of hundreds.
Thats my story and I am a bad person. What's the worst you've done, CMDR?
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