Outbound from Jaques (which I suspect is the reason) I stumbled into system Eephaills LC-D d12-115. This has a single laudable planet, a 2.2G beastie. (edit: that should have read 'landable', but I actually like the autocorrect)
So I decide to investigate, despite there not being any obvious reason to do so (no volcanism for example).
And I stumble over this:
Now, silly GreyAreaUK thinks this is a crashed vessel and worthy of a closer look. So I land with all the grace of a concussed pelican (as you do), and tool out in an SRV. Keep in mind that all the moons I've ed about on in an SRV have been low gravity moons.
So I get close to this 'crashed' vessel and I can see it's pretty well-tooled: missile racks, plasma accelerators, the works. So I scan it. Or, at least, that what I tried to do. What I actually did was ping the laser equivalent of a spud gun off its shields.
"Oh," thinks I, "that's odd - the shields are working."
It transpired that the drive was also working. And so were the weapons. Terribly well.
Long story short, I make the world's most incompetent escape attempt by trying to drive up hills that my SRV can't handle in 2.2G, while my Asp is being shot at by Grumpy McNoSenseofhumour. In the background I swear I could hear the Benny Hill music.
I do, by dint of luck, make it back to my Asp and take off with 66% hull and no shields. In terms of combat capability I'm flying something that was rejected from the Wacky Races for being too silly, while Grumpy McNoSenseofhumour is flying something that was rejected from Top Gun for being too aggressive. Granted I technically fired first, and I tried very hard to appreciate this. "He's in the right," I nodded to myself as my shields failed again and Grumpy decided to demonstrate just how good plasma accelerators are agains naked hull. "I really can't blame him," I muttered as I looked at the 500,000CR rebuy screen back in Jaques, and absentmindedly snapped my pencil.
So. Basically what I'm asking is: what was it doing that far out? Just a random POI generated due to proximity to Jaques?
Could there have been a way I could have interacted with it in a slightly less fatal way? Could it have been guarding something interesting?
So I decide to investigate, despite there not being any obvious reason to do so (no volcanism for example).
And I stumble over this:
Now, silly GreyAreaUK thinks this is a crashed vessel and worthy of a closer look. So I land with all the grace of a concussed pelican (as you do), and tool out in an SRV. Keep in mind that all the moons I've ed about on in an SRV have been low gravity moons.
So I get close to this 'crashed' vessel and I can see it's pretty well-tooled: missile racks, plasma accelerators, the works. So I scan it. Or, at least, that what I tried to do. What I actually did was ping the laser equivalent of a spud gun off its shields.
"Oh," thinks I, "that's odd - the shields are working."
It transpired that the drive was also working. And so were the weapons. Terribly well.
Long story short, I make the world's most incompetent escape attempt by trying to drive up hills that my SRV can't handle in 2.2G, while my Asp is being shot at by Grumpy McNoSenseofhumour. In the background I swear I could hear the Benny Hill music.
I do, by dint of luck, make it back to my Asp and take off with 66% hull and no shields. In terms of combat capability I'm flying something that was rejected from the Wacky Races for being too silly, while Grumpy McNoSenseofhumour is flying something that was rejected from Top Gun for being too aggressive. Granted I technically fired first, and I tried very hard to appreciate this. "He's in the right," I nodded to myself as my shields failed again and Grumpy decided to demonstrate just how good plasma accelerators are agains naked hull. "I really can't blame him," I muttered as I looked at the 500,000CR rebuy screen back in Jaques, and absentmindedly snapped my pencil.
So. Basically what I'm asking is: what was it doing that far out? Just a random POI generated due to proximity to Jaques?
Could there have been a way I could have interacted with it in a slightly less fatal way? Could it have been guarding something interesting?
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