Have you ever let the immersion guide you into doing something that's a bad idea as a gamer? Like picking up slave pods that get dumped out of a ship so they won't die, even though you never smuggle otherwise? I've gone way out of my way with those to find a place to offload them. Sometimes I just "jettison" them when I'm docked at a station.
My best story is this though:
I dropped into an USS. There was a pirate NPC talking to his wingman on the comm, just cruising along. He kept saying things like, "I'm trying to turn over a new leaf. I just wanted to do the right thing for a change!"
He was in an eagle and had a 60k bounty, an easy mark. I ignored his rambling. I strafed around below him and started taking my time with his cargo hatch (gotta check for those slaves). But... he KEPT going on about how bad his luck was and how he wanted to change. He was sending me messages like "Please stop!"
Finally I caved. I couldn't take it. 60k bounty or no, this guy was begging me to stop. I retracted my hardpoints and broke off, hitting my boost. He started chasing me though. My shields started making that dinging sound they do when they're just about to shatter. I spun back around. One pull of the trigger and he was gone.
His callsign was Mistral.
His wingman was in a sidewinder. He didn't say anything, but was clearly upset by his buddy's demise. The ship spiraled toward me with an agility I'd never seen in an NPC. I took a couple shots back at him to chase him off. I let him charge his FSD and escape with his measly 200 CR bounty. I'm waiting for him to track me down to get revenge.
My best story is this though:
I dropped into an USS. There was a pirate NPC talking to his wingman on the comm, just cruising along. He kept saying things like, "I'm trying to turn over a new leaf. I just wanted to do the right thing for a change!"
He was in an eagle and had a 60k bounty, an easy mark. I ignored his rambling. I strafed around below him and started taking my time with his cargo hatch (gotta check for those slaves). But... he KEPT going on about how bad his luck was and how he wanted to change. He was sending me messages like "Please stop!"
Finally I caved. I couldn't take it. 60k bounty or no, this guy was begging me to stop. I retracted my hardpoints and broke off, hitting my boost. He started chasing me though. My shields started making that dinging sound they do when they're just about to shatter. I spun back around. One pull of the trigger and he was gone.
His callsign was Mistral.
His wingman was in a sidewinder. He didn't say anything, but was clearly upset by his buddy's demise. The ship spiraled toward me with an agility I'd never seen in an NPC. I took a couple shots back at him to chase him off. I let him charge his FSD and escape with his measly 200 CR bounty. I'm waiting for him to track me down to get revenge.
