Deadlock989
Banned
So I'm still sitting in a station waiting for my bounty to expire after a faction gave me a mission to kill bounty hunters, including their own bounty hunters, which is exactly what I did. They paid me for it but also put a bounty on my head. I suppose they have complex motivations or - and this is just a working hypothesis - they are incredibly mindless.
19 hours to go.
Sitting here on a platform inside their station, in plain view. They saw me come in and land. Their agents scanned me on the way in as well.
Laser cannons above me near the letterbox, scanning back and forth. Ignoring me.
Big red WANTED light flashing on my dashboard. On my right hand panel, big red bounty warning. Left hand panel, ticking clock with a bounty warning. Clearly something, some system, is communicating back and forth with my ship, identifying me as a wanted criminal.
Just sitting here. Minding my own business. In a big fat Asp, quite hard to miss really. 280 tonnes of spaceship, locked to the landing pad, unable to move. Nice inviting target for any coherent energy weapons that might be around, such as the ones plastered all over the station interior and on every passing spaceship. Indeed faction ships with scanners are flying back and forth over my head, ignoring me completely, despite being a wanted criminal that was seen entering the station.
I look at the bulletin board. The faction wants me dead and is prepared to pay complete strangers money to have me killed. But they also want to offer me paid work. I guess they are "glass half full" kind of people.
I can hear the occasional human voice. I'm waiting for that knock on my airlock door but it never comes.
In what universe does ANY of this make sense?
19 hours to go.
Sitting here on a platform inside their station, in plain view. They saw me come in and land. Their agents scanned me on the way in as well.
Laser cannons above me near the letterbox, scanning back and forth. Ignoring me.
Big red WANTED light flashing on my dashboard. On my right hand panel, big red bounty warning. Left hand panel, ticking clock with a bounty warning. Clearly something, some system, is communicating back and forth with my ship, identifying me as a wanted criminal.
Just sitting here. Minding my own business. In a big fat Asp, quite hard to miss really. 280 tonnes of spaceship, locked to the landing pad, unable to move. Nice inviting target for any coherent energy weapons that might be around, such as the ones plastered all over the station interior and on every passing spaceship. Indeed faction ships with scanners are flying back and forth over my head, ignoring me completely, despite being a wanted criminal that was seen entering the station.
I look at the bulletin board. The faction wants me dead and is prepared to pay complete strangers money to have me killed. But they also want to offer me paid work. I guess they are "glass half full" kind of people.
I can hear the occasional human voice. I'm waiting for that knock on my airlock door but it never comes.
In what universe does ANY of this make sense?
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