After expending a while in New Detroit, resting, enjoying the many night clubs of the planet, among other things, I decided it was time to find myself a job at the Merchants Guild. It would take ages to buy those ion cannons I wanted if I didnt begin to do some serious flying.
As I checked the mission disks, one instantly caught my attention. A cargo run to a system just one jump away, for 18,000 credits. And to top: The system was a jump -away- from the border, which meant it most likely was safe. I acepted the job.
And on I went to Manchester system to deliver suppiles to a refinery. On my way to the jump point my radar caught a Darket dogfighting a Sabre... no big deal I thought, that light fighter would soon be wasted. That and their distance made me choose to ignore the fight and just go on.
I made it to Manchester, my radar was clean, and better yet: the only jump into the system was from New Detroit. The whole thing was looking so damn safe to me I almost transfered all energy of my shields to my ship engines.
I hit the autopilot and picked up a magazine to read on the long way to the refinery. After a hour or so, I began to hear the sound of explosions,and as I checked my radar I found out a Kilrathi destroyer had just jumped into the system, and was on the move to attack the refinery! On top of all of this, the missle warning on my hud began to flash and as I rolled my ship out of the missiles path I found a pirate had me on its sights. I locked my radar on his talon, set the turrets of my Galaxy to fire at him and as soon as I had his ship in front of me, fired two missiles at him.
I could not afford to lose any more time fighting a pirate while the Kilrathi were attacking the refinery. I hit my afterburners and caught on the tail of the badly damaged Talon, finishing him with a quick burst of particle cannons.
Looking at my radar and targeting the ships in the area, I saw the Kilrathy had 4 dralthi fighters, 3 gothri and a Fralthi destroyer. The refinery had only 3 arrows for defense, which were very busy with the dralthi.
The gothri were attacking the refinery, and I decided to engage them. Taken by surprise, they could not shake my ship off before being hit by a salvo of missiles. They hit their afterburners and split, one heading to the cruiser and the other trying to maneuver around the refinery, trying to avoid my shoots and have me crash on the starbase. I forgot the one that went back to the Kilrathi destroyer, and gave chase to its partner. Luckly I found the Gothri only has a meson cannon at its rear turret, and damaged, its engines could not outmaneuver me. Soon enough the ship blew up in the void of space.
Amazingly, the outnumbered Arrows were defeating the Dralthi, and so I decided to engage the other Gothri. I fired my last missiles at it, and as it tried to dodge them I caught on its tail, firing at it until this second ship was gone too.
I breath deeply, trying to get a view of my surroundings, and saw the Arrows had defeated the Dralthi fighters with no casualties. I had some time to dock in the refinery and empty my cargo hull, which I did. Being under heavy attack, the mechanics of the refinery were happy to give me a few missiles for free.
So I launched again. Much to my surprise I saw the arrows werent engaging the destroyer, they were actually leaving! Shame on the confederation, abandoning civilians like this!
The destroyer approached the refinery, and launched a swarm of fighters against it. I could not count how many, but there were at least 7 fighters. At this, the arrows quickly turned back to help, thank god.
I still engaged another Gothri while the Arrows were fighting, but there were way too many kilrathi. As I won the fight against the kilrathi pilot and turned my ship around, all the arrows were gone and Kilrathi fighters were swarming the refinery. Its shields would be down soon enough.
There was nothing I could do anymore, and I left to save my life. Back at New Detroit I found the system under light attack from the Kilrathi, possibly a distraction so they could not send reinforcemnts to Manchester. It worked, because as the fighting in New Detroit ended, with victory to the confederation, I received the news that the refinery in Manchester was destroyed.
The kilrathi... very few privateers realise the danger they are, but now I have seen them. This event has given me a new perspective of things, and I just pray humanity is strong enough to fight the kilrathi.
end of entry #46
( note: Besides some obvious stuff, like the night clubs of New Detroit, reading a magazine while in my Galaxy and being given free missiles, all of this -really- happened in game. I thought it was so amazing I should share it
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Thanks for the positive feedback... now I can honestly tell you that this was not scripted, I just got lucky with the autogen.