Tales of a Space Punk. (Ep.1 Kamikaze Highborns)`

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Tales of a Space Punk. (Ep.1 Kamikaze Highborns)`

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3:00 am Sol time, it's crazy quiet as our hero approaches the jump gate. Even the merchant who hired him told him it would be a pretty dead run.

"What system is this...awww hell, frag it, who cares. Guinevere here can handle anything." and the bright, shiny paintjob on the Lancelot glimmers as the wormhole erupts into a beautifull bloom of red as the jump-drive triggers it. Our dutifull hero takes a quick glance at the directional readout...kicks the nav computer into gear to plot the fastest course to the next jump and climbs out of the pilot's seat and leaves the ship drifting lazily in space as he strolls down the service hallway to the 'facilities'.

...several minutes pass full of grunting, groaning, and complaints about military soy-burgers...when suddenly, the hull rings out a resounding -thump-. Something struck the hull so hard that even the emergency inertial dampeners couldn't keep the impact from knocking him clean off the throne...and lets not even discuss the splattery mess.

Sprinting back to the cockpit he hurls himself over the back of the pilot's chair and settles in, taking quick measure to make sure his hull was still intact and shields holding, and indeed they were, but sensors were picking up about a dozen Highborn Robins and another lancelot, all duking it out with eachother. Beams of every color imatinable scorch our poor hero's retinas as he stares out the cockpit window...startled by, what appears to be, a dogfight between several members of the same squadron when...*WHAM* his ship rocks again and he has just a half a second to identify the wreckage of a Robin as it's pilot takes the short path to eternity...by smearing himself along the side of Guinevere.

Furious...our hero kicks on his Shieldbreakers and Light Ion cannons and strides into the fray as calls of 'Pesant filth!' ring through the com system, vaporizing anything stupid enough to get within range.

Now...they might not be well armed, but Highborns apparently have incredible flight schools, cuz, without autotracking, those buggers were near impossible to hit consistantly enough to drain shields...but after a while...combat seemed to cease, no more fireworks, no more beams...but every time one of the Robins would zero in...they just seemed to wedge down the afterburner button...and ram right into the side of guinevere, often with explosive effects.

Whole fight took about a half an hour, long enough for the radio broadcast he was listening to, to have long-since ended...so, leaving several dissabled Robins just drifting out into the blackness of space, he tickled his nav-comp back into action...fired up the spec drive...and cruised offinto the infinite night, spliff tucked in his lip, and a cocky grin on his face.
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Now he only has to worry about the Confed-Sec Goddard on his six :lol:

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