I’ve grown tired of these missions...
Unimportant task with small inconsequential rewards...
Frustration... Anger...
Carry this package where? Fuck off. I'm not your messenger boy.
Seek employment lower on the corporate ladder?
Motherfucker, you are the bottom rung!
A few days go by and I start to get hungry.
Open up the local com, "Combat frigate for hire..." The com crackles with solar noise... Nothing... Agents won't hire me. Private corporations don’t acknowledge my existence. Fuck, I hate my life...
Plot a course, the third belt of the fourth planet.
Activate the warp drive and feel the burn. My vision swims. Warp bubble detiorates and huge looming rocks come in to sharp contrast against the pitch backdrop of space. Scanner urgently beeps, registering a pilot carrying a bounty. Confirm blip... Amarr frigate. Screw the com, this is a paycheck.
Neural interfaces crackle with life as the slightest thoughts bring ship systems online. Targeting systems, locking, navigation, plotting orbital trajectory, afterburner kicks, vision swims again... Gotta lay off the Drop. Target locked, kill the AB, nav comp starts correcting for orbit, target at 3km. Fire the energy vampire, trigger turrets. Monitors show targets shields failing fast. Not surprising, Amarr ships are built with advance armor, not a lot of effort put into shielding systems. My Rifter settles into orbit, 200mm auto cannons spit incendiary charges at the carapace of the frigate. Enemy armor repair systems fail as my vampire drains his reserves. Armor flakes bounce off my shields as I see this rat’s hull get chewed by my radioactive rounds. And as suddenly as it began it finishes. A brilliant, silent flash in space, my ship shudders slightly, and a blink from my neocom reminds me how fast Concord pays.
But the bounties barely pay the rent... At least dinner is an option now.
Cleared for publication by: Ander
8 Comments
nosferatu12345·
:) That was fun to read.
B·
Nice story, but it doesn't have anything to do with pirating.
noneémaus·
haha, very true.
Kirkland·
well done, u killed a high sec rat. *eyes roll*
Xenios·
For y'all invalids. The post subject was "Roleplay".
Now if you had been to school and learned to read properly maybe you would have noticed. Kthx bye!!
Lasko·
Thanks Xen
Not that it matters at all but it was inspired by my first non-ibis killmail :)
Anonymous·
not every story has to be about some major accomplishment. good read.
flashfresh·
YARR!
You have to eat. Nice short story.
F