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For Commander McLane, I found the source of the Thargoid invasion. It is part of the populator script of Extra Thargoids OXP 2.02

Solonar wrote:

For Commander McLane, I found the source of the Thargoid invasion. It is part of the populator script of Extra Thargoids OXP 2.02

Ah yes, that was me (my OXP). Glad you enjoyed it.

EDIT: did you (/GalCop / the military / the good guys - I'm presuming we are the good guys) win? Sounds like it.

Today Onbige (G3) I saw the sad sight a of an Orisis Class Frigate being slaughtered by a group of 6 pirates:

A Vampire MK IV
A phyton
A Sidewinder
A Mussurana
A Krait
and a Cobra Mk3

But it was too late. The whole Frigate was destroyed. Being in a Chameleon (my new ship) I first turned my attention on the MK IV (the most dangerous ship of the bunch as it had a cloaking device too) Shot my whole mil laser empty on it and got it. Then the Python. It tried to launch a missile but I ECM'd it. Then the rest. I got the whole group and scooping up their escape capsules too. Then I turned my attention to the fleet of about 30 escape capsules from the Orisis. I almost rescued anyone I got 3 pages of arrival reports at the station.

UK_Eliter wrote:

Solonar wrote:

For Commander McLane, I found the source of the Thargoid invasion. It is part of the populator script of Extra Thargoids OXP 2.02

Ah yes, that was me (my OXP). Glad you enjoyed it.

EDIT: did you (/GalCop / the military / the good guys - I'm presuming we are the good guys) win? Sounds like it.

Yes we did. It was a very long and drawn out skirmish but we managed to drive them out of the system. There was a lot of wreckage and escape pods during and after the battle.

pagroove wrote:

Today Onbige (G3) I saw the sad sight a of an Orisis Class Frigate being slaughtered by a group of 6 pirates: ...

Good tale, PAG... those rescues can be so satisfying when immersed.

El Viejo wrote:

pagroove wrote:

Today Onbige (G3) I saw the sad sight a of an Orisis Class Frigate being slaughtered by a group of 6 pirates: ...

Good tale, PAG... those rescues can be so satisfying when immersed.

Yes and the also satisfying was that I captured the brigands who attacked the frigate and handed them over to the station police.

Also quite funny is the dramatic difference in insurance payouts. Some passengers where insured for only 25 credits while others where insured for 500 credits. Also there was an offender passenger on board. .

How much did GalCop steal off you in bribes etc? Plenty, I bet?

mm I have only made screens of the 3 rescue pages.

Out on patrol again and running clean for a change, I was loitering around the aegis at Inve, waiting for a free ride to Lequteor or Edorqu. Soon enough, a Python with two escorts launched and headed out, me following at max range as an unpaid escort. The wormhole analysis gave the Python’s destination as Quisbe – a short jump away and incidentally my nova system, so of course I maxed the speed and followed. By the time Rolling Thunder emerged at Quisbe, the Python (Starship Diligent, as I recall) was already glowing a dull red. My temp was rising fast and I was just about to hit my already laid-in jump and get the hell out of there when two wormhole clouds appeared, and the Starship Diligent rapidly dived into one of them. So I followed again and as I slipped into the tube I could see the two escorts very close to the other wormhole cloud, so I have to presume one of them was hyperspace-capable and that they escaped through that one, as they never emerged at Tireonce after the Starship Diligent and Rolling Thunder. I’m pretty sure one escort was a Mamba, but I never got a certain ID on the other... wish I had now. It can only have been a Cobra I, I think... would the other escort have had the sense to follow it, I wonder? I’d like to think so... otherwise the poor sod fried!

El Viejo wrote:

... get the hell out of there when two wormhole clouds appeared, and the Starship Diligent rapidly dived into one of them. So I followed again and as I slipped into the tube I could see the two escorts very close to the other wormhole cloud

I've just re-read that: that is my recollection of the event, and I wrote this up immediately after docking. But... the wormhole clouds seemed to appear before the Python dived into one, and I'm almost certain that both escorts were still on-scan at that time. That doesn't seem quite right - combat fatigue again, maybe!

It had been bothering me for a while that you had to reach 64 destructions of other people's ships to be considered 'Above Average'.

Now I get it.

The pirates of the Ooniverse are such a bunch of slack-jawed numbskulls that anyone with half a brain will rack up that many kills just going about their daily cargo run.

Seriously - who sets out to ambush people at the Witchpoint in a factory-spec Porcupine? Flanked by his buddy in a Moray Starboat who, after seeing the first guy get melted to slag in the first seconds of the engagement, then sets off in pursuit, despite being flashed at by a Military Laser mounted in the would-be-victim's tail? Believe me, it's not going to get any better when he realises you're still there and turns around to actually fight you.

The other day I was doing a typical trading run to raise cash to repair some equipment when I was jumped by some pirates. Usual tactics apply, 1) turn around and fight, or 2) run away on full injectors.

I employed tactic 3.

What the pirates totally forgot or ignored (and which I didn't mention above for effect) was that I was passing a navy Behemoth with a dozen escorts. Largest flotilla I've come across lately. As soon as the pirates opened fire the escorts pounced. I think the whole battle took about 10 seconds. I wasn't even able to move into position to help out. All I saw was laser fire all over the place.

Tricky wrote:

What the pirates totally forgot or ignored (and which I didn't mention above for effect) was that I was passing a navy Behemoth with a dozen escorts. Largest flotilla I've come across lately. As soon as the pirates opened fire the escorts pounced. I think the whole battle took about 10 seconds. I wasn't even able to move into position to help out. All I saw was laser fire all over the place.

I love it when a pirate attacks me right after I pop in-system when I'm right next to a Behemoth task force. It's like a free laser light show.

An experience I had last night:

I was making a taxi run in G3, and part of my route took me through a Tech 3 Anarchy. Usually, when I'm carrying passengers through a high-risk system, I just point my nose at the nearest sun and get out of there as quickly as possible. This time, however, I happened to drop out of space right next to a lone Anaconda - no escorts or anything. Strange.

I thought about angling up to the sun anyway - it's a harsh Ooniverse, after all, and they should have known better than to make a solo run in an Anarchy in a slow freighter with no escort. Whatever happens to them won't be my fault, I told myself.

That lasted all of ten seconds before my conscience got the better of me. Guess I've got a soft side after all. I decided to shadow it for a bit and keep any rogues off its tail, at least until I got to the nearest Sentinel station. I did manage to swat a few isolated bandits, as well as a 2-3 ship wolfpack (except for one, but I'll get to that later). Nothing I couldn't handle.

Turns out that station was hijacked. No matter, though; there was already a huge GalCop task force there, duking it out with the pirates. Since they (the pirates) were already distracted, it was fairly easy for me to pick them off from a distance. Still, I decided that if the system was this far gone, I'd be better off escorting the freighter all the way to the main station's aegis. Managed to clean up one or two more bandits.

There was this one annoying son of a gun who kept dogging me all through the trip, though. He was piloting an Asp as part of that wolfpack I mentioned earlier. He took a few pot shots at me, then cut away on full injectors when his engines started flashing. I didn't bother pursuing him - it wasn't worth it, and I didn't want to risk the Anaconda - but he came at me at least three more times all through that run. Each time, the same thing happened: He'd bear down on me, lasers blazing; I'd let him get close, then plug him with my rear guns; and he'd get cold feet and run away again. Either the guy was crazy or drugged, or he kept thinking I was a different ship each time. I think I eventually got fed up and lobbed a hardhead at him, but I don't remember if it got him - I think he just scooted away again and outran it.

Its moments like this that I play for, honestly. Those moments when you get totally immersed in what you're doing and end up with an awesome story in your head that you just have to share.

great stories

Specialist290 wrote:

Its moments like this that I play for, honestly. Those moments when you get totally immersed in what you're doing and end up with an awesome story in your head that you just have to share.

Absolutely right... a goodly tale!