Oolite Bulletins

Mwoahahaha!

A trip on an Aurora is the trip of a lifetime: the waiting list for a place on one of the Ooniverse's 100 Aurora Megacruisers is almost 10 years.

Mind if I END that 'trip of a lifetime' with my Kirin XM, D.T.T. Wraith, or Imp Trader? Your choice. Hehehehe.

I make a habit of destroying the Liners in the Liners OXP, watching the escape pods and either shooting or scooping up the escape pods, depending on how I'm feeling.

Just don't do it nearby the Vipies, otherwise someone gets an 'Offender' status and a bounty, hmm?

Ok...who else shoots the cruisers with their spare time? I know there are some out there like me? No? Really?...?

Cheers, MSA-S23

EDIT: Drat...I realized the smilies don't work in the title of a thread...rats. END_EDIT.

Ah yes, Liners. I can't help but wonder who's bright idea it was to invite a whole bunch of rich targets onto a ship that is incapable of doing anything resembling defending itself; and leave it guarded by 5-ish dinky little boats.

The escorts go first via one-shot artillery laser; probably too busy dreaming about how to spend their credits from their "easy job" to notice that their mates are getting the 27000C exfoliating spa treatment.

The boat itself goes down in about 4-5 shots; at least whomever designed the thing had the sense to put an escape pod that the passengers can reach within 15 seconds.

Now, the Serpent Cruiser I'm piloting isn't exactly the most agile ship around; and SOP for scooping up escape pods is to approach at low speed. That's generally not a problem for single pilots; but a liner going down releases a cloud of pods; each generally worth 500 credits via insurance. But do they really expect me to slow down to scoop every one of them?

Not. A. Chance.

*Injectors Engaged*

I generally fly straight into the cloud of pods and spin around, I'd say I get around 1/2 to 2/3 of the pods. The rest, well. They're rich, and life is cheap.

Was that your mommy that's now painting the hull? Get your daddy to buy you a new one.
I splatted your fiance? Well hey, I just saved you a wedding and messy divorce; you get to go straight to the inheritance.
Uh oh, what was that sound? Oh, it was your kid's pod. Thank goodness, I thought I blew an energy bank.

Nice! It's really free money for me, however. Insurance = Money and Money = Me happy and me happy = less 'accidental' traders/liners MIA.

Log entry 2084087:06:51:33 - Cmdr. Amah on the "Asimov", a Yasen-N class prototype on a testing flight to check flight specification

Just came out of witchspace, all systems nominal and working within the expected parameters. Good girl... a couple of more trips and we can test the armoury.

Setting straight course for main station. A lone trader in a Boa heading for the same direction. Guess I'll keep company...

Noticing some laser fire in the far distance on starboard... Hmmh, plasma bursts? If I recall correct GalNAV isn't operating in this part of the Galaxy at the mome... whoa... what was that?!? something big blew up... something really big... a Rock-Hermit?

"Computer... start recording! Weapons online... f*ck... haven't tested the old turret, yet. Hope that old AI isn't blowing off my own rear."

"Activate Escape Pod locator!" Let's see... one, two, three.... ten.... twenty... Setting compass... lost contact to transponder of
the pod... Setting course to next pod. course lost... what's going on here... next...

Engaging fuel injection to get out of the mass lock... Engaging jump drive... course lost, again... next escape pod... Ok, we're almost
there. Back to normal speed. Dense field of small objects ahead.

Activating Cargo spotter... damn, no rocks... Cargo pods, escape capsules and badly scarred metal fragments in all shapes and sizes.
One of the bigger pieces of debris bears some kind of letters... EMER. There's another one "LIN" And that one over there looks like a nacelle
of a diamond shuttle. So it was one of these cruise liners.... That piece still glowing dark orange floating by on port looks like some
part of a lifeboat. Whatever happened here no iceberg iceteroid is definetely to blame.

"Yasen-N -Asimov- calling all ships: Emerald cruise liner in distress, need first responding assistance. Confirm."

"..."

"Yasen-N -Asimov- calling all ships: Anybody out there, I could need some help here. Confirm."

"... ... this is Python Class Cruiser 'Squint': Emerald cruiser in distress. Setting course. Hang on" "Anaconda 'Stellar maris' and escort
confirms"

ID computer activated - target locked on escape capsule - scooped - next, ID computer activated... target locked... number 2, 10, 15, 30
and counting.

"Cargo bay life support at critical level" - breaking up the rescue... just 35. so few... One rescued crew member of the
cruiseliner said it was a Kirin Sport, which opened fire. They never had a chance.

Setting course for Main station. Engaging jumpdrive.

"Mass lock" "station coordinates transmitted"...

"Planetary traffic control, this is the 'Asimov' requesting priority docking procedure with 11 dead, 24 survivors needing medical care on
board. Some in critical condition."

"Asimov, this is planetary traffic control. You are clear for docking bay 7 and free to dock at will, all civillian launching and
docking are on hold."

Later this evening, after hours of interrogation by GalCOP officials, staring into an almost empty glass and pondering what happenend.
"Whoever you are... One day you will boast about it..."

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Sorry couldn't resist

<chuckles>

Thank you for purchasing the Kirin, we wish you many many happy hours of vigorously exercising your genocidal tendencies. Lord only knows we did, when we designed her!

Ahhh....Oolite. Hours of fun and games, until you meet the pirates...

MSA-S23 wrote:

Ahhh....Oolite. Hours of fun and games, until you meet the pirates...

Replace pirates with parents and it sounds like my school years. *grin*

Gah, I'm still in school. Well...12 and homeschooled, I can't complain.

Blew up an Aurora this morning. It was enjoyable.

Oo, I'd never considered liners before.
Tried it last night. Lurrvly.. Heaps of pods.
Made over 5K being the hero, rescuing every one of them.

"Unfortunate that icetroid drifting through the lane like that! Of course I destroid it. 1c in the bank and all that."

I got the Serpant today. Ah, a big ship, a lot faster then the Kirin, but no turrets...

Blew up two Emeralds and a Saga class today. Oh, and 14 Diamond- class shuttles.

Anyone else recently destroyed something?

yeah, went after a rogue Serpent class cruiser... with a Yasen-N Advanced (top rear turret setup)

Nah, just kidding... just testing the ship for release and it was a bunch of pirate sidewinders, morays and boas. Having a turret for defense to guard one's hind side in a cat fight is quite handy, I have to admit. Will see, if I stay alive in witchspace with it...

I put three turrets on the tail of my Caduceus Omega, the Obalitz. Only because I was totaly useless at flying and shooting from the rear laser.
Now have the Reverse Control oxp, So no excuse for keeping them.
But the baddies keep getting badder and heaps more of them..
Maybe I should look at the number of ship oxps installed?
Na, Just keep the extra turrets.

Didn't meet anything notable last night. Just the usual offenders and fugitives. A smattering of larger cargo ships wanting to donate to my hold. Two of which even survived the donation, well I was in a bit of a hurry to be somewhere else at the insistance of some Gal-cops.
They can be a bit pushy at times.

How do you put turrets on your ship?

MSA-S23 wrote:

How do you put turrets on your ship?

It depends to some extent on how comfortable you are with quaternions..

(It's probably easiest to borrow/adapt code from a ship that already has turrets.)