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Life stinks (so do I)
Eize Ryda floated through space aimlessly. "My god this Centurian is cramped. I miss my trusty Prometheus.", he muttered to himself, then grimaced as he remembered what happened to Big Red, his nickname for his prom.
He was chasing some crazed Itani terrorist through Latos, the scumbag was staying on full burners for what seemed eternity, slowly increasing the lead on his slightly slower craft, he detected the warp signature, thought it was the Itani leaving the sector, but it wasn't. "What the?" He remembered thinking. "Where the hell did that come from?" It was an Itani capital ship, Constellation-class, a freighter. Only it wasn't a freighter. It was more heavily armed than any freighter he had ever seen. It appeared to be a purely anti-fighter ship. Which meant if he didn't get out of weapons range fast, he would be toast.
He began dodging incoming fire as he watched the Itani Valkyrie head for the cappy's docking bay. "No way dirtbag" he said over the intra-sector comm relay. "Please understand, Serco, I have no wish to fight" "Yea, right, that's why you fired upon me as I entered Latos from Ukari? Later scum"
The Prometheus began unleashing a massive barrage of automatic cannon fire, spraying wildy, masking the launch of 4 Starflares, 2 at a time, from his left and right rocket ports. Eize boosted for approximately 2s, prior to firing the 2nd salvo, in an attempt to make all 4 land at the same time, spun his ship as fast as he could. He hit the burners, screamed past the docking bay of the massive connie, and headed towards open space, he watched with satisfaction, as all 4 salvo's detonated into the docking bay, just as the Itani Valk was passing through the ship's force field, destroying the Valkyrie and damaging the docking bay.
"Well, at least they can't launch more craft at me", he remembered thinking. Eize was quickly putting distance between his prom and the Itani connie, but it wasn't enough, the connie had turned just enough to bring 4 of it's guns to bear on him, and was sending a TON of fire his way.
One lucky shot hit his starboard burner. Now, under normal circumstances, this isn't a problem, as the ship computer is supposed to react, cut turbo on the port burner and use the directional thrusters to counteract the extreme disparity in acceleration on both sides of the ship. However, for some reason, the ship computer did not detect the problem for nearly 5 seconds. Long enough for the ship to begin spinning wildly.
Now Eize had a problem.. He was in an out of control Prometheus, only 750m from an Itani Constellation. No way was he going to get out of this one. He engaged the auto cannon again, this time full automatic fire, hoping to at least score a few good shots before the kill came.
The connie never came any closer, but instead fired what appeared to be some sort of beam weapon at his ship. The last thing Eize remembered before he woke up at the Orion station in Latos, was that bright green beam.
Suddenly, Eize's proximity alarm goes off, waking him from his daydream. He's only 500m from an asteroid, moving at full burn. Immediately, he becomes alert again, quickly snaps the nose of the centurian "upwards", simultaneously firing both reverse and up directional thrusters, throwing the tiny little vessel violently, missing the 'roid by only a few meters. "Damnit! Well.. at least there's -one- good thing about this little thing. It can sure move." -beep- "What now?" The ship to ship radio crackles to life, "Hold it right there friend, power down your engines immediately. You have 3 choices. 1. pay me 50 thousand creds 2. Kill me 3. Die, your choice" As if to give weight to his words, the pirate's vulture fires a short stream of weapons-fire, damaging some of Eize's armor.
"Hmm, how's about a 4th choice, catch me if you can." Eize fires the burners, as the pirate turns to give chase, Eize snaps the nose of his centurian around, and catches the pirate completely offguard, shredding most of the vulture's armor within seconds, but the pirate reacts quickly, beginning a quick up-down dodging maneuver.
"That was a mistake, trader" "No, my friend, the mistake was firing upon a serco warrior, now, I offer -you- a choice, back off, and live another day, or fire at me again and die in that scrapheap you call a ship. But remember this, I was -trained to fight- in a vulture, and as such, I am well aware of not only it's strengths, but it's weaknesses."
The pirate and Eize circled each other a few times. Then, the vulture engaged burners, headed towards open space. Eize speaks into the ship-to-ship, "Wise choice. Next time you fire upon me, I will not stop until your ship is destroyed."
"Damn, *sniff* I think I need a shower.. I stink" Eize says to himself as he boosts towards open space...
He was chasing some crazed Itani terrorist through Latos, the scumbag was staying on full burners for what seemed eternity, slowly increasing the lead on his slightly slower craft, he detected the warp signature, thought it was the Itani leaving the sector, but it wasn't. "What the?" He remembered thinking. "Where the hell did that come from?" It was an Itani capital ship, Constellation-class, a freighter. Only it wasn't a freighter. It was more heavily armed than any freighter he had ever seen. It appeared to be a purely anti-fighter ship. Which meant if he didn't get out of weapons range fast, he would be toast.
He began dodging incoming fire as he watched the Itani Valkyrie head for the cappy's docking bay. "No way dirtbag" he said over the intra-sector comm relay. "Please understand, Serco, I have no wish to fight" "Yea, right, that's why you fired upon me as I entered Latos from Ukari? Later scum"
The Prometheus began unleashing a massive barrage of automatic cannon fire, spraying wildy, masking the launch of 4 Starflares, 2 at a time, from his left and right rocket ports. Eize boosted for approximately 2s, prior to firing the 2nd salvo, in an attempt to make all 4 land at the same time, spun his ship as fast as he could. He hit the burners, screamed past the docking bay of the massive connie, and headed towards open space, he watched with satisfaction, as all 4 salvo's detonated into the docking bay, just as the Itani Valk was passing through the ship's force field, destroying the Valkyrie and damaging the docking bay.
"Well, at least they can't launch more craft at me", he remembered thinking. Eize was quickly putting distance between his prom and the Itani connie, but it wasn't enough, the connie had turned just enough to bring 4 of it's guns to bear on him, and was sending a TON of fire his way.
One lucky shot hit his starboard burner. Now, under normal circumstances, this isn't a problem, as the ship computer is supposed to react, cut turbo on the port burner and use the directional thrusters to counteract the extreme disparity in acceleration on both sides of the ship. However, for some reason, the ship computer did not detect the problem for nearly 5 seconds. Long enough for the ship to begin spinning wildly.
Now Eize had a problem.. He was in an out of control Prometheus, only 750m from an Itani Constellation. No way was he going to get out of this one. He engaged the auto cannon again, this time full automatic fire, hoping to at least score a few good shots before the kill came.
The connie never came any closer, but instead fired what appeared to be some sort of beam weapon at his ship. The last thing Eize remembered before he woke up at the Orion station in Latos, was that bright green beam.
Suddenly, Eize's proximity alarm goes off, waking him from his daydream. He's only 500m from an asteroid, moving at full burn. Immediately, he becomes alert again, quickly snaps the nose of the centurian "upwards", simultaneously firing both reverse and up directional thrusters, throwing the tiny little vessel violently, missing the 'roid by only a few meters. "Damnit! Well.. at least there's -one- good thing about this little thing. It can sure move." -beep- "What now?" The ship to ship radio crackles to life, "Hold it right there friend, power down your engines immediately. You have 3 choices. 1. pay me 50 thousand creds 2. Kill me 3. Die, your choice" As if to give weight to his words, the pirate's vulture fires a short stream of weapons-fire, damaging some of Eize's armor.
"Hmm, how's about a 4th choice, catch me if you can." Eize fires the burners, as the pirate turns to give chase, Eize snaps the nose of his centurian around, and catches the pirate completely offguard, shredding most of the vulture's armor within seconds, but the pirate reacts quickly, beginning a quick up-down dodging maneuver.
"That was a mistake, trader" "No, my friend, the mistake was firing upon a serco warrior, now, I offer -you- a choice, back off, and live another day, or fire at me again and die in that scrapheap you call a ship. But remember this, I was -trained to fight- in a vulture, and as such, I am well aware of not only it's strengths, but it's weaknesses."
The pirate and Eize circled each other a few times. Then, the vulture engaged burners, headed towards open space. Eize speaks into the ship-to-ship, "Wise choice. Next time you fire upon me, I will not stop until your ship is destroyed."
"Damn, *sniff* I think I need a shower.. I stink" Eize says to himself as he boosts towards open space...