Tue Mar 25, 2003 6:30 pm by Neo
Continued..............
I was on my way to tokyo, so far no enemy ships met apart from a little skirmish between the police and a few rouges while i was exiting new york, into the cvalifornia system (I havent discovered the galileo system yet) and no attacks yet, i was feeling like this was my lucky day, no enemy ships and a cargo thats worth lots at tokyo, but it was too early to start feeling lucky.........
There i was going through trade lane after trade lane, jump gate after jump gate with no resistance when suddenly i run into some enemy ships in tau 29, 6 outcasts 4 with dagger ships and 2 with stillettos, i started to worry.
Four of the ships were on my 12 while the other 2 were attacking some poor trader on the verge of a hull breach, less than 5 seconds later, his ship was gone and there were no more friendly ships on my rader, i realised....i was alone. I locked onto a ship that was about 1500km to my 9, i come about and opened fire within seconds his shields were down but i took some damage on my six after a tense fight i finally blew his ship outta the stars and tractored wat he had left before his ship was in bits, 5 left and i lost a very little bit of shield thanx to the batteries, i needed something to tip the balance a little so i flew into the asteroid field for cover dropping mines while they fired, i managed to take out 1 of their ships shield and finished him off but there was still 1 stiletto and 3 daggers left.
Off i went to get the stiletto, i damaged most of its hull and it started up its cruise engines, i made sure he didnt make it so i launched a cruise missile (As i like to call them) his engines went down, i flew in to intercept, his hull was down and his engines were starting up again, i launched a missile......the missile weaved in and out of the asteroids when finally hittin, he will not be missed but it was no time to celebrate. 5 minutes later and 1 dagger was left, he didnt have a chance, he was almost on a hull breach with fire coming from its engines in hot pursuit of me and i launched a mine.........................he was gone.
4km to the closest trade lane and next waypoint, after going throught the second ring the trade lane was distrupted and i was asked to drop my cargo, i was not in the mood to fight, but the other ships were, i politely declined dropping my cargo and headed for the ring, it was still down and i wudnt make it to the next ring, i flew staright int otheir formation then did a u turn, the lane was up but my shields were down with 1km to the trade lane, i was trying to dodge every shot but didnt manage, 100m to the trade lane i didnt know wat to do, on the verge of a hull breach with no nanobots and 1 shield which wudnt do any good so.......i stopped my engines and the formation flew past me i afterburned to the trade lane as they came about and just made it.
Fortunately nago station was at the end of the trade lane so i stopped for some repairs and rest. But within no time i was back on the road (well....space) i ran into no more enemys all the way to tokyo. 1 trade lane away from the planet and i was getting excited, the credits will come in handy towards my new ship im saving up for, i made it to the planet and requested landing permission and landed asap, i met up with the trader and he kindly gave me the money, if only he knew wat i went through to get here.
Thanx for reading.
Neos Log End
