Sun Apr 06, 2003 6:47 pm
Shocker
Well, so I bribed the outcasts and got to omicron alpha. Upon reading Malta's description and realizing the hispania was in-system, I decided to go looking for it(and other wrecks). I remembered detecting a jumphole on my way in, so I went to see what it was about(and if it led anywhere fun).
As I approached the jump hole, I started seeing literally dozens of outcast shipwrecks littered around. My first thought was "damn, this MUST be something cool". THen I reached the jumphole. Hey...wait a minute...IT'S GREEN! I try to dock with it, and get the all too familiar "access denied" message. I'm puzzled at first, because I know the locations of all the SP-only jump locations, and this ain't one of them.
Then I figure it out when 4 angry little nomad fighters come out at me. Remembering my SP experiences, I thought they would be relatively easy kills(having no shields and all), and that their guns wouldn't kill me THAT easily(since they didn't seem to be more threatening than any other heavy weapon to my Anubis' shields). OOPS. In all of about 5 seconds, they've chewed through 8000-some shield points and started chomping off hull at a disturbing rate. I get completely scared s***less, and begin hitting the keys for cruise. Ever-wary of pursuit, I set a course for the opposite side of the system.
On my way there, I start picking up sensor contacts...The Viking and the Hispania! w00t! Maybe this ISN'T going to be such a crappy day! I look over the screwed-up sleeper ship, blast the loot off of the screwed-up bounty hunter ship, and make tracks for Malta.
I have only a single question: What do all those shipwrecks around the nomad jumphole drop? I didn't get a chance to find out because I was too busy running away from the nomads, and I would like to know it the area is profitable before tempting fate again(I don't consider a few nomad guns worth the thousands of credits I'd blow on shield batts and nano bots, but if all of those wrecks dropped some heavy duty stuff I'd be convinced in an instant)
Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless
Officer: "Freelancer, what happened to the transport you were escorting?"
Me: "He told me my ship looked wierd...I invited him to have intimate relations with my SunSlayer"
As I approached the jump hole, I started seeing literally dozens of outcast shipwrecks littered around. My first thought was "damn, this MUST be something cool". THen I reached the jumphole. Hey...wait a minute...IT'S GREEN! I try to dock with it, and get the all too familiar "access denied" message. I'm puzzled at first, because I know the locations of all the SP-only jump locations, and this ain't one of them.
Then I figure it out when 4 angry little nomad fighters come out at me. Remembering my SP experiences, I thought they would be relatively easy kills(having no shields and all), and that their guns wouldn't kill me THAT easily(since they didn't seem to be more threatening than any other heavy weapon to my Anubis' shields). OOPS. In all of about 5 seconds, they've chewed through 8000-some shield points and started chomping off hull at a disturbing rate. I get completely scared s***less, and begin hitting the keys for cruise. Ever-wary of pursuit, I set a course for the opposite side of the system.
On my way there, I start picking up sensor contacts...The Viking and the Hispania! w00t! Maybe this ISN'T going to be such a crappy day! I look over the screwed-up sleeper ship, blast the loot off of the screwed-up bounty hunter ship, and make tracks for Malta.
I have only a single question: What do all those shipwrecks around the nomad jumphole drop? I didn't get a chance to find out because I was too busy running away from the nomads, and I would like to know it the area is profitable before tempting fate again(I don't consider a few nomad guns worth the thousands of credits I'd blow on shield batts and nano bots, but if all of those wrecks dropped some heavy duty stuff I'd be convinced in an instant)
Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless
Officer: "Freelancer, what happened to the transport you were escorting?"
Me: "He told me my ship looked wierd...I invited him to have intimate relations with my SunSlayer"
