Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz @Nine@computerfairi.es

It's okay! I got loads of cash to pay the insurance on the Antilles. (my ship, the Cobra mk 3, because it's a big ol' Wedge. get it? ;D ) . I'll just fly right back there and toast their asses THIS time. There should only be two left anyway!

So I jump back in, aaaaaand four ships jump in. again.

Renalia: ಠ ̯ ಠ
Renalia: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

I do my best but don't even kill ONE of them before I am at 2% hull. I manage to escape tho!

Okay, okay, it's not so bad, I can take these guys, they're in Sidewinders and Eagles, it'll be fiiiineeeee.

"SHIELDS DOWN" "CAUTION: TAKING HULL DAMAGE"
Renalia: つ(´・ω ・` )

I manage to take out one.. then two ships! This is great!
Renalia: ヾ( ￣▽)ゞ

Aaaand then my ship explodes because I had like 4% hull left after the second ship ate missile.

Flying off there, I find the mission objective after a little searching around, and it's saying "Threat 2" ... A little suspicious, can't be THAT bad tho, surely. So I drop in, find a TON of salvage floating about...

Renalia: σ(￣、￣=)･･･ ¯\\(￣▽￣)/¯

Four ships jump in immediately upon me even getting CLOSE to one of the salvages.

Renalia: ∑( ﾟДﾟ);;;;;;

Just took a mission to recover some black boxes as salvage from another system, which pays a fair bit, but the combat difficulty says "Mostly Harmless".

Renalia: =_=? ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ *clicks accept*

I mean, what's the WORST that could happen?

*sudden realisation* ....holy fuck Link from Breath of the Wild is strong as shit wtf they can literally lift a whole friggin boulder over their damn heads without any special gear or potions or magical powers or anything what in the hell

"The target's around here somewhere, we've just got to find them. Apparently they're flying around in a fairly basic but well armed Cobra mk III"
"what's their name?"
"Looking it up now... Commander Renalia... Apparently we'll know when we find them?"
"what the hell does that mean?"
"...hold up, I've got a message from someone a-...what the hell?"
"What's it say?"
"...some kind of emotico-OH GOD HOLY SHIT IT'S- *Ksssh!!*"
"Captain?!... Captain do you read??"
*bzzt* "ʘ‿ʘ"
"...oh FU-"

my commander doesn't speak. They communicate through emoticons at people in my mind.

like, I feel like I could probably do that as a bit in game if I played with others, lol. I'd have to like, build up a huge library of various complex emoticons and hopefully the ingame chat would let me do so but...

can just imagine my commander coming in, scowling at the person who greets them, like "Greetings commander, it's a pleasure to have you at our station. Now, election time is coming up a-...uh... ...i...is... is everything... okay??"
and my commander just thrusts a data pad at them with the sign off for transporting two tons of cobalt to them, and just STAARREES angrily, pointing at the signature demandingly until they sign it, and take the cargo.
Then just storms off. lol

FINALLY MADE IT. yeesh.

10kLs away now ;w;

currently cruising at 600c .

600.

starting to gradually slow down because I'm halfway there yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay \o/ ;w;

swear to god if someone interdicts me while I'm halfway to this fucking station i am going to unload everything on them I don't even care if they're Elite fuck 'em. all this for delivering two units of fucking cobalt god. next time I'm gonna tell them to do it their fucking self.

I see you favving that @outie :3

and like me you're probably imaginign like, a cutscene of the player character rounding a corner all casual like, seeing a huge bridge, and just like... deflating, facepalming. and then they hold up a hand, counting down from three to one, and RIGHT on cue, a dragon flies overhead, lands on the battlements opposite and roars threateningly, and they just throw their hands up in exasperation because OF COURSE there's a fucking dragon.

like, god, why. like, you could stick a major trade station near the nav beacon, or at least within like, a minute flight.

nope. gona put the nearest station like way the fuck out around this OTHER star a solid hour's flight away, coulda just built it near the nav-beacon so it wouldn't take forever to get to but noooope.

who the fuck sticks the only space station in system half a mil light-seconds away from where the nav beacon is what the everloving shit.

I mean sure you've got "horse but hole" and "don't give up, skeleton!" from actual darksouls games but that's IN SPITE of the seriousness of it, and like, the game should absolutely lean into the ridiculousness.

final boss is defeated and right before they die the hero takes off their helmet, whips out a cellphone, and takes a selfie of themselves dabbing right in front of the bad guy's face as he's on the floor just to capture his look of absolute disgust.

like, an absolutely played straight grimdark setting, but the player characters and various key friendly NPCs are the only ones who are like "...this shit is absolutely ridiculous oh my god" and just refuse to take the super-edgy crap seriously in any capacity, which is why the villains are trying to kill the players, they're upset that nobody takes their ridiculous "WOE IS ME I AM SO DARK AND EDGY" crap seriously.