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

(we did of course, eventually, and it's woefully anticlimactic, so I'm just ignoring reality and just assuming we'll never truly know)

did we ever find out what it was Miami Mike did?

nanoswarms are just boneless computer

I figure okay, i'll just jump to the nearest station, refuel, reload, repair, and try again aaaandthis system has two stations miles apart and the nearest one does not have any facilities to reequip my ship or reload my weaponry . ...

Renalia: 凸(⇀‸↼‶)凸 *abandons mission*

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;