A 3 picture tale of stupidity (mine), revenge (mine) and stupid luck (mine too)...
Well, the 3 pictures just show the end of the tale really. Spoiler: It's a happy end!
I am flying a trade route that is one way high profit and the other covering the fuel costs, more than that but it ain't as much. I sacrificed a bit of cargo (6t) on my Cobra to fit an FSD Interdictor and a Kill-Warrant-Scanner. That way I can be all carebear on the high profit way and go Bounty Hunting on the way back.
That was my idea. Well, I don't always follow my own guidelines...
On my high profit way, I spotted this Imperial Clipper on my radar with a Wanted status. Since I haven't seen one close up, I thought "How hard can it be?" (read that with the voice of Jeremy Clarkson and you know what's coming
) and started my Interdiction run. Funny enough, he managed to interdict me instead which I was fine with, could switch on full artillery directly w/o the Kill-Scanner. We dropped out of Cruise and he instantly started firing on me. Took me a moment to noticed that it weren't mere Lasers. Noooo... he shot me with 4! Multi-Cannons D:
I deployed my weapons and fired back. It was a fun dog fight until he started shredding through my shields and I took heavy damage. "To flee or not to flee, is the question." Well, it was too late to get out of there. Shields down, hull down to 58%. I never would have made it out there alive with this big gunner behind me.
He was down to 65% too, so I had no choice than to fight back harder. Got 2 nice double hits with my cannons in and avoid a bunch of his bullets, he was down to 30%, we both swooped around and came frontal at each other, both firing all we got. My cannons do one hell of damage when they hit. Suddenly my glass shield bursted and the oxygen message popped up D: Oh boy, straight at each other I kept hitting him with my Multis and pulled out and with my last 10 bullets I actually killed him. \o/
No time for joy tho. Lucky I fitted my Cobra with a better Life Support System before I started. 7:30 minutes. I was in an Anarchy system, no stations, so I had to do a jump to the next system where I knew was a Coriolis station I could reach. All power to the engines, FSD activated. Due to the broken glass shield, my HUD is mostly gone and I couldn't really see where I had to go. I managed the jump and arrived battered in the next system with my saving station. Still some time to cruise, hopefully I would make it or all my Credits and my trusty Cobra would be gone and I had to start a new...
The standard Life Support System has 5 minutes oxygen. The one I fitted right before the fight has 7:30 minutes. It saved my life!
