Tor was right: The Vulture is the bird for me. 19 million credits worth of "Fuck you" with a hair-trigger throttle and ludicrously over-sized guns. It is coloured bright pink and it is called "That's Not My Finger..." I am in love. Tor and I have accepted a multi-million credit c...
So... Got my DBX Friday, passed drill on Saturday, took my first call Sunday, fired limpet first Monday... I'm an on-the-board rat! They really DO let anyone in, you know...) Quick outline of my first rescue, because I'm pleased as punch about it. 2 other cases being handled at the time, one Code Re...
Spend 10 minutes in any bar on any port and you'll hear wing-weary jocks muse (with fake melancholy) over the things that keep them awake at night. They do this to justify the gleeful abandon with which they open fire, chase and kill anything that flashes up red on the KWS. They do this to demonstra...
"Crime", it turns out, has both a very, very broad definition as well as a very narrow one. On the one hand, it could be anything that requires weapons, flying over the speed limit, scanning or vaguely doing "stuff" that Ye Olde System Powers generally don't want to get their han...
(Not safe for work. At all.) “But how...” cry other pilots in other wings*, “Can idiots like you manage to co-ordinate yourselves so precisely, when you're all drunk and laughing hysterically and screaming insults over Discord at each other. What is your secret?!” It's easy. We have our own Spellin...
I can't tell if I've misunderstood the ship-naming fashions here. Probably... Sidewinder - CANTANKEROUS (Thank you, Mr Banks) Adder - You'll Thank Me Later (Thank you again, Mr Banks) Cobra - Token Female Member T6 - An Error In Judgment Vulture - That's Not My Finger... Future names include "(...
Why thanks, Not-Dave! Not sure you're going to be so delighted with what I have in mind for the next bit, but I want to get you back in the story somehow...