I'm in my Python, with a full load of Berylium, heading towards a system where I've got about 300k in bounties to collect.
I got interdicted by a pirate, I submitted immediately as the last few have been suicidal Eagle pilots who think they can take me out. It's been funny seeing them saying "you have no chance now!" just before I blow them out of the sky.
This time was different.... I scanned the guy, he's "Deadly" in an Anaconda.
Well I reckon I can take him, I've beaten 'condas before.
But this was one tough cookie, he battered my shields down and started chewing up my hull.
He wasn't having it all his own way though, I'd dropped his shields too and gotten him down to 48%.
Unfortunately I was down to 19% and then he breached my canopy.
Time to make a run for it!
I get enough distance between us to get to SC and head for the station. I've still got over 20 minutes of oxygen so I'm thinking I'm OK.
Then I'm interdicted again... I try and fight it this time but the Python's not quite agile enough to escape.
SO I'm dragged out of SC and it's the same Anaconda!
I keep my distance and get my shields back up, his are still down so I reckon I'll have a go at finishing him off.
I get him down below 20% and he's doing the "oh, no!" bit, so I'm feeling better.
Then... dunno if he had a rail gun or plasma or something but suddenly he's hit me with something major and the rest of my hull goes!
So it's BOOM and back to rebuy screen for the first time in months.
Fortunately I NEVER fly without insurance so I get my ship back but I've lost my cargo and bounties.
On the bright side it also wiped out the 400 CR I had on my head for a minor error during a battle, but I wasn't really sweating over that!
So I'm 4,378,555 credits poorer, and maybe a bit wiser......
Still, it's only a game, right?