It is time i thought, to check to see how the traders on the diamond road were doing. As a bounty hunter i knew the traders would likely have work for me since pirates made much of their living off harrassing the diamond and niobium trade. I jump in my trusty GBH1 gunship and leave the comfort of BH space in omega 15 and head towards New Berlin.
After entering the New berlin system i decide to head to planet New Berlin to find out from the traders if Sigma-13 is infested with pirates. On approach to the planet my radar goes wild. 3 red and one green in range. The red are 2 Benitez accompanied by someone i do not recognise, all corsairs in New Berlin, while the green is someone i do not recognise, so i figure he is a trader. I go to check them out thinking well, if they are leaving the traders alone, i have no reason to pick a fight. I have no current bounties on Benitez. As i approach i see that the person green on my radar is in fact a police officer in a vhf and the three corsairs are attacking him in bombers outside oder shipyard. 3 on 1, this is an outrage, even though i see no profit in sight and know the odds are stacked against me i must go to his aid.
I engage. A heated battle ensues. About 10 minutes of dodging and countering, destroying one corsair's shields just to realise i am being attacked from behind by another. Just stand still i scream as i try and try to hit these mosquitoes buzzing around me. I am forced to burn all my shield batteries and am watching my hull slowly declining but i know they must be hurting on regens as well, they must. Then suddenly i look out the window and see that poor fighter blow up into a million tiny pieces. I did my best but no time for a prayer, 3 on 1 now.
Fight to the bitter end. Nah, no way, i am getting the he** out of there. I hit my cruise engines just to have them shot dead a moment later, these guys know what they are doing. I could run to planet New Berlin but then i would be just cowering away in the bar huddled away afraid to leave. Not going to happen. Maybe if I stay alive long enough some Rheinland military will show up and the fighters deat will be avenged. I decide to make a go for the tradelane to Brandenburg. As i aproach, i get to 0m and think i am gonna make it. Just as i hit dock, ZZZZZT "Tradelane disrupted" ugh. Never hated seeing those lightening bolts around the ring more. These guys are good. About this time i hear a threat on the public radio from some HT members against the corsairs who i am trying desperately to avoid. I know they are likely far off. Possible allies... they are hessians and i am a bountyhunter. I just don't want to die.
I gradually work my way to the sig 13 hole. I would rather not jump but at this point i am out of regens and still have 3 corsairs right on my tail. They want blood. I jump. I realise they are going to jump right behind me so i have 2 choices, hit cruise and hope they do not cd me, or jump back to new berlin and hope they get confused and do not follow. I jump back to New Berlin. They follow. Cruise disrupted. These guys are good. Well time to try the tradelane again. I run to the tradelane to Brandenburg. Cowering in the bar is starting to look like a good idea. As i approach, ZZZZZT. OH well, time to give up and accept my fate.
Suddenly 2 more red targets show up on my radar. HT has arrived. They engage and after a while realise i am a bounty hunter. Strange allies to have at this moment but these corsairs have been after me for about 20 minutes or more. I need all the help i can get. Surprisingly, my shields are not constantly dropping and i realise i have only one corsair on me, the other 2 have engaged the hessians. The tide shifts, suddenly i go from the hunted to one of the hunters. I do not attack the hessians hoping they will not attack me.
After 10 minutes of more heated combat, the independent corsair ship blows to millions of bits leaving just the 2 benitez. They quickly see the writing on the wall and make a run for the sig 13 hole. I am thinking how crazy, saved by hessians. There was a few seconds of awkwardness where i nor the hessians knew quite what to do, fight, talk, what. They saved me, and i was out of regens. I break the ice by offering them some money for saving my tail but they seemed as grateful for my help as i was of theirs. They ask if i want to go chase the corsairs. I realy don't, i am exhausted, but agree to, figuring it is the least i could do in return.
The Corsairs were nowhere in sight on the other side of the Jumphole in sig-13. They had escaped. I then parted with my Hessian allies, promising never to accept a bounty against HT. They saved my life after all.
//Thanks to Benitez and HT for this encounter. It was a lot of fun. Til next time benitez.
//If anyone else has fun times like this please share.
ok i'm exploring in kyushu when i hear 2 different voices demand someone drop the cargo, now only thing on scanners is a bounty hunter and kusari police (npc's) patrols to far away to be telling me that but i decide to get closer to see whats up. next thing i know the bhg and kusari are shooting each other and a newbie has just joined in. I'm close enough now so i scan the newbie he has a bhg id. So this is getting interesting so I stop for the fun of it all of a sudden a kusari navy patrol(npc) show up and joins in, about this time the newbie dies so i think ok shows over. Wrong noob comes back but he's being chased by a blood dragon patrol(npc)and there all attacking each other there was about 20 to 25 fighter in the furball and one noob. Bang noob buys it again less than a couple of seconds later here comes the noob again this time being followed by a farmers alliance ships(npc). by this time i'm thinking this kid just has the worst luck in history and bang he dies again. couple of seconds later here he comes again but no ones following him so i comm him and tell him just to give up on it, he tells me no that the bounty hunters need help. Well i hate to break this kids heart but the starflea is not the best ship to try helping some bhg npc's with so i just leave I wounder how many more time that kid died.
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