YEESSSSSSS!!! I've done it.... all the work I did paid off, I have my revenge!
The Alabama was yet again harassing and attacking ships in manhattan orbit.
I engaged him, and unfinished as she is, the Aerie overpowered the destroyer, and he started to run. The chase led a full orbit of the planet three times, in a running engagement, and when his ship was on fire, and starting to break up, he turned and overloaded his engines in a last ditch effort to reach the atmosphere, and escape my wrath... Stupid bastard.
My forward mortar cannon spoke, and his ship went up as the blast breached his reactor and vaporised his vessel. Whatever was left burned up in the atmosphere... good damn riddance.
Also bagged Enst Stavro Blofeld earlier, he and a gunboat were pirating traders at the california gate in cortez, I was passing through on the way back from my excusion into bretonia, and basically came in on this little tableau:
Blofeld, hovering stationary right next to the trader's hull, the trader framed by the gate he had just exited, and the gunboat with guns trained at the trader's engines.
The first salvoes ripped Blofeld's ship apart... Gues he'll learn never to hold still.
The gunboat was slippery, but eventually went down as well. Some little bastard freelancer stole the kill however, but I had a witness to the whole event. Drover, one of the pilots for KoF, was there as well, and watched, we also spoke briefly and he helped engage the gunboat.
Blofeld made some kind of comments about how "unfair" my opening up on him was... Maybe he should rethink that in light of how he and his cronies operate, especially in the past few days. I should have blasted his escape pod, but the little bastard managed to get it behind the gate where my guns couldn't reach.
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.Cowboy : Back to being a bounty hunter due to Liberty politics, Flies a manta.
Gyrfalcon: The bounty hunting Bretonian corvette. At least, it will be if approved, Flown by "Cowboy" also.
LNS-Patriot : The little gunboat that could.... and then someday will be a beautiful LABC.
Freebyrd.II : insane trader/geneticist who has a whole hydro lab in his ship, he designs and grows his OWN.
Sky.High.Marin : Corsair praetorian pilot, with a love for fuzzy dice.
Kane.Taggart : Mad scientist in a hacker gunship being a buccaneer of the spacelanes.
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