Traps for young players #126

[onca]

I once took on a mission for the GMG of Naha station. The job was simple: rid the area of some pesky Corsair ships. Sounded straight forward enough, except the payment was a cool $150k.... *twice* the normal bounty in those parts. Something didn't smell right.... it seemed an awful lot of money for such a simple mission. But what could go wrong, I thought, I'd taken on Corsairs before and come out the better. They were even sending some support ships with me. So off I went in my merry Barracuda to make some extra cash.

We were hit by one wave then another of Centurions.... powerful ships and first-rate pilots by any reckoning. By fours and by sixes they came, but we cut them down to the last, the GMG fighters and me.

Then comes the third wave. Through the blazing guns and smoking wrack I look around and wonder, "where the hell are my wingmen?" Then I see it... creeping out of the gloom... *two* Osiris battleships! Those honourless Corsairs had sent battleships! And not just any -- the strongest of them all.

What a dreadful sight to behold! Huge and menacing they were, each with thrice my guns and armour thick as a planet. Damn you GMG, this was never part of the deal! It was clear now what had become of my brave wingmen -- permanent additions to the debris of Sigma 13.

Let it be known Onca's not one to back out of a deal, even a rotten one. I took on those terrible, unassailable dreadnaughts.... but it was more than my poor 'cuda could bear. I joined my hapless comrades that day, another wreck gracing the fields of broken ships.

So let this be a lesson, all ye brash noobs who hope to make a quick penny by the seat o' yer trousers.... beware the Corsairs of Sigma 13!