Civilians in Disrtress

[Adam_Spire]

New to the forum so bare with me.

No good deed goes unpunished but Im a magnet for trouble anyway.

Having been a cargo/trader/miner, my heart goes out to them in their targets in space. They are frequently jumped by Gunboats or two pirates with enough firepower to make their lives short and cold.

I entered a system and found a transport and its escort under fire from a hostile gunboat intent on destroying the transport to pirate its cargo. The hostile gunboat was firing with intent to scare the transport into stopping and threatening to destroy the transport. The fighter escort was coming from the rear of the transport and engaging to stop the hostile gunboat to no avail. I gave a general system hail if assistance was needed and the gunboat made a general threatening comment. I engaged the gunboat from which the escort and I fought against it for several minutes, ranging from 3-5 minutes, with the transport now joining in the battle just to help keep the hostile gunboats shields down.

Bottom line, we saved the transport, I ticked off a fighter screaming from the sidelines general threatening comments, I helped the escort defending its transport and I made $400,000 from the transport who was thankful that I helped.

Was it worth it? Yes. Would I have done anything differently? Maybe asked that hawk pilot why he was screaming for us to Stop firing or else, 5 minutes into the fight.

Though I made the transport guy happy, I made a Pirate gunboat captain angry and that Hawk pilot and his friends angry. Such is life in space.

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Sometimes, when all you want is to gain your freedom, you must be willing to risk it all.