Escorts and escorting

[Agmen of Eladesor]

Escort service is something that the BHG| can provide to pilots - for a fee, of course.

Actually, back in the old S/D days and even since then, that's something we train on. Used to be, all a new pilot could DO was fly escorts for a while so they learned how to do it right.

The biggest issue that we have now is that people have in their heads that their mission is to get that blue message. That's NOT the mission of an escort pilot. The mission of the escort pilot is to see his cargo get through safely - period. Thus, the mission of the ship being escorted is, when jumped by pirates, to RUN!

Then the escorting pilot shoots at or otherwise engages the pirates long enough for the tranport to get safely away - and then HE runs away. It's NOT your job to sit there and kill the pirate. It's your job to help get the cargo through safely - and you can't do that if you're dead.

It certainly doesn't hurt to have a gunboat or gunship as an escort, especially if you're flying a high credit mission. Seriously - if you have two A-trains full of ore, at a minimum, I'd get at least 1 fighter, 1 bomber, and a gunboat JUST for security. Then you get jumped by a pirate transport - he's in a world of hurt. And more importantly, everyone can have fun.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.