Well we were off to an inauspicous start ... why do old friends make the worst enemies? What had begun as a simple adventure had rapidly devolved into the destruction of two Wyldefire cruisers! Not to mention the acquisition of a colourful, if not too complimentary, nickname. Ignomy or infamy - the choice may already be made.
Rumours travel like, well, wildfire through a pirate fleet, and it seemed our plans were known throughout the region almost before I told the crew. Needless to say, the imminent unscheduled departure of a line ship didn't sit well with the rest of the cartel, but I was still surprised at the vehmenance of the reply - I've never been comfortable with a price on my head! We resolved to solve the problem by fixing the source, and the search for Demonfly began in ernest.
We were sifting through the remains of what appeared to be an attacked convoy in the vicinity of his last known location, when we detected his vessel coming in from the east. The bigger surprise was a pair of Prime light cruisers at the same instant! After opening salvos the lighter vessels turned towards open space, and my crew and I turned our full attention on our "internal situation".
The battle didn't last long, and (in spite of a couple of decent salvos into our opponent) things looked poorly for my ship and crew even before I got an urgent (but late) report that the Prime vessels HADN'T departed - and were coming in hot and heavy, prepared to make the rest of our lives very miserable indeed. I never saw who launched that final drone salvo (having my head halfway into the escape pod by then) but reports have it that D'fly's ship didn't outlive mine by long.
Our coffers and a few key crew members made it to the lifepods, and (after the longest days of my life) into the hold of a passing freighter whose captain was only too pleased to keep our location quiet - for a price.
Word in the 'lanes is that DemonFly also survived the battle, and is somewhat less than pleased with recent developments.
As soon as we can outfit a new ship, and seal the lips of those involved, we must be away - a somewhat less enthusiastic crew than they were such a short time ago, but this has cinched our choice of an initial path: the cost of our dead ship must clearly come from Romulus and Remus!
... to be continued ...
GG Tobin, TonyS, and Dfly -- though I wouldn't have turned on Dfly quite so enthusiastically if I'd thought you two were still in the picture. Ah the price of betrayal! Time to rename my ship the "Linseman". The mission wouldn't end once you left, so had to alt out, but I'll SD the cruiser when I log in tomorrow.
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