Post by Sinocelt on Sept 27, 2017 1:17:16 GMT -5
What follows is the sad tale of a captain, two bugs, a crash, and too many xenos.
Actually, it started with too many xenos. Two shipfuls in a row. Each time, our hero chose to flee. The first time, he succeeded, in the first round. The second, he won instead, also in the first round. But what he could salvage then wasn't enough to make for the hefty bill he received from his next port's mechanic and doctor. He needed to generate some income, fast. And so he, very carefully, planed a string of missions. One of those missions, diplomatic in nature, required that he went to Vav Nebula, then to Caylin's Reach. Only the mission panel said there were three jumps from Vav Nebula to Caylin's Reach, and he counted four. "Weird," he thought. But it was probably just a bug from the navigation system.
And so it proved to be. But the bug wasn't that the navigation system couldn't count, but that it couldn't remember names. Apparently. What happened is that, when the captain reached Vav Nebula and checked the next step of its mission, it was indeed three jumps away, but it was no longer Caylin's Reach; it had become Fortunate Divide (his starting point). Weird bug, indeed. And a cruel one, too, for the captain had planed his series of missions around Caylin's Reach. No choice. He would get back to Fortunate Divide, took the rep hit of cancelling four missions, and start afresh with no money but a healthy crew and nearly repaired ship.
Alas, once back to Fortunate Divide, when he tried to cancel a mission, the game crashed. And so, no choice, he had to try to fulfill all four missions, but he couldn't do so in time, and so the pay was poor, and so his ship was still very much damaged, his crew deserted him, he had no money, no fuel, and that's when, at level 14, he realized that he was alive, yes, but dead in the water. Those xenos had managed to kill him, finally.
Actually, it started with too many xenos. Two shipfuls in a row. Each time, our hero chose to flee. The first time, he succeeded, in the first round. The second, he won instead, also in the first round. But what he could salvage then wasn't enough to make for the hefty bill he received from his next port's mechanic and doctor. He needed to generate some income, fast. And so he, very carefully, planed a string of missions. One of those missions, diplomatic in nature, required that he went to Vav Nebula, then to Caylin's Reach. Only the mission panel said there were three jumps from Vav Nebula to Caylin's Reach, and he counted four. "Weird," he thought. But it was probably just a bug from the navigation system.
And so it proved to be. But the bug wasn't that the navigation system couldn't count, but that it couldn't remember names. Apparently. What happened is that, when the captain reached Vav Nebula and checked the next step of its mission, it was indeed three jumps away, but it was no longer Caylin's Reach; it had become Fortunate Divide (his starting point). Weird bug, indeed. And a cruel one, too, for the captain had planed his series of missions around Caylin's Reach. No choice. He would get back to Fortunate Divide, took the rep hit of cancelling four missions, and start afresh with no money but a healthy crew and nearly repaired ship.
Alas, once back to Fortunate Divide, when he tried to cancel a mission, the game crashed. And so, no choice, he had to try to fulfill all four missions, but he couldn't do so in time, and so the pay was poor, and so his ship was still very much damaged, his crew deserted him, he had no money, no fuel, and that's when, at level 14, he realized that he was alive, yes, but dead in the water. Those xenos had managed to kill him, finally.
