XCezor's avatar

The Grand Larceny

Most pirates like me hijack trade ships from supercruise, hack advertisement beacons and rob settlements. So what makes me unique? I always aim for the biggest fish! Stealing assets or ships cargo is time consuming and low profitable. So I just steal materials for my own equipment and something bigger for real money.

With my Sailor, raiding settlements is easy job, yet at the end of each run I risk loosing it forever... You'll see later why!

Settlement scanners have effective distance of over 7 kilometers, but thanks to mountains and small ship, as well as silent running mode, I am nearly undetectable.

Getting nearby settlement is quite easy, the hardest part is to get into any building and hope for technicians with top access level to be inside. But if you know where to search, you'll eventually find them and peacefully knock them down.

But why anti-air defence turrets are so important to disable here? Well, because of the main goal, which is currently that beautiful ASP Scout on a second landing pad!

Just a couple self-made e-breaches and I'm inside the ASP, now I have to engage the engines and leave the planet.

So unfortunately I cannot remotely order my ship to follow me but thanks to Apex Interstellar Transport I'll be able to rent a shuttle and come back to this settlement. Nobody saw my face, except for some knocked down engineers so I'm completely clean. After I'll get back on the planet, I just have to hope my ship will be still waiting for me in the mountains.

Our ships are no big deal, people usually think they have well-secured ships but that's not technically true. The real challenge would be to bring home a Guardian Sentinel or even Thargoid Scout!

Quick note: You can't actually steal other ships so don't try that 😅

https://twitter.com/XCezorr/status/1913983523859337449

LiquidMorkite's avatar

Love the idea of a ship heist! I know it's gonna be so fun if it's possible, but it's also gonna be so game breaking that's why it's not in the game, lol.

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A peaceful pirate

"I only take cargo, no lives" that's what I say to them freighters everytime I interdict/manifest scan one. The war has already taken too many lives, we don't need anymore dead. Don't get me wrong, pirates still thrive, and at this point, it's more like a lifestyle than anything else, but after all, I'm a pirate, not a terrorist.

A good pirate is a good pilot, and a good pilot knows how to outfit his ship, before heading out for a naughty day, I get to the hangar to make sure everything is in place, the exact modules I need, no more, no less.

We start with the intersting part first: guns. Meanwhile those Pacifier fragment cannons look intimidating, they will be retracted as soon as the victim's shield is down, it's when the pack-hounds do their job: they put the victim's drive to rest, leave them with no way to escape.

This is where the art of piracy comes in, while the victim is floating there, it's time for your limpets to work, cargo dropped, end of the job, no one has to die. Of course if you're the victim, consider calling the Hull Seals later, I said I wouldn't kill, didn't mean I have free taxi service.

Now let's get to the job.

Let's start with a small fish first.

And of course, before I can actually see a ship that potentially has cargo, I was greeted at first with someone of my very own profession:

As sad as it sounds, working on the same job wouldn't exactly mean we're friends. He didn't want me to compete with him in piracy in this site, neither did I, so a scan exchange became some lead exchange after a couple of seconds

I just casually followed my normal procedure, kill his drive, get his stuff, like any other cargo ship.

The pirate did actually have some cargo, but somehow my stupid limpets didn't get to collect them. The real fight sometimes is your limpets' duration and AI, not the ships.

So I just moved on.

Name is Pete Slaughter, but no one's getting slaughtered today. I approached him with my manifest scanner, he started running as soon as his ship detected my scan. No word, no negotiation, dude just started boosting away.

"Pew, pew, pew" and his shield was off, and sometimes, like this time, half his hull as well. You run some powerful weapons, gotta be easy on the trigger, they're just too powerful for these civillians.

Now it's time for the pack-hounds:

A couple of missiles later and his drive was Slaughtered.

Now it's the time:

As I left the guy floating away while he probably was contacting Fuel Seals (and maybe dumbfounded why I didn't destroy his rear), I went back to collect the cargo.

There should be more to pirate, but I was craving for a drink, a short break after these "stressful" encounters.

Just a bit of credits, but should be enough for a couple of drinks.

That's almost a day of a "Peaceful Pirate". Remember, no casualties involved if you do it right!

Fly Dangerously o7

HarlockDent's avatar

Hi commanders:

Here's my little photoessay about what it means to be a pirate, I hope you like it.

https://twitter.com/HarlockDent/status/1911431353138036875

lionriver's avatar

Hi Commander :

It took me a while to do this, showing you the location and how to approach a station heist or assault. This time, it's an anarchic station, and that's what I recommend doing.

I hope you like the area, and I recommend it to you for making materials for engineering or powerplay.

The descriptions of how to approach the situation are detailed in the previous post.

(There are 18 photos, but without them, it was difficult to show you the station's approach).

https://twitter.com/Lautaroros2/status/1911294020287857105

USCSS's avatar
https://twitter.com/USCSS141477/status/1882983819650990100

Hi Alex..

This is the first time I've made a Twitter thread and shared it. If there's any problem and it can't be seen, please let me know and I'll upload it another way.

(Traducido con el traductor de google)

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