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.
I'm a pilot of many jobs, and piracy, if you don't want to call it a hobby, could be one of the jobs, and I have a specific ship for every job. The Krait Phantom "Phantom Voyager" is the one. 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.
A good pirate is a good pilot, and a good pilot knows how to outfit his ship. 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.
Those Pacifiers might look a bit scary, but don't worry, as long as your shield is down, they'll stop shooting. 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.
Ship with dead drives and hatch breaker, the art of piracy. Now let's get to the job.
LHS 3384, an Anarchy system, perfect for when you're not in the mood of shooting back at the authority. Also it has a pretty (but deadly) white dwarf as the main star. Let's start with a small fish first.
A little warm up at first won't hurt Please stop resisting. Well, looks like someone doesn't have to call the Hull Seals today. Let's drop into a RES then. 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:
We exchange manifest scan, maybe it's a casual pirate salute somewhere 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
After the scan exchange, we moved on to exchanging some leads (or laser in his case) I just casually followed my normal procedure, kill his drive, get his stuff, like any other cargo ship.
I guess the pirate got pirated. I did say "no casualties", but in case your hull dies before your drive, I can't guarantee that. 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.
I see a mining laser, it's time for another victim. 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.
Name is Pete Slaughter, but no one's getting slaughtered today. "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.
Gotta be careful on using Pacifier, or any other engineered powerful weapons, you get a bit trigger happy, and your victim's dead. Now it's time for the pack-hounds:
You're not gonna wake away sir! A couple of missiles later and his drive was Slaughtered.
Peter Slaughter got his thrusters slaughtered. Now it's the time:
Go Go Gadget Hatch Breaker Limpet! Sit tight and let the hatch breaker limpet do its job. Actually, don't sit tight, as he is floating away I had a hard time to catch up without over boosting that I might crash with his ship. 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.
Now just collecting my prizes. The sound of my limpets delivering cargo to my hatch gotta be my favorite sound. There should be more to pirate, but I was craving for a drink, a short break after these "stressful" encounters.
Contacting my favorite Black Market gal, she will handle the rest. It's not much, but it's honest work. Just a bit of credits, but should be enough for a couple of drinks.
"Yes, a mug of Centauri Mega Gin, and if you don't have it, please just a glass of ice (in case you don't have the mug either), I have some onboard myself, if it doesn't go against the rule." That's almost a day of a "Peaceful Pirate". Remember, no casualties involved if you do it right!
Fly Dangerously o7
