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.
My mighty Sailor, lightweight Cobra Mk.3 is a perfect ship to sneak as close to the settlements as possible.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!
Landed 1.5 kilometers from my target that does not expect any problems today.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.
Sneaking into shadows, it will be night very soon but I cannot wait that long. It's dark enough here.My pumpkin mask is everything the guards can see. And yet if they see that glowing face, they cannot believe their eyes.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.
With unlimited access to entire settlement, I can disable alarms, authorization scans and most importantly, defence turrets.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!
With all defences disabled, that ship is completely unprotected. A perfect reward for my effort!Just a couple self-made e-breaches and I'm inside the ASP, now I have to engage the engines and leave the planet.
Doors closed and locked, no one knows I'm here.Leaving the planet and my Cobra, but I'll get back soon.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.
Finishing transaction with my friend from local shipyard and a bunch of million credits lands on my account. What will happen to that ASP is not my business anymore.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 π