http://www.thexuniverse.com/blogs/7220-CamelSpider This is a fan site for all who play the X Series of Games by Egosoft, including X3 Reunion and X2 The Threat en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:24:55 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.thexuniverse.com/images/txu/misc/rss.jpg http://www.thexuniverse.com/blogs/7220-CamelSpider http://www.thexuniverse.com/entries/43-beauty-of-fire Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:17:22 GMT Day 2: after some much needed repair and upgrades i am back out to see if i really can make a living collecting the leftovers of space battles, i... Day 2: after some much needed repair and upgrades i am back out to see if i really can make a living collecting the leftovers of space battles, i just hope that no one takes me as a threat.

after a few hours of cruising around the argon/pirate border sectors. i landed at a station in Splitfire to take what little e-cells i could find to a "Friend" of mine. while i was there he told me of a large pirate armada that was moving into the area today, a brigantine and a small fleet of support craft. the objective? to harass and show power. apparently they intend to shake down the stations there in the sector.

sure enough that armada showed up. and not 15 min later a Paranid fleet entered the sector. i didn't know what to do, not only had i never been near any major battles, the closest thing to a firefight i had been in was a fist fight back in flight school. needless to say i was scared and exited at the same time. watching those two hulking bodies dance around each other throwing their respective punches, the fighter support swarming around the two like space flies. loosing myself in the raw, morbid, beauty of it all i remembered. "i am only out here, risking my life, to gain a little profit and some leftover hardware.

three hours later i had made two trips to the outpost to sell my wares and i made a cool 130k, life was good. two days and i have made money then i did in 6 years of being a taxi.

then it dawned on me, maybe i don't have to wait till someone else destroys a cargo ship, a fighter, a vessel of any kind.

maybe, just maybe, i can do a little pirating myself. ;) ]]> CamelSpider http://www.thexuniverse.com/entries/43-beauty-of-fire http://www.thexuniverse.com/entries/42-down-here-with-the-rest-of-us Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:29:36 GMT day one: i started out in a taxi, a underpowered discoverer, with no weapons and only 1mj of shielding. just enough to make it hard for a rouge piece... day one: i started out in a taxi, a underpowered discoverer, with no weapons and only 1mj of shielding. just enough to make it hard for a rouge piece of space debris to end my short brutish life.

i was making good money being a taxi, but then the company that i worked for decided to terminate my license, why? i don't really know. so i decided to take my chances and venture out into the universe. 2500 credits to my name and a ship that was better suited to a museum exhibit than the cold hard reaches of space.

i took the massive 25 unit cargo hold on board and started trading e-cells

needless to say i was at it for a while. then as the gods smiled down on me, i happened across a few derelict cargo containers floating in Elena's fortune. what was inside amazed me. 2 wildfire missiles, 1 disruptor missile and one other missile that escapes me at this time. all told a nice 35k at the local military outpost.

so now i am a vulture of lost goods, if only i had a larger cargo bay. i passed up 300 e cells just because i had no room.

sometimes the gods are humbling as well. ]]> CamelSpider http://www.thexuniverse.com/entries/42-down-here-with-the-rest-of-us