If first impressions are as important as everyone says then today the bar was set incredibly high.
Started the day with a tip from The Chicken. "If you want to do War Zones and increase your military rank, head to Talisom. There are no capital ships at each waypoint." What do you think I did?
I flew to the WZ and started mashing out missions. One after the other. It was taking forever. Then Cindy joined.......things no longer took forever. She had me jump into her gunners seat......I was not a gunner. I was a spectator of real destruction. She had packages of Fulcrum Torps. Jump in, fire, and kill EVERYTHING! She was death in a cockpit. She must of knocked out 15 waypoints in 3 min or so. Then had to go AFK. Her day was busy and she was in an out most of the time.
I was inspired now. Filled up with Torps and picked the mission with the most waypoints. BOOM! Death after death......I still couldn't figure out how not to kill myself
I am improving a little at a time and learning. I don't die as much but I also can't hit all of them like Cindy did.
Not long after my Torp testing another pilot showed up. Pier. I am not sure if he meant to shoot me or not but I killed him. To Pier: I am sorry if my attack was unwarranted. I am still learning and if I see you in space I hope we can fly some missions together.
Now this is where things took off like a Mantis Drive. I am not sure who showed up first but this was the group. We had the "Capin" in his hand made, self programmed software having, cockpit of destruction. The infamous Chicken was there raining down pain and Busch, flying without a care in the world and wiping out anything that looked at him wrong. Cindy was also in an out with her evil laugh (that means things are going to die). All of these vets where here just to help me get my military rank up. Can you imagine? Mission after mission, wave after wave. Everything dieing so fast I had to set up my quick save key just to be able to push it in time to get to the next mission that they had already completed the first wave of.
I spent most of the time in awe at the precision and speed this group would fight. At one point I watched three pilots move in a circle formation around three baddies. Herding them like cattle while systematically wiping them out one at a time. Each pilot fired on the same target until it's destruction and without any chat or hint of the next target they instantly locked and killed the next one. It was amazing. A dance with death.
Personal Stats:
Over a BILLION credits! <---proud moment
Military Rank: 151
300 kills
120 contracts complete
Quest Progress: 7
Honorable Mention:
Bear, nice to meet you and I look forward to flying with you in space.
The "Big Nasty" I hope you go that super station launched into orbit
Side Note: I'm sure everyone knows Cindy likes to PvP. Her famous words before your death, "Did you save?"
Well I asked her if she saved and The Chicken said she was already working on him. I had to join in. It will be some time before I can even hurt this pilot in one on one but at this moment I had a window of opportunity, and took it. She died with honor and still almost wiped me out, even with the Chicken on her tail. A scary and exhilarating experience.