Sunday, May 24, 2009

Outlaw Oddities

Valarissa sat in a Velator outside of the Todifraun - Evati gate, staring at her navigation screens. Her eyes glazed over as she watched the ships drifting into and out of the range of the gate. Warping in, warping out. All the while, her fingers moved swiftly to lock targets and fire up her weapon systems.

"Got away... flew off... jumped in... OOH! Almost! Damn..."

She honestly wondered what the hell she was doing out here. She convinced herself it was some bizarre hazing ritual. That she needed to do this in order to initiate herself as an outlaw.

A few more ships lazily drift through the gate, the Velator's targeting systems struggling to keep up.

A rapier flew into Evati, the Velator locked and fired. In seconds gate sentry guns opened fire and shredded the feeble craft in seconds. She could only imagine what thoughts were floating through the Rapier pilot's head. ("Who the hell? What? A Velator? At a gate? What in the world is this place coming to?")

Valarissa set her pod's destination to the Kaalakiota station off of Evati VII. The pod docked and she set her docking procedures to prepare Freyja version: (more than she could remember). She strolled into the watering hole that the Hellcats liked to visit and grinned. "I'm an outlaw now."

The others in the bar all offered their congratulations. "It seemed like a good idea at the time... and you know what, it was just fugging funny." She grinned and ordered a round while she waited for the cooldown on her name.

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