Back in the Saddle

It had been over a month. Over a month since she had last flown solo with intent to kill. She strode out to the docking bay looking over her faithful craft. She loved her Incursus, she always would. But with a month of training, looking over blueprints, reading book after book after book, she finally understood almost all she could know about how to get the most out of her trusty ship. The fittings were finally complete. She looked her ship up and down, nodding to herself. This was her best fit yet.

With Tech 2 Neutron Blasters in place she smiled as she hopped into her pod. Feeling the emulsion fluid fill up around her. It was where she felt most at home. But it had been so long since she wasn't so distracted. Everything felt right. She flew off from Evati, moving to prowl the stars.

Running into a few unsavory folk she turned off a beaten trail she took to pick up her first few solo kills. She ended up in Mateber. There was a few people in system, according to her navigation computers. Worth a look around. Jumping from place to place she found nothing. Suddenyl a hit shows up. Two rifters. Pilot's names. She pulled up the pilots in her personnel database. Young, very young. Fresh out of school. Not even a week. They'd be easy prey. But 2v1? She had never really flown those odds. Well, at least emerged unscathed from it. But hell, they were new, raw recruits. She threw up her scanners and began plumbing for the two new pilots. Finding their mark and warping off to it. Only to find they had warped off only moments before. She continued searching continuing to follow their trail only moments behind.

Soon enough she saw them. Throwing on her Propulsion Jamming systems, she got a target lock and pinned the rifter down. The two seemed to want to run but were now trapped. Val's eyes gleamed as she engaged her weapon systems. The Neutron Blasters began firing up and let loose with a volley she had never felt the power of before. It was glorious. The Neutron Blasters ripped through the rifter's shields and within seconds the armor began shredding. A brilliant light flashed as the ships reactor's were compromised and the vessel desrtucted. Val snapped her scrambler onto the other ship, webbed her target and began ripping into her new victim with just as much fervor. Her armor was dinged and dented but nothing much, especially considering the two rifters were pounding into her ship with all they had.

Val sicced her drone on her target, but before she realized it, she had flown outside of her scram's range and her second target took the opportunity to run. She cursed under her breath. She could have had two of them... two kills in one swoop. But it was not to be... Oh well, not bad for the first solo roam back in the saddle.