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What's the worst situation you have survived?
Henk replied to ddrakath's topic in General Discussions
This one was back when I still played bc3k: I was on patrol in the pluto region when a vast enemy force came out of nowhhere, 40+ enemy blips showed up on the tacscan As a good commander knows when to fight and when to retreat, I chose Flx-03... Big mistake! As u can guess I ended up in the BH-01 and the ship immedatly started to take increadable amounts of damage. Luckaly I had the NID activated and was able to target FL-04 in an instant and fired the HJ-engines. As the ship doesn't take damage in hyperspace my shields could reganerate during the jump, I don't know why but, in opposit to chosing a flux field as a escape route, I did have the brains to give the order to jump at the lowest power setting (taking the jump longer to complete)and thus my shields could get back to a acceptable power level When emerging from hyperspace I ordered trustprofile 9 and maxed out the afterburner in a beeline for FL-04. Eventually blinded, becouse the bridgeviewer got destroyed before I could enter the field I must have had an angel on my shoulder then, couse I went trough the field ok, I just could't find out where I was. Kendrick then started to give his damege rapport, wich took him I guess like 5 mins to complete. He could have suffieced with "all systems damaged and many destroyed" I could see or do nothing and thought it was game over, untill I saw "sro 040" blinking in the top left corner of the brigeviewer witch other than that, stated nothing else but "MALFUNCTION" I started to asses what was left of my once fierce warship and in the back of my head a voice repeatatly stated "...joyriding in your multimillion galcredit battlecruiser..." In short: I lost 80% of the crew (NOT inluding resnig ) and most systems where beyond repair. Kendrick did however had the brains to jettison the reactor core, witch was mainly the reason for us still being there, but the only power available now was the one (actually 2/3 of a) solar panal I had left and 40% output. To make matters worse, the main life support had been destroyed and my remaining command staff was slowly beeing put to death. I ordered them to SC1 (the only one left in some sort of acceptible state, not flyable but still able to maintain crew) and before I ordered my AE also to the shuttle I was able to turn the craft to the sun and get a maximum output from the solar panel of 60% and engage the sos-emitter Thus began the long, painstaking sit-out-and-wait duty for the tow ship to arrive (that is: if it came at all, but I did'nt had the hart to tell the surviving crew) The ship never came, I did howerer managed to repair the A-life support to 90% and clean up radiation, but still, I coulnd assign anybody to the bridge as it was now one big vacuum tank and IF I could, there still was nothing to see. Kendrick did a wonderfull job however in getting launch control back online and patching up the last shuttle This was a nice job for tommy, my OTHER surviving officer (lana had died several hours ago on her way to medbay and the others died in their bunks while off-duty upon entering the BH), I changed my mind and I joined him in the shuttle and launced, then I found out we where in Mercury all along! It took me a full day of game time to get the shuttle out, when I finally arrived at GalComHQ with my battlecruiser in tow I really wanted to punch some admiral in the face asking why there was'nt any tow ship! I also wondered why we had'nt been destroyed by enemy ships in the region, we had virtually been a sitting duck out there. Anyhow, getting fully rapaired and back on track after that, gave me greater feeling of victory than I ever had in the biggest battle -
Best carriers (...at least I think so)
Henk replied to Admiral LB's topic in Universal Combat Series
BC MkIII is my all time favourite, Mostly out of bc3k nostalgia I guess... But I mostly like oparating a carrier and find the MkIII the most fogiving carrier around. I can make a mistake and she still love's me What I mean is: I've been shot to bits and pieces many of time's, but one way or the other the MkIII manages to hang on by her fingernails and gets me to a station even when most of her systems reduced to spark plugs Could be just me, but no other craft ever does that for me