I added another amusing death experience last night: I got run over by the Aquitaine.
The timing was perfect - the RTB order and then just as I was about to hit 40m/s and jump out... thud. A few hundred thousand tons of destroyer flies straight through me.
Still, I guess I mdae an impression on the ship.
Yeah, I've been run over loads of times. It never really gets any better, either. It seemed like the capships entering the game were tracking me at times. Big, vast, wide open space, and friendlies always managed to appear right behind me. I'm speaking of FS1 as well as FS2 here. But yeah, it was bad. In fact for a time... wait. I am about to share an embarrasing story. I fully expect not to be blackmailed by it, okay? Okay.
I watch a lot of Star Trek, and there are enough episodes where someone says that, "It's the warp core! We're dragging the phenomenon with us through space like a zipper!". And so the capships came in behind me so often that I was actually thinking a plot point (Again, FS1) was going to be that, "OMG Alpha 1, your warp drives were attracting the Shivans!" Which, I guess, turned out to be true... but not in the way I was thinking. I wasn't thinking they were detecting it and maybe being killed in their home by it. I thought it was more like... "Engage engines!" *Zwoop!* Shivans. Just like that. And then I thought, no wonder they're cranky. You're a shivan, flying support for the Shivan princess or something and then *Zwoop!*. There you are, surrounded by Terrans and Vasudans fighting this dumb little war. I'd probably go ape, too. Anyway, no explanation for how Alpha 1's drives always were the ones even though he changed ships several times, nor why this was never a problem in all the time we'd been traveling that way before. But hey, I was a n00b.
Okay. Embarrasing story over.
