Speed Fairy was Here

So there I was, learning to drive a CovOps ship.

My first CovOps, the Voilà, was an older Helios model, you know, when they made the Helios off the sleek Maulus hull. Denise from UC had taught me how to drop scan probes and I was happily scanning away in Tash to see how this worked. After a few tries and going from system to system, I finally found what exploration was all about.

Bo-re-dom.

Then in Nehkiah, just when I was about to turn back and call it a day -or was it to reprocess the ship and the probes?- a hit. I had found a Bantam-class frigate. Now, a Bantam may not be much to many of you but, to the rookie explorer I was, it meant the world. So I warped.

And the frigate was there. I had found him, pinpointed his safespot and landed right on his face, cloaked! I was so very proud of myself. And then I noticed... it was abandoned. Not only had I found him, but the ship would be mine, mwahaha!

So, being the cautious girl that I am, I bookmarked, docked at a nearby station and came back in my pod to, ahem, retrieve the treasure. I took the ship and docked right back. My preciouss. Inside the station I hopped out of the pod and looked at the wonderful loot that exploration had yielded: a T1-fitted mining Bantam. Nothing in the cargohold.

I repeat. An empty, T1-fitted mining Bantam.

Someone had thought that cheap, awful rag valuable enough to leave hidden in a safespot. Clearly, someone else needed help so much more than myself. Something had to be done.

I had a hangar in station with stuff, so I called an inventory screen. I rummaged through the list until I found brand versions of the stuff he had fitted, mining laser, cargo expanders, scanners. I fitted them but thought, maybe the poor thing can't even fly the ship like this? so I put his T1 modules back, the brand ones in the cargohold and went back once more to the bookmark, to put the ship back. And before ejecting one last thing remained to be done: renaming the ship.

Speed Fairy was Here

It felt good.