[CaptainCrunch]

I've become a monster!


First of all I modified the good ship Mintas after the stunning loss of her gunship consort Linus, when I ran into a two pirate ship fleet, where we were outgunned shockingly. So I limped away and removed one of the turrets and added an additional shield generator.


I also lost a bunch of crew members after destroying a pirate ship and boarding it, and running into an ambush that cost me 4 of my best marine boarders.


So my strategy has changed. I outgun most pirate ships, so when they attack there is no more hailing them asking for a so called ceasefire. I shoot first and ask questions later. Well I don't ask for questions. I shoot first and destroy them, then use my scanner and sit back and watch the bastards die, then I board their ship, strip it and grab their corpses to shove in the recycling machine to extra water and carbon and food from their stinking corpses.


If I could mount some heads on the front of my ship I would. Death to all pirates.


I'm now about 3/4 of the way around the spiral. I have so many resources and fuel and energy and food, that I could go without mining anything at all or stripping ships. But old habits die hard.