Hurricane Damage Greetings planet bound citizens, China Flex here, Intergalactic Revolutionary Communist, ore trader and would be gunslinger. Since I last checked in with you I got myself a new ship, it's a Vexor Cruiser as shown below, she is, or rather was, called Iron Council. I have fitted it out with some neat rail guns and accelerator cannons, and it has enough spare slots to mount a mining laser and a savager unit so it works nicely with my jack of all trades approach to starfaring life. I am based in the fairly friendly 0.8 Sec system of Kusomonmon, where I am running missions for the Corporate Police Force and doing some trading on the side. I bought myself some ammunition blueprints and started a little manufacturing business, churning out antimatter railgun charges. My little business started out quite well, so well in fact that it wasn't long before I had used up my stock of Isogen to make ammo. Well, I've shot down a few Guristas pirates by now, so with swollen ego and a vastly inflated sense of security I flew into Kubinen, a 0.4 security solar system, and began to mine. Things went well for a while, I had a couple of good fights with some Guristas cruisers and vaped them, claiming the reward and looting their wrecks for spoils. Then, well there was bound to be a then. I was mining away, my hold wasnearly full and I had just called my drones back to their docking by when I saw a ripple in space behind the ship. The ripple grew and then something dark and menacing popped out only 10k from my position. I didn't like the look of this, a second ripple was appearing and another ship was pushing through, time to hit the panic button, I hit the warp button, hard. Nothing, except for the whee-whee-whee alarm my ship makes as the other ship targets me. This is really bad, he's already got me with a warp disruptor so I can't flip back to base, in a panic I ramp the engines up to full and run for the centre of the asteroid field. Then the noise begins, it's a noise exactly like hundreds of big metal shells thudding into my ship' armour, because that is exactly what it is. The Hurricane could have up to eight sets of dual cannons, my shields are blown away in a couple of seconds, I hit the shield booster but it can't do anything against the awesome rain of metal that is now shredding Iron Council's armour. In a last desperate attempt to do something, anything, I hit the overload switch, for a brief moment my heart lifts as the overloaded shield booster kicks in and the red bar that shows my depleted shiled begins to move upwards. Then the other ship starts to fire. Things are now falling off Iron Council, she's gouting flames from the engine casings and the universe is spinning around as she careers out of control, spinning end over end. There's a deafening explosion and my ship disintegrates around me, I'm left in space in my escape capsule and now I manage to warp away. Oh well, at least I was wise enough to buy insurance. This is China Flex, flying the Iron Council II, signing off for now, see you in The Rig Bar, Caldari Constructions, Kuso 2 Moon 8 for a glass of Quafe and some Long Limb Roes, power to the people !