![]() ![]() Right away, I engaged the turbo and jettisoned my cargo load: I needed to be as light as possible. My home station was in Sedina, and if I was destroyed I would end up back in that star system many jumps away: too far to respond. Still, an XC was weaponless, and to me that represented a big problem. How he managed to continue operating within the UIT was a secret beyond me, however it might have had something to do with the fact that he only used the most basic transport / fighter. The character “pup†was a player who was likely insane, attacking others at whim, all the while roleplaying a misguided preadolescent canine. When I saw the message over sector chat, I knew who I was dealing with. The screen flashed red as my hull began taking plasma hits. Of course, if the strike force and station guards didn’t get to Lisa’s killer in time… The widget’s info popped up on the top right hand corner of the screen: “Fused Composite Platingâ€. When it came into view, I thumbed over the “Target†HUD button, dragged it up to “Target In Frontâ€, and selected it again. Laboriously, I hauled my XC’s nose in the direction of the widget. I quickly scanned the radar for any purple dots representing dropped cargo widgets, and found a couple. The green contacts would then be the strike force and station guards responding to Lisa’s killer. A single unit of FCP was pocket change by comparison, and yet it was more than I had managed to accrue in my 40 days spent online. ![]() I knew that Lisa was working on a Type-M I had escorted her Behemoth, together with some other trusted players, to the hidden capital shipyards in Latos M-7 as she delivered a Toroidal Hyper-Plasma Reactor, some months earlier. FCP was a player acronym for “Fused Composite Platingâ€, a manufacturable widget that itself was used in a variety of manufacturable capital ship components, which were in turn used to craft the Trident Type-M, currently the game’s only player-owned cap ship. Her message instantly told me she was no longer using sector chat, which likely meant she had been destroyed. *Lisa201* can you rescue my FCP I dropped there? It might have been a convoy, but their flight pattern was too erratic. There were too many radar contacts on screen, all green by IFF. The store I was watching was closing in half an hour, and I decided to log in for one or two runs over 3G before closing up, and taking the 45 minute drive home.Īlthough I was unused to the platform, when I got close to the station I knew something was wrong. I was still getting used to the controls and interface, however I was becoming rather adept at quick trading, within Nyrius at least. I felt surprised to see it, as I did not realize she was in Nyrius also: Upon entering the destination sector, I saw Lisa’s message pop up over sector chat. When I reached 3,000 meters clearance, I engaged my intrasystem jump drive. I set my course for Nyrius K-14, and turboed out away from all gravitational objects. Each Biomedical Nanite widget occupied 2 cubic units, so my ship could carry 100 crates in a single load. Biomedical Nanites, Biotechnology Research Supplies, Civilian Textiles, Valent Robotics Equipment these were all good to trade in this system. I stuck with the same commodities because, although there were many more lines of widgets to trade, I knew them and understood the demand for them. The prices would fluctuate depending on trade activity, and after two or three XC loads of 200 cubic units, trading to that station would undoubtedly no longer be the most profitable venture. I had a full XC load of Biomedical Nanites to trade, and as soon as I launched my Personal Data Assistant told me that Nyrius K-14 was offering the highest buying price. When I logged in I received a message from the server telling me my “buddies online†included Lisa201, tsreknor, and IRC. I was trading up to five million credits, an arbitrary goal set by myself, so that I would have a healthy supply when I returned to Sedina, and continued to hone my skills in combat. The giant red sun looked over all ships, coming and going, as they carted their materials and wares to and from the stations, waiting to use them in manufacturing, or simply for profit. I logged in and found myself in Nyrius, right where I left off a bustling center of trade and commerce. The following is a cross-post from, detailing some of my experiences playing Vendetta on mobile: ![]()
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