These forums have been archived and are now read-only.

The new forums are live and can be found at https://forums.eveonline.com/

EVE Fiction

 
  • Topic is locked indefinitely.
 

A Moral Choice?

Author
Richard Masseri
Intaki Liberation Front
Intaki Prosperity Initiative
#1 - 2014-03-10 23:52:43 UTC
The sound of the targeting array blinked and stopped all four targets were loaded now one last thought remained. His niece had been the wake up call, if it hadn't been for her death he might still of been unaware of this vile threat against the Intaki people. His niece had only been fourteen when she had tried her first blue pill, given to her by her boyfriend, two years later and she was dead just a 'minor' defect in one of the drugs. You could blame childhood stupidity to a limit but that limit had been broken with her passing, she was dead and in his mind it was them who had killed her. The Serpentis, the word was twisted in his mind, rotten to the core their evil had infected so many people, it was their fault that Intaki was a 0.1 security system and this, what he was about to do, was justice.

The targets where all structures, their defense fleet was long gone, his antimatter ammo had torn through them ripping them apart and now they 'stood' at his mercy. The first was a bunker probably containing a lot of off duty pilots or general workers resting quarters. The second, a habitat prefab, these usually contained bars, casino's and private resting quarters for the rich and wealthy, a good few hundred maybe even a couple of thousand people could fit into these first two structures alone. Third was a simple pathway between the two known as an orbital elevator this would be used for passenger and cargo transport alike each train would be capable of carrying at least fifty too one hundred passengers. Finally was a sentry tower this was the only one of the four structures with a definite sizable military contingent not that this mattered in his current situation there was no boarding party just him and his ships crew.

He could feel them too, moving inside him, almost, from panel to panel and room to room scurrying around the ship like ants in a hive. If he so wished he watched them any or everyone of them. Camera drones could be ordered to focus in on a particular crew member and the wrinkles in there face wouldn't even be invisible from his scrutiny, not that many capsuleers cared what actions there crew took as long as everything worked how it should.

Lizzy watched knowing what was about to occur she had seen it before and would probably see it again, capsuleer seemed capable of horrific atrocities and this capsuleer seemed no different despite the worthy cause for which he claimed to fight. No that wasn't entirely true he followed his alliance's rules of engagement to the letter, only those of a criminal nature among the capsuleer population where viable for attack and among non capsuleers he only attacked members of pirate factions. However, could he, was he, able to justify this, was this justice.

Richard had been a capsuleer for some time now the range of new abilities he now had at his command in this ship was phenomenal however it was not these abilities that had driven him down this path instead it was another ideal. A free Intaki, free of pirates and other criminals and free from the restrictive ties of the federation. But now today with these serpentis it was personal because today his niece had been killed.

And as he thought that thought three thousand four hundred and twenty six people where vaporized into nonexistence.