Jumpgate Evolution: I'm Like Long John Silver - Owning Seafood ALL DAY!

Pilot Kwip has sent us another amusing tale documenting his life as a Jumpgate pilot. Here's a clip:

For those of you not in the know, a bounty comes about when you attack a ship that is not flagged as Honor Guard. (Honor Guard is PK, fyi.) When you fly Honor Guard, you're free to engage other Honor Guard-flagged ships. However, if you engage someone that is not so flagged, you gain a little bounty.

Which I had just done. Yes, in my rush to show off my repair skills to Mistake, I failed to notice the fact that I hadn't turned off the other guns. So while the repair beam fired, so did my cannons... Whoopsie...

Now, normally this isn't a major concern (provided the other pilot lives, of course). Merely hitting someone only gains you a temporary bounty. That is, a bounty that is cleared the next time you dock. Had I actually blasted Mistake into bits, I would've gained a permanent bounty, which wouldn't be resolved until someone had collected on that bounty. And I don't mean delivering me in a chunk of carbonite to a slug; I mean blowing-me-out-of-the-sky collected.

Poor guy. Click here for the entire story, as well as a great little comic.