Posted - 2009.08.03 16:48:00 - [1]

 

AUVERGNE -- 15:45 GST

Alone in her prized and well cared for Gallente Navy Comet, Siigari Kitawa plots a course to home. After traveling one jump and noticing that it's going to take her through 6 0.9-1.0 systems, she feels a slight hesitation. She moves to her map and ticks "prefer less secure" and notices that it will 17 jumps as opposed to the highsec 13. She mutters "this is probably a bad idea". She jumps into Yulai, her security hovering at -2.44.

The first com transmission when entering is spoken: "Siigari Kitawa, Criminals are not welcome here. Leave now or be destroyed."

CONCORD is typically a welcoming bunch, unless you're of the criminal persuasion, then they take fun and games to a whole new level. Kitawa, aligning her Navy Comet to the next gate is pinged by CONCORD. She checks her dashboard and notices "Global Criminal Countdown**" appear on her screen and slightly panics.

"Oh no..." Kitawa shrieked, "I knew this was a bad idea!"

Warping to the gate, Kitawa had only moments to think of a plan. She instinctively turned on her full overlay and began plotting a warp course through moons and planets. With Yulai being approximately 50 AU across in distance, there was the slight possibility that she would be able to lose CONCORD in her ion trail.

She landed on the outbound gate. Without even attempting to jump, she quickly warped to a moon about 40 AU away from the gate. CONCORD was on her tail. Landing just moments after her, she managed to get away by mere nanoseconds as she entered warp, leaving CONCORD behind to analyze her next move.

Five minutes later, the tension was beginning to rise for Kitawa. She had been lucky so far, but things were not looking up. Making some small warps from moon to moon to make a better align out spot to warp to a distant planet, CONCORD had been gaining ground on her warps. "[CENSORED]", Kitawa exclaimed, "I'm really not going to make this!" She looked at the Yulai Graveyards, and thought to herself that would be a fitting place for her Navy Comet to rest.

However, Kitawa had resolve. "No," she stated firmly as she began to get ready for her next warp, "I am going to get this ship out in one piece. Come on baby, you can do it." She patted her dashboard and quickly made it away from CONCORD once again. Time was ticking.

Over the course of the next 10 minutes, Kitawa had began to get a pattern down to evade CONCORD's warp beacons. By warping to a distant planet or moon, CONCORD's warp speed cannot keep up. Because a Navy Comet warps at 6 AU/second and a CONCORD SWAT officer warps at only 3, it made sense to warp as far away as possible.. keeping a healthy distance away from the police.

As the Global Criminal Countdown timer disappeared from her dash, she exclaimed exuberantly in the local com channel - to CONCORD's distress - and then left the system, emitting a heart-shaped puff of exhaust from her engines as she jumped out.

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** Note: It is a known issue for CONCORD to flag you as global if you are shot at by a CONCORD officer while in transit through a highsec system with a low security rating.



Video of the exciting last few moments here.