Starfighter: Fail

So my boyfriend got me hooked on Star Wars Galaxies, an MMO that's been around for a while. But it's good. So good. Hence the being hooked. Only issue is - my internet connection is a little less than stable. This has led to a certain difficulty in completing my current quest.

There's this series of quests called the "Legacy," and as part of it I have to track down this certain droid that somebody wanted. Wouldn't you know it had been sold. So I tracked the buyer down. Turns out that he, for some unknown and unfathomable reason, decided to take the droid apart and send pieces of it to different people all over Tatooine. That, to me, makes LOADS of sense.

Boyfriend (mentioned earlier) just gave me a new computer for my birthday (which hasn't happened yet, but whatever) and I am thrilled about it. However, I am in no mind to take it apart and send pieces of it all over the state (country/etc) just on a whim.

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Later
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So I've tracked down everything but the head, and that droid, EV-9D9 (you know, the one who worked in the torture chambers of Jabba's palace in Return of the Jedi.... yeah... THAT droid.... ) has it. And she won't give it to me. Not until I destroy some ships who have droids on them who escaped from her clutches.

In an effort to further diplomacy between the rebellion and Jabba (not really, but it sounds nice) I launch my poor, abused little ship into space and head off after the ship with the droid that she wants eliminated. That ship flies a good bit faster than my little thing, and gets away. So I land, tell her, and she tells me to try again. I do. And again, the thing jumps to hyperspace before I even get close to it. So I try again. This time, I catch up to it and blow it out of the water... erm... sky. Thinking she should be satisfied, I start to head back to port, but noooooo.... she wants me to catch ANOTHER droid. You'd think she'd learn to keep better security on the place, with all these droids jumping ship. I head off after that ship, and just as I manage to get close to it, the escort fighters surrounding it blow me to bits and I am forced, via a dramatic cutscene, to eject.

I trudge back to EV, and wouldn't you know, she won't just give me the head for all my effort and trying. No, I have to go back out there yet again and do the job right. So I go out. I get the first droid. I get the second droid. And just as I am about to receive the coordinates for the third (and hopefully final) droid, a TIE bomber spawns out of nowhere and I, like usual, am once again dead.

Thinking, that maybe, I am getting the hang of this, and now that I know the Imperial is going to show up, I try for who knows the how many-th time, and once again, I make it past the first. I make it past the second. I even manage to avoid the TIE. Just as I begin to exult in my piloting abilities, my internet connection resets and I am ejected from the game.


I'll try again later.