So yeah, those explosions... they kinda hurt.

I was in a mission with a bunch of people, and that meant there were a BUNCH of enemy ships, as difficulty seems to scale with the number of people present. I flew in first, and I was getting so hammered that my shields dropped just as we took down one of them -- it exploded and reduced my health to 5%. As I was flying away, I noticed that my ship was on fire.

Luckily, I took advantage of the powers of my brand new engineering officer to do some emergency repairs on the shield, and all was well again.

No, I haven't been playing since my last post, this is just another of the random screenshots that I had from last time, that I totally forgot about before.

Now, I'm going to be busy with non-gaming stuff for a while -- for my birthday, dad got me the DS9 model kit (with fiber optic lighting system!) that hasn't been in production for many years. I had the non-fiber-optic version of it when I was a kid, and though I never really watched DS9 much, the opening music never failed to bring a tear to my eye, and the beautiful design of the spacestation itself made that my favorite model. I don't know what happened to that one (it was lost years ago, my memory fails when trying to figure out when), but now I shall go enjoy some nostalgia by building a new one. I'm going to need some model glue and a soldering iron....