I forget sometimes how steep the mission contact curve is.
I was walking through my level 1 contact's missions with my first destroyer.
So I grabbed some social skills to boost my rep and all the sudden a level 3 contact opened up.
I grabbed the first mission they gave, went to the deadspace complex, and got run off by the npcs.
It took four passes, but I did clear them out.
Still without running to a station for repairs, and cutting it almost too close once, I would have been clobbered.
Fun!Spoiler
LoL!
Basically, I got cocky, and got my tail kicked.
The folks liking the post are laughing their tails off at me