LOL

[ 2007.04.25 19:40:16 ] (notify) You have started trying to warp scramble Madurai Chasseur's frozen corpse.

OK - so I panicked and er, tried to stop a corpse from running away.....

Three V One.

Things were still going well. Proculus was now in a rifter and he was buzzing around the local systems. I was in my rupture and I had also spied a Hawk and the same raptor from a few hours ago. This would be interesting I think.

I used the scanner and figured out that Proculus was around the station and was probably docking. A friend in the station informed me that he had docked. Arriving at the station I loitered there thinking what to do. I hate camping stations. Absolutely brain-cell killing.

AS I was about to turn the cruiser around, Proculus undocked and locked me straight away. Grinning fiercely, I locked him back and let him take the first shot. I don't know why I let him fire at me first as Proculus was already a -9.1 security rated pirate and KOS anywhere. Oh well.

I snagged him with the webber and let the drones fly. Then Buschi in his hawk undocked and Nebo, in his raptor screamed in from an outlying system.

Ah. Trouble for me perhaps?

I concentrated on the rifter but the three way pounding was a getting a bit too much and my shields had long gone. Rai Deo arrived and tried to help me but he made the mistake of firing on one of the three targets attacking me who was NOT criminally flagged. The sentry guns around the station detected the illegal weapon discharge, spun into life and proceeded to hit poor Rai Deo and his stabber. He had to leave, filling the local comms channel with very colourful expletives at his own poor choice of target acquistion.

I had the nosferatu and split them between the rifter and the hawk attacking me and also split my weapons' fire between the two. No need for overkill but the raptor was peppering me from afar and I had to recall my drones as even these speedy killing machines had no hope in catching the caldari interceptor. My shields were gone and not even recharging and I was hovering around 35% armour but luckily for me, holding.

My angry drones buzzed back and swarmed around the rifter and dismantled it - obviously my nosferatu had done enough to destroy Proculus' capacitor. Concord killmail zipped into my intray:

2007.04.27 23:03
Victim: Proculus
Alliance: NONE
Corp: FORTES FORTUNA ADIUVAT CORP.
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:
Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Hobgoblin I

Name: Rai Deo (THANKS RAI!!!)
Security: -5.2
Alliance: Eastern Star Federation
Corp: Red Light Enterprises
Ship: Stabber
Weapon: Standard Missile Launcher I

Destroyed items:
Energized Reactive Membrane I
1MN MicroWarpdrive I
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Inhibitor I
'Langour' Drive Disruptor I
125mm Light Prototype I Automatic Cannon
125mm Light Prototype I Automatic Cannon
125mm Light Prototype I Automatic Cannon
Foxfire Rocket, Qty: 970 (Cargo)
EMP S, Qty: 63

However, once the rifter went pop I switched my full attention to the Hawk. A lucky shot cut the Hawk in half sending both pieces spinning in opposite directions. Concord zipped a confirmation of the kill to me. How come they know so quick?

2007.04.27 23:04
Victim: Buschi
Alliance: NONE
Corp: FORTES FORTUNA ADIUVAT CORP.
Destroyed: Hawk
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:
Name: D Mackiller (HUH?)
Security: -6.1
Alliance: Fuzzy Nut Attack Squirrels
Corp: Aurora Empire
Ship: Unknown
Weapon: Fleeting Warp Scrambler I

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Dual 180mm AutoCannon I

Name: Angel Predator / Archangels

Destroyed items:
Standard Missile Launcher II
Standard Missile Launcher II
Standard Missile Launcher II
Fleeting Warp Scrambler I
Flameburst Fury Light Missile, Qty: 448 (Cargo)
Sabretooth Fury Light Missile, Qty: 398 (Cargo)
Cap Booster 75, Qty: 12 (Cargo)
Bloodclaw Fury Light Missile, Qty: 41
Sabretooth Fury Light Missile, Qty: 41

Feeling very happy I recalled my drones and tried my luck against the Raptor. No way. I decided that the victory was mine and with 'gf' in local; I jumped out to a safespot. Local was getting hot and Proculus came back again but this time, another local corp allied with FFAT had appeared. I decided that they probably wanted revenge so thought that it was best we leave for Eifer. Proculus could not stay still and came into Eifer too so me and a few others decided to try and track him down. We had no luck and Eifer was also filling up.


A few jumps later and oooopss.....

2007.04.27 23:46

Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Rupture
System: Gultratren
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:
Name: dueft
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Armee der Finsternis
Ship: Abaddon
Weapon: Abaddon

Name: Marshall SilverSky (laid the final blow)
Security: 2.5
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Armee der Finsternis
Ship: Drake
Weapon: Scourge Heavy Missile

Name: Anna Blauensteiner
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Armee der Finsternis
Ship: Machariel (GOT KILLED BY A FACTION BS!!!)
Weapon: Machariel

Name: Muhaar Gemeinian
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Armee der Finsternis
Ship: Lachesis
Weapon: Lachesis

Destroyed items:
Medium Armor Repairer I
Gyrostabilizer I
Dual 180mm AutoCannon I
10MN MicroWarpdrive I
N-Type Adaptive Nano Membrane I
Hobgoblin I (Drone Bay)
Dual 180mm AutoCannon I
EMP M, Qty: 2044 (Cargo)
Warp Disruptor I
Carbonized Lead M, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Gyrostabilizer I
Hobgoblin I (Drone Bay)
Hobgoblin I (Drone Bay)
Hobgoblin I (Drone Bay)
EMP M, Qty: 100

Even losing my ship - what is the best way to bounce back but with another kill!

YAAARRR:

2007.04.28 09:21
Victim: ShardowRhino
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Legion 0f The Damned
Destroyed: Merlin
System: Frerstorn
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

Destroyed items:
Light Electron Blaster I
Damage Control I
Standard Missile Launcher I
Tungsten Charge S, Qty: 1390 (Cargo)
Flameburst Light Missile, Qty: 500 (Cargo)
1MN MicroWarpdrive I
Capacitor Flux Coil I
Phased Plasma S, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Proton S, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Passive Targeting Array I (Cargo)
1MN Afterburner I (Cargo)
Nuclear M, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
EP-S Gaussian I Excavation Pulse (Cargo)
Bloodclaw Light Missile, Qty: 37

A picture to celebrate the kill



Oh and a shout out to my partners in crime: they got a Caracal Navy Issue and some very, very funny hatemail....

2007.03.28 17:39
Victim: Linora Phinn
Alliance: NONE
Corp: GalTech industrials
Destroyed: Caracal Navy Issue
System: Evati
Security: 0.2

Involved parties:

Name: Havoc Heavy Missile / Archangels (laid the final blow) (EH?)

Name: Lucius Cain
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Bad-Mojo
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Hobgoblin I

Name: Rai Deo
Security: -4.3
Alliance: Pure.
Corp: Solarflare Heavy Industries
Ship: Stabber
Weapon: 280mm Howitzer Artillery II

Destroyed items:
Salvager I
Standard Missile Launcher I
Standard Missile Launcher I
Standard Missile Launcher I
Pseudoelectron Containment Field I
Power Diagnostic System I
Bloodclaw Light Missile, Qty: 2311 (Cargo)
Piranha Light Missile, Qty: 400 (Cargo)
Bloodclaw Light Missile, Qty: 20
Bloodclaw Light Missile, Qty: 19

Might post the hate mail if I get permission......

Killing Proculus - Yaaaarr

Nursing a hangover I wanted to get out and about. I had time to ponder the benefits of the increasing flow of loot flowing in from my piratical ways. After selling off some named loot; I looked at the monies in my accounts. However, sooner or later - some corp would move in and clean things up. I recalled reading some old legends from ancient ancestors about sea-borne pirates who over time, lost out to organised national navies eager to secure the oceans for trade and travel.

Would the navies of the Minmater republic or the Gallente Federation send their navies into low-sec and assert their authority? Would they do this by proxy and send allied Corporations to do it?

I wondered over to my communications terminal and accessed the encyrpted mail system. There were many messages but one caught my eye. A friend of mine had left me a message that Proculus, a CEO of the Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat Corp was spotted out and about in a cruiser. I checked the date and location and quickly got my ship and crew ready.

Within an hour, I was out in the blackness of space and powering towards Sotrenzur. I joined the communication channel that had Rai Deo in it. He had already engaged Proculus a number of times today - exchanging fire at various locations but with no result. It was hoped with my rifter in place with a webber; that Proculus could be locked in place long enough for him to be destroyed.

Rai: Flash - get your ship over to Sotrenzur stargate now!
Me: Roger - on my way.

Arriving at the gate, I yelled at the gate crew to hurry up and fire up the activation drives. There was a clanking sound as the massive gate drives fired up and locked my ship then pulled up into hyperspace. In a blink I was hurled to the otherside of the system and landed not more than 5km from a red flashing target. It was Proculus in his rupture and he was trading shots with the darting form of Rai in his stabber. I set battlestations on the ship and targeted Proculus.

My webber and disruptor both fired up and I circled the rupture who had already noticed my presence. I almost hit the gate as I swung out too far in order to avoid the rupture's guns. I had enough traversal that the cruisers bigger guns had trouble tracking me. Proculus also did not have a webber in place so i was relatively safe. My EMP shells helped take down the armour of the rupture and I was quite sure that we had him.

Then the gate activated again.

Proculus naturally had called his corp mates in and Nebo was there in his raptor. The raptor was locking me and fired his bloodclaw missiles at me. This was not good for me and I called out to Rai that I had nothing to throw at the raptor, now orbitting me at a heady 3200km per hour.

My shields and then armour started to disappear very quickly and with Proculus also switching some of his guns to me - my time was limited but hopefully enough to get Rai and I a cruiser kill. My ship was destroyed and I warped out cursing.

2007.04.27 22:40
Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Sotrenzur
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:
Name: Proculus (laid the final blow)
Security: -9.3
Alliance: NONE
Corp: FORTES FORTUNA ADIUVAT CORP.
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: 220mm Vulcan AutoCannon I

Name: Neb0
Security: 2.5
Alliance: NONE
Corp: FORTES FORTUNA ADIUVAT CORP.
Ship: Raptor
Weapon: Bloodclaw Light Missile

Destroyed items:
EMP S, Qty: 2221 (Cargo)
Gyrostabilizer I
1MN Afterburner I
Titanium Sabot S, Qty: 73 (Cargo)
200mm Reinforced Steel Plates I
EMP S, Qty: 43


Rai however duly informed me that he managed to kill off Proculus' rupture and we cheered.

2007.04.27 22:42
Victim: Proculus
Alliance: NONE
Corp: FORTES FORTUNA ADIUVAT CORP.
Destroyed: Rupture
System: Sotrenzur
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:
Name: Rai Deo (laid the final blow)
Security: -5.2
Alliance: Eastern Star Federation
Corp: Red Light Enterprises
Ship: Stabber
Weapon: Sabretooth Light Missile

Name: flashfresh
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Capsule
Weapon: Patterned Stasis Web I

Destroyed items:
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon I
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon I
10MN MicroWarpdrive I
'Langour' Drive Disruptor I
J5 Prototype Warp Inhibitor I
Power Diagnostic System I
Energized Reactive Membrane I
Hammerhead II (Drone Bay)
EMP M, Qty: 1980 (Cargo)
Hellfire Assault Missile, Qty: 35
EMP M, Qty: 42
EMP M, Qty: 44
EMP M, Qty: 44

I want an ISHKUR. They OWN.

I just don't hunt around Eifer and GUsandall, I do travel further afield too and so I did - getting into the trusty rifter, it was refitted with a medium named shield extender with my dropping a webber in it's place. I wanted to hunt something and thought it would be fun to sit at a gate and see who would aggro me. After all, I had a -10.0 security rating with a bounty (a small one at that though) and was in a T1 frigate. What more tempting a target could this be?

Unfortunately, an ishkur came in and decided to take an interest in me.

I had a friend in a rupture one system behind me but having a noob moment, we realised one thing: he couldn't fire on ANYONE who had a positive security rating. Doh.

Anyway, the ishkur was fast and deadly and closed the distance - close enough now for it's rack of nosferatu to suck into my cap dry. Then it's main weapons appeared = tech 2 drones, valkyrie IIs on scanner. Damn. Damn.

The small buzzing killer machines screamed around me and tore the rifter to pieces. Lucius in the rupture could only look on in horror as my frigate was reduced to scrap. At least his presence scared off the ishkur pilot from salvaging my wreck as I warped the pod away.

Oh well.


2007.04.25 19:41

Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Orfrold
Security: 0.2

Involved parties:
Name: Saydhe Theving (laid the final blow)
Security: -2.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Spliffs
Ship: Ishkur
Weapon: Valkyrie II

Destroyed items:
150mm Light AutoCannon I
Medium F-S9 Regolith Shield Induction
'Malkuth' Rocket Launcher I
Warp Scrambler I (Cargo)
Gyrostabilizer I
EMP S, Qty: 2474 (Cargo)
Shield Power Relay I
10MN MicroWarpdrive I (Cargo)
Anode Light Neutron Particle Cannon I (Cargo)
Depleted Uranium S, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Antimatter Charge M, Qty: 120 (Cargo)
EMP S, Qty: 58
Gremlin Rocket, Qty: 16

Back in Eifer and rocking and rolling

Getting back to my current system was hard - I was too distracted with targets of opportunity but after a long journey I was finally home. My new crew were joined by those I lost when the stabber was blown up so here's me hoping to become even more deadly.

A quick trip into Eifer and I spotted a 4 month old pilot in a thrasher - amongst all the usual big hitters. It smelt like a trap but who wants to live forever? I quickly and efficiently scanned him down. Setting battlestations for the ship I hit the jump drive and dove straight in. I landed too short for the warp disruptor and I commanded the rifter to make all speed to the target. The thrasher was sniffing around some old wrecks and apparently, had not yet spotted me.

Good I thought, keep your eye on the wreck and not on your scanner. Since local was so busy, it probably masked my presence somewhat. Impatiently, I waited until I was almost in range and then cycled up the guns and let the unfortunate thrasher have the full load. The rifter is such a fine ship - it can be one of the few frigates able to perform a decent 'alpha-strike'. The thrasher was punched sideways by the force of my 150mm autocannons and single rocket launcher.

The pilot finally managed to acquire me and hit me with 200mm auto-cannons that tore into my shields. One of a few thrashers fitted with fast-tracking auto-cannons? I might be in trouble now as I was banking on yet another artillery fitted destroyer. It also had missile launchers and the flameburst missiles rocked my rifter.

Trusting to the extra shields that I had installed, I pressed on with the attack, the rifter weaving in and out in order to confuse the targeting computers on the thrasher. However, there was little chance of my being able to tank any damage for any length of time so I had to kill the thrasher and hope no-one came in during the middle of the fight!

The thrasher had lost the shields now and I was breaking his armour down into small chunks - I was at around 35% shield and it wasn't dipping.

The thrasher was mine - I love the feeling when you know you have the victory in your grasp.

With a delightful explosion - the destroyer disappeared in a flash of expanding debris and flash-frozen gases. I locked the pod and popped the pilot. There were too many in local for me to have an extended conversation with a pissed-off pilot.

2007.04.20 15:15
Victim: Vj Gunter
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Thrasher
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:
Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light AutoCannon I

Destroyed items:
100mm Reinforced Steel Plates I
Standard Missile Launcher I
200mm AutoCannon I
Inertia Stabilizers I
280mm Howitzer Artillery I
280mm Howitzer Artillery I
Cap Booster 50, Qty: 37 (Cargo)
Flameburst Light Missile, Qty: 260 (Cargo)
200mm AutoCannon I
Proton S, Qty: 97
Flameburst Light Missile, Qty: 35
Nuclear S, Qty: 2

2007.04.20 15:15
Victim: Vj Gunter
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:
Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light AutoCannon I

Later on in the evening - Eifer and Gusandall was getting hot. We had ADF, FFAT and others in and around the system. Just how I like it. Proculus (CEO of Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat Corp) was zipping in the system in a Stabber fleet issue while ADF were present in various ships with a scan-probing helios in tow to make safe spots far from being safe.

Zombiee was present and Lucius so, after the last successful gang up - we did it again. Lucius was especially keen to take on and kill DELT4 (a pilot from FFAT) as was I. I have nothing against Proculus but he has some idiot pilots under his command.

So a game of cat and mouse ensued between all the parties. No-one was around the belts but in safe-spots but with ADF scanning, these would not be safe for long unless I continued to move around safe spots and made more.

Proculus actually lost the stabber according to Lucius who engaged him a number of times that night. According to Luc, the stabber was a poor damage dealer. No matter, Proculus was in a rupture and a quick scan of local revealed at least ten ships of various classes.

Zombiee was now in local too in his brutix so I opted to act as bait.

I warped to the top belt and sat there - didn't have to wait long; a rupture appeared 3km from me and locked and fired in one efficient move. It was Proculus. I wasn't too bothered who it was to be honest and while Proculus is neutral to me, as soon as I get fired upon; I will fire back and attempt to pod the pilot.

However, a second rupture came in too.

Ah - problems.

My punisher was holding up but the drones, auto-cannon and missiles was taking it's toil. I called in Zombiee already but he hadn't appeared next to me yet. All I got from Zombiee was 'fack'. That did not sound too good.

I was into 50% armour and tanking but I was not on top of the damage, I was targeting and popping the drones around me but the other ordnance were taking chunks out of me. I was down to 25% armour when Zombiee finally said: 'On my way'.

I feared that it was too late so I made sure that the last thing I would do was to maintain a disruptor on Proculus before the punisher was destroyed. When my ship went pop, I insta-warped just as Zombiee came in. I hoped he would have the chance to lock Proculus and who ever else was in the belt. Finally discovered that the other rupture was Captained by Fox20. So far, this chap and his corp were neutral to mine.

No matter; my job was to tackle and I hoped I did a good enough job.

2007.04.20 20:22
Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Punisher
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:
Name: Proculus (laid the final blow)
Security: -8.5
Alliance: NONE
Corp: FORTES FORTUNA ADIUVAT CORP.
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Hammerhead I

Destroyed items:
Monopropellant I Hydrazine Boosters
Small Armor Repairer II
Phased Plasma S, Qty: 2000 (Cargo)
Warp Scrambler I
Small Nosferatu I
Capacitor Power Relay I
EMP S, Qty: 40
EMP S, Qty: 40
EMP S, Qty: 39

Zombiee gleefully told me that Proculus was down a minute later. He apologised for not warping in faster - instead of 'warping to member' he 'kicked' himself from the gang!

Fox20 was also firing on Proculus and between Fox's Rupture and Zombiee's Brutix - Proculus was down. Concord recorded it all for our posterity:

2007.04.20 20:23
Victim: Proculus
Alliance: NONE
Corp: FORTES FORTUNA ADIUVAT CORP.
Destroyed: Rupture
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Fox20 (laid the final blow)
Security: -3.0
Alliance: FREGE Alliance
Corp: The Hand Trade Alliance
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: 220mm Vulcan AutoCannon I
Name: Zombieee
Security: -0.7
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Maelstrom Crew
Ship: Brutix
Weapon: Brutix

Destroyed items:
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon I
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon I
EMP M, Qty: 3261 (Cargo)
Medium I-a Polarized Armor Regenerator
Warp Scrambler I
Compact 'Limos' Heavy Assault Missile Launcher I
Hellfire Assault Missile, Qty: 900 (Cargo)
EMP M, Qty: 56

I warped back to Gusandall just as I heard that Zombiee was being ambushed by a bunch of ADF pilots (I think). Damnnit, if I survived long enough - I could have helped him. I only managed to grab a few snatches of conversation; combat usually results in a lot of garbled message traffic but Zombiee was down.

Lucius had flown back at speed to help us out. Eifer and all the surrounding areas was hot with pissed off pilots and itchy trigger fingers so plenty of loot and plunder opportunities.

I was back into another punisher and was taking a detour to Ingunn to meet up with Lucius (who had already located prey and was also tracking him) when I stopped at the Ingunn entry gate in Sotrenzur. I was just pausing to fire off a message to Zombiee when a rifter (yellow flagged) came screaming in from the Gusandall direction. The pilot was 'Cumbersnatch' - someone who I tangled six months back (but more recently, two weeks ago) and whom I have had quite civil dealings with. He was in a rifter once more. My own intelligence had informed me that he had lost at least one Wolf-class assault frigate lately.

His rifter hit an intercept course and buzzed close to me. Wondering what he was up to, I was about to message him when my own tactical computer screamed out that it had detected a targeting lock. Shit, Cumbersnatch had locked me and immediately after, my punisher was buffeted as his shells smacked into the shields.

'Battlestations!'

OK, civil or not - he was now going to die.

I hit back as hard as I could with the punisher. The bleeder setup is NOT designed for frigate 1 v 1 but I had to try. He had the advantage of speed while I had a tank. We jostled around the gate - with the sentry guns silent and brooding. Lucius jumped through and informed me that he was going to help but had to align. Cumbersnatch was not nasty enough to have a KOS on him and had not caused any aggravation against Lucius. Any hostile action by Lucius would result in the gate guns opening up on him.

That would be to his detriment one would assume!

The gates whirled into action as it detected an illegal weapons discharge by Lucius's rupture just as he aligned and warped to safety. By this time, Cumbersnatch was in trouble and his hull was on fire with his vented atmosphere ignited by the exploding munitions.

The rifter, taking too much damage exploded.

Grinning, I had to pod him even if it meant possible destruction by the sentry guns. Locking the pod and then opening fire must have surprised Cumbersnatch - who would be mad enough to do this in a frigate directly under the sentry guns in 0.4 space?

The rules governing the possibility of sentry gun fire is quite complex but one thing is clear. A pod kill of anyone not a pirate would result in an immediate response from station and sentry gun fire as well as Concord inside empire space.

So I fired at the pod. And missed.

SHIT.

The sentry guns then opened up on me and the tactical computer protested at the damage. I realised that I had drifted too far from the pod and was now 11km.......which meant that if Cumbersnatch had his wits about him - he could warp. As the sentry gunfire intensified, I turned the ship around and tried to get close. I was already down to armour from the previous fight and the armour repairer was working as fast as it could. I locked the pod again and hit the guns once more. The sentry guns pummeled the frigate. I was tanking them but doing a bad job.
The emp shells hit Cumbersnatch's pod but failed to completely destroy it.

SHIT.

Why are they so tough now?

Already I was down to 10% armour and I had to leave. I squeezed off one final shot and was rewarded with a squish sound as I finally sent Cumbersnatch back to the cloning vats. I didn't have time to savour the victory as I warped to a safe spot and checked the combat logs.

[ 2007.04.20 21:50:24 ] (combat)Minmatar Sentry Gun places an excellent hit on you, inflicting 267.0 damage.
[ 2007.04.20 21:50:24 ] (combat) Minmatar Sentry Gun places an excellent hit on you, inflicting 208.2 damage.
[ 2007.04.20 21:50:26 ] (combat) Minmatar Sentry Gun lightly hits you, doing 99.3 damage.
[ 2007.04.20 21:50:26 ] (combat) Minmatar Sentry Gun places an excellent hit on you, inflicting 203.8 damage.
[ 2007.04.20 21:50:27 ] (combat) Minmatar Sentry Gun places an excellent hit on you, inflicting 218.4 damage.
[ 2007.04.20 21:50:27 ] (combat) Minmatar Sentry Gun hits you, doing 152.0 damage.
[ 2007.04.20 21:50:29 ] (combat) Minmatar Sentry Gun aims well at you, inflicting 168.2 damage.
[ 2007.04.20 21:50:29 ] (combat) Minmatar Sentry Gun hits you, doing 142.0 damage.

Once my flag had expired I was contacted by Lucius - he had snagged a prophecy in Hrondredir so with a whoop I jumped next door and landed into raging combat between the harby and Lucius' rupture.

I helped out in my own way but with my fast locking, it was expected that I would snag the pod....which I did.

2007.04.20 22:13
Victim: Ketsunaire
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Kakurenbo
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Hrondedir
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:
Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I

On my way back......

Gah. Hate being podded but you win some and lose some. After regaining consciousness at cloning station, signing the necessary forms and all that - I wandered back to a room that I had registered before the death. Unfortunately, I don't remember hiring this room. Nor do I remember the clothes in the locker that I was now opening.

There was a glitch in the memory transfer and as a result, I had lost some long term memory so my proficiency in some skills were lacking. Damnit.

Ordering some coffee, I reviewed my inventory and discovered that there were at least three fully fitted rifters in a hangar that was to my name. I don't remember outfitting these rifters either. However, there was an itch in the back of my head that told me that everything would be alright. Choosing one, I ordered the ship to be made ready. Now the ship management system would send a call out for an experienced crew to invite themselves to serve on this rifter. I set up standard payment and insurance packages and then satisfied, ordered some food.

I came back to the room four hours later after a walk around the station. The computer chirruped and informed me that the ship and crew were all ready. Ammunition and stores all loaded up and it was time for Flashfresh to go out and do his business. I locked the room behind and made my way to the hangar, after signing yet another contract with the cloning company.

Then I was off into the black.

Best way to get back into the swing of things is with a kill or two. I settled into the rifter and hit the black. Setting course to Gusandall. Already, Lucius Cain was asking for my whereabouts as that rascal had yet more targets on his scanner. I promised him that I would make my way, best speed and set course.

Three jumps into the journey, I saw something in the scanner. I paused and debated whether I should investigate the scan result. I knew I would be distracted if I didn't investigate this so I set the jump engines and boom. Landed on top of a rifter ratting.

Instinct took over and I hit the scrambler and orbited the frigate. The new crew responded well as did the ship itself. I hit the rifter with my own rifter's 150mm autocannons - they kicked in with ferocious abandon as emp shells spat out and smashed into Solo Kalone's shields. Each shell ate up more of his shield until it was chewing armour. This too went through quickly and soon, the rifter was venting atmosphere. With the new crew, they had to be 'baptised' so I blew the Captain's pod up as well. There was a hearty cheer from the crew, which I approved.

Concord, efficient as always:

2007.04.18 20:14
Victim: Solo Kalone
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Hofjaldgund
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:

Name: Angel Crusher / Archangels

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light AutoCannon I


Destroyed items:

Small Capacitor Battery II
200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I
200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I
Type-D Altered SS Nanofiber Structure
200mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I
Nuclear S, Qty: 2000 (Cargo)
Proton S, Qty: 41
Proton S, Qty: 37
Sabretooth Light Missile, Qty: 26

Also, snagged the pod too:

2007.04.18 20:15
Victim: Solo Kalone
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Hofjaldgund
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light AutoCannon I


I told Lucius that I would be a little bit late.....

Once the criminal flag was up, I continued with my journey. At one stargate, I was still under the cloak of the gate engines - some odd result of their jump engines or somesuch. I saw a rifter sitting there and well, I had to see if it would attack me. I am -10 security rated, thusfair game to anyone. I de-cloaked and hit the jump drive and pushed the rifter towards a pilot called KrimsonEye Kaila.

She couldnt resist.

KrimsonEye Kaila's rifter locked on mine and opened fire - safe in the knowledge that the sentry guns would remain silent. I made sure she was now flagged and that I too could shoot back to defend myself and I did.

We circled each other like hawks - I had already dropped a webber in favour of a medium shield extender - now I was shield tanking, having added two enormous engine upgrades to the rifter. I moved so fast even without the afterburners. She scored the first set of decent hits but they merely scratched the shields. I replied with emp and gremlin rockets and they ate her shields with gusto.

Kaila got in closer and made sure her 150mm autocannons did the maximum amount of damage - her optimal was also my optimal so I merely concentrated on my ammo levels rather than fighting range. Slowly, Kaila's shields began to dip down and then her armour was being hit too. Not too sure if she was armour tanking but my emp and gremlin rockets cared little. My shields still held steady at around 50%.

A new danger appeared: a brutix. It launched it's drones at me and sent them zipping towards me. The fight now had tipped to Kaila's side. It is unknown whether Kaila actually called in reinforcements but since we were at a stargate - travellers could stop and join in if they wanted to. No matter - I was a red blinkie and most 'decent' peeps would want to take a pop at me - especially as I was in a T1 rifter. The brutix's drones started to tear at me shields while the battlecruiser itself was still over 20KM away. Based on this, I figured that the Gallente battlecruiser was a close-range blaster job with webbers. It started to close the distance and was now 20km, so I had about 30 seconds to kill Kaila's rifter and then get the hell out of dodge.

I tore at the armour then hull of Kaila's rifter. I had come this far and had all the intention to knock her ship out if not pod her. The drones were merciless and tore me down to armour as Kaila finally entered hull.

My aim was still true and Kaila's hull disappeared in two salvoes - I was already aligning to a planet when she blew. As soon as her ship disappeared in a cloud of expanding plasma and debris; I warped - the drones had latched on and drilled into the hull plating now. However as the ship jumped into warp, the irritating drones were brushed off and I was safe.

It was close. With no armour repairer I was horribly exposed until my shield regenerated.

2007.04.18 20:52
Victim: KrimsonEye Kaila
Alliance: Endless Horizon
Corp: Spiritus Draconis
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Egmar
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:
Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light AutoCannon I

Destroyed items:
'Abandon' Targeting Disruptor I
150mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I
Capacitor Power Relay I
Phased Plasma S, Qty: 49
Phased Plasma S, Qty: 49

I opened up a message back to Kaila and congratulated on the fight. I made no mention of the help she got. No matter, it was fun and I felt like I was back.

Ach no - scan probes FTW!

Complacency is a great teacher. It taught an expensive lesson today. Little did I realise as I undocked from Gusandall that my day would end in fire and destruction of me, my ship and my loyal crew. The stabber class of cruiser was typical of minmater ships: fast and looking like it was held with duct tape and prayers. I love them and after a refit it was time for a shake down cruise just to work out any last minute oddities about the ship. We had replaced the dual-Nosferatu with two assault missile launchers, they were needed after a few disappointing encounters with fast frigates.

My crew ( a right motley mix from across New Eden) joked that they could see through the clingfilm that were being used in place of plasteel glass more common on other ships. Oh well.

The stabber responded to my mental commands and the new GUI interface (version 3.14.31081) was a tad quicker. All good it would seem.

I sifted through the intelligence reports and it appeared that once more Eifer was a busy little hot spot so I set course to the system and set the ship to yellow alert. The stabber responded like a frigate and flowed into warp the engines glowing brightly as the my camera drones kept a respectful 500m from the ship.

Eifer was indeed hot, ADF were back out in force and I recognised two Captains instantly: Muhaar and Dueft. Alongside them were other ADF ships and they looked like they were busy. A quick scan already revealed numerous wrecks of various class ships. I quickly sent the ship to a safe spot and waited them out. Scan probes came out and I quickly moved from one safe spot to another, ADF have proven to be very competent when it comes to scanning ships out. Always good to be on your toes.

I switched my GUI to another overview filter and checked the system scanner. The local comnet exploded with chat as yet another unlucky pilot was blasted back to the cloning vats. I chuckled to myself and congratulated myself on my intelligence and experience at not getting caught. Something flashed past the ship. I froze and checked the overview: nothing.

However, my sixth sense was screaming at me that something had just warped in close. I quickly sent all the camera drones into a wide 360 parabolic arc and as they moved, my heart stopped and my blood froze. It was a Lachesis-class cruiser.

My mental commands shot out to the various sub-routines around the ship; all geared to get the hell out of here. I set the ship to battlestations, the klaxon ringing loudly as my crew bolted to their stations, I snapped on the micro-warpdrive, I checked the weapon levels and cursed the overview. There was a bug in the software, now I remember, in which certain class of ships did not appear. One had to manually adjust the GUI software.

Cursing myself for being stupid and no doubt dooming me and my crew to a certain death - I accelerated away from the Lachesis-class cruiser. A quick glance revealed that the Captain was one Muhaar Gemeinian.

Great.

I hit warp drive to get out.

'You are unable to warp because you are warp scrambled'

Shit.

Then the space around my exploded with light and colour as four more ships tore themselves out of the warp. With a sinking feeling I recognised an Armageddon, Drake and Tempest. They locked me and opened fire.

There were screams from the crew as a horrific mix of laser fire, projectiles and missiles slammed into the shield of the stabber. In an instant the shields disappeared as I tried, desperately you maneuver into safe space. The armour was holding but against this firepower it was impossible. So I gave the order to my crew:

'Abandon ship. Abandon ship. Save yourselves.'

My crew, seasoned veterans all, leapt into escape pods and shuttle craft and left the stricken stabber. Like rain, they exited the cruiser, now shuddering as the last of the the armour was ripped off. I had to wait until the capsule was ready to be ejected. I also knew that the ADF Captains would want to either capture or destroy me. The ejection countdown wound down from 5 then 4,3,2,1 and I readied for the ejection.

There was a bump and a screech as the capsule ejection system vomited me out but there must have been damage to it as ejection was not far enough away. I tried to instantly warp out but was too close to the debris of my ship. Seconds later, I managed to get away from the wreckage but in that few precious moments, the ADF ships had my capsule locked. I ordered the capsule to warp.

'You are unable to warp because you are warp scrambled'

I laughed as I knew I had less than one second to live. No matter - the ADF pilots deserved their kill. There was a flash and a moment of disorientation. Then a delicious nothingness as the backup scanner inbedded into my brainstem squirted my last moments to a receiving station thousands of light years away.

I fell out of something onto a cold floor. I was covered in a rapidly cooling gelatinous goo. The air was cold and harsh. My head hurt and my limbs felt like fleshy appendages with no bones in them. They flopped.

Someone wrapped a blanket around me and said something. I didn't understand anything.

Re-cloning and reanimation hurts more each time.

2007.04.18 16:55

Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Stabber
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:
Name: IchIro
Security: -9.5
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Armee der Finsternis
Ship: Drake
Weapon: Scourge Heavy Missile

Name: RealZonk
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Armee der Finsternis
Ship: Tempest
Weapon: Tempest

Name: dueft (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Armee der Finsternis
Ship: Armageddon
Weapon: Dual Heavy Pulse Laser II

Name: Muhaar Gemeinian
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Armee der Finsternis
Ship: Lachesis
Weapon: 'Arbalest' Assault Missile Launcher

Destroyed items:
Nuclear M, Qty: 249 (Cargo)
Fleeting Warp Scrambler I
Carbonized Lead M, Qty: 476 (Cargo)
220mm Medium Carbine Repeating Cannon I
Type-D Altered SS Nanofiber Structure (Cargo)
Small Armor Repairer II (Cargo)
Y-S8 Hydrocarbon I Afterburners
Sabretooth Light Missile, Qty: 412 (Cargo)
Assault Missile Launcher I
Piranha Light Missile, Qty: 300 (Cargo)
Titanium Sabot M, Qty: 1000 (Cargo)
Gyrostabilizer I (Cargo)
Phased Plasma M, Qty: 213 (Cargo)
Large Shield Extender I
EMP M, Qty: 621 (Cargo)
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon I
EMP M, Qty: 80
Sabretooth Light Missile, Qty: 60
EMP M, Qty: 80

2007.04.18 16:57

Victim: flashfresh
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:
Name: dueft (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Armee der Finsternis
Ship: Armageddon
Weapon: Dual Heavy Pulse Laser II

Name: Muhaar Gemeinian
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Armee der Finsternis
Ship: Lachesis
Weapon: Lachesis

Name: IchIro
Security: -9.5
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Armee der Finsternis
Ship: Drake
Weapon: XR-3200 Heavy Missile Bay

I have a small penis?

Still quite flushed from the Harbringer and Megathron fight - me and Lucius undocked and went looking for more trouble. Eager for fresh meat and all that. With weapons and ammo loaded we blasted out of the space dock and back into the blackness of space.

The local space was too busy and hot so we scattered to the neighbouring systems; being here for so long - I can now recognise the system I was in merely from the constellations overhead. We came back to one system and we scattered to our scan spots. Nothing in space.

Lucius and I then went to two neighbouring systems and did the same thing.

We both reported potential targets as local had at least one pilot in it. I pushed my ship into another scan spot in order to narrow down the target but he proved to be elusive. Lucius had more luck and had tackled a deadly Caldari missile boat in his rifter. He has had great success against these thin-skinned, missile-spewing ship. I quickly set course to Lucius' position who gave a running commentary of the fight. It was going well for him. On arrival, I saw the following in local:

Delt4 > need help V belt 1

I saw that no-one else in local was inclined to reply so I did my bit:
flashfresh > no help for you

Lucius in his rifter already had the caracal cold. I warped to Lucius to see what I could do, chances are the caracal would be an expanding ball of scrap and flash frozen gases by the time I exited warp.

Bursting out of warp, I saw the dogfight with Lucius' rifter tearing chunks out of the hapless Caracal. Lucius in his rifter already had the caracal cold. I added some light EMP fire and the caracal burst into pieces.

The pilot wasn't too happy it would appear:

Delt4 > hey flashfresh if you fight alone against me i will say good fight but your just a little penis that cant win alone :) if your alone i got you :)
Delt4 > lucius cain the same :)

Concord as efficient as ever provided documentary proof of our kill:

2007.04.13 20:24
Victim: Delt4
Alliance: NONE
Corp: FORTES FORTUNA ADIUVAT CORP.
Destroyed: Caracal
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:
Name: Lucius Cain
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Bad-Mojo
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Rifter

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Dual 180mm AutoCannon I

Destroyed items:
Upgraded 'Limos' Standard Missile Bay I
Scourge Heavy Missile, Qty: 640 (Cargo)
Advanced 'Limos' Heavy Missile Bay I
Advanced 'Limos' Heavy Missile Bay I
Medium Tapered Capacitor Infusion I
Type-D Power Core Modification: Diagnostic System
Medium Capacitor Booster I
Scourge Heavy Missile, Qty: 16
Scourge Heavy Missile, Qty: 17
Bloodclaw Light Missile, Qty: 28


LOL. Small penis? Rifter had him dead already.

Love this game!

A piccie of the moment:

Pirate v Pirate !!

I left the hab area that I had been frequenting, with the increased income from my loot and ransoms, I could afford slightly better accommodations now. The 'Podded Pilot' was a great bar - lots of characters there and the drinks were cheap. Also, a good place to pick up intelligence and other potentially lucrative, tidbits.

So I heard that Zombiee was in town and that he was in a Myrmidon. Additionally, he needed some help and wondered if I was around to assist? I wandered over to a public communications booth and punched in my access code. There was a message waiting for me - on opening it, there was a single line and it was private comms channel. I recognised Zombiee's digital signature so I proceeded. It must be good.

The elegant face of Zombiee greeted me - we exchanged pleasantries (didn't you know that a -10 pirate can hold a conversation?) and chatted about the weather. However, the real reason soon presented itself.

Cryptically, he told me to come in something 'shooty' and to meet him as soon as possible near the Eifer gate. So I undocked in the newly refitted stabber. Not the most powerful of cruisers but it was damn fast. My crew liked it though many felt a bit exposed when compared to the rupture. No matter, it was fast and packed a punch.

As I fired up the engines, Lucius Cain came in from the Metropolis region and was available for some violence and since we all knew each (having shot at each other in the past) we greeted and decided to meet up.

I hit the scanner to get an idea on what other ships were around and was found a Harbinger and a Megathron, both ships piloted by Armee de Finsteris ([ADF]) members. A pirates corp up to no good. Good pilots too.

Hmmm, Dueft and Muhaar Gemeinian were both known around these parts and for Zombiee to call us in was exciting if not suicidal outing.

Oh well.

The scan also revealed a Myrmidon battlecruiser and a rupture cruiser - the latter was Lucius's ship already en route to the rendevous point.

Zombiee had already found the two ADF pilots hugging the gate into Eifer and as soon as he arrived, they opened fire on him and incurred the wrath of the two sentry guns. However, those two ships could easily tank the damage and so were probably settling in to kill Zombiee. Both Lucius and I were called in and we hit the jump drives, the engines screaming as they pulled us into warp. Zombiee was giving us a running commentary on the shootings and he was tanking both the Megathron and the Harbringer. Impressive!

The warp tunnel seemed to extend for ages and I was impatient to get-it-on. My heart was beating fast as the attack loomed closer. I sounded battle stations for my crew and for them to prepare for a tough fight ahead. I was greeted by 'yaarrrs' all round. Those silly, loveable pirates.

Best get some intelligence I thought.

Me: Zombiee - who is primary?
Zombiee: Dueft in the harb
Me: k
Lucius Cain: k

The stabber came out of warp and landed 2km from an angry looking Megathron, spitting death and fury at Zombiee's Mymridon. From a quick scan it appeared to be equipped with close range blasters. No doubt T2 flavoured. The Harbringer was about 6Km away and I locked it as quickly as the computers would allow me. The dual-Noseferatu snapped on and I hit hit the webber to slow the Amarr BC down. Lucius also added to the fire pouring onto the Harbringer and slowly it's armour tank was being overcome. Hot fragments the size of terrain vehicles were being blasted off it's armour. Zombiee's drones buzzed around angrily and drilled smoking holes into it's armour. Zombiee was also tanking the tremendous firepower from the ADF ships, who were also tanking the gun fire from the sentry guns.

So a three way blast them up: who could win out of team 'ADF' made up of a Megathron and Harbringer versus team 'Independents' made up of a rupture, stabber and myrmidon?

Gradually, the fight swung our way - I was targeted by the Megathron but suffered no damage, nor did Lucius in his rupture but the Harbringer was slowly dying. Already, the EMP shells from my dual-180mms smashed into exposed hull structure and I swear I could see the crew being blasted out of the ship like dust. I ordered my ammunition to be made ready as the harbringer was still a tough ship and my auto cannons were already starting to jam.

The Harbringer shuddered and then exploded - my last few rounds, the sentry gun fire and the damage from the drones (both the myrmidon and rupture) killed it. We failed to capture Captain Dueft's pod, who skillfully warped away.

Our attention was then turned towards the mighty Megathron who by now had almost killed the Myrmidon. Zombiee must have had a fantastic setup to tank this onslaught for so long.

The space between the two ships was thick with debris and whisps of hot gases and ejected ammunition casings - some the size of a truck. The myrmidon's tank was beginning to break but what a show! Zombiee's ship popped a minute later but he managed to get out his pod, leaving his drones - now leaderless. Lucius was next, his hardy cruiser trading shots with the even bigger Megathron at close range. Between my stabber and Lucius' rupture, we finally cracked the Megathron's armour - most of the damage was probably from Zombiee's drones but we helped. As the Megathron was getting into 50% hull, Lucius ordered an abandon ship and his ship exploded seconds later.

Even with 40% hull, the prospects didn't look too good as my stabber was now taking fire - luckily my first shots scored wrecking shots and blasted building sized chunks off the battleship and after 10 second broadside from the Gallente Battleship, which I survived - the Megathron exploded. Instead of celebrating, I turned my attention to a new danger: Dueft had come back in her Armageddon and while still under fire from the sentry guns - was slowly getting her optimal range to me. I left the loot just as she locked me. I hit the jump drive instantly after and leapt into warp leaving the wreckage and loot behind.

What a fight! A Myrmidon, Rupture and Stabber (both cruisers all T1) took on a Harbringer (with T2 mega-pulse lasers) and a Megathron.

In our post-fight conversation - we congratulated everyone and the kill mails revealed that the megathron and harbringer were almost all T2-fitted.

Lovely.

The combat was brilliant and exciting - certainly, both my and Lucius's T1 fitted cruisers did a superb job though Zombiee's myrmidon did most of the work. Great fight from the ADF guys too.

Who said pirates only preyed on the weak?

Concord confirmed the kills:

2007.04.13 19:50

Victim: Muhaar Gemeinian
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Armee der Finsternis
Destroyed: Megathron
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Minmatar Sentry Gun / Republic Fleet

Name: Lucius Cain
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Bad-Mojo
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Hobgoblin I

Name: Zombieee
Security: -0.5
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Maelstrom Crew
Ship: Capsule
Weapon: Warp Disruptor I

Name: flashfresh (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Stabber
Weapon: Dual 180mm AutoCannon I

Name: Concord Billboard / CONCORD (WTF?)


Destroyed items:

Null L, Qty: 1500 (Cargo)
Antimatter Charge L, Qty: 1471 (Cargo)
Void L, Qty: 799 (Cargo)
Ion Blaster Cannon II
X5 Prototype I Engine Enervator
1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Heavy Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Medium Diminishing Power System Drain I
Cap Booster 800 (Cargo)
Cap Booster 800, Qty: 3
Void L, Qty: 75
Void L, Qty: 76


2007.04.13 19:47

Victim: dueft
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Armee der Finsternis
Destroyed: Harbinger
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4

Involved parties:

Name: Minmatar Sentry Gun / Republic Fleet

Name: Minmatar Sentry Gun / Republic Justice Department

Name: Zombieee (laid the final blow)
Security: -0.5
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Maelstrom Crew
Ship: Myrmidon
Weapon: Ogre I

Name: flashfresh
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Independent Pilots
Ship: Stabber
Weapon: Dual 180mm AutoCannon I

Name: Lucius Cain
Security: -10.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Bad-Mojo
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Rupture


Destroyed items:

Radio M (Cargo)
Heavy Pulse Laser II
Heavy Pulse Laser II
Medium 'Ghoul' Energy Siphon I
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Conflagration M
Conflagration M
Cap Booster 800, Qty: 3 (Cargo)
Medium Armor Repairer II
Microwave M (Cargo)
Microwave M (Cargo)
Microwave M (Cargo)
Radio M (Cargo)
Conflagration M
Energized Thermic Membrane II
400mm R

2007.04.13 19:56
Conflagration M
Energized Thermic Membrane II
400mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Warp Disruptor II
Scorch M (Cargo)
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II
Scorch M (Cargo)
Hornet EC-300 (Drone Bay)
Cap Booster 800, Qty: 4 (Cargo)
Y-S8 Hydrocarbon I Afterburners
EMP S, Qty: 1840 (Cargo)
EMP S, Qty: 80 (Cargo)
Gyrostabilizer I (Cargo)
150mm Light AutoCannon I (Cargo)
150mm Light AutoCannon I (Cargo)
Multifrequency M (Cargo)
Multifrequency M (Cargo)

Lots of T2 gear too. Nice.

Hurricane hunting

The hunting around my Eifer has been erratic: some periods it has been good while other periods - the pickings have been none existent. My stabber was in space dock getting a refit so I was back into the punisher - increasingly turning into my main pirating frigate, even though I had five, recent good kills in my rifter. I feel safer in the punisher as I can tackle targets of the cruiser class more easily then the wonderful rifter. Certainly, I am more resistant to NOS in the Amarr frigate than our very Minmater rifter. As I was contemplating the ship types; a new face appeared in local. I quickly scanned the Concord bio and discovered that he was a relative newcomer. I quickly undocked and hit the scanner. He disappeared from the local com-net but I think I managed to get enough of scan signature to ascertain that it was a Hurricane-class battlecruiser.

Unsure of which gate he went through and with nothing else interesting in local; I zipped across to the primary gate and activated it. Nothing. The next two systems revealed nothing; unless the pilot had decided to move on. The fourth gate activation and I was successful. The Hurricane pilot was present and local was empty. The pilot was N***** and was three months out of Republic Military School...and already flying a Hurricane?

Going to be interesting as I have had a decent track record engaging Hurricanes. Hopefully, Neraven al'Brindihad fitted his ship with no webbers or nos.

I jumped to my scan spot and willed the scanner to send out it's electronic feelers. The returns came back to me and within seconds I had narrowed him down to a cluster of three belts. This is where it gets tricky: I didn't want him to jump and land short of him since most pilot ratting in a belt tend to move quite far from a warp in point. So I decided to wait: the longer I waited, the greater the chance that he would be in the last belt. Most ratters work sequentially from top belt down. He had a one minute start on me and probably had already finished the top belt. Most likely, he was in the second belt. I could have warped to the cluster's planet but decided this was a bit more challenging. After another minute, I willed the jump drives to cycle up and I warped towards the belt.

The familiar excitement was there and I don't think it will ever get away from me. The anticipation as you see the warp tunnel warp itself around your ship, the constant pinging of the scanner ahead of you and the hard return of a target. The frigate popped out of warp in a blaze of colour, the overview revealed the wonderful icon of a ship (square brackets FTW!!!) and as always with Battlecruisers, I was struck by it's size and presence. The frigate was a mere 6km away so on came the warp scrambler and I hit the afterburner to push me close to the 2000m orbit range. With two points on him, am hoping it would be enough to keep him there. My heart was beating fast now and the Hurricane pilot had already locked me. Deciding to be cheeky, I started a conversation with him:

Me: Hello.
Neraven al'Brindi: What can I do for you?
Me: You can pay me the princely sum of 12 million isk to let you go.
Neraven al'Brindi: No, I would rather you leave.
Neraven al'Brindi: And I will not pay.
Me: You sure?

At this point, Neraven al'Brindihad launched three light drones. Only three? Good - meant that he either lacked the full drone skills or he had lost some in previous engagement. No matter what the reason, three light drones I can take out.

Neraven al'Brindi: We shall see.

At this point, Neraven al'Brindisent his drones screaming my way as well as a salvo of light missiles. My shields disappeared pretty quickly as he scored some decent hits. Maybe not a noob after all! His drones proceeded to tear into the shields and within seconds they were gnawing at my armour. Shit! I toggled the armour repper on but it would take a few precious seconds to warm up. It was a tricky moment as I I targeted and sent shell after shell against the drones; popping each one. I was down to 25% - some armour tanker I am huh? Chances are he probably didn't notice the loss of his drones but now, with the threat neutralised - I had him.

My small nosferatu nibbled at his cap but I was scoring hit after hit. Occasionally, a light missiles salvo came screaming in but I was on top of it.

Neraven al'Brindi: what was the ransom again? 1.2 million

Cheeky git.

Me: No, 12 million isk.
Neraven al'Brindi: I dont have that.
Me: pity for you then!

Throughout this time, his shields were slowly going down but I was low on isk. Something had to give.

Neraven al'Brindi: Please: 6 million isk
Me: 7 million isk now or I close this conversation.
Neraven al'Brindi: Ceasefire?
Me: You pay first.

Then the conversation went silent for at least five minutes as I finally cracked the hurricane's shields and got into his armour. It was down to 52% before the conversation picked up once more:

Neraven al'Brindi: Ceasefire?
Me: NO. You pay me first, then I stop firing.
Neraven al'Brindi: Ceasefire. Payed.

I checked the accounts and there was no extra isk. I continued to fire and his armour dipped down to 45% - I checked my ammo levels and the weapon-chief informed me that we had over 4000 EMP shells left. That was plenty.

Neraven al'Brindi: Stop.
Me: Pay ME.
Neraven al'Brindi: OK, payed.

Finally, my account was credited with an extra 7million isk. I disengaged and zipped off to a safe spot. I fired off a warning to Neraven al'Brindito leave the system as there were bound to be more pirates around.

Not the biggest of ransoms but I needed some isk for a vexor that I have an eye on.

A good start to the day.