I was checking out random wormholes while waiting for the wars to start.
What was this? A Large Amarr Control Tower with Mobile Labs and Corp Hangars and no Force Field?
This was worth checking out!
I found the POS with the proteus only to see it had an "Onlining Timer" at 26 minutes. This was going to have to go quick!
I quickly brought in the Maelstrom and started blowing stuff up while putting out the call on Comms.
"Bring a Hauler! This is gonna be great!"
Only one pilot was close enough to make it before the POS finished onlining and Tarkis jumped in a Bestower.
As he was getting closer, I sent gutted back to snag an iteron. The mobile labs had nothing, but there were a TON of jet cans from the Corp Hangar wrecks.
I started categorizing the stuff to grab with Genepool in a separate can to make it quick. Most of the arrays were down but the timer was down to 5 minutes.
gutted gave Tarkis a warp in to the outside of the wormhole with his newly acquired Iteron IV and we went to the POS together.
gutted was able to fit most of the good loot in her hauler (250-350m of T2, best named, and reaction stuff) and Tarkis didn't quite have room for the POS stuff in his.
It was at that point that I noticed the ship hangar array. How could I have missed it?
I started in on it and it popped quickly.
We were down to about 4 minutes on the online timer at this point.
An Orca, Osprey, Hulk, shuttle and a Harbinger popped out of the hangar array.
Since Tarkis' bestower was empty, he quickly swapped to the Harbinger (fully fitted and rigged with a mix of T2 and best named) and we started in on the Orca.
It and the hulk went down fairly fast. We were down to 1 minute on the timer when I aligned Gene and gutted to get them out of there.
Tarkis stuck around and finished off the Osprey and the shuttle.
Dead POS stuff here.
Unfortunately, no mails from the ships. :(
Hi GenePool Chlorinator,
Thank you for contacting customer support.
I'm afraid there is no kill mail for those ships which were stored in a ship maintenance array as no pilots were in those ships. Thanks.
Best regards,
GM Valentine
While all of the above was going on, 2 Ravens had come into the system and started killing my friends the sleepers.
We came back in combat ships after we'd finished the hauling and finished the first Raven.
Unfortunately, the second one got away before we were able to tackle it.
However, we slowed down on killing the first one so that everyone could get on the mail. Funny enough, the second raven came back in right as the first one popped. I guess he thought maybe he could turn the tide since we were taking a bit longer to kill his buddy.
He was wrong.
All in all another good day.
No thank you notes from the Sleeper's yet.
But none are needed to be honest. I sleep better knowing I'm doing my part.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Walk a Mile - POS Ops
While waiting for the wars to start, I continued scanning wormholes for Sleeper Harassers.
A couple of drakes in a class 3 wormhole were exploiting sleeper targets when I found them. One of the drakes was able to retreat to the safety of his POS next door. One was not.
As I warped in to see what else was going on in that POS, I noticed that some of the modules were offlining. Hmmm... this could be interesting.
Unfortunately for me my pilot picked that moment to come down with a severe case of Angular Follicle Kaliculitis (otherwise known as AFK) and I missed some of what was going on.
There was one less pilot in the POS when I recovered and I decided to check next door again to see if he'd gone there.
Damn! I was moments too late. A large Caldari Control Tower was anchoring in the Class 3 POS next door and had 26 minutes to go. I decided to take up an orbit while cloaked and see what came when the POS finished anchoring.
Within minutes of the timer finishing, a Viator uncloaked and started the online timer. I quickly locked him and shut down his warp drive. Not a profitable kill, but maybe I could prevent this corporation from expanded their base of operations against the poor Sleepers. The viator kill was a start.
Going back to watch the original POS I saw them continuing to unanchor modules as they seemed to be preparing to move them to the newly onlined POS next door.
I let a few cov ops ships fly back and forth unmolested before finally I saw what I'd been waiting for. Their orca was picking up all the newly unanchored mods and started to align towards the wormhole.
By this time, I had had a few more friends ask if they could join in on the fun and, my primary interest being the protection of the Sleepers, I of course said they were welcome to join the party.
As I realized the Orca was on the move, I made sure we had cloaked pilots on either side of the wormhole he was going to and waited for the action. It wasn't long before he was well and truly tackled and going down hard and fast.
We were well on the way to ruining the profitability of this particular venture. It was a good day's work.
It got even better when I decided to check on the tower that had only gotten one small bit of fuel into it one last time before I returned to k-space and docked up for the night.
The force field was down and they'd started the unanchoring process. I watched the timer count down and then ran off the Iteron Mark V they sent in to scoop it (I just decloaked as he came through the wormhole so he'd realize his efforts were futile. I didn't want to have to risk the tower getting destroyed in the inevitable hauler explosion).
The only problem was that the WormHole I'd been using to enter this system had recently collapsed. I launched probes and started scanning while I orbitted the offline and unanchored POS in the proteus.
Fortunately for me, I was able to find an entrance to hi-sec with a hauler only 1 jump from the Wormhole entrance. I'd have to trust that they were too scared of me to scoop the hauler in my absence. God Bless the fact that there is no local communication channel in WormHoles as this was the only thing that would give me a chance.
Session timers and warps never felt so long as when I rushed out to jump in a hauler and return.
\o/ Yay!! The tower was still there. 365,000,000 isk I can now apply to efforts against those who are too callous to walk a mile in the shoes of their victims.
A couple of drakes in a class 3 wormhole were exploiting sleeper targets when I found them. One of the drakes was able to retreat to the safety of his POS next door. One was not.
As I warped in to see what else was going on in that POS, I noticed that some of the modules were offlining. Hmmm... this could be interesting.
Unfortunately for me my pilot picked that moment to come down with a severe case of Angular Follicle Kaliculitis (otherwise known as AFK) and I missed some of what was going on.
There was one less pilot in the POS when I recovered and I decided to check next door again to see if he'd gone there.
Damn! I was moments too late. A large Caldari Control Tower was anchoring in the Class 3 POS next door and had 26 minutes to go. I decided to take up an orbit while cloaked and see what came when the POS finished anchoring.
Within minutes of the timer finishing, a Viator uncloaked and started the online timer. I quickly locked him and shut down his warp drive. Not a profitable kill, but maybe I could prevent this corporation from expanded their base of operations against the poor Sleepers. The viator kill was a start.
Going back to watch the original POS I saw them continuing to unanchor modules as they seemed to be preparing to move them to the newly onlined POS next door.
I let a few cov ops ships fly back and forth unmolested before finally I saw what I'd been waiting for. Their orca was picking up all the newly unanchored mods and started to align towards the wormhole.
By this time, I had had a few more friends ask if they could join in on the fun and, my primary interest being the protection of the Sleepers, I of course said they were welcome to join the party.
As I realized the Orca was on the move, I made sure we had cloaked pilots on either side of the wormhole he was going to and waited for the action. It wasn't long before he was well and truly tackled and going down hard and fast.
We were well on the way to ruining the profitability of this particular venture. It was a good day's work.
It got even better when I decided to check on the tower that had only gotten one small bit of fuel into it one last time before I returned to k-space and docked up for the night.
The force field was down and they'd started the unanchoring process. I watched the timer count down and then ran off the Iteron Mark V they sent in to scoop it (I just decloaked as he came through the wormhole so he'd realize his efforts were futile. I didn't want to have to risk the tower getting destroyed in the inevitable hauler explosion).
The only problem was that the WormHole I'd been using to enter this system had recently collapsed. I launched probes and started scanning while I orbitted the offline and unanchored POS in the proteus.
Fortunately for me, I was able to find an entrance to hi-sec with a hauler only 1 jump from the Wormhole entrance. I'd have to trust that they were too scared of me to scoop the hauler in my absence. God Bless the fact that there is no local communication channel in WormHoles as this was the only thing that would give me a chance.
Session timers and warps never felt so long as when I rushed out to jump in a hauler and return.
\o/ Yay!! The tower was still there. 365,000,000 isk I can now apply to efforts against those who are too callous to walk a mile in the shoes of their victims.
Walk a Mile - Phase 2 (The Navy's Protector)
Concurrent to the previous activities noted I had been doing the necessary research to implement phase 2 of my plan. As I reviewed the activities of those who perpetrated crimes against the Navies of Eve it quickly became obvious to me who the worst offenders were.
If you're flying a ship made by one of the Navy or Pirate factions of Eve then you are quite obviously a terrible offender. As I observed pilots go about their activities for a certain agent in Dodixie I discovered an even better way to see which capsuleers among the hordes of offenders in this particular system needed to be made an example of.
Enter the ship scanner.
It seems that some pilots have the gall to kill Officers of the various Factions and then use their own heavily modified equipment against their comrades. These pilots obviously needed killing.
After researching three corporations flying ships either made with artifacts from my Beloved Sleepers (and generally fit with modified equipment made by the various Navies) or flying faction ships, I was ready to declare war on the oppressors of Eve.
Shortly after the Eve-Mails declaring war went out I received this response:
2009.09.24 22:21
Just to make you aware, Black Salmon is closely affiliated with Fidelas Constans. Very Closely Affiliated. I'll make this short, if you are determined to continue down this path, you will be fighting FCon, either due to us accepting them into our alliance, or Fcon war deccing you.
Just to let you know what you will be getting into:
http://killboard.fidelas-constans.com/
Lupus Aurelius
FCON CEO
A closer review of these CVA pets killboard shows that they have 59% efficiency for the month. I'm not sure I'd have posted a killboard link if my efficiency were that poor.
Ah well... I can only hope they get involved!
More to follow as the wars develop properly.
If you're flying a ship made by one of the Navy or Pirate factions of Eve then you are quite obviously a terrible offender. As I observed pilots go about their activities for a certain agent in Dodixie I discovered an even better way to see which capsuleers among the hordes of offenders in this particular system needed to be made an example of.
Enter the ship scanner.
It seems that some pilots have the gall to kill Officers of the various Factions and then use their own heavily modified equipment against their comrades. These pilots obviously needed killing.
After researching three corporations flying ships either made with artifacts from my Beloved Sleepers (and generally fit with modified equipment made by the various Navies) or flying faction ships, I was ready to declare war on the oppressors of Eve.
Shortly after the Eve-Mails declaring war went out I received this response:
2009.09.24 22:21
Just to make you aware, Black Salmon is closely affiliated with Fidelas Constans. Very Closely Affiliated. I'll make this short, if you are determined to continue down this path, you will be fighting FCon, either due to us accepting them into our alliance, or Fcon war deccing you.
Just to let you know what you will be getting into:
http://killboard.fidelas-constans.com/
Lupus Aurelius
FCON CEO
A closer review of these CVA pets killboard shows that they have 59% efficiency for the month. I'm not sure I'd have posted a killboard link if my efficiency were that poor.
Ah well... I can only hope they get involved!
More to follow as the wars develop properly.
Walk a Mile - Young Pilots Learn Lessons
With a renewed sense of purpose I took a deep breath and suited up for a hard day's work. It was time to carryout God's will for my life.
After flying around a bit I located a WormHole and watched a Typhoon class battleship enter the complex. Being a fan of minmatar ships myself, I was well aware of this ship's capabilities. Something told me the pilot wasn't on a humanitarian mission.
I let him go through and followed about 2 minutes later. On a whim, I warped straight to planet I at zero km. This pilot was there and already had core scanner probes out. He was definitely looking for Sleepers to harass. Lock him up, orbit, and splash a Typhoon. A quick scan of his wreck confirmed that this guy definitely wasn't bringing cake and cookies to the party.
Let this be a lesson for you other capsuleers. Predictability is bad mmmkay!?!
Later that same day I found a Drake and Dominix actively murdering Sleepers. The Sleepers were valiantly trying to defend themselves but were obviously overmatched. Even though we saw a Hurricane, a Falcon and a Brutix on scan, myself and my corp mates decided that something must be done! We couldn't stand to watch those poor sleepers get butchered!
My corp mate Tarkis (in a pilgrim) closed on the dominix and started orbiting him while cloaked. Gutted entered the wormhole in his proteus and warped (uncloaked) to Tarkis' ship at zero kilometers to make sure we didn't miss the drake as well. Quickly applying points to both we brought in the cavalry for the kills.
The hurricane and brutix pilot left us alone for the initial fight, but we found them at a planet later. We decided not to run the risk of allowing these pilots to Re-aggress the Sleepers after we'd left. Better safe than sorry!
We were unable to get warp scramblers on either the brutix (he abandoned his friends way too fast for that) or the falcon (stayed at too far of a range) but the hurricane died the death he deserved.
As we left the wormhole, my comms flashed. It was a mail from the Dominix pilot.
It seems we had actually done some good that day! Pilots DO learn lessons taught at the school of hard knocks. I'm unsure the Sleepers were better off for our activities, but the capsuleers learned a valuable lesson:
2009.09.21 04:02
heh, you guys owned us hard.. I even saw your probes on scan.. dunno why we didnt get out immediately. the greed I guess.. I wanted the salvage. when I saw the T3 ship on scan with the name: Its too late now I was like uh oh.... :P
classic moment
anyway, nice gank guys. were both new to the game and learnt an important lesson today. :P
o/
After flying around a bit I located a WormHole and watched a Typhoon class battleship enter the complex. Being a fan of minmatar ships myself, I was well aware of this ship's capabilities. Something told me the pilot wasn't on a humanitarian mission.
I let him go through and followed about 2 minutes later. On a whim, I warped straight to planet I at zero km. This pilot was there and already had core scanner probes out. He was definitely looking for Sleepers to harass. Lock him up, orbit, and splash a Typhoon. A quick scan of his wreck confirmed that this guy definitely wasn't bringing cake and cookies to the party.
Let this be a lesson for you other capsuleers. Predictability is bad mmmkay!?!
Later that same day I found a Drake and Dominix actively murdering Sleepers. The Sleepers were valiantly trying to defend themselves but were obviously overmatched. Even though we saw a Hurricane, a Falcon and a Brutix on scan, myself and my corp mates decided that something must be done! We couldn't stand to watch those poor sleepers get butchered!
My corp mate Tarkis (in a pilgrim) closed on the dominix and started orbiting him while cloaked. Gutted entered the wormhole in his proteus and warped (uncloaked) to Tarkis' ship at zero kilometers to make sure we didn't miss the drake as well. Quickly applying points to both we brought in the cavalry for the kills.
The hurricane and brutix pilot left us alone for the initial fight, but we found them at a planet later. We decided not to run the risk of allowing these pilots to Re-aggress the Sleepers after we'd left. Better safe than sorry!
We were unable to get warp scramblers on either the brutix (he abandoned his friends way too fast for that) or the falcon (stayed at too far of a range) but the hurricane died the death he deserved.
As we left the wormhole, my comms flashed. It was a mail from the Dominix pilot.
It seems we had actually done some good that day! Pilots DO learn lessons taught at the school of hard knocks. I'm unsure the Sleepers were better off for our activities, but the capsuleers learned a valuable lesson:
2009.09.21 04:02
heh, you guys owned us hard.. I even saw your probes on scan.. dunno why we didnt get out immediately. the greed I guess.. I wanted the salvage. when I saw the T3 ship on scan with the name: Its too late now I was like uh oh.... :P
classic moment
anyway, nice gank guys. were both new to the game and learnt an important lesson today. :P
o/
Walk a Mile - Protector of the Unloved
As the Alliance Tourney drew to a close and I moved back over to HOW to pursue my first love, I realized something. I enjoyed the hunting and the stalking and the killing and of course the looting, but what I lacked was a sense of direction, a higher cause.
In short, my activities lacked purpose, and other the upward mobility of my pocket book, direction as well.
All men need something to strive for in order to motivate their activities. Increasing my personal wealth at other's expense wasn't going to be enough. As I reminisced over my recent activities I realized the real victims were the poor Faction Navy pilots and Sleepers who were being mercilessly exploited for the gain of my fellow capsuleers. No one considered the plight of these pilots.
I'm not certain, but I'd guess the Faction Navy recruiter failed to mention that 20+ BattleShips piloted by their most senior comrades would fail to be enough to take down even one similar class ship piloted by a capsuleer. These guys definitely needed help...
And the Sleepers? Every pilot gets a beacon alert as they warp into Sleeper controlled territory that indicates that the Sleepers just want to be left alone. Heck, their very name shouts it. These narcoleptic pilots / drones certainly didn't ask for the hordes of pilots that have descended upon their territory to exploit the wealth that they protect.
And so it was done, I had my mission... I had my purpose.
Now to exact my vengeance upon those who would exploit the pilots of Eve without the means to properly protect themselves or the ability to actively mete out revenge upon those would visit pain upon them.
It was time to force those capsuleers that would thoughtlessly murder the Faction Navy and Sleepers of Eve to Walk a Mile in the shoes of their victims.
In short, my activities lacked purpose, and other the upward mobility of my pocket book, direction as well.
All men need something to strive for in order to motivate their activities. Increasing my personal wealth at other's expense wasn't going to be enough. As I reminisced over my recent activities I realized the real victims were the poor Faction Navy pilots and Sleepers who were being mercilessly exploited for the gain of my fellow capsuleers. No one considered the plight of these pilots.
I'm not certain, but I'd guess the Faction Navy recruiter failed to mention that 20+ BattleShips piloted by their most senior comrades would fail to be enough to take down even one similar class ship piloted by a capsuleer. These guys definitely needed help...
And the Sleepers? Every pilot gets a beacon alert as they warp into Sleeper controlled territory that indicates that the Sleepers just want to be left alone. Heck, their very name shouts it. These narcoleptic pilots / drones certainly didn't ask for the hordes of pilots that have descended upon their territory to exploit the wealth that they protect.
And so it was done, I had my mission... I had my purpose.
Now to exact my vengeance upon those who would exploit the pilots of Eve without the means to properly protect themselves or the ability to actively mete out revenge upon those would visit pain upon them.
It was time to force those capsuleers that would thoughtlessly murder the Faction Navy and Sleepers of Eve to Walk a Mile in the shoes of their victims.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Alliance Tourney Finals
Alliance Tourney VII was a really good time but by the end of it I was ready to make it back to HOW and get things started there again.
It might've had something to do with the setups we were using but I found it hard to get excited for the last couple of fights.
We ended up beating Morsus Mihi in the first match of the finals with a mostly Caldari setup plus myself and some other folks in small non-caldari ships.
It was a convincing win against a huge alliance and it kept them from automatically getting a berth next year while guaranteeing us one. Given all the drama about Morsus Mihi's 'relevance' and how they should be guaranteed a spot I thought it was pretty cool to be a part of knocking them out.
Our next match was against Manifest Destiny and I thought we had it in the bag as the match started. We had mostly the same Caldari ranged team against a rook, guardian, 2 tengus, 2 proteus's an ishkur and some other small stuff.
We popped their rook and some other small stuff without losing a ship. Then our target calling went awry and we tried a few targets before realizing the guardian really wasn't a bait guardian.
He died fast once we targeted him, but it was too late. We ended up having our tengu still on the field against their tengu and proteus when time ran out.
It was close... but not close enough.
As I said at the beginning, the Alliance Tourney was a lot of fun, but I'm glad to get back to normal.
The blog needs a new theme, and I think I know where I want to go with it from here.
Stay tuned for a new direction.
It might've had something to do with the setups we were using but I found it hard to get excited for the last couple of fights.
We ended up beating Morsus Mihi in the first match of the finals with a mostly Caldari setup plus myself and some other folks in small non-caldari ships.
It was a convincing win against a huge alliance and it kept them from automatically getting a berth next year while guaranteeing us one. Given all the drama about Morsus Mihi's 'relevance' and how they should be guaranteed a spot I thought it was pretty cool to be a part of knocking them out.
Our next match was against Manifest Destiny and I thought we had it in the bag as the match started. We had mostly the same Caldari ranged team against a rook, guardian, 2 tengus, 2 proteus's an ishkur and some other small stuff.
We popped their rook and some other small stuff without losing a ship. Then our target calling went awry and we tried a few targets before realizing the guardian really wasn't a bait guardian.
He died fast once we targeted him, but it was too late. We ended up having our tengu still on the field against their tengu and proteus when time ran out.
It was close... but not close enough.
As I said at the beginning, the Alliance Tourney was a lot of fun, but I'm glad to get back to normal.
The blog needs a new theme, and I think I know where I want to go with it from here.
Stay tuned for a new direction.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
I love my corp!
After a relatively slow night camping a class 3 WormHole while I was taking care of some stuff in real life I finally had a buzzard come in and start probing a bit.
I think he was the world's worst prober as he spent forever with probes out and ended up not really finding anything of note.
While he was probing, he had alliance mates starting to gather in the system outside. Over the course of an hour, their gang (which started with just a NightHawk) built up to the Nighthawk, 2 Drakes, a Hurricane and a Deimos.
I was losing patience with them as it was taking them forever to get marshalled and come in. My only solace was knowing that they were spending so much time gathering and we'd put an abrupt end to it.
That fight was definitely more than I wanted to take with just a Proteus and a Maelstrom, but fortunately for me, my corpmates were active and just as bloodthirsty as I.
Tarkis was in his trusty pilgrim, and Hanius Valm was flying a dominix. A little extra firepower in these situations is ALWAYS welcome.
The nighthawk, deimos, drake, drake and hurricane all warped to an anomaly (which is why I can't figure out why they wasted all that time probing) and started killing sleepers.
This is massive overkill in a class 3, but maybe they just figured they had safety in numbers.
They were wrong.
Once they brought in their catalyst salvager (who was their eyes on the WH) we got stacked up and ready to go.
gutted decloaked and tackled the Nighthawk (as he was the ship most likely to have shinies) and called for backup.
The Deimos decided to try and help his buddy but carebear instincts kicked in for all the rest of them.
We ended up splashing the Nighthawk and the Deimos but being relatively disappointed with the loot.
50m in loot, but nothing sexy. I know.. we're spoiled.
In any case, all those BCs going back and forth had worn the WH down to where it looked like only one of us was going back through before it collapsed. GenePool went first as he had no probe launcher and of course, that collapsed it.
gutted had already found an entrance to low-sec, but we didn't know where it would dump us out.
Of course it ended up being 45 jumps away :(
We decided to go safest route back to empire (13 jumps of low-sec) and then auto-pilot our way back home.
After 4-5 jumps of emptiness, we came into a system with a few in local.
gutted scanned around and found an Abaddon, drake, and Caldari Navy Raven on scan. This wasn't going to be so bad after all!
After dropping probes to get on top of the raven, I warped in and tackled and we brought in the backup.
They weren't hitting hard at all and of course none of them had a point. The raven was dropping quickly but not as fast as I ultimately would've wanted. They had friends in local.
As the Raven entered structure a Chimera showed up in the anomaly with us.
Fortunately, we were able to finish the CNR off before the Chimera could get reps on him.
Had we more pilots, it would've been fun to try and down the carrier, but as it was, it was time to go.
While this wasn't the best loot I'd gotten in a long shot, this was probably the most fun I'd had with HOW since I started the WHorage and Pillaging experience.
I probably would've shied away from both of these fights had it been just me, but with friends, they were definitely a blast!
HOW is recruiting as I'd love to take on larger and larger engagements and have the capabilities to pursue new opportunities to do evil and profit!
The alliance tournament will finish up this weekend and War Decs will be starting back up soon.
Stay posted (and drop GenePool Chlorinator a line in game if you're interested in joining us)!
I think he was the world's worst prober as he spent forever with probes out and ended up not really finding anything of note.
While he was probing, he had alliance mates starting to gather in the system outside. Over the course of an hour, their gang (which started with just a NightHawk) built up to the Nighthawk, 2 Drakes, a Hurricane and a Deimos.
I was losing patience with them as it was taking them forever to get marshalled and come in. My only solace was knowing that they were spending so much time gathering and we'd put an abrupt end to it.
That fight was definitely more than I wanted to take with just a Proteus and a Maelstrom, but fortunately for me, my corpmates were active and just as bloodthirsty as I.
Tarkis was in his trusty pilgrim, and Hanius Valm was flying a dominix. A little extra firepower in these situations is ALWAYS welcome.
The nighthawk, deimos, drake, drake and hurricane all warped to an anomaly (which is why I can't figure out why they wasted all that time probing) and started killing sleepers.
This is massive overkill in a class 3, but maybe they just figured they had safety in numbers.
They were wrong.
Once they brought in their catalyst salvager (who was their eyes on the WH) we got stacked up and ready to go.
gutted decloaked and tackled the Nighthawk (as he was the ship most likely to have shinies) and called for backup.
The Deimos decided to try and help his buddy but carebear instincts kicked in for all the rest of them.
We ended up splashing the Nighthawk and the Deimos but being relatively disappointed with the loot.
50m in loot, but nothing sexy. I know.. we're spoiled.
In any case, all those BCs going back and forth had worn the WH down to where it looked like only one of us was going back through before it collapsed. GenePool went first as he had no probe launcher and of course, that collapsed it.
gutted had already found an entrance to low-sec, but we didn't know where it would dump us out.
Of course it ended up being 45 jumps away :(
We decided to go safest route back to empire (13 jumps of low-sec) and then auto-pilot our way back home.
After 4-5 jumps of emptiness, we came into a system with a few in local.
gutted scanned around and found an Abaddon, drake, and Caldari Navy Raven on scan. This wasn't going to be so bad after all!
After dropping probes to get on top of the raven, I warped in and tackled and we brought in the backup.
They weren't hitting hard at all and of course none of them had a point. The raven was dropping quickly but not as fast as I ultimately would've wanted. They had friends in local.
As the Raven entered structure a Chimera showed up in the anomaly with us.
Fortunately, we were able to finish the CNR off before the Chimera could get reps on him.
Had we more pilots, it would've been fun to try and down the carrier, but as it was, it was time to go.
While this wasn't the best loot I'd gotten in a long shot, this was probably the most fun I'd had with HOW since I started the WHorage and Pillaging experience.
I probably would've shied away from both of these fights had it been just me, but with friends, they were definitely a blast!
HOW is recruiting as I'd love to take on larger and larger engagements and have the capabilities to pursue new opportunities to do evil and profit!
The alliance tournament will finish up this weekend and War Decs will be starting back up soon.
Stay posted (and drop GenePool Chlorinator a line in game if you're interested in joining us)!
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