To Kill the Overkill. Or how you can kill T3 ship in a frig worth less than his salvo.

During the week I was unable to do any serious stealing and most of my income came from two Intact Armor Plates from a hulk wreck in the ice belt which I salvaged around Wednesday. That had to change, 300mil a month isn't going to earn itself, you know. As usual, when I don't really have the concentration required to scan any missions, I undocked in my Rhofter and warped to first belt in the system to check for some loot/salvage or drones to pick up. Nothing fancy there, so I move on to second belt. Few cans with pirate loot (this was .5 system) and one mining barge with a can. I promptly approach the miner, look into the can, there is like 75k units of some ore I can't be bothered to remember and some omber, totalling to over 25k m^3. I jettison some cheap piece of salvage, move the ore to my can and start orbiting the miner. I name this can CC1. He has drones out, but doesn't react. Well, I can wait, I say to myself. I warp to next belt and find some cans and another miner there, in a mining cruiser, mining into a can. I flip his can, and he doesn't react either, only to warp out after a minute. I name his can CC2 and bookmark it for later. I check the remaining belts and warp back to the one with CC1. It seems that miner called himself some reinforcements, 100km from the warp-in point hovers his corp buddy in a Rupture. I'm not sure what exactly was he thinking, as you can't warp 100km, the distance is to short for jump and Ruptures aren't exactly masters of speed. Miner made himself a second can to mine into, so I moved the ore from this new can of his to mine, and I bookmarked it for later, then warped out to check other belts. Checking other belts is thing I do often, as it is a good way to pick up some abandoned drones, salvage a T2 or loot some concorded fool. You can't do it if you aren't the first on site, right? I don't find anything fun, so I warp to my safespot where I have Giant Secure Container anchored, and I move my loot and salvage there, then I warp to CC1. This time it seems that I'll have some action, Rupture seems to be flying around pretty fast, I suspect the MWD, he targets me and seems to be set on "approach", so I set my orbit around the miner to 10km to keep him little behind. At some point he opens fire and I start to receive damage. I should probably zoom in from tactical view and see the projectile effects to know if he is using artillery or autocannons, but I assumed he is using artillery, as using autocannons on anything bigger than a frig seems weird to me. My assumptions turns to be wrong, and I get that lesson pretty fast, as incoming damage gets way to great, once I close into tight orbit around him. I use my cap to the last drop and I manage to take over half of his shield, which doesn't really make a difference, as his armor would be most certainly unbeatable to me. Here I also have to say, that given my poor combat and core skills (most of my SP is in scanning), I don't waste cap on scrambling the target unless I think he has the reasons to warp out. Rupture finishes me off, and I check out my wreck, and warp out to station to quickly fit another Rhofter. We exchange "gf" and that would be the last fight which made any sense that day :D Hillarity ensues. This time due to rush I don't fit the salvager, as I didn't have any handy, I also didn't have the webifier ready, so I undock in an even cheaper version of Rhofter, not forgetting to platinum-insure it. After warping to the wreck, I'm amazed that they didn't take my modules, I take them all and warp to my Safespot to store them in the GSC. After that I warp back in. Mere seconds after me, Iteron MkIV arrives, presumably to take the ore from my can (CC1). I target him and start orbitting. He warps out. Very well, I think they start to get the picture, I'm going to fight anything they bring in. Not long after that some cavalry arrives to the belt, Loki, Scimitar, Thorax, there is also an Armageddon Navy Issue, but he warps out soon and after-party research revealed he was not with them. Imagine my excitement, me - lonely Rifter, facing multiple totally more powerfull ships over a can of ore. I orbit the can at 10km with afterburner on, trying to keep the distance to all their ships, switching orbit point, and generally having the feeling that the air is gonna get thick with bullets any second now. After few good minutes, when my aggro timer has already run out, and I was all busy with figuring out how to get that 25k m3 of ore from the can to the station, without leaving the spot so they don't steal it (obviously, they were pretty terrorized by my presence, so they didn't steal it in my face). Then, one of the most unpredictable things happen. Mere few kms away from me, Loki goes red. I open fire and click the orbit button, which I have set to 2km, strange thing, his shields are down and his armor is at half. Next thing I know, he's blown up. Giving myself no longer than 2 seconds of amazement. I burn to his wreck, and double click it. Thanks to my ninja profession I have my loot windows high and thin, I scroll his lootlist to bottom and see one word "A-Type". My eyes start glowing, "that shit is mineeee!" I almost yell, and I'm rapidly moving modules by 1-2 from his wreck to my cargo, which I know is limited, as I have Rifter with an overdrive, and not much more than 100m3 (moving items by 1 is a great habit I developed while ninjing, to avoid the window "can't fit everything".) At the same time I notice Scimitar approaching fast. I manage to take every single module, and why I'm taking on the drones, they dissapear from the wreck together with precious ammo. Fair enough, I say, and fully aware that it would still be profitable for anyone to suicide gank me on this very spot I warp out to some random station from my overview, from there, I instantly warp to my safespot and store the precious loot in the container. Sigh of relief, and feeling of victory, not fully understanding what really happen I suspect the Loki pilot shot my can by mistake, or something like that. While reporting the event to The Ninja Alliance channel, I realize that there is a T3 wreck there, and I go to the station to buy and fit a salvager, then I warp to CC1. I also start to realize that I looted over 1 bilion of isk there. Unfortunatelly, wreck is gone, and it seems that scimitar guy changed into Thorax, which engaged me only to get concorded as well. Asking no questions, I loot his TII fit swearing under my breath "oh, those lousy TII modules again, where is my faction loot?! yarrrr!". There is also a guy who piloted the Rupture from the start of this story, this time flying a rifter, he was the only one acting reasonably there as he scored the starting kill on me, and didn't get concorded, that counts for something. During the Thorax "kill", I had flight of drones on me, not sure from who, probably the mining barge which was there, but I was too busy warping away with loot to really pay attention to such details, as my tank was slowly giving up. After storing it into my GSC, I warped back to CC1 once again, to find only one Sacrilege there, it was chasing me around nearly half an hour, but never engaged. Well... Since I was going to play a BSG board game with friends like an hour later, I was never able to pick up the ore from the cans, so I just announced them free to any takers, with name and location, and logged off. This day sets me 1 bil ahead, which can be seen as 3 plexes, and I haven't yet decided what to do with that cash. All in that, done in a Rifter, thanks to some good attitude, and a bit of luck.