Now this happened yesterday and i was a bit reckless not to discover this before but ill get to that in a minute.
I Have recently been with my corp down in 0.0 space with a corp mining op... i did a little mining for profit ::shudder:: and a little guard duty whenever i could. now as i have been away from our normal hunting ground im out on my own as Ander and all of our rag tag crew are 20+ jumps away and 40+ jumps if you take teh low sec route which i was having to do untl i got EVE-Map but this isnt about eve map so lest carry on. anyway there are a few low sec systems with a lot of belts in leading into 0.0 right next to our corp home system. The system i was in and will remain un-named has 25 odd belts in it surrounding primarily the VIII and X planets with a few exceptions. now i enter the system and see a mining corp Apocalypse battleship sitting at the gate and i should of twigged then thats a bit suspicous but i didnt. and carried on to my optimal scanning point.
Once i reached my scanning point i pick up a Catalyst destroyer on scanners and decide to check it out... 180. still there... 90.. still there.. 60.. stil there... 30 still there.. 15... still there. i have it nailed to the VI planet with only 2 belts and i warp to the planet and start scanning at 5 degrees. the first belt comes up clean and i scan the next one and Hello. theres a catalyst in it. now i d a quick EQ check to see i have everything i need.. scrammer.. shiled booster AB.. NOS etc and i warp in now as soon as i get in teh target is already warping and im a little dissapointed and warp out to start scanning again.
About 5 minutes after that i pick it up on scanner and i think to myself.. he cant be that stupid. so i warp back to VI and scan the same belt he was in last time and hes there again. i decide to give it another shot. and warp in.. once again the target is already warping out which ticks me off. just then a new ship enters the belt and my heart sinks its the Apoc and he is in teh same corp as the miner.. nwo i figure the guy had been keeping a watch on his buddy and telling him when i came close.. now im already partially aligned for a different asteroid belt and begin accelerating for warp the apoc sees this and is already warping to the same location so i wait til a few micoseconds before i warp and kill the engines.. sure enouygh the apoc pilot doesnt notice fast enough and warps off into the belt. now im sitting here laughing as i warp to another belt when teh apoc pilot comes out behind me and locks target now i was a bit shocked here and i was dazed ofr a few seconds and the apoc started firing just as i warped.. he didnt have time to do any damage but i was already safespotted now and waiting my flag out after shooting at the catalyst. I shoudl have seen teh 2 corpmates sooner and realised they were together but i didnt and it nearly cost me my ship. rememebr folks - Local is very importanr :-)