Placid has seen a large growth of both pirates and anti-pirates in the past few months and the Suffoco Noctis corporation is certainly not going to miss out on the newly-created hunting grounds. Unfortunatally the larger corporations and alliances that consider relocating into Placid deem it nessessary to sent only a few players to "test the water", so to speak. While normally well equipped, these pilots lack the tactical experience needed for the guerilla warfare style of engagements commonly found in just about any low-sec area. One thing leads to another and you end up in a region with kills as simple as walking into a Daycare for the Deaf and opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle.
Of course there is always the occassional pilot or two who attempt to turn the pirating tables around on us, pulling various cookie-cutter tactics against a group of experienced murderers. Killarity ensues.
Tyeke, founder and fleet admiral of 'Lighten Your Load Industries' and memeber of the 'Knights of the Southerncross' alliance, felt the need to explore this area of Placid and its opprotunities for their pirate corporation. Monitoring his activities across a few private communication channels of my own, it should be marked that his initial tests earned him quite a few kills before the local systems realised what was going on. Unfortunatally, he made a mistake. He attacked a corporation I deeply respect and admire: Sniggerdly
That was it. The bitch had to die. After gathering more intel and discovering that he brought a friend into the system, it was time to hunt. Gathering my corpmates and their gear, it was time to reclaim Aulbres from these insulters of Snigg. Desolatus in a scout/tackler Executioner, myself in an experimental duramaller, and Fade Routha in a ganking Ferox; it was time for a slaughter. We began the usual system scans to narrow down the Ishkur we knew Tyeke was flying, and noticed a Cyclone nearbye bearing the name of his corpmate: darkdecyple's Cyclone (didn't even change your name??). None the less, it was an obvious trap. Once the Ishkur engaged someone the Cyclone would warp straight on top of the intended target. Novice-level tactics, but doable. In fact, let's give them a taste of it done proper-like.
Des sent his Executioner into the belt holding the Ishkur while Fade and myself waited, aligned for warp, not far off. Tyeke took the bait, and Des notified us of the engagement with the Ferox warping in. We were already on our way. Landing on top of the Ishkur I dual-nossed it and began pounding away at it's armor. The drones eliminated Des and he quickly left the battle, for his sacraficial job was done. The Cyclone opened fire on Fade's Ferox and the battle had begun. The focused fire of the Ishkur and Cyclone proved too much for Fade's tank and he quickly warped out, but realigned and waited for my command.
It was time to put my maller to the test against the Cyclone and Ishkur, solo. The Ishkur's destruction was an afterthought, he didn't stand a chance against my frigate-class weaponry. Engaging the Cyclone I made sure he was opening fire on me with his missiles and quickly called Fade onto my position. The three nosses hit my Maller and she flinched, but tanked on. Due to the combined firepower of myself and Fade, the overwhealming tanking capability of the Maller, the tech 2-fitted Cyclone's shield tank was demolished and within moments the Cyclone switched fire to the Ferox. Although it had enough time to remove Fade's shields, darkdecyple's Cyclone melted before our eyes. Pod was locked, scrambled, and destroyed. Local was clear and Snigg was avenged.
Suffoco Noctis is back... and the bodies are only just beginning to litter the galaxy.
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Uh oh! Suffoco Noctis is in Placid... I better get out the bandaids and ointment for this wicked bruising. :P
BTW Deso, whatever you were feeding your previous clone is great! The corpse warms up nicely and sadly gets more action than you... 3mil or I continue to have my way with it.
Oh snap lol :D
NEVER!!!!! >:(
"One thing leads to another and you end up in a region with kills as simple as walking into a Daycare for the Deaf and opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle."
Hilarious!
Ahh complex engagements always have a myriad of feelings attached to them. IF your winning its great! If your losing or the enemy has outwitted you, you suddenly feel a strong sense of regret. However if you turn it round again the situation switches, and so on.
But but but... I like Placid... It's where I grew up.
What I like most about Placid is the small number of pirates actually. There's a couple, but once you know who they are you're pretty safe in 0.1-0.2 space. Sounds like the pirates have taken notice of the peaceful region.
The surprises are the pirates with 5.0 security status. I didn't even bother to warp away when I ran into him... Of course, I got scrambled and blown to bits pretty quickly. A learning experience.
I was under the belief, after reading chat this Saturday, that Deso's corpses were mass produced and are actually selling as trade goods on the market.
Tyeke? Hes not on our killboard, did he use an alt or something? His corps not on their too. I guess he can't have attacked us that bad. ::Shrugs::
Ask 'Pant Alones' of Sniggerdly what the engagement was about. He will know the specifics of the attack against Snigg since he was the target. Pant may or may not have been able to make it out safely, so there may or may not be a killmail for you guys.
Ah ok, cheers.