Guest submission from Suuji Praath of Suffoco Noctis
Sicex and I rolled out of headquarters, unaware of the day that would unfold. We began on a usual patrol route, up through the main mining corridor, trying to find loose targets. The route was fairly quiet until we entered the main hub, her "Vanguard" Prophecy popped into the next system and my Megathron followed.
We scanned around the belts, finding a Prophecy on scanners but had no luck tracking him down. Sitting on one of the belts, I laughed at my luck as the Prophecy warped right on top of me. After locking him down I called for Sicex to warp to me. My blasters were tearing through his tank and Sicex returned in time to get in a few rounds of her lasers to carve open his hull. His pod jumped away and the can revealed a nice drop of named goods.
Content in our quick victory we took a break and I switched into my Crusader. Running up the corridor again Sicex jumped ahead as we were scanning a system and promptly asked for me to warp to her. She was engaging an outlaw in a Kestrel at a gate and my Crusader quickly finished him off. We missed the pod, but were happy enough to have sent him running. We took another break, resting at our headquarters.
We returned to our original fleet later, Sicex in her beast of a Prophecy and my standard blaster Megathron. Passing through the popular systems we found that same outlaw from earlier in local and his CEO with him. Sicex, using her unbelievably quick scanning, jumped right on top of them and their Retribution and Vengeance engaged her, thinking they had the upper hand. An ironic smack of "Revenge being a bitch" was sputtered in local by them as they underestimated Sicex's tank. Once my Megathron entered the fight, the Vengeance that Sicex had taken into structure on her own quickly got out of scrambler range and warped. The CEO's Retribution that I jumped on was not to so fortunate, popping in a matter of seconds.
Continuing to the next system we scanned a lone Enyo sitting at a station. Warping on top of him we invited him to our gang and proceeded to sling him towards the nearest planet. Once at the planet his stationary ship was wrecked in the first few volleys from us. After cleaning up the loot we returned to the system and found a cluster of ships at a single belt. We pounced on the belt, unaware of the volume of targets that would be presented.
I must admit at this point that the details are slightly blurry. The fight was fast so I couldn't always keep track of who was there and in what ship. When Sicex and I arrived at the belt there was at least a Brutix and three cruisers: a Vexor, a Celestis and a Thorax. Despite the Celestis, my lock was quick against the Brutix. Sicex engaged the Vexor, having a personal reason to engage the pilot and some of my drones joined her. The Vexor was the first to explode under her Prophecy's lasers, followed quickly by the Brutix which didn't last long against our concentrated fire. The Celestis was next and I watched at least one Thorax warp out from our attack (I think another warped in then warped out). Enjoying our quick victory, we both smiled as yet another Brutix warped in right on top of us. The final Brutix fell fast and we began collecting the bounty from only three minutes of work.
At the end of the day, we had downed three Battlecruisers, three Cruisers and three Frigates (two of which were Tech II). Our only expense: a few dozen rounds of Large Antimatter Charges. This is only our first two weeks of this, I can only wonder how we'll improve.