Well, I've been playing EVE for a while now, since December anyway. I've only rerolled my character once but until last week I had never actually engaged in piracy. I played nice in a carebear corp for a while, we helped form an alliance, fought in 3 wars against mercs, including Contraband Inc. The Alliance crumbled from the inside out.
Well, I finally worked up the nerve to leave these guys, despite the fact that I like them all very much, and they were a lot of fun to fly with. In doing so I created an alt (Sexy Vherokior w/ uber Charisma/Memory...) and had her learn a few corp management skills. This is how the Tactical Asset Reallocation Team [TART5] was formed on 6-8-06.
It has been little more than a week since then; my corp has grown to 6 players, mostly from my former corp and a RL friend. What better place to start a new career than the gateway to New Eden? I managed to get a few kills up near Jita before moving down to Genesis. The highlight of that night was killing a shield/armor/hull tanked Moa! WTF?!
The first morning in Genesis after I move in I find a malediction and an Incursus ratting in the belts. I warp in only to see them warp out...damn... I go back to my scan point and track them down again. This time I warp in <10km from them. Target, Scram, Web, NOS, that Maledictionn is mine! Little did I know how accurate that statement would be... The Incursus has finally gotten through my shields, and while still scrambling the Maly, I turn my NOS on the little frigate. His blasters cease firing as my repper laughs at his attempts to penetrate my armor. This is when it gets downright silly...the incursus warps out, ok no biggie. I try to ransom the inty BUT THEN THE MALEDICTION PILOT EJECTS! The pod warps off, and I am stuck laughing at my good luck. I shout at my corpie who can fly these things and tell him to eject from his ship at a safe spot and get there quick. End result? One poorly setup Malediction at 15% structure, now securely in my possession and I'm not even late for work!
We've made a few kills since, notably a Thorax who killed me, but my corpies got him before he could leave the system.
-Approved by Nuggan (long post, most moved to extended body to keep the front page tidy)
Phelan Boots > 10 mil for your pod sir?
Valourian > ok
Valourian > stop
Valourian > and I will transfer
Valourian > stop the warp scramble and I will pay
Phelan Boots > no
Phelan Boots > you pay then we stop
Valourian > hey bnoots
Valourian > boots
Phelan Boots > otherwise you warp away...
Valourian > yep, but if I pay you will kill me anyway
Phelan Boots > no
Phelan Boots > check my corp description
Delcis > we won't kill you
Valourian > 1 sec
Morgana Mortis > that is called griefing and we dont do that hee
Delcis > sorry about the extra damage
Phelan Boots > we give explicit details on how to report those kind of lamers
Valourian > ok, which one of you do I ay
Phelan Boots > me
Valourian > done
Phelan Boots > thank you you are free to go
Morgana Mortis > have a nice day mate
Valourian > ok, good fight
Phelan Boots > you too
Valourian > right, leaving the system. You guys have a good night
Phelan Boots > you too
Morgana Mortis > o/
Valourian > I'll be back, lol ;-)
Phelan Boots > rightoh ;)
Next I got to meet another famous EVE person:
Phelan Boots > nice ship
Phelan Boots > I liked the movie too
Farjung > Ta
Phelan Boots > o/
Then last night, we decide to raid the nearby low sec of Toon and the system we affectionately refer to as Mouthwash. We track down a miner in a belt, unfortunately I had fitted a 7.5km scram. (DAMNIT!) Well, we can still ransom the ore...or not, the tard gets a little mouthy and decides to try and ransom us...lol...Oh wait he warped in his Cyclone of DOOOOM!!!1!111!
2006.06.17 03:59
Victim: Daemonwell
Alliance: None
Corp: Magrathean Office of Fjords
Destroyed: Cyclone
System: Toon
Security: 0.4
Involved parties:
Name: Morgana Mortis
Security: 0.1
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Thorax
Weapon: Infiltrator I
Name: Phelan Boots (laid the final blow)
Security: -2.1
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Dual 180mm AutoCannon I
Name: Kerastasis
Security: 0.0
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: Warp Scrambler I
Name: Margot Macabre
Security: -1.6
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Rifter
Destroyed items:
Warp Core Stabilizer I
280mm Carbine Howitzer I
Heavy Missile Launcher I
Widowmaker Heavy Missile, Qty: 146 (Cargo)
Havoc Heavy Missile, Qty: 153 (Cargo)
Energized Basic Adaptive Nano Plating
Advanced 'Limos' Heavy Missile Bay I
Y-S8 Hydrocarbon I Afterburners
280mm Prototype I Siege Cannon
Thunderbolt Heavy Missile, Qty: 33 (Cargo)
Small Tractor Beam I
Medium F-4a Ld-Sulfate I Capacitor Charge Unit
Medium Remote Armor Repair System I
Barton Reactor Capacitor Recharger I
250mm Light Artillery Cannon I
Thunderbolt Heavy Missile, Qty: 200 (Cargo)
Proton S, Qty: 22
Stalker F.O.F. Heavy Missile I, Qty: 7
Proton S, Qty: 8
Then his buddy warps in with his Ferox...
2006.06.17 04:03
Victim: Dities
Alliance: None
Corp: Celestial Security Corps
Destroyed: Ferox
System: Toon
Security: 0.4
Involved parties:
Name: Phelan Boots (laid the final blow)
Security: -2.1
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Dual 180mm AutoCannon I
Name: Morgana Mortis
Security: 0.1
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Thorax
Weapon: Infiltrator I
Name: Margot Macabre
Security: -1.7
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Stasis Webifier I
Name: Kerastasis
Security: 0.0
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I
Destroyed items:
Small Remote Armor Repair System I
Medium Supplemental Barrier Emitter I
Capacitor Power Relay I
Nanoelectrical Co-Processor I
Nanoelectrical Co-Processor I
Widowmaker Heavy Missile, Qty: 673 (Cargo)
Heavy Missile Launcher I
Heavy Missile Launcher I
Medium Capacitor Battery II
Widowmaker Heavy Missile, Qty: 16
Widowmaker Heavy Missile, Qty: 16
Widowmaker Heavy Missile, Qty: 16
2006.06.17 04:03
Victim: Dities
Alliance: None
Corp: Celestial Security Corps
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Toon
Security: 0.4
Involved parties:
Name: Phelan Boots (laid the final blow)
Security: -3.1
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Dual 180mm AutoCannon I
Name: Kerastasis
Security: 0.0
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: Warp Scrambler I
Then his buddies warp in with a Brutix, Blackbird, and Rupture...
2006.06.17 04:32
Victim: Sebmagic
Alliance: None
Corp: LICORNES INDUSTRIES
Destroyed: Blackbird
System: Toon
Security: 0.4
Involved parties:
Name: Morgana Mortis
Security: -0.2
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Thorax
Weapon: Thorax
Name: Kerastasis (laid the final blow)
Security: 0.0
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I
Name: Phelan Boots
Security: -3.2
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: X5 Prototype I Engine Enervator
Name: Margot Macabre
Security: -1.7
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 200mm AutoCannon I
Name: Blood Revenant / Blood Raiders
Destroyed items:
Medium Nosferatu I
Type-D Attenuation Signal Augmentation
Bloodclaw Light Missile, Qty: 947 (Cargo)
X5 Prototype I Engine Enervator
'Malkuth' Assault Missile Launcher I
Power Diagnostic System I
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Inhibitor I
Medium Shield Booster II
Compact 'Limos' Assault Missile Bay I
2006.06.17 04:35
Victim: Zardoc
Alliance: None
Corp: LICORNES INDUSTRIES
Destroyed: Brutix
System: Toon
Security: 0.4
Involved parties:
Name: Phelan Boots
Security: -3.2
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: Rupture
Name: Kerastasis
Security: 0.0
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: Punisher
Name: Morgana Mortis (laid the final blow)
Security: -0.2
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Thorax
Weapon: Heavy Neutron Blaster I
Name: Margot Macabre
Security: -1.7
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: Rifter
Name: Blood Revenant / Blood Raiders
Name: Daemonwell (<- His buddy got a little bit trigger happy, lol)
Security: 0.8
Alliance: None
Corp: Magrathean Office of Fjords
Ship: Rupture
Weapon: 'Malkuth' Rocket Launcher I
Destroyed items:
Medium Shield Booster I
Antimatter Charge M, Qty: 5 (Cargo)
Iron Charge M, Qty: 7 (Cargo)
250mm Railgun I
400mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Heavy Neutron Blaster I
Heavy Neutron Blaster I
Heavy Neutron Blaster I
Plutonium Charge M, Qty: 208 (Cargo)
10MN Afterburner I
Fixed Parallel Link-Capacitor I
Small Automated I Carapace Restoration
Plutonium Charge M, Qty: 49
Plutonium Charge M, Qty: 46
After that was over we picked up the loot and waited off our agro timer. In the can of the Ferox was a Dark Blood Capacitor Power Relay! (Expect an auction soon.)
Later that night, we decided to bust up an ice mining op next door. I jump through first and thanks to a gang mate I already have an insta to their op. I land about 30km off of them. MWD...Target...Scram...#*$*@!@* (7.5km scram again!) The rest of the gang catch up with me and we smile as their hauler warps right in on top of us! As he goes down, their single armed escort, a Celestis, packed with ewar shows up. He dies quickly, when out of no where warps a 3rd party gang of two Ishkurs and a Stilleto! It was a rather insane battle with the drones from the two Ishkur and my corpie's Vexor all buzzing around at once. The Stilleto to chose fight me away from the others. He flew right into my Web, Scram and NOS, where he stayed and died. Our guys managed to kill one of the Ishkurs, and finally everyone who was in a pod warped out. We met up at a safe spot where I managed to run the armor repper for a couple of cycles.
I warp back in to the belt. There is the last Ishkur at 15km. I turn on my microwarp as I charge straight at him. I get the tackle as does he, now we are locked in a battle to the death. I only started with 1/3rd armor. I get in a couple more rep cycles as his drones chew through my halfway recharged shields. I call in my last corp mate with a ship to help me out. The drones are chewing through my armor by now and my cap is barely holding on. As my cap gets drained past the point of repper use, I notice his armor is almost half way gone. Slowly his armor continues to dwindle as does mine. BOOM! We both warp out; me in my pod, him with no armor and my corpie on his heels. Oh well, my corp mate gets to pick and choose from all the loot and scoops 10 T2 light drones as well.
In one week's time I've learned some valuable lessons for new pirates everywhere:
1) When in a group Voice Coms are essential! If my mic wasn't borked, I am convinced we would have won the last battle.
2) Never warp back with only half your tank repaired.
3) Its better to be lucky than good. (Thank you Ferox nub!)
To top it all off, I went out today in my Thrasher while waiting on a new Rupture. My friend in a Punisher and my Thrasher spend 30 minutes (while partially afk) tracking down a Brutix that was ratting. Finally we warp in on him, I get my 1 point on him and my mate goes for the close range tackle. The Brutix launches his drones towards me. My Thrasher laughs long and hard as they each get webbed and popped in one volley of my artillery. He sics whatever is left of his drones back towards my friend's Punisher, who ends up popping. I finish off the drones as they come back in range of my guns. With the help of the 3x Blood cruisers I finish off the Brutix as he can't afford my ransom. Catch the pod and get a nice ransom off of that with his new found insurance money. ;)
2006.06.17 19:48
Victim: Diemex
Alliance: None
Corp: Aliastra
Destroyed: Brutix
System: Petidu
Security: 0.3
Involved parties:
Name: Phelan Boots (laid the final blow)
Security: -3.4
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Thrasher
Weapon: 280mm Howitzer Artillery I
Name: Blood Arch Templar / Blood Raiders
Name: Kerastasis
Security: -1.6
Alliance: None
Corp: Tactical Asset Reallocation Team
Ship: Capsule
Weapon: Warp Scrambler I
Destroyed items:
Extra Magnetometric ECCM Scanning Array I
X5 Prototype I Engine Enervator
Faint Epsilon Warp Prohibitor I
425mm AutoCannon I
425mm AutoCannon I
425mm AutoCannon I
Fusion M, Qty: 53
Fusion M, Qty: 53
Fusion M, Qty: 53
It's a good day to be a TART....
*PS* - No relation to Phelan Lore of Sniggerdly. :P
5 Comments
a pirate·
sounds like you're having too much fun :)
a pirate·
toon it is, see you there, die ebil pirate's :)
Pliskkenn·
Heh, noticed you about the forums, you begin a life of piracy and you quickly have several nice notches on your belt. Good stuff man.
Vance Avalon·
Good job guy..I will keep an eye out for ya.
Anonymous·
dood. you got your facts a little muddled there. actually a couple places.. lol.