Let me introduce my self, my name is Portios Smith and I am a relatively new pirate. I have learned to hunt alone and actually enjoy it a good deal. I am a ransoming pirate…
Last night I was on my way back to my home system after ten jumps of fruitless hunting, hopes of finding a good target where very low. When I jump in to the Aralgrund system, I scan a Rupture and a Brutix and quickly pinpoint the belt they are in. I am flying a Thorax and have just a moment of doubt; enabling combat drones on my overview reveals they are not using any against the Angels. That’s all I need to make my mind…
I warp in and land 18KM away from the rupture and 25KM from the Brutix. My MWD goes in to action as Arrow II (my Thorax) approaches the Minmatar cruiser. My ship has a 7.5KM scrambler (worth another story) I prime it at 11KM and initiate locking countdown on the Rupture. When the cruiser is locked my ship is just in scramble range, he is now trapped, NOSed and webbed, time to let my dogs out to play.
The Brutix fires at me first; I can sense his fear, seeing his friend and corpmate blow up didn’t help either. With the rupture dead, I turn my attention back to the Brutix; he is 25KM away and firing at me with Rails. MWD on I charge towards him, my Hammerheads are on him in seconds and just before Arrow II is in scramble range, he warps out.
I curse in disgust and call my dogs in, the rupture was not the target, and he was eliminated just so that I could have some privacy with Mr. Brutix owner to negotiate his contribution to my retirement plan. Oh well, I head for the Rupture’s can and notice the locals are starting to panic. “Pirates in system!†“are they gone?†“Portios in belt 5†I figure is time to leave belt 5, the damn can is still 20KM away with an asteroid directly in between. Grrr… I get stubborn and MWD to that can expecting a mob of irate locals to land on me any moment.
The Rupture's owner is still sitting there in his grapefruit. Hmm… he must be crying over his loot; he sees me getting closer and warps out. There was some nice stuff on that can, won’t make me rich but definitely worth shooting some one for it.
I am abut to warp off after picking up the loot when Mr. Brutix is back; he is again 25KM away, quickly locks, and fires at me. I can taste the ISK now, just need to get close fast and take advantage of his adrenaline. My dogs stay put, don’t want to spook the beast.
At 11KM my NOS goes on, no way he warps off this time. At 10KM, I web and… what’s this? I am webbed too. Seems he has a plan, no matter, my dogs are out now.
Ding! I am in scrambler range; the sweet buzzing noise is so soothing. He is desperately trying to break my armor with his rails and hoping to keep me out of blaster range. He fails… at both…
Me > Hello there Mr. Brutix pilot. 10 Million ISK and I call that last drone chewing on your structure back.
Brutix > I only have 3 million :(
You have to be kidding me, the locals are enraged and know where we are, I have to take the miserable 3 million or kill him. Based on our fight I am guessing his loot is worth crap so I go soft and accept the 3 million.
Me> Ok, I want to see my wallet flash like right now
Brutix> blah… blah… blah…
Me> do you want to go home in a pod? You take too long
Brutix> done
Wallet is flashing! I love when it does that! I am 3 million wealthier.
Me > Fly safe
Brutix > …
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