Punisher Pawnage

Recently I moved away from empire low-sec belt-piracy and moved into 0.0 with a view of getting in some fleet combat and ratting, for isk and sec-status. So far, it's been very rewarding. I decided to upgrade my ship from a rax to an enyo, and to do so I needed some t2 small hybrids, so I clone jumped to empire and bought some skills, small blaster spec and interceptors among them :D I then found myself with nothing to do, so I checked my assets and... oh hurray, a punisher O.o

So, with nothing else to do, I hop in my punisher only a few jumps away (fully t1 non-named fitted (except the t2 repper)) and go and hunt rats for a bit. I move into essence and reach a dead end system with two newer players in it. One was a June '06 player the other September. I scanned about and found one of them in a rupture, it was the june player as he hadn't removed his name from the ship. I warp in on him and he warps off to a station (damn 7.5km scram) so I try and tempt him into a 1v1 by the station. Eventually, he agrees an he engages me. I wait and see he is using nos... well, that would be me screwed... so I docked. I didn't feel very proud at that point.

After a short while I decided "what the hell...it's only a punisher!" and so undocked and scanned around again. I found him in a belt with a serpentis BC... show time :)

I warp in and get him scrambled and orbit him, he was already in armor, and my dual light pulse laser Is were doing around 10-15 damage per shot :( Then he returned fire with heavy missiles, nos and drones. This time I stayed and focused on the drones, hoping the rat would help me out here. He did. The pilot seemed to be confused and kept nossing the rat... meaning I had enough cap to rep and shoot and scram to my hearts content. I popped 2 of his hammerheads then focused on him, now on very low armor, and shot him down the last bar and into his pod, I even got the killmail:

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2006.10.25 19:37

Victim: xxxxxxx
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Damnes
Destroyed: Rupture
System: Deven
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:

Name: Serpentis Wing Leader / Serpentis Corporation

Name: Minith Jin (laid the final blow)
Security: -5.6
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Demon Womb
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: Dual Light Pulse Laser I


Destroyed items:

Advanced 'Limos' Heavy Missile Bay I
Advanced 'Limos' Heavy Missile Bay I
Armor Thermic Hardener I
Cap Recharger I
Passive Targeter I
Thunderbolt Heavy Missile, Qty: 186 (Cargo)
Havoc Heavy Missile, Qty: 934 (Cargo)
Asymmetric Energy Succor I (Cargo)
Widowmaker Heavy Missile, Qty: 15
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I left the loot since I would have no use for it and my sell orders were already maxed with loots from 0.0. I stayed in local a while (left the pod for sec status reasons)and saw that he'd brought in a friend in an incursus and himself in a typhoon... I decided to leave at the point :)

A few systems later, I scanned out a september '06 player in another rupture... I thought why the hell not :D

Warped in at 30km...damn he'll run... but he locked me and started engaging me. No rats this time I noted. So we engaged and I was delighted to discover he had med guns, no web, and no nos, but a pretty good tank. So we circled for around 2mins when he finally went pop. I considered taking his pod as he had a 2mill bounty, but due to lag I couldn't lock it anyway, he was using hybrid guns so he deserved to die :)

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2006.10.25 20:22

Victim: xxxxxxxx
Alliance: Blood Raiders Alliance
Corp: Panzershrek
Destroyed: Rupture
System: Indregulle
Security: 0.2

Involved parties:

Name: Serpentis Chief Watchman / Serpentis Corporation

Name: Minith Jin (laid the final blow)
Security: -5.6
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Demon Womb
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: Dual Light Pulse Laser I


Destroyed items:

Medium Armor Repairer I
10MN Afterburner I
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon I
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon I
Gyrostabilizer I
Warp Disruptor I
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane I
Stasis Webifier I
Gyrostabilizer I
'Malkuth' Heavy Missile Launcher I
'Malkuth' Heavy Missile Launcher I
EMP M, Qty: 946 (Cargo)
Widowmaker Heavy Missile, Qty: 500 (Cargo)
EMP M, Qty: 80
EMP M, Qty: 80
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So I left that system into Muetralle, warped to the melmaniel gate, scanned out of habit and found a caracal and an osprey... I run a 5 degree check on the only nearby belt and find the caracal alone :)

I warp in but he's already warping out to the gate, so I follow him and lock him up to see if he'll engage... he did :D His heavy missiles were doing around 40 damage per hit, but the wonderful thing about lasers is they do so much em damage, his shields, then armor, then structure were gone in 60 seconds, although I had a huge lag spike from 50% armor onwards, recovering to find him dead and in a pod. I checked his can, in front of the stunned indy ships around the gate, nothing decent again so I jump through.

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2006.10.25 20:34

Victim: john 531
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Federal Navy Academy
Destroyed: Caracal
System: Murethand
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:

Name: Minith Jin (laid the final blow)
Security: -5.6
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Demon Womb
Ship: Punisher
Weapon: Dual Light Pulse Laser I

Name: Serpentis Wing Leader / Serpentis Corporation


Destroyed items:

Heavy Missile Launcher I
Thunderbolt Heavy Missile, Qty: 818 (Cargo)
Havoc Heavy Missile, Qty: 728 (Cargo)
Heavy Missile Launcher I
Heavy Missile Launcher I
Heavy Missile Launcher I
Medium Armor Repairer I
Shield Recharger I
Small Energy Transfer Array I, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
200mm Carbide Railgun I (Cargo)
Uranium Charge M, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Serpentis Ship Log 381038422 (Cargo)
Sensor Booster I (Cargo)
Iron Charge S, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Acolyte I (Cargo)
50mm Reinforced Steel Plates I, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
1MN Afterburner I (Cargo)
Small Inefficient Armor Repair Unit (Cargo)
Havoc Heavy Missile, Qty: 21
Havoc Heavy Missile, Qty: 21
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In the next system I spot a few friends and tell them if my exploits in local, naturally this sparks some interest from some of the cruiser pilots :) I'm sitting at a planet at 100km when a thorax warps in. I fly to a gate and he follows. His corp is known to blob a bit so we talked in local for a while before I decided to stick around for another 1v1. I thought maybe a rax was a bit too much for my little punisher...

I was right :( 5 med drones (only t1) a web and small guns all ensured he despatched me in a frightfully short length of time. I insta warped my pod to a safe and congratulated him in local. We shared some more friendly chat then I decided to be on my way. I insta'd to a gate and sat for a while finishing convos, then a sleipnir appeared at the gate, locked me up and insta popped me back to my clone in 0.0 :(

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2006.10.25 20:50

Victim: Minith Jin
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Demon Womb
Destroyed: Punisher
System: Melmaniel
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:

Name: xxxxxxxxx (laid the final blow)
Security: 0.7
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Solarflare Heavy Industries
Ship: Thorax
Weapon: Regulated Ion Phase Cannon I


Destroyed items:

Multifrequency S
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2006.10.25 21:04

Victim: Minith Jin
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Demon Womb
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Melmaniel
Security: 0.3

Involved parties:

Name: xxxxxxxxxx (laid the final blow)
Security: -0.7
Alliance: Euphoria Unleashed
Corp: Revelations Inc.
Ship: Sleipnir
Weapon: 425mm AutoCannon II
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Saved me a few hours on clone jumping, cost me 2mill for a new clone. Not too bad a tradeoff really... also I found we'd captured an outpost of our enemies which sells cheap t2 stuff, so all in all one of the best and most fun days of eve I've ever played... just wish I'd remembered fraps :'(

I've omitted the names of everyone (except myself) involved, as for some I feel it just wouldn't be fair to name them :)

Cleared for publication by: Ander