You Never Know 'Till You Try

I am an ore thief and all that entails. I understand what the average opinion is of ore thieves but what’s the difference between myself and a low sec pirate. Players take a risk jetcan mining just like they do going into low sec. They know the risks. So I am making ISK off another players hard work just like a pirate is. Do you not think a player had to earn the ISK to buy those expensive modules they have on their ship? How do you think they made that ISK? Did they spend days mining or running missions or ratting. It all takes time and effort on their part. I am merely stating this to avoid the meaningless flames towards me for playing the game the way I want. Now onto my story.

I have recently trained the skills to get into Gallente Assault Frigates and have chosen the Ishkur because I love drones. I named it my Incurses to confuse noobs into thinking they were facing a weaker ship and attack me hehehe. So I am scouting systems near Jita for jetcan miners when I come across a group in local named xyz01, xyz02, and xyz03. Names have been changed to protect the noobs. So I track them down and find they have three jetcans out. After inspecting them I one full and the other two partially full with Pyro, Plagio and Scrodite. So I do what must be done and create my own can and transfer their full can into it. Then I head to one of the other cans while I am waiting for an angry horde of drones to appear. To my dismay they didn’t. In the mean time while waiting on the timer to run down so I can create another jetcan their hauler, a Bestower, shows up. So I wait patiently and sure enough it pays off. One of their Covetor’s creates another jetcan then transfers all the ore out of my can into their own and it pops. With out hesitation I warp scramble him and release my five light drones. They soar in and start to swarm around him chewing through shields, armor then structure in a matter of seconds. In the wreck I find two strip miners and some other gear.

After looting the wreck I speed down to the Bestower which is now using a tractor beam to bring their cans towards it. I quickly swap the ore into a new jetcan and I don’t know if he just wasn’t paying attention or what but he all of a sudden starts to flash red. Another kill for the evemail. To my surprise and elation the wreck yielded a pair of Beta Cargo Expanders. Woohoo. Once that wreck was looted I watched the second Covetor warp out of the belt then it disappeared from local. I went and got my own Bestower, which was only one system away, and started hauling off my loot. It dawned on me that they just lost 20plus mil in ISK and since one of their members was still in local I decided to try something I had never tried before. I sent a convo to him without really expecting a reply cause ISK farmers and macrominers rarely talk and their name smelled of these vermin. But this one obliges and I explain that if he wants to jetcan mine in the local systems which have some great belts he needs to pay me ten mil isk per week for me to leave him alone. I tell him to evemail me his decision and I shut down the convo. Not five minutes later I get an evemail saying ok and my wallet shows a player donation of ten mil ISK!!!! I can’t stop laughing. I wonder if I can get anyone else to fall for this.

Cleared for publication by: Ander