New beginnings

Leander Arctos·

After spending the past two and a half weeks ratting to get my security to a unusually high level of -1.8, I said my goodbyes to the pilots I have flown with for the past 8 months. Making my way out of my ninja-ratting 0.0 area and down to Tash-Murkon Prime, I joined up with Nexa Necis and the rest of [TRAPS]. I took some time to familiarize myself with the current wars and target habits. I then took my recently purchased Enyo out for a shakedown run, and while passing through Assiad I spotted a small jetcan mining op. Finding myself 23km from the can, I hit the MWD and was able to cover the distance and transfer the ore into my own can in about 25 seconds.

Victim > leander arctos you die now
Victim > damned ore thief

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They brought in a Myrmidon with T2 Hammerheads and I was quite happy with that as thermal is my highest resist. I kept myself out of web and scramble range while I dispatched those high-priced drones. With his drones destroyed, he Myrmidon warped out - but not for long. It returned (without restocking its drones) and I pressed my attack on the battlecruiser itself. Selecting an orbit of 500m, it was apparent that no web would be coming from this ship. The Myrmidon quickly reached armor and, amazingly, it was at this time the mining Vexor thought it would be a good time to enter the battle with his two Ogre I's. Changing targets to the Vexor, it wasn't long until I was rewarded with a shower of debris from the explosion of the cruiser. 2007.03.21 19:08 Victim: ********* Alliance: NONE Corp: ******** Destroyed: Vexor System: Assiad Security: 0.9 Involved parties: Name: Leander Arctos (laid the final blow) Security: -1.8 Alliance: NONE Corp: The Really Awesome Players Ship: Enyo Weapon: ******** Destroyed items: Cap Recharger I Co-Processor I Miner II Miner II Miner II Co-Processor I Scordite, Qty: 3200 (Cargo) Mining Drone I (Drone Bay) Mining Drone I (Drone Bay) Mining Drone I (Drone Bay) Mining Drone I (Drone Bay) Seeing a Drake appear on scanner gave me a feeling that it was a member of this corp, and not just a pilot traveling to the nearby station. Checking my aggression counter confirmed the timer for the corp was up and only the Myrmidon pilot and pilot who formerly flew a Vexor could attack me, and it was too soon for that pilot to have been able to dock and change ships. When the Drake appeared in the belt it was confirmed to be a member of the corp. It also locked me, fired at me, and promptly got destroyed by Concord. The wreck revealed a dismal pile of straight T1 non-named junk. The only thing of any value was a small tractor beam which I snatched. Not having participated in any highsec battles since I was a pup, I was still in my lowsec mind of bring only what I need for a short battle since one of you will be dead before the need for a reload. So I estimated the slow progress I was doing against the Myrmidons tank and the meager amount of ammo I had left in my cargohold, and determined that it's the Myrmidons lucky day. So my first two hours in [TRAPS] wasn't very profitable, only about a 1 million isk gain, but I had fun and the enemy lost quite a large amount. 5x T2 Hammerheads, mining Vexor, and T1 fitted Drake. All over about 200,000 isk worth of Pyroxeres. Silly miners.

8 Comments

Infinitynexus·

Very nice story, good to see another face from [TRAPS] is doing some writing :)

Gl with [TRAPS] and may your hunting grounds be bountiful

Sicks_Strings·

Nice story man. It's a shame you ran out of ammo though! I've had that happen to me. It really stinks.

Good luck in the future, and fly safe.

nam the psp·

ammo running out, that sucks. guess that's why i like lasers

good story

Nalar·

If you'd docked to get more ammo there's a high likelyhood the myrm would've still been sitting there.

People who start this sh*t over ore tend to have soft brains.

flashfresh·

Sucks that you ran our of ammo. I always pack at least a few 1000s rounds of whatever in my hold. Good story and GL in TRAPS. Those guys sound awesome, so make those 'bears tremble!

Nazgu'l·

Nice story mate :) I see you realy enjoy flying with TRAPS. Waiting to hear another story from you :)

MinithJin·

Nice story :)

It's great when Ore Baiting turns out that way :)

Leander Arctos·

Thanks all for reading. I hope my next story is better written. And, yea, I definately learned my lesson about ammo.

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