This all took place between Saturday Morning and Saturday Afternoon.
3am eve time, was prowling my hunting grounds as I do, when I got report of a small mining op in a nearby system, the ship types were Myrmidon, Omen, Covetor and *HULK*. Ofc no self-respecting pirate would pass up the chance to ransom a hulk, so I hopped in my trusty myrm and headed out to crash the party.
When I got to the system they were in the same belt as they'd been when I got the report, so I warped in and landed on top of the myr, and 23km or so off the hulk. Ofc the only thing that registered was "hulk" so I MWD'd right at it and got it dual-scrammed, webbed, nossed, and heavy droned. It didn't take long to melt through his shields, and I was about to open up a convo window when he dissapeared from local :(
So, I killed him, since there's always the t2 strip miners to look forward to, and started to go for the covetor. He warped before I could get in point range, and the omen left at about the same time, so I went to attack the myrm. He was a new player, but despite that he had a very solid setup, nos and a dual rep tank. He took a lot of punishment, and a lot of my cap, but in the end my booster prevailed and he bit the dust. As hoped, I found 2x Modulated Deep Core Strip Miner II, worth around 50mill :)
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2007.03.24 02:51
Victim: Marlow Jester
Alliance: None
Corp: R.O.N.E
Destroyed: Hulk
System: ****
Security: 0.4
Involved parties:
Name: Minith Jin (laid the final blow)
Security: -2.9
Alliance: R0ADKILL
Corp: Ore Mongers
Ship: Myrmidon
Weapon: Ogre I
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4am eve time, still prowling, when I get another report from the same system that an '07 player is ratting in an apoc there :/ Again, I hop in the myrm and head over to take a look. I go the belt he was last reported to be in and land 40km away from him. I switch on the MWD and burn towards him but at around 25km he warped off, seemingly towards a gate. I follow and discover he's safed less than an AU away.
So my informant gets his heron and starts to scan probe him, he gets a 0km warp in point and I go in. He was (thankfully) at a safe and not a POS as I feared he might, and after about 10 seconds of dronage, taking him to under 50% shields, he ejects, and warps away in his pod. I warp my myrmidon safe, and eject, I then warped to my mate who was still with the 'poc, boarded the shiny new ship, and lugged it to the nearest station for selling :)
At this time I logged, since 4am eve time equates to 4am my time, and I was tired :)
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3pm eve time, log back in, read through corp mails etc, and undock. Immidiately a covetor arrives at the statin from the direction of a belt, I decide to try and bump it out of dock range then gank it. All went to plan, another easy, boring gank. Then I find 4x Harvester Mining Drones in the loot, another 80mill or so in the pot :)
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2007.03.24 14:51
Victim: thunder cat
Alliance: NONE
Corp: East to West Galactic Citizens
Destroyed: Covetor
System: ****
Security: 0.4
Involved parties:
Name: Minith Jin (laid the final blow)
Security: -3.1
Alliance: R0ADKILL
Corp: Ore Mongers
Ship: Myrmidon
Weapon: Ogre I
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And who said piracy wasn't profitable? :)
Cleared for publication by: Ander
3 Comments
Jark·
Hmm, the thought crossed my mind a little while ago about ejecting and warping my pod out. The only benefit it might have would be getting your pod out early though, because your ship's still gonna blow up. I though an Apoc was an armor tanker anyway . . .
MinithJin·
It is, but that doesn't mean some people won't try and turn it the other way, and it doesn't always mean it's not effective either ;) (although in this case, imo, it isn't)
And if, when your ship is going down, you spam "Warp" on an object, as soon as your ship goes down you'll warp out in your pod :)
Jark·
Yeah, I usually end up hitting warp about 20 times :) Of course, the last time I got killed, I just sat there, 'cause I wanted to get podded, but they said I could go :/