"The only thing constant, is change." That quote seems so true as i enter my Thorax on this night. Its so different than the first time i entered it nearly 8 months ago. It feels more.. Comfortable. I am at home in it, and the fittings have been changed, tech 1 is all gone, the entire ship is now tech 2 or high named. And my skills support it.
I remember when i engaged a Celestis the day that i purchased my first thorax, he had me so jammed all i could do was watch my first cruiser explode, i learned alot that day. Its interesting because now i engage Battlecruisers and expect to come out the victor.
So on this night, just for old times sake, i decide to do something that i havent done in months.
I leave 0.0, I decide to belt pirate. Its been so long, the closest to piracy i have done is camp a few lowsec gates in battleships, but today i purchase and outfit a pure T2 and High named Thorax, i hope you enjoy reading about my interesting night as much as i enjoyed writing it.
Cleared for publication by: Ander
How different..
So i undock in Tasti and warp to the Messoya gate, i have roamed the low-secs in The Forge region for some days now and have found many good fights, in local i find two neutrals and one alliance mate. I fire up the scanner and find two Thorax's and one Myrmidon. Right away i convo my alliance mate and ask him if he is with the other two pilots, meanwhile i warp to the station there at. There are two pirates in Thorax's sitting outside and my alliance mate and i dock, They are not low enough security to be Kill on Sight so we gang up and decide on a plan, he will undock and warp to a belt, i will follow shortly after. We decided whom he would put his points on and whom i would put mine on and got to work. Sure enough both Thorax's followed him to the belt, I felt the familiar sense of nervous energy that comes from a soldier about to enter battle. I feel my mind lose control as instincts take hold, i know what i must do and i know how i must do it. No time for thinking in battle.
I warp in to see the Thorax's engaging the Myrmidon, i rush towards my chosen target and begin raining blaster and tech 2 drone DPS on him, his shield crumble quickly, however the pilots have realized what is happening and chosen me as there primary target, "Smart," I think to myself as i begin tanking. Our primary thorax, the younger of the two players, is now in 1/4 armor while i am sitting safely at 3/4. When the all to addicting blue explosion occurs i am at one half armor, and we begin our work on the other Thorax. Later we will find they are both flying with 1600mm plates on which makes his tank all the more powerful, slowly but surely we are overtaking his armor, however as he goes to 1/4 armor i go to structure, all or nothing.
All i have to say, is thank God for DCU II's because i am in half structure when the second thorax follows his partners example. I take a quick sigh of relief and wipe the sweat off of my fo
rehead, The Myrmidon pilot and I check the cans and split the loot, Very nice t2 loot, we safe spot and await our timers while we revel in the battle that just took place. GF's in local and they go off there own way, licking there wounds. As our timers draw down my partner and i also go our own ways, him towards our 0.0 controlled space and myself further along the lowsec pipe in search of a fight.
And of course, the killmails.
2007.04.25 02:01
Victim: XXX
Alliance: NONE
Corp: XXX
Destroyed: Thorax
System: Messoya
Security: 0.3
Involved parties:
Name: young cezer (laid the final blow)
Security: -5.2
Alliance: R0ADKILL
Corp: Ore Mongers
Ship: Myrmidon
Weapon: Ogre I
Name: Gentle Glide
Security: -5.7
Alliance: SMASH Alliance
Corp: Carebear Collective
Ship: Thorax
Weapon: Vespa II
Destroyed items:
Light Neutron Blaster II, Qty: 3
Void S, Qty: 63
10MN Afterburner II
Medium Capacitor Booster II
Cap Booster 800
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Armor Explosive Hardener II
1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates II
Cap Booster 800, Qty: 7 (Cargo)
Void S, Qty: 423 (Cargo)
That was the older pilot and our second target, and here was our first target and the younger player.
2007.04.25 02:02
Victim: WorkBook
Alliance: NONE
Corp: In Death Inc.
Destroyed: Thorax
System: Messoya
Security: 0.3
Involved parties:
Name: Gentle Glide
Security: -5.7
Alliance: SMASH Alliance
Corp: Carebear Collective
Ship: Thorax
Weapon: Light Neutron Blaster II
Name: young cezer (laid the final blow)
Security: -5.2
Alliance: R0ADKILL
Corp: Ore Mongers
Ship: Myrmidon
Weapon: Ogre I
Destroyed items:
Light Neutron Blaster II, Qty: 3
Void S, Qty: 161
Medium Electrochemical Capacitor Booster I
Medium 'Accommodation' Vestment Reconstructer I
N-Type Explosive Hardener I
Void S, Qty: 345 (Cargo)
I continue a few systems down the pipe to a system called Oijanen, which borders our 0.0 entrance BWF, a corp mate of mine is coming out to join me in an Arbitrator and whom am i to deny his company, so while waiting i hit the belts!
Caracal on scanner.
I quickly work the scanner until it shows me one belt, as i warp in the familiar feeling comes over me, i enter the belt and he is there. Lock, scrambled, blasters, drones. His shields are falling ungodly fast, i turn all guns off and recall drones so my corpmate can enter the belt and get on the kill. As soon as he gets there we waste the pilot, and his pod. Bad luck for him. He fought back but he was very new to the game and it was a pushover of a battle, however he was mature and my GF was responded with a similar message so i have no problems with him.
2007.04.25 03:27
Victim: XXX
Alliance: NONE
Corp: State War Academy
Destroyed: Caracal
System: Oijanen
Security: 0.4
Involved parties:
Name: Gentle Glide
Security: -5.7
Alliance: SMASH Alliance
Corp: Carebear Collective
Ship: Thorax
Weapon: Light Neutron Blaster II
Name: Danae Uriaal (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: SMASH Alliance
Corp: Carebear Collective
Ship: Arbitrator
Weapon: Hammerhead II
Destroyed items:
Widowmaker Heavy Missile, Qty: 104
Heavy Missile Launcher I, Qty: 2
After another 15 minutes of staring into space without targets we continue back the way i came along the low-sec pipe looking for more action. At this point its been an very entertaining night and im looking at leaving before to much longer, upon entering the system Messoya for the second time this evening i fire up the scanner and, this system never fails me,
Drake on scanner. I quickly narrow it down to a belt and am in warp, my partner is also warping however i land first and am 19 KM from him, he is looting the last rat wreck. As i begin locking i see him aligning for warp, however i manage to get the point on him before he leaves and battle ensues.
We have ten tech 2 drones on him and i am bearing the brunt of his heavy missile fire, and i must say this was no noob these missiles hurt, but i was able to sustain my tank for the duration of the battle. Despite the Drakes amazing tanking ability, and this pilots heavy investment in the fittings we manage to bring it to its knees quite quickly, after 30-45 seconds we are in armor, structure, boom. Somehow we manage to get another kill without any challenge whatsoever, excited i approach the wreck and am delighted to find more lovely T2 loot! We warp to a safe spot and enjoy another fifteen minutes of celebration before its back to work.
2007.04.25 03:52
Victim: XXX
Alliance: NONE
Corp: XXX
Destroyed: Drake
System: Messoya
Security: 0.3
Involved parties:
Name: Gentle Glide
Security: -6.2
Alliance: SMASH Alliance
Corp: Carebear Collective
Ship: Thorax
Weapon: Light Neutron Blaster II
Name: Thorn Rocket / Guristas
Name: Danae Uriaal
Security: -10.0
Alliance: SMASH Alliance
Corp: Carebear Collective
Ship: Arbitrator
Weapon: Hammerhead II
Destroyed items:
Hellhound F.O.F. Heavy Missile I, Qty: 134
Advanced 'Limos' Heavy Missile Bay I, Qty: 3
Shield Recharger II
Heat Dissipation Amplifier II
Magnetic Scattering Amplifier II
Co-Processor II
Guristas Silver Tag (Cargo)
Hydra F.O.F. Heavy Missile I, Qty: 898 (Cargo)
Vespa II, Qty: 2 (Drone Bay)
Impressed by how well this night is going we travel a few systems down the pipe and to my displeasure we fail to encounter any more enemy ships. And then, disaster strikes.
Somehow due to lack of sleep i wasnt paying attention, and upon jumping i warning from the Local Police that security will be upheld in this region. I have jumped into a 0.6 security system and am waiting cloaked while a faction fitted fleet of police officers prepares to remove my pod from my ship. This spells disaster so i notice my ship is pointing towards a planet and i attempt to warp straight to it.
I uncloak.
Point, Double web, i am going 8.7 MS. My tank is fading very quickly and i curse to myself for being so clumsy, i attempt to engage the nearest police officer but the ship he is in is much to fast for me and to far away. Shield, Armor, Pod. The same blue explosion i love seeing i now see from the comfort of my own cockpit.
2007.04.25 04:47
Victim: Gentle Glide
Alliance: SMASH Alliance
Corp: Carebear Collective
Destroyed: Thorax
System: Roniko
Security: 0.6
Involved parties:
Name: Minmatar Security High Captain / Republic Security Services (laid the final blow)
Destroyed items:
Light Neutron Blaster II, Qty: 2
Void S, Qty: 240
Damage Control II
Medium Armor Repairer II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Warp Disruptor II (Cargo)
Vespa II, Qty: 3 (Drone Bay)
And so ends my tail of one of a night i reflect on for the great kills and karma enriched death, i compare myself now to myself 9 months ago. From the noob, to the... Well im still a noob, but nobody's perfect.
I look forward to seeing comments to this post and if anybody actually enjoyed reading it then i will continue to post my own adventures.
Thanks for reading,
Gentle Glide
Carebear Collective
SMASH Alliance
PVP Directer - Fleet Commander
Recruiting :)
15 Comments
A great story Gentle. You never when you're pushing your luck to far, until its too late. Let this be a lesson to all, whether they be privateers, traders, miners, newbies or not.
Lookng forward to your next adventure!
Thanks for enjoying it, Yea definetly gonna need to make sure autopilot says its the correct system next time i hate when ships dont go out in battle :(
Awesome man. Why can't you tell us this stuff in corp chat?! LOL
Kudos to a fellow corpmate.
Excellent story, and I liked that you didn't bitch about getting popped in highsec. Might wanna consider changing those map options to stay in losec, heh heh.
I had it set right, i just warped to the wrong gate the names were so alike lol :)
Word!!! hehe, nice night obviously Glides, certainly not the best ending for you, but at least you had fun and enjoyed it all. ;) Take the bad with the good right. :)
Dude, you are so lame. Picking on NPC'ers in belts who aren't set up for pvp. 2 vs 1 as well? Not fair at all. It's people like you who give real piracy a bad name. I hate people like you. Don't come into my system cause we will pwn j00!
J/K! I just wanted to see what it's like to flame someone's pirate story.
Good stuff there. Gratz on the kills. :)
I went out to low sec today and as always it was empty. I never see anyone in low sec when I am there.
I did run into a war target in high sec on my way back. His T2 Curse died to my Mrym. I even bumped him out of cloak. :)
At first, I thought... that isnt the freaky I know. But that was pretty funny.
Good job on the kills. And keep posting!
Cloak? You sure he was in a curse, or do you mean pilgrim?
Ha good work mate.
I've done the warp to pos instapop before, so I feel your pain :)
Nice kills though, and in a thorax no less. Shame on those people who say they're useless.
I'm currently training up for one of those ebil celetis damp setups. Easier for those of us with crap skills.
Actually my Thorax is about to become nasty, just finished Medium Blaster Spec IV, AWU IV, and am working on Hull Upgrades V. Can someone say neutron gank W/ TANK!!!! And after that the long training of Galente Cruiser V, which leads to.... DIEMOS!! Yarr. We were actually gatecamping earlier and a CNR jumped in, myself in a Hyperion, corpmates in a Absolution, Damnation, Abbadon, and Sleiph. Well to be honest we creamed ourselves waiting for the decloak, he decloaks, POINT POINT POINT POINT he warps. Here we are thinkin he had like 18 WCS or so, turns out the Absolution pilot webbed him to soon. Children, what does a web do? INSTAWARP gawd. Anyway the happy part of that story is he warped to a POS and got wtfpwnedz0red lawl. and in the end he convo'd my CEO and sent us the KM. lol, ill post more as storys seem fit to post. ATM a nyx is camping out lowsec home but were planning on owning him in a day or so there will definetly be a story on that :)
Gentle Glide
Armoured Assasins
Grunt.
Congratulations on the kills. Always feel nice to see someone use a Thorax that effectively. I had been impressed by it ever since I started reading freaky's stories and now you have also carved its reputation in stone.
Now to some criticism. In my opinion, wouldn't it have been nicer if you ransomed those victims? From what it appears, you had the chance to ransom at least 3 of them. As Ander and Verone say, a good pirate encourages "customers" to return. And piracy without ransoming is just.....missing something like an essential ingredient.
Nice story, nice kills, nice night! ^^
And yeah, pirating (be it low sec/.0 either empire) in smaller ships and taking out bigger ships boosting your pewat ego, its good and bad in the same time, you can make mistakes (agroed a phoon in my Incursus, bleh, i felt the pain).
Nothing feels better then owning a bc/bs with your cruiser/frig ^_^.
Good luck, keep posting. ^_-
I pirate for loot and the thrill of the kill. Isk isnt really a problem for me tbh i just go to 0.0 and NPC. Yea, BC vs. BC orsomething along those lines is fun and a GF, but SOOO much better when BC vs. Cruiser, i took a Ferox out in an Enyo one day, but thats for another story :)
alas i so want a diemos but its still gonna take me 40 day to train for it
compared to assault i found capital training easyier