Complex Combat 101

My corpmate, now in his Myrmidon, couldn't enter the plex, and at first figuring the two ships were together, I was hesitant to go it alone - after all, one of them was the ship I was flying. After checking local, however, I noticed no 2 people were in the same corp, and one suddenly lit up with a criminal flag. Seeing this as my opportunity, I warped into the complex. I arrived just in time to see a blinky Goonswarm Rupture 40km away, and an Ishkur explode in a fiery flash. The Ishkur pilot proceeded to berate the Rupture in local as I steadily approached him. 30km....oh, he has his drones out. Warrior I's. 20km... popped a few of his drones that attacked me, he's calling them back... 10km... uh oh, armor is almost gone... 8km.... scram!... 5km....3km... uh oh, I'm in structure, this isn't going to end well....

At this point his guns had taken me down into structure, my repper unable to keep up with his armor-piercing ammo. At 1km, I swung into as tight an orbit as possible, even though I was webbed. At this point, all his drones were dead, and suddenly, his guns began to start missing. "Glances off, Misses you completely, No damage." The only thing still hitting me were his light missiles, and they were doing negligible damage to my now recovering armor. Seeing that he was having no luck damaging my ship, he switched his fire - to my drones. He'd hit one, I'd pull it in and re-release, and this process continued for a while - by this time, he was deep in armor. Eventually realizing that I was too smart to lose drones to him, he began shooting my ship again in a last desperate attempt to save himself, but to no avail. His ship exploded not much longer in a brilliant flash of light, and 3 seconds later, my drones were pounding on his now-helpless pod. A quick peek in his can revealed a bundle of tech 2 goodies, including the barrage ammo that had been tearing my ship apart at the beginning. I scooped them quickly, and got them safely to a station. All in a days work.

I had said on vent at roughly 3km away "I'm dead, so much for that." I proved myself wrong in more ways than one. I turned the fight around, and managed to gain a rather Rocky-esque win. I'll never make the mistake of underestimating my ship again, until the fight is over and done.

Meanwhile, while I was fighting the Rupture, my corpmate had been sitting at the complex entrance to kill any support that might come for the Rupture. While he didn't kill any of the Rupture's friends, he did kill the Ishkur pilot again, who was returning in a Thorax (poorly fitted at that) to exact her revenge on the Rupture. She did, however, gain the consolation that her Ishkur had been avenged, and that his pod had perished along with his ship.

2007.05.04 02:33

Victim: ****
Alliance: GoonSwarm
Corp: GoonFleet
Destroyed: Rupture
System: Agoze
Security: 0.2

Involved parties:

Name: Xasz (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: None
Corp: G.H.O.S.T
Ship: Ishkur
Weapon: Hobgoblin II

Name: ********** (the Ishkur pilot who popped as I came in)
Security: 0.9
Alliance: None
Corp: LEG1ON
Ship: Unknown
Weapon: Hobgoblin II


Destroyed items:

Dual 180mm AutoCannon II
Phased Plasma M, Qty: 224
Bloodclaw Light Missile, Qty: 6
SV-2000 Assault Missile Bay
10MN Afterburner II
J5 Prototype Warp Inhibitor I
Gyrostabilizer II
Small Armor Repairer II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane I
1600mm Reinforced Crystalline Carbonide Plates I
Phased Plasma M, Qty: 1254 (Cargo)
Shadow Serpentis Magnetic Plating (Cargo)
Hobgoblin II, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
Headmaster Administration Keycard (Cargo)
Traffic Management Passkey, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
6th Tier Overseer's Personal Effects, Qty: 4 (Cargo)


2007.05.04 02:35

Victim: ****
Alliance: GoonSwarm
Corp: GoonFleet
Destroyed: Capsule
System: Agoze
Security: 0.2

Involved parties:

Name: Xasz (laid the final blow)
Security: -10.0
Alliance: None
Corp: G.H.O.S.T
Ship: Ishkur
Weapon: Hobgoblin II