This War Never Ends

In May, UCAM and allied corporations declared war on the Kiss546 corporation. Kiss546 consisted of Chinese PvPers who ran or protected a gang of macro miners that used to slurp the roids in Citadel and Lonetrek. One of them would drop a jetcan and the macro miner would mine the ore into it. If anyone stole from it, a Domi or a Brutix would show up almost immediately. After a spectacular gank of a very nasty NOS/blaster/ECM Domi, plus a few other ambushes, Kiss546 rapidly came apart and eventually disbanded. It was a short and boring war, but it ended with a clear victory. Fast forward to today. UCAM has mutual positive standings with The Makhai, Hydra, Knight Raven and Pure alliances. This lets us travel through and play around in Vale of the Silent. I've been having a lot of fun recently killing people who don't belong there. Last night, someone spotted a former member of Kiss546 in Vale, a character named True Forces. I remembered the name as a former war target and looked up the system where he was reported. It was only two jumps away. I decloaked my Nemesis stealth bomber and flew straight there. After jumping in and seeing that he still was in local, I warped to a safe spot, recloaked and started scanning. It didn't take long to see that he was in the asteroid belt around Planet VII. I also saw that I had a problem - True Forces was flying a Drake, a ship that I probably could not kill with just a Nemesis. There was just the two of us in local, so I convoed a Hydra pilot that was in the system I had just left. After I explained the situation, he started moving toward the system. He also, apparently, called for more backup. Several Hydra pilots showed up a few minutes later. Once they were settled on the gate one jump away, it was time for me to tackle the Drake. I warped into the belt. Amazingly, although I'd been in local for five minutes, this guy had continued to sit there ratting, not 20 kilometers from the warp-to-zero point in the belt. Unfortunately, either he was aligned at full speed or I'm a noob that fails at targeting. He managed to warp out before I could tackle him in a sensor-boosted frigate. Bleah. As the rest of the gang jumped into the system, I started scanning again. I picked him up near Planet IV and warped. He wasn't there. I scanned again and found him in the planet's asteroid belt. However, he warped out just as I arrived. This time, he had gone to a gate and jumped out of the system. The gang followed. He led us on a merry chase through the next system and narrowly avoided three tackles. Finally, he warped to another stargate and jumped out again. Unfortunately for him, someone had gotten there ahead of him. By the time I got into the next system, four Hydra pilots had him pinned down. It was all over with except for the pretty explosions. * [2007.08.01 06:12:18] (combat) Your Caldari Navy Cataclysm Cruise Missile hits true forces [SIZLE](Drake), doing 332.5 damage. * He managed to escape back to empire with his pod, but his T2-fitted Drake was history. The war against macros, isk farmers, isk sellers, chat channel isk spammers and anyone that would protect any of them continues, whether Concord sanctions it or not... Cleared for publication by: Ander