I was travelling through T### in my Jaguar and decided to check out some of the belts, there was a maelstrom and thrasher and I wanted the thrasher but both ships appeared to be in line with my scanner.
I entered one of the ice fields and saw the Maelstrom near a wreck about 90KM away. There were a number of wrecks all over the ice field. I saw one that caught my eye, it was a hauler and appeared to be unlooted. . I quickly book marked it and prepared to exit as I wanted to come back with my hauler once the maelstrom had gone. However the pilot had to say something....
Renata Uldseth > Good decision Flash
The above comment made me pause and in a split second, I decided to come back. I was leaving anyway as a maelstrom would be a bit too much for my jaguar to take down but I decided to make the effort and come back and tackle the fool. I checked my inventory and realised that I had a hurricane about two jumps away. Chuckling, I set course to this station with the full intention of coming back and with a surprise.
I switched to the hurricane class ship and headed back out to Todifrauan at full speed. On arrival, I jumped to my bookmark. It took me alongside the first of the wrecks and the maelstrom was still there. He was however, over 60km away at another set of wrecks. He was too far away for me to mwd to so I checked out the wreck's contents.
There was a crashing sounds as something hit the shield with a ferocious impact. The maelstrom had targeted and then opened up at me. From the range it appeared to be artillery pieces. I couldn't do a long range slugging match so I scanned and bookmarked a wreck that was close to the mighty battleship.
I then warped out. The pilot (Renata Uldseth) no doubt thought she had scared me off. Little did she know that I was coming back and going to land right next to her. If she had any sense, she would have warped out by now.
Arriving at my safe spot, I quickly turned round and warped to the second bookmark - in the time that I had, it was doubtful that the maelstrom would be leaving so soon. The warp tunnel wrapped around me and I checked the ammunition hoppers. It was going to be exciting and I could not wait. I ordered the crew to battlestation and to prepare for an epic fight with a ship twice the size of the hurricane.
I arrived inside the ice field and 19km from the maelstrom. It was slowly moving away from me and I hit the warp drive and the big ship pushed itself through the ice field towards the target. Renata Uldseth targeted me and let loose her artillery, I locked but held fire until I was in optimal. Her artillery shells flashed off my shields as I closed the distance.
I rode out the storm of artillery shells and got into optimal then engaged all my weapons: autocanons, webber, nosferatu and warp scrambler. My five drones streaked out towards the maelstrom too. Battle was joined.
I was too close for the huge artillery pieces to hit me and I started to kill the shields on the maelstrom. Her missiles slammed into me but I could tank it. The maelstrom had some impressive shields though and I knew that the corp that Renata Uldseth was close by with pilots within a few jumps. Surely a corp wide call out was already in place?
The maelstrom was dying though, it boosted its shields a few times but it's capacitor must be dying. Once the shield had died the armour was blasted off. I was elated as the hurricane had 50% shield left and this baby was an armour tanker.
A few days later, I realised he had quit his corp...
The loot was worth about 15 million isk, I wanted to salvage the wreck but when I doubled back in my salvager, the system was camped by pirates. Oh well. C'est la vie!
A few days later, I realised he had quit his corp...
The loot was worth about 15 million isk, I wanted to salvage the wreck but when I doubled back in my salvager, the system was camped by pirates. Oh well. C'est la vie!24 Comments
Niron·
Well all I can say is good decision flash
lol
Amazes me how people fitting arty or large railguns let people so close to them.
Anonymous·
really if someone jumps out move immediatly dont just hang out either they back in something bigger or way too close to hit them...
B·
That pilot must have had truly crappy capacitor skills if shield boosting a few times finished it off.
Equium Duo·
Nice flash fresh...
Can we have clickable pics next time so that we may see the battle in it full glory?
Ant·
Now THIS is a case of mild smack i LOVE answering to with some hot lead.
nice one.
btw. you'r pics aren't linking, so i can't see shit
fly safe
Ant
Anonymous·
FYI, that pilot was only 2 months old at the time, and NOT expericned in PvP. The only reason she was there, her corp told her it should be safe there, as they operated in that area all the time. The reason she fired, With Flashfresh's security rating of 9.9 at the time, he was flashing red to her, in her overview. She thought that meant he had already done something to her, or her ship, or her corp mates.
Anonymous·
Sorry, should have been "-9.9" My bad. ;)
flashfresh·
Sorry guys - didn't realise that the images were not clickable. Will try and fix it. Er, how do I that?
Sorom·
so...by "she" do you mean "me"? sounds like you know a lot about the events...
B·
Doesn't matter if flashfresh slept with the pilot's mother, the pilot made a dumb decision to engage instead of warp out, two opportunities to do so no less, and did not.
Setanta·
If you are going to add role play try ti v be more consistent with characters and themes.
You say things like "I did this" and "then I did that" while also using "I had my crew do this". It doesn't mix very well.
Aside from that, good kill, might have been young and unskilled, but still a kill regardless.
Rai Deo·
Good stuff.
Lets all take a deep sigh about the age of the pilot and all. After all, rule #1:
Dont fly what you cant afford to lose.
Need to gang up with ye more often flash.
Come join me in Molden Heath =[
NightfallGemini (Not logged in)·
he was nossing the person too. however, I have to ask...
how did you keep your cap low to nos them? D:
Anonymous·
Who said she couldn't afford to lose it? I sure didn't. Just pointed out, with about 2 months game time, and very little PVP to that point, she was not much of a challenge.
Today, might be different.
Arvald·
nice job taking out the bs, well writen story too
Not telling you.·
Outrageous! I despise pirates and to kill a weakling, do you really think you are good?
Pathetic fool! Come and take on my character!
You would be destroyed in no more than 1 minute, fool!
DIE!!!
J·
What with all these low-skilled noobs I see flying battleships? And Tier 3 no less?
Anonymous·
Let's just say I know the story from the other side, as it was related to me.
Elias West·
to funny how some people mention they despise pirates and telling you to kill you and all that and dont have the balls to post with their ingame name. THAT is truly weak !
Btw, nice story Flesh, keep em comming :)
B·
I can't tell if Not Telling You is making a joke, or is so high he's serious.
Renata Uldseth·
Pretty much on target. However, as someone else has already pointed out, I did not know that much about PvP. Nor did I have the SLIGHTEST idea on how to properly fit out a ship for low-sec space.
And Flashfresh was using a Nos, BEFORE they were nerfed by the last update.
In any event, it was a lesson I did not forget.
If you don't believe me, just ask Auronof. ;)
Athena Minoko·
LOL - she's not learned that much, as proven by THIS kill: http://nice.mine.nu/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=12
She initiated combat - and left her new corp 27 minutes after that kill.
Lucious McFarsight·
Even though I never doubt the potential of a well tooled huricane, the maelstrom has to have the worst setup in the whole wide world if it is to loose to a huricane, no matter how good of a tanker it is. I dont mean to question you ... but you either got really lucky or ...
XSir SnacksalotX·
You shouldn't feel bad, being new to the situation, you just weren't prepared for for such an engadgement. We were all noobs once, and we all remember doing something stupid, don't think that your the first one, but since you were new you should have tagged along with another corp mate, or one should have come with you. If you ever need help outfiting your Maelstrom, just ask me, I love using that ship!