Yaaarrr - am back. Well sort of. Am still more or less without an EVE capable machine but that won't stop me. Been switching my attention towards the farmers that are infesting the various systems and it is fun once they all undock on you!
With eagerness, I undocked in my rifter and hit the big black. Eyes scanning for prey. Local was once more very busy and the number of farmers was staggering. A good friend of mine was in local and was being ambushed by a Harbringer and being a friend, I redocked got my hurricane and jumped in. However, my friends in his thorax had actually killed the Harbringer already and had scrambled the pod. He had no intention to pod the poor pilot but well, I did. We both got a sec hit but since I am -10 it didn't matter. My buddy, who introduced me to EVE and PvP was a bit more pissed at me. We had a good laugh about it though. Sorry V. He'll probably kick my ass (again).
A bit later, I was roaming in my rifter when I chanced upon a known farmer in a caracal. My interest piqued, I scanned him down and amazingly, he was in a belt and ratting. I jumped in just as he jumped out. Gah. I turned round and scanned again but the farmer was off to the gate. I jumped after him but I only caught the tell tale gate activation as he jumped through. I gave chase but he went from gate to gate.
Disappointed, I returned to my roaming and found nothing. If I favoured gate camping I might be in the money but meh. I redocked and got my punisher out, hadn't taken this puppy out for a spin for a while and as I undocked and the gui cleared, I saw yet another farmer in front of me, this time in a thorax. It was 'CWQ2000' and amazingly, not in a NPC corp but one called D E D. Many farmers band together and form corps; which is good 'cause I can war dec them. Anyway, CWQ2000 saw me and instantly locked me and fired.
I took some damage but I did not retaliate, instead I docked and grabbed my hurricane. It was the only thing available and quickly checking the ammunition levels, I undocked and prepared to do battle. Local was FULL of the farmers. The thorax was still blinking at me and I opened up on him, confident that the sentry guns would stay silent.
My EMP rounds chewed into him and I webbed him for good measure. The thorax traded shots with me, eager for a fight. Soon, I understood why: a Maller undocked and engaged me. This ship was piloted by 'Nuren1' - a well known farmer. So it was a 2 v1 and I was not too bothered. The rax would be dead as I sent my drones buzzing around him. His drones were ineffectual. The thorax (a lovely ship) was tanking very well when space around me exploded and a raven warped in. It was another NPC pilot, no doubt the farmer's friend and to top it all off, a fourth ship arrived, a deadly fanged incursus.
So with four ships pounding me, things didn't look too good now. As my shields were stripped off, the thorax exploded in a glorious flash. I turned my fury now on the maller and unleashed hell on it. My armour was now taking a bit of a pounding and my repping was not keeping up. No matter. The maller at the very least, had to die as well.
It did and I turned towards the menacing raven - but it turned and ran. Gah!!! I couldn't catch the nimble incursus either and within seconds, I was alone outside the station surrounded by the still flickering wrecks of the thorax and maller.
A good fight nonetheless.
Loot was crap but the it's about the concord killmail yes?
Later on, I tackled a rupture, it had x2 stabs on it and naturally it got away. A second rupture was around and without thinking about it, I locked him instead once I scanned him down. It was a trap however, as an Arazu appeared. I was with Kane Rizzel who I called in and we popped the rupture-bait but I blew up.
Switching ships, I ended the evening with an industrial kill! It was loitering in one of the asteroid belts and I killed it. I opened up a convo to negotiate a ransom but it was rejected. A clear answer it would seem so the pilot was podded as well.
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thx for the story even tho it didnt seem as long as some of your others,im just glad to have something to read on eve pirate
anyway im due do get my shiny new diemos finished soon by a corpie and ive picked out my setup can you take a look and tell me what you think
this is what i intend to use, ive long since gotten the skills to use all this but id like any ideas anyone may have for improvments
(not including faction stuff because thats obvious)
High Slots:
* 5 x Heavy Neutron Blaster II
* 1 x Medium Nosferatu II
Medium Slots:
* 1 x 10mn MicroWarpDrive II
* 2 x Cap Recharger II
Low Slots:
* 2 x Small Armor Repairer II
* 1 x Energized Magnetic Membrane II
* 2 x Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
this is similar to a setup that i use on arax but of course some of these id never fit on the rax all at one time
p.s 5 orge or vespa 2s with that and void ammo
You could fit a better tank if you used t2 electrons instead of neutrons, you sacrifice some dmg to be able to tank a little better...but in the end with a Deimos, its either tank or gank, pretty hard to have both decently. (The cap rechargers aren't a good idea, you'd be better off putting a medium electrochemical injector and warp disruptor on it.) Also the deimos can't fit heavy drones so use the vespa 2s or Valk 2s.
Nice story btw flashfresh, enjoyed it. To bad the raven ran. :(
Hi Gabriel
Thanks for the note; have been busy in RL but have been busy yarring too. I have plenty of stories in draft form. They will make an appearance. Your deimos setup is decent but I would drop the one SAR II, x2 Cap Recharger II for an extra Mag Stab and Med injector. Your setup is all-gank and one should be flying it with the 'kill them before they kill you' attitude. Doubt very much if you will have time to sit there and run a tank while peeps are pounding you.
to flash and psykue
thank you for your knowledge i shall try it and see how it works out,however for the most part ill be using this vessel in small running gangs so i dont think ill need to worrk about tackling opponants myself to much
i have i find you both in good helth and happiness
good day to you