While I have ben playing eve for over a year, a good bit of the last 6 months or so I have spent in Empire missioning... acquiring assets, training skills etc. Before that I spent some time in lowsec in the Khanid region doing mostly ratting, and while there was some pvp involved there, it usually meant me getting jumped while drunk and semi-AFK and getting killed.
Of late I have been itching for something more exciting than being a carebear... so I have been pushing my corp to go into lowsec and do a little pirating. A number of times we've gone out to some nearby lowsec areas with no real luck. You know, a lot of, "almost got a point on him, or they had warb stabs fit.... well its late lest go home."
Even more recently most of the more experienced players in the corp have not been plaing as much... new jobs, exams and the like, so I have taken to going looking for pew pew myself, again with little luck, no deaths but no kills either...
Finally some action.
Cleared for publication by: Ander
A friend of mine who runs his own corp lost most of his corp members to friendly corps when he had to go inactive for a while. While hanging out at his place he decided he wants some pew pew, so he clone jumps into empire and grabs a vaga he has handy and heads towards my home base. He lives in nullsec most of the time so he has a decent amount of PVP experience. Now while usually I bring an Arbitrator when I go looking for kills I decide that with some decent experienced backup I should try out my shiny Pilgrim. Since I don't have recon 5 fitting is a tad tight, so I got 3 Nos no neut and dual reps, to rely on him for DPS and picking our battles.
We're ready and finally jump into a 6 system dead end lowsec loop. I do initial scouting on gates and belts while he starts scanning since he is a lot more used to it. It does not look promising, most people are docked or AFK in a POS. We're in the second to last system in the dead end and almost ready to give up and go hunting elsewhere when we get a Vexor on the scanners, sure enough there are recent wrecks in the belt.
I jump cloaked into what I assume will be his next belt to wait... sure enough in warps the Vexor 30k from me. I drop cloak and burst my microwarp to close in, get him pointed and webbed, throw my tracking disruptors and Nos's on for good measure and drop ECM drones on him. In warps my friend with the Vaga and quick and dirty... 1 dead Vexor.
Victim: *****
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Russian Specialists Group
Destroyed: Vexor
System: *******
Security: 0.2
Damage Taken: 10451
Involved parties:
Name: Sansha's Beast / True Power
Damage Done: 6822
Name: RedMage (laid the final blow)
Security: -2.2
Alliance: Tactical Narcotics Team
Corp: It's
Ship: Vagabond
Weapon: 220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II
Damage Done: 3629
Name: Eg0n
Security: 3.8
Alliance: NONE
Corp: The Serenity Society
Ship: Pilgrim
Weapon: Medium Diminishing Power System Drain I
Damage Done: 0
Destroyed items:
Armor EM Hardener I
Antimatter Charge M, Qty: 160
Cap Booster 800
Infiltrator I, Qty: 2 (Drone Bay)
Dual 150mm Prototype I Gauss Gun
Hammerhead I, Qty: 2 (Drone Bay)
Antimatter Charge M, Qty: 1677 (Cargo)
Antimatter Charge S, Qty: 40
Dropped items:
Medium Inefficient Armor Repair Unit, Qty: 2
Patterned Stasis Web I
Antimatter Charge S, Qty: 644 (Cargo)
150mm Railgun I, Qty: 2
Cap Booster 800, Qty: 5 (Cargo)
Antimatter Charge M, Qty: 160
Armor Thermic Hardener I
Salvager I
Medium Capacitor Booster I
10MN Afterburner I
Dual 150mm Prototype I Gauss Gun
Hammerhead I, Qty: 2 (Drone Bay)
Antimatter Charge S, Qty: 40
Finally, someone has kill rights on me instead of vice versa.
The pod we leave, and the wreck is more or less useless, so I cloak and we warp to a planet. At this point local has gotten a little busy. We start scanning and sure enough a Prophecy and a Sentinel are on scan. We spend probably the next 20 minutes hunting them while they hunt for us to no avail.
We get fed up and my buddy in the Vaga decides to bait them and jumps to the final dead end system. As soon as he drops out of local they hit the gate and jump through, while I wait cloaked on it.
After a little more scanning my buddy decides to just sit on a planet, and sure enough they nail him down and warp in.... too far. They do a little maneuvering and finally the sentinel is able to tackle him and the Prophecy starts to open fire. By this point I am through the gate and warping to my friend. I drop out of warp 50k from him as his Vaga is just a tad quick. I again drop the cloak and engage the microwarp. I put the Tracking disruptors on the prophecy and close in and web and point it, adding the Nos for good measure. As I go to put my drones on the sentinel my lock is broken by ECM drones. I quickly reaquire and repoint the proph, at this point my friend has already popped the Sentinel.
Victim: ********
Alliance: XIII Legio
Corp: Hunters Imperiale
Destroyed: Sentinel
System: *******
Security: 0.2
Damage Taken: 2108
Involved parties:
Name: RedMage (laid the final blow)
Security: -2.2
Alliance: Tactical Narcotics Team
Corp: It's
Ship: Vagabond
Weapon: Warrior II
Damage Done: 2108
Destroyed items:
Small Nosferatu I
Warp Disruptor II
Hornet EC-300, Qty: 8 (Drone Bay)
Small Armor Repairer II
Dropped items:
Small Nosferatu I, Qty: 2
1MN MicroWarpdrive I
Stasis Webifier II, Qty: 2
Overdrive Injector System II, Qty: 2
Oddly enough he never pointed the sentinel, so it just stayed with its friend. I sick my hammerhead IIs on the proph and it starts to go to armor... Again my lock is broken, twice in quick succession.
I frantically restablish and hold it the 2nd time, pointing, webbing and nossing him.
At this point I notice I am halfway through armor (woops... forgot to turn the tracking disruptors back on). I correct the mistake. The prophecy pilot probably feels he will get a Recon kill for his loss and finally puts a point on me. Time to rep.
I throw on my dual reps, dropping my cap... which of course lets my Noss drop his. My armor quickly jumps to full as his disappears and he drops into structure... His damage control left him a live a little longer than I had expected, but soon we watch his fat chicken become a ball of flames.
Victim: ********
Alliance: XIII Legio
Corp: Hunters Imperiale
Destroyed: Prophecy
System: *******
Security: 0.2
Damage Taken: 21621
Involved parties:
Name: RedMage (laid the final blow)
Security: -2.2
Alliance: Tactical Narcotics Team
Corp: It's
Ship: Vagabond
Weapon: Caldari Navy Scourge Heavy Missile
Damage Done: 13938
Name: Eg0n
Security: 3.8
Alliance: NONE
Corp: The Serenity Society
Ship: Pilgrim
Weapon: Hammerhead II
Damage Done: 7083
Name: Sansha's Mutilator / True Power
Damage Done: 600
Destroyed items:
Multifrequency M
1600mm Reinforced Steel Plates I
10MN MicroWarpdrive I
Capacitor Power Relay I, Qty: 2
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II, Qty: 3
Dropped items:
Drone Link Augmentor I
Multifrequency M, Qty: 5
Infrared M, Qty: 6 (Cargo)
Emergency Damage Control I
Medium Armor Repairer I
Cap Recharger I
Focused Afocal Pulse Maser I
Capacitor Power Relay I
Warp Disruptor I
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II, Qty: 2
We warp back to the previous system.
Even more people have come to local... since the sentinel aggressed I recloak and warp 100k from station, sure enough there are 2 Drakes sitting right outside within docking range, and a Malediction is on the scanners. My buddy in the Vaga decides to play bait again and warps 100k as well... They drakes don't bite, so he moves in and out trying to get them to attack.
After a minute or so the Malediction drops out of warp about 50k from him and aggresses... within range of the station guns... 1 dead interceptor pilot.
Victim: ******
Alliance: Einherjar Alliance
Corp: Davy Jones Locker
Destroyed: Malediction
System: *******
Security: 0.2
Damage Taken: 1543
Involved parties:
Name: Gallente Sentry Gun / Chemal Tech
Damage Done: 1325
Name: RedMage (laid the final blow)
Security: -2.2
Alliance: Tactical Narcotics Team
Corp: It's
Ship: Vagabond
Weapon: 220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II
Damage Done: 218
Destroyed items:
'Malkuth' Rocket Launcher I, Qty: 2
Foxfire Rocket, Qty: 60
Inertia Stabilizers II
Overdrive Injector System II
Dropped items:
1MN MicroWarpdrive I
'Malkuth' Rocket Launcher I
Foxfire Rocket, Qty: 30
Foxfire Rocket, Qty: 910 (Cargo)
E5 Prototype Energy Vampire
Stasis Webifier I, Qty: 2
Capacitor Power Relay I
We decide to just stay put since the Drakes are still sitting there... apparently these Anti-Pirate people don't like to initiate combat unless they're in small non-tanking ships.
In warps a Hurricane with a bounty on him, but again he just sits off of station... and a minute later an Ishtar undocks and microwarps towards the Vaga as a Drake starts moving towards us.
Bait time again, we warp to the next system up closer to high sec, and the cane and ishtar follow... but again no aggression. At this point is almost 6am local time for us, and we don't feel like attempting to take on a Cane and Ishtar when there are 2 tanking drakes sitting just on the other side of the gate. Warp to station, split loot and log.
Silly Russian anti-pirates... In the Malediction pilot's bio I read... "Killing the Pirates that kill you"
good job guys.
4 Comments
i see that for some reason no one has commented yet on this so i will
this was a classic bit of hunting and i take my hat of to you and your partner(if i had one of course)
alas im only just getting into PVP myself(just waiting for med blaster spec 5 to finish 4 days left)
but i hope to have fight like this, i just wish i knew how to begin
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Hehe good story.
Nice story, killing t1 ships in a recon/hac must be a challenge. gj
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