Andreus Ixiris
Mixed Metaphor
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Posted - 2013.01.10 08:51:00 -
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Back in 2008, my corp was fighting a bunch of cocky hotshots in a corporation called NQX Innovations. They thought they could ransom our corporation, and demanded 500 million ISK or they'd wardec our ass. I told them that I would not pay the ransom, and so they wardecced us. They proceeded to engage us inexpertly. We inflicted a few cruiser losses on each other, but nothing particularly interesting occured.
Then, one night, myself and two of my corpmates discovered an NQX Hyperion undocking in Villore. I was in my Maelstrom, my 2IC Sahaquiel Faust was in his Myrmidon and one of our newer Finnish pilots, Vincent Pryce, was in his Blackbird. I knew for a fact that a Hyperion wouldn't risk an engagement against a battlecruiser and a battleship with ECM on the field, so I told Vince to hold off and stay off of D-scan. I had Faust warp in and engage the Hyperion alone, knowing that assuming Faust kept transversal, it would be impossible for the Hyperion to deal enough DPS to break Faust's tank before I got on field as well. The Hyperion took the bait and engaged, but as soon as he saw my Maelstrom warp in and two-volley his remaining shields and 10% of his armour, he started running both reppers and deaggressed.
"Damnit," I said on Ventrilo. "This bastard's gonna dock up before we can kill him."
There was a moment of silence.
Suddenly, I see this in local:
Vincent Pryce > JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Suddenly, a Blackbird drops out of warp, bounces off my top wingy bit and guns its MWD right into the Hyperion. Local fills up with Finnish swearwords as Vince starts repeatedly ramming the Hyperion - and the Hyperion takes the bait. Vince has intentionally not engaged any of his ECM, and the Hyperion starts shooting at him. Being a Blackbird, his shields and armour crumple like paper, but the Hyperion's re-aggressed.
Faust and I had terrible Thermodynamics skills at that point so we burnt out our entire hi-racks in the process, but we killed the Hyperion, and all for the cost of a single badfit Blackbird.
Someday I want to meet that Hyperion pilot again and ask him if it was worth it.
Mane 614
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