Wrayeth
Inexorable Retribution
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Posted - 2006.08.02 14:44:00 -
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I've got a bunch, but two stand out in my mind as complete and total ganks:
The first one was a day after a failed small group op. Our gang had about ten people in it and was forced to safespot when a 20-30 man RA gang showed up. After warping from safespot to safespot for about an hour, I had to log to do RL stuff. I logged back on the next day, asked in alliance if there were any hostiles in the area where I had logged off, and was told "no".
Alrighty, then. I warped to an inline safe and insta'd through on my way home.
The first indication I had that something was wrong was when the jump took longer to finish loading than I expected. The second was the fact that local went from listing 1 person to 12 when it changed systems. I finished loading and saw ten ships flashing red on my overview, mostly battleships. I tried to wait them out, but eventually my cloak broke and I tried to get my raven out. Scrambled, webbed, jammed, pwned.
Thanks guys. Next time don't pass along intel as correct unless you're absolutely certain it's still good. 
The second incident was even worse. RA had been forming up a gang in Konora, so -V- forces moved to intercept with about 20 ships set up for long range combat. I logged on to find out that RA was in N-RAEL with about 35 ships and that our forces had to safespot.
On orders from our FC, more people gathered in 1V- and headed towards N-RAEL, including me in my sniper tempest. We made it to 28Q when scouts reported 10 more RA coming up behind from Insmother. Our 10-man gang safespotted while we waited for further intel on shiptypes and the like.
At this point, the FC decided that we would try to concentrate our forces and ordered us to get ready to warp to the gate and jump into N-RAEL. The safespotted gang in 1V- warped to the 28Q gate, and the order was given for us to warp to the N-RAEL gate and jump in.
We warped to the gate, but the insta was off because the safespot wasn't perfectly inline. We approached from about 10km when a hostile domi warped in. We popped him, and the thorax that came after him. We heard on TS that the gang in N-RAEL was being engaged by RA at the gate and that we needed to get there as soon as possible. We reached the gate, ask for confirmation that they were still engaging. The FC didn't respond, but one of the members of his gang replied that the fight was still going on.
We jumped.
WTF? Lots of -V- cans, but no actual -V- ships. Oh, and the entire RA fleet was still there. ****.
Even though there were no bubbles and I never got tackled, I never had time to finish aligning and hit warp before they popped me.
-Wrayeth
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