Christopher Mabata
Dominion Tenebrarum
Reverberation Project
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Posted - 2014.07.25 01:18:00 -
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about a week and a half old now but ill shoot. ( No this is not just a simple low sec miner gank, read on )
So i log in and its a pretty average morning in my little .3, some nice ratting to loosen the muscles, a faction drop, 2 besieged sites down and i dock to make breakfast.
When i come back about Forty Five Minutes later there's a neutral i don't recognize in local, he has no color flag to mark him as a cyno, friendly, or an easy kill so i undock in my phobos to run a quick D-Scan of the immediate area around the station as the system is too large to run a full system scan without probes and its still too early for that
Low-and-behold there's a procurer on scan at the ice field so i dock to make sure i didn't spook him and i refit for dual plates over active reps just in case hes a cyno trap i haven't run into yet. I undock and hes still on scan, i warp in and land 36kms off of him, i hit the MWD but before i'm in range or even able to lock him hes gone back to station, my station as it were.
So i dock on his tail thinking i missed a miner kill no big deal, i go and make another coffee and come back to see hes undocked and still in local, there's another neutral though, also undocked. I undock again to see an ibis and a procurer on the undock, ibis is a cyno and i missed whatever had come in apparently but the procurer was just sitting there, i start bumping him and kill the cyno as i do, at this point im fitted active again and had just jump cloned back to my slave pod so the guns are tickling me at best.
But Just as they cyno dies the procurer suddenly jumps into action, like a white knight avenging a fallen friend he launched his Tech 1 warriors and went to work drilling my armor.... for like 14 damage a volley thanks to my hefty explosive / kinetic tank. Perhaps he didnt know what aggression mechanics were, or maybe he thought the combined fury of his drones and the incoming station guns were enough to kill me so he could go back to mining his ice. Fate had just the opposite in mind, i slowly chewed through his shield tank with my antimatter, volley after volley holding him there with my infinite point and a web. Suddenly his shields are failing him and im showing no sign of giving up, he reaches out to me
Me > If this is a let me live convo its 20m for the ship and you live to mine another day
Him > Really?
Me > Do i look like im kidding? Would I go through all this to play some little joke on you?
Him > Dude Im just an Ice Miner, let it go its not worth it
Me > let me put it this way, 20m or your an ex-iceminer
him > Okay ill pay
He makes a show of taking a while to get his wallet ready, meanwhile he pulls his drones and i have him in 30% structure. I notice his de-agression and bump him off the undock by about 2kms, not enough but the clock is ticking.
Me > Wheres that 20m? Im not a patient man
Him > Im getting it give me a second
He tries to hit his afterburner ( yep prop mod procurer ) and get back to station but i have him webbed, seeing this i take no more chances and kill the barge with a few more volleys. He tries to dock his pod but he has a few seconds left on the timer, i see this and pod him home to highsec and scoop the corpse, loot the wreck, and then dispose of it. I dock reload ammo and boosters and start ratting again.
Few hours go by and suddenly theres a familiar face in local, could it be the procurer i just killed?
It was
I reach out to him this time
Me > if you have assets in the station i can buy them if they are intereting or usefull, if not 50m and you can move them out
Him > oh thats not why im here
me > well thats a shame
Him > For you
he says nothing more, so i undock and see nothing at first, but before i can hit D-Scan a hurricane lands on the station about 70 off from where i am when i undock. He starts burning in, and yellow boxes me, im still blinking suspect from looting a wreck someone left in the belt with a clone soldier transporter tag in it, but my timer will end soon so i burn in and yellow box him too, he opens fire and rips through my untanked shields with his artillery, i get up close and land a scram in addition to my focused point and web, and start chewing through his tanked shields.
He launches drones and starts to hit me with those, im still alone and this is honorable solo PVP for the moment, but thinking fast i log on my alt eyes just to have an early alert system in case he had friends. He doesn't.
Slowly we drill at each others tank, both active tanked, my blasters clearly out performing his arty at 4k
he hits armor and starts to melt, but im greeted with an unfriendly noise, my cap had fallen below 20% and i had been overcycling my tank, Rookie error and it was going to cost me, i turned off the rep and ran my last booster and hoped it would last. he hit structure, i hit 20% armor he reached out to me again
Him > What is this nonsense i cant warp
Me > yeah i have you tackled
Him > im stabbed i should be fine
Im speechless at this point, he hits low structure and my hull breach alarm goes off
A corp member of mine logs in, hes a good pilot and has a HAC in station
I tell him i may need some help if this goes any worse for me thanks to my rookie mistake
He laughs at it and hops on comms
Just as he does the cane explodes and the pod warps, im in 70% structure and my heart is pounding, most fun i had solo all week
i loot the wreck, my corpie scoops his drones, and as i drop the loot im greeted by 2 things
1. I had Non-Navy Cap boosters in hold, so they didnt auto load, i feel like an idiot
2. a hilarious killmail the cane was fitted with these:
http://gyazo.com/36d47785f34e61efebdd75abe1e64620
( Links a bit blurry as i didnt want to share the pilots name )
He also had every type of ammo imaginable in cargo, and tons of interesting mods
A fail fit ratting cane perhaps?
All I know is the miner uprising was over and he was gone from my .3
for good
Is it bad if your friend says "that was a Metaphor" and you say "Meta 4? Get Tech II or faction" ?I love the sound of silent explosions in Space.-á |