KrakizBad
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Posted - 2004.05.03 19:55:00 -
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As some of you may know, the Curse Alliance and Stain Alliance are less than friendly neighbors. Being that Sublime LLC and myself are involved with SA, this makes it rather rough when traveling on certain days. Saturday was no exception.
I myself, am on the production end of my corp, supplying the fighters that so gratiously protect our area. While setting up an operation in deep space, it was necessary to bring an indy to the scene. And sense my hauling capabilities match my mining capabilities, I decided i must bring my Iteron 5 into the operation. If you are unaware of the iteron 5 or it's capabilities, it is the best hauler a pilot could command, and those that do pilot them are very proud to do so.
As everyone knows, an indy is not the safest ship to be traveling in, but i got big *****. Something else i had going against me was the SA and CA decided they needed to have a massive battle the same day i needed to get my indy through. Being a daring pilot, i put 4 Reactor 1's, a power diagnostic, 2 medium cap rechargers, and a 10mn MWD. This setup allows you to get the burners going full blast and fun like a bat out of hell.
My location required me to go through 3 choke points, aka not a place to be if you're not prepared for battle. The first point i passed through gave me the threat of a frigate, which i disregarded as i waved to him. It is the later two that posed a problem. Upon entering a system i nearly crapped my pants as i saw there were 77 people in the system, and the system isn't Yulai or Luminarre, this is no man's land. As i warped to the gate my heart sank as i noticed my radar was covered with a massive amount of blips. Upon coming out of warp i was immediatly locked by 4 BS and 3 cruisers. Under normal circumstances this would mean a dead industrial ship. But as i mentioned earlier, i can fly like a bat out of hell. I cranked the MWD up and hit 900 m/s as i watched the missiles slowly fill the sky. I was approaching the gate and watching multiple missiles aproaching me, only to explode at the exact point i warped out.
I then felt relief, only to be dismayed by the 66 pilots in the next system. I was prepared for the worst as i warped in to the gate and was once again confronted with multiple ships battling it out. This time though, someone realized this indy was hauling *** and was able to stasisfy me. I knew for sure this was the end and my clone would soon be waking up. But just as i saw the light, the ship that had me locked down was obliterated by one of the great SA fighter pilots. I am pretty sure it was either a MASS or Eternal Silence pilot, but whichever it is i am greatful.
As I flew through the next few systems and passed more SA fighters going to battle i wished them luck as they gave me travel warnings and told me it wasn't safe. I just laughed to myself as i said thank you and went on safely towards my destination.
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