Ravenous Marshmallow
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Posted - 2008.10.01 10:55:00 -
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So, I started my new char and trained propulsion jamming and then some T2 guns (or lasers rather) and then I went into lowsec, looking for stuff to shoot.
I had so much fun in these 2 weeks, flying around my punisher, killing ratting frigates and some cruisers, mining bargers, ospreys, flashy pods...
Later I decided to get my main in a CovOps to look for mission runners, because scans revealed that a few of them were always about, flying their ships in missions.
I did manage to find a few, but one guy amused me a lot:
Type Signal Strength Distance Accuracy
Caracal 0.98 3.07AU 0m
Yarr!! 
I warped into the mission in my punisher and the caracal warped out because it was too far away from me and I had the very bad idea to fit a scram and a web to my ship instead of some sort of speed mod and a scram.
So I proceeded to shoot some rats, took the mission loot and waited.
About 30 minutes later, the caracal returned, warped in and landed next to me, so I locked and engaged with everything I had 
It took me quite a while to chew through its tank and the fact that a few more rats had decided to engage me, didn't help but my nos gave me enough cap to be able to rep my armour back to a comfortable level every now and then.
I did feel very good when his caracal went pop after about 2 minutes, but his pod got away, so I decided to wait some more while shooting rats.
The mission deadspace disappeared, so I got ready to warp out and find something new to shoot, when suddenly the mission runner came back into local and warped in a cormorant about 30k away from me. I was out of range and there was no way I was gonna get to him, before he warped off, so I slowboated to the wreck he warped to and waited for him to come back.
Next, he warped to the other side of the wreck "field", warped out again and this time I left as well, however, I did keep my scanner focussed at the area the mission was at and kept scanning, so I warped back to a wreck I had bookmarked when the cormorant appeared again.
Bingo, this time I landed on him and he had no chance to get away from me. He didn't have a tank or anything and apparently the pilot couldn't speak English when I ransomed his pod (after killing a rigged salvaging cormorant).
This was my biggest loot drop in those 2 weeks, with 4 tractor beams and a T2 MWD, until...
Later that day I undocked from a station and a flashy nemesis stealth bomber is right behind me.
I didn't think a lot and hit lock+fired up all offensive modules and my repper.
I was about to deactivate my repper, when the first volley of cruise missiles tore off my shield and half my armour but kept it running, so I repped back up, before the second volley cut deep into my hull.
However, the stealth bomber popped before it could fire a thrid volley and dropped me some more interesting loot, including 2 Arbalest cruise launchers :D
I'm slowly moving on to bigger ships now, next on the list being a Maller, but I'll miss the punisher, it's such a nice little ship. The only thing I coulnd't take with it were some evil sentry guns that popped me after I accidentlly warped to a station at 50k with GCC :'( |