Sunday 20 January 2008

How can anyone not like Pie

My evening started with Keira bringing something into the hangar that I did not expect. A Republic Fleet Firetail. Double U tee Eff woman. I had sent her to Rens to pick up some Republic Fleet Gyrostabilisers. All I got from her was “If you don't like what I buy then maybe you should go to highsec and get it yourself... oh wait, you can't” and she stormed off.


So I loaded the Firetail up with some bits and pieces that were lying about and took off to see if there was any hot action about, hanging out in my local haunt I heard news of anti pirates in Ingunn. The most shocking thing about this news was the source.


50freefly is one of the few anti pirates I respect, straight up and never dishonored a 1v1. A few weeks back I saw him in local and heard he was turning towards the dark side and had joined Blood Corsairs. Seeing him in our intel channel was a surprise but a pleasant one. I raced back to HQ to grab Karma, my Hurricane class battlecruiser, joining the fleet I moved all haste to 50s position where he was engaging Miriablis in a Maelstrom and Darktour in a Drake. Both these pilots are highly skilled and there Alliance has been a thorn in the area for a few weeks now,

Darktour was primary and with the combined firepower of 50 in his Megathron, myself in Karma and Gbutterz in a Tempest, the Drakes impressive tank winked out of existence.


We changed our focus towards the Maelstrom and I know from previous engagements that Miri's tank is epic. Thing is, it was breaking but unfortunately for us he docked and I don't blame him. These guys fight with little to no smack which is rare for anti pies.


2008.01.20 23:49


Victim: DARKTOUR

Alliance: Capital Storm

Corp: UNITED KINGDOM MAYHEM

Destroyed: Drake

System: Ingunn

Security: 0.3

Damage Taken: 72411


Involved parties:


Name: 50freefly (laid the final blow)

Security: -9.8

Alliance: Blood Blind

Corp: Blood Corsair's

Ship: Megathron

Weapon: Electron Blaster Cannon II

Damage Done: 32026


Name: kerjin

Security: -10.0

Alliance: None

Corp: Bullfire

Ship: Unknown

Weapon: Dual 425mm 'Scout' Autocannon I

Damage Done: 26405


Name: Kane Rizzel

Security: -10.0

Alliance: Derek Knows Us

Corp: NovaKane Incorporated

Ship: Hurricane

Weapon: Hurricane

Damage Done: 11661


Name: GButterz

Security: -9.4

Alliance: None

Corp: Mean Corp

Ship: Tempest

Weapon: Tempest

Damage Done: 2319



Destroyed items:


Thunderbolt Fury Heavy Missile, Qty: 62

Scourge Fury Heavy Missile, Qty: 62

Heavy Missile Launcher II

Prototype Cloaking Device I

Invulnerability Field II

Large Shield Extender II

Shield Power Relay II

Shield Power Relay II

Vespa EC-600, Qty: 6 (Cargo)

Warp Core Stabilizer I, Qty: 2 (Cargo)

Republic Fleet Phased Plasma L, Qty: 266 (Cargo)

Core Defence Field Purger I, Qty: 3


Dropped items:


Thunderbolt Fury Heavy Missile, Qty: 62

Heavy Missile Launcher II

Heavy Missile Launcher II

Heavy Missile Launcher II

Heavy Missile Launcher II

Heavy Missile Launcher II

Heavy Missile Launcher II

Scourge Fury Heavy Missile, Qty: 31

Invulnerability Field II

Large Shield Extender II

Large Shield Extender II

Warp Disruptor II

Shield Power Relay II

Shield Power Relay II

Scourge Fury Heavy Missile, Qty: 4007 (Cargo)

Thunderbolt Fury Heavy Missile, Qty: 3582 (Cargo)

Scan Resolution (Cargo)


I had moved back to HQ when some juicy intel had appeared. There was a lone Drake sitting in a deep safespot in a system nearby. I gave Keira a call to see if she would lend a hand in tracking him down. Begrudgingly she obliged and moved her Cheetah Covops to the system. In a short space of time she had located the Drake and was moving into position to allow me to warp right on top of it.

Almost there the Drake warped off and docked in station, damn. Keira didn't panic though, neither was she aggrieved as she had already started tracking another Hurricane, pretty soon she gave me the go ahead saying “Don't screw this up”


Bursting out of warp, 20km from the Hurricane I activated my tackling systems and proceeded to lock the Hurricane. Lock resolves and it's game on, moving into range if my guns I open up with numerous salvos, drones are launched and we dance. His shields melt which lead me to believe he has armor tanked, I activate energy neutralizers which interfere with the power of the targeted vessel and pretty soon his reppers shut down. The fight is mine, he did very well and did massive damage to my shield systems but his ship exploded before they were breached.


“Good Fight” was exchanged in local and I went home


2008.01.21 01:47:00


Victim: Drogrum

Alliance: NONE

Corp: The Malevolent

Destroyed: Hurricane

System: Sotrenzur

Security: 0.3

Damage Taken: 22298


Involved parties:


Name: Kane Rizzel (laid the final blow)

Security: -10.0

Alliance: Derek Knows Us

Corp: NovaKane Incorporated

Ship: Hurricane

Weapon: 425mm AutoCannon II

Damage Done: 22298


Destroyed items:


Counterbalanced Weapon Mounts I

'Malkuth' Heavy Assault Missile Launcher I

Initiated Warp Jammer I

Fulmination Assault Missile, Qty: 74

X5 Prototype I Engine Enervator

1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I

Medium Armor Repairer II

Medium Capacitor Booster I

N-Type Thermic Hardener I

EMP M, Qty: 184

220mm Medium Prototype I Automatic Cannon, Qty: 5


Dropped items:


Y-S8 Hydrocarbon I Afterburners

Fulmination Assault Missile, Qty: 202 (Cargo)

'Malkuth' Heavy Assault Missile Launcher I

N-Type Explosive Hardener I

EMP M, Qty: 1000 (Cargo)

N-Type Kinetic Hardener I

EMP M, Qty: 93

220mm Medium Prototype I Automatic Cannon



My ship board cameras captured the fight and hopefully soon I'll be able to release this footage


Sitting in station a distress call comes in over intel channels, a fellow pirate has been engaged by hostiles outside a station, his tank was failing and he was too far to dock so a few of us made all haste to his position. When we arrived the two hostiles engaging bugged out.

Rescue accomplished.


Earlier in the evening I had scouted an offline POS at a moon in my local haunt and decided I would undock my Tempest, I was bored and targets were few and far between, I engaged the POS and shot at it for about 15 seconds until the novelty wore off. So I decided to dock at HQ. As I came out of warp, I tripped over a Stabber cruiser trying to dock.


2008.01.21 02:24:00


Victim: Tallitar

Alliance: NONE

Corp: 101st Space Marine Force

Destroyed: Stabber

System: Gusandall

Security: 0.4

Damage Taken: 3912


Involved parties:


Name: Kane Rizzel (laid the final blow)

Security: -10.0

Alliance: Derek Knows Us

Corp: NovaKane Incorporated

Ship: Tempest

Weapon: Dual 650mm Repeating Artillery II

Damage Done: 2771


Name: Muelac

Security: -10.0

Alliance: NONE

Corp: BLACK-FLAG

Ship: Typhoon

Weapon: Typhoon

Damage Done: 1141


Destroyed items:


'Malkuth' Standard Missile Launcher I (Cargo)

1MN Afterburner I

150mm Light AutoCannon I

Titanium Sabot L, Qty: 500 (Cargo)

200mm Light Gallium I Machine Gun

'Malkuth' Assault Missile Launcher I

280mm Prototype I Siege Cannon (Cargo)

200mm Light Prototype I Automatic Cannon (Cargo)

Depleted Uranium S, Qty: 11

200mm Light Gallium I Machine Gun, Qty: 3 (Cargo)


Dropped items:


Large Shield Booster II

'Arbalest' Assault Missile Launcher

Defender I, Qty: 72

Gremlin Rocket, Qty: 100 (Cargo)

200mm Light Gallium I Machine Gun

Counterbalanced Weapon Mounts I

Nuclear S, Qty: 82

Warp Core Stabilizer I

Bloodclaw Light Missile, Qty: 17

200mm Light Prototype I Automatic Cannon (Cargo)

Carbonized Lead L, Qty: 99 (Cargo)

280mm Prototype I Siege Cannon

Bloodclaw Light Missile, Qty: 213 (Cargo)

Long Range Targeting (Cargo)

Defender I, Qty: 27 (Cargo)

Electronics Upgrades (Cargo)

Foxfire Rocket, Qty: 180 (Cargo)


Sorry dude, you were in my way.


Rest f the evening was pretty much a washout, Hunted a stabbed Machariel, Megathron and Blackbird gang. The Machariel docked up and we camped him in station for a bit until a large Roadkill gang arrived and chased us off station. We offered them a 5 of us vs 6 of them fight, no ECM but they declined and left.


Another slow night, I returned to HQ, tired from a long day.

I think I'll just have a shower and hit my bunk, hopefully tomorrow will be more exciting

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